Mystery Detective Fiction category: 469 books
by Barbara Leavy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
* * Aside from Ruth Rendell's brilliance as a fiction writer, and her appeal to mystery lovers, her books portray a compelling, universal experience that her readers can immediately relate to, the intra-familial stresses generated by the nuclear family. Even those who experience the joys as...
Pieces of Mind: Fictional Truths & Non-Fictional Lies about Writing and the Writing Life
(Vincent Zandri on Writing Book), #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Brand new from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Vincent Zandri comes a non-fiction volume that will hold special appeal for those writers, new or established, who've enjoyed books on writing by Stephen King, Charles Bukoswki, Scott Nicholson, Chris Fox, Wayne Stinnett, and more.
Featuring...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Crime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries—from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the Japanese timetable mystery—is the investigator....
Towards Sherlock Holmes
A Thematic History of Crime Fiction in the 19th Century World
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Crime fiction—a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century—features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role, the protagonists tended to be lawyers or other professionals. Major English writers like Gaskell,...
Australian Crime Fiction
A 200-Year History
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Australian crime fiction has grown from the country’s origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless...
The Dragon Tattoo and Its Long Tail
The New Wave of European Crime Fiction in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The enormous popularity of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy has raised awareness of other contemporary European authors of crime fiction. As a result, several of these novelists now reach a receptive American audience, eager for fresh perspectives in the genre. This critical text offers an introduction...
Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies
Fences, Boundaries, and Fields
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
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 referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
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 and he try to have new life. But the twisted fate cause him see tragedy with his friend.
by Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong
Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In his brilliant reinvestigation of the classic case of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Pierre Bayard uses the last thoughts of the murder victim as his key to unravel the mystery, leading the reader to the astonishing conclusion that Holmes-and, in fact, Arthur Conan Doyle-got things all wrong. Part...
by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
It’s okay for Thais to believe in ghosts—it’s their birthright. But why is Vincent Calvino seeing ghosts, and why are they so angry? Calvino is haunted by a series of deaths in Rangoon and Bangkok, when he stumbles onto a new murder case—but is it a new case, or an old one returned from the...
Miss Marple: Christian Sleuth
The Woman for Others at the Heart of Agatha Christie's Classic Mystery Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The rage for crime fiction today mysteriously includes a wide and enduring attraction to the few remaining wholly admirable role models still available to readers. The iconic Miss Marple, ‘faved’ by traditionalists and pop fans alike, deftly models her love of God and neighbor in concrete...
by Christopher G. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
A contemporary murder set in Bangkok—a neighbor and friend, a young ex-hooker turned artist, is found dead by an American millionaire’s minor wife. Her rich expat husband hires Calvino to investigate.
While searching for the killer in exclusive clubs and not-so-exclusive bars of Bangkok,...
Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads
100 Must-Reads
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Quote from a starred Library Journal review: "This is an essential reference book.”