The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits Volume 1
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The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits Volume 1
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Author : Mike Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-02-27
The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits Volume 1 written by Mike Ashley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Fiction categories.
Divided into three main sections, "The Ancient World", "The Middle Ages" and "Regency and Gaslight", The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits includes: · The Thief versus Rhampsinitus by Herodotus - probably the earliest detective story ever written. · The Locked Tomb Mystery, set in ancient Egypt, by Elizabeth Peters. · A new story by John Maddox Roberts featuring the young Roman detective Decius Metellus. · Robert van Gulik's ingenious He Came With the Rain featuring Judge Dee, a real-life character who lived inseventh-century China. · A new story by Peter Tremayne, set in seventh-century Ireland and featuring Sister Fidelma. · Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael story The Price of Light. · Paul Harding's The Confession of Brother Athelstan. · A classic locked-room mystery featuring Lillian de la Torre's popular detective Sam Johnson. · A story by Michael Harrison featuring August Dupin, the detective created by Edgar Allan Poe and the inspiration behind Sherlock Holmes. · John Dickson Carr's acclaimed The Gentleman from Paris. ...and many more!
The Mammoth Book Of Roman Whodunnits
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Author : Mike Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
Release Date : 2003
The Mammoth Book Of Roman Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and has been published by Running PressBook Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction categories.
A compelling, challenging collection of mystery stories set in ancient Rome culls the best writing from writers who like to dabble in this fertile historical period, inclding Paul Doherty, John Maddox Roberts, Steven Saylor, Marilyn Todd, Rosemary Rowe, Darrell Schweitzer, and Michael Kurland. Original.
The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits Volume 3
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Author : Mike Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-02-27
The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits Volume 3 written by Mike Ashley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Fiction categories.
The third new collection of historical murder and mystery stories A brilliant new collection of thirty stories of mystery and intrigue spread over three thousand years, from Ancient Egypt to spies on the Titanic. Selected by bestselling editor Mike Ashley, the stories include brand new contributions as well as rare reprints, from writers such as Ian Rankin, Lynda Robinson, Sharan Newman, Gail Frazer, Gillian Linscott and Peter Tremayne. Among the characters featured are the Queen of Sheba, Attila the Hun, Hildegarde of Bingen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry the Navigator and Benjamin Franklin. And with settings as far-ranging as Botany Bay and ancient Pisa, New Amsterdam and old Edinburgh, ancient Greece and the court of Kublai Khan.
The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits Volume 2
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Author : Mike Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-02-27
The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits Volume 2 written by Mike Ashley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Fiction categories.
An all-new collection of exciting murder-mysteries with historical settings This new volume of historical murder and mystery contains over 20 specially commissioned stories ranging in period from Ancient Rome to the reign of Good Queen Bess. It features original stories from such masters as Steven Saylor, Peter Tremayne, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, Kate Ellis, Michael Jecks, Edward D. Hoch and Marilyn Todd. · In Steven Saylor’s Roman tale, Poppy and the Poisoned Cake, Gordianus the Finder feels his latest assignment is suspiciously easy to solve. · Edward D. Hoch puts a novel twist on the locked-room mystery by setting it on a “locked ship” — Christopher Columbus’s, in fact! · In Flibbertigibbet Paul Finch unleashes a deranged serial killer on Elizabethan London. · Falstaff ’s successor Sir Johan de Mandeville turns sleuth in Keith Taylor’s Bene?t of Clergy. · Sister Fidelma must solve the mystery of a murdered Celtic monk in Death of an Icon by Peter Tremayne. · A pig provides the key to Michael Jecks’s latest Sir Baldwin mystery.- · Cherith Baldry turns Geoffrey Chaucer into a secret agent in her version of The Pilgrim’s Tale. · Anarchy and murderous intent rule when the Romans leave the British Isles in Richard Butler’s The Last Legion. . . . plus many more tales of dark age murder and mayhem!
The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits
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Author : Michael Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Robinson Publishing
Release Date : 2005
The Mammoth Book Of Historical Whodunnits written by Michael Ashley and has been published by Robinson Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Detective and mystery stories, English categories.
