Laird R Blackwell: 3 books
by Laird R. Blackwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
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 that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several popular archetypes—the...
The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton
A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown stories are widely considered to be some of the finest detective short stories ever published, offering vivid writing, brilliant puzzles, biting social criticism, and metaphysical explorations of life’s great questions. This book presents the first in-depth analysis...
by Laird R. Blackwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
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 the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen—both a pen name and the fictional protagonist...