The Northbury Papers
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The Northbury Papers
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Author : Joanne Dobson
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2010-07-28
The Northbury Papers written by Joanne Dobson and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-28 with Fiction categories.
Teaching American women's literature at New England's prestigious Enfield College has shown Karen Pelletier just how cutthroat the world of academe can be. But nothing in her tenure has prepared her for the perils to come, as this bastion of higher learning throws open its doors to a cleverly calculating killer. A battered copy of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre leads Professor Karen Pelletier to the long-forgotten novels of an obscure writer named Serena Northbury. When she decides to pen the author's biography, she sets off a raging controversy. Everyone, from her esteemed colleagues to her tyrannical department head, regards Northbury's nineteenth-century writings as trash. But when the intrepid researcher stumbles upon a treasure trove of Northbury's papers--including what looks very much like an unpublished novel--Karen knows she cannot quit, for what could be more thrilling? Unfortunately, someone takes exception to Karen's penchant for digging up the past. Before long, she is the unlikely suspect in a homicide--and the target of an erudite killer who is poised to kill again. From the Paperback edition.
Quieter Than Sleep
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Author : Joanne Dobson
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2009-10-14
Quieter Than Sleep written by Joanne Dobson and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-14 with Fiction categories.
Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts's elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined--and that not even the privileged world of academia is immune to murder.... Professor Karen Pelletier's prime literary passion is poet Emily Dickinson--a passion she shares with her hotshot colleague Randy Astin-Berger. Heir apparent to the head of Enfield's English department, the pompous Randy is the campus Casanova. That is, he was--until he was found strangled with his own flashy necktie. The last person to see Randy alive--and the first to find him dead--Karen knows she must solve the case before she becomes the prime suspect. But to do that, she must first discover the truth behind Randy's final Dickinsonian discovery--a literary bombshell that may well have been to die for.... From the Paperback edition.
Documents Relating To The History Of Northbury Society Including Early Petitions Deeds Minutes Of Meetings Lists Of Members And Accounts And Papers Of The Early Ministers Beginning With Rev Samuel Todd
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Author : First Congregational Church (Plymouth, Conn.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1736
Documents Relating To The History Of Northbury Society Including Early Petitions Deeds Minutes Of Meetings Lists Of Members And Accounts And Papers Of The Early Ministers Beginning With Rev Samuel Todd written by First Congregational Church (Plymouth, Conn.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1736 with Church records and registers categories.
Cold And Pure And Very Dead
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Author : Joanne Dobson
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2010-11-10
Cold And Pure And Very Dead written by Joanne Dobson and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-10 with Fiction categories.
English professor Karen Pelletier is well known for her provocative manner and iconoclastic opinions, so it's no surprise that she perversely cites a commercial novel from the 1950s when asked to named the greatest book of the twentieth century. The only work by Mildred Deakin, who disappeared from public view shortly after its publication, Satan Mills quickly becomes the hottest book around. It's the center of contentious arguments in academic circles, climbs onto The New York Times bestseller list, and receives the coveted honor of being an Oprah Book Club selection. At the height of the frenzy, a reporter who discovers the reclusive author in rural upstate New York is found dead in her driveway. Could Deakin have been so protective of her privacy that she'd shoot someone to protect it? Called in to help with the investigation, Karen learns that the scandalous happenings at the heart of Satan Mills were more autobiographical than its attractive young author wanted anyone to know. The intrepid professor deploys all her literary and investigative skills in an all-out effort to exonerate the embattled older woman and restore her peaceful existence. Detailed with Dobson's lethally witty pen, Karen's latest adventure is at once a deftly told mystery and a delightful debunking of polemical academics and pretentious intellectual windbags. From the Hardcover edition.
The Maltese Manuscript
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Author : Joanne Dobson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-05
The Maltese Manuscript written by Joanne Dobson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
English professor Karen Pelletier becomes involved with the hunt for the original Maltese falcon manuscript when a visiting mystery author asks for her help.
Great Women Mystery Writers
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Author : Elizabeth A. Blakesley
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2006-11-30
Great Women Mystery Writers written by Elizabeth A. Blakesley and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mysteries are among the most popular books today, and women continue to be among the most creative and widely read mystery writers. This book includes alphabetically arranged entries on 90 women mystery writers. Many of the writers discussed were not even writing when the first edition of this book was published in 1994, while others have written numerous works since then. Writers were selected based on their status as award winners, their commercial success, and their critical acclaim. Each entry provides biographical information, a discussion of major works and themes, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with appendices and a selected, general bibliography. Public library patrons will value this guide to their favorite authors, while students will turn to it when writing reports.
Mystery Women Volume Three Revised
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Author : Colleen Barnett
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2010-12-31
Mystery Women Volume Three Revised written by Colleen Barnett and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.
The Raven And The Nightingale
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Author : Joanne Dobson
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2011-06-08
The Raven And The Nightingale written by Joanne Dobson and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-08 with Fiction categories.
An unexpected bequest sends waves of violence through the placid groves of academe in Joanne Dobson's third mystery to feature Professor Karen Pelletier. Still untenured, and therefore on shaky academic ground, feisty young Enfield College professor Pelletier finds herself going head-to-head with the resident Edgar Allan Poe expert, Elliot Corbin, an academic windbag of monumental proportions who is lobbying to be appointed to the much-coveted and recently vacated Palaver Chair. So when Karen receives a serendipitous bonanza in the form of never-before-seen manuscripts and journals by the nineteenth-century poet Emmeline Foster, who is rumored to have killed herself for the love of Poe, Corbin is predictably put out. Subsequently, the corrosive Corbin is stabbed to death in his home on Thanksgiving Day. Karen has an airtight alibi, but other suspects abound--from the head of the women's studies program, who also pines for the Palaver Chair; to Visiting Poet Jane Birdwort, whose history with Corbin turns out to be far longer (and closer) than anyone had known; to the perpetually disgruntled department secretary; to a young female adjunct professor whose unbridled ambition will not be denied. Then Karen's office is ransacked, and a number of the Emmeline Foster journals and poems are stolen, so it looks more and more as if Corbin's death may be inextricably entwined with the muse of his life--poet of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. The undeniably attractive Lieutenant Piotrowski is called in, and, as in the past, he solicits Karen's help, involving her once more in the thankless task of investigating her not-always-so-collegial colleagues. As she did in her first two widely acclaimed novels, Joanne Dobson uses her savvy insider's knowledge of academic politics and her considerable talent for complex plotting to produce a witty and eminently satisfying entertainment.
The Ethical Detective
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Author : Rachel Haliburton
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2018-02-28
The Ethical Detective written by Rachel Haliburton and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-28 with Philosophy categories.
Detective fiction and philosophy¾moral philosophy in particular¾may seem like an odd combination. Working within the framework offered by neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, this book makes the case that moral philosophers ought to take murder mysteries seriously, seeing them as a source of ethical insight, and as a tool that can be used to spark the ethical imagination. Detective fiction is a literary genre that asks readers to consider questions of good and evil, justice and injustice, virtue and vice, and is, consequently, a profoundly and inescapably ethical genre. Moreover, in the figure of the detective, readers are presented with an accessible role model who demonstrates the virtues of honesty, courage, and a commitment to justice that are required by those who want to live well as a virtue ethicist would understand it. This book also offers a critique of contemporary moral philosophy, and considers what features a neo-Aristotelian conception of autonomy might display.
Sleuths In Skirts
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Author : Frances A. DellaCava
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
Sleuths In Skirts written by Frances A. DellaCava and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with American fiction categories.
This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.