Singing in the Shrouds

Singing in the Shrouds PDF Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006512462
Category : Alleyn, Roderick (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The police found the third corpse on a wharf in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. Within the hour the killer was safe at sea - and among his fellow-passengers were four potential victims.

Women of Mystery

Women of Mystery PDF Author: Martha Hailey DuBose
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312209428
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 486

Book Description
And though she laments, "So many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort at mentioning "some of the best of the rest.""--BOOK JACKET.

The Great Detectives

The Great Detectives PDF Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453266402
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
The origins of literature’s finest crime fighters, told by their creators themselves Their names ring out like gunshots in the dark of a back alley, crime fighters of a lost era whose heroic deeds will never be forgotten. They are men like Lew Archer, Pierre Chambrun, Flash Casey, and the Shadow. They are women like Mrs. North and the immortal Nancy Drew. These are detectives, and they are some of the only true heroes the twentieth century ever knew. In this classic volume, Otto Penzler presents essays written by the authors who created these famous characters. We learn how Ed McBain killed—and resurrected—the hero of the 87th Precinct, how international agent Quiller wrote his will, and how Dick Tracy first announced that “crime does not pay.” Some of these heroes may be more famous than others, but there is not one whom you wouldn’t like on your side in a courtroom, a shootout, or an old-fashioned barroom brawl.

Ngaio Marsh

Ngaio Marsh PDF Author: Bruce Harding
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476637199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
 Considered one of the "Queens of Crime"--along with such greats as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham--Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a gifted writer and a celebrated author of classic British detective fiction, as well as a successful theater director. Best known for the 32 detective novels she published between 1934 and 1982, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1966. Based on years of original research by the curator of the Ngaio Marsh House in Christchurch, New Zealand, this book explores the fascinating literary world of Dame Ngaio.

Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction

Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction PDF Author: Lisa Hopkins
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137538759
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value.

From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell

From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell PDF Author: S. Rowland
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230598781
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of forty-two key novels, this volume introduces these authors for students and the general reader in the context of their lives, and of critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

Twentieth Century Fiction

Twentieth Century Fiction PDF Author: George Woodcock
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349170666
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 788

Book Description

Great Women Mystery Writers

Great Women Mystery Writers PDF Author: Kathleen Gregory Klein
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
A dictionary of over 117 women mystery authors giving details on their lives and their writing habits.
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