Автор: Arque, Sabine Название: Grand tour. The golden age of travel ISBN: 3836585073 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836585071 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 10100.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Описание: Return to a bygone age with this XL volume of vintage travel ephemera from 1869 to 1939. With posters, tickets, menus, turn-of-the-century photochromes, and quotes from literary travelers such as Jules Verne or F. Scott Fitzgerald, this book recalls such classic trips as the Orient Express, the Grand Tour, and the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Описание: Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of Star Wars: The High Republic with this incredibly illustrated guide to the golden age of the Jedi!
Автор: Edington Arlo Channing, Edington Carmen Ballen Название: The House of the Vanishing Goblets: (a Golden-Age Mystery Reprint) ISBN: 1616464631 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616464639 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 1875.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"The Edingtons have turned out an uncommonly good thriller in this murder tale, fresh in setting, solid and completely baffling in the mystery factor, unusually skillful in characterization.
"Written by movie people about the movie world, it projects the real atmosphere of behind-the-scenes in the cinema arena. A Hollywood cinema director, commanding a thousand ex-soldiers, is 'shooting' battle scenes on location near a weird, untenanted monstrosity, the exterior of which resembles a dilapidated French chateau. While filming this war spectacle, the enterprise is suddenly brought to a standstill, stunned, by the brutal killing of the director and his leading man.
"Death came to them apparently in two separate rooms of this mansion, where they had gone by weirdly mysterious and empty night to look over the ground for filming interiors the next day.
"When the crimes are discovered, the still living, wounded body of an unknown man is found in the room with the dead director, under circumstances which superficially suggest that he is the latter's murderer. The Los Angeles police sleuth who takes charge of the case does not impress one as a bloodhound exceptionally qualified for the job, but the reader should not be worried on his account since the story itself is so persistently engrossing as to center all one's attention closely on the unfolding action regardless of the detective's humdrum plotting.
"The House of the Vanishing Goblets, in which these murders occurred, has its exact counterpart in real life in the famous Winchester mystery house of San Jose, Calif., otherwise known as the eighth wonder of the world, its secret panels, hidden doors, oddly assorted and crazily planless rooms, and the gruesome rumors hovering about its past, it is a fitting locale for a story of queer and murderous doing this is.
"Of especial interest is this house, which is one of the weirdest buildings on record. Planned and built by the late Sarah L. Winchester, it took 36 years to be finished, the owner living in the belief that she would die when it was completed. The structure covers six acres, contains 160 rooms, and has thousands of doors and windows. It has three elevators, 40 stairways (most of them having 13 steps), 47 fireplaces, blind stairways and blind chimneys, trap doors and secret passageways.
"With such a perfect setting for this weird crime, the story with its chills and tremors ought to satisfy the most critical mystery story reader." (Quad City Times, June 8, 1930)
The House of the Vanishing Goblets was first published in 1930.
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Автор: Simon Robert a. Название: The Week-End Mystery: (a Golden-Age Mystery Reprint) ISBN: 161646464X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616464646 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 1875.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"Mystery Story of Grip and Unusual Interest
"Does the reading of mystery and detective stories lead to cleverness in ferreting out criminals? In this fascinating tale the novelist maintains that it does, and the story is concerned with a young man who took to mystery-story reading to take his mind from the pain of having been jilted. Soon he was making as many deductions from his observations and sizing-up of persons as a 'Sherlock Holmes.'
"He became a guest at a house party given by a wealthy financier. The girl who jilted this young man was present as was also the other young man for whom she had jilted him. The first night the party was assembled the host complained of illness and ordered them all off to an all-night dance at an inn. From that dance his physician was called to his bedside.
"Next morning the rich man was said to have shot himself, most of the guests had fled back to town, and the coroner was in the house. It was then that the young mystery-story reader set himself at work to find out just what was wrong, and what he does and how he does it is the core of the story. And it makes a very interesting yarn." (Boston Globe, 1926)
The Week-End Mystery was first published in 1926.
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Two classic mystery thrillers are reprinted in this volume.
You'll Be Sorry : A brief message, written in blood-red script, bluntly warned pretty college co-ed Kate Archer not to accept her old school friend June Gladstone's invitation to visit with June and her wealthy and eccentric family at Valley Farm. But visit Valley Farm is just what Kate did--and when she saw that ghastly bleeding thing on the terrace she was very sorry indeed that she had gone to Mr. Gladstone's. Plunged into a miasma of mystery and maniacal horror at the remote Wisconsin estate, Kate will need to keep all her wits about her if she means to survive Fortunately Professor Hatfield, who recently solved those diabolical mutilation murders of young women on the campus at Woodside, is vacationing nearby. The professor knows a thing or two about maniacs. . . .
You Leave Me Cold : Just how did Ronny Travers die, alone and bedridden in his room on the frigid third floor of Dr. Chardwicke's sprawling old house in Woodside? The once highly esteemed scientist assures his new boarder--handsome medical student John Frazer, late of the U.S. Navy--that nothing sinister is afoot in the house's halls, but has Dr. Chardwicke ever really recovered from that nervous breakdown he had a decade ago? John's uncle, Professor Hatfield, who recently untangled that unspeakable affair at Valley Farm and by his own admission has a peculiar taste for the macabre, has his doubts. What deathly menace waits within the Chardwicke house--and will the fatally inquisitive John Frazer become its next victim?
Golden-age mystery historian Curt Evans provides a bibliographic introduction.
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Автор: Thomas Carolyn, Duncan Actea Название: Narrow Gauge to Murder: (a Golden-Age Mystery Reprint) ISBN: 1616464399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616464394 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 1875.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Stapleton Douglas, Carey Helen a. Название: The Corpse Is Indignant: (a Golden-Age Mystery Reprint) ISBN: 1616464364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616464363 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 1875.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: McKinley F. Burks, Burks Mary Frances Название: Death Sails the Nile: (a Golden-Age Mystery Reprint) ISBN: 1616464542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616464547 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 1875.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"Imagine nine tourists cooped up on a small, light-draft boat on the Nile, hot and uncomfortable by day, cold by night, suddenly thrown into panic by the knowledge that one of them is a murderer; that even if he desired to, the desperate brute could not leave the boat because of the barrenness of the land about them. So they must associate with the criminal until they could get back to more-populated country.
"The first murder was that of a beautiful girl as she stood before the hideous statue of Anubis, King of the Dead, in the Sudan, with its rock-hewn tombs of ancient Egypt. Her death was due to the bite of a deadly asp, which had been placed in her jacket pocket. Then came the murder of a native deck steward, who seemingly knew too much. And still there was no actual knowledge of who had been the criminal. Each passenger suspected his or her neighbor, even the captain coming under suspicion. And it remained for a young girl, a girl with a newspaper training, to eventually solve the hideous mystery. Mrs.] McKinley has made her story one that is terribly realistic, with much of the enchantment and mystery of Africa, flavoring the tense excitement." (Boston Globe, 1933)
F. Burks McKinley was the pseudonym of Mary Frances Burks (1907-1970). Born in Dyer County, Tennessee, Burks attended high school in Nashville and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1929, receiving a prestigious Founder's Medal, and on the same day she wed academic scholar Silas Bent McKinley. In 1933, she dedicated Death Sails the Nile, which drew on experiences from her honeymoon, to Professor McKinley, although the couple divorced in 1935. Burks, who reclaimed her family name, never remarried nor published another detective novel, despite the wide praise Death Sails the Nile received.
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Fatal Shadows (1933): In the early morning hours after the natives' frenetic celebration of the Sultan's birthday, beautiful Ailsa Brownley is found brutally slain by a Malay kris outside the Government Rest House at Johor Bahru, capital of the state of Johor, British Malaya. Local officials would dearly love to pin the guilt for this ghastly crime on a native inhabitant and quickly write it off, but it soon becomes all too troublingly clear that there is no shortage of British and American visitors who wanted the alluring and amoral Ailsa dead, either on account of her fatal beauty or her furtive scheming. In over his head in a murder case concerning colonials, Office Campbell turns to his canny native Malayan assistant, Ismael, to delve into the mysteries of human desire and uncover the shocking truth.
Death Over Her Shoulder (1939): A miasma of murder envelops Nancy Reynolds, a beautiful New Englander alone and in trouble in British Malaya Arriving at an isolated rubber plantation during a heavy downpour, Nancy enters the dark bungalow of the kindly woman, Lydia Bosworth, whom she hopes might help her--only to find Lydia dead on the sofa, most foully murdered. Everywhere the police look, they find only secrets and lies, by no means the least of which concern the frightened and desperate Nancy herself. Cleary this is another case for the canny police investigator Ismael, "one of the smartest detectives in the East." As the bodies pile up on the plantation like bales of rubber and Nancy herself is perilously menaced, Ismael relentlessly tracks the bloody trail of a remorseless killer.
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Автор: Eliot Jr. Henry Ware Название: The Rumble Murders: A Golden-Age Mystery Reprint ISBN: 1616464054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616464059 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 1875.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Rice Laverne Название: Well Dressed for Murder: (Golden-Age Mystery Reprint) ISBN: 1616464763 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616464769 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 2251.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Stately, white-columned Shephard House has been the splendid Hudson River Valley seat of the aristocratic, old-money Shephard family for generations. Much to the outrage of Marian Shephard, chatelaine of Shephard House, it is to the proud old family mansion that Marian's brother, scholarly gentleman bachelor Hamilton "Ham" Shephard brings his new bride, scandalous New York revue star Jocelyn "Joss" King. Once ensconced at Shephard House, Joss goes about drastically changing the old regime there, even to the extent of flagrantly redecorating the mansion's renowned, perfectly paneled Georgian drawing room in art deco style. Clearly the brazenly modern Joss has got to go.
And go Joss does, at a weekend house party when the mansion is full of guests, all of whom promptly become suspects in Joss's murder when the beautiful showgirl is discovered fatally bludgeoned in her elegant black Lelong dress. Lovely post-debutante narrator and Shephard family ward Nancy Sherwin is left to wonder whodunit--and who will be next to get done in Perhaps Nancy's handsome, insouciant neighbor, Osgood "Oz" Brown, or that earnest, bespectacled young policeman, Inspector Cooper, will discover the truth before the bodies really begin to pile up at Shephard House.
When forty-eight-year-old Yonkers elementary schoolteacher Laverne Rice published her sole detective novel in 1938, it received a rave review from the New York Times Book Review, which proclaimed Well Dressed for Murder "a mystery story that will make far more experienced craftsmen look to their laurels."
This edition includes a bibliographic introduction by detective fiction historian Curtis Evans.
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