Hand in Glove - Dead Water - Death at the Dolphin
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 643
ISBN-13: 0007328761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three Inspector Alleyn novels plus a bonus story "The Cupid mirror".
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Women of Mystery
Author: Martha Hailey DuBose
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-12-11
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0312209428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →And though she laments, "So many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort at mentioning "some of the best of the rest.""--BOOK JACKET.
Death at the Dolphin
Women Authors of Detective Series
Author: Moira Davison Reynolds
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 078645069X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached its height around 1925 to 1945. This work presents information on 21 British and American women who wrote during the 20th century. As a group they were largely responsible for the great popularity of the detective novel in the first half of the century. The British authors are Dora Turnbull (Patricia Wentworth), Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth Mackintosh (Josephine Tey), Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Margery Allingham, Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters), Phyllis Dorothy James White (P.D. James), Gwendoline Butler (Jennie Melville), and Ruth Rendell, and the Americans are Patricia Highsmith, Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Amanda Cross), Edna Buchanan, Kate Gallison, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Patricia Cornwell, Carol Higgins Clark, and Megan Mallory Rust. A flavor of each author's work is provided.
Essays on Detective Fiction
Author: Bernard Benstock
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1983-12-15
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1349173134
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Author: George Woodcock
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1983-04-01
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 1349170666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dead Water
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-05-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780312969905
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Faith healing can be fatal When intrepid octogenarian Emily Pride inherits an island, and the miraculous properties of its "Pixie Falls" healing spring, she is shocked by all the vulgarity. The admission fee, the Gifte Shoppe, the folksy Festival, the neon sign on the pub, all must go! But local opposition runs high, death threats pile up, and Miss Emily's old friend Superintendent Roderick Alleyn arrives just in time to discover a drowned body and a set of murder motives that seem to spring eternal.
Hand In Glove
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-04-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780312969080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Who had a hand in the murder of a country gent? All manner of friction fills the English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. Until one of them, after a flamboyant dowager's treasure hunt party, is found murdered-face down in the mire of an open drain. Which of Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's suspects-linked by a tangled set of relationships-wore a crucial, missing pair of gloves to commit this dirty deed?
The Winter Murder Case
Author: S.S. Van Dine
Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM
Published: 2021-07-18
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1631942158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A murder in the mountains is the latest case for the Manhattan detective famed for his “highbrow manner and parade of encyclopedic learning” (The New York Times). Wealthy and worldly-wise detective Philo Vance has been asked to keep watch at a house party in the snowy Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where he encounters an assortment of guests ranging from a treasure hunter to a race car driver. The owner of the house doesn’t quite trust his son’s friends—and is worried about the security of his precious emeralds. Sure enough, a guard is soon killed, the jewels are stolen, and then another guest dies, leaving Vance to make some cold calculations about who turned this gathering from festive to fatal . . . “Mr. Van Dine’s amateur detective is the most gentlemanly, and probably the most scholarly snooper in literature.” —Chicago Daily Tribune “The best of the American mystery men.” —The Globe
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Author: S.S. Van Dine
Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM
Published: 2021-07-18
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 163194214X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The beloved 1930s comedienne becomes the famed detective’s sidekick in the series that “transport[s] the reader back to a long-gone era of society” (Mystery Scene). During a glamorous night on the town, Gracie Allen finds a dead body—and a cigarette case nearby that belongs to her date for the evening. Detective Philo Vance is on the scene, but questioning Gracie is causing more confusion than enlightenment. To prevent her from creating more chaos, Vance decides to keep her close by as his unofficial sleuthing partner. Now, with the help of the zany star—or in spite of it—he intends to find the real killer . . . “Mr. Van Dine’s amateur detective is the most gentlemanly, and probably the most scholarly snooper in literature.” —Chicago Daily Tribune “The best of the American mystery men.” —The Globe
