Backyard Detective
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Published on 2002 by Scholastic Press
Describes a variety of animals and insects that can be found close to home and offers tips on how to observe them.
This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!Master Detective
By:"John Reisinger"
Published on 2007 by Citadel Press
Ellis Parker, a detective known the world over in the early 1900s as the 'American Sherlock Holmes', solved over 98% of the murders in his New Jersey county. Drawing on the emerging discipline of psychology and his uncanny deductive reasoning skills, he was a 'profiler' before the term existed. So how did he end up behind bars, dying tragically in prison? When he involved himself in the biggest case of his career - the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in 1932 - he inadvertently set in motion his own undoing. This book sets the record straight on this enigmatic man.
This Book was ranked 27 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!Cleek of Scotland Yard: Detective Stories
By:"Thomas W. Hanshew"
Published on 2016-02-22 by
Thomas W. Hanshew was an American actor and writer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He went on the stage when only 16 years old, playing minor parts with Ellen Terry's company. Subsequently he played important roles with Clara Morris and Adelaide Neilson.
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Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie
By:"James Zemboy"
Published on 2008-05-05 by McFarland
“thoughtful and entertaining...highly useful...achieves its goal”—Booklist “may be the most thorough guide to the 60 novels published between 1920 and 1976...provides thoughtful and helpful commentary”—ARBA “a very worthwhile book for...a good encyclopedic introduction to the world of this most prolific and well loved crime author”--Reference Reviews “excellent”--GAdetection “the writing is lively, the author’s enthusiasm infectious”--Mystery Scene The most popular mystery writer of all time concocted a rich recipe of intrigue, character, and setting. All of Agatha Christie's 66 detective novels are covered here in great detail. Each chapter begins with general comments on a novel's geographical and historical setting, identifying current events, fashions, fads and popular interests that relate to the story. A concise plot summary and comprehensive character listing follow, and each novel is discussed within Christie's overall body of work, with an emphasis on the development of themes, narrative technique, and characters over the course of her prolific career. An appendix translates Poirot's French and defines the British idiomatic words and phrases that give Christie's novels so much of their flavor.
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By:"Maureen A. Taylor"
Published on 2013-02-12 by Family Tree Books
Offers advice on discovering family information from old photographs, including determining the type of image; dating the image using clothing, accessories, and hairstyles; and creating context by identifying props in the image.
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By:"Thomas W. Hanshew"
Published on 1914 by
This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword Cleek of Scotland Yard.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!The Detective as Historian
By:"Ray B. Browne","Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr"
Published on 2013-02-01 by University of Wisconsin Pres
Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England and America. Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales.
This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!The Complete Works of R. Austin Freeman: Thriller Classics, Adventure Novels & Detective Stories (Illustrated)
By:"R. Austin Freeman"
Published on 2016-03-23 by e-artnow
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Works of R. Austin Freeman: Thriller Classics, Adventure Novels & Detective Stories (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He introduced the inverted detective story; a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, usually including the identity of the perpetrator, with the story then describing the detective's attempt to solve the mystery. Many of the Dr. Thorndyke stories involve genuine, but often quite arcane, points of scientific knowledge, from areas such as tropical medicine and toxicology. Table of Contents: Introduction: Short Biography The Art of the Detective Story Dr. Thorndyke Series: Meet Dr. Thorndyke Novels The Red Thumb Mark The Eye of Osiris The Mystery of 31 New Inn A Silent Witness Helen Vardon's Confession The Cat's Eye The Mystery of Angelina Frood The Shadow of the Wolf The D'Arblay Mystery A Certain Dr. Thorndyke As a Thief in the Night Mr. Pottermack's Oversight Pontifex, Son and Thorndyke When Rogues Fall Out Dr. Thorndyke Intervenes For the Defence: Dr. Thorndyke The Penrose Mystery Felo De Se? The Stoneware Monkey Mr. Polton Explains The Jacob Street Mystery Short Story Collections Percival Bland’s Proxy The Missing Mortgagee Dr. Thorndyke's Cases The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook The Puzzle Lock The Magic Casket Other Novels: The Golden Pool The Unwilling Adventurer The Uttermost Farthing The Exploits of Danby Croker The Surprising Experiences of Mr. Shuttlebury Cobb Flighty Phyllis Other Short Stories: By the Black Deep The Adventures of Romney Pringle The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle From a Surgeon’s Diary The Great Portrait Mystery and Other Stories
This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword Thriller Classics.
