The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books write by Martin Edwards. This book was released on 2017-08-01. The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2018 ALA Book Club October Pick, Things that Go Bump: Paranormal Mysteries David Randall's perfect family life came derailed when his little daughter Lindsey died in a car crash. Thrown out by his second wife and wanting to leave a dead-end detective agency to start his own, he reluctantly accepts his psychic friend Camden's invitation to stay in Camden's boarding house in Parkland, North Carolina. Meanwhile, working the case of the murder of Albert Bennett, Randall's only clue is a notebook filled with odd musical notation. When another client, Melanie Gentry, hires him to prove her great-grandmother was murdered by her lover, composer John Burrows Ashford, over authorship of "Patchwork Melodies," Randall sets out to find a connection to Bennett's murder, as well as to the murder of a Smithsonian director, who was preparing a new PBS documentary on early American music. Randall's investigations lead him to another notebook, where he finds not only "Two Hearts Singing," Ashford's most famous song, but a valuable early copy of Stephen Foster's "Oh! Susanna," hidden in the cover. But things become more complicated when Ashford's spirit parks itself in Cam...and refuses to leave until Randall proves Ashford's innocence.
Classic Mystery Stories
Classic Mystery Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classic Mystery Stories write by Douglas G. Greene. This book was released on 1999-06-15. Classic Mystery Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains thirteen mystery stories, written between 1841 and 1920, and includes "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," by Edgar Allan Poe, "Three Detective Anecdotes," by Charles Dickens, and "The Leopard Man's Story," by Jack London.
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators write by Martin Edwards. This book was released on 2022-05-26. The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards. ‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime writing.’ The Times
Continental Crimes
Continental Crimes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Continental Crimes write by Martin Edwards. This book was released on 2017-08. Continental Crimes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "As with the best of such compilations, readers of classic mysteries will relish discovering unfamiliar authors, along with old favorites such as Arthur Conan Doyle and G.K. Chesterton." --Publishers Weekly STARRED review A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris--belonging to the city's chief of police. And a drowned man is fished from the sea off the Italian Riviera, leaving the carabinieri to wonder why his socialite friends at the Villa Almirante are so unconcerned by his death. These are three of the scenarios in this new collection of vintage crime stories. Detective stories from the golden age and beyond have used European settings--cosmopolitan cities, rural idylls and crumbling chateaux--to explore timeless themes of revenge, deception, murder and haunting. Including lesser-known stories by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, J. Jefferson Farjeon and other classic writers, this collection reveals many hidden gems of British crime.
Classic Crimes
Classic Crimes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classic Crimes write by William Roughead. This book was released on 2000-08-31. Classic Crimes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, written in the early 1900s, are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Utterly engrossing, these accounts of pre-meditated mayhem and miscarried justice also cast a powerful light on the evil that human beings, and human institutions, find both tempting to contemplate and all too easy to do.
