100 British Crime Writers

Author : Esme Miskimmin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 113731902X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 British Crime Writers written by Esme Miskimmin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918; 'The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945; 'Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989; and 'To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.

Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781464207228
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books written by Martin Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so much greater than many critics have suggested. To illustrate this, the leading expert on classic crime discusses one hundred books ranging from The Hound of the Baskervilles to Strangers on a Train which highlight the entertaining plots, the literary achievements, and the social significance of vintage crime fiction. This book serves as a companion to the acclaimed British Library Crime Classics series but it tells a very diverse story. It presents the development of crime fiction-from Sherlock Holmes to the end of the golden age-in an accessible, informative and engaging style.

Author : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473360994
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Catherine Louisa Pirkis was originally published in 1894 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective' is a collection of short detective stories that include 'Drawn Daggers ', 'A Princess's Vengeance ', 'The Redhill Sisterhood', and several other classic tales of mystery. Catherine Louisa Pirkis was born in 1841 in London, England. It wasn't until 1877 that Perkis published her first novel 'Disappeared from Her Home'. She followed this with 'In a World of His Own' in 1878, and from then on she prolifically produced short stories, articles and novels. Her most lasting legacy is her creation of one of the earliest female detectives, Loveday Brooke, in the 1890's.

Author : S. Powell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137031662
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 American Crime Writers written by S. Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1405383879
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction written by Barry Forshaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ...all the evidence that counts

Author : John Bude
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1773238744
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in White Pyjamas written by John Bude and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the ingredients of the plot. SCENE : Sam Richardson's country house. CHARACTERS - Sam himself, a kindly business man, more amiable than artistic. Basil Barnes, his producer, tall, slender, sleek-haired and slightly sinister. Willy Farnham, a grand old character actor, always hard up, Angela Walsh, a brilliant young Ingenue from the Provinces. Deirdre Lehaye, tall, dark, icy, and so dead sure of herself that most men were scared to approach her. Clara Maddison, the company's most tried and trying actress. Rudolph Millar, her nephew, a rising young playwright. That's the set-up. Deirdre Lehaye is murdered. Who did it? And why was she in white pyjamas?

Author : Thomas Godfrey
Publisher : Mysterious Press
ISBN 13 : 9780445408456
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Country House Murders written by Thomas Godfrey and published by Mysterious Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.

Author : E. C. Bentley
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trent’s Last Case written by E. C. Bentley and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-05-01T06:34:23Z with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Wall Street giant Sigsbee Manderson is found dead, the local newspaper sends in Philip Trent, its favorite contract journalist/amateur detective, to investigate and report on the case. Trent encounters a paucity of facts on the ground, but the ones he does find leads him to a conclusion he’s unsure of how to handle. E. C. Bentley was a close friend of G. K. Chesterton, to whom he dedicated this book (in response to Chesterton’s dedicating The Man Who Was Thursday to him). The book is said to have been one of the first “modern” mysteries, and included Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie among its fans. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408103702
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Must-read Crime Novels written by Nick Rennison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to become a crime novel buff, or expand your reading in your favourite genre? This is a good place to start! From the publishers of the popular, Good Reading Guide comes a rich selection of the some of the finest crime novels ever published. With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly become an expert on the world of crime. The book also allows you to browse by theme, includes 'a reader's fast-guide to the world of crime fiction' as well listing the top 10 crime characters and their creators, award winners and book club recommendations.

Author : Peter Lovesey
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1569472556
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The False Inspector Dew written by Peter Lovesey and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Absolutely riveting . . . A masterpiece. I defy anyone to foresee the outcome.”—Ruth Rendell The year is 1921. A passionate affair between voracious romance reader Alma Webster and her dentist, Walter Baranov, has led to his wife’s murder. The lovers take flight aboard the Mauretania and the dentist takes the name of Inspector Dew, the detective who arrested the notorious wifekiller Dr. Crippen. But, in a disquieting twist, a murder occurs aboard ship and the captain invites “Inspector Dew” to investigate.