Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141981296
Size: 36.90 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA STARRING ROWAN ATKINSON Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series. 'That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to another foot encased in a shoe made of black kid leather. It was naked, private . . . It was Maigret who retrieved the other shoe which lay by the kerb six or seven metres away' A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his depth amid a network of merciless criminals. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Special Murder. 'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent

Author: Janet Husband
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838909671
Size: 69.26 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Author: Linda Herman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 48.25 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Author: Janet Husband
Publisher: Amer Library Assn
ISBN:
Size: 77.20 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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A reference book for librarians and users of public libraries which provides easy access to information on good recreational reading. This revised edition features expanded coverage of mystery and science fiction. New indexes allow access by subject, genre and main characters.

Author: Ordean A. Hagen
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Size: 42.82 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Author: Stanley G. Eskin
Publisher: McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub
ISBN:
Size: 67.51 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The most comprehensive account of Georges Simenon's life and work in either English or French--from his youth and adolescence in Belgium, through his spirited beginnings as a writer of pulp fiction in the Paris of the 20s, his invention of Maigret in 1930, his turn to straight fiction in the 30s, and from the 40s on, his prolific output of detective and straight fiction.His obsession with women and his major friendships (Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Thornton Wilder, and others) are detailed. Also, critical evaluations of his fiction (including the largely ignored pulp fiction), Simenon's relationship to popular traditions, literature, detective fiction, high literature and the critics are offered. The photographs are rare and revealing (e.g., with Josephine Baker, cutting up in a bistro.)

Author: Fiona Kelleghan
Publisher: Salem PressInc
ISBN: 9780893569778
Size: 62.83 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 757
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Essays taken from Salem Press's Critical survey of mystery and detective fiction, published in 1988.

Author: Allen J. Hubin
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN:
Size: 18.82 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: Mary Kathryn Biagini
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Size: 51.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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Provides overviews of the most popular genres and the most important critically acclaimed authors of world literature, lists of specialized selection sources, and chronological listings of the novels and short stories of more than 1,100 authors.

Author: Trudee Young
Publisher: Scarecrow Author Bibliographies Series
ISBN:
Size: 35.97 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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