Шэрин Маккрамб4.0 She Walks These Hills is another excellent book in the Appalachian series by Sharyn McCrumb. She again combines two stories - one in the present and one in the past along with a pinch of a ghost story, culminating in an overall satisfying novel.
Лори Р. Кинг3.6 Еще один кирпичик в здание мировой `шерлокиады`: на этот раз знаменитый сыщик выступает в роли наставника юной Мэри Рассел, которая осваивает под руководством Холмса науку криминалистики и вместе с ним участвует в расследовании преступлений.
Элизабет Питерс3.6 Все, кто любит произведения Иоанны Хмелевской, просто обязаны полюбить Элизабет Питерс, одну из `королев` иронического детектива. Элизабет Питерс - это лихо закрученная детективная интрига и брызжущий, искрометный юмор, загадочные преступления и тонкая ирония, экзотические страны и головокружительные приключения, захватывающие сюжеты и обаятельные герои. Элизабет Питерс - это книги, от которых невозможно оторваться!
Carolyn G. Hart0.0 When Hart's latest sleuth, 60-ish widow Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, a.k.a. Henrie O, made her debut in Dead Man's Island, readers everywhere were delighted. In this mystery, Henrie O returns in a classic, teasing puzzler.
Jeff Abbott4.0 The debut of a devilishly funny new mystery series set in the South--brimming with scandals, slaughter, and sassy down-home wit. Jordan Poteet returns to his small East Texas hometown to care for his ailing mother, only to find himself confronted by family skeletons . . . and a murdered man in the local library.
Джанет Иванович4.0 Серия искрометно веселых романов о Стефани Плам принесла американской писательнице Джанет Иванович грандиозную популярность. Каждый роман о незадачливой охотнице за сбежавшими из-под залога преступниками - чтение неимоверно увлекательное, интригующее и поразительно смешное.
В первой книге Стефани поручено крайне ответственное задание: отыскать Джо Морелли, полицейского, обвиняемого в убийстве, а по совместительству совершенно неотразимого мужчину и настоящего мачо. Это дело не сулило бы особых хлопот, если бы не осложнялось тем, что когда-то этот самый Морелли сумел воспользоваться наивностью и неопытностью новоиспеченного детектива. Причем не один раз... Впрочем, находчивости и изобретательности мисс Плам не занимать, а неиссякающий оптимизм и безграничное чувство юмора всегда выручают ее из множества дурацких и нелепых ситуаций, в которые она почему-то все время попадает.
Эрлин Фаулер2.5 Leaving behind memories of her late husband, Benni Harper is making a fresh start...Moving to the trendy California town of San Celina, she takes an exciting new job as director of a folk-art museum. While setting up an exhibit of handmade quilts, she stumbles upon the body of a brutally stabbed artist. Hoping to conduct an investigation on her own, she crosses paths with the local police chief, who thinks this short and sassy cowgirl should leave detecting to the cops and join him for dinner. But it's hard to keep a country girl down, and soon Benni uncovers an alarming pattern of family secrets, small-town lies--and the shocking truth about the night her husband died...
Барбара Бернетт Смит0.0 When a judge dies after a public argument with aspiring writer Jolie Wyatt, she naturally feels a little guilty. But when the folds of Purple Sage learn that the judge was murdered by the same method Jolie devised for her whodunit--the whole town thinks she is guilty. Now Jolie must turn her talent for creating murder into solving one. Original.
Полли Уитни0.0 Connie Candela's murder is truly shocking. Though the autopsy ruled that the young anchorwoman of "Morning Watch" was drowned, she was found seated at her desk, impeccably dressed. Amateur sleuths Abby and Ike are horrified and intrigued by the case, but can the divorced couple stop arguing long enough to catch the killer. HC: St. Martin's Press.
Дин Джеймс, Jean Swanson0.0 Mystery readers turn to this reference for its clear, concise profiles of women writers and their best-known books, mystery heroines and leading characters, pen names, writing styles and more. This revised and updated edition features profiles of Lilian Jackson Braun, Mary Higgins Clark, P.D. James, and other gifted writers--plus 70 new entries including Carol Higgins Clark, Susan Isaacs and Carol O'Connell.
