The Rivals of the Trail
Author: Lawrence J. Leslie
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: Lawrence J. Leslie
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Graeme Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1643131850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis masterful collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction. Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus—but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin, the hero of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” anticipated Holmes’ deductive reasoning by more than forty years. In A Study in Scarlet, the first of Holmes’ adventures, Doyle acknowledged his debt to Poe—and to Émile Gaboriau, whose thief-turned-detective Monsieur Lecoq debuted in France twenty years earlier. If Rue Morgue was the first true detective story in English, the title of the first full-length detective novel is more hotly contested. Among the possibilities are two books by Wilkie Collins—The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868)—Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent (1861) or Aurora Floyd (1862), and The Notting Hill Mystery (1862-3) by the pseudonymous “Charles Felix.” As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages—hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted “cozy” murders in Britain—and these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required the intelligence and clear-sightedness that characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured in these pages.
Author: Vi Keeland
Publisher:
Published: 2022-10-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781959827009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lawrence J. Leslie
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Grace Raymond Hebard
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joan Johnston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-06-26
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 141656179X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston brings to life an unforgettable love story between two strong-willed people from different worlds in her thrilling new novel featuring the Blackthornes of Bitter Creek, Texas, and their formidable rivals, the Grayhawks of Wyoming. Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes, all hell breaks loose -- because she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk. The crisis pits the two powerful families against each other in a race against time. Playboy Drew DeWitt, a Blackthorne cousin, insists on taking part in the search -- putting him on a collision course with Sarah. Her cop instincts tell her the sexy Texan is trouble. But when evidence emerges of a conspiracy against the U.S. government, Sarah accepts Drew's high-powered help as she negotiates a shadowy landscape of hidden rivals and ruthless greed where every moment counts in saving lives, including her own.
Author: Willard F. Baker
Publisher:
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Grace Raymond Hebard
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeremiah Clemens
Publisher:
Published: 1860
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK