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Penny Parker is the heroine of a series of 17 books written by Mildred Benson and published from 1939 through 1947. Penny is a high school student turned sleuth who also sporadically works as a reporter for her father's newspaper, The Riverview Star .
The penny dreadfuls were also challenged by book series such as The Penny Library of Famous Books launched in 1896 by George Newnes which he characterized as "penny delightfuls" intended to counter the pernicious effects of the penny dreadfuls, [24] and such as the Penny Popular Novels launched in 1896 by W. T. Stead. [25]
Penny originally began writing a historical novel, but changed to mystery writing after finding trouble finishing. She entered the first book of the series, Still Life, in the "Debut Dagger" competition in the United Kingdom, placing second out of 800 entries. [5] The series revolves around the character of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. [6]
Guardian book reporter Alison Flood, wrote that "unusually for a crime novel, leaves you feeling better about the world once you’ve finished." [6] Globe and Mail book columnist Margaret Cannon described the book as one of the best in the series of 18, and wrote that Penny was "at the top of her game". [5]
The history of books starts with the development of writing, and various other inventions such as paper and printing, and continues through to the modern-day business of book printing. The earliest knowledge society has on the history of books actually predates what would conventionally be called "books" today and begins with tablets , scrolls ...
Lone Pine is a series of children's books written by English author Malcolm Saville.. Although they were written over a 35-year timespan, between 1943 and 1978, the characters only age by a few years in the course of the series. [1]
Threepenny Novel (German: Dreigroschenroman) is a 1934 German novel by the dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht, first published in Amsterdam by Allert de Lange [] in 1934. It is similar in structure to his more famous The Threepenny Opera and features several of the same characters such as Macheath, together with a general anti-capitalist focus and a didactic technique that is often associated ...
Ernest Benn Limited’s Sixpenny Library is a complete series of reference books published in the late 1920s and early 1930s. [1] The library included over one hundred and eighty volumes. The series was edited by William Rose , who solicited current authorities in such areas as history, literature, religion, psychology, science, and economics.