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By:"Larry N. Landrum"
Published on 1999-01-01 by Greenwood Publishing Group
A guide to research on American mystery and detective novels emphasizing the historical development of the genre and major critical approaches to the literature.
This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!The Woman Detective
By:"Kathleen Gregory Klein"
Published on 1995-01-01 by University of Illinois Press
Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.
This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
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By:"Alexander McCall Smith"
Published on 2005 by Anchor
Working in Gaborone, Botswana, sleuth Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week. Reprint.
This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!The Detective
By:"Roderick Thorp"
Published on 2014-12-02 by Open Road Media
In this bestselling book that inspired the hit movie by the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, an apparent suicide forces a PI to reconsider his most famous case Joe Leland returned from World War II with a chest full of medals, but his greatest honor came after he traded his pilot’s wings for a detective’s shield. Catching the Leikman killer made Joe a local hero, but the shine quickly wore off, and it wasn’t long before he left the police force to start his own private agency. Years after his greatest triumph, Joe has a modest income and a quiet life—both of which may soon fall apart. When Colin MacIver dies at the local racetrack, the coroner rules that he took his own life, but his widow knows better. Because MacIver’s life insurance policy doesn’t cover suicide, his wife is left broke, desperate, and afraid for her safety. She hires Leland to find out who could have killed her gentle, unassuming husband—a simple question that will turn this humble city inside out.
This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
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By:"Neil McCaw"
Published on 2011-01-20 by A&C Black
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This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
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By:"Thomas W. Hanshew"
Published on 2013-01 by BoD – Books on Demand
Collection of short stories, starring consulting detective Hamilton Cleek and his incredible skills at disguise. Originally published in 1910.
This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword Cleek of Scotland Yard.
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By:"Thomas W. Hanshew"
Published on 1918 by
This Book was ranked 30 by Google Books for keyword Cleek of Scotland Yard.
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By:"Tracy Searight Dibert"
Published on 2010-01 by AuthorHouse
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This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
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By:"Thomas W. Hanshew"
Published on 2016-06-28 by e-artnow
This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword Cleek's Government Cases.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!The Lost Detective
By:"Nathan Ward"
Published on 2015-09-15 by Bloomsbury Publishing USA
A 2016 Edgar Award Nominee Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hard-boiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor Maryland family, Hammett left school at fourteen and held several jobs before joining the Pinkerton National Detective Agency as an operative in 1915 and, with time off in 1918 to serve at the end of World War I, he remained with the agency until 1922, participating alike in the banal and dramatic action of an operative. The tuberculosis he contracted during the war forced him to leave the Pinkertons--but it may well have prompted one of America's most acclaimed writing careers. While Hammett's life on center stage has been well-documented, the question of how he got there has not. That largely overlooked phase is the subject of Nathan Ward's enthralling The Lost Detective. Hammett's childhood, his life in San Francisco, and especially his experience as a detective deeply informed his writing and his characters, from the nameless Continental Op, hero of his stories and early novels, to Sam Spade and Nick Charles. The success of his many stories in the pulp magazine Black Mask following his departure from the Pinkertons led him to novels; he would write five between 1929 and 1934, two of them (The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) now American classics. Though he inspired generations of writers, from Chandler to Connelly and all in between, after The Thin Man he never finished another book, a painful silence for his devoted readers; and his popular image has long been shaped by the remembrance of Hellman, who knew him after his literary reputation had been made. Based on original research across the country, The Lost Detective is the first book to illuminate Hammett's transformation from real detective to great American detective writer, throwing brilliant new light on one of America's most celebrated and remembered novelists and his world.
This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!KNOCK! KNOCK! WHO’S THERE? – 5 Detective Hamilton Cleek Riddles in One Premium Edition (Mystery & Crime Series)
By:"Thomas W. Hanshew","Mary E. Hanshew"
Published on 2016-06-28 by e-artnow
This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword Cleek of Scotland Yard.
Thank you for visiting my book reviews blog!The Railway Detective
By:"Edward Marston"
Published on 2009-07-12 by Allison & Busby
London 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating... In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, causing many casualties. Planned with military precision, this crime proves a challenge to Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck who fights to untangle a web of murder, blackmail and destruction. As Colbeck closes in on the criminal masterminds, events take an unexpected turn when the beautiful Madeleine, daughter of the injured train driver, becomes a pawn in the criminals' game. With time running out, good and evil, new and old, battle against each other. But will the long arm of the law have speed on its side? Full of historical detail, The Railway Detective is an action-packed dip into murky 1850s London.
This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword Detective.
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