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El asesinato de mi tía

El asesinato de mi tía

Autor: Richard Hull

Número de Páginas: 137

Edward Powell es un solterón sin remedio, con un alto concepto de sí mismo, encantado de su sensibilidad, proclive a sentirse humillado y dudosamente perspicaz. Vive en Gales, que aborrece, en una población de nombre impronunciable, Llwll, en el caserón familiar, con la detestable tía Mildred, usufructuaria de su herencia –Edward recibe una parca asignación– y recelosa de sus sueños de independencia. Oprimido por esa hostil convivencia con una pariente caprichosa y autoritaria, y harto de la irritación que le producen tanto las chicas del servicio como los vecinos de la zona, se propone liberarse de tantos lastres maquinando accidentes para matar a su tía, cuidándose mucho de no dejar rastro.

The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library

Número de Páginas: 288

The body is increasingly understood as being at the centre of colonial and post-colonial relationships and textual productions. Creating and circulating images of the undisciplined body of the 'other' was and is a critical aspect of colonialism. Likewise, resistance to colonial practices was also frequently corporeal, with indigenous peoples appropriating, parodying, and subverting those European practices which were used to signify the 'civilized' status of the colonizing body. The Body in the Library reads representations of the corporeal in texts of empire; case studies include: • gendered representations of corporeality • medical régimes • ethnography and photography in the Pacific • cultural transvestism in theatre • disease and colonial knowledge generation • 'freak shows' and colonial exhibits • cinematic representations of bodies • geography and the metaphorization of land as a penetrable body • marketing the body • organ transplants and the limits of the post-colonial paradigm In viewing colonialism and resistance as a bodily phenomenon, The Body in the Library enables new perspectives on the process of colonization and resistance. It is an important...

Bruno, jefe de policía

Bruno, jefe de policía

Autor: Martin Walker

Número de Páginas: 0

In een Frans stadje onderzoekt de veldwachter met grote omzichtigheid de moord op een oude Algerijn op bevrijdingsdag.

The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library

Autor: Iain Bamforth

Número de Páginas: 462

The Body in the Library provides a nuanced and realistic picture of how medicine and society have abetted and thwarted each other ever since the lawyers behind the French Revolution banished the clergy and replaced them with doctors, priests of the body. Ranging from Charles Dickens to Oliver Sacks, Anton Chekhov to Raymond Queneau, Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf, Miguel Torga to Guido Ceronetti, The Body in the Library is an anthology of poems, stories, journal entries, Socratic dialogue, table-talk, clinical vignettes, aphorisms, and excerpts written by doctor-writers themselves. Engaging and provocative, philosophical and instructive, intermittently funny and sometimes appalling, this anthology sets out to stimulate and entertain. With an acerbic introduction and witty contextual preface to each account, it will educate both patients and doctors curious to know more about the historical dimensions of medical practice. Armed with a first-hand experience of liberal medicine and knowledge of several languages, Iain Bamforth has scoured the literatures of Europe to provide a well-rounded and cross-cultural sense of what it means to be a doctor entering the twenty-first century.

El simple arte de matar

El simple arte de matar

Autor: Raymond Chandler

Número de Páginas: 31

En este ensayo, el genial Raymond Chandler critica a los escritores que escriben novelas policiales como si hicieran chorizos, aquellos que han convertido al género policial en el lado B de la literatura. Con su particular humor, Chandler rescata las mejores herramientas para crear algo más profundo que un simple enigma y reivindica la obra de Dashiell Hammett, su autor más admirado, creador de los asesinatos más interesantes del mundo.

Death Among the Stacks: The Body in the Law Library

Death Among the Stacks: The Body in the Law Library

Autor: Louise Hathaway

Número de Páginas: 99

Why did an Inspector from the Government Printing Office get crushed between two rows of electronic compact shelving? This murder/mystery is an Agatha Christie-type whodunit with multiple suspects whom the book's detective assembles together in one room for "the big reveal" in its final pages. Death-by-compact-shelving may seem like a stretch, but it almost happened at a library where this book's author worked. You will never look at librarians and library shelving the same after reading it.

