The Red Paste Murders (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)

The Red Paste Murders (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
Author: Arthur Gask
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Will you forgive yourself if under an influence of a weird substance you turn into a ruthless murderer? What if you are a detective yourself and in-charge of the murder investigations? Will you surrender yourself or will you hide yourself from the law? Peter Wacks will soon learn it the hard way… Excerpt: "I shall never know what dreadful impulse compels me to write it all down. My life is so many, many times forfeit to the State that were my hideous secret to become known, even now, after all these years, within an hour infuriated crowds would gather at my gate and I should be torn limb from limb without the slightest hope of mercy or reprieve. I shall never be forgiven. My crimes were too brutal. I spared neither young nor old, and every deed of violence that could bring pain and horror it was fiendish joy to do..."

Murder in the Night (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)

Murder in the Night (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
Author: Arthur Gask
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Peter Wacks was an unimpressive and weak man until he came across a mysterious "red paste." Suddenly, from a harmless being, he turned into a ruthless and cold-blooded killer! Like Jekyll and Hyde, he goes on a murder rampage in the night and during daytime becomes a detective to find the so-called murderer. Will Peter be able to outwit himself and stop his descent into chaos and madness? Or will he succumb under his negative self? Excerpt: "I shall never know what dreadful impulse compels me to write it all down. My life is so many, many times forfeit to the State that were my hideous secret to become known, even now, after all these years, within an hour infuriated crowds would gather at my gate and I should be torn limb from limb without the slightest hope of mercy or reprieve. I shall never be forgiven. My crimes were too brutal. I spared neither young nor old, and every deed of violence that could bring pain and horror it was fiendish joy to do..."

The Clifford Affair (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)

The Clifford Affair (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
Author: Dorothy Fielding
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A headless corpse found in a flat becomes a source of tension for the police with his identity being linked to a Basque anarchist! Excerpt: "Look here, Pointer. Suppose you hand over the reins of that case you're on to Clark. He can carry on all right now. Superintendent Maybrick of Hampstead wants help. Or rather, I think he needs it. He's just been called in to a horrid mess, a murder, in one of the flats in his district. From certain things he thinks it's an anarchist plot gone wrong, 'biter bit' sort of thing," Major Pelham said vaguely; "he's got into touch with the Foreign Office already. So by this time there's sure to be some F.O. man sprinting along to have a first look."

The Tall House Mystery (Musaicum Murder Mysteries)

The Tall House Mystery (Musaicum Murder Mysteries)
Author: Dorothy Fielding
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A ghost prank by a bunch of youngster goes horribly wrong when one of them gets fatally injured by a loaded revolver. Was it really an accident or was it a pre-planned murder? Excerpt: "Moy was about the same age, around twenty-five; small of stature, quick and eager in eye and movement. Tark, the third man, struck such a different note that at first glance one would have taken him for a foreigner. Moy liked Haliburton, but he did not care for his companion, whom he had met in his company a couple of times lately. But, though he did not like Tark, Moy was interested in the man. For the young solicitor was writing a play in secret, and was keenly interested in finding characters for it. Haliburton, he had decided, was no earthly good to a writer. Rich. Easy going. Kindly...but this other, the chap with the name that suited him somehow—because it rhymed with shark probably, Moy decided—he might be very useful. He turned to him now."

An English Murder

An English Murder
Author: Cyril Hare
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1667627317

A group of guests gather in a large country house, owned by the dying Lord Warbeck, who wants what is left of his family around him to celebrate what he assumes will be his last Christmas. The guests are a motley bunch, including Sir Julius Warbeck, Chancellor of the Exchequer, the wife of one of his underlings, the fascist son of the present Lord Warbeck, and the Chancellor's bodyguard. Also present is foreign historian Dr Bottwink, and the traditional faithful butler. When the first murder occurs, the house is cut off from the rest of the world by a heavy snowfall, and it is left to Sir Julius's bodyguard to initiate a preliminary investigation before contact can be made with the local police force.

The Word Detective

The Word Detective
Author: Evan Morris
Publisher: Plume Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Realist Cinema as World Cinema

Realist Cinema as World Cinema
Author: Lúcia Nagib
Publisher: Film Culture in Transition
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2020-10-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9789462987517

This book presents the bold and original proposal to replace the general appellation of 'world cinema' with the more substantive concept of 'realist cinema'. Veering away from the usual focus on modes of reception and spectatorship, it locates instead cinematic realism in the way films are made. The volume is structured across three innovative categories of realist modes of production: 'non-cinema', or a cinema that aspires to be life itself; 'intermedial passages', or films that incorporate other artforms as a channel to historical and political reality; and 'total cinema', or films moved by a totalising impulse, be it towards the total artwork, total history or universalising landscapes. Though mostly devoted to recent productions, each part starts with the analysis of foundational classics, which have paved the way for future realist endeavours, proving that realism is timeless and inherent in cinema from its origin.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1901
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.

Tragedy at Law

Tragedy at Law
Author: Cyril Hare
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1667627260

When an anonymous letter arrives for Mr Justice Barber, the High Court judge, warning of imminent revenge, he dismisses it as the work of a harmless lunatic. But then a second letter appears, followed by a poisoned box of the judge's favourite chocolates, and he begins to fear for his life.