Author : Julian Symons
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755148371
Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right. Take the murder of his wife – a bungled, inferior affair despite his having consulting all the experts in the field of killings, executions and dastardly deeds. Resolving never to repeat the same mistakes, he enlists the help of Major Easonby Mellon – a man who really knows what he’s doing...
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File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2003
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Featuring Tom Smith, Clare Corbett, Lydia Leonard & Don McCorkindale.
Author : Julian Symons
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0755148355
The Tell-Tale Heart strips away myths that have grown up around the life of Edgar Allen Poe, providing a fresh assessment of the man and his work. Symons reveals Poe as his contemporaries saw him – a man struggling to make a living and whose life was beset by tragedy, such that he was driven to excessive drinking and unhealthy relationships.
Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786490896
In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, and Alfred Walter Stewart--revealing their work to be more complex, as puzzles and as social documents, than Symons allowed. By championing the intrinsic merit of these mystery writers, the study demonstrates that reintegrating the "Humdrums" into mystery genre studies provides a fuller understanding of the Golden Age of detective fiction and its aftermath.
Author : Julian Symons
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755128133
Anderson was a bored, unhappy sales executive longing for something to liven up his monotonous life. But perhaps he wished too hard because not long later he found his wife lying dead at the bottom of the cellar stairs. An accident of course – so why wouldn’t the police believe him?
Author : Julian Symons
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Detective and mystery stories
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Author : Julian Symons
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780708907597
In 1886 Adelaide Barlett was tried at the Old Bailey on the charge of poisoning her husband Edwin. In this book the author offers an imaginative interpretation of this famous case, ending with a solution of an affair which still remains a mystery. Did the adjective 'sweet' apply to Adelaide, or was she a cunning and deliberate poisoner? Was the Wesleyan Minister George Dyson just a platonic friend, or something more than than? And if Adelaide committed the crime, how did she do it? --Book jacket.
Author : John J. Walsdorf
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
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Author : Julian Symons
Publisher :
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : 9780140064940
Author : Julian Symons
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755148274
John Wilkins was a gentle, mild-mannered man who lived a simple, predictable life. So when he met a beautiful, irresistible girl his world turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turned red before his eyes – the colour of murder. Later, his mind a blank, his only defence was that he loved his wife ...