El coleccionista de libros

El coleccionista de libros

Autor: Charlie Lovett

Número de Páginas: 350

Amor y obsesión se unen en una historia sobre el enigma de Shakespeare. Tras la muerte de su esposa Amanda, Peter Byerly, coleccionista y vendedor de libros antiguos, deja Estados Unidos y se retira del mundo. Nueve meses más tarde, Peter, instalado ya en una casita de la campiña inglesa, se atreve por fin a entrar de nuevo en una librería de viejo. Mientras hojea un manual del siglo XVIII sobre falsificaciones de escritores clásicos, encuentra entre las páginas del libro una acuarela victoriana que representa a una mujer idéntica a Amanda. Peter, obsesionado por averiguar quiénes fueron el autor y la mujer del retrato, se embarca en una investigación que le permitirá resolver uno de los debates más controvertidos de la historia de la literatura: la verdadera identidad de las obras atribuidas a William Shakespeare. El coleccionista de libros es una original novela de misterio que nos lleva desde la actualidad hasta el mundo de Shakespeare, pasando por la Inglaterra del siglo XIX. Asimismo es un canto de amor a los libros destinado a hacer las delicias de todos los amantes de la lectura. Reseña: «Una fascinante novela de intriga literaria que te mantiene en vilo hasta...

The Body in the Mobile Library

The Body in the Mobile Library

Autor: Peter Bradshaw

Número de Páginas: 183

'Staggering and unforgettable storytelling' Mel Giedroyc In his retirement at the Vatican City, emeritus pope Benedict XVI is hard at work on his magnum opus: a high-school comedy screenplay. At a grimy pub in North London, a doctoral researcher is abducted by gangsters peddling William Wordsworth's handwritten account of drug-fuelled sex orgies. In the West African state of Benin, a politician's daughter inherits a large cash sum which she can only launder with the help of a random Englishman sourced on the internet. With twenty-one deliciously observed, gloriously mischievous short stories – some previously narrated on BBC Radio 4 or published in literary magazines, others completely new – Peter Bradshaw explores the boundary between the plausible and the absurd, often with a laugh-out-loud gag up his sleeve. Amid the playfulness, he has an enduring warmth and sympathy for every character, however hapless. He offers pinpricks of light in a dark sky of confusion and pain.

La muerte espera en Herons Park

La muerte espera en Herons Park

Autor: Christianna Brand

Número de Páginas: 281

«La última joya de la Edad de Oro de la ficción detectivesca».H. R. F. KEATING Mientras los misiles alemanes V-1 llueven sobre la campiña inglesa, el personal del hospital militar de Herons Park lucha por mantener la normalidad. La mañana siguiente a un ataque aéreo, el doctor Barnes se prepara para una intervención rutinaria: recomponer la pierna rota de un cartero. Pero antes de hacer siquiera la primera incisión, el paciente fallece a causa de la anestesia. Cuando el forense solicita una investigación, será el inspector Cockrill quien, abriéndose paso entre en una maraña de envidias y resentimientos, se enfrente a seis posibles culpables: tres médicos y tres enfermeras, todos sin ningún motivo aparente para desear una muerte que no tardará mucho en dejar de ser la única... La muerte espera en Herons Park es sin duda la novela más famosa de su autora y una de las grandes obras maestras del género. En 1946, sería llevada al cine en la que, según la crítica especializada, es una de las mejores adaptaciones a la gran pantalla de un clásico de la novela policiaca.

