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ADAMS, ELLERY 11.Indigo Dying 6. The Darling Dahlias and Books by the Bay Mystery 12.A Dilly of a Death the Eleven O'Clock 1. A Killer Plot* 13.Dead Man's Bones Lady 2. A Deadly Cliché 14.Bleeding Hearts 7. The Unlucky Clover 3. The Last Word 15.Spanish Dagger 8. The Poinsettia Puzzle 4. Written in Stone* 16.Nightshade 9. The Voodoo Lily 5. Poisoned Prose* 17.Wormwood 6. Lethal Letters* 18.Holly Blues ALEXANDER, TASHA 7. Writing All Wrongs* 19.Mourning Gloria Lady Emily Ashton Charmed Pie Shoppe 20.Cat's Claw 1. And Only to Deceive Mystery 21.Widow's Tears 2. A Poisoned Season* 1. Pies and Prejudice* 22.Death Come Quickly 3. A Fatal Waltz* 2. Peach Pies and Alibis* 23.Bittersweet 4. Tears of Pearl* 3. Pecan Pies and 24.Blood Orange 5. Dangerous to Know* Homicides* 25.The Mystery of the Lost 6. A Crimson Warning* 4. Lemon Pies and Little Cezanne* 7. Death in the Floating White Lies Cottage Tales of Beatrix City* 5. Breach of Crust* Potter 8. Behind the Shattered 1. The Tale of Hill Top Glass* ADDISON, ESME Farm 9. The Counterfeit Enchanted Bay Mystery 2. The Tale of Holly How Heiress* 1. A Spell of Trouble 3. The Tale of Cuckoo 10.The Adventuress Brow Wood 11.A Terrible Beauty ALAN, ISABELLA 4. The Tale of Hawthorn 12.Death in St. Petersburg Amish Quilt Shop House 1. Murder, Simply Stitched 5. The Tale of Briar Bank ALLAN, BARBARA 2. Murder, Plain and 6. The Tale of Applebeck Trash 'n' Treasures Simple Orchard Mystery 3. -
Private Eye.Pdf
WIELAND SCHWANEBECK (DRESDEN) "You're not the usual kind of Private Eye": The Deconstruction of the Whedunit in PJ). J ames's Cordelia Gray Mysteries Even though female authers and, te seme degree, female protagonists have been inte- gral to the development of detective fiction, critics and genre encyclopaedias fre— quently continue to betray their misogynistic bias towards these women, much as they may pride themselves on the amount ef spaee they dedicate to the "Queens of Crime" and their considerable output. The title ef the "first British detective" story, for in— stance, is often attributed to Wilkie Collins's The Women in White (1859), Charles Felin's The Notting Hill Mystery (1865), or Charles Diekens's The Mystery ef Edwin Dread (1870), yet other books tend to get written out of history. This largely concerns works by female authors (like Mary Elizabeth Braddon's The Trail ef the Serpent of 1860, which precedes some of the aforementioned titles by several years) as well as narratives featuring female detectives. In Wilkie Collins's The Diary afAnne Radway (1856), the eponymous heroine and homodiegetic narrator, a poor working-class girl, attempts to solve the murder of her roommate, in spite of being ridiculed and threat— ened by policemen and sinister landlords. Self-reliant and perceptive as Anne is, in a world dominated by men who held public office and who control the means of produc- tion, she cannot help but withdraw to the secluded space of her lodgings, longing for the return of her fiance: "0, what a relief and help it would be now if Robert should come back!" (Collins 1856, 33). -
Mystery Fiction
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How the Detective Fiction of Pd James Provokes
THEOLOGY IN SUSPENSE: HOW THE DETECTIVE FICTION OF P.D. JAMES PROVOKES THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT Jo Ann Sharkey A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of MPhil at the University of St. Andrews 2011 Full metadata for this item is available in Research@StAndrews:FullText at: http://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3156 This item is protected by original copyright This item is licensed under a Creative Commons License THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS ST. MARY’S COLLEGE THEOLOGY IN SUSPENSE: HOW THE DETECTIVE FICTION OF P.D. JAMES PROVOKES THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF DIVINITY INSTITUTE FOR THEOLOGY, IMAGINATION, AND THE ARTS IN CANDIDANCY FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY BY JO ANN SHARKEY ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND 15 APRIL 2010 Copyright © 2010 by Jo Ann Sharkey All Rights Reserved ii ABSTRACT The following dissertation argues that the detective fiction of P.D. James provokes her readers to think theologically. I present evidence from the body of James’s work, including her detective fiction that features the Detective Adam Dalgliesh, as well as her other novels, autobiography, and non-fiction work. I also present a brief history of detective fiction. This history provides the reader with a better understanding of how P.D James is influenced by the detective genre as well as how she stands apart from the genre’s traditions. This dissertation relies on an interview that I conducted with P.D. James in November, 2008. During the interview, I asked James how Christianity has influenced her detective fiction and her responses greatly contribute to this dissertation. -
