The Main Death And This King Business
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The Main Death And This King Business
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2016-06-14
The Main Death And This King Business written by Dashiell Hammett and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-14 with Fiction categories.
From the annals of Black Mask come the two-fisted adventures of the original hardboiled PI: Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op Jeffrey Main comes home from Los Angeles with $20,000 in his wallet and a target on his back. Two gunmen burst through the door, instigating a scuffle that leaves Main dead, his wife unconscious, and the money long gone. At least, that’s the way the cops tell it. The police see no other way the killers could have escaped so easily, and the case falls to the Continental Op—San Francisco’s most ruthless private detective. Behind this strange murder lurks a toxic case of greed, and the Op must risk his neck to learn who pulled the trigger. “The Main Death” is vintage Dashiell Hammett, the sort of hard-driving tale that made him a legend and made Black Mask the most respected of all the pulp magazines. Paired with “This King Business” in this captivating collection of Hammett’s later Continental Op stories, it is a fine reminder that hardboiled action never goes out of style. Praise for Dashiell Hammett “Hammett was the ace performer. . . . He did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before.” —Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep “Hammett was the great poet of the great American collision—personal honour and corruption, opportunity and fatality.” —James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential “Hammett is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer.” —The Boston Globe
The Death Of A King
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Author : Paul Doherty
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-06-06
The Death Of A King written by Paul Doherty and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Fiction categories.
The fate of a king is not always glorious... The dramatic events of Edward II's death are told with masterful skill by acclaimed writer, Paul Doherty, in The Death of a King. Perfect for fans of Michael Jecks and Ellis Peters. England's Edward II so angered his wife, her lover, and his subjects that they revolted, deposed him, and made him prisoner. History records that Edward II was eventually murdered in Berkeley Castle and buried publicly in Gloucester cathedral. But was he? The heir, Edward III, charges Chancery Clerk Edmund Beche with uncovering the truth of the matter. Beche's investigation is torturous, blocked by hidden records, outright lies, unexpected confessions, double crosses, and a high body count. Grave digging, burglary, and soldiering at the bloody battle of Crécy await him. But Edward is a most determined man... What readers are saying about Paul Doherty: 'Doherty writes well and paints a very believable picture' 'Mr. Doherty's research is only topped by his imagination' 'The intrigue! The intrigue! What can I say? Read it... NOW!'
The Functions Of Unnatural Death In Stephen King
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Author : Rebecca Frost
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-03-02
The Functions Of Unnatural Death In Stephen King written by Rebecca Frost and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots examines over thirty of King’s works and looks at the character deaths within them, placing them first within the chronology of the plot and then assigning them a function. Death is horrific and perhaps the only universal horror because it comes to us all. Stephen King, known as the Master of Horror, rarely writes without including death in his works. However, he keeps death from being repetitious or fully expected because of the ways in which he plays with the subject, maintaining what he himself has called a childlike approach to death. Although character deaths are a constant, the narrative function of those deaths changes depending on their placement within the plot. By separating out the purposes of early deaths from those that come during the rising action or during the climax, this book examines the myriad ways character deaths in King can affect surviving characters and therefore the plot. Even though character deaths are frequent and hardly ever occur only once in a book, King’s varying approaches to, and uses of, these deaths show how he continues to play with both the subject and its facets of horror throughout his work.
The Death Of King Arthur
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1975-01-30
The Death Of King Arthur written by and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-01-30 with Fiction categories.
Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights. Whispers of Queen Guinevere's infidelity with his beloved comrade-at-arms Sir Lancelot profoundly distress the trusting King, leaving him no match for the machinations of the treacherous Sir Mordred. The human tragedy of The Death of King Arthur so impressed Malory that he built his own Arthurian legend on this view of the court - a view that profoundly influenced the English conception of the 'great' King.
Imagining The King S Death
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Author : John Barrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Imagining The King S Death written by John Barrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art categories.
It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and imagining it, in the legal sense of intending or designing? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. He shows how the law of treason was adapted in the years following Louis's death to punish what was acknowledged to be a "modern" form of treason unheard of when the law had been framed. The result, he argues, was the invention of a new and imaginary reading, a "figurative" treason, by which the question of who was imagining the king's death, the supposed traitors or those who charged them with treason, became inseparable.
A Memoir Of The Life And Death Of Sir John King Knight
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Author : John King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
A Memoir Of The Life And Death Of Sir John King Knight written by John King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Biography categories.
The Death Of The Red King
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Author : Paul Doherty
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-06-11
The Death Of The Red King written by Paul Doherty and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-11 with Fiction categories.
In 1100, King William II died in a tragic accident... or was it murder? In The Death of the Red King, acclaimed historian Paul Doherty investigates the suspicious death of William II in a masterful 'faction' - a mix of both fact and fiction. Concentrating on both old and new evidence, Paul Doherty explores the highly suspicious elements surrounding the death of King William II of England, nicknamed "Rufus the Red King". Through the eyes of the great philosopher Anselm, a secret admirer of the Red King, a far more chilling interpretation of his death is put forward that challenges everything we think we know. What readers are saying about Paul Doherty: 'An interesting look at a little known real-life mystery' 'The book is interesting, well written, fact and fiction coming easily together to form a well-argued case' 'Doherty proves that he is a scholar as well as a writer of novels'
An Enquiry Into The Circumstances Of The Death Of King Charles The Second Of England
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Author : Norman Chevers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
An Enquiry Into The Circumstances Of The Death Of King Charles The Second Of England written by Norman Chevers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with Medical Case Histories categories.
The author concludes that Charles II did not die because he had been poisoned.
A Memoir Of The Life And Death Of Sir John King Knight Written By His Father J King In 1677 Now First Pr With Notes By G H Sawtell
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Author : John KING (M.D., of Aldersgate Street.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
A Memoir Of The Life And Death Of Sir John King Knight Written By His Father J King In 1677 Now First Pr With Notes By G H Sawtell written by John KING (M.D., of Aldersgate Street.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with categories.
King Death
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Author : Colin Platt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-10
King Death written by Colin Platt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with History categories.
This illustrated survey examines what it was actually like to live with plague and the threat of plague in late-medieval and early modern England.; Colin Platt's books include "The English Medieval Town", "Medieval England: A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600" and "The Architecture of Medieval Britain: A Social History" which won the Wolfson Prize for 1990. This book is intended for undergraduate/6th form courses on medieval England, option courses on demography, medicine, family and social focus. The "black death" and population decline is central to A-level syllabuses on this period.