El chico a quien criaron como perro

El chico a quien criaron como perro

Autor: Bruce Perry , Maia Szalavitz

Número de Páginas: 247

¿Qué pasa cuando se traumatiza un cerebro joven? ¿Cómo afecta el terror, el abuso o un desastre en la mente de un niño? El psiquiatra infantil Bruce Perry ha ayudado a muchos niños a superar horrores inimaginables: supervivientes de genocidios, testigos de asesinato, adolescentes secuestrados y víctimas de violencia familiar. Mediante la observación de estas historias de trauma a través de la lente de la ciencia, Perry nos revela la asombrosa capacidad del cerebro para la curación. Combinando las historias de casos inolvidables con sus propias estrategias de rehabilitación, explica lo que ocurre exactamente en el cerebro de un niño expuesto a un estrés extremo y propone diferentes medidas que se pueden tomar para aliviar su dolor, ayudándole a crecer como un adulto sano. A través de las historias de niños que se han recuperado física, mental y emocionalmente de las circunstancias más devastadoras, el autor expone cómo las cosas más simples —el entorno, el afecto, el lenguaje, el contacto, etc.— pueden influir profundamente, para bien o para mal, en un cerebro en desarrollo. En este interesante documento, Bruce Perry demuestra que solo cuando entendamos la...

La hora de la verdad

La hora de la verdad

Autor: P. D. James

Número de Páginas: 0

La hora de la verdad presenta a una P.D. James preocupada por el acontecer cultural, político y sociológico de su tiempo. Una original autobiografía -escrita en forma de diario- que se inicia el 3 de agosto de 1997, el día en que P.D. James cumple setenta y siete años, y finaliza un año más tarde, el 3 de agosto de 1998. Al hilo de la vida de cada día y de lo que acontece, P.D. James evoca el pasado mediante flashbacks perfectamente hilvanados, rescatando de la memora los hechos cruciales de su infancia durante la posguerra, el peculiar ambiente familiar en que transcurrió la misma, debido al internamiento de la madre en un hospital psiquiátrico, sus primeras lecturas, su boda y las posteriores dificultades familiares debidas al largo trastorno mental de su marido, su trabajo en el Ministerio del Interior, los duros años durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, las causas que la llevaron a escribir novelas policíacas, su obsesión por la muerte, sus teorías sobre la novela policíaca y la evolución de la misma desde el siglo XIX... En fin, en este libro el lector encontrará a una P.D. James de carne y hueso, una mujer inteligente, humana, preocupada por su época , por...

The Library Ladies and the Body Behind the Library

The Library Ladies and the Body Behind the Library

Autor: Marie Green

Número de Páginas: 248

When the library ladies discover the decomposing body of an ex library assistant behind their little library, they are happy to let the police investigate well mostly. The police think the victim died accidently while planning to break into a house behind the library and scale down their investigation to find a murderer. But the library ladies know differently! With enthusiastic snooping and determination to get justice for poor Barry, the eclectic bunch set out to find out what happened with the only clues being a shopping trolley coin from Tesco and the ghost of the victim.

Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction

Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction

Autor: Megan Hoffman

Número de Páginas: 212

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of the ways in which British women’s golden age crime narratives negotiate the conflicting social and cultural forces that influenced depictions of gender in popular culture in the 1920s until the late 1940s. The book explores a wide variety of texts produced both by writers who have been the focus of a relatively large amount of critical attention, such as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham, but also those who have received comparatively little, such as Christianna Brand, Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Tey and Patricia Wentworth. Through its original readings, this book explores the ambivalent nature of modes of femininity depicted in golden age crime fiction, and shows that seemingly conservative resolutions are often attempts to provide a ‘modern-yet-safe’ solution to the conflicts raised in the texts.

The Body in the Stacks

The Body in the Stacks

Autor: Johnny Mack Hood

Número de Páginas: 174

Jeremiah Cuthbert Shelby (JC), an ex navy man who suffers from congenital sea sickness, goes back to college in a small town in Iowa after one enlistment tour to get his degree in criminal Justice. With a part time job in the college library he is in an ideal position to put his academic plans to premature use when the body of a young library assistant is discovered in a vault in the Special Collections stacks. Romance enters the picture when he is ably assisted in his sleuthing by Susan, a part time library employee. There turns out to be more than one murder which makes the case too much for the local Chief of Police, the professors, or the leading citizens of Avon, Iowa.

