Snobbery With Violence

Author : Marion Chesney
Publisher : Severn House
ISBN 13 : 9780727875525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snobbery with Violence written by Marion Chesney and published by Severn House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Edwardian murder mysteryLady Rose Summer's father calls in Captain Harry Cathcart to investigate his daughter's fianci. After a public and scandalous break-up, Rose attends a soirie for aristocratic women with dubious matrimonial prospects - where a guest is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Rose and Harry investigate, and find that danger is a lot easier to attract that an appropriate suitor.

Author : Colin Watson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571254033
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snobbery with Violence written by Colin Watson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the most consistently busy of Britain's home industries during the past fifty years has been the manufacture of crime fiction. Some three hundred writers now contribute, more or less regularly, to the satisfaction of the public's appetite for books about murder, theft, fraud, espionage, arson, blackmail and kindred activities. . . This book is not an attempt to catalogue them . . . Its purpose is to explore some of the crime and mystery fiction of the past half century for clues to the convictions and attitudes of the large section of British society for which it was written.' In Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience, Colin Watson explores the social attitudes that are reflected in the detective story and the thriller. From Conan Doyle and Edgar Wallace to Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming, Watson takes the reader on an entertaining and informative investigation into the world of crime fiction. First published in 1971 Snobbery with Violence has become a minor classic of literary and social history and should grace the bookshelves of every crime aficionado.

Author : Marion Chesney
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312304536
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hasty Death written by Marion Chesney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in Chesney's Edwardian mystery series features Captain Cathcart, Lady Summer, and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard as they investigate the crimes of Edwardian aristocrats.

Author : M. C. Beaton
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429902736
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hasty Death written by M. C. Beaton and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined---long hours as a typist and nights spent in a dreary women's hostel are not very empowering when you're poor, cold, and tired. Luckily for Rose, her drudgery comes to a merciful end when she learns of the untimely death of an acquaintance. Freddy Pomfret, a silly and vacuous young man, was almost certainly up to no good before he was shot dead in his London flat. When Rose discovers incriminating evidence pointing to several members of her class, she returns to London high society in order to investigate properly. With the help of Captain Harry Cathcart and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard, Rose prepares to do the social rounds—uncovering a devious blackmail plot and an unexpected killer. Set in Britain during the Edwardian world of parties, servants, and scandal, M. C. Beaton's Hasty Death is a delightful combination of murderous intrigue and high society.

Author : Elena Forbes
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770890262
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Lady of Pain written by Elena Forbes and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second novel in Elena Forbes’ bestselling mystery series, DI Mark Tartaglia’s investigation into a murder becomes a hunt for a possible serial killer. Hurting is her special skill. On a snowy February morning, London art dealer Rachel Tenison goes for a jog through Holland Park. Still giddy from the previous evening, her legs wobbly from too much drink and too little sleep, she falls at the bottom of an icy hill. Lying on her back, she savours the sensation of snowflakes melting on her skin and the unexpected stillness of the moment. But then there’s the sharp crack of a tree branch behind her, and a voice softly calling her name. Two days later, detectives Mark Tartaglia and Sam Donovan are assigned to the case when Rachel’s naked, frozen body is discovered in the park, bound and arranged in a strangely symbolic manner. Still haunted by “The Bridegroom,” a chillingly seductive serial killer with a penchant for lonely girls and deadly heights, they’re forced to put the past behind them as they try to catch Rachel’s murderer. But when a tip from a journalist draws their attention to grisly similarities between this and another unsolved crime, the web becomes more tangled than ever.

Author : Joseph Epstein
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547561644
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snobbery written by Joseph Epstein and published by HMH. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observations on the many ways we manage to look down on others, from “a writer who can make you laugh out loud on every third page” (The New York Times Book Review). Snobs are everywhere. At the gym, at work, at school, and sometimes even lurking in your own home. But how did we, as a culture, get this way? With dishy detail, Joseph Epstein skewers all manner of elitism as he examines how snobbery works, where it thrives, and the pitfalls and perils in thinking you’re better than anyone else. Offering arch observations on the new footholds of snobbery, including food, fashion, high-achieving children, schools, politics, being with-it—whatever “it” is—name-dropping, and much more, Epstein explores the shallows and depths of a concept that has become part of our everyday lives . . . for better or worse. “Smart, witty, perceptive . . . and almost always—in the best sense of the word—entertaining,” Snobbery provides the ultimate social commentary on arrogance in America (TheWashington Post Book World). It’s a book you shouldn’t be caught dead without.

Author : Marion Chesney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780727863416
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sick of Shadows written by Marion Chesney and published by . This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Rose Summer may be a beauty, but she's still a disappointment to her parents. So when she becomes engaged to Captain Harry Cathcard, it's a relief of sorts. Rose befriends Dolly Tremaine, an exquisite country girl, but when Dolly is found floating in the river, Harry must step up and solve the mystery of her death.

Author : M. C. Beaton
Publisher : Robinson Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781849012898
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snobbery with Violence written by M. C. Beaton and published by Robinson Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a brief and ill-advised dalliance with the Suffragette movement, Lady Rose Summers' debut season in London society turns out to be a complete disaster. But when a malicious guest is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Rose becomes far more interested in discovering the truth than in landing a more appropriate suitor.

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939140265
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Violence written by Colin Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation.' - The Guardian 'Readable to an almost hypnotic degree . . . absorbing and exciting.' - Sphere 'Some really good narrative . . . impressive.' - New Statesman As a child, the brilliant mathematical prodigy Hugh Greene's two major influences were his eccentric old uncles, Nick and Sam. From Uncle Nick, Hugh learned a love of mathematics, which came to represent clarity and order, and from Uncle Sam he acquired an overwhelming fear of violence. Now seventeen and unsure of what to do with his life and whether life is even worth bothering with at all, Hugh finds his hatred of violence becoming even more intense when he witnesses a gang of brutal thugs beating an innocent man. Determined to protect himself, he purchases a gun and joins a pistol club. But when he becomes involved with a senseless shooting and gets mixed up with a group of criminals, including a sex murderer, Hugh will be forced to confront the question of whether his mathematics and philosophy have any relevance in a world of violence. . . . Colin Wilson's third novel, The World of Violence (1963), is a fascinating and gripping story that critic Sidney Campion called 'one of the most complex and satisfying bildungsromans ever written in English.' This new edition of Wilson's brilliant novel, the first in more than twenty years, includes a new introduction by Nicolas Tredell.

Author : Matthew Curtis Fleischer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999430606
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence written by Matthew Curtis Fleischer and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've heard about the child sacrifice, forced cannibalism, and mass murder. Now get the rest of the story. Fleischer explains the Old Testament like never before, cutting through the popular misperceptions to provide a compelling, scripturally based, and highly readable case for a good, just, and loving God, one who hates violence--and always has. This book will strengthen your faith and equip you to defend it at the same time. End your struggle to appreciate the God of the Old Testament today. Discover a deity who is more beautiful than you have ever imagined. "In the first six pages of his new book, Matthew Curtis Fleischer describes the problem of divine violence in the Old Testament as well as anyone ever has. In the following 200-plus pages, he offers Christians committed to biblical authority an intelligent and humane way of interpreting those passages, leading humanity from violence to nonviolence in the way of Jesus. Fleischer is an attorney, and he makes his case with clarity that would win over any unbiased jury." - Brian D. McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration--Amazon.prime.