Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s

Reducere. Joyce Porter is the funniest crime writer you've never heard of- until now. Creator of DCI Wilfrid Dover, Scotland Yard's laziest and rudest detect...

Reducere. Collects: CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1930s & 40sThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainThey Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McC...

Reducere. A sterling collection of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction evoking the unique spirit of the West and its people, selected and introdu...

DescriptionDCI Paul Stark discovers that the bitter legacy of WWI casts a long shadow in the second of this intriguing historical mystery series. L...

Reducere. A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. U...

A church art exhibition turns deadly . . . 'Art, my dear boy, ' said Mr Askern, 'especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock o...

Introducing amateur sleuths Frances Black and Tom Dod in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series set in the north of England. 1929...

This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passo...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Jerry KoszykIllustration(s): colour photosNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x ...

Reducere. Unabridged English value reproduction of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. This wonderfully spellbinding drama of hopes, dreams, and love,...

For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. Assembling his writ...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals.Between 1890 and 1920, American wr...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 NED KELLY AWARD, DANGER PRIZE AND WAVERLEY LIBRARY NIBSYDNEY, 1923: a suitcase washed up on a harbourside beach reveals it...

Reducere. "A wonderful treat for the Poe connoisseur, or a perfect introduction to his works."--Charlotte Observer In the Shadow of the Master is an exceptio...

The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emp...

DescriptionIreland. 1925. Like all who seek charitable contributions, Reverend Mother Aquinas is used to being gifted some fairly dubious items. Bu...

Reducere. DescriptionReverend Mother Aquinas must discover who murdered a much-loved priest in the third of this compelling new Irish historical mystery seri...

DescriptionReverend Mother Aquinas must discover who murdered a much-loved priest in the third of this compelling new Irish historical mystery seri...

Reducere. Shining examples of American literature at its best, these four novels explore timeless themes--adventure, war, sex, and morality--through compelli...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Elements of Style ("Strunk & White") is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known pr...

The Reverend Mother receives a decidedly gruesome gift in this compelling Irish historical mystery. Ireland. 1925. Like all who seek charitable con...

DescriptionThe Reverend Mother receives a decidedly gruesome gift in this compelling Irish historical mystery. Ireland. 1925. Like all who seek cha...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a deluxe two-volume collector's edition boxed set, eight mind-bending novels from science fiction's most transformative decade, inclu...

Reducere. DescriptionHildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher--with above-average skills in the art of deduction. The New Yorker often finds he...

The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his intoduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, "noir is the mo...

About 24, 000 figurines and fragments have been found on Acrocorinth, and this study greatly increases our understanding of the way in which this a...

Ross Macdonald transformed the detective novel into a literary expression of unique psychological depth and drama. Here, for the first time in a de...

Reducere. DescriptionHerein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentie...

For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-c...

By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how...

Reducere. "The most important collection of crime fiction ever published in the United States." -- Ed Gorman Evolving out of the terse and violent style of t...

A history of aviation in Scotland in the 1920s and 1930s related through its airfields and landing grounds. All aspects of flying are covered inclu...

The first of Mary Stewart's beloved romantic mystery novels, full of the glamour of the sun-drenched landscape of Provence.Publisher: Hodder & Stou...

DescriptionExperience the glamor and excitement of the Jazz Age, through the lives of the women who defined it It was a time of unimagined new free...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Canongate Books LtdAuthor(s): Amy MyersNumber of pages: 208Collection: A Jack Colby MysteryPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 140 x 141 x...

Jack Colby is delighted when his famous artist friend Giovanni pops in on his way to paint a 1930s racing car. Jack waves him goodbye, but later th...

Lady Gold Takes The Case in this 4th volume of Ginger Gold's popular short story mystery series! Join Mrs. Ginger Reed aka Lady Gold, as she advent...

Reducere. Lady Gold Takes The Case in this 3rd volume of Ginger Gold's popular short story mystery series Join Mrs. Ginger Reed aka Lady Gold, her adventurou...

Reducere. DescriptionH. H. HolmesH. H. Holmes' story has become one of legend. Holmes committed his crimes at a time in history where the idea of murdering o...

They took her identity - they wanted her life - but they couldn't take her spirit. Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

Reducere. DescriptionTwo teen detectives. One criminal mastermind. And two billion dollars in counterfeit money. What could possibly go wrong?Teen super-sleu...

Reducere. From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster--"one of the most respected crime reporters in the country" (60...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Maggie FordNumber of pages: 288Collection: The Lett Family SagasPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 21Cover t...

Ancient star lore exploring the mysterious location of Pueblos in the American Southwest, circa 1100 AD, that appear to be a mirror image of the ma...

Offering the first comparative study of 1920s' US and Canadian print cultures, 'Imagining Gender, Nation and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s'...

Reducere. The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe...

Reducere. Eight strangers are trapped in a deserted manor house as the snow falls, the body count rises and the Christmas tree still needs decorating.England...