A New Omnibus of Crime
A New Omnibus of Crime

Author: Tony Hillerman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0195182146

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"Three-quarters of a century ago, Dorothy L. Sayers compiled the classic anthology The Omnibus of Crime, a definitive collection of short fiction that brought together crime and mystery works from the Apocryphal Scriptures to whodunits from the 1920s. Now, reflecting the explosive developments in the genre, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of that book's publication with A New Omnibus of Crime. Like Sayers's volume, this new book is envisioned as a vehicle carrying stories the editors think represent the best in crime and mystery writing in our time. Selections also reflect the tastes of Contributing Editors Sue Grafton and Jeffery Deaver, both of whom have stories in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.

The Best Man to Die
The Best Man to Die

Author: Ruth Rendell

Publisher: Fawcett

Published: 2012-10-03

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0307829537

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The stag party was terrific. The incident that followed was terrifying. . . . “The best mystery writer anywere in the English-speaking world.”—The Boston Globe Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be a prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? But it was—and Charlie's death sentence was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Suspense is spiced with ironic twists as Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer. . . . Praise for The Best Man to Die “You cannot afford to miss Ruth Rendell!”—The New York Times Book Review “For readers who have almost given up mysteries . . . Rendell may be just the woman to get them started again.”—Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine “First-rate entertainment.”—Saturday Review

Varieties of Crime Fiction
Varieties of Crime Fiction

Author: S.T. Joshi

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2020-04-20

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1479445444

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Leading critic S.T. Joshi reviews 13 mystery and crime writers: I. The Golden Age Dorothy L. Sayers: Lords and Servants John Dickson Carr: Puzzlemeister Margery Allingham: Murder, Gangs, and Spies Philip MacDonald: Expanding the “Cosy” Mystery II. The Hard-Boiled School Dashiell Hammett: Sam Spade and Others Raymond Chandler: Mean Streets Ross Macdonald: Family Affairs III. The Psychological Mystery Margaret Millar: Scars of the Psyche Patricia Highsmith: Guilt and Innocence L. P. Davies: The Workings of the Mind IV. Some Contemporaries P. D. James: The Empress’s New Clothes Ruth Rendell: The Psychology of Murder Sue Grafton: Hard-Boiled Female

An Unkindness of Ravens
An Unkindness of Ravens

Author: Ruth Rendell

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780896216846

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Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford -- a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex.

The Ghost Lover
The Ghost Lover

Author: Gillian Greenwood

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 184854393X

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Josie Price has given up much of her life for the sake of the wealthy Haddeley family. She works with them, lives with them and knows their secrets. So when a young man, Luke, appears and claims, shockingly, to be the son of Kit Haddeley's late wife Alice, Josie tries to help the Haddeleys come to terms with the family ghosts they hoped had been laid to rest. But Luke's arrival casts shadows on both the past and the future. Above all it is the ghost of Alice Haddeley which hangs most heavily over the family. Through Luke, she seems to demand to be both mourned and revenged. With her intimate knowledge of the family past, it is Josie who holds the key to the mystery of Alice, and it is Josie, beset by guilt, who must resolve the destructive inheritance which Luke brings in his wake.

The Purple Decades
The Purple Decades

Author: Tom Wolfe

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1982-10

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0374239282

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This collection of Wolfe's essays, articles, and chapters from previous collections is filled with observations on U.S. popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Give and Take of Writing
The Give and Take of Writing

Author: Jane Mace

Publisher: Niace

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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The author suggests that rather than being a thing of the past, scribing may be a commonplace activity in many present situations. This books brings the history of scribing to life. Using examples from fiction, film, social history and interviews, it tells stories of people in different settings and roles turning to others for scribal support and highlights how anyone giving this support may also take their own rewards. With writings from message to memoir and from complaint to courtship, the book suggests that everyone, at some moment, relies on another for help- with varying balances of power. Contents: Part One: Problems of the imagination Chapter 1: The literate mistake Chapter 2: Who is th scribe? Chapter 3: The letter triangle Part Two: Scribes and situations Chapter 5: Religion and scribing Chapter 6: Scribes and the law Part Three: It takes two to collaborate Chapter 7: The scribe has feelings too Chapter 8: Secretary or muse? Chapter 9: Scribes and authors in adult literacy.