It Walks By Night

Author : John Dickson Carr
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492699667
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Walks by Night written by John Dickson Carr and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction. With an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the Dickson Carr short story "The Shadow of the Goat" We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is known to have visited a plastic surgeon. His whereabouts remain a mystery, though with his former wife poised to marry another, Bencolin predicts his return. Sure enough, the Inspector's worst suspicions are realized when the beheaded body of the new suitor is discovered in a locked room of the salon, with no apparent exit. Bencolin sets off into the Parisian night to unravel the dumbfounding mystery and track down the sadistic killer. Penned during the golden age of mysteries, this thrilling investigation brings a detective face to face with the darkest parts of Paris. And after the thrilling conclusion of the locked room mystery, sit back and enjoy the short story "The Shadow of the Goat", also included in this exclusive British Library crime classic.

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453282734
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Statue Walks at Night written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe sons of a private detective investigate a crazy art museum caper—and try to avoid a spooky statue!/divDIV Ever since they were very young, Brian and Sean Quinn have helped their father solve mysteries. Even though their dad is a professional detective, he always likes to hear his kids’ opinions. Sometimes they even help him catch a crook! But when a pair of priceless Leonardo da Vinci drawings disappears from the local art museum, their father is stumped, and only the boys can crack the case./divDIV /divDIVThe robbery was an inside job, which means the drawings could be anywhere—even inside the museum. Sean and Brian inspect the premises and get to know the staff. And everything goes fine until they get to the Anubis Room, where the famous Egyptian statue is rumored to come alive at night. The Quinn boys will nab the thief—as long as the statue doesn’t catch them first!/div

Author : Matthew Beaumont
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168796X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightwalking written by Matthew Beaumont and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today—home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate jostle in the streets. With a foreword and afterword by Will Self, Nightwalking is a captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night and the people they meet.

Author : John Dickson Carr
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 : 9780241895030
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Walks by Night written by John Dickson Carr and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Dickson Carr
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 9780821719312
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Walks by Night written by John Dickson Carr and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 1986-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Henri Bencolin, the prefect of police, is called in to solve the grisly murder of the Duc de Saligny at a fashionable Parisian gambling house

Author : Ana Lily Amirpour
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1732299269
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Vol. 1 written by Ana Lily Amirpour and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From critically acclaimed Director and Screenwriter, Ana Lily Amirpour comes the graphic novel spin-off of her 96% Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes feature-length debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night! Strange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, is a bastion of depravity and hopelessness where a lonely vampire, The Girl, stalks the town's most unsavory inhabitants. Collects the first two standalone stories.

Author : Henry Kuttner
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479457086
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jest of Droom-Avista written by Henry Kuttner and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief, poetic story about an alien city—and a metallic doom! (You can tell Kuttner was reading Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith at the time he wrote it.)

Author : Michael Kenna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Night Walk written by Michael Kenna and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With his night photographs, Michael Kenna enables us to see through the darkness to gain a sense of a world which cannot be seen with daytime vision... His images play with the psychology of the night, with the fears and mysteries of darkness that lead us to shelter and light in the safety of our homes... Kenna's photographs explore familiar as well as unknown locations and transform them into places of intrigue."--michaelkenna.com.

Author : John Dickson Carr
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1409129365
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hollow Man written by John Dickson Carr and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre. 'The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were quiet with snow and the three coffins of the prophecy were filled at last...' The murderer of Dr Grimauld walked through a locked door, shot his victim and vanished. He killed his second victim in the middle of an empty street, with watchers at each end, yet nobody saw him, and he left no footprints in the snow. And so it is up to the irrepressible, larger-than-life Dr Gideon Fell to solve this most famous and taxing of locked-room mysteries.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: