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Death Comes as the End is a historical mystery novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October 1944 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the following year. [2] The US Edition retailed at $2.00 [1] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). [2]
Robert Thorogood (born 1972 in Colchester, Essex) [1] is an English screenwriter and Sunday Times Bestselling novelist. He created the BBC One murder mystery series Death in Paradise [2] as well as co-created two spin-off shows from it, Beyond Paradise and Return to Paradise.
Some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, but others rank it as the best of his work. [1] Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book". [2] The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism and for including autobiographical elements from ...
The message on the paper leads her to South Africa as she fits more pieces of the puzzle together about the death she witnessed. There is a murder in England the next day, and the murderer attempts to kill her on the ship en route to Cape Town. The setting for the early chapters is London.
Death Comes to Pemberley is a 2011 historical mystery novel by British writer P.D. James that continues the story of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice and adds a murder mystery. In the book, Captain Denny, a minor character from Pride and Prejudice, is murdered at Fitzwilliam Darcy's Pemberley estate, and George Wickham stands trial ...
Poodle Springs is the eighth Philip Marlowe novel. It was started in 1958 by Raymond Chandler, who left it unfinished at his death in 1959.The four chapters he had completed, which bore the working title The Poodle Springs Story, were subsequently published in Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962), a collection of excerpts from letters and unpublished writings. [1]
In Lord Jim, Marlow narrates but has a role in the story, finding a place for Jim to live, twice. Raymond Malbone considers that Marlow is the main character in Lord Jim, as "the theme of the novel rests in what Jim's story means to Marlow rather than in what happens to Jim." [1] The stories are not told entirely from Marlow's perspective, however.
In August 1819 an anonymous writer for The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal suggested that 'Christopher Marlowe' might be a pseudonym assumed for a time by Shakespeare, [12] and this idea was developed further in the same journal in September 1820, [13] noting how Shakespeare "disappears from all biographical research just at the moment when Marlowe first comes on the stage; and who re ...