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A Judgement in Stone

Author	: Ruth Rendell
Publisher	: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: STANFORD:36105028556327
Pages	: 220 pages
Rating	: 4.O/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book A Judgement in Stone written by Ruth Rendell and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a housekeeper carries out a modern "Valentine's Day Massacre" on the family that employs her, Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch investigates to uncover evidence of a personal tragedy that precipitated the crime. Reprint.

A Judgement In Stone

Author	: Ruth Rendell
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2010-02-23
ISBN 10	: 9781409067863
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (678 users)

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Download or read book A Judgement In Stone written by Ruth Rendell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping tragedy of crime and class, widely regarded as one of multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell's seminal masterworks and a crime fiction classic. Fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will not be disappointed. 'One of her masterpieces' -- Telegraph 'A classic' - The Times 'Quite possibly the best crime book I have ever read' -- ***** Reader review 'One hell of a book' -- ***** Reader review 'An altogether engrossing book' -- ***** Reader review 'A compelling and addictive read' -- ***** Reader review 'An absolute classic - can only be described in superlatives' -- ***** Reader review ********************************************************************************************** 'Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.' Eunice, the Coverdales' housekeeper, guns down four of her employers in the space of fifteen minutes one Valentine's Day. None of them suspected anything. Her motive remained hidden. As the police investigate, Eunice schemes to escape the blame - desperate to preserve the terrible secret of her illiteracy. But Eunice's blindness to a crucial aspect of the world throws her plans into jeopardy...

A Judgement in Stone

Author	: Ruth Rendell
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1977
ISBN 10	: 0553121723
Pages	: 183 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (23 users)

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Download or read book A Judgement in Stone written by Ruth Rendell and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Popular Contemporary Writers

Author	: Michael D. Sharp
Publisher	: Marshall Cavendish
Release Date	: 2006
ISBN 10	: 0761476105
Pages	: 148 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (5 users)

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Download or read book Popular Contemporary Writers written by Michael D. Sharp and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninety-six alphabetically arranged author profiles include biographical information, critical commentary, and illustrations.

A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell

Author	: Christian Planchais
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 1997
ISBN 10	: 272984791X
Pages	: 62 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (1 users)

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Download or read book A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell written by Christian Planchais and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecrits par des professeurs d'anglais en Terminale L, ces opuscules se proposent d'aider l'enseignant à élaborer son cours ainsi que de servir d'outil de travail en classe. Faisant le point sur chaque œuvre et chaque auteur d'une manière synthétique, proposant de nombreuses fiches d'aide à la lecture, ils faciliteront et optimiseront la préparation de l'élève à l'épreuve orale. Bien qu'ils soient destinés avant tout aux élèves de Terminale Anglais LVI renforcée, ils pourront également être utilisés en Première Anglais LVI renforcée. A Judgement in Stone, roman anglais écrit par Ruth Rendell et publié en 1977, doit sa relative célébrité en France à l'adaptation cinématographique de Claude Chabrol (La Cérémonie). Est proposée ici une étude méthodique de A Judgement in Stone (éditions Arrow), roman qui familiarisera les élèves avec la Grande-Bretagne victorienne et contemporaine, tout en stimulant leur réflexion sur les stratégies narratives mises en œuvre par l'auteur.

10 Women of Mystery

Author	: Earl F. Bargainnier
Publisher	: Popular Press
Release Date	: 1981
ISBN 10	: 0879721731
Pages	: 316 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (31 users)

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Download or read book 10 Women of Mystery written by Earl F. Bargainnier and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which examines the special contributions of a number of women mystery writers, sheds light on this significant example of common interests in recreational reading among women and men and the reasons behind the early and continuing uncharacteristic near-equality of both sexes in this field of endeavor.

Framed

Author	: Judith Mayne
Publisher	: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN 10	: 0816634572
Pages	: 260 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (72 users)

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Download or read book Framed written by Judith Mayne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Framed, Judith Mayne, a respected critic whose reach extends from film, literature, and feminism to the culture at large, offers a sustained exploration of feminist approaches to film and mass culture, with a particular focus on how contradiction informs feminism in productive and challenging ways. Accessible and engaging, Framed will be of interest to anyone who enjoys investigating women's roles in the creation of mass culture. -- from back cover.

