Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 2Frank Northen Magill Salem Press, 1988 - 1748 pages Presents critical studies of more than 270 authors of detective and mystery fiction from around the world dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. |
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Page 588
... lives and conducts his illegal business on land owned by a reclusive spinster , Miss Burden . She is viewed with suspicion and hostility by the townspeople , owing to her New England abolitionist ancestry . As in Sanctuary , there is an ...
... lives and conducts his illegal business on land owned by a reclusive spinster , Miss Burden . She is viewed with suspicion and hostility by the townspeople , owing to her New England abolitionist ancestry . As in Sanctuary , there is an ...
Page 596
... lives . Actual survival is dependent on too many things beyond human control . What matters is the manner in which ... lives . Although both men have families , their participation in the process of detec- tion is clearly the most vivid ...
... lives . Actual survival is dependent on too many things beyond human control . What matters is the manner in which ... lives . Although both men have families , their participation in the process of detec- tion is clearly the most vivid ...
Page 637
... lives . Ironically , both find refuge in the current chaos . The war simplifies moral issues and negates the daily banalities of ordinary existence . Follett's characters have a need for the extraordinary to rescue them from the mundane ...
... lives . Ironically , both find refuge in the current chaos . The war simplifies moral issues and negates the daily banalities of ordinary existence . Follett's characters have a need for the extraordinary to rescue them from the mundane ...
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