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| anagram in magpie murders: Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz, 2017-06-06 From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job. Conway’s latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder. Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Moonflower Murders Anthony Horowitz, 2020-11-10 From New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz comes a new novel featuring ex-editor hero Susan Ryeland, set to solve another murder mystery Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police discover blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison. It appears to be an open-and-shut case, but there is more to it than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew Frank Parris and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Also, the third book in Conway’s detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, was based on the hotel. Cecily Treherne, the daughter of Farlingaye Hall’s owner, has read the book and believes the proof of Stefan’s innocence can be found in its pages. But now . . . Cecily Treherne has disappeared. So Conway’s former editor, Susan Ryeland, leaves her own hotel in Crete and travels to Suffolk to investigate the murder and Treherne’s disappearance. Masterfully intriguing, brilliantly clever and relentlessly suspenseful, Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Anagram Solver Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009-01-01 Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary. |
| anagram in magpie murders: The Madness of March Alan Jay Zaremba, 2009-01-01 Every spring, the first four days of the NCAA men s basketball tournament attracts a horde of basketball bettors to Las Vegas. From the tip-off of the tournament s first game on Thursday morning to the final whistle on Sunday, throngs of bettors overwhelmingly male sit in smoky casinos obsessively watching as many as forty-eight college basketball games. This book immerses readers in that action. In The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas, Alan Jay Zaremba travels to The Strip and gives us a front-row view of the betting culture that surrounds the frenzied first weekend of the tournament. Alternating between humorous accounts of gamblers exploits and cultural theories on sports in society, Zaremba provides an engaging analysis of the sporting ritual that such gambling has become. With forays into the history of the tournament, the background of sports betting, and a little betting of his own, Zaremba raises the question of whether this subculture of March Madness is a blessing or a curse and what, finally, it all means. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Russian Roulette Anthony Horowitz, 2014-11-18 Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series! Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time—from #1 New York Times bestselling author! Alex Rider’s life changed forever with the silent pull of a trigger. Every story has a beginning. For teen secret agent Alex Rider, that beginning occurred prior to his first case for MI6, known by the code name Stormbreaker. By the time Stormbreaker forever changed Alex’s life, his uncle had been murdered by the assassin Yassen Gregorovich, leaving Alex orphaned and craving revenge. Yet when Yassen had a clear shot to take out Alex after he foiled the Stormbreaker plot, he let Alex live. Why? This is Yassen’s story. A journey down the darker path of espionage. Like a James Bond for young readers, international #1 bestseller Anthony Horowitz delivers a blockbuster thrill ride. From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty. |
| anagram in magpie murders: The Sentence is Death Anthony Horowitz, 2019-05-28 New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz and eccentric detective Daniel Hawthorne team up again in a new mystery—the sequel to the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder—to delve deep into the killing of a high-profile divorce lawyer and the death, only a day earlier, of his one-time friend “You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late . . . ” Heard over the phone, these are the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death with a bottle of wine—a 1982 Château Lafite worth £2,000, to be precise—in his bachelor pad. Odd, considering Pryce didn’t drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on his wall? And, most important, which of the victim’s many, many enemies did the deed? Baffled, the police are forced to bring in private investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, the author Anthony, who’s getting rather good at this murder investigation business. But as Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to hide. As our reluctant narrator becomes ever more embroiled in the case, he realizes that these secrets must be exposed—even at the risk of death . . . |
