The sea itself has always been a mystery--cold, dark, vast, and unfathomable--indifferent to human wishes and perilous to the ill-prepared. So what more appropriate setting for the ultimate human mystery, the seemingly unsolvable murder. In Murder on Deck! Rosemary Herbert proves that the opulence of the cruise ship and seaside resort has ...
This new collection will pick up where Dorothy L. Sayers' The Omnibus of Crime (1929) left off - "in the heart of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction" - bringing together monumental, entertaining works of mystery short fiction from the early 1930s to the present, from the inter-war years of the twentieth century to first years of the twenty-first ...
"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."--Agatha Christie Perhaps that is why audiences continue to be captivated by what Raymond Chandler called "The Simple Art of Murder." For who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? People, sometimes in ordinary situations, sometimes in extraordinary ones, but in every respect, human. ...
An alphabetical listing of hundreds of articles by authors of the genre, like Sara Paretsky and Edward D. Hoch, that gives writers and fans an indepth view of the many aspects and wonders of the world of mystery. It includes a comprehensive history of crime and mystery writing, entries on the development of the genre, detailed definitions of its ...
What kind of mind can create the intricate and intriguing world of the mystery novel-the human puzzle, the tangle of motivation, deception, and death? What drives a superior author to turn to crime and mystery rather than to mainstream literary fiction? Now in this book, Herbert provides answers in a volume that will introduce anyone.
Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" launched the detective story in 1841. The genre began as a highbrow form of entertainment, a puzzle to be solved by a rational sifting of clues. In Britain, the stories became decidedly upper crust: the crime often committed in a world of manor homes and formal gardens, the blood on the Persian carpet ...
From a regional setting in which two farmers' wives develop a taste for detection, to the fast pace of high finance in a New York murder, these American crime stories offer readers the opportunity to solve the mysteries for themselves. Featuring the distinctly American language and locales, the stories in this collection range from those with a ...
Vasuclar nursing is a growing speciality in nursing (the Society of Vascular Nurses was formed in 1993 and its membership is increasing). This growth is accounted for by: technological advances making it possible to do more for patients, and the increase in the number of elderly in the population, who often have peripheral vascular problems. As ...
This study reviews a range of social problems evident in the modern city, emphasizing British changes during the 1980s and the policy initiatives of the Thatcher government. This second edition has been enlarged to include a set of 20 studies which are broader in scope than the originals. There are four background chapters, followed by reviews of ...
Built on the belief that the best resource people can utilize is other people - and that equality of opportunity of fundamental to parents and children - this manual stresses the crucial importance of negotiating with parents what they want to include in the time spent learning.
Interest in urban social problems has become particularly acute in recent years as the range and intensity of those problems has become more apparent. This collection of essays conveys the elements of a geographical approach to the topic by focusing upon some of the social problems and the ways in which they may be studied, and forming an overall ...
From a regional setting in which two farmers' wives develop a taste for detection, to the fast pace of high finance in a New York murder, these American crime stories offer readers the opportunity to solve the mysteries for themselves. Featuring the distinctly American language and locales, the stories in this collection range from those with a ...
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The Mammoth Book of Movie Detectives & Screen Crimes