Mystery Series 2
Mystery Series 2 Hamilton, Steve 15. Murder Walks the Plank 13. Maggody and the Alex McKnight 16. Death of the Party Moonbeams 1. A Cold Day in Paradise 17. Dead Days of Summer 14. Muletrain to Maggody 2. Winter of the Wolf Moon 18. Death Walked In 15. Malpractice in Maggody 3. The Hunting Wind 19. Dare to Die 16. The Merry Wives of 4. North of Nowhere 20. Laughed ‘til He Died Maggody 5. Blood is the Sky 21. Dead by Midnight Claire Mallory 6. Ice Run 22. Death Comes Silently 1. Strangled Prose 7. A Stolen Season 23. Dead, White, and Blue 2. The Murder at the Murder 8. Misery Bay 24. Death at the Door at the Mimosa Inn 9. Die a Stranger 25. Don’t Go Home 3. Dear Miss Demeanor 10. Let It Burn 26. Walking on My Grave 4. A Really Cute Corpse 11. Dead Man Running Henrie O Series 5. A Diet to Die For Nick Mason 1. Dead Man’s Island 6. Roll Over and Play Dead 1. The Second Life of Nick 2. Scandal in Fair Haven 7. Death by the Light of the Mason 3. Death in Lovers’ Lane Moon 2. Exit Strategy 4. Death in Paradise 8. Poisoned Pins Harris, Charlaine 5. Death on the River Walk 9. Tickled to Death Aurora Teagarden 6. Resort to Murder 10. Busy Bodies 1. Real Murders 7. Set Sail for Murder 11. Closely Akin to Murder 2. A Bone to Pick Henry, Sue 12. A Holly, Jolly Murder 3. Three Bedrooms, One Jessie Arnold 13. -
800 Words a Most Mysterious Murder
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Abbess of Crewe, The, 172-3, 174 About Chinese Women, 103
Index Abbess of Crewe, The, 172-3, 174 Browne, Thomas, 92, 93, 102 About Chinese Women, 103 Bruno's Dream, 28 Abrams, M. H., 7 Burgess, Anthony, 167 Accidental Man, An, 31-3, 38 Adler, Renata, 166 Captains and the Kings, The, 191, A lbatross and Other Stories, The, 211-15,217 90-2,94 Carleton, William, 183 Andersen, Hans, 101 Cecil, David, 154 Aspects of the Novel, 70, 74, 155 Change for the Better, A, 86, 87-9, Auden, W. H., 168 95 Austen, Jane, xi, 191 Charterhouse of Parma, The, 41 Chesterton, G. K., 156 Bachelors, The, 164 Children of Violence, 6 Bainbridge, Beryl, xvi 'Choice, The', 95 Balkan Trilogy, The, xv, 39-58 Christie, Agatha, xiv, 110, Ballad of Peckham Rye, The, 120 163-4 'Cockles and Mussels', 91 'Basement Room, The', 164 Cold Country, The (radio plays), Beckett, Samuel, 101 81,100-1 Beerbohm, Max, 153-4, 161, 176 Comforters, The, 155-9, 176 Bell, The, 21 Compton· Burnett, Ivy, 158, 165, BellJar, The, 84, 99 170 Bennett, Arnold, 131 Conrad, Joseph, xi Bird of Night, The, 82-3, 94 Country Girls, The, 182-3 Bit of Singing and Dancing, A, 'Custodian, The', 97 95-7 Black Prince, The, 35-7 Bowen, Elizabeth, 183, 215 Dickens, Charles, xi, 86-7 Briefingfor a Descent into Hell, Dr Faustus, 94 2-5.10 Do Me a Favour, 84-6, 89 Brontes, the, xi, 155: 170, 191 Donleavy,J. P., 20 218 Index 219 Drabble, Margaret, xii, 130-52, Ginger Man, The, 20 174,215 Girls in Their Marn·ed Bliss, 183, Garn"ck Year, The, 131-2, 136-7 185 Ice Age, The, 130-2, 138-9 Girls of Slender Means, The, Jerusalem the Golden, 131-2, 135 166-7,171 Millstone, The, 131-6, 139-45 Girl With Green Eyes, 184 Needle's Eye, The, 135, 138, 145 Glass of Blessings, A, 69, 70, 73 Realms of Gold, The, 133-4, Glendinning, Victoria, 167, 176 145-51 'Gods, the Gods, The', 170 Summer Bird· Cage, A, 130-1, Golden Bough, The, 174 133, 135, 139 Golden Notebook, The, 2, 6 Waterfall, The, 131, 133-4, 137, Great Fortune, The, 39-48 139: children as a thematic Greene, Graham, 156, 164, 175 and moral focus, 137ff.; feminist issues, 133-6; Hardy Thomas, xi, 143 imagery, 148-50; literary; Hardey, L. -
Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction REPRESENTATIONS: H E a LT H , DI SA BI L I T Y, CULTURE and SOCIETY
Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction REPRESENTATIONS: H E A LT H , DI SA BI L I T Y, CULTURE AND SOCIETY Series Editor Stuart Murray, University of Leeds Robert McRuer, George Washington University This series provides a ground-breaking and innovative selection of titles that showcase the newest interdisciplinary research on the cultural representations of health and disability in the contemporary social world. Bringing together both subjects and working methods from literary studies, film and cultural studies, medicine and sociology, ‘Representations’ is scholarly and accessible, addressed to researchers across a number of academic disciplines, and prac- titioners and members of the public with interests in issues of public health. The key term in the series will be representations. Public interest in ques- tions of health and disability has never been stronger, and as a consequence cultural forms across a range of media currently produce a never-ending stream of narratives and images that both reflect this interest and generate its forms. The crucial value of the series is that it brings the skilled study of cultural narratives and images to bear on such contemporary medical concerns. It offers and responds to new research paradigms that advance understanding at a scholarly level of the interaction between medicine, culture and society; it also has a strong commitment to public concerns surrounding such issues, and maintains a tone and point of address that seek to engage a general audience. -
Crime Fiction
Crime Fiction Agatha Christie C J Sansom The Hollow (Paperback) £2 Lamentation (Hardback) £4 Lord Edgeware Dies (Paperback) £2 The body in the Library (Paperback) £2 Donna Leon Elephants can Remember (Paperback) £2 Blood from a Stone (Hardback) £8 Mrs McGinty’s Death (Paperback) £2 Wilful Behaviour (Hardback) £15 The Mystery affair at Styles (Paperback) £2 Death on the Nile (Paperback) £2 Dorothy L Sayers At Bertram’s Hotel (Paperback) £2 Unnatural Death (Paperback) £2 Three act tragedy (Paperback) £2 The Documents in the case (Paperback) £2 The thirteen problems (Paperback) £2 The Nine Tailors (Paperback) £2 Poirot investigates (Paperback) £2 Murder Must Advertise (Paperback) £2 Passenger to Frankfurt (Paperback) £2 Lord Peter Views the Body (Paperback) £2 Postern of Fate (Paperback) £2 Thrones, Dominations (Hardback) £8 The Seven Dials (Paperback) £2 Murder on the Orient Express (Paperback) £2 Edgar Wallace Poirot’s Last Case (Paperback) £2 The Frightened Lady (Hardback) £5 A murder is announced (Paperback) £2 The mirror cracked from side-to-side (Paperback) £2 Cat among the pidgeons (Paperback) £2 Ellis Peters A pocket full of rye (Paperback) £2 Brother Cadfael’s Penance (Hardback) £5 Third Girl (Paperback) £2 Confession of Brother Haluin (Hardback) £5 The ABC murders (Paperback) £2 The Confession of brother Haluin (Paperback) £2 N or M? (Paperback) £2 The Devil’s Novice (Hardback) £10 The Secret of Chimneys (Paperback) £2 An Excellent Mystery (Hardback) £7 The Heretic’s Apprentice (Hardback) £10 Ann Cleaves The Hermit of Eyton Forest -
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[PICTURE ON FACING PAGE] 306 P.D. James (1920-2014): 'Lighten our darkness' 1 Alison Shell Veteran novelists often become moral arbiters. In her later years, the detective novelist P.D. James assumed this role, combining it with a championship of traditional Anglican liturgy and an unusual willingness to speak about her Christian faith in public.2 As a Tory peer, she presented an attractive and responsible version of conservatism even to those who disagreed with her politics; as an Anglican, she was able to make non-Anglicans take her seriously. It can be a struggle to reconcile her public persona with her fiction: how could a woman of such rectitude, gentility and warmth have dreamt up such bleak and violent novels? Yet a dissonance is not a contradiction, and this essay will argue that both James's public utterances and her fictional worlds reveal an unruly theological imagination.3 Anglicanism in detective fiction It seemed appropriate to have James as the final novelist in this book, given that her career and writings often recall her predecessors. As both writer and pundit she could be called the Dorothy L. Sayers of her generation, theologically informed and unapologetically learned, and the bleak East Anglian landscapes in her fiction consciously recall Sayers' classic evocation of the Fenlands, The Nine Tailors (1934).4 James also offers interesting points of correspondence with another mid-twentieth- century female Anglican intellectual, Rose Macaulay; her best-known detective, Adam Dalgleish, hovers on the threshold of the church in a manner reminiscent of Laurie in Macaulay's novel The Towers of Trebizond (1956).5 Sometimes James used 307 her precursors' treatment of Anglicanism to point up differences between past and present, as when Father Barnes, the ineffectual parish priest in A Taste for Death (1986), harks back to the time when the clergy were lionised simply because of their office: His most recent library book had been a Barbara Pym. -
