Miss Marple: Christian Sleuth
Miss Marple: Christian Sleuth

Author: Isabel Anders

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2012-12-31

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 178099544X

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The rage for crime fiction today mysteriously includes a wide and enduring attraction to the few remaining wholly admirable role models still available to readers. The iconic Miss Marple, ‘faved’ by traditionalists and pop fans alike, deftly models her love of God and neighbor in concrete terms—and stands boldly for Truth and Good. This beloved, enigmatic, mild-mannered spinster champions the triumph of order over chaos in society, through her process of detection in which the solution rests in provable fact. ,

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 2016)
Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 2016)

Author: Elizabeth Foxwell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-09-19

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1476626103

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For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie

Author: Mary Anna Evans

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-09-08

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1350212490

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Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more. It addresses a broad selection of Christie's crime novels, as well as her short stories, literary novels written pseudonymously, and her own and others' dramatic adaptations for television, film, and the stage. Featuring unprecedented access to images and content held in Christie's personal archive, as well as a Foreword from renowned crime fiction writer Val McDermid, this is essential reading for anyone interested in Christie's work and legacy.

The Sleuth Book for Genealogists
The Sleuth Book for Genealogists

Author: Emily Anne Croom

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780806317878

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Originally published: Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2000.

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall 2016)
Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall 2016)

Author: Elizabeth Foxwell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-09-20

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 147662609X

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For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

What to Watch When
What to Watch When

Author: Christian Blauvelt

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0744037905

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Answering the eternal question... WHAT TO WATCH NEXT? Looking for a box set to get your adrenaline racing or to escape to a different era? In need of a good laugh to lift your spirits? Hunting for a TV show that the whole family can watch together? If you're feeling indecisive about your next binge-watching session, we've done the hard work for you. Featuring 1,000 carefully curated reviews written by a panel of TV connoisseurs, What To Watch When offers up the best show suggestions for every mood and moment.

Reflecting on Miss Marple
Reflecting on Miss Marple

Author: Marion Shaw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-27

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 0429838514

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Originally published in 1991, Reflecting on Miss Marple looks at the incongruous combination of violence, murder and a sweet, white-haired old lady, and examines why this makes such a potent but unlikely formula. The book is an astute and engaging account which reveals Miss Marple as a feminist heroine, triumphantly able to exploit contemporary prejudices against unmarried women in order to solve her case. The authors explore the inherent contradictions of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novels, their social context, and their place in detective fiction as a whole.

The Origins of Early Christian Literature
The Origins of Early Christian Literature

Author: Robyn Faith Walsh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-28

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1108835309

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The Synoptic gospels were written by elites educated in Greco-Roman literature, not exclusively by and for early Christian communities.

Whodunit?
Whodunit?

Author: Rosemary Herbert

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-05-08

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0198035829

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Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are the sources of their themes, regional accents, and even the axes that some grind? Why do some wish to give us a good laugh, while others seem hell-bent on making us shudder? Whodunit? answers these questions and more. Here mystery expert Rosemary Herbert brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of classic and contemporary characters and authors. Some--such as P.D. James, Ian Rankin, Sherlock Holmes, and Kinsey Millhone--appear in individual entries. Still more keep company in articles about characters we admire, such as the Clerical Sleuth, and in pieces about those we love to hate, including the Femme Fatale and Con Artist. There is even an article on a figure that haunts so many great works of mystery--The Corpse. Drawing on the Edgar Award-nominated volume The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, Herbert adds 101 new entries on the hottest new names in works ranging from puzzling whodunits to chilling crime novels.

The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie
The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie

Author: James Zemboy

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1476665958

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The most popular mystery writer of all time concocted a rich recipe of intrigue, character, and setting. All of Agatha Christie's 66 detective novels are covered here in great detail. Each chapter begins with general comments on a novel's geographical and historical setting, identifying current events, fashions, fads and popular interests that relate to the story. A concise plot summary and comprehensive character listing follow, and each novel is discussed within Christie's overall body of work, with an emphasis on the development of themes, narrative technique, and characters over the course of her prolific career. An appendix translates Poirot's French and defines the British idiomatic words and phrases that give Christie's novels so much of their flavor.