The Witch Elm

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By:Tana French
Published on 2018-10-09 by Penguin
ISBN 9780735224636

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Named a best book of the fall by Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, PopSugar, The Millions, and Parade A brilliant new work of suspense from |the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years.| (Washington Post) From the writer who |inspires cultic devotion in readers| (The New Yorker) and has been called |incandescent| by Stephen King, |absolutely mesmerizing| by Gillian Flynn, and |unputdownable| (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden - and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, when we no longer know who we are.

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Murder Done to Death

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By:John Kennedy Melling
Published on 1996-01-01 by
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This book analyses parody and pastiche in crime and detective fiction, helping general readers, students of literature and language, and those interested in history and sociology to better comprehend the genre.

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Making the Detective Story American

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By:J.K. Van Dover
Published on 2010-04-19 by McFarland
ISBN 9780786456895

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This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett during a crucial half-decade when they transformed the detective story. The characters they created, including Charlie Chan, Philo Vance, and the Continental Op, represented a new style of detective solving crimes in fresh ways. Their successes would push crime and detective fiction in startling and rejuvenating directions. Topics covered include the highbrow detective, the ethnic detective, the exploitation of contemporary sensations, and the exploitation of women. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective

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By:Peter Greenberg
Published on 2004-03-09 by Villard
ISBN 9781588363992

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Indispensable information for away-from-home lodging, from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Travel Detective In Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, America’s best-known and most trusted travel authority reveals the insider knowledge that can make every hotel stay as comfortable as (and sometimes even more cost-efficient than) home. With his incomparable access and nose for news, Peter Greenberg shares the secrets that people who know hotels—managers, maids, reservation clerks, bellhops, chefs, and maintenance guys—don’t want you to know about value, service, safety, security, and cleanliness. Tips include: • How to tell if your room is really clean • What never to order from room service • The real way to prevent hotel crime • How to beat excessive hotel phone charges • The exact rooms where headline-making events took place Drawn from the author’s experiences as both an investigative reporter and a constant traveler, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective is an essential guide to everything from luxury resorts to motels, from airport hotels and bed-and-breakfasts to outrageous (and often secret) alternatives to hotels. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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The Air Raid Killer

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By:Frank Goldammer
Published on 2018-10 by AmazonCrossing
ISBN 9781503900653

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As World War II ends, a killer's game begins. In the final days of the Nazi regime, with the historic city of Dresden on the brink of destruction, terrifying rumors spread about the Fright Man, a demonic killer who exploited the cover of a nighttime air raid siren to mutilate and kill a young nurse. Just as seasoned detective Max Heller begins investigating, the Fright Man kills again... The investigation seems hopeless. Desperate refugees flood the streets, all of Heller's resources are depleted, and his new boss is a ruthless SS officer. And like so many others, Heller and his wife, Karin, survive on meager rations while fearing for the lives of their sons at the front. But as tensions mount and enemy firebombs decimate the city, dangerous new clues come to light--and the determined Heller pursues a violent and twisting path to unmask a monster.

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Johannes Cabal the Detective

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By:Jonathan L. Howard
Published on 2010-07-13 by Anchor
ISBN 9780385533232

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Johannes Cabal returns in this fearfully funny and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue . . . five thousand feet off the ground. When an attempt to steal a rare book turns sour, Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, finds himself in a foreign prison awaiting execution. A crafty plan -- as horrific as it is cunning -- allows him to steal the identity of a government official and make his escape aboard a luxurious aeroship heading out of the country. But what should be a perfect getaway rapidly becomes complicated by the bizarre disappearance of a passenger, an attempt on Cabal's life, and an unwelcome face from the past. Trapped aboard with a killer, can even Cabal's open-razor of a mind save him? Full of twists, turns, sword fights, archenemies, newfangled flying machines, narrow escapes, and, of course, resurrected dead, Johannes Cabal’s latest eldritch escapade is a Ruritanian romp from first to last.

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Smell Detectives

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By:Melanie A. Kiechle
Published on 2017-07-10 by University of Washington Press
ISBN 9780295741949

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What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie Kiechle examines nuisance complaints, medical writings, domestic advice, and myriad discussions of what constituted fresh air, and argues that nineteenth-century city dwellers, anxious about the air they breathed, attempted to create healthier cities by detecting and then mitigating the most menacing odors. Medical theories in the nineteenth century assumed that foul odors caused disease and that overcrowded cities�filled with new and stronger stinks�were synonymous with disease and danger. But the sources of offending odors proved difficult to pinpoint. The creation of city health boards introduced new conflicts between complaining citizens and the officials in charge of the air. Smell Detectives looks at the relationship between the construction of scientific expertise, on the one hand, and �common sense��the olfactory experiences of common people�on the other. Although the rise of germ theory revolutionized medical knowledge and ultimately undid this form of sensory knowing, Smell Detectives recovers how city residents used their sense of smell and their health concerns about foul odors to understand, adjust to, and fight against urban environmental changes.

