Author : Nicholas Meyer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393311532
Sherlock Holmes is on the case when a month of strange happenings occur in the West End in March 1895 involving some of the theater district's most fashionable and creative luminaries.
Author : Nicholas Meyer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 1994-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393351548
New York Times Bestseller "As authentically, irresistibly gripping as anything Conan Doyle ever wrote…Don't miss it." —Cosmopolitan March 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy. Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the Savoy is discovered with her throat slashed. And a police surgeon disappears, taking two corpses with him. Some of the theater district's most fashionable and creative luminaries have been involved: a penniless stage critic and writer named Bernard Shaw; Ellen Terry, the gifted and beautiful actress; a suspicious box office clerk named Bram Stoker; an aging matinee idol, Henry Irving; an unscrupulous publisher calling himself Frank Harris; and a controversial wit by the name of Oscar Wilde. Scotland Yard is mystified by what appear to be unrelated cases, but to Sherlock Holmes the matter is elementary: a maniac is on the loose. His name is Jack.
Author : Nicholas Meyer
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File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 1978
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : Nicholas Meyer
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 1976
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780340209752
Author : Alexandra West
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476670641
Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the '90s by speaking to the anxieties of American youth during one of the country's most prosperous eras. No longer were films made on low budgets and dependent on devotees for success. Horror found its way onto magazine covers, fashion ads and CD soundtrack covers. "Girl power" feminism and a growing distaste for consumerism defined an audience that both embraced and rejected the commercial appeal of these films. This in-depth study examines the youth subculture and politics of the era, focusing on such films as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Idle Hands (1999) and Cherry Falls (2000).
Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316198803
In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams -- member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance. Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus -- his three-year absence after Reichenbach Falls during which time the people of London believe him to be deceased. Holmes has faked his own death because, through his powers of ratiocination, the great detective has come to the conclusion that he is a fictional character. This leads to serious complications for James -- for if his esteemed fellow investigator is merely a work of fiction, what does that make him? And what can the master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power -- possibly named Moriarty -- that may or may not be controlling them from the shadows?
Author : Matthew Sweet
Publisher : Faber & Faber Non Fiction
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Hotels
ISBN : 9780571234783
The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. Meet the girl from MI5 who had the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan Thomas; the barman who was appointed the keeper of Churchill's private bottle of whisky; the East End Communist who marched with his comrades into the air-raid shelter of the Savoy; the throneless prince born in a suite at Claridge's declared Yugoslav territory for one night only. Matthew Sweet has interviewed them all for this account of the extraordinary events that unfolded under the reinforced ceilings of London's grand hotels. Using the memories of first-hand witnesses, the contents of newly declassified government files and a wealth of previously unpublished letters, memoirs and photographs, he has reconstructed a lost world of scandal, intrigue and fortitude.
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Page : 194 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : Nicholas Meyer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393311198
Relates the astounding and previously unknown collaboration between Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by Holmes' friend and chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson.
