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Author : Troll Communications L.L.C.
Publisher : Troll Communications
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780816708000
Author : Graeme Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643131850
This masterful collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction. Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus—but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin, the hero of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” anticipated Holmes’ deductive reasoning by more than forty years. In A Study in Scarlet, the first of Holmes’ adventures, Doyle acknowledged his debt to Poe—and to Émile Gaboriau, whose thief-turned-detective Monsieur Lecoq debuted in France twenty years earlier. If Rue Morgue was the first true detective story in English, the title of the first full-length detective novel is more hotly contested. Among the possibilities are two books by Wilkie Collins—The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868)—Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Trail of the Serpent (1861) or Aurora Floyd (1862), and The Notting Hill Mystery (1862-3) by the pseudonymous “Charles Felix.” As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages—hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted “cozy” murders in Britain—and these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required the intelligence and clear-sightedness that characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured in these pages.
Author : Herbert Van Thal
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786708864
Gathers mysteries by Bentley, Charteris, Sayers, Christie, Keating, Collins, Crispin, Chesterton, Innes, Chandler, Simenon, Fraser, James, Queen, and others.
Author : Zach Dundas
Publisher : HMH
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 054422020X
A rollicking look at popular culture’s most beloved sleuth: “For even the casual fan, the history of this deathless character is fascinating” (The Boston Globe). Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and thriving subcultures. More than a century after Sherlock Holmes first capered into our world, what is it about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s peculiar creation that continues to fascinate us? Journalist and lifelong Sherlock fan Zach Dundas set out to find the answer. The result is The Great Detective: a history of an idea, a biography of someone who never lived, a tour of the borderland between reality and fiction, and a joyful romp through the world Conan Doyle bequeathed us. In this “wonderful book” (Booklist, starred review), Dundas unearths the inspirations behind Holmes and his indispensable companion, Dr. John Watson; explores how they have been kept alive over the decades by writers, actors, and readers; and visits locales—from the boozy annual New York City gathering of one of the world’s oldest and most exclusive Sherlock Holmes fan societies; to a freezing Devon heath out of The Hound of the Baskervilles; to sunny Pasadena, where Dundas chats with the creators of the smash BBC series Sherlock. Along the way, he discovers the ingredients that have made Holmes go viral—then, now, and as long as the game’s afoot.
Author : S. S. Van Dine
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN :
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Penguin Readers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780582275232
This series offers students a bridge from simplified fiction to the original writings of famous literary figures. This complete text edition has an introduction and glossary and is suitable for students preparing for Cambridge Proficiency.
Author : Robin Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481422200
A murdered heiress, a missing necklace, and a train full of shifty, unusual, and suspicious characters leaves Daisy and Hazel with a new mystery to solve in this third novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series. Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are taking a vacation across Europe on world-famous passenger train, the Orient Express—and it’s clear that each of their fellow first-class travelers has something to hide. Even more intriguing: There’s rumor of a spy in their midst. Then, during dinner, a bloodcurdling scream comes from inside one of the cabins. When the door is broken down, a passenger is found murdered—her stunning ruby necklace gone. But the killer has vanished, as if into thin air. The Wells & Wong Detective Society is ready to crack the case—but this time, they’ve got competition.
Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307743136
P. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting. Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.
Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : 9780192829689
Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.
Author : Stefan Dziemianowicz
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781402709746
Match wits with great detectives, devious criminals, and many of the finest minds in the annals of detective literature in this anthology which includes the work of such literary luminaries as J.M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, and O. Henry.