| anagram in magpie murders: I Know what You Did Last Wednesday Anthony Horowitz, 2003-01 It's not fair. I do my homework. I clean my teeth twice a day. Why does everyone want to kill me? It's a dangerous life being the younger brother of the world's worst private detective, but Nick Diamond's survived... so far. He's due a holiday, so he should be happy when an invitation arrives for his brother Tim inviting him to a school reunion on a remote Scottish island and offering to pay him pound]1,000 for the pleasure. But Nick's got a bad feeling and it's not indigestion. And when he meets their fellow guests, the feeling only gets worse - especially when they start dying in ever more bizarre ways Could it be the Diamond Brothers' days are numbered? |
| anagram in magpie murders: Vladimir Nabokov in Context David Bethea, Siggy Frank, 2018-05-24 Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within the historical, cultural, intellectual and political contexts of the turbulent twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov in Context maps the ever-changing sites, people, cultures and ideologies of his itinerant life which shaped the production and reception of his work. Concise and lively essays by leading scholars reveal a complex relationship of mutual influence between Nabokov's work and his environment. Appealing to a wide community of literary scholars this timely companion to Nabokov's writing offers new insights and approaches to one of the most important, and yet most elusive writers of modern literature. |
| anagram in magpie murders: A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art Thomas Wright, 1865 |
| anagram in magpie murders: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection Alexander McCall Smith, 2012-04-03 THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 13 Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a repeated dream: a vision of a tall, strange man who waits for her beneath an acacia tree. Odd as this is, she’s far too busy to worry about it. The best apprentice at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors is in trouble with the law and stuck with the worst lawyer in Gaborone. Grace Makutsi and Phuti Radiphuti are building the house of their dreams, but their builder is not completely on the up and up. And, most shockingly, Mma Potokwane, defender of Botswana’s weak and downtrodden, has been dismissed from her post as matron at the orphan farm. Can the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency help restore the beloved matron to her rightful position? As wealthy and powerful influences at the orphan farm become allied against their friend, help arrives from an unexpected visitor: the tall stranger from Mma Ramotswe’s dreams, who turns out to be none other than the estimable Clovis Andersen, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ prized manual, The Principles of Private Detection. Together, Mma Ramotswe, Mma Makutsi, and their teacher-turned-colleague help right this injustice and in the process discover something new about being a good detective. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Alexander McCall Smith's The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon. |
| anagram in magpie murders: The Film Book Ronald Bergan, 2021 Story of cinema -- How movies are made -- Movie genres -- World cinema -- A-Z directors -- Must-see movies. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Magic for Liars Sarah Gailey, 2019-06-04 A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Sharp, mainstream fantasy meets compelling thrills of investigative noir in Magic for Liars, a fantasy debut by rising star Sarah Gailey. Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it. Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life – or at least, she’s perfectly fine. She doesn't in any way wish she was like Tabitha, her estranged, gifted twin sister. Ivy Gamble is a liar. When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister—without losing herself. “An unmissable debut.”—Adrienne Celt, author of Invitation to a Bonfire At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Abbé Sicard's Deaf Education Emmet Kennedy, 2016-04-29 Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and the Académie Française. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, signing,' and a form of universal language that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard’s international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Alex Rider: Secret Weapon Anthony Horowitz, 2019-05-21 Alex Rider is now a Freevee original series! Readers ages 8 to 15 with a taste for tough-guy thrills will gobble this one up.--Wall Street Journal International bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's short story collection expands the universe of teen spy Alex Rider with more thrilling action, espionage, and pulse-pounding heroics. Inspired by Horowitz's millions of fans worldwide, Secret Weapon expands the world of Alex Rider with more thrilling action and pulse-pounding heroics. Follow Alex as he infiltrates a terrorist hideout in Afghanistan, fights to prevent an assassination attempt at a ski resort over Christmas, and much more! The #1 New York Times bestselling Alex Rider is back with more exciting, edge-of-your-seats adventures! Contains a combination of new and previously published material, together for the first time! Praise for Never Say Die: Once again amid races, chases, hails of bullets, and increasingly spectacular explosions, the teenage James Bond pulls off one awesome feat of derring-do after another. [This] fresh caper . . . roars along to a (naturally) explosive climax. --Booklist |