The third new collection of historical murder and mystery stories A brilliant new collection of thirty stories of mystery and intrigue spread over three thousand years, from Ancient Egypt to spies on the Titanic. Selected by bestselling editor Mike Ashley, the stories include brand new contributions as well as rare reprints, from writers such as Ian Rankin, Lynda Robinson, Sharan Newman, Gail Frazer, Gillian Linscott and Peter Tremayne. Among the characters featured are the Queen of Sheba, Attila the Hun, Hildegarde of Bingen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry the Navigator and Benjamin Franklin. And with settings as far-ranging as Botany Bay and ancient Pisa, New Amsterdam and old Edinburgh, ancient Greece and the court of Kublai Khan.
The Mammoth Book Of More Historical Whodunnits
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Author : Mike Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
Release Date : 2001
The Mammoth Book Of More Historical Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and has been published by Running PressBook Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
More than thirty acclaimed mystery writers--including Elizabeth Peters, Margaret Frazer, Derek Wilson, Susanna Gregory, Edward D. Hoch, Steven Saylor, Peter Tremayne, and Marilyn Todd--present a baffling assortment of historical mysteries. Original.
The Mammoth Collection Of Historical Whodunnits And Historical Detectives
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Author : Mike Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Release Date : 1996-09-01
The Mammoth Collection Of Historical Whodunnits And Historical Detectives written by Mike Ashley and has been published by Carroll & Graf Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09-01 with Fiction categories.
The best of the bestselling historical detective writers are all here in this double-volume boxed set--Ellis Peters, Peter Tremayne, Edward D. Hoch, John Dickson Carr, Lillian de al Torre, Kate Sedley, Margaret Frazer, and many more. Editor Mike Ashley has chosen mystery stories set through the ages, with turn-of-the-century conumdrums, medieval whodunnits, and truly ancient mysteries from the Bible and Herodotus.
The Mammoth Book Of Jacobean Whodunnits
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Author : Mike Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-01
The Mammoth Book Of Jacobean Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-01 with Fiction categories.
The seventeenth century was a time ripe with murder, anarchy, war, political and religious intrigue, of which the Gunpowder Plot is only one example. This unputdownable new anthology from Mike Ashley presents 25 whodunnits set in those turbulent times -- also the age of the Witchfinder General, 'revenge' tragedies and the colonization of America. Stories of murder and mayhem centre on the true role of Guy Fawkes, the English Civil War and the fate of Charles I, plus the lost colony of Roanoke and the tale of Pocahontas. A fast-paced anthology for a thrilling time in British history.
The Mammoth Book Of Classical Whodunnits
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Author : Mike Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-02-11
The Mammoth Book Of Classical Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-11 with Fiction categories.
In the golden days of Ancient Greece and Rome, amidst the splendid art and architecture, the philosophy and politics - there was always a full measure of intrigue, mystery and murder. In this new collection twenty-two writers take up their pens to give an enthralling picture of classical crime. Favourite historical detectives such as Gordianus the Finder, Decius Metellus, and Sister Fidelma rub shoulders with eminent temporary sleuths such as Socrates and that honourable man Brutus, whilst other great names - Augustus, Archimedes, and even the spoilt and beautiful goddess of love, Aphrodite herself - also become enmeshed in terrible and ingenious crimes. Contributors include: Keith Heller Edward D. Hoch Phyllis Ann Karr Theodore Mathieson Amy Myers Wallace Nichols Anthony Price Steven Saylor Darrell Schweitzer Brian Stableford Keith Taylor and many more
The Mammoth Book Of Egyptian Whodunnits
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Author : Mike Ashley
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-02-13
The Mammoth Book Of Egyptian Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-13 with Fiction categories.
Mystery and murder from the Sands of Time; This anthology covers two periods in history - the time of 'Ancient Egypt' which stretches from the First Dynasty in 4000 BC to the time of the Roman Empire, and the time of the Discoveries, which covers the Napoleonic and Victorian periods of excavation. The anthology will be a collection of new stories and rare reprints, including contributions from Lynda Robinson, featuring Lord Meren, Lauren Haney and a Lieutenant Bak mystery, plus stories from Gillian Linscott, Kate Ellis, Marilyn Todd, Paul Doherty, Suzanne Franke, Amy Myers, Michael Pearce, Elizabeth Peters and many more. So from the famed Cleopatra to Howard Carter and the Curse of the Pharaohs, here are 25 stories to enthral and enchant devotees of the genre.