Download Hands Up; Or Twenty Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains PDF/eBook
By:David J. Cook
Published on 1882 by
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First edition, but not in the printed wrappers. First issue cloth with the hands and knife graphic. Adams states this graphic represents Wild Bill Hickok's hands and the knife he is supposed to have given Cook. Half-title with the cover image from the wrappers.
Download Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence) PDF/eBook
By:Agatha Christie
Published on 2010-10-14 by HarperCollins UK
ISBN 9780007422678
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Agatha Christie’s complete Tommy and Tuppence short story collection, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
Download The Weird PDF/eBook
By:Jeff VanderMeer,Ann VanderMeer
Published on 2012-01-24 by Tor Books
ISBN 9781466803190
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From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download Fritz, the German Detective PDF/eBook
By:Old Sleuth
Published on 1882 by
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Download Detective Agency PDF/eBook
By:Priscilla L. Walton,Manina Jones
Published on 1999-05-31 by Univ of California Press
ISBN 9780520921467
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Since the late 1970s, a subgenre of crime fiction, written by women and featuring a professional woman investigator, has exploded on the popular fiction market. Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones focus on this recent proliferation of women writers of detective fiction, providing the first book-length study of the historical and societal changes that fueled this popularity, along with insightful and entertaining readings of the texts themselves. Walton and Jones place the genre within its aesthetic, social, and economic contexts, reading it as an index of cultural beliefs. Addressing the ways that Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, and others work through the conventions of the |hard-boiled| genre made popular by writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, the authors show how the male hard-boiled tradition has been challenged and transformed. Issues of child, spousal, and sexual abuse are more likely to surface in women's detective novels, the authors show, and female sleuths face many of the same dilemmas as those who read about them—everyday problems with relationships, parenting, and money. Detective Agency also integrates interviews with authors and publishers, reader surveys, publication data, and analysis of internet discussion groups to present a fascinating picture of the |industry| of women's detective fiction. Authors of these works are powerful players in the publishing system as well as agents of cultural intervention, Walton and Jones claim. They conclude by examining the rise of female detectives in television and film.
Download A Detective at Death's Door PDF/eBook
By:H. R. F. Keating
Published on 2005-05-01 by Macmillan
ISBN 9780312342067
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Recovering from her near-death experience following an attack by a would-be poisoner, Harriet Martens soon discovers that she may be forced to draw out the killer when her attacker goes on a rampage involving a series of seemingly indiscriminate, lethal assaults on unsuspecting victims. 10,000 first printing.
Download The Medical Detective PDF/eBook
By:Sandra Hempel
Published on 2007-08 by Granta Books (UK)
ISBN 9781862079373
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Drawing on 19th century medical, political & personal records, this book describes John Snow's discovery that cholera is spread through drinking water. It also includes diversions into aspects of medical & social history - from Snow's tending of Queen Victoria in childbirth, to Leeuwenhoek's deliberate breeding of lice in his socks.
