Mystery Detective Fiction category: 469 books
by Anna Maynard Barbour
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
An American author of best-selling fiction. A 1903 article in the The Atlantic Monthly stated that "A. Maynard Barbour has been generally hailed as the most successful of American writers of mystery."
Includes an active table of contents so you can use your NOOK's GOTO CHAPTER feature...
by Amy Bell Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
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Contents
Wyn's Camping Days (1914)
A Little Miss Nobody (1914)
The Girls of Hillcrest Farm (1914)
The Girl from Sunset Ranch (1914)
Frances of the Ranges (1915)
Wyn's Camping Days (1914)
Wynifred Mallory was delighted to learn...
Gumshoe America
Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2000
In Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront...
by H. Beam Piper
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 – c. November 6, 1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels.
Piper was largely self-educated; he obtained his knowledge of science and history "without subjecting myself to the ridiculous misery of four...
Sleuth
Gail Bowen on Writing Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
“Masterful.” Barbara Fradkin, two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel “Gail Bowen’s Sleuth is a marvelous guide to the art of writing mysteries, told with verve, humour and elegance, and with a rare insight into the value of creating stories that explore the darkest parts...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
The Mystery of Cloomber novel by the British author,Arthur Conan Doyle.This book is about classic mystery of a place near someone residence,Branksome,the Cloomber Hall,for many years untenanted.
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
In this anthology we aim to provide general insights into the role of the anarchist in fiction, both as protagonist (as angels and demons, but mostly demons) and author. Obviously, there will be writers whom some readers will think I have unjustifiably missed. All I can reply to such complainants...
Crime Fiction Migration
Crossing Languages, Cultures and Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Crime narratives form a large and central part of the modern cultural landscape. This book explores the cognitive stylistic processing of prose and audiovisual fictional crime 'texts'. It also examines instances where such narratives find themselves, through popular demand, 'migrating' - meaning that...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
complete 8 parts (with linked TOC)
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
*Illustrated *Includes Table of Contents
Fiction The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) British actor Mike McShane provides a superb portrayal of Mark Twain's classic characters, nailing the Mississippi drawl and cadence. Beautifully presented for a modern...
Historical Noir
The Pocket Essential Guide to Fiction, Film & TV
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
It's one of the most successful—and surprising—of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and proto-detectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. Barry Forshaw has written a lively, wide-ranging and immensely informed history of the genre, which might be said to have begun in earnest...
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook
Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Hard-boiled breakfasts, thrilling entrees, cozy desserts, and more—this illustrated cookbook features more than 100 recipes from legendary mystery authors.
Whether you're planning a sinister dinner party or whipping up some comfort food perfect for a day of writing, you'll find plenty to...
Detectives
All the secrets of the greatest fictional detectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Detective fiction, both soft-boiled and hard-boiled, is in vogue. Its protagonists are widely known, they have become icons who have as many fans as the most popular actors and singers. This amazing list includes all the greatest detectives of all times: from the intuitive Auguste Dupin, created by...
by Phillips Oppenheim
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Oppenheim is a best-selling author of novels, short stories who published over 150 books. He is considered one of the originators of the thriller genre, his novels also range from spy thrillers to romance, but all have an undertone of intrigue.
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The Vanished Messenger (1914)
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by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
The Great Unravelling Trilogy, as this Calvino trilogy may be called, is about the desperation and hope of individuals seeking freedom who find themselves perilously constrained in Southeast Asia, where human rights and liberty are negatively geared by big men in power.
It is safe to say that...