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Judy Moody, Girl Detective (Book #9)

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By:Megan McDonald
Published on 2010-08-24 by Candlewick Press
ISBN 9780763652081

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It's an honest-to-jeepers mystery! Agent Judy Drewdy sets out to solve the case of the missing puppy when a canine-cop-in-training vanishes into thin air.

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The Lonely Detective

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By:Charles E. Schwarz
Published on 2001-08-01 by iUniverse
ISBN 9781469772202

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Four absolutely funny, culturally outrageous who-done-it stories whose unique detective, a lonely disrespected anti-hero, sees sacred beliefs turned upside down as he solves the mysterious deaths of a rich Tasty Cake deliveryman, a woman supporting the correct causes, a bum exposing the correct causes, and a disillusioned volunteer involved in the correct causes.

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Detective A

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By:Leonard David Goodisman,Jim Collier
Published on 2008-07-01 by Danforth Book Distribution
ISBN 9781887542821

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|Eight-year-old Detective A learns to keep his eyes on the prize when he controls his impatience with a difficult witness (his younger sister), to be tenacious in getting all the facts, and to see a situation from another point of view. Along the way, Detective A - and maybe his sister, too - learn an important scientific concept|--Cover p. [4].

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The Bedlam Detective

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By:Stephen Gallagher
Published on 2012-02-07 by Crown
ISBN 9780307952783

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Madmen see monsters – and monsters hide in plain sight From a basement office in London’s notorious Bethlehem Hospital, Sebastian Becker investigates wealthy eccentrics whose dubious mental health may render them unable to manage their own affairs. His interview with rich landowner Sir Owain Lancaster, whose sanity has been in question since a disastrous scientific adventure in the Amazon killed his family and colleagues, coincides with the disappearance of two young local girls. When the children are found slain, Lancaster claims that the same dark forces that devastated his family have followed him home. It is not the first time that children have come to harm in his rural countryside town, though few are willing to speak of incidents from the past. Becker must determine whether this mad nobleman is insane and a murderer, or if some even more sinister agency is at work. Struggling on his small salary, and with unexpected help from a son who needs special care, Becker and his wife make sacrifices so Becker can stay on the case after an innocent man is convicted of the crime. The answers he seeks may be found with the assistance of the local investigator and a young suffragette who fled Arnmouth, but couldn’t flee the horrors she encountered there. From dank asylums to the lush and treacherous Amazon, through the makeshift studios of the early film industry and a traveling fair of freaks and illusions, Sebastian Becker’s search for answers brings him face to face with madmen and monsters, both imagined and real. Confronting immense danger in his hunt for the truth, he will explore murder, tragedy, and the tempestuous depths of his own mind. From the Hardcover edition.

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7th Heaven

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By:James Patterson,Maxine Paetro
Published on 2008-01 by Random House
ISBN 9781846052507

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Michael Campion was a people's hero, a popular governor's son who publicly battled against a rare and debilatating heart illness. When he vanished without a trace one evening, his disappearance and the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines daily. But the trail went cold very quickly. Now with a new lead, Detective Lindsay Boxer is determined to find out what happened to San Fransisco's Golden Boy. Meanwhile, a string of fatal arson attacks have broken out leaving four rich, successful married couples dead. What could the motive be for these ruthless murders and what is their link to the Campion case? With the help of her friends and fellow Women's Murder Club members - Yuki, an attorney feeling the strain of a high profile court case; Claire, a medical examiner trying to balance her career and her pregnancy and Cindy, the reporter for a San Fransisco newspaper - Lindsay must find the suspects, and fast.

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Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World

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By:Nels Pearson,Marc Singer
Published on 2009 by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 9780754668480

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Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and identity that arise in postcolonial and transnational settings. Essays explore novels set in Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and North America, including novels that view the American metropolis through the eyes of minority detectives

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The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie

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By:James Zemboy
Published on 2008-05-05 by McFarland
ISBN 9780786451685

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“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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An Affair of Sorcerers

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By:George C. Chesbro
Published on 2017-10-31 by Open Road Media
ISBN 9781504000185

