Mystery Detective Fiction category: 469 books
by Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
An English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
Contents
Falkner
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Transformation
The Dream
On Ghosts
Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction
Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Since the late 1960s, the novels of Sjöwall and Wahlöö’s Martin Beck detective series, along with the works of Henning Mankell, Håkan Nesser and Stieg Larsson, have sparked an explosion of Nordic crime fiction—grim police procedurals treating urgent sociopolitical issues affecting the contemporary...
Misteri svelati
Viaggio razionale tra i classici dell'ignoto
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Se è vero, come diceva Tolkien, che non hanno mai fine i grandi racconti, lo stesso si può dire di molte storie del mistero: alcune circolano da decenni, persino secoli, pur essendo state a più riprese scientificamente e incontrovertibilmente smentite.
Dal fantasma di Azzurrina di Montebello...
"I Used to Be a Highbrow but Look at Me Now"
Phrenology, Detection, and Cultural Hierarchy in S. S. Van Dine
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This article reads Willard Huntington Wright’s work against his anxieties about cultural hierarchy and value, utilizing archival work in Wright’s papers at the University of Virginia and unearthing a previously unknown series of crime stories that he published under another pseudonym a decade...
The Big Somewhere
Essays on James Ellroy's Noir World
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
James Ellroy's identity as a crime writer is rooted in his extraordinary life story and relationship with his home city of Los Angeles. Beginning with the unsolved murder of his mother, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy, in 1958, Ellroy's early life played a large role in shaping his obsessions with murder,...
by Alexandre Dumas, fils
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A French writer and dramatist, best known for Camille (a.k.a. The Lady of the Camellias). He was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, also a writer and playwright.
The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. The play was an instant...
by Herman Whitaker
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
The Mystery of the Barranca was published in 1913 by Herman Whitaker. He was a Californian writer. Whitaker and his family moved to the Piedmont hills in 1902 and took up residence in "The Bug House," which is now Blair Avenue. His family became part of the Bohemian group including...
by Theodore Goodridge Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Rayton: A Backwoods Mystery written by Theodore Goodridge Roberts. Author of "A Captain of Raleigh's," "Comrades of the Trails," "Red Feathers," etc. Illustrated by JOHN GOSS, BOSTON L. C. PAGE & COMPANY. Copyright, 1910, by STREET & SMITH. ...
by J. Storer Clouston
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
He published one of his most popular novels, The Lunatic at Large. His The Spy in Black was made into a successful film in the late 1930s. His First Offence was also filmed in France as Drôle de drame (directed by Marcel Carné, 1937).
Contents
Simon (1919)
The Prodigal Father (1909)
The Man...
THE SIGN OF THE FOUR
The Complete Illustrated Novels of Sherlock Holmes NO 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2013
SHERLOCK HOLMES
THE SIGN OF THE FOUR
BY
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
In this, the second Sherlock Holmes story written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is called upon by a young lady who needs the great detectives help with a mystery. However, when this mystery leads...
The Man Who Would Be Sherlock
The Real-Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
A world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes in the engrossing The Man Who Would Be Sherlock**.**
Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens...
Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century
Essays on New Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes. He stars in the Guy Ritchie films, with Robert Downey, Jr.; an internationally popular BBC television series featuring Benedict Cumberbatch; a novel sanctioned by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate; and dozens of additional novels and short stories,...
by Randall Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
An American science fiction and fantasy author. This volume includes 24 science fictions in one.
Damned If You Don't-
We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed...? Usually, that Wonderful Invention won't work, actually. But there's another...
Deciphering the Lost Symbol
Freemasons, Myths and the Mysteries of Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
DISCOVER THE SECRETIVE BROTHERHOOD BEHIND DAN BROWN'S THE LOST SYMBOLFreemason influence on the founding of Washington, D.C., is evident throughout the city's buildings, statues and monuments--but it's written in coded symbols that few people understand. Dan Brown's new thriller sends symbologist detective...