William L. DeAndrea0.0 A good mystery is the essential element in every compelling plot. Encyclopedia Mysteriosa clues you in to the entire murky realm of detection. This comprehensive reference is an in-depth compendium that draws on 150 years of crime stories from the genesis of the mystery genre with the publication of Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" to the films of Alfred Hitchcock and television series like "The Fugitive." Written and edited by two-time Edgar Award winner William L. DeAndrea, Encyclopedia Mysteriosa contains biographies of old and new writers and their memorable characters, as well as detailed entries on contributions to the genre on radio, television, and film. The evolution of the literature of detection progresses from the nineteenth-century master sleuths - Sherlock Holmes and Nick Carter - to the Golden Age when Ellery Queen and Agatha Christie produced their perennially popular stories. Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot can be found cheek-to-cheek with the hard-boiled detectives created by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and with the characters and writers who played out the espionage explosion of the sixties and seventies. You'll also find entries devoted to the current wave of women private eyes, a subgenre that was pioneered by Marcia Muller - the founding mother of the American female hard-boiled private eye - and continues with the popular alphabet mysteries of Sue Grafton. No story is too convoluted and no character is too small - you'll even find television and film detectives Maxwell Smart and Basil, the Great Mouse Detective. An appendix provides directories of organizations for the mystery devotee, mystery booksellers, and lists of major award-winning writers honored with Edgars and Diamond Daggers. All entries are copiously cross-referenced to assure easy access. For every would-be sleuth and armchair detective, Encyclopedia Mysteriosa is the complete reference to the entire genre of murder and mayhem
Аллен Дж. Хубин0.0 The previous edition of this massive reference work was praised by everyone who reviewed it and it was featured on "Booklist's" list of the Best Books of the 1980s. Now expanded and updated through 1990, this unparalleled work has two new features. The first is a roster of more than 4,000 films, including silents and foreign-language movies, based on literary works and listing movie title, studio, year, director, screenwriter, and author. The second new feature in this completely revised edition is a bibliographical listing of individual short stories from more than 4,000 story collections. The only comprehensive work in the field, this volume covers books published in English the world over from Australia to Singapore to Canada. It provides the author, title, U.S., and British publisher and date, for all volumes (except anthologies) intended for adults or featuring an adult protagonist, organized alphabetically by author. A special section features 4,500 series characters and the stories in which they appear; another identifies more than 340 settings and offers extensive lists of books featuring those settings. Indexes are provided to titles, settings, series characters, movies, movie directors, and screenwriters.
Кэтлин Кляйн0.0 This comprehensive biocritical dictionary evaluates 117 widely read historical and contemporary women mystery writers and over 1,000 novels. From the sensationalist women mystery writers of the 19th century to the mid-1990s practitioners such as Margaret Maron, Karen Kijewski, and Sue Grafton, this work celebrates the contributions of women writers to mystery fiction, with an emphasis on contemporary writers. The dictionary also serves as a reader's advisory to frequently asked questions: Which novels shouldn't be missed? In what order should you read them? What other writers will you enjoy if you like a particular writer, setting, or type of mystery? Signed interpretive and evaluative essays by 86 scholar-critics who are experts in the field are 4-5 pages in length and review the totality of the writer's work: the relationship among her novels, her place in the genre; recommendations of her best books; whether to read a series in order; and which novelists have similar settings, writing styles, or reader appeal. A complete mystery bibliography and selected critical bibliography are included in each entry, and helpful appendices conclude the volume. Great Women Mystery Writers is a full-fledged critical companion by noted scholars and critics, and can be used for its critical interpretations, as a reader's advisory, and as an essential reference tool for librarian and patron alike.
Шарлотта МакЛауд0.0 Before Agatha Christie, there was America’s Mistress of Mystery. This is the story of her life and creative legacy, from the butler who did it to Batman.
In the decades since her death in 1958, master storyteller Mary Roberts Rinehart has often been compared to Agatha Christie. But while Rinehart was once a household name, today she is largely forgotten. The woman who first proclaimed “the butler did it” was writing for publication years before Christie’s work saw the light of day. She also practiced nursing, became a war correspondent, and wrote a novel—The Bat—that inspired Bob Kane’s creation of Batman.
Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, before it was absorbed into Pittsburgh, and raised in a close-knit Presbyterian family, Mary Roberts was at once a girl of her time—dutiful, God-fearing, loyal—and a quietly rebellious spirit. For every hour she spent cooking, cleaning, or sewing at her mother’s behest while her “frail” younger sister had fun, Mary eked out her own moments of planning, dreaming, and writing. But becoming an author wasn’t on her radar . . . yet.
Bestselling mystery writer Charlotte MacLeod grew up on Rinehart’s artfully crafted novels, such as the enormously successful The Circular Staircase—“cozies” before the concept existed. After years of seeing Christie celebrated and Rinehart overlooked, MacLeod realized that it was time to delve into how this seemingly ordinary woman became a sensation whose work would grace print, stage, and screen. From Rinehart’s grueling training as a nurse and her wartime interviews with a young Winston Churchill and Queen Mary to her involvement with the Blackfoot Indians and her work as doctor’s wife, mother of three, playwright, serialist, and novelist, this is the unforgettable story of America’s Grande Dame of Mystery.