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When a circus-performer-turned-PI is drawn into the occult underworld, the result is “beautifully plotted and assured” (#1 New York Times–bestselling author Peter Straub). With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson—better known as “Mongo the Magnificent”—has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf. Mongo needs all his faculties when he’s hired to investigate a fellow professor who’s been experimenting with sensory deprivation. Soon after, a nun asks him to help clear a psychic of murder. And then, weirdest of all, his seven-year-old neighbor, Kathy, begs him to locate her father’s “Book of Shadows.” When Mongo finds Kathy’s father dead from what seems to be a ritual sacrifice—and the little girl lying comatose nearby—the distressed detective follows a trail of occult clues and discovers that all three of his cases are tied to something wicked. Now, to save Kathy from an unnatural end, Mongo will risk it all to separate the facts from something even stranger than fiction. An Affair of Sorcerers is the 3rd book in the Mongo Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. “Beautifully plotted and assured . . . The work of a master.” —#1 New York Times–bestselling author Peter Straub

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How Can a Frozen Detective Stay Hot on the Trail?

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By:Linda Bailey
Published on 1996-07-01 by Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 9781553375821

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Misha, Jesse Kulniki's sixteen-year-old uncle, has been accused of stealing carnivorous plants from the Carnivore Club that he has recently joined, and Jesse and Stevie Diamond must prove that he is innocent.

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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case

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By:Michael Anthony Ross
Published on 2014-10-02 by Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 9780199778805

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Recounts a famous kidnapping that took place in New Orleans in 1870, in which a seventeen-month-old white child was taken by two African-American women, and the resulting public hysteria that led to racial tensions, political divisions, and false accusations and arrests.

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Detective Worzel Gummidge

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By:Barbara Euphan Todd,Jill Crockford
Published on 2008-09 by Evans Brothers
ISBN 9780237535742

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Scarecrow-come-to-life Worzel Gummidge decides to become a detective in this humorous classic story, the 10th in the series. Obstinate and obstructive but ultimately endearing, Worzels appeal has not been diminished. First published by Evans in 1963.

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Ghost Detective

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By:Scott William Carter
Published on 2017-07-12 by Flying Raven Press
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Medical Murderers

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By:Rose G. Mandelsberg
Published on 1992 by Pinnacle Books
ISBN 9781558175822

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Describes twenty-five actual cases in which doctors, surgeons, and nurses murdered their patients, exploring the psychological forces that can change a compassionate healer into a sadistic killer. Original.

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Bone Detective:

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By:Lorraine Jean Hopping
Published on 2006-04-30 by Joseph Henry Press
ISBN 9780309095501

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Diane France loves bones. Why? Because they talk to her. Every skeleton she meets whispers secrets about the life-and death-of its owner. Diane France can hear those secrets because she's a forensic anthropologist, a bone detective. She has the science skills and know-how to examine bones for clues to a mystery: Who was this person and how did he or she die? Bones tell Diane about the life and times of famous people in history, from a Russian royal family to American outlaws and war heroes. They speak to her about murders, mass disasters, and fatal accidents. One day she's collecting skeletal evidence at a crime scene. A phone call later she's jetting to the site of a plane crash or other unexpected tragedy to identify victims. Young readers will be captivated by the thrilling real-life story of this small-town girl full of curiosity and mischief who became a world-famous bone detective.

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Philo Gubb, Correspondence-school Detective

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By:Ellis Parker Butler
Published on 1918 by Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

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By:Jim Holt
Published on 2012 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 9780871404091

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Expands the search for the origins of the universe beyond God and the Big Bang theory, exploring more bizarre possibilities inspired by physicists, theologians, mathematicians, and even novelists.

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The Midnight Guest

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By:Fred Merrick White
Published on 1907 by
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Detection & Its Designs

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By:Peter Thoms
Published on 1998 by Ohio University Press
ISBN 9780821412237

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Detective fiction is usually thought of as genre fiction, a vast group of works bound together by their use of a common formula. But, as Peter Thoms argues in his investigation of some of the most important texts in the development of detective fiction in the nineteenth century, the very works that establish the genre's formulaic structure also subvert that structure. Detection and Its Designs reads early detective fiction as a self-conscious form that is suspicious of the detective it ostensibly celebrates, and critical of the authorial power he wields in attempting to reconstruct the past and script a narrative of the crime. In readings of Godwin's Caleb Williams, Poe's Dupin stories, Dickens's Bleak House, Collins's The Moonstone, and Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, Thoms argues that the detective's figurative writing emerges out of a desire to exert control over others and sometimes over himself. Detection and Its Designs demonstrates that, far from being a naïve form, early detective fiction grapples with the medium of storytelling itself. To pursue these inward-turning fictions is to uncover the detective's motives of controlling the representation of both himself and others, a discovery that in turn significantly undermines the authority of his solutions.

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