Ring Lardner
Author
Publisher
Collier Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Ring Lardner first burst upon the literary scene with his greatest popular success, "You Know Me Al". A sportswriter by trade, Lardner had a superb ear for regional peculiarities in speech and was loved for his sense of humor. Funny, sarcastic, sometimes bitter but always ironic, Lardner understood Americans-- their desires, their dreams, and their disappointments. Contained in "Haircut and Other Stories" are some of Lardner's best-known pieces: "Haircut",...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An American physicist is parachuted into war-torn Nazi Germany to obtain military secrets. But the deeper he probes, the deadlier his mission becomes, especially when his involvement with a beautiful and mysterious woman catapults him into an intense maelstrom of danger, betrayal, and murder.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A few words for anyone who sits at the poker table with the Kid: Read 'em and weep. Steve McQueen brings his cool fire to the role of a small-timer eager to take his chances in high-stakes poker. He gets his chance when regal, ruthless Lancey Howard, the elite gambler called the Man, accepts the Kid's challenge.
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen puzzling mysteries from the masters of the form. Depending on who you ask, the term "whodunit" was first coined sometime around 1930, but the literary form predates that name by several decades. Still, it was in the years between the two World Wars-the so-called "Golden Age" of mystery fiction-that the style flourished. Short mysteries were published far and wide by a variety of authors, not just those primarily associated with the genre....
8) Travel Tales
Author
Publisher
Symphony Space, Inc
Language
English
Description
"When I first saw New York I was twenty, and it was summertime and I got off a DC-7 at the old Idlewild temporary terminal in a new dress..." - From Goodbye to All That by Joan Didion
Hilarity, suspense and high drama are offered up in this new mix of tales of travel to locales familiar and exotic. Take a trip in a time machine with Madame Bovary, join a father and son on a sailing voyage that goes dangerously awry, retreat to a country
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