Wycliffe And The Scapegoat

Author : W.J. Burley
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409134679
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wycliffe and the Scapegoat written by W.J. Burley and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient legend, an all-too modern murder, and Chief Superintendent Wycliffe must find the link between them ... Every year, at Halloween, high on the Cornish cliffs, a life-sized effigy of a man is strapped to a blazing wheel and run into the sea - a re-enactment of a hideous old legend where the figure had been a living sacrifice. And now Jonathan Riddle, well-known and respected local builder and undertaker, has disappeared - and it seems all too likely that his corpse has gone the way of the historic 'scapegoat'. As Chief Superintendent Wycliffe begins to investigate, more and more unpleasant facts emerge until he is left with an incredible, and seemingly impossible, solution . . .

Author : William John Burley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780860094760
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wycliffe & the Scapegoat written by William John Burley and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William John Burley
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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book Wycliffe and the Scapegoat written by William John Burley and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has a wide range of suspects - each with motive and opportunity.

Author : George B. Bryan
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820479477
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases, Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by George B. Bryan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.

Author : W.J. Burley
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1409134725
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wycliffe's Wild-Goose Chase written by W.J. Burley and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Superintendent Wycliffe comes across evidence on his own doorstep - and it leads him into very deep water . . . Wycliffe's home overlooks a peaceful, West Country estuary - but even here he can't get away from crime. When he is taking a Sunday morning walk along the shore, he comes across a service revolver with one chamber recently fired. In recent years Wycliffe has often regretted the fact that his rank cuts him off from the early stages of an investigation, but here he is, in at the very start. The case takes Wycliffe into the world of art robberies and crooked dealers, to a suicide which may be a murder, and a hunt for a missing yacht. As the investigation escalates, Wycliffe begins to wonder exactly where the clues are leading . . .

Author : B. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107354
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery written by B. Murphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.

Author : Janet G. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838909671
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Author : William F. Deeck
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0941028119
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery Fancier written by William F. Deeck and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography of various mystery novels published between November 1976 and Fall 1992.

Author : Elena Semino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134447191
Total Pages : 319 pages
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Download or read book Corpus Stylistics written by Elena Semino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'. This new account is based on an extensive analysis of a quarter-of-a-million word electronic collection of written narrative texts, including both fiction and non-fiction. The book includes detailed discussions of: The construction of this corpus of late twentieth-century written British narratives taken from fiction, newspaper news reports and (auto)biographies The development of a manual annotation system for speech, writing and thought presentation and its application to the corpus. The findings of a quantitive and qualitative analysis of the forms and functions of speech, writing and thought presentation in the three genres represented in the corpus. The findings of the analysis of a range of specific phenomena, including hypothetical speech, writing and thought presentation, embedded speech, writing and thought presentation and ambiguities in speech, writing and thought presentation. Two case studies concentrating on specific texts from the corpus. Corpus Stylistics shows how stylistics, and text/discourse analysis more generally, can benefit from the use of a corpus methodology and the authors' innovative approach results in a more reliable and comprehensive categorisation of the forms of speech, writing and thought presentation than have been suggested so far. This book is essential reading for linguists interested in the areas of stylistics and corpus linguistics.

Author : Dorra Maalej
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527542106
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media Agenda-Setting and Framing in the Second Gulf War written by Dorra Maalej and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will appeal to media and communication and public opinion researchers. It is a corpus-based study of the agenda-setting and framing effects of the print media on public opinion, and examines US and UK newspapers’ use of reporting strategies to shape their readers’ attitude towards the Second Gulf War. These strategies consist of four analytic tools, namely discourse presentation categories, discourse presentation sub-categories, subjectivity markers and reporting signals (mainly verbs). This investigation reveals that the choice of reporting strategies is not only ideologically-driven, but is also highly determined by other parameters such as country, style, and genre.