The Body in Psychotherapy

The Body in Psychotherapy

Autor: Edward W.l. Smith

Número de Páginas: 201

This acclaimed work, first published in 1985, presents in full detail, the most effective aspects of bioenergetics, Gestalt therapy, psychomotor therapy, Reichian orgonomy, and many others, are fully detailed, along with a wealth of practical therapeutic techniques. This book is divided into four parts: the historical and theoretical perspective; the body as the locus of personality assessment; the body as the locus of psychotherapeutic intervention; and personal and ethical considerations.

Los crímenes del monograma

Los crímenes del monograma

Autor: Sophie Hannah

Número de Páginas: 368

Vuelve Hércules Poirot, el detective más famoso y brillante de la historia de la novela negra, que ha conquistado a más de 2 billones de lectores. Londres, 1929. Hércules Poirot está cenando en el café Pleasant cuando una mujer irrumpe en el local y le confía que alguien está a punto de matarla. Le ruega que no investigue, pues con su muerte, dice, se habrá hecho justicia. Unas horas más tarde, tres personas son asesinadas en un elegante hotel londinense. Poirot no puede evitar involucrarse en el caso, pero, mientras él se esfuerza en ordenar todas las piezas, el asesino se prepara para volver a matar. Desde la publicación de su primera obra en 1920, Agatha Christie escribió treinta y tres novelas, dos obras de teatro y más de cincuenta historias breves con el personaje de Hércules Poirot. Ahora, por primera vez, los albaceas de su legado han aprobado la creación una nueva novela protagonizada por el personaje más querido de la Dama del Crimen. En manos de Sophie Hannah, autora de varios bestsellers internacionales, Poirot se sumerge en un misterio ambientado en el Londres de los años 20, un puzle diabólicamente inteligente que solo puede ser resuelto por el...

Rendez-vous en negro

Rendez-vous en negro

Autor: Cornell Woolrich

Número de Páginas: 279

Es 31 de mayo, el día antes de que Johnny se case con su prometida, Dorothy, éste la espera, apoyado en la pared de la tienda en la que siempre se encontraban. Sin embargo, Dorothy llega tarde. Johnny descubre que su prometida se ha visto envuelta en un accidente en el que están involucrados un grupo de borrachos, un avión y una botella de licor vacía. Entonces, Johnny decide que hará pagar a los culpables, atacando a sus hijas, esposas y amantes.

El almirante flotante

El almirante flotante

Número de Páginas: 320

Catorce miembros del prestigioso The Detection Club, entre ellos autores de la talla de A. Christie, D. L. Sayers, G. K. Chesterton o R. Knox, recibieron la propuesta de escribir una obra colectiva partiendo del planteamiento inicial de un caso criminal. Cada colaborador se enfrentó al misterio sin saber qué solución tenían en mente los autores precedentes y entregaron en un sobre cerrado su particular solución al crimen. Por primera vez en la historia, los creadores de Hercule Poirot, la Srta. Marple, lord Peter Wimsey y el padre Brown aplicaban conjuntamente su pericia al mismo caso. Así nació "El almirante flotante", considerada como una de las novelas clásicas del género policiaco.

Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction

Agatha Christie and New Directions in Reading Detective Fiction

Autor: Alistair Rolls

Número de Páginas: 183

This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This book's approach interweaves two core ideas: first, it explores the importance of French critic Pierre Bayard’s self-styled ‘detective criticism’; second, it takes detective criticism in a new direction by refocusing on the beginnings of Agatha Christie’s novels. In this way, the book counters the end-orientation that has traditionally dominated the reading experience of, and critical response to, detective fiction by exploring the potential of the beginning to host other interpretations and stories. Offering a new way of reading detective fiction, this book is a mixture of narratology and detective criticism, and deploys it in the form of radical new readings of a number of Christie’s most famous works. This illuminating text will interest students and scholars of crime and detective fiction, literary studies and comparative literature.

