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This compelling book explores the legendary Bermuda Triangle, a region in the Atlantic Ocean where ships and planes have mysteriously vanished for centuries. Blending science, history, and folklore,……続きを見る

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Del policial clásico al post-neopolicial: La estética del crimen en la narrativa mexicana, 1940–2020 is a comprehensive study of Mexican crime fiction from cultural, gender, social, political, and l……続きを見る

This book contains several tables of HTML content for easy reading. The novels are sorted in chronological order. content: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving On Ghosts by Mary Shelley ……続きを見る

In Charles Dickens' Werk 'Dombey & Sohn' entführt der Autor die Leser in das viktorianische England des 19. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte von Paul Dombey, einem reichen und stolzen G……続きを見る

When Evelyn Harper and a group of paranormal investigators arrive at Harper Manorーan abandoned estate with a dark and twisted historyーthey expect to document haunting phenomena for their show. But……続きを見る

The relationship between traditional myths, fairytales and current fiction novels featuring women as crime-solvers is examined in this critical study. Using theories from Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung ……続きを見る

With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and e……続きを見る

A collection of works on everyone's favorite gentleman sleuth: Sherlock Holmes. This compendium of Sherlockiana compiled by Vincent Starrett, one of the world's foremost Holmes experts, is sure to p……続きを見る

Gahan Wilson ranked Oliver Onions as "one of the best, if not the best, ghost story writers working in the English language," declaring that "Mr. Onions did as much as anyone to move phantoms and ot……続きを見る

Locations play an important role in every story, but in British and American contemporary crime fiction, they are often inextricable from the narrative. This work examines the city, the countryside ……続きを見る

Fans of Sherlock Holmes will delight to investigate Victorian England, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy. Through the ……続きを見る

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influence……続きを見る

The detective story--the classic whodunit with its time-displacement structure of crime--according to most literary historians, is of relatively recent origin. Early in its development, the whodunit……続きを見る

This book will tell you about the boy whose fate was twisted.He was an orphan whose live in an almshouse with his friends.He was take by Mr.Sowerberry to be his worker.He escaped from those thing an……続きを見る

Edward Bulwer-Lytton--who coined the terms "the great unwashed" and "the pen is mightier than the sword"--is best remembered for persuading Dickens to change the ending of Great Expectations; but Lo……続きを見る

Edgar Allan Poe exerted a profound influence on many aspects of 20th century culture, and continues to inspire composers, filmmakers, writers and artists. Popularly thought of as a "horror" writer, ……続きを見る

Dick Adler reviews mysteries and thrillers every other week in his Crime Watch column for the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author, with the late Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, of Public Justice, Private Me……続きを見る

Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The “fantastical” in fantastical blackness is con……続きを見る

In 'Bleak House' von Charles Dickens erwarten den Leser düstere und verzweigte Handlungsstränge, die sich um den berüchtigten Chancery-Prozess und das Schicksal von Esther Summerson drehen. Dickens ……続きを見る

H.C. Bailey's detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories tha……続きを見る

In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of ref……続きを見る

Different Drummers is the follow-up book of Kevin Cummings' Bangkok Beat featuring the noir poety of John Gartland. It's a compendium of literature reviews, author profiles, and short stories. Featu……続きを見る

The second anniversary issue of a mystery magazine which Bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman has called “a cut above” and mystery grand masters Lawrence Block and Max Allan Collins have praised f……続きを見る

Though mystery, crime, and detective fiction are some of the most popular genres in the world, little scholarship currently exists regarding Native American writers and how they add new dimensions t……続きを見る

Combining elements of medievalism, the historical novel and the detective narrative, medieval crime fiction capitalizes upon the appeal of all three--the most famous examples being Umberto Eco's The……続きを見る

Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of ……続きを見る

Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural have no place in the logical, rational, world of the det……続きを見る

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Sea Wolf (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journali……続きを見る