Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : 9780192829689
Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.
Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs. Henry Wood, Wilkie Collins, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Fergus Hume, Arthur Morrison, M.P. Shiel, Baroness Orczy, Sax Rohmer, Robert Barr, and - inevitably - Arthur Conan Doyle. There are police detectives, gentleman amateurs, lady detectives (such as Catherine Pirkis's Loveday Brooke), professional consulting detectives, even an 'anti-detective' (Guy Boothby's Klimo, who devises a crime for himself to solve), and a psychic detective. The villains against whom they pit their wits are equally various, as are their crimes - from fraud and forgery to theft, abduction, and of course murder most foul, whether by poison, bullet, or blade. These stories offer hours of enjoyable escape for all lovers of crime fiction.
Author : Dennis Hamley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,36 MB
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780192754042
This collection features over fourteen mystery stories to puzzle and amaze. Perfect for young readers, the collection includes stories that range from creepy school computers to amateur bank robbers; from lost villages to deadly Christmas presents. Both funny and serious in tone, readers are sure to be intrigued by the variety.
Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192803719
The field of detective fiction is vast, and The Oxford Book of Detective Stories brings together the best short fiction from around the world to show how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on the genre. As well as English and American stories from acknowledged masters such as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie, the anthology includes stories by Simenon, Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin, and roams across Europe and further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries are all here, and in her introduction Patricia Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.
Author : Michael Cox
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 2003
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0192804472
Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
Author : Rosemary Herbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195072396
"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen
Author : Donald E. Westlake
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195104870
An anthology of detective fiction with examples of its sub-genres, armchair detective, the locked room and so on. The first is represented by Agatha Christie's In Blue Geranium, where the detective solves a crime from a conversation, the second by The Leopold Locked Room, in which a policeman is found in a locked room with his wife killed by his gun, but he didn't do it.
Author : Edward D. Hoch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Crime
ISBN :
A virtual cornucopia of whodunits from the true masters of the craft, including Edgar Alan Poe, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Craig Rice, Ellery Queen, and Raymond Chandler, this anthology contains some genuine rarities.
Author : Jan Mark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780192823977
A collection of short stories written for children over the past 250 years by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Carl Sandburg, Joan Aiken, and Rosa Guy.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195092622
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
