Author: Van Wyck MasonPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479448540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
#7 in the Hugh North series.
The Sulu Sea Murders
Author: Van Wyck MasonPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479448540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
#7 in the Hugh North series.
The Sulu Sea Murders. A Case for Captain North, D.C.I.
Author: Francis van Wyck MasonThe Sulu Sea Murders
Author: Francis van Wyck MasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Sulu Sea Murders
Author: F. V. MasonThe Sulu Sea Murders, Etc
Author: Francis van Wyck MASONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Captain Hugh North 01: Seeds of Murder
Author: Van Wyck MasonPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479406708
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
When Mr. Wallace was found neatly suspended from a hook in the bathroom ceiling, with a slender chain around his neck and the wastebasket on which he had stood carefully kicked away, there seemed little doubt of it. Especially as there was a note in the dead man's handwriting saying, "I am worried, tired, and sick of heart. Why go on with this senseless struggle? Disgrace faces me." But -- why was the sheet on which the note was written shorter than all the other sheets on the desk? Where had the three seeds that come from that were found near the body, and why should Wallace, partner in a brokerage house, have chosen the beginning of a merry Long Island house party to have committed suicide? Captain North, late of the American Intelligence Service, saw these things, and they puzzled him. Before that dreadful night was over, death struck again, and the terrified house guests knew that in their midst was a killer -- cold blooded, ruthless, efficent -- and always the three white seeds followed in his wake ... a symbol of death!
Pirates of Empire
Author: Stefan Eklöf AmirellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This comparative study of piracy and maritime violence provides a fresh understanding of European overseas expansion and colonisation in Asia. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 2006
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959
Author: R. ReginaldPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0893700223
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This was the first bibliography and guide to the American mass market paperback book, and it remains one of the most definitive. The major index is by author, and lists: author, title, publisher, book number, year of publication, and cover price. The title index lists titles and authors only. The publisher index provides a history of that imprint, with addresses, number ranges, and general physical description of the books issued. This is the place that all study of the American paperback must begin.
Asia in Western fiction
Author: Robin WinksPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526123533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.