The Conan Doyle Weirdbook

The Conan Doyle Weirdbook
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."

The Italian Secretary

The Italian Secretary
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.

Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy

Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy
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.

A Klondike Claim

A Klondike Claim
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.

Travels

Travels
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.

The Starlight Barking

The Starlight Barking
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."

Narrative Justice

Narrative Justice
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.

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes
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.

Nevermore

Nevermore
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