Tag: Detective

Free Download Night Sky Detective (Eyewitness Explorer) by DK
English | June 2nd, 2015 | ISBN: 1465435018 | 74 pages | True PDF | 17.16 MB
Explore the stars with more than 30 fun activities.

Free Download Bryan Kesselman, "’Paddington’ Pollaky, Private Detective"
English | ISBN: 0750959746 | 2015 | 248 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Who was the Victorian super-sleuth ‘Paddington’ Pollaky? In reality, he was a contradiction: a man of mystery who tried to keep out of the limelight, while at times he craved recognition and publicity. He was a busybody, a meddler, yet someone whose heart was ultimately in the right place. Newspaper accounts detail his work as a private detective in London, his association with The Society for the Protection of Young Females, his foiling of those involved in sex-trafficking, and of his tracking down of abducted children. Themes that remain relevant in the twenty-first century. What was his involvement in the American Civil War? Why did he place cryptic messages in the agony column of The Times? And why were the newspapers so interested in this Hungarian detective and adventurer while the police thoroughly disapproved of him? In this first biography of this complex character, author Bryan Kesselman answers these questions, and examines whether it was Pollaky who provided the inspiration for the literary greats Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes.

Free Download Judith A. Markowitz, "The Gay Detective Novel: Lesbian and Gay Main Characters and Themes in Mystery Fiction"
English | ISBN: 0786419571 | 2004 | 312 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Gertrude Stein called it "the only really modern novel form that has come into existence," yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel. Since then, gay and lesbian detective fiction has been one of the fastest growing segments of the genre. It incorporates gay and lesbian cultural elements and offers crossover appeal. Its authors call upon a century of development in the mystery genre, while providing new, more accurate images of lesbians and gay men than generally found in mainstream literature and popular media.

Free Download Spring Offensive: Home Front Detective by Edward Marston, Gordon Griffin, Soundings
English | June 20, 2024 | ISBN: B0D2DVJ123 | 10 hours and 9 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 279 Mb
March, 1918. British newspapers carry the dreadful news that the German Spring Offensive has begun, with thousands of British lives lost. Detective Sargeant Joe Keedy is awaiting release from hospital in London and is anxious to resume the fight against crime on the Home Front.
Late one night, a bank is raided by a gang and the villains escape by car with a sizeable haul. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion is put in charge of the case, but without Keedy at his side he faces an uphill battle to solve this perplexing case.
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Free Download Paul Tomlinson, "Crime Thriller: How to Write Detective, Noir, Caper & Heist, Gangster, & Police Procedural Thrillers"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1092472967 | EPUB | pages: 438 | 0.8 mb
Create Tough Guy Detectives and Femmes Fatales

Free Download Jem Bloomfield, "Allusion in Detective Fiction: Shakespeare, the Bible and Dorothy L. Sayers "
English | ISBN: 3031583388 | 2024 | 239 pages | EPUB | 532 KB
This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists navigated whilst alluding to them. The first part traces the complex web of allusions to Shakespeare and the Bible which appear in the novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, examining the meanings these allusions produce. The second part explores the way in which Sayers’ own collection of detective novels became a canon, on which later novelists exercised those same allusive practices. It studies allusions to Sayers’ novels throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, from Gladys Mitchell and P.D. James to Reginald Hill and Sujata Massey. This study reveals allusion as a shaping force at the origin of the classic British detective novel, and a continuing element in its identity.

Free Download Murder at Lordship: Inside the Hunt for a Detective’s Killer (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1Z47SBT | 2024 | 9 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Pat Marry, Robin Schiller
Narrator: Dan Murphy
Pat Marry, former colleague of Adrian Donohoe and the detective inspector in charge of the investigation, and journalist Robin Schiller take us inside the notorious case, describing the gardai’s unprecedented collaboration with the FBI, the NYPD and Homeland Security which finally brought Brady to justice, following the lengthiest police inquiry and murder trial in the history of the Irish state. Filled with details not previously known to the public, Murder at Lordship is the definitive account of one of the most shocking crimes of this century.

Free Download The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables by Adam Alexander, Prof. Tim Lang
English | September 29, 2022 | ISBN: 1915294088 | 320 pages | EPUB | 6.87 Mb
Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables and join him on his quest to save our heritage produce.

Free Download Richard Yancey, "The Highly Effective Detective Plays the Fool: A Mystery"
English | 2010 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0312383096 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
"Deserves mention with the wackiest of today’s comic crime novelists… similar to Donald E. Westlake or Carl Hiaasen." -Booklist on The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the DogsIn this third installment of Richard Yancey’s hilarious Teddy Ruzak P.I. series, Teddy’s latest client is a good looking dame with long blond hair and great gams. Her husband, she suspects, is stepping out on her, and she hires Teddy to nail the cheater. Then the client disappears. Is this a divorce case-or a murder?

Free Download Richard Yancey, "The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs: A Mystery"
English | 2008 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0312347537 | EPUB | 0,2 mb
From the critically acclaimed author of The Highly Effective Detective comes this deliciously funny follow-up featuring the lovable but bumbling P.I. Teddy Ruzak.