| anagram in magpie murders: Understanding Environmental Philosophy Andrew Brennan, Y.S. Lo, 2014-12-05 Environmental philosophy is one of the exciting new fields of philosophy to emerge in the last forty years. Understanding Environmental Philosophy presents a comprehensive, critical analysis of contemporary philosophical approaches to current ecological concerns. Key ideas are explained, placed in their broader cultural, religious, historical, political and philosophical context, and their environmental policy implications are outlined. Central ideas and concepts about environmental value, individual wellbeing, ecological holism and the metaphysics of nature set the stage for a discussion of how to establish moral rules and priorities, and whether it is possible to transcend human-centred views of the world. The reader is also helped with an annotated guide to further reading, questions for discussion and revision as well as boxed studies highlighting key concepts and theoretical material. A clear and accessible introduction to this most dynamic of subjects, Understanding Environmental Philosophy will be invaluable for a wide range of readers. |
| anagram in magpie murders: The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green, 1989-11-10 Lewis Carroll is one of the world's best-loved writers. His immortal Wonderland and delightful nonsense verses have enchanted generations of children and adults alike. The wit and imagination, the wisdom, sense of absurdity and sheer fun which fill his books shine just as clearly from the many letters he wrote. '...each is a miniature Wonderland... They reveal a truly delightful man...the combination of intense goodness and unselfishness with a magic, nonsense wit is unique'. The Scotsman '...a magnificent collection of delightful and entertaining letters reflecting all that was embraced in that remarkable character...all his charm, inventive fun, wisdom, generosity, kindliness and inventive mind'. Walter Tyson, Oxford Times. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Nightshade Anthony Horowitz, 2020-04-07 Alex Rider is now a Freevee original series! From internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz comes the twelfth thrilling installment of the Alex Rider series! Follow the world's greatest teen spy as he sets off to Gibraltar after the death of Scorpia, and enters into a battle against a new criminal organization: Nightshade. Following the shocking events of Never Say Die, Alex Rider's world has changed: his biggest enemy, the evil organization Scorpia, has been destroyed. Alex is hoping his life can finally go back to normal, that he can go to school and spend time with his friends--but very quickly everything changes. A new and dangerous criminal organization--Nightshade--is rising. When Alex discovers they've planned a mysterious attack on London, he will stop at nothing to take them down. But protecting his home city means facing off a ruthless new enemy and putting his life at stake, again. And this time, there's no one to save him if he makes a mistake. The #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling Alex Rider series is back with a vengeance in this edge-of-your-seat adventure. Perfect for fans of James Bond and Jason Bourne! |
| anagram in magpie murders: The Word Is Murder Anthony Horowitz, 2018-06-05 One of the most entertaining mysteries of the year. It’s also one of the most stimulating, as it ponders such questions as: Which is of greater interest to the reader, the crime or the detective? And: Is the pencil truly mightier than the butcher knife?” — Wall Street Journal New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes. A woman crosses a London street. It is just after 11 a.m. on a bright spring morning, and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric man as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. And Hawthorne has a partner, the celebrated novelist Anthony Horowitz, curious about the case and looking for new material. As brusque, impatient, and annoying as Hawthorne can be, Horowitz—a seasoned hand when it comes to crime stories—suspects the detective may be on to something, and is irresistibly drawn into the mystery. But as the case unfolds, Horowitz realizes that he’s at the center of a story he can’t control, and his brilliant partner may be hiding dark and mysterious secrets of his own. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature Charles Carroll Bombaugh, 1875 |
