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The Boy Detective
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Author : Roger Rosenblatt
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-11-05
The Boy Detective written by Roger Rosenblatt and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Washington Post hailed Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast as "a textbook on what constitutes perfect writing," and People lauded Kayak Morning as "intimate, expansive and profoundly moving." Classic tales of love and grief, the New York Times bestselling memoirs are also original literary works that carve out new territory at the intersection of poetry and prose. Now comes The Boy Detective, a story of the author's childhood in New York City, suffused with the same mixture of acute observation and bracing humor, lyricism and wit. Resisting the deadening silence of his family home in the elegant yet stiflingly safe neighborhood of Gramercy Park, nine-year-old Roger imagines himself a private eye in pursuit of criminals. With the dreamlike mystery of the city before him, he sets off alone, out into the streets of Manhattan, thrilling to a life of unsolved cases. Six decades later, Rosenblatt finds himself again patrolling the territory of his youth: The writing class he teaches has just wrapped up, releasing him into the winter night and the very neighborhood in which he grew up. A grown man now, he investigates his own life and the life of the city as he walks, exploring the New York of the 1950s; the lives of the writers who walked these streets before him, such as Poe and Melville; the great detectives of fiction and the essence of detective work; and the monuments of his childhood, such as the New York Public Library, once the site of an immense reservoir that nourished the city with water before it nourished it with books, and the Empire State Building, which, in Rosenblatt's imagination, vibrates sympathetically with the oversize loneliness of King Kong: "If you must fall, fall from me." As he walks, he is returned to himself, the boy detective on the case. Just as Rosenblatt invented a world for himself as a child, he creates one on this night—the writer a detective still, the chief suspect in the case of his own life, a case that discloses the shared mysteries of all our lives. A masterly evocation of the city and a meditation on memory as an act of faith, The Boy Detective treads the line between a novel and a poem, displaying a world at once dangerous and beautiful.
The Boy Detective Fails
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Author : Joe Meno
language : en
Publisher: Akashic Books
Release Date : 2006-09-01
The Boy Detective Fails written by Joe Meno and has been published by Akashic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with Fiction categories.
In this “charming” and melancholic novel, a former child sleuth “investigates the hard-to-crack case of Lost Innocence” (Entertainment Weekly). A Chicago Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist Book of the Year In the twilight of a mysterious childhood full of wonder, Billy Argo, boy detective, is brokenhearted to find that his younger sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, Billy, age thirty, returns from an extended stay at St. Vitus’ Hospital for the Mentally Ill to discover the world full of unimaginable strangeness: office buildings vanish without reason, small animals turn up without their heads, and cruel villains ride city buses to complete their evil schemes. Lost within this unwelcoming place, Billy befriends two lonely, extraordinary children—one a science fair genius, the other a charming, silent bully. With a nearly forgotten bravery, he experiences the unendurable boredom of a telemarketing job; encounters a beautiful, desperate pickpocket; and confronts the nearly impossible solution to his sister’s case. Along a path laden with hidden clues and codes, the boy detective may learn the greatest secret of all: the necessity of the unknown. “Haunted by the mystery of his sister’s death and feeling that a lapse in his sleuthing may be to blame, Billy is determined to find out the reason for her suicide and to punish those responsible . . . The story of Billy’s search for truth, love and redemption is surprising and absorbing. Swaddled in melancholy and gentle humor, it builds in power as the clues pile up.” —Publishers Weekly “The author gives Billy a gallery of rogues to combat and even sends him to investigate the Convocation of Evil at a local hotel (‘Featured Panel: To Wear a Mask?’). Meno sets himself a complicated task, marooning his straight-arrow, pulp-fiction protagonist in a world uglier than the Bobbsey Twins ever faced but refusing to go for satire. Instead, the author takes his compulsive investigator at face value.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Comedic, imaginative, empathic . . . investigates the precincts of grief [and] our longing to combat chaos with reason.” —Booklist
The Boy Detectives
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Author : Michael G. Cornelius
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
The Boy Detectives written by Michael G. Cornelius and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Much has been written about the girl sleuth in fiction, a feminist figure embodying all the potential wit and drive of girlhood. Her male counterpart, however, has received much less critical attention despite his popularity in the wider culture. This collection of 11 essays examines the boy detective and his genre from a number of critical perspectives, addressing the issues of these young characters, heirs to the patriarchy yet still concerned with first crushes and soda shop romances. Series explored include the Hardy Boys, Tow Swift, the Three Investigators, Christopher Cool and Tim Murphy, as well as works by Astrid Lindgren, Mark Haddon and Joe Meno.
Boy Detective Program
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language : en
Publisher:
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The Boy Detective In Early British Children S Literature
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Author : Lucy Andrew
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-19
The Boy Detective In Early British Children S Literature written by Lucy Andrew and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure – a boy operating within a man’s world – addresses adult anxieties about boyhood and the boy’s transition to manhood. It investigates the literary, social and ideological significance of a vast array of popular detective narratives appearing in ‘penny dreadfuls’ and story papers which were aimed primarily at working-class boys. This study charts the relationship between developments in the representation of the fictional boy detective and changing expectations of and attitudes towards real-life British boys during a period where the boy’s role in the future of the Empire was a key concern. It emphasises the value of the early fictional boy detective as an ideological tool to condition boy readers to fulfil adult desires and expectations of what boyhood and, in the future, proper manhood should entail. It will be of particular importance to scholars working in the fields of children’s literature, crime fiction and popular culture.
Will Somers The Boy Detective
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Will Somers The Boy Detective written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.
The Boy Detective
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Author : John Neu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Boy Detective written by John Neu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Hit-and-run drivers categories.
Will Somers The Boy Detective
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Author : Charles Morris
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-08-22
Will Somers The Boy Detective written by Charles Morris and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-22 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original.
Rj Boy Detective Books 1 8
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Author : P. J. Ryan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-03-27
Rj Boy Detective Books 1 8 written by P. J. Ryan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-27 with categories.
This book is a compilation of books 1-8 of "RJ - Boy Detective," fun short story mysteries for children ages 9-12. Each short story is around 30-35 pages long. It includes the following books: *The Mysterious Crate *Vampire Hunting *Alien Goo! *Mystery Poo! *Mr. Pip Is Missing! *Where Is Hensely? *Night Noises *The Cheese Thief RJ Spencer is a lucky 12 year old. He lives in the big city and his parents are landlords of the high-rise apartment building that is his home. The many tenants in the building, along with the endless possibilities of adventures in the city itself, are the perfect setting for the young detective as he sets out to solve every case he can get his hands on.
The Boy Detective The Summer Of 74
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Author : Art Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-29
The Boy Detective The Summer Of 74 written by Art Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-29 with Murder categories.
The first-ever book of stories by Art Taylor, one of the most highly acclaimed short story writers in the genre today