Reading the Cozy Mystery

Reading the Cozy Mystery

Autor: Phyllis M. Betz

Número de Páginas: 237

With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment. The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has been historically misunderstood and often overlooked as the subject of serious study. This anthology brings together a groundbreaking collection of essays that examine the cozy mystery from a range of critical viewpoints. The authors engage with the standard classification of a cozy, the characters who appear in its pages, the environment where the crime occurs and how these elements reveal the cozy story's complexity in surprising ways. Essays analyze cozy mysteries to argue that Agatha Christie is actually not a cozy writer; that Columbo fits the mold of the cozy detective; and that the stories' portrayals of settings like the quaint English village reveal a more complicated society than meets the eye.

El tren de las 4.50

El tren de las 4.50

Autor: Agatha Christie

Número de Páginas: 255

La visión fugaz de un estrangulamiento desde la ventanilla de un tren en marcha obliga a la persona que lo vio a presentar una denuncia a las autoridades. Sin embargo, la policía decide archivar el caso, dado que no aparece el cadáver de la posible víctima. Afortunadamente, la involuntaria espectadora del crimen es amiga de miss Marple y la pone al corriente de los hechos.

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 2016)

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 2016)

Autor: Elizabeth Foxwell

Número de Páginas: 360

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Autor: J.c. Bernthal

Número de Páginas: 457

The undisputed "Queen of Crime," Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the bestselling novelist of all time. As the creator of immortal detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, she continues to enthrall readers around the world and is drawing increasing attention from scholars, historians, and critics. But Christie wrote far beyond Poirot and Marple. A varied life including war work, archaeology, and two very different marriages provided the backdrop to a diverse body of work. This encyclopedic companion summarizes and explores Christie's entire literary output, including the detective fiction, plays, radio dramas, adaptations, and her little-studied non-crime writing. It details all published works and key themes and characters, as well as the people and places that inspired them, and identifies a trove of uncollected interviews, articles, and unpublished material, including details that have never appeared in print. For the casual reader looking for background information on their favorite mystery to the dedicated scholar tracking down elusive new angles, this companion will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date information.

The Body in the Bookstore

The Body in the Bookstore

Autor: Rachel Beattie

Número de Páginas: 68

Meredith Gray's favorite aunt and favorite author are both in town at the same time - a planned adventure becomes a recipe for disaster! My Aunt Cassie has come to visit and we're both excited to see our favorite mystery writer launch his new book right here in Silver Brook. Unfortunately, seeing Aloysius Hunt in the flesh soon changes our opinions of him and when a tragic accident becomes a murder investigation, we have a mystery of our own to solve…

The Body in the Catacombs

The Body in the Catacombs

Autor: Kate Macleod

Número de Páginas: 262

Murdina Ritchie and Shackleton Fitz IV start their junior year at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy finally feeling like they belong in that world. They stand as equals among the other cadets. And the crushing load of schoolwork? Surprisingly manageable when you're not trying to solve a murder at the same time. But the rumors of big changes in the political universe reach even the depths of the Academy. Distrust and secretiveness invade the minds of all of the cadets. Something dark and tumultuous hangs over all of them, and not just the ever-present storms of Oymyakon. Then someone finds a body in the lower levels, and the accusations fly. A murder, but committed decades before. Long before the time of any of the cadets. But not before the time of the instructors. In fact, exactly at the time Colonel Hansen was Cadet Hansen. Can Ritchie and Fitz solve the coldest of cases and prove the colonel innocent? Or worse, guilty?

Libraries in Literature

Libraries in Literature

Autor: Alice Crawford , Robert Crawford

Número de Páginas: 305

A collection that explores how libraries have been represented in English-language fiction, drama, and poetry from the early modern period to the present day. This accessible volume covers literature from Don Quixote to the work of M. R. James, Agatha Christie, and Haruki Murakami and draws together original essays by prestigious contributors.

