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The Thefts Of Nick Velvet
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Author : Edward D. Hoch
language : en
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
Release Date : 2013-11-26
The Thefts Of Nick Velvet written by Edward D. Hoch and has been published by Overamstel Uitgevers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Fiction categories.
Thirteen stories of outrageous heists starring one smooth thief The dictator of the island of Jabali wants a baseball team, and he doesn’t care how he gets it. He has assembled nine of the finest players on the island, and is about to hire Nick Velvet to steal him some competition. Ordinary thieves might not be up to pinching a whole ball club, but Velvet specializes in lifting seemingly worthless items, and in this year’s National League, there is nothing more worthless than the hapless Beavers. He steals them easily—but will the island’s ruler be satisfied with a last-place team? In these charming stories starring one of Edward D. Hoch’s most popular characters, everything is up for grabs. Velvet steals sea serpents, garbage, cats, and toy mice—all with his trademark low-key style. In Nick Velvet’s underworld, there is nothing he won’t steal, so long as it’s priceless, worthless, or just plain crazy.
The Thefts Of Nick Velvet
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Author : Edward D. Hoch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Thefts Of Nick Velvet written by Edward D. Hoch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Fiction categories.
The Velvet Touch
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Author : Edward D. Hoch
language : en
Publisher: Crippen & Landru Pub
Release Date : 2000
The Velvet Touch written by Edward D. Hoch and has been published by Crippen & Landru Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
Edward D. Hoch's latest collection contains 14 stories about Nick Velvet, the choosey crook who steals only the seemingly valueless -- a bald man's comb, an overdue library book, a faded flag, a playing card, and so on. And in order to pull off a successful robbery, Nick often has to solve a crime as well -- sometimes the crimes committed by Sandra Paris, The White Queen, who claims to do impossible things before breakfast. The Velvet Touch contains all of Nick's encounters with the White Queen. The book includes an introduction by the author and a complete Nick Velvet checklist.
The Spy And The Thief
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Author : Edward D. Hoch
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2013-11-26
The Spy And The Thief written by Edward D. Hoch 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 2013-11-26 with Fiction categories.
DIVDIVA double-barreled collection—two of Edward D. Hoch’s most ingenious creations/divDIV In the headquarters of Britain’s Foreign Office, a secretary spies a television actor making a copy of a top-secret key. In an island republic, an intelligence operative is murdered just minutes before exposing a Communist mole. And in a bustling eastern city, the Cold War reaches a turning point over a piece of film the size of a pinhead. These are cases for C. Jeffery Rand, the fixer inside Britain’s secret service. He is bright, ruthless, and smart enough never to be surprised by the depths to which an enemy spy might sink./divDIV Where Jeffery Rand is hard-nosed, Nick Velvet has a supple touch. A master thief, Velvet has a particular skill for stealing unusual items. Where ordinary thieves might be content with jewels or bank notes, Velvet pilfers rare tigers, water from swimming pools, and the letters on a company sign./divDIV In this collection, you will find seven stories of Rand and seven of Velvet—two brilliant men, one on either side of the law, each with a knack for doing the impossible./divDIV/div/div
The Mystery Fancier Vol 2 No 6 November December 1978
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Author : Agatha Christie
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2010-08-01
The Mystery Fancier Vol 2 No 6 November December 1978 written by Agatha Christie and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Volume 2 Number 6 of The Mystery Fancier, November-December 1978, contains: "Behind the Scenes at Bouchercon 9: or, It Was Murder at the Bismark!" by Mary Ann Grochowski, "Miss Marple She Isn't," by David H. Doerrer, "Agatha Christie Is Still Alive and Well," by Amnon Kabatchnik, "When Is This Stiff Dead? Detective Stories and Definitions of Death," by Thompson and Banks, "The Weevil in the Beancurd: Or, The Cop Abroad," by George N. Dove, and "The Nero Wolfe Saga: Part X," by Guy M. Townsend.
The Black Lizard Big Book Of Locked Room Mysteries
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Author : Otto Penzler
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Release Date : 2014-10-28
The Black Lizard Big Book Of Locked Room Mysteries written by Otto Penzler and has been published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with Fiction categories.
The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevator car—nowhere is a crime completely impossible. Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form—a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth—this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances. Among these pages you’ll find stories with evocative titles like “The Flying Death”, “The Man From Nowhere”, “A Terribly Strange Bed”, and “The Theft of the Bermuda Penny”, not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon’s Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op, and many more. Featuring • Unconventional means of murder • Pilfered jewels • Shocking solutions Includes • Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, the first detective story and the first locked-room mystery • Masters of the short story form: Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen, Carter Dickson, and Stanley Ellin A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL
Cornucopia Of Crime
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Author : Francis M. Nevins
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-07
Cornucopia Of Crime written by Francis M. Nevins and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Over the decades Francis M. Nevins has written dozens of articles and essays on the major influences of crime literature and here he collects them in 450+ pages. Coupled with some current essays on people he's known this makes for a book that any mystery fan will cherish and use as a reference book.
Short Story Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Short Story Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Short stories categories.
Mystery Fanfare
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Author : Michael L. Cook
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1983
Mystery Fanfare written by Michael L. Cook and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Reference categories.
This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
The Future Is Ours The Collected Science Fiction Of Edward D Hoch
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Author : Edward D. Hoch
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2016-03-31
The Future Is Ours The Collected Science Fiction Of Edward D Hoch written by Edward D. Hoch and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with Fiction categories.
Edward D. Hoch was and is the undisputed master of the mystery short story. His total output of published short fiction hovers just under 1,000 stories (estimates are in the neighborhood of 960 stories). Hoch (pronounced "Hoke") is best remembered for his fair-play and impossible crime short stories, particularly the series featuring Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a small-town physician who unraveled seemingly impossible "problems" in 1920s New England. His other popular series characters included British Intelligence codebreaker Jeffrey Rand and thief-for-hire Nick Velvet. While a vast majority of Ed Hoch's stories were mysteries, he enjoyed horror and science fiction. Of his nine-hundred-plus output, he wrote several handfuls of horror and science fiction stories that appeared in various magazines and anthologies. It could be argued that his first published story, "Village of the Dead" (which appeared in the December 1955 issue of the pulp magazine Famous Detective Stories), is as much horror as it is a mystery. In that story, the mass suicide of an entire village is investigated by Simon Ark, a mysterious—possibly two-thousand year old—Coptic Priest. Here, then, are 31 tales of the future, the fantastic, and the improbable by a master of the craft: Edward D. Hoch, writer extraordinaire!