The Department of Dead Ends
Author | : Roy Vickers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories, English |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Roy Vickers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Roy Vickers |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1447224620 |
Here in one volume are ten of the best of Roy Vickers celebrated Department of Dead Ends detective stories. These are detective stories with a difference; the ‘inverted’ type of detective story. Knowing from the start who the murderer is, the reader is presented with the motive, the workings of the criminal’s mind, the crime itself, and all the clues. The ‘surprise’ in Mr Vickers’s stories is, of course, supplied by the way in which his murderers are detected; and this is where the Department of Dead Ends comes in – that repository of files which were never completed, of investigations without a clue and clues which led nowhere. From time to time, quite illogically, Inspector Rason finds a connection between happenings in the outside world and the objects in his Scotland Yard museum, a rubber trumpet, maybe, or a bunch of red carnations. Then events move inexorably to their appointed end. ‘One of the half-dozen successful books of detective short stories published since the days of Sherlock Holmes.’ Manchester Evening News
Author | : Roy Vickers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Drucilla Cornell |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0745690785 |
In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both “the human” and revolutionary politics. In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to reconsider fundamentally the superiority and centrality of mankind and “the human,” and question how Man can presume to change the world by revolutionary action, particularly when Marx’s dreams seem to have been swept into the dustbin of history. This provocative book reaffirms what is most basic in feminism – the attack on the “universality” and sovereignty of Man – but contends that the only way this can mean anything other than pessimistic rhetoric is to embrace human agency and the struggle against colonialism and capitalism. In a series of “creolized” readings – Foucault with Ali Shari’ati, Lacan with Fanon, and Spinoza with Sylvia Wynter – the authors demonstrate what is at stake in the ongoing debate between humanism and posthumanism, putting this debate in the context of contemporary global crises and the possibilities of revolution. In its defense of “political spirituality,” this book pushes for a new trajectory in response to the gross inequalities of today, one that offers us a very different view of revolution and its present-day potential.
Author | : Jack Gantos |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2011-09-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 142996250X |
Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launced on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.
Author | : Laird R. Blackwell |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476676526 |
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.
Author | : Jack Shadoian |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2003-01-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780198032632 |
Dreams and Dead Ends provides a compelling history of the twentieth-century American gangster film. Beginning with Little Caesar (1930) and ending with Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (1995), Jack Shadoian adroitly analyzes twenty notable examples of the crime film genre. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films--including The Public Enemy, D.O.A., Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather--that best define and represent each period in the development of the American crime film. Richly illustrated with more than seventy film stills, Dreams and Dead Ends details the evolution of the genre through insightful and precise considerations of cinematography, characterization, and narrative style. This updated edition includes new readings of three additional movies--Once Upon a Time in America, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, and Criss Cross--and brings this clear and lively discussion of the history of the gangster film to the end of the twentieth century.
Author | : Lance Dowrich |
Publisher | : Notion Press |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2021-08-13 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1639574611 |
A Plethora of Dead Ends is a collection of short stories based in Trinidad and Tobago. The book draws its name from Samson Street which is a street with two dead ends. The main character on the street is Ethelbert G Sandiford who navigates through his dead-end life with a mixture of luck and ingenuity. His family also displays similar traits making for several comical scenarios.
Author | : Don Easton |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2011-07-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 155488893X |
Intrepid Mountie Jack Taggart is hurled into a world where morality, justice, and the legal system are pitted against one another. Taggart and his partner go undercover to join one of a coalition of gangs who are at war in British Columbia and find themselves immersed in drive-by shootings, meth labs, retaliatory murders, and date rapes.
Author | : NA NA |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1585 |
Release | : 2015-12-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349813664 |