The No 2 Global Detective

Author : Toby Clements
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921145650
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The No. 2 Global Detective written by Toby Clements and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All is tranquil at Cuff College, Oxford, the world's leading academic centre for Transgression and Pathology. But without warning the quiet of the evening is shattered by the discovery of a Body In The Library. The police are Baffled. Tom Hurst, a junior lecturer at the College, breaking every rule of the whodunit genre, follows a trail of arcane clues that leads him to Botswana and Mma Delicious Ontoast. His investigations then take him to Sweden and Burt Colander; to Edinburgh, where he is grudgingly helped by DI John 'Just-Now' Rhombus; and to Richmond, Virginia, where he meets the brilliant, attractive-in-a-powerful-way, midnight-blue-pantsuited forensic pathologist Dr Sue Carpaccio. Sometimes one super sleuth just isn't enough... The No. 2 Global Detective revisits and rewrites some of the most famous crime novels of recent times, taking the genre and its heroes to an ultimately hilarious extreme.

Author : Stefan Petrucha
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417688456
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writ in Stone written by Stefan Petrucha and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's double trouble for America's favorite girl detective when Owen Zucker, a sweet young boy Nancy has often babysat, is missing and a shorestone marker found on the coast of California, which may prove the Chinese discovered America in 1421, before

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400031354
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tears of the Giraffe written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-09-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning proprietor of the only ladies’ detective agency in Botswana. In Tears of the Giraffe she tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago. In the midst of resolving uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind man, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, and the promotion of her talented secretary (a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College, with a mark of 97 per cent), she also finds her family suddenly and unexpectedly increased by two.

Author : Mandy Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788423540
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cat and the Pendulum written by Mandy Morton and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hettie and Tilly are called in to investigate Agatha Crispy's stolen manuscript in another claw-biting case for the No. 2 Feline Detective Agency. When the celebrated crime writer Agatha Crispy engages Hettie and Tilly in the search for a stolen manuscript, our feline detective duo is plunged into a world of Dickensian thieves and murderers. Does the ghost of Jake the Nipper prowl the London Streets of Kitzrovia? Will Madame Two Paws' exhibition wax or wane? And will the secrets in the crypt of the church of St Mavis and Cucumber finally be revealed?

Author : Elizabeth Foxwell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476647747
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Fall 2022) written by Elizabeth Foxwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Author : Meghan P. Nolan
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839991186
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crossroads of Crime Writing written by Meghan P. Nolan and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. Drawing upon the insights and expertise of an international array of scholars, the chapters within explore the interplay of the literary, historical, social, and cultural in various modes of crime writing from the 1890s to as recent as 2017. They examine unseen structures and uncertain spaces, and simultaneously provide new insights into the works of iconic authors, such as Christie, and iconic fictional figures, like Holmes, as well as underexplored subjects, including Ukrainian detective fiction of the Soviet period and crime writing by a Bengali police detective at the turn of the twentieth century. The breadth of coverage—of both time and place—is an indicator of a text in which seasoned readers, advanced students, and academics will find new perspectives on crime writing employing theories of cultural memory and deep mapping.

Author : Leslie McGuire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781887942577
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detective Dog and the Ghost written by Leslie McGuire and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack and Max think a ghost has taken their kitten. Of course, Detective Dog knows there is no such thing as a ghost, but he must go look in a creepy old house. And that's when his rib-tickling problems begin!

Author : Julie H. Kim
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476677158
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age written by Julie H. Kim and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today's bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how national identity appears in international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization. These essays address topics such as the array of competing nationalisms in Europe; Indian secularism versus Hindu communalism; the populist rhetoric tinged with misogyny or homophobia in the United States; racial, religious or ethnic others who are sidelined in political appeals to dominant native voices; and the increasing economic chasm between a rich and poor. More broadly, these essays inquire into themes such as how national identity and various conceptions of masculinity are woven together, how dominant native cultures interact with migrant and colonized cultures to explore insider/outsider paradigms and identity politics, and how generic and cultural boundaries are repeatedly crossed in postcolonial detective fiction.

Author : Elizabeth Foxwell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641455
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Fall 2020) written by Elizabeth Foxwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307370429
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Shoes and Happiness written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-05-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this seventh installment in the internationally bestselling, universally beloved series, there is considerable excitement at the shared premises of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe’s office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals to Mma Ramotswe that faulty blood-pressure readings are being recorded there. And it looks as though Aunty Emang, the advice columnist in the local newspaper, may not be what she seems. It all means a lot of work for Mma Ramotswe and her inestimable assistant, Grace Makutsi, and they are, of course, up to the challenge. But there’s trouble brewing in Mma Makutsi’s own life. Her greedy uncles are demanding an extra-large bride price from her well-to-do fiancé, a man of substance, Phuti Radiphuti, and though money may buy her that fashionably narrow (and uncomfortable) pair of blue shoes, it won’t buy her the happiness that Mma Ramotswe promises her she’ll find in simpler things – in contentment with the world and enough tea to smooth over the occasional bumps in the road.