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Author: Michael Gilbert
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2012-09-30
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0755132300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA TV actress is murdered and it would seem that the alleged perpetrator has been framed. As the investigation progresses the reader is not fooled into taking an incorrect conclusion, but that is not to say the ending is perhaps one of the most ingenious and surprising to be found in this genre. Full of detail and strong rounded characters.
Author: Michael L. Cook
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780879722302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
Author: Michael Gilbert
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2012-09-30
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0755132203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA suspected informer is found dead in a collapsed escape tunnel in a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy. So as to protect the tunnel the prisoners decide to move the body. But then the fascist captors declare the death to be murder and determine to execute the officer they suspect. It therefore becomes a race against time to find the true culprit.
Author: Michael Gilbert
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2012-09-30
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 075513219X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictoria Lamartine is on trial for the murder of her lover. There are only five suspects including Lamartine. But evidence that doesn’t fit the police theory of the crime has been ignored, whilst all of the damming evidence is presented in isolation. There also appears to be links to gold smuggling. There is also a final twist and conclusion.
Author: George B. Bryan
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 890
ISBN-13: 9780820479477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.
Author: Guy M. Townsend
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2010-09-01
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1434406369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mystery Fancier, Volume Seven Number One, January-February 1983, contains: "Captain Joseph T. Shaw's Black Mask Scrapbook," by E. R. Hagemann, "Detection by Other Means," by Bob Sampson, "Joe Orton's and Tom Stoppard's Burlesques of the Detective Genre," by Earl F. Bargainnier, "Bloody Balaclava: Charlotte MacLeod's Campus Comedy Mysteries," by Jane S. Bakerman and "Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part XIII," by Barry Van Tilburg.
Author: Michael Gilbert
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2012-09-30
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 0755132130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gripping spy thriller with a deserved reputation. Philip sees an announcement in ‘The Times’ from an old friend who has instructed the newspaper to publish only if they don’t hear from him. This sets a trail running through Europe, with the Kremlin, defectors, agitators and the People’s Court setting the background to a very realistic story ...
Author: Michael Gilbert
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2012-09-30
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0755132149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Scotland, a young pathologist, decides on a quiet holiday in Melchester, but amid the cathedral town's quiet medieval atmosphere, he finds a hornet's nest of church politics, town and country rivalries, and murder. With modern forensic pathology he unravels the unvarnished truth, but not before unexpected romance intervenes.
Author: Michael Gilbert
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2012-09-30
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 0755132122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJonas Pickett, lawyer, leaves the pressure of a London practice behind to set up a new modest office in a quiet seaside resort. He soon finds that he is involved with very odd and sometimes dangerous cases, ranging from an incredible courtroom drama involving a gipsy queen to terrorist thugs who make their demands at gunpoint.
Author: Michael Gilbert
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2012-09-30
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0755132270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWill Dylan is an electoral favourite, the government’s golden boy. Jonas Killey is a small-time lawyer – determined, uncompromising and obsessed. He is hounding Dylan in the hope of bringing him into disrepute. Jonas suddenly finds himself pursued by those who want him to keep quiet about one incident, but is determined the truth will be heard.