Devices and Desires: the Symbolism and Importance of Objects in Some Novels by P. D. James
Masaryk University Brno Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies EnglishLanguageandLiterature Bc. Tereza Adamčíková DEVICES AND DESIRES: THE SYMBOLISM AND IMPORTANCE OF OBJECTS IN SOME NOVELS BY P. D. JAMES Master´s Diploma Thesis Supervisor: PhDr. Lidia Kyzlinková, CSc., M. Litt. Brno 2008 Ideclare thatIhaveworkedonthis thesisindependently, usingonlythe primaryandsecondarysources listedinthe bibliographysection. …………………......... TerezaAdamčíková 2 I wouldlike tothank my supervisor Lidia Kyzlinková for her advice,andmyfamily for their support; my thanks also go to my friends from Poland, and especially to professorB.whoshowedmethe'right'door. 3 Table of Contents Page Chapter 1: Introduction ...................................................................................................7 Chapter 2: TheObjects .................................................................................................13 Chapter 3: InnocentBlood(1980) ................................................................................16 Chapter 4: AnUnsuitableJobfora Woman(1972) .....................................................24 Chapter 5: TheSkullBeneaththeSkin(1982) .............................................................32 Chapter 6: CoverHerFace(1962) ................................................................................39 Chapter 7: UnnaturalCauses(1967) .............................................................................46 Chapter 8: DevicesandDesires (1989) .........................................................................54 -
Appendix A: the Complete Detective and Crime Novels of the Six Authors
Appendix A: The Complete Detective and Crime Novels of the Six Authors Agatha Christie (1890–1976) Hercule Poirot The Mysterious Affair at Styles (UK, London: Lane, 1920; US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1927). The Murder on the Links (UK, London: Lane, 1923; US, New York: Lane, 1923). The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (UK, London: Collins, 1926; US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1926). The Big Four (UK, London: Collins, 1927; US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1927). The Mystery of the Blue Train (UK, London: Collins, 1928; US, New York: Collins, 1928). Peril at End House (UK, London: Collins, 1932; US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1932). Lord Edgware Dies (UK, London: Collins, 1933) as Thirteen at Dinner (US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1933) Murder on the Orient Express (UK, London: Collins, 1934) as Murder on the Calais Coach (US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1934). Death in the Clouds (UK, London: Collins, 1935) as Death in the Air (US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1935). The ABC Murders (UK, London: Collins, 1936; US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1936) as The Alphabet Murders (US, New York: Pocket Books, 1966). Cards on the Table (UK, London: Collins, 1936; US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1937). Murder in Mesopotamia (UK, London: Collins, 1936; US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1936). Death on the Nile (UK, London: Collins, 1937; US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1938). Dumb Witness (UK, London: Collins, 1937) as Poirot Loses a Client (US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1937). Appointment with Death (UK, London: Collins, 1938; US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1938). Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (UK, London: Collins, 1938) as Murder for Christmas (US, New York: Dodd Mead, 1939) as A Holiday for Murder (US, New York: Avon, 1947).