Chicago Review Press: 838 books
The Complete Transcripts of the Clarence Thomas - Anita Hill Hearings
October 11, 12, 13, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
This volume contains not only the complete verbatim transcript of the testimony given before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 11, 12 and 13, 1991, but, as Nina Totenberg points out in her preface, "the important exhibits that were submitted - affidavits aimed at discrediting Hill, and...
Fever and Thirst
An American Doctor Among the Tribes of Kurdistan, 1835-1844
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This is an enthralling account” (Booklist) of an American missionary doctor and his unprecedented adventures in Iraq, Iran and Kurdistan in the mid 19th century. The amazing thing about reading this richly detailed and absorbing account of the life and times of Dr. Asahel Grant in Asia is that...
by Barry Mazor, Barry Mazor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous—even revolutionary—A&R man and music publisher who changed the breadth and flavor of popular music in the United States and around the world. It is the story of the life and 50-year career of the man who was crucial in discovering...
Joe Black
More than a Dodger
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
He was told that the color of his skin would keep him out of the big leagues, but Joe Black worked his way up through the Negro League and the Cuban League. He burst into the Majors in 1952 when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In the face of segregation, verbal harassment, and even death threats,...
Case with No Conclusion
A Sergeant Beef Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1984
Once again Lionel Townsend, Beef's Dr. Watson, faithfully records the redoubtable Sergeant's escapades. Beef has left the Braxham police and gone into business for himself. Beef gets a client: Stewart Ferrars, who has been arrested for the Sydenham Murder. Beef is hired by Stewart's brother Peter...
Case for Sergeant Beef
A Sergeant Beef Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1981
In the cleverly plotted Case for Sergeant Beef, Mr. Wellington Chickle, a retired watchmaker, plans the perfect murder, but he chooses the wrong victim. The dead man's sister refuses to accept the idea that her brother committed suicide and calls in the unprepossessing Sgt. Beef who unravels the plot...
Furious Old Women
A Carolus Deene Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Another Carolus Deene novel, this mystery in particular is considered one of Bruce's cleverest and best plotted.
Death of a Bovver Boy
A Carolus Deene Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Carolus Deene’s housekeeper, the stoic Mrs. Stick, announces one evening that her husband has seen the body of a youth lying in a ditch with his hair shorn and his wrists slashed. Carolus knows that he has, at last, met a supreme challenge to test his powers of deduction. The redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective...
Death at Hallows End
A Carolus Deene Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In this "rousing mystery" (Booklist), Gentleman Detective Carolus Deene, the schoolmaster created by Bruce and featured in so many of his other books, has his work cut out for him . A respectable solicitor has vanished into thin air in the remote village of Hallows End. Deene senses foul...
Death on Allhallowe'en
A Carolus Deene Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Carolus Deene is summoned to a small Kentish village where the presence of a possible coven of witches lends an eerie aura to the presumed "accidental" death of a young local boy a year ago on Hallowe'en. Before his work is completed, Carolus Deene has the answers to this and two other deaths.
Nothing Like Blood
A Carolus Deene Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1985
His old friend Helena Gort calls on Carolus Deene to come to Cat's Cradle, a seaside guest house and find out about two deaths judged respectively "natural causes" and "suicide." There is no doubt in Helena's mind that something sinister has happened and something very unpleasant is brewing. She is right.
Death in the Middle Watch
A Carolus Deene Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Carolus Deene is enjoying himself on a holiday cruise. On the first night aboard the Summer Queen, he hears a shout of "Man Overboard!" From that point on to the moment of Deene's unexpected revelations, the reader will find that unique mixture of artless fun and grim terror Leo Bruce devotees savor.
Death with Blue Ribbon
A Carolus Deene Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Carolus Deene becomes involved in his latest adventure when a famous restaurateur is threatened by a protection racketeer and a well-known writer of cookbooks is murdered under extraordinary circumstances.
Alex
The Fathering of a Preemie
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Nearly half a million preemies are born in the U.S. every year. But like most people, Jeff Stimpson, the father who wrote Alex, never gave premature babies a thought beyond the cliché of medical miracles. Many of these children grow up with special needs, necessitating an increasing and ever-controversial...