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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"EASTER BASKET MURDER by LESLIE MEIER Tinker's Cove businesses are clashing over a new Easter Basket-themed promotion to boost in-store sales, with tensions boiling over the grand prize--a mysterious golden egg crafted by a reclusive Maine artist. When the one-of-a-kind art piece is stolen, it's up to part-time reporter Lucy Stone to investigate three struggling entrepreneurs who stick out in the local scene. But a huge town scandal comes into focus...
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Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-162
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Collected here for the first time anywhere are the author's 20 finest stories, including his Edgar-winning "The Home Front," about death and repentance during World War II; the Shamus Award finalist "Nobody Wins," about a brutal gangland enforcer searching for the woman he loves; and year's-best selections such as "A Bar Called Charley's," about a traveling salesman's most grueling night on the road."--
Author
Series
Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Fer-de-lance: Multiple murders send sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin on a desperate hunt for clues, but they may be getting too close when someone sends them one of the world's most poisonous snakes as a deadly "gift,"
League of frightened men: Nero Wolfe tries to find evidence against a murderer who has confessed his crime, yet is still free to make good his threats of revenge against a group of former schoolmates.
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Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Narrative innovation is often thought to be the domain of the avant-garde or the experimental. However, manipulations of viewpoint and timelines and other unconventional techniques, have been part of popular American culture and storytelling since at least the 1940s. How did different forms and styles once regarded as "difficult," become mainstream and familiar to audiences? As David Bordwell demonstrates in Perplexing Plots, popular narratives have...
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