The Body in Mind

The Body in Mind

Autor: Mark Rowlands

Número de Páginas: 282

In this book, Mark Rowlands challenges the Cartesian view of the mind as a self-contained monadic entity, and offers in its place a radical externalist or environmentalist model of cognitive processes. Cognition is not something done exclusively in the head, but fundamentally something done in the world. Drawing on both evolutionary theory and a detailed examination of the processes involved in perception, memory, thought and language use, Rowlands argues that cognition is, in part, a process whereby creatures manipulate and exploit relevant objects in their environment. It is not simply an internal process of information processing; equally significantly, it is an external process of information processing. This innovative book provides a foundation for an unorthodox but increasingly popular view of the nature of cognition.

The Body in the Bathtub

The Body in the Bathtub

Autor: Shéa Macleod

Número de Páginas: 169

Bunco night seems like a safe bet until someone finds a dead body in the bathtub. With her friends in shock and topping the local detective’s suspect list, Viola Roberts decides it’s time once again to take matters into her own hands. With her usual snark and disregard for the rules, Viola investigates everything from a cupcake eating contest to the sordid affairs of the deceased’s husband. All while fending off her mother’s matchmaking attempts. She’s pretty sure she knows whodunit, but with her bunco ladies being targeted by a killer, Viola may have to decide between being right, or ending up dead. --- KEYWORDS: Sam Cheever, AFC Bookens, Jodi Vaugh, murder mystery, Zara Keane, cozy murder mystery series, Connie Shelton, cozy murder mystery, whodunnit, cozy murder mystery books, Fiona Grace, cozy murder, cozy murder mysteries, animal cozy mystery, animal cozy, cozy romance mystery, Maddie Day, free mystery, Bree Baker, Kate Collins, Ellie Alexander, Ellery Adams, Abby Collette, mystery and suspense, Penny Reid, Anne R. Tan, Diana Orgain, detective stories, Harper Lin, mystery humor, Sara Rosett, mystery romance books clean, CeeCee James, mystery romance suspense,...

The Body in Seven Dials

The Body in Seven Dials

Autor: H L Marsay

Número de Páginas: 218

Inspired by the remarkable life of Dorothy Peto, the Metropolitan Police’s first female superintendent. In 1914, the idea of a female police officer is dismissed as absurd, but to a small group of determined women, not impossible. With men departing to fight for king and country, women have new opportunities at home. Dorothy Peto and her fellow suffragettes propose forming the Women’s Police Volunteers to assist police keep order. At first, the suggestion is derided, yet the force is stretched thin. As Dorothy and her friends train and organise to help refugees fleeing the war and guide terrorised Londoners to shelter during the Zeppelin raids, the ‘ladies in blue’ gain a grudging acceptance. During one nightly bombing raid, Dorothy discovers the body of a beautiful, Belgian refugee in Seven Dials. Convinced the woman was murdered before the bombs fell, Dorothy’s determined to investigate even though the battle-scarred Scotland Yard Inspector remains skeptical of her ideas and enthusiasm. As the list of suspects grows—a British aristocrat, a Belgian gangster and a wealthy German industrialist—Dorothy must outwit the killer, and even some within the WPV.

The Body in the Back Garden

The Body in the Back Garden

Autor: Mark Waddell

Número de Páginas: 241

In this queer cozy series debut perfect for fans of Ellen Byron and Ellery Adams, Luke Tremblay is about to discover that Crescent Cove has more than its fair share of secrets…and some might be deadlier than others. Crescent Cove, a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, is the last place out-of-work investigative journalist Luke Tremblay ever wanted to see again. He used to spend summers here, until his family learned that he was gay and rejected him. Now, following his aunt’s sudden death, he’s inherited her entire estate, including her seaside cottage and the antiques shop she ran for forty years in Crescent Cove. Luke plans to sell everything and head back to Toronto as soon as he can…but Crescent Cove isn’t done with him just yet. When a stranger starts making wild claims about Luke’s aunt, Luke sends him packing. The next morning, though, Luke discovers that the stranger has returned, and now he’s lying dead in the back garden. To make matters worse, the officer leading the investigation is a handsome Mountie with a chip on his shoulder who seems convinced that Luke is the culprit. If he wants to prove his innocence and leave this town once and for all, Luke will...