From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell

Author	: S. Rowland
Publisher	: Springer
Release Date	: 2000-12-19
ISBN 10	: 9780230598782
Pages	: 222 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (987 users)

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Download or read book From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell written by S. Rowland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-12-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of forty-two key novels, this volume introduces these authors for students and the general reader in the context of their lives, and of critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film

Author	: Alan Goble
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date	: 1999-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9783110951943
Pages	: 1039 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (519 users)

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Download or read book The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film written by Alan Goble and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Late Films of Claude Chabrol

Author	: Jacob Leigh
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date	: 2017-10-19
ISBN 10	: 9781501312502
Pages	: 208 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (125 users)

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Download or read book The Late Films of Claude Chabrol written by Jacob Leigh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s, Claude Chabrol has received the least amount of critical and scholarly attention, although he was the more prolific and commercially successful of them all. Jacob Leigh fills this lacuna by focusing on the last nine feature films of Chabrol's career, exploring his imagery, camerawork, use of sound and music, and performances, revealing the stylistic characteristics of his films while identifying the fundamental thematic issues that lie at the heart of his career-length exploration of the relationship between individuals and societies. Key areas of focus includes Chabrol's careful depiction of upper-class settings in films such as La Cérémonie (1995), Merci pour le chocolat (2000) and La Fille coupée en deux (2007) and on what Robin Wood and Michael Walker call 'the beast in man' (1970), the quasi-sympathetic 'id-figures' of which Le Boucher's Popaul is the most celebrated. Chabrol's 'id-figures' inherit the traits of Shadow of a Doubt's Uncle Charlie, Rope's Brandon and Strangers on a Train's Bruno, all three of whom have characteristics of the Nietzsche-quoting psychopath familiar in crime fiction. Additionally, The Late Films of Claude Chabrol considers the influence on Chabrol of a range of significant writers, including Patrick Hamilton, Patricia Highsmith, Charlotte Armstrong and Ruth Rendell.

How to Write Like a Bestselling Author

Author	: Tony Rossiter
Publisher	: Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW
Release Date	: 2017-08-10
ISBN 10	: 9781786854025
Pages	: 222 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (54 users)

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Download or read book How to Write Like a Bestselling Author written by Tony Rossiter and published by Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who hasn’t dreamt of writing a bestseller? Illuminating the best-known works of 50 celebrated authors, writing coach Tony Rossiter shows you exactly how they achieved their phenomenal success. With an expert eye he explains how each author began writing, and examines their style, techniques and routine for insights into their art. Imitating the methods – rather than the content – of a favourite writer is an excellent apprenticeship for anyone who wants to master the craft of writing. And it’s how many of the most successful authors began. If you want to write a bestseller, this guide will set you on the path to success.

Books to Die For

Author	: John Connolly
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2016-10-25
ISBN 10	: 9781476710365
Pages	: 560 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (13 users)

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Download or read book Books to Die For written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology featuring the world's greatest mystery authors writing about theworld's greatest mystery novels.

Figures of Catastrophe

Author	: Francis Mulhern
Publisher	: Verso Books
Release Date	: 2016-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9781784781941
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (819 users)

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Download or read book Figures of Catastrophe written by Francis Mulhern and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new vision of the modern English novel The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of culture novel. Reading across and against the grain of received patterns of literary association, tracing a line from Hardy and Forster, through Woolf, Waugh and Bowen, to Barstow, Fowles, Rendell, Naipaul, Amis, Kureishi and Smith, he elucidates the recurring topics and narrative logics of the genre, showing how culture emerges as a special ground of social conflict, above all between classes. The narrative evaluations of culture’s ends—the aspirations and the destinies of those whose lives are the subject of these novels—grow steadily darker over time, and the writing itself grows more introverted. A concluding discussion elicits the characteristics of the English condition of culture novel, in an international setting, and closes in, finally, on the central conundrum of the genre: its uncanny reprise, in its own plane, of the historical arc of the modern labour movement in Britain, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century through its post-war heyday to the seemingly inexorable decline of recent decades.

Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon

Author	: Nick Turner
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date	: 2011-11-03
ISBN 10	: 9781441120946
Pages	: 202 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (29 users)

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Download or read book Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon written by Nick Turner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing number of books on contemporary fiction, there is a need for a work that examines whom we value, and why. These questions lie at the heart of this book which, by focusing on four novelists, literary and popular, interrogates the canon over the last fifty years. The argument unfolds to demonstrate that academic trends increasingly control canonicity, as do the demands of genre, the increasing commercialisation of literature, and the power of the literary prize. Turner argues that literary excellence, demonstrated by style and imaginative power, is often missing in many works that have become modern classics and makes a case for the value of the 'universal' in literature. Written in a jargon-free style, with reference to many supporting writers, the book raises a number of significant cultural questions about the arts, fashions and literary reputations, of interest to readers in contemporary literary studies.

Now Write! Mysteries

Author	: Sherry Ellis
Publisher	: Penguin
Release Date	: 2011-12-29
ISBN 10	: 9781101553763
Pages	: 384 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (537 users)

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Download or read book Now Write! Mysteries written by Sherry Ellis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential handbook for writers of whodunits, techno- thrillers, cozies, and everything in between-featuring never-before- published personal writing exercises from some of today's bestselling and award-winning mystery writers. Now Write! Mysteries, the fourth volume in the acclaimed Now Write! writing guide series, brings together numerous bestselling authors-including winners of and nominees for the Edgar, Hugo, and Shamus awards,-for the definitive guide to writing mysteries, thrillers, and suspense stories. Now Write! Mysteries teaches you everything you've ever wanted to know about crafting a page-turning mystery-from creating a believable detective hero (or terrifying villain), to using real-life cutting-edge investigative techniques to bring your story to life-with practical exercises taken directly from the pros: Discover the best techniques for seamlessly integrating action into your story with John Lutz, New York Times-bestselling author of Urge to Kill, Night Kills, and Serial. Learn how to fine-tune your sense of place and setting with Louise Penny, New York Times-bestselling author of the Armand Gamache mysteries. Take advice from Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Sleepers and writer/producer for Law & Order, on how to compose a scene that lives up to your character's backstory. Let Marcia Talley, Agatha- and Anthony-winning author of the Hannah Ives mysteries, show you how to build a memorable, engaging detective. (Hint: It's not about making him flawless.) Others included are: Simon Brett, Hallie Ephron, Meg Gardiner, Peter James, Christopher G. Moore, Michael Sears, and many others. No other mystery-writing guide offers the road tested wisdom of so many award-winners and bestselling authors in one place.

Studying French Cinema

Author	: Isabelle Vanderschelden
Publisher	: Liverpool University Press
Release Date	: 2013-04-22
ISBN 10	: 9781800347342
Pages	: 251 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (473 users)

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Download or read book Studying French Cinema written by Isabelle Vanderschelden and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a text-led approach, with the emphasis on more recent popular films, Studying French Cinema is directed at non-specialists such as students of French, Film Studies, and the general reader with an interest in post-war French cinema. Each of the chapters focuses on one or more key films from the ground-breaking films of the nouvelle vague (Les 400 coups, 1959) to contemporary documentary (Etre et avoir, 2002) and puts them into their relevant contexts. Depending on the individual film, these include explorations of childhood, adolescence and coming of age (Les 400 coups, L'Argent de poche); auteur ideology and individual style (the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Agnes Varda); the representation of recent French history (Lacombe Lucien and Au revoir les enfants); transnational production practices (Le Pacte des loups); and popular cinema, comedy and gender issues (e.g. Le Diner de cons). Each film is embedded in its cultural and political context. Together, the historical discussions provide an overview of post-war French history to the present. Useful suggestions are made as to studies of related films, both those discussed within the book and outside.

Crimes of Passion

Author	: Howard Engel
Publisher	: Open Road Media
Release Date	: 2016-03-01
ISBN 10	: 9781504031486
Pages	: 239 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (314 users)

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Download or read book Crimes of Passion written by Howard Engel and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty real-life accounts of passion gone lethally wrong Celebrated mystery writer Howard Engel traces the history of the crime of passion through France, England, Canada, and the United States in his first nonfiction book. The story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in England, is explored along with more familiar, modern cases, such as those of O. J. Simpson and Lorena Bobbitt. With each sordid tale, Engel explores the legal codes and moral implications surrounding crimes of passion throughout history. Careful research and a novelist’s eye for detail and dramatization bring each grisly case into chilling clarity. Crimes of Passion is a must-read for true crime enthusiasts, armchair historians, and fans of the macabre.