Mystery & Detective Fiction 7

Dieses eBook: "Morde am Fließband: Eine Sammlung der interessantesten Kriminalgeschichten aller Länder" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig k……続きを見る

Crime and Thriller Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing in these exciting genres. PART 1 explores the nature and history of the genre and helpsyou get started wi……続きを見る

Names such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Sam Spade are perhaps better known than the names of the authors who created them. The woman detective has also had worldwide appeal; yet, with the……続きを見る

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing. Since the 1990 publication of his first n……続きを見る

As a novelist who has spent years crafting and refining his intense and oft outrageous "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction" persona, James Ellroy has used interviews as a means of shaping narrative……続きを見る

Extrait : Ce que peut supporter la patience d’une femme, ce que peuvent accomplir le courage et la constance d’un homme, cette histoire le dira. Si tout événement qui prête aux soupçons pouvait être……続きを見る

Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transf……続きを見る

Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition ……続きを見る

A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world’s most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories. Agatha……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Arme Leute" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Arme Leute ist der erste Roman des russischen Schriftsteller……続きを見る

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction, and for the……続きを見る

Recognized as a major innovator in the weird story, H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an author whose influence was felt by nearly every writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction in the second ha……続きを見る

James M. Cain wrote some of the grittiest novels in American literature, including such classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce. James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled M……続きを見る

Twelve novels and nine short stories define one of the most extraordinary fictional characters of all time, creating the basis for the most successful movie series in cinematographic history, watche……続きを見る

Film noir-literally "black cinema"-is the label customarily given to a group of black and white American films, mostly crime thrillers, made between 1940 and 1959. Today there is considerable disput……続きを見る

In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in……続きを見る

Le Mystère de la chambre jaune est un roman policier du romancier français Gaston Leroux (1868 – 1927). Il s'agit de la première aventure du jeune reporter Joseph Rouletabille. Ce livre numérique co……続きを見る

Le Parfum de la dame en noir est un roman de l'écrivain français Gaston Leroux. C’est le deuxième épisode des aventures de Joseph Rouletabille. Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dyn……続きを見る

La majesté de la justice réside tout entière dans chaque sentence rendue par le juge au nom du peuple souverain.  Jérôme Crainquebille, marchand ambulant, conn……続きを見る

A 2016 Edgar Award Nominee Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarth……続きを見る

Emphasising the influence of Raymond Chandler's English background, Malcolm Noble encourages a new generation of Chandler readers to look further into this writer's life and work.    "……続きを見る

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 an……続きを見る

On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year late……続きを見る

In this anthology we aim to provide general insights into the role of the anarchist in fiction, both as protagonist (as angels and demons, but mostly demons) and author. Obviously, there will be wri……続きを見る

In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P.D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, 'a time to be in earnest', as Dr Johnson s……続きを見る

Durant les fêtes de la Nativité de l’an de grâce 1198, trois jongleurs arrivent au château de Saint-Gilles. L’un d’eux est un monstre, un nain avec une face poilue le faisan……続きを見る

Seit September 2013 erscheint monatlich im Netz das Onlinemagazin Polar Gazette, das sich mit jeder neuen Ausgabe einem Thema des Genres Krimi widmet. Sei es „Muss ein Krimi immer gut enden . . . mu……続きを見る

This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry……続きを見る

Le Fauteuil hanté est un roman policier de l'écrivain français Gaston Leroux (1868 – 1927). Résumé : L'intrigue se déroule sous la coupole de l'Académie française. À la suite de la mort de Monseigne……続きを見る

»Kriminalliteratur, mit einer gewissen intellektuellen Wollust genossen, ist ein wunderbar funkelndes, facettenreiches Ding. Man kann sie von allen Seiten betrachten, man kann sich von ihr holen, wa……続きを見る