The Body in the Mirror

The Body in the Mirror

Autor: Angela Dalle Vacche

Número de Páginas: 325

This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci. Here is a new kind of film history--a nonlinear, intertextual approach that confronts the total story of the growth of a national cinema while challenging the traditional formats of general histories and period studies. Examining Italian silent films of the fascist era through neorealism to modernist filmmaking after May 1968, Angela Dalle Vacche reveals opera and the commedia dell'arte to be the strongest influences. As she presents the whole history of Italian cinema from the standpoint of a dialectic between these two styles, she offers brilliant interpretations of individual films. The "body in the mirror" is the national self-image on the screen, which changes shape in response to historical and political context. To discover how the nation represents, understands, and recognizes this fictional "body," Dalle Vacche discusses changes in the strongest parameters of Italian cinema: allegory, spectacle, body, history, unity, and continuity. In her hands these concepts yield a wealth of insights for film scholars, art...

The Body in the Ice

The Body in the Ice

Autor: A. J. Mackenzie

Número de Páginas: 314

A twisting tale of murder, mystery and eighteenth-century England. The perfect winter story to get cosy with this Christmas. On the frozen fields of Romney Marsh stands New Hall; silent, lifeless, deserted. In its grounds lies an unexpected Christmas offering: a corpse, frozen into the ice of a horse pond. It falls to the Reverend Hardcastle, justice of the peace in St Mary in the Marsh, to investigate. But with the victim's identity unknown, no murder weapon and no known motive, it seems like an impossible task. Working along with his trusted friend, Amelia Chaytor, and new arrival Captain Edward Austen, Hardcastle soon discovers there is more to the mystery than there first appeared. With the arrival of an American family torn apart by war and desperate to reclaim their ancestral home, a French spy returning to the scene of his crimes, ancient loyalties and new vengeance combine to make Hardcastle and Mrs Chaytor's attempts to discover the secret of New Hall all the more dangerous. The Body in the Ice, with its unique cast of characters, captivating amateur sleuths and a bitter family feud at its heart, is a twisting tale that vividly brings to life eighteenth-century Kent and...

The Body in the Cast

The Body in the Cast

Autor: Katherine Hall Page

Número de Páginas: 324

An award-winning cozy author “provides an abundance of . . . vividly detailed food, a veritable host of characters, and just a bit of froth” (Library Journal). Hollywood has come to town—and Faith Fairchild has to feed it! Hired to cater meals for the movie crew that is filming a modern-day version of The Scarlet Letter in the tiny New England village of Aleford, Faith is eager to treat the talented tantrum-throwers to the best of her culinary delights. But an accusation that her famous Black Bean Soup is poison has left a bad taste in Faith’s mouth. Her exploration into the source of the nasty slander leads the amateur investigator behind the scenes to a shocking off-camera murder. And suddenly more than Faith’s reputation is at stake—her life itself could end up on the cutting room floor “Sprightly, with a light dusting of satire.” —Kirkus Reviews “A New England ambience that’s irresistable.” —The Hartford Courant “If you enjoy a lively read, you’re sure to like The Body in the Cast. The story really sparkles.” —Romantic Times Magazine “Spirited characterization and energetic plotting.” —Publishers Weekly “Readers will find treasures...