| anagram in magpie murders: ตั้งแต่ศพแรก แม็กพายเมอร์เดอร์ส แอนโธนี โฮโรวิตซ์ , 2022-07-01 เมื่อได้รับต้นฉบับนวนิยายเล่มล่าสุดของนักเขียนมือทอง “อลัน คอนเวย์” บรรณาธิการมืออาชีพอย่าง “ซูซาน ไรแลนด์” ย่อมคิดว่า เล่มใหม่นี้ต้องสนุกเช่นเคย เธอร่วมงานกับนักเขียนแนวสืบสวนขายดีคนนี้มาหลายปี จึงคุ้นเคยกับตัวละครที่ “อลัน คอนเวย์” เขียนขึ้น ชื่อว่า “แอตทิคัส พุนด์” ยอดนักสืบเชื้อสายเยอรมันที่ไขปริศนาฆาตกรรมในประเทศอังกฤษยุคหลังสงครามโลก งานเขียนของคอนเวย์ที่เดินตามแนวทางของ อกาธา คริสตี ถูกใจนักอ่านจนกระทั่งผลงานของเขาดังขึ้นแท่นอันดับหนึ่งตลอดกาล จนซูซานต้องยอมทนกับนิสัยแย่ๆ ของคอนเวย์ ถ้าเธอไม่อยากตกงาน นวนิยายเรื่องล่าสุดของคอนเวย์เล่าเรื่อง “แอตทิคัส พุนด์” สืบคดีฆาตกรรมที่ไพฮอลล์ คฤหาสน์ในชนบท แน่นอน มีทั้งศพและผู้ต้องสงสัยน่าสนใจอีกเพียบ แต่ยิ่งอ่าน ซูซานก็ยิ่งเชื่อว่ามีอีกเรื่องซ่อนอยู่ในต้นฉบับ เป็นเรื่องจริงของความริษยา ความโลภ ความทะเยอทะยานร้ายกาจ และฆาตกรรม เหตุเกิดในหมู่บ้านเงียบสงบ แต่กลับตื่นเต้น ลุ้นระทึก เมื่อนักอ่านต้องเป็นนักสืบเสียเอง - นิยายสืบสวนเล่มนี้ทั้งคารวะและท้าทาย อกาธา คริสตี ไปพร้อมๆ กัน ตั้งแต่ศพแรก แม็กพายเมอร์เดอร์ส เป็น 'cozy mystery' ที่แสนคลาสสิกแต่เทคนิคร่วมสมัยอย่างน่าทึ่งจน สตีเฟน คิง ยังชมว่ายอดเยี่ยม จากนักเขียนที่มียอดขายมากกว่า 19 ล้านเล่ม ถูกสร้างเป็น TV series และเป็นที่ยอมรับจากนักเขียนและนักรีวิวชั้นนำ การใช้เทคนิค เรื่องซ้อนเรื่อง มาสร้างความแปลกใหม่ในวงการได้น่าทึ่ง |
| anagram in magpie murders: The Politics Book DK, 2015-03-02 Politics affects us all and the same questions reverberate across history. Who should rule? Is property theft? What's mightier - the bullet or the ballot? Discover 80 of the world's greatest thinkers and their political big ideas that continue to shape our lives today. Humankind has always asked profound questions about how we can best govern ourselves and how rulers should behave. The Politics Book charts the development of long-running themes, such as attitudes to democracy and violence, developed by thinkers from Confucius in ancient China to Mahatma Gandhi in 20th-century India. Justice goes hand in hand with politics, and in this comprehensive guide, you can explore the championing of people's rights from the Magna Carta to Thomas Jefferson's Bill of Rights and Malcolm X's call to arms. Ideologies inevitably clash and The Politics Book takes you through the big ideas such as capitalism, communism, and fascism exploring their beginnings and social contexts in step-by-step diagrams and illustrations, with clear explanations that cut through the jargon. Filled with thought-provoking quotes from great thinkers such as Nietzsche, Karl Marx, and Mao Zedong, The Politics Book is a thought-provoking and unmissable read for both students and everyone interested in how the world of government and power works. Series Overview: Big Ideas Simply Explained series uses creative design and innovative graphics along with straightforward and engaging writing to make complex subjects easier to understand. With over 7 million copies worldwide sold to date, these award-winning books provide just the information needed for students, families, or anyone interested in concise, thought-provoking refreshers on a single subject. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama E. Cobham Brewer, 2019-09-25 Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer |
| anagram in magpie murders: Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table S. W. Erdnase, 1902 |
| anagram in magpie murders: The Imaginary Voyages Edgar Allan Poe, 1981 The first volume of a new edition of Poe, this includes three of Poe's longest prose works, three related by reason of journey motifs underlying their structures. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Raven Black Ann Cleeves, 2010 A remote community, touched by evil - would you know who to trust?Raven Black is the first book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series - which is now the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall, SHETLAND.It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour Catherine Ross. As Fran opens her mouth to scream, the ravens continue their deadly dance . . .The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man - loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when police insist on opening out the investigation a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. For the first time in years, Catherine's neighbours nervously lock their doors, whilst a killer lives on in their midst.Also available in the Shetland series are White Nights, Red Bones, Blue Lightning and Dead Water. Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series (ITV television drama VERA) contains five titles, of which The Glass Room is the most recent. |
