Author: Edgar Richard Horatio WallacePublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Melody of Death
Author: Edgar WallacePublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 151328584X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
The Melody of Death (1915) is a crime novel by Edgar Wallace. Written at the height of Wallace’s career as one of England’s leading popular fiction writers, The Melody of Death showcases his effective narrative style and innate sense of the strange in everyday life. Like many of Wallace’s stories and novels, The Melody of Death was adapted into a silent film in 1922 by Stoll Pictures. The year is 1911. Night has fallen in London, and two skilled safecrackers enter a diamond merchant’s office after receiving a tip about a recent delivery. As they work the safe in silence, the pair become aware of a presence behind them. Turning, they find a masked man pointing a gun in their direction. Strangely, however, he wants nothing more than to watch them, to learn their methods for his own unspecified purposes. Meanwhile, Gilbert Standerton discovers, on the day of his wedding, no less, that his new wife Edith has married him for his money alone, and that she has been encouraged by her meddling mother to do so. Disillusioned, disheartened, and filled with rage, Gilbert hears the opening strains of the melancholy “Melody in F,” a strange song that never fails to send him into an even stranger state of emotion. As the story unfolds, and as Gilbert becomes increasingly distant, a life in business becomes a life of crime, revealing the dual nature of one disturbed, desperate man. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Edgar Wallace’s The Melody of Death is a classic work of crime fiction reimagined for modern readers.
The Melody of Death
Author: Edgar Richard Horatio WallacePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Melody of Death
Author: Edgar WallaceThe Melody of Death
Author: Edgar WallacePublisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The Melody of Death
Author: The Melody of Death
Author: Edgar WallacePublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Gilbert Standerton learns that he has been disinherited by his cantankerous uncle, and is forced to find a way to provide for his newly-wedded high-society wife. After quitting his appointment at the Foreign Office, he develops a new interest in the stock market, and takes an avid interest in the antics of a gang of safe-cracking burglars. His wife becomes concerned as he frequently begins staying out late at night, and shows an unusual interest in a particular musical melody despite having lost interest in all of his other music interests. What strange skills has Gilbert acquired, and will he find his fortune without resorting to crime? The Melody of Death was published in 1915 and adapted for film in 1922. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Melody
Author: Jim CracePublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385543727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his tiny Mediterranean town for his music, he is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days. Then one night, Busi is viciously attacked by an intruder in his own courtyard—bitten and scratched. He insists his assailant was neither man nor animal. Soon, Busi’s account of what happened is being embellished to fan the flames of old rumor—of an ancient race of people living in the surrounding forest. It is also used to spark new controversy, inspiring claims that something must finally be done about the town’s poor, whose numbers have been growing. In trademark crystalline prose, Jim Crace portrays a man taking stock of his life and looking into an uncertain future, while bearing witness to a community in the throes of great change.
The Song of Death
Author: Dark PhoenixPublisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1543754171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Three teenager friends just love barging in witches’ houses, hugging giants, running through dark mazes and traveling across continents on sea dragons only to be beaten by random vampires and metal maniacs. Too much? It’s just begun. Follow Emma, William, and Lara on their journey from an ordinary school to a magical war field where they will experience much harder crashes of emotional suffering, happiness, new friends, and, heartbreaks. It’s a battle with Demons. Quite literally.
Melody of Death
Author: Edgar WallacePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494931124
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Melody of Death By Edgar Wallace A young man falls apart whenever he hears a certain piece of music. Not quite as sensational as some of Wallace's thrillers, but every bit as enjoyable and well written.
Author: Baynard Kendrick