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| Author | : Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2012-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0956153321 |
Arthur Conan Doyle's supernatural literature varied from Jamesian ghost stories to Lovecraftian cosmic horror and disturbing psychological thrillers, and included the introduction of a new type of monster, the reanimated Egyptian mummy. These five novelettes comprise his essential horror fiction. With introduction and notes by Rafe McGregor. Contains: "The Captain of the Pole-Star," "Lot No. 249," "A Pastoral Horror," "The Terror of Blue John Gap" and "The Parasite."
| Author | : Caleb Carr |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2006-05-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780312939137 |
Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes finds himself on the trail of a murderer whose connections may run all the way up the social ladder to the royal family.
| Author | : Nick Carter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1897 |
| Genre | : Klondike River Valley (Yukon) |
| ISBN | : |
"A Klondike Claim" is an early American "dime novel" published in 1897 by Street & Smith Publishers of New York. It introduces athletic, clever, handsome Harvey Stokes, a college grad who was more interested in athletics than scholarship and is now traveling the world. He seems to have an aptitude for detective work and this is put to the test with three different cases in the one story. The book is set against a backdrop of Alaska (or at least what a writer in New York thought would pass for Alaska) during the height of the Klondike gold rush.
| Author | : Denman Thompson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 1889 |
| Genre | : American fiction |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Josef Steiff |
| Publisher | : Open Court Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0812697316 |
The best and wisest of men or a heartless machine? Crusader for justice or cynical egoist? Mr. Holmes, the brain of Baker Street, continues to fascinate, to baffle, and to be interpreted very differently—by, among others, Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey Jr., and Benedict Cumberbatch, without losing his unmistakable identity. Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy applies observation and deduction to the ultimate “three pipe problem,” the meaning of Sherlock Holmes. -- Cover p. [4] and publisher's website.
| Author | : Michael Crichton |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : 2012-05-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0307816494 |
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a deeply personal memoir full of fascinating adventures as he travels everywhere from the Mayan pyramids to Kilimanjaro. Fueled by a powerful curiosity—and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up—Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling—swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels—an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world. It is an adventure of risk and rejuvenation, terror and wonder, as exciting as Michael Crichton's many masterful and widely heralded works of fiction.
| Author | : Dodie Smith |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2015-06-23 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250088747 |
Dodie Smith's The Hundred and One Dalmatians, adapted by Disney, was declared a classic when first published in 1956. The Starlight Barking, Dodie's own long-forgotten sequel, presents a thrilling adventure for Pongo and his family, lavishly illustrated by the same artist team as the first book. As the story opens, every living creature except dogs is gripped by an enchanted sleep. One of the original Dalmatian puppies, all grown up since the first novel, is now the Prime Minister's mascot. Relying on her spotted parents for guidance, she assumes emergency leadership for the canine population of England. Awaiting advice from Sirius, the Dog Star, dogs of every breed crowd Trafalgar Square to watch the evening skies. The message they receive is a disturbing proposition, one that might forever destroy their status as "man's best friend."
| Author | : Rafe McGregor |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2018-09-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1786606348 |
This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education – the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character and achieve political justice. The author argues that there is a subcategory of narrative representations that provide moral knowledge regardless of their categorisation as fiction or non-fiction, and which therefore can be employed as a means of moral improvement. McGregor applies this narrative ethics to the criminology of inhumanity, including both crimes against humanity and terrorism. Expanding on the methodology of narrative criminology, he demonstrates that narrative representations can be employed to evaluate responsibility for inhumanity, to understand the psychology of inhumanity, and to undermine inhumanity – and are thus a means to the end of opposing injustice. He concludes that the cultivation of narrative sensibility is an important tool for both moral improvement and political justice.
| Author | : David Stuart Davies |
| Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2007-09-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781840220711 |
Once more, the game's afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in twenty new adventures specially commissioned for Wordsworth's Mystery & Supernatural series. The celebrated detective, along with his friend and biographer, Dr Watson, investigate a variety of baffling mysteries that will delight fans of the famous sleuth.
| Author | : William Hjortsberg |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2012-03-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1453246592 |
DIVSir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini team up to search for a literary-minded killer/div DIVIt is 1923 and a beautiful young woman has just been found outside a tenement, bones crushed, head ripped from her shoulders. A few stories above, her squalid apartment has been ransacked, and twenty-dollar gold pieces litter the floor. The window frame is smashed. She seems to have been hurled from the building by a beast of impossible strength, and the only witness claims to have seen a long-armed ape fleeing the scene. The police are baffled, but one reporter recognizes the author of the bloody crime: the long-dead Edgar Allan Poe./divDIV /divDIVA psychopath is haunting New York City, imitating the murders that made Poe’s stories so famous. To Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the killing spree is of purely academic interest. But when Poe’s ghost appears in Doyle’s hotel room, the writer and the magician begin to suspect that the murders may hold a clue to understanding death itself./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of William Hjortsberg including rare photos from the author’s personal collection./div