| anagram in magpie murders: 맥파이 살인 사건 앤서니 호로비츠, 2018-08-13 영국 최고의 인기 작가 앤서니 호로비츠의 고전 탐정 소설 황금시대의 재현 『뉴욕 타임스』, 『선데이 타임스』와 아마존의 베스트셀러 리스트를 석권한 영국 작가 앤서니 호로비츠의 『맥파이 살인 사건』이 열린책들에서 출간되었다. 고전 탐정 소설의 수법을 계승하면서도 전형을 탈피한 『맥파이 살인 사건』은 외화(外話)와 내화(內話)로 구성된 액자 소설이다. 1950년대와 현대 영국을 배경으로 각각의 시공간은 멀찌감치 떨어져 있으나 인물들 사이의 역학 관계는 읽기도, 이해하기도 쉽다. 서로 다른 이야기 속에서 개개의 인물들은 동일한 역할을 수행한다. 한마디로 요약해, 등장인물들은 작품 내에서 두 개의 연결된 정체성을 갖는다. 클로버리프 북스의 편집자인 수전 라일랜드는 인기 추리 소설가인 앨런 콘웨이의 담당 편집자로 콘웨이의 신작 [맥파이 살인 사건] 초고를 전달받는다. 이로써 수전이 읽어 내려가는 [맥파이 살인 사건]이 작품의 내화를 구성한다. 별고 없는 조용한 마을 색스비온에이번에서 대저택 파이 홀의 가정부 메리 블래키스턴의 장례식이 치러진다. 추도식을 맡은 목사, 음흉한 앤티크 숍 주인, 고인과 갈등을 겪은 아들, 시신을 발견한 관리인 등 등장인물들의 미심쩍은 행동과 죽음을 둘러싼 소문들이 밀도 있게 다뤄진다. 이후 파이 홀의 주인인 매그너스 파이마저 기이한 죽음을 맞는다. 소식을 접한 탐정 아티쿠스 퓐트는 본격적으로 수사에 착수한다. 용의선상에 놓인 인물은 여럿이나 결정적인 대목에 이르러 소설은 중단되고 만다. 수전은 원고의 결말이 누락됐다는 사실을 알게 되고 출판사 대표인 찰스 클로버에게 곧장 연락을 취한다. 그러나 찰스와 연락이 닿지 않는 새, 앨런 콘웨이가 사망했다는 충격적인 뉴스를 전해 듣는다. 사라진 원고의 행방을 좇아 편집자에서 탐정으로 변신한 수전은 앨런 콘웨이의 죽음과 관련 있는 인물들을 직접 찾아 나선다. 그녀가 사건의 외부자에서 내부자로 깊숙이 진입하게 되는 과정이 흥미진진하게 전개된다. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Twisty Little Passages Nick Montfort, 2005-02-11 A critical approach to interactive fiction, as literature and game. Interactive fiction—the best-known form of which is the text game or text adventure—has not received as much critical attention as have such other forms of electronic literature as hypertext fiction and the conversational programs known as chatterbots. Twisty Little Passages (the title refers to a maze in Adventure, the first interactive fiction) is the first book-length consideration of this form, examining it from gaming and literary perspectives. Nick Montfort, an interactive fiction author himself, offers both aficionados and first-time users a way to approach interactive fiction that will lead to a more pleasurable and meaningful experience of it. Twisty Little Passages looks at interactive fiction beginning with its most important literary ancestor, the riddle. Montfort then discusses Adventure and its precursors (including the I Ching and Dungeons and Dragons), and follows this with an examination of mainframe text games developed in response, focusing on the most influential work of that era, Zork. He then considers the introduction of commercial interactive fiction for home computers, particularly that produced by Infocom. Commercial works inspired an independent reaction, and Montfort describes the emergence of independent creators and the development of an online interactive fiction community in the 1990s. Finally, he considers the influence of interactive fiction on other literary and gaming forms. With Twisty Little Passages, Nick Montfort places interactive fiction in its computational and literary contexts, opening up this still-developing form to new consideration. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Ark Angel Anthony Horowitz, 2007-04-05 Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series! Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time—from #1 New York Times bestselling author! The sniper’s bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows he has to stop him. But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world. The eccentric billionaire has been targeted by Force Three, a group of eco-terrorists who claim his project Ark Angel—the first luxury hotel in outer space—is a danger to the environment. Soon Alex discovers that Force Three will stop at nothing to destroy Ark Angel, even if it means sending four hundred tons of molten glass and steel hurtling down to Earth and killing millions . . . unless Alex can stop them. From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Gone Girl (Film Tie-In). Gillian Flynn, 2014 |
| anagram in magpie murders: Not a Clue Chloé Delaume, 2019-04-01 In this life-size game of Clue, six psychiatric patients in Paris's Saint Anne's Hospital are suspects in the murder of Dr. Black. Though Not a Clue tells the stories of these possible assassins, their lives, and what has brought them to the hospital, the true focus of Chloé Delaume's intense and tumultuous novel is not merely to discover the identity of the murderer. Rather, by cleverly combining humor with the day-to-day effects of life's unrelenting compromises, Not a Clue is an astute commentary on the current state of literary production and consumption. Masterfully juggling an omniscient narratrix, an accusing murder victim, at least six possible suspects as well as their psychiatrists, and a writer who intervenes by refusing to intervene, Delaume uses the characters, weapons, and rooms of the board game Clue to challenge--sometimes violently, sometimes playfully--the norms of typography, syntax, and narrative conventions. |
