An Arsène Lupin Omnibus
10 best books like An Arsène Lupin Omnibus (Maurice Leblanc): Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, Tales of Mystery & the Macabre, Porte aperte, The Shroud Codex, Maigret's Pipe: Seventeen Stories, The Stuff of Nightmares, The Dead Beat, Three Doors to Death
| Author | E.W. Hornung |
| ISBN | 0141439335 |
Gentleman thief Raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsome-and a first-rate cricketer. In these eight stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime: stealing jewels from a country house, outwitting the law, pilfering from the nouveau riche, and, of course, bowling...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0553212427 |
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
| Author | Michael Sims |
| ISBN | 0143105663 |
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ISBN | 1840220953 |
In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged... Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848)...
| Author | Leonardo Sciascia |
| ISBN | 8845902625 |
A Palermo, verso la fine degli Anni Trenta, «un crimine atroce e folle, di cui è protagonista un personaggio vinto quanto quelli di Verga e sgradevole quanto quelli di Pirandello». La macchina giudiziaria si muove – e sin dall’inizio aleggia sul processo l’ombra della condanna a morte. In...
| Author | Jerome R. Corsi |
| ISBN | 1439190410 |
I liked the story a lot, and actually learned quite a bit about the Shroud of Turin. If you like Dan Brown's novels (Da Vinci Code), you will probably like this one too. They are the same genre and remind me of each other.
The reason I feel this book deserves 2 stars is because Mr. Corsi clearly skipped...
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 0156551462 |
Prewar Paris - where buses still sported outside platforms and every neighborhood its own bistro, policemen took time for human problems, and car fumes hadn't yet smothered the smell of chesnut blossoms - serves as the setting for these seventeen stories, featuring Simenon's legendary Jules Maigret....
| Author | James Lovegrove |
| ISBN | 1781165416 |
It's the autumn of 1890, and a spate of bombings has hit London. The newspapers are full of fevered speculation about anarchists, anti-monarchists and Fenians. But one man suspects an even more sinister hand behind the violence. Sherlock Holmes believes Professor Moriarty is orchestrating a nationwide...
| Author | Doug Johnstone |
| ISBN | 0571308856 |
If you're so special, why aren't you dead?
Meet Martha. It's the first day of her new job as intern at Edinburgh'sThe Standard. But all's not well at the ailing newspaper, and Martha is carrying some serious baggage of her own.
Put straight onto the obituary page, she takes a call from...
| Author | Rex Stout |
| ISBN | 0553251279 |
The book consists of three novellas:
Man Alive. A brilliant fashion designer committed suicide in a very bizarre fashion. His niece came to Nero Wolfe asking for help. Initially Archie Goodwin thought it would be typical - for them - investigation where they would have to prove in was a murder...
| Author | Katherine Mansfield |
| ISBN | 1857997425 |
Well, she was married to him. And what was more she loved him. Not the Stanley whom everyone saw, not the everyday one; but a timid, sensitive, innocent Stanley who knelt down every night to say his prayers, and who longed to be good. Stanley was simple. If he believed in peopleas he believed in her, for...
| Author | E.W. Barton-Wright |
| ISBN | 1907332731 |
When Sherlock Holmes wrestled with Moriarty on the Reichenbach Falls, he was employing a system of self-defence that was all the rage in Victorian Britain. In an age when footpads and fogle-snatchers meant a man of breeding took his life in his hands when walking across town, a martial arts craze took...
| Author | Michael Byers |
| ISBN | 0395891701 |
In the very first story I read: "I was drunk but not drunk enough to say what I wanted, that we don't live our lives so much as come to them, as different people and things collect mysteriously around us." and I realized that as I read Michael Byer's works I had come to them and they were collecting mysteriously...
| Author | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| ISBN | 0192834800 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was America's leading feminist intellectual of the early twentieth century. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories makes available the fullest selection ever printed of her short fiction, featuring the pioneering feminist masterpiece of the title, her stories contemporary...
| Author | John Carey |
| ISBN | 0571203175 |
Every age has its utopias, from Plato's Republic to contemporary sci-fi visions. In this spellbinding anthology John Carey charts the course of every conceivable dream world - whether communist, fascist, anarchist, green, golden age, techno-fantastic or hermaphroditic - combining a broad historical...
| Author | Judy Fairbairns |
| ISBN | 1444759582 |
Island Wife tells the story of Judy, who, at 19, met her Wild Pioneer. He whisked her off into an adventure, a marriage of forty years, and a life on a remote Hebridean island, where the sea-birds fly, the weather is always changing and whales swim in the deep. Along the way she bears five children, learns...
| Author | Harvey Swados |
| ISBN | 1590170849 |
There was a time when New York was everything to me: my mother, my mistress, my Mecca, when I could no more have wanted to live any place else than I could have conceived of myself as a daddy, disciplining my boy and dandling my daughter.
So begins "Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn", which gives...
| Author | Quintin Jardine |
| ISBN | 0755357019 |
Quintin Jardine's new Bob Skinner novel sees the Edinburgh cop faced with a case that calls every part of his life into question.
The body of a murdered woman is found washed up on Cramond Island near the mouth of the River Forth. Days later detectives are called to a flat in Edinburgh; the...
| Author | Jennie Jarvis |
| ISBN | 1940761123 |
Many writers believe once they have their basic plot points in place, their stories are destined to succeed. But many narratives fall flat between those plot points and lose their audience before the big finish. Engaging the audience and moving the story forward in every scene is the responsibility...
| Author | Norton Juster |
| ISBN | 0887082432 |
This story tells of Alberic and his search for wisdom. At first he is a simple man, and he only known enough to keep him alive. One day an old man comes to him and tells him of all that the world has to offer. Alberic ventures into the world and takes many jobs, but he fails in every attempt at becoming skilled...
| Author | John Edgar Wideman |
| ISBN | 0395897971 |
This collection of interrelated stories spans the history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. With stunning lyricism, Wideman sings of "dead children in garbage cans, of gospel and basketball, of lost gods and dead fathers" (John Leonard). It is a celebration of people...
