epub |eng | 2017-05-25 | Author:Laurel A. Young

Lessingham, Miles The operations superintendent at Larksoken Power Station has a “death’s head” appearance with “shadows under the deep-set eyes and [a] wide, rather knobbly forehead with its swathe of ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Barry Forshaw

Saving the World When a writer dies too young one remembers conversations – never to be repeated. I learnt the following when talking to the writer around the time of ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-23 | Author:Haycraft, Howard;

III It is perhaps inevitable that any evolutionary study of a literary form must give most of its attention to the innovators and experimentalists. The very number of the conventionalists, ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Dirda, Michael.

“Well,” cried Boss McGinty at last, “is he here? Is Birdy Edwards here?” “Yes,” McMurdo answered slowly. “Birdy Edwards is here. I am Birdy Edwards.” Was Eliot joking with his ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-07 | Author:Barry Forshaw

Deviant Ways (2000) CHRIS MOONEY While Mooney’s persuasive and edgy thriller may recycle familiar elements from the overcrowded serial killer genre, it largely does so with imagination and invention. After ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Donald E Westlake [Westlake, Donald E]

SIX LUNCH BREAK May’s Famous Tuna Casserole This recipe was Westlake’s contribution to a 1999 collection of recipes by mystery writers, A Taste of Murder. The University of Chicago Press ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Marvin Lachman

Sue Feder, outstanding fan of historical mysteries, in 1999 In the spring of 1998, Feder founded a more general organization: The Historical Mystery Appreciation Society. Its magazine, offering news and ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Mark Dawson [Dawson, Mark]

IT WAS GONE TWO BY THE TIME they had finally wiped down, stored the ingredients that they hadn’t used and cleaned the kitchen. They had been awake for twenty-two hours. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kathryn Harkup

Three Act Tragedy Mr Babbington was peering across the room with amiable short-sighted eyes. He took a sip of his cocktail and choked a little. He was unused to cocktails, ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Andy Martin

THE STITCH-UP CONVERSATION ON SKYPE. LEE: I don’t want to get framed. ME: I don’t know how to frame. Why would I want to frame you? LEE: Are you going ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:Andy Martin [Martin, Andy]

THE STITCH-UP CONVERSATION ON SKYPE. LEE: I don’t want to get framed. ME: I don’t know how to frame. Why would I want to frame you? LEE: Are you going ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Raymond Chandler (Barry Day -edited by) [Chandler, Raymond]

I don’t think any of the changes made were in conflict with your basic conception. In fact, you would have had to make them yourself. I do not doubt that ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Craig Cabell [Cabell, Craig]

‘Putting together a misfit team from the Lothian and Borders finest, Rebus takes the unpromising historical material and runs with it, leaving DC Siobhan Clarke to take her chances with ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Penzler, Otto [Otto, Penzler,]

One of the questions I'm asked most frequently is what led me to make Milo homosexual. The answer is simple: the quest for something new and interesting and original. And ...

epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Purser, Ann [Ann, Purser,]

THE GAMBLING THREESOME was the object of great interest in the lounge after supper. Four ladies, all somberly dressed as befitted their widow status, had their usual game of whist, ...