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Author: C. F. Roe Publisher: Signet Book ISBN: 9780451177131 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
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A baffling new mystery in the acclaimed and popular Dr. Jean Montrose series. Medical sleuth Jean Montrose accompanies her friend Inspector Detective Douglas Niven on the investigation of a murder. The victim, a renowned ladies' man, is found in a smashed-up Porsche--with a bullet in his head. . . .
Author: C. F. Roe Publisher: Signet Book ISBN: 9780451177131 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
A baffling new mystery in the acclaimed and popular Dr. Jean Montrose series. Medical sleuth Jean Montrose accompanies her friend Inspector Detective Douglas Niven on the investigation of a murder. The victim, a renowned ladies' man, is found in a smashed-up Porsche--with a bullet in his head. . . .
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Why is it so much fun to read about death and dismemberment? In Murder Book, lifelong true-crime obsessive and New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell tries to puzzle out the answer. An unconventional graphic exploration of a lifetime of Ann Rule super-fandom, amateur armchair sleuthing, and a deep dive into the high-profile murders that have fascinated the author for decades, this is a funny, thoughtful, and highly personal blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and true crime with a focus on the often-overlooked victims of notorious killers.
Author: Colleen Barnett Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1615950109 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 1090
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Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.
Author: Andie Tucher Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807866016 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 270
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Two notorious antebellum New York murder cases--a prostitute slashed in an elegant brothel and a tradesman bludgeoned by the brother of inventor Samuel Colt--set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day. In 1833 an entirely new kind of newspaper--cheap, feisty, and politically independent--introduced American readers to the novel concept of what has come to be called objectivity in news coverage. The penny press was the first medium that claimed to present the true, unbiased facts to a democratic audience. But in Froth and Scum, Andie Tucher explores--and explodes--the notion that 'objective' reporting will discover a single, definitive truth. As they do now, news stories of the time aroused strong feelings about the possibility of justice, the privileges of power, and the nature of evil. The prostitute's murder in 1836 sparked an impassioned public debate, but one newspaper's 'impartial investigation' pleased the powerful by helping the killer go free. Colt's 1841 murder of the tradesman inspired universal condemnation, but the newspapers' singleminded focus on his conviction allowed another secret criminal to escape. By examining media coverage of these two sensational murders, Tucher reveals how a community's needs and anxieties can shape its public truths. The manuscript of this book won the 1991 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians for the best-written dissertation in American history. from the book Journalism is important. It catches events on the cusp between now and then--events that still may be changing, developing, ripening. And while new interpretations of the past can alter our understanding of lives once led, new interpretations of the present can alter the course of our lives as we live them. Understanding the news properly is important. The way a community receives the news is profoundly influenced by who its members are, what they hope and fear and wish, and how they think about their fellow citizens. It is informed by some of the most occult and abstract of human ideas, about truth, beauty, goodness, and justice.
Author: John Russell Fearn Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1434447197 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 130
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Randle Manton has brought the Earth back from the brink of nuclear disaster, painstakingly rebuilding a nearly destroyed civilization, even reaching out to space. But now he's told that the clouds covering the world will soon unleash upon the reeling planet yet another disaster: a great flood that will cover most of the Earth's surface. Despite his wealth, despite his great power, Manton knows that he'll only be able to save a fraction of humanity. Can mankind rebuild and survive yet a third time?
Author: Howard Brody Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527564800 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 375
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This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of one variant of the mystery story or novel—the use of a physician as the major detective. There is little difference between a medical “case study” and a mystery story. The book reviews the works of major authors, from R. Austin Freeman, Helen McCloy, Josephine Bell, and H.C. Bailey, to Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Aaron Elkins, and Colin Cotterill, with briefer reviews of minor authors. It also addresses historical (fictional) physician detectives, psychological detectives, and physician detective nonfiction. Physicians and health workers are avid readers of detective fiction and will welcome this volume, which addresses their specific interests. Its critical analysis of books that have long been viewed as central to detective fiction will also appeal to fans of the mystery story.
Author: C. F. Roe Publisher: Signet Book ISBN: 9780451174680 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 284
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A new medical mystery series by the author of Intensive Care. A tiny dynamo of a physician, Jean Montrose combines her forsenics expertise with a talent for snooping. After one of her house-call patients is murderd, Dr. Montrose discovers shocking secrets surrounding the group of glittering young aristocrats who frequented the estate of the murdered heir. Previously publisher: Headline (Great Britain).
Author: C. F. Roe Publisher: Signet Book ISBN: 9780451181824 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 260
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In this fifth book of the Dr. Jean Montrose series, the doctor must solve the brutal murder of a young choirboy. Montrose sifts through the complexities of the case and uses her specialized medical knowledge as well as her infallible common sense to track down the killer and expose the horrifying truth about the death.
Author: John Russell Fearn Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1434447111 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 213
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Maria Black, Head of Roseway College for Young Ladies during World War II, and a textbook solver of crimes, finds herself faced with a problem after her own heart when the strange, haughty Frances Hasleigh, daughter of a somewhat mysterious British Major, enrolls in her school. Within a few days the girl is found hanged in a nearby wood, in circumstances that seem devoid of clues and without motive. Scotland Yard is called in to solve the horrifying crime, but Black Maria has her own unique system of finding a culprit. By degrees she follows a trail that leads her through a maze of intrigue. And then a second girl is found hanging in a school room...! The second novel in the classic Black Maria series!
Author: C. F. Roe
Author: C. F. Roe
Author: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell
Author: Colleen Barnett
Author: C. F. Roe
Author: Andie Tucher
Author: John Russell Fearn
Author: Howard Brody
Author: C. F. Roe
Author: C. F. Roe
Author: John Russell Fearn