The Ashiel Mystery
The Ashiel Mystery

Author: Charles Bryce

Publisher:

Published: 2013-08-27

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781492259916

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"It is the difficulty of the Police Romance, that the reader is always a man of such vastly greater ingenuity than the writer." -Robert Louis Stevenson A murder with a clear suspect by the police and a private detective who has his doubts. Just as the adopted Juliet Byrne finds out the truth about her family, her father is murdered. Luckily the brilliant chocolate-munching Detective Gimblet takes up the case to solve the 'Ashiel Mystery'. Solving the case means entering a world of disguises, secret passages, and hidden identities in a Scottish castle. It's enough to make a young widow faint.

Fallout
Fallout

Author: Todd Strasser

Publisher: Candlewick

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0763676764

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“Combines terrific suspense with thoughtful depth. . . . Riveting.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear war is all anyone talks about. But Scott’s dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually builds a bomb shelter. When the unthinkable happens, neighbors force their way into the shelter before Scott’s dad can shut the door. With not enough room, not enough food, and not enough air, life inside the shelter is filthy, physically draining, and emotionally fraught. But even worse is the question of what will — and won’t — remain when the door is opened again.

Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story
Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story

Author: Laird R. Blackwell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-03-11

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1476676526

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Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime fiction in the early to mid-20th century, after the deaths of Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Melville Davisson Post, and other Old Masters of the genre. This book presents the first critical study of Ellery Queen's role in the preservation of the detective short story. Many of the writers, characters and stories EQMM championed are covered, including such celebrated authors as Allingham, Ambler, Ellin, Innes, Vickers, and even William Butler Yeats.

THE ASHIEL MYSTERY A DETECTIVE STORY
THE ASHIEL MYSTERY A DETECTIVE STORY

Author: MRS. CHARLES BRYCE

Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB

Published: 2010-10-18

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13:

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When Sir Arthur Byrne fell ill, after three summers at his post in the little consulate that overlooked the lonely waters of the Black Sea, he applied for sick leave. Having obtained it, he hurried home to scatter guineas in Harley Street; for he felt all the uneasy doubts as to his future which a strong man who has never in his life known what it is to have a headache is apt to experience at the first symptom that all is not well. Outwardly, he pretended to make light of the matter.....

The Ashiel Mystery
The Ashiel Mystery

Author: Charles Bryce

Publisher:

Published: 2013-01-09

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781481949736

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Sir Arthur Byrne returns to London from the Black Sea, suffering an illness that has sapped his energy and appetite. When he meets the widow Meredith, his passions are reignited. Satisfying them means entering a world of disguises, secret passages, and hidden identities.