The armchair detective
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Release | : 1990 |
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ISBN | : 9781875245116 |
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Release | : 1990 |
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ISBN | : 9781875245116 |
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Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
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Author | : Ian Shimwell |
Publisher | : Shimwell's Scripts |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2012-06-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1475051123 |
A chance meeting with a mysterious, elderly man...Featuring all six plays of the absorbing, yet fun mystery series that has taken Amazon Kindle by storm.Also, exclusive 'Boxed Set' Extras including: Interview with the man behind the armchair Deleted scenes Easter egg Favourite quotes - and more!
Author | : Ken Weber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780773761421 |
Ken Weber is back with a brand new mystery series, once again testing your sleuthing savvy, daring you to demonstrate your powers of deduction. In forty new stories from the master of five-minute fun, you are the detective, challenged to find the clues hidden in the stories and solve the mystery. And the best part is, you never have to leave your living room. From easy mind teasers for the faint of heart to difficult challenges for the bravest puzzlers, The Armchair Detective #1 will keep you reading long into the night. So recline, relax, and join the ranks of the armchair detectives. Book jacket.
Author | : Kelli Jae Baeli |
Publisher | : Kelli Jae Baeli |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1434824624 |
A wannabe Private Investigator has to start somewhere. When Jobeth O'Brien awakens on the floor of her kitchen, her battered face and the memory of an angry visitor tells her that she is close to something important in her investigation. In between surveillance and delivering newspapers, her beloved '62 Falcon is the scene of middle-of-the-night romps with a lonely socialite. Her quest for the truth pits her against errant husbands, a modern-day madam with a taste for blood, a horny landlady, a vicious attack dog, and the lies she tells herself. Amid these challenges, Jobeth stakes out her prey and runs for her life, continuing the investigation that pulls her into close calls, unexpected allies, and more secrets. But Jobeth has secrets of her own, and only love can excavate them. --
Author | : Kenneth J. Weber |
Publisher | : Stoddart |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780773752108 |
Author | : Ian Shimwell |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2019-07-21 |
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ISBN | : 0244803374 |
Journey from the stunning, unique and ultra-modern Times Apartments to the brooding, Gothic atmosphere of Castle Mandrake... Series Nine of The Armchair Detective plus two feature-length Specials.
Author | : Alexandra Urakova |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611461405 |
Founder of the detective genre and author of works on cryptography, Edgar Allan Poe possessed what Shawn Rosenheim called a “cryptographic imagination.” Not only was Poe’s work influenced by secret writing, it inspired future critics to search his texts for secret clues and that fostered new modes of reading. Poe’s acclaimed complexity owes as much to a long and sophisticated tradition of his interpretative reading as it does to the “undercurrent of meaning” ciphered in his texts. Grounded in previous scholarly work, Deciphering Poe: Contexts, Subtexts, Subversive Meanings explores the hoaxing and subversive nature of Poe’s art and expands this contextual framework. Contributors to the volume offer a highly nuanced picture of Poe’s engagement in the major discourses of the time—religious, philosophical, social, and literary. Twelve essays of the collection discuss Poe’s debt to baroque tradition, his response to Catholicism, his tribute to philosophical idea of sublimity, his complex response to racial issues, and his controversial afterlife reception. The volume includes new readings of Poe’s texts explicitly using codes, secret writing or techniques of detection—“The Gold Bug,” The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, and the Dupin tales. The essays in the collection were originally presented as talks at the Poe Studies Association’s Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial in October 2009. The contributors are Poe scholars from the United States, France, Germany, and Canada: Amy C. Branam, Lauren Curtright, Daniel Fineman, William E. Engel, John C. Havard, Henri Justin, John Edward Martin, Sean Moreland, Philip E. Phillips, Stephanie Sommerfeld, and Timothy N. Towslee.
Author | : Patricia Merivale |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812205456 |
Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story—the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King—that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world. Detecting Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.
Author | : Robert E. Skinner |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780879724542 |
Among the many writers who lent their talents to the creation of hard-boiled detective fiction, few have approached it from a more original perspective than Chester Himes. A former criminal himself, Himes brought to the writing of detective fiction the perspective of the black man. Himes made his debut with the brilliant For Love of Imabelle, for which he was awarded the coveted Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière. Two Guns from Harlem probes Himes's early life and career for the roots of this series and for its heroes, Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Skinner discusses how Himes's experience as a black man, combined with his unique outlook on sociology, politics, violence, sex, and race relations, resulted not only in an unusual portrait of black America but also opened the way for the creation of the ethnic and female hard-boiled detectives who followed.