| anagram in magpie murders: The Importance of Being Poirot Jeremy Black, 2021-09-30 Written by the renowned British historian who has been described as both utterly thorough and humanely delicate, Jeremy Black offers a guided tour through the mind of Agatha Christie and life during the Great World Wars. His incomparable treatment of literary craft developing alongside global military engagement nearly overshadows the natural draw of the crime drama that is the subject of his book. Indeed, the prurience and sensationalism of crime is not as exciting as Black's aptitude for drawing the reality from the fiction (and periphery sources), giving Christie a much louder voice than she might ever have dreamed. If Christie is also moralist and mirror to her times, Black here plays his part as the detective and reveals layers of previously unmined truths in her stories. Hercule Poirot as a character is masterfully imagined, but Black shows us how he is inseparable from Christie's turbulent and changing world. He also illuminates significant social commentary in Christie's fiction, and in so doing Black often uses his authority to vindicate Christie's work from hastily, at times stupidly, applied labels and interpretations. He is especially magnificent in his chapters, Xenophobia and The Sixties. Black nevertheless gives due recognition to Christie's critics when they have something relevant and reasonable to say, and hence the reader finds yet another service in Black's comprehensive review of the reviewers over the expanse of Christie's writing career. For all this, Black proves himself to be a worthy history-teller because he can aptly 'detect' the meaning of stories that seeks to answer the past and guide the present. His erudition runs much deeper than his ability to navigate the stores of resources available on the subject, and the reader gets a glimpse of this early on when in the introduction he proffers his own defense for writing about the importance of a Hercule Poirot. Black writes, the notion of crime had a moral component from the outset, and notably so in terms of the struggle between Good and Evil, and in the detection of the latter. Indeed, it is this detection that is the basis of the most powerful strand of detection story, because Evil disguises its purposes. It has to do so in a world and humanity made fundamentally benign and moral by God. The Golden Age of detective novels represents much more than a triumph of a literary genre. It is in its own right a story of how the challenge to address the problem of evil was accepted. Its convergence with the plot-rich narrative of the twentieth century in the modern age renders Black's account a thrilling masterpiece, seducing historians to read fiction and crime junkies to read more history. |
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| anagram in magpie murders: Minerals from Earth and Sky George P. Merrill, 2017-10-21 Excerpt from Minerals From Earth and Sky: Part I. The Story of Meteorites; Part II. Gems and Gem Minerals This book is not intended for the specialist; rather for those Who - whether or not engaged in other lines Of work - are interested in the progress Of science and in the method Of its progression. It was with the latter partie ularly in mind that the narrative form was adopted for certain chapters. How a conclusion has been arrived at is, to the public mind, believed to be Of as great interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Persistence of Vision John Gaspard, Dale Newton, 1996 Provides practival information on script writing, finances, cast and crew to create a low budget film. |
| anagram in magpie murders: Anagram Finder John Daintith, 2000 The Bloomsbury Anagram Finderis an aid to this often time-consuming and frustrating aspect of completing a crossword. It contains over 200,000 words, and phrases, including plural forms of nouns, palindromes, words of sixteen letters and over, backwords, all parts of speech, Christian names and idioms. The anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain, from 'if' and 'dean' to 'coffee-table book' and 'take the rough with the smooth', with the letters set out in alphabetical order. So once the letters of a crossword anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating a word in a dictionary. Together with Bloomsbury's Crossword Solverand Crossword Lists, the Anagram Finderwill prove invaluable to both beginners and experienced crossworders. Good luck with future crosswords!* |
| anagram in magpie murders: Jumping Jenny Anthony Berkeley, 2024 At a costume party with the dubious theme of 'famous murderers and their victims', the know-it-all amateur criminologist Roger Sheringham is settled in for an evening of beer, small talk and analysing his companions. One guest in particular has caught his attention for her theatrics, and his theory that she might have several enemies among the partygoers proves true when she is found hanging from the 'decorative' gallows on the roof terrace. Noticing a key detail which could implicate a friend in the crime, Sheringham decides to meddle with the scene and unwittingly casts himself into jeopardy as the uncommonly thorough police investigation circles closer and closer to the truth. |
| anagram in magpie murders: The Final Days of Abbot Montrose Sven Elvestad, Stein Riverton, 2018-08-24 From the founder of the modern Norwegian crime novel, a story that will keep you thrilled and mystified. Abbot Montrose, is missing. Only a torn fragment of his cassock remains. World-renowned detective Asbjørn Krag begins to unravel the tangled knot of clues left behind. But the more answers he finds, the more questions seem to pop up. |
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