The Punch And Judy Murders

Author : Carter Dickson
Publisher : International Polygonics Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780930330859
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Punch and Judy Murders written by Carter Dickson and published by International Polygonics Limited. This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Henry Merrivale investigates the murder of a dead man who appeared to be in two places at the same time

Author : George Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780901482266
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Punch and Judy Murders written by George Hart and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carter Dickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.NN/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Punch and Judy Murders written by Carter Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a possible German spy and his colleague are found dead, Sir Henry Merrivale helps an undercover secret service operative solve the case before a wedding the next day.

Author : S. T. Joshi
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879724771
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Dickson Carr written by S. T. Joshi and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the “locked-room” mystery—the “impossible crime.” But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews. S. T. Joshi has written the first full-length study of Carr’s entire work and pays particular attention to this author’s three best-known detectives: Henri Bencolin, Dr. Gideon Fell, and Sir Henry Merrivale.

Author : Ryan Howard
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601542
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punch and Judy in 19th Century America written by Ryan Howard and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in the United States in the 1800s. This book details information on nearly 350 American Punch players. It explores the significance of the 19th-century American show as a reflection of the attitudes and conditions of its time and place. The century was a time of changing feelings about what it means to be human. There was an intensified awareness of the racial, cultural, social and economical diversity of the human species, and a corresponding concern for the experience of human oneness. The American Punch and Judy show was one of the manifestations of these conditions.

Author : John Payne Collier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punch and Judy written by John Payne Collier and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Dickson Carr
Publisher : Penzler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1613161980
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plague Court Murders written by John Dickson Carr and published by Penzler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime. Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman’s assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. Famously haunted by Playge’s ghost, the property finally has a new owner and banishing the spirit is the first order of business. And when the medium employed with this task is found stabbed to death in a locked stone hut on the grounds, surrounded by an untouched circle of mud, the other guests at Plague Court have every reason to fear an act of supernatural violence—for who among them would be diabolical and calculating enough to orchestrate such an impossible execution? Enter Sir Henry Merrivale, an amateur sleuth of many talents with deductive powers strong enough to unspool even the most baffling crimes. But in the creepy, atmospheric setting of Plague Court, where every indication suggests intervention from the afterlife, he encounters a seemingly-illogical murder scene unlike anything he’s ever encountered before . . . Reissued for the first time in years, The Plague Court Murders is the first novel in the Sir Henry Merrivale series. Originally published under the name Carter Dickson, it is a masterful example of the “impossible crime” novel for which John Dickson Carr is known. “Very few detective stories baffle me nowadays, but Mr. Carr’s always do.” —Agatha Christie

Author : David Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139789082
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre written by David Beard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Beard presents the first definitive survey of Harrison Birtwistle's music for the opera house and theatre, from his smaller-scale works, such as Down by the Greenwood Side and Bow Down, to the full-length operas, such as Punch and Judy, The Mask of Orpheus and Gawain. Blending source study with both music analysis and cultural criticism, the book focuses on the sometimes tense but always revealing relationship between abstract musical processes and the practical demands of narrative drama, while touching on theories of parody, narrative, pastoral, film, the body and community. Each stage work is considered in terms of its own specific musico-dramatic themes, revealing how compositional scheme and dramatic conception are intertwined from the earliest stages of a project's genesis. The study draws on a substantial body of previously undocumented primary sources and goes beyond previous studies of the composer's output to include works unveiled from 2000 onwards.

Author : Carter Dickson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 172827866X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Priory Murders written by Carter Dickson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspects when Tait is found murdered on a cold December morning in the lakeside pavilion. Only the footprints of her discoverer disturb the snow which fell overnight – and which stopped just shortly after Marcia was last seen alive. How did the murderer get in and out of the pavilion without leaving a trace? When Bennett's uncle, the cantankerous amateur sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale arrives from London to make sense of this impossible crime, the reader is treated to a feast of the author's trademark twists, beguiling false answers and one of the most ingenious solutions in the history of the mystery genre.

Author : Betty Ren Wright
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 : 082344144X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dollhouse Murders (35th Anniversary Edition) written by Betty Ren Wright and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolls can't move by themselves. . . . Or can they? This special anniversary edition of the hair-raising mystery that's kept readers up at night for thirty-five years features a foreword by Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine. Amy is terrified. She hears scratching and scurrying noises coming from the dollhouse in the attic, and the dolls she was playing with are not where she left them. Dolls can't move by themselves, she tells herself. But every night when Amy goes up to check on the dollhouse, it's filled with an eerie light and the dolls have moved again! Are the dolls trying to tell her something? Could this all be connected to the murders of her great-grandparents? Sinister secrets unravel as Amy gets closer to revealing the mystery of the dolls in this haunting novel that combines complicated family relationships with a bone-chilling mystery. Even readers who love scary stories will want to keep the lights on after finishing! The all-new foreword and jacket art make this spooky classic, an Edgar award nominee, perfect for sharing with a new generation.