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A Cockney clerk eats a bean from the tree of knowledge and becomes a poet.
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Young heiress Jeanne de la Mesurier has returned to London to re-join her stepmother, following a childhood in a French convent where she has been since her father's death. Despite her high status young Jeanne is poor, and so together with the nefarious Major Forrest, Jeanne sets out to scam and prey on her young suitors. A humorous novel full of mystery and cheats, this is a wonderful introduction to the author E. Phillips Oppenheim. E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was a hugely prolific and highly popular British author of novels and short stories. Born in Tottenham, London, Oppenheim left school as a teenager and worked for his leather-merchant father for 20 years prior to launching his literary career. Oppenheim published five novels under the pseudonym 'Anthony Partridge' before establishing his reputation as a writer under his own name. An internationally successful author, Oppenheim's stories revolved mainly around glamourous characters, luxurious settings, and themes of espionage, suspense, and crime. He is widely regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of the thriller and spy-fiction genre as it is recognised today. Oppenheim's incredible literary success meant that his own life soon began to mirror that of his opulent characters. He held lavish, Gatsby-style parties at his French Villa and was rumoured to have had frequent love affairs aboard his luxury yacht. Oppenheim's success earned him the cover of Time magazine in 1927. Some of his most well-known novels include 'The Great Impersonation', 'The Long Arm of Mannister' and 'The Moving Finger.
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Excepté leur statut de détective chevronné, quel est le point commun entre Hercule Poirot, Reginald Wexford et Adam Dalgliesh ? Tous sont nés de l'imaginaire d'une écrivaine. Le roman policier est affaire de femmes, d'Anglaises tout particulièrement : Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. Ces « reines du crime », comme se plaît à les appeler la critique anglo-saxonne, ont façonné le genre du polar. Et si cette tradition féminine s'est épanouie, c'est avant tout grâce à un contexte politique et social propice au renouveau. Alternative féminine et féministe au roman d'aventure, le polar a cristallisé les angoisses, les modes et les mutations. Dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle, les auteures se sont faites enquêtrices ; elles ont questionné leur époque, remis en cause l'ordre patriarcal, repensé le marché de la fiction, donné naissance à un nouveau modèle d'héroïne émancipée. Plus que de simples divertissements, les récits de détectives ont redessiné les contours de la société anglaise.
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Sheridan Road is a Chicago route that goes parallel with the Lake Michigan's shoreline. A policeman on the watch hears the shot that rings through the night, and shortly after that runs into a disturbed man. The man claims that the shot was fired in an apartment above his, but when the policeman goes upstairs to check, there is no sign of a body. Since the regular police can't solve the mystery, case is assigned to the best detective in Chicago, Dave Morgan.
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Sheridan Road is a Chicago route that goes parallel with the Lake Michigan's shoreline. A policeman on the watch hears the shot that rings through the night, and shortly after that runs into a disturbed man. The man claims that the shot was fired in an apartment above his, but when the policeman goes upstairs to check, there is no sign of a body. Since the regular police can't solve the mystery, case is assigned to the best detective in Chicago, Dave Morgan.
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Young heiress Jeanne de la Mesurier has returned to London to re-join her stepmother, following a childhood in a French convent where she has been since her father's death. Despite her high status young Jeanne is poor, and so together with the nefarious Major Forrest, Jeanne sets out to scam and prey on her young suitors. A humorous novel full of mystery and cheats, this is a wonderful introduction to the author E. Phillips Oppenheim. E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was a hugely prolific and highly popular British author of novels and short stories. Born in Tottenham, London, Oppenheim left school as a teenager and worked for his leather-merchant father for 20 years prior to launching his literary career. Oppenheim published five novels under the pseudonym 'Anthony Partridge' before establishing his reputation as a writer under his own name. An internationally successful author, Oppenheim's stories revolved mainly around glamourous characters, luxurious settings, and themes of espionage, suspense, and crime. He is widely regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of the thriller and spy-fiction genre as it is recognised today. Oppenheim's incredible literary success meant that his own life soon began to mirror that of his opulent characters. He held lavish, Gatsby-style parties at his French Villa and was rumoured to have had frequent love affairs aboard his luxury yacht. Oppenheim's success earned him the cover of Time magazine in 1927. Some of his most well-known novels include 'The Great Impersonation', 'The Long Arm of Mannister' and 'The Moving Finger.
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