The Body in Bodega Bay

The Body in Bodega Bay

Autor: Betsy Draine , Michael Hinden

Número de Páginas: 230

Life in Bodega Bay on the rugged, foggy coast of northern California has been pretty quiet since Alfred Hitchcock filmed The Birds there. But antiques dealer Toby Sandler learns that his new business partner Charlie has been found dead on an abandoned boat in the harbor. When the local sheriff discovers that Charlie’s newly acquired Hitchcock artifacts and a painting of an angel are missing, he enlists Toby and his wife, Nora Barnes, an art historian, in the investigation. Local tales about Hitchcock’s famous film, and some digging into the region’s past as a Russian outpost, provide Toby and Nora with clues to the existence of a lost masterpiece. Convinced that this forgotten work may hold the key to the murder, Nora and Toby set out to find it. When Nora’s trouble-prone sister Angie arrives, events take a surprising turn, leading to the uncanny realm of angel reading and putting Nora and her family in danger. As Nora and Toby investigate matters both criminal and otherworldly, Nora realizes that some mysteries in life may be too deep to solve.

Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam

Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam

Autor: Fedwa Malti-douglas

Número de Páginas: 313

From rulers to uninvited guests, from women to thieves, from dreams to names, from blindness to torture - in a series of ground-breaking studies, Power, Marginality, and the Body in Medieval Islam explores the multi-layered and complex textual universe of medieval Islam. The power of the ruler sits alongside the power of the trickster, as games of detection and verbal erudition are displayed for the edification of the reader. Humour is not lacking either as male and female characters indulge in various forms of wit that redefine and recast the sacred. For much of this world, the body reigns supreme: not only in illness and miracle cures but in displays of transgression and torture. Covering the range of literature from sacred text to history, biography and anecdote, this book provides a stimulating analysis of the world of medieval Islamic mentalités.

The Body in the Silo. Miles Bredon mysteries. Illustrated

The Body in the Silo. Miles Bredon mysteries. Illustrated

Autor: Ronald Arbuthnott Knox

Número de Páginas: 212

A chilling mystery set in the English countryside, The Body in the Silo is another masterfully crafted whodunit from Ronald A. Knox, featuring his astute and unflappable detective, Miles Bredon. Known for his brilliant deductions and dry wit, Bredon once again finds himself entangled in a case where appearances are deceiving, and the truth is buried beneath layers of secrets. When a body is discovered inside a grain silo on a remote estate, suspicion falls on a house full of potential suspects—each with their own hidden motives. Was it an accident, suicide, or cold-blooded murder? As an investigator for the Indescribable Insurance Company, Bredon must determine whether foul play was involved before any claims can be settled. With a keen eye for detail and an unrelenting pursuit of the truth, he pieces together seemingly insignificant clues to reveal a shocking conclusion. With Knox’s signature blend of intricate plotting, intellectual challenge, and a touch of humor, The Body in the Silo is a gripping entry in the Miles Bredon mystery series. Fans of Golden Age detective fiction will relish the suspense, clever misdirection, and expertly drawn characters that make this novel a ...

The Body in the Kitchen Garden

The Body in the Kitchen Garden

Autor: Paula Sutton

Número de Páginas: 238

Welcome to the idyllic village of Pudding Corner. Tea is poured, secrets simmer, gardens hide more than just weeds - and murder is blooming once again... Pudding Corner is abuzz: the enigmatic Lord Hugh Darlington has returned to his crumbling ancestral home after years away. With his fiancée, he plans to revive the grand Darlington Hall - and who better to help than vintage aficionado Daphne Brewster? Daphne is enchanted by the estate's stained-glass windows, regal turrets, and sprawling kitchen garden. But amidst the overgrown greenery, she stumbles upon something far less picturesque: a body. A body that nobody can identify. As the shocking murder rocks the village, Daphne dusts off her sleuthing skills - despite the local PC's warnings to stay out of trouble. When Lord Darlington is attacked and a string of burglaries shakes Pudding Corner, it's clear that no one is safe. With secrets buried deep and loyalties more tangled than ivy, Daphne must unearth the truth... before the killer strikes again. Wickedly witty and brimming with twists as sharp as a pair of antique shears, The Body in the Kitchen Garden is a cosy crime page-turner that will keep you guessing until the very...

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