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Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1954
Physical Desc
221 p.
Language
English
Description
The sixth and final book in the Inspector Alan Grant series.
One of Tey's finest novels, The Singing Sands centres on the mysterious death of a young man on a train, and the cryptic poem that gradually reveals the greed and envy behind his demise.
"He stumbled up the steps and across the bridge ... great bursts of steam billowed up round him from below, noises clanged and echoed from the dark vault about him. They were all wrong about hell, he thought....
Author
Publisher
Buccaneer Books
Pub. Date
1951
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fifth book in the Inspector Alan Grant series.
The Daughter of Time remains Josephine Tey's most enduringly popular mystery. Can a bed-ridden 20th-century detective solve a 500-year-old crime?
The murder of the young princes in the Tower of London in 1483 is the most notorious crime in English royal history. The prime suspect has long been Richard III, portrayed as a monster by everyone from early propagandists writing immediately after Richard's...
5) Tales
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Co
Pub. Date
1952
Physical Desc
666 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
A. L. Burt
Pub. Date
1904
Physical Desc
312 p.
Language
English
Description
Cabbages and Kings (1904) is a novel by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by his experiences as a fugitive in Honduras, the interconnected stories that make up Cabbages and Kings-the title refers to a line from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass-address themes of revolution, imperialism, exploitation, and greed. The novel is significant not only for launching O. Henry's career as a successful professional writer, but for coining the term "banana...
7) Four million
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1906
Physical Desc
225 p.
Language
English
Description
The Four Million (1906) is a collection of short stories by American writer O. Henry. Inspired by his experiences as a fugitive and in prison, these stories address themes of poverty, persecution, and hope.
The Four Million refers to the population of New York City, where O. Henry was living at the time of its composition. Containing twenty-five works of short fiction, the collection includes several of the author's best-known stories. "The Gift of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Considered the first true detective story Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868) is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. Originally serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round, it introduced many hallmarks of detective fiction, including an English country house setting, bungling local policemen, and a large number of false suspects. In it, Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday...