The Case Of The Caretaker

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062129732
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Caretaker written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Haydock, the resident GP of St. Mary Mead, hopes to cheer up Miss Marple as she recovers from the flu with a little story. The tale revolves around the return of the prodigal son of Major Laxton, the devilishly handsome Harry Laxton. Harry, after leading a life of childish indiscretions and falling head over heels for the village tobacconist’s daughter, has made good and returned to lay claim to his tumbling childhood home and introduce the village to his beautiful new wife. But, the villagers are prone to gossip about young Harry’s past, and one person in particular cannot forgive him for tearing down the old house. Will Miss Marple’s acumen be up to the task of solving the story?

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780345321565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Caretaker's Cat written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his will, Peter Laxter guaranteed his faithful caretaker a job and a place to live for life. But Laxter's grandson Sam says the deal doesn't include the caretaker's cat. When Perry Mason takes the case, he finds there's much more at stake than an old man's cat -- a million dollars to be exact. And as he investigates, he finds a web of greed and treachery among the heirs. But which one actually pulled off the almost perfect crime?"--bn.com.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007452055
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Caretaker: A Miss Marple Short Story written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061748064
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Marple's Final Cases written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the title, the stories collected here recount cases from the middle of Miss Marple's career. They are: 'Sanctuary'; 'Strange Jest'; 'Tape-Measure Murder'; 'The Case of the Caretaker'; 'The Case of the Perfect Maid'; 'Miss Marple Tells a Story'; 'The Dressmaker's Doll'; 'In a Glass Darkly'; 'Greenshaw's Folly.'

Author : Chris Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907432453
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inky Stevens, the Case of the Caretaker's Keys written by Chris Martin and published by . This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set high up on the cliffs in the grounds of a ruined monastery is Blinkton High School. Here resides the enigmatic Inky Stevens - a talented and astute student, better known as "the Great School Detective". Working from his secret break-time hideaway, Inky is approached by an unusual client: the caretaker Fred Varley, who is distraught over the loss of the school keys. Who has stolen them? And what is the thief's motive? Can Inky and his two sidekicks solve the mystery and retrieve the keys before Fred has to confess his negligence to the terrifying headmistress ("The Snake")?

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062298445
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the Perfect Maid written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories—a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater. A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple setup, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which in turn would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. From this classic title novella to the deliciously clever gems on its tail (solved to perfection by Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple), this rare collection of murder most foul showcases Christie at her inventive best, proving her reputation as "the champion deceiver of our time" (New York Times).

Author : Doon Arbus
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811229505
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Caretaker written by Doon Arbus and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lush, disorienting novel, The Caretaker takes no prisoners as it explores the perils of devotion and the potentially lethal charisma of things Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector—the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation—the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer. In his new role as caretaker of The Society for the Preservation of the Legacy of Dr. Charles Morgan, this restive man, in service to an absent master, at last finds his calling. The peculiar institution over which he presides is dedicated to the annihilation of hierarchy: peerless antiquities commune happily with the ignored, the discarded, the undervalued and the valueless. What transpires as the caretaker assumes dominion over this reliquary of voiceless objects and over its visitors is told in a manner at once obsessive and matter-of-fact, and in language both cocooning and expansive. A wry and haunting tale, The Caretaker, like the interplanetary crystal that is one of the museum’s treasures, is rare, glistening, and of a compacted inwardness. Kafka or Shirley Jackson may come to mind, and The Caretaker may conjure up various genres—parables, ghost stories, locked-room mysteries—but Doon Arbus draws her phosphorescent water from no other writer’s well.

Author : A. X. Ahmad
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250016835
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Caretaker written by A. X. Ahmad and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha's Vineyard mansions he tends? Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor, shattering his reputation. Driven from his homeland, he is now a caretaker on the exclusive resort island of Martha's Vineyard, looking after the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. One harsh winter, faced with no other choice, he secretly moves his family into the house of one of his clients, an African-American Senator. Here, his wife and daughter are happy, and he feels safe for the first time in ages. But Ranjit's idyll is shattered when mysterious men break into the house. Pursued and hunted, Ranjit is forced to enter the Senator's shadowy world, and his only ally is Anna, the Senator's beautiful wife, who has secrets of her own. Together, they uncover a trail of deception that leads from the calm shores of the Vineyard to countries half a world away. And when his investigation stirs up long forgotten events, the caretaker must finally face the one careless decision that ruined his life- and forced him to leave India. A gripping tale of hidden histories, political intrigue and dangerous attractions, A. X. Ahmad's The Caretaker introduces a new hero for our times: an immigrant caught between two worlds and a man caught between two loves.

Author : Les Barbanell
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461630479
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Removing the Mask of Kindness written by Les Barbanell and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Character traits may be used as defenses, or, 'coping mechanisms' that may be developed by individuals in an exaggerated fashion in order to conceal psychological conflicts. When these mechanisms break down, previously repressed trauma erupts into consciousness. One such trait is selflessness. Les Barbanell examines the transformation of selflessness into the Caretaker Personality Disorder and how it is not always better to give than receive, that being good can go bad, and that the 'disease to please' can even be fatal.

Author : Russell T. McCutcheon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100099676X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critics Not Caretakers written by Russell T. McCutcheon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected together in Critics Not Caretakers argue that the study of religion must be rethought as an ordinary aspect of social, historical existence, a stance that makes the scholar of religion a critic of cultural and historical practices rather than a caretaker of religious tradition or a font of timeless wisdom and deep meaning. The book begins with several essays that outline the basis of an alternative, sociorhetorical approach to studying religion, before moving on to a series of discrete dispatches from the ongoing theory wars, each of which uses the work of such writers as Karen Armstrong, Walter Burkert, Benson Saler, and Jacob Neusner as a point of entry into wider theoretical issues of importance to the field’s future. The author then examines the socio-political role of this brand of critical scholarship—a role that differs dramatically from the type of sympathetic caretaking generally associated with scholars of religion who feel compelled to “go public.” Concluding the work is a consideration of how scholars as teachers can address issues of theory, method, and critical thinking in a variety of undergraduate classrooms—the location where they have always been publicly accountable intellectuals. The new edition of this still read and, for some, controversial book preserves the original essays but includes a new opening chapter and new introductory commentaries across all of the chapters to demonstrate how little the field has changed since the volume was first published in 2001. Accordingly, the book continues to provide a viable alternative for those wanting to take a more critical approach to the study of religion.