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Author | : Elliot Paul |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2015-04-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486251853 |
All Paris is agog at the disappearance of a rare Watteau print until the intervention of a master sleuth and his zany companions. "An excellent cocktail." — The New Republic.
Author | : Elliot Paul |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2015-03-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486803244 |
The gendarmes are baffled and all Paris is agog at the disappearance of a rare Watteau print. Enter master sleuth Homer Evans, whose hilarious approach to crime-solving follows a twisted trail from the darkest recesses of the Louvre to underworld lairs, the studios of shady art dealers, and an insane asylum. Evans and his zany associates—including his sharpshooting girlfriend, Mademoiselle Montana, and his drinking buddy, Gonzo—trace a bizarre series of clues to uncover an ever-thickening plot involving fraud, kidnapping, and murder. Author Elliot Paul satirized the conventions of detective fiction with the first Homer Evans adventure, The Mysterious Mickey Finn. This sequel, hailed as "an excellent cocktail" by The New Republic, offers another furious frolic that upends every convention of the traditional murder mystery.
Author | : Elliot Paul |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Evans, Homer (Fictitious character) |
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Author | : Elliot Paul |
Publisher | : Coachwhip Publications |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2015-06-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781616462949 |
Homer Evans has a wacky group of friends who lead you all over Paris, up and down the Seine, through cafes filled with celebrities, taxidermist shops, subway stations, the musty dens of Egyptologists and the wards of a fantastic madhouse. There is violence aplenty and corpses are in the most unexpected places. The New York Herald Tribune Books says, "This, as you might guess, is the funniest mystery on tap-that is, the funniest by far, for all other comic thrillers seem pale and wan beside Mr. Paul's robustious works." You can't fail to get plenty of gusty guffaws and spine-tickling chills as you join lovely Miriam Leonard, hard-drinking Norwegian-American painter Hjalmar Jansen, former member of the Tsar's army Lvov Kvek, Chief of Detectives Fremont of the Paris Police, and the medical examiner, Dr. Hyacinthe Toudoux, to help Homer Evans solve this mystery that starts with the theft of a famous Watteau painting from the Louvre. "Fantastically amusing and thrilling . . . completely cockeyed and hugely entertaining." Jack Ketch, New York Herald Tribune"
Author | : J.K. Van Dover |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2019-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476677492 |
This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders. With a few significant exceptions, literary detectives have always identified themselves as essentially the deconstructors of the artful crimes of others. They may use various methods--ratiocinative, scientific, or hard-boiled--but they always unravel the threads that the villains have woven into deceptive covers for their crimes. The detective does, in the end, produce a work of art: a narrative that explains everything that needs explanation. But the detective's moral work is often juxtaposed to the aesthetic work of the painters, poets, and writers that the detective encounters during an investigation. The author surveys this juxtaposition in works by important authors from the early development of the genre (Poe, Conan Doyle), the golden age (Bentley, Christie, Sayers, James, et al.), and the hard-boiled era (Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald, Spicer et al.).
Author | : Caroline Brettell |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780842027830 |
This biography of Canadian journalist Zoe Bieler explores many of the historical and social issues that have confronted women in the twentieth century. Written by Bieler's daughter, anthropologist Caroline Brettell, Writing Against the Wind uses Bieler's life as a timeline, tracing the triumphs and frustrations women have experienced in the last eighty years.p Several themes that are important to the field of women's studies are examined: genres of female writing, women's biogra-phy and autobiography, the historical circumstances that shape career opportunities for women, the nature of mother-daughter relationships, the problems of working mothers, the idea of women mentoring women, the emergence of feminism and women's issues in both academia and the popular press, and the changing roles of women in journalism.p Drawing from her mother's life experiences as well as her journalistic and personal writings (an appendix featuring some of Bieler's writings is included), Brettell reveals how women have struggled,with balancing a job and raising a family and, at the same time, enduring the stigma attached to women working outside the home.p Thoroughly engaging, this book is ideal for courses in women's studies, women's history, biography/autobiography, women's writing, and women in journalism.
Author | : Elliot Paul |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2016-05-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486806081 |
Serious detection meets madcap adventure in this stylish whodunit, which unfolds in 1930s Paris and features a colorful cast that includes a concert violinist, his eccentric accompanist, and a notorious gang member.
Author | : Cuthbert Girdlestone |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1969-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780486262000 |
Definitive, full-scale biography and critical study of great 18th-century composer. Rameau's life and times, influence on Gluck, acoustic and harmonic theories, other topics, plus full treatment of great operas and ballets. Over 300 musical examples.
Author | : Arno Nehrling |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780486232638 |
Thorough cultivation instructions for over 500 shrubs, trees, annuals, perennials, herbs, and vegetables, plus instructions for arranging, cutting, forcing, and more. Will help you design a garden that provides a variety of colors, blooms, and forms in a harmonious scheme. Specific instructions for drying 371 different plants. 33 photographs, 142 drawings.
Author | : Arthur Cleveland Bent |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1963-01-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780486210827 |
Coots, bitterns, rails, crakes, cranes, herons, egrets, many others. 180 photographs.