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The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes
by Marvin KayeThis long awaited volume finally brings to light several cases of the world's most renowned detective originally suppressed to avoid causing scandal and embarrassment to the Crown, to public figures, or to Sherlock Holmes himself. Now, finally, the truth is revealed about Holmes' exploits involving... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1994 -
The Laurel and Hardy Murders
by Marvin KayeThe worst comic in New York is dead, and Hilary wants to know who gave him the hookThe Sons of the Desert are serious about comedy, fond of cocktails, and utterly devoted to the films of Laurel and Hardy. Their meetings are always merry, boozy romps, but the laughter dies whenever Wayne Poe takes th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1977 -
The Fair Folk
by Marvin KayeThis is a collection of six novellas featuring elves by some of fantasy's current giants.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
A Lively Game of Death (The Hilary Quayle Mysteries #1)
by Marvin KayeNew York's toughest PR woman takes on the city's deadliest business: toysHilary Quayle will do anything to get a client a bit of good press--no matter how late she has to stay out or how many martinis she has to knock back. But even though she is the best PR woman in Manhattan, she has a weakness: S... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1972 -
Bullets for Macbeth (The Hilary Quayle Mysteries #3)
by Marvin KayeHilary takes on a pair of mysteries--one fictional, and one all too realIn college, Hilary Quayle dreamed of the stage, and playing all the great leading ladies that Shakespeare had to offer. But her interest was due less to the Bard than to another man: director, actor, and theatrical personality M... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1976 -
The Grand Ole Opry Murders (The Hilary Quayle Mysteries #2)
by Marvin KayeIn a famous Nashville family, a deadly feud is as much a tradition as country music Hilary Quayle has never done public relations for a country-western client, but Amanda Boulder's songwriting is beautiful, her voice is pure, and her career is in bad need of a good publicist. But there's one thing s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1974 -
The Soap Opera Slaughters (The Hilary Quayle Mysteries #5)
by Marvin KayeWhen a television writer takes a tumble, Hilary finds herself amidst the dramaPR whiz Hilary Quayle not only fired her assistant, Gene, she also broke up with him on the same day. And since the implosion of their office romance, Gene has been stuck in Philadelphia, consoling himself with Riverday, a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1982 -
My Son, the Druggist (The Marty Gold Mysteries #1)
by Marvin KayeWhen an allergic reaction results in death, a pharmacist takes the heatMarty Gold has enough problems. Cockroaches, for one thing, and two parents who give him endless grief for moving away from home, for another. But at Spector's Drugs in Manhattan, he is a king. The prescriptions he fills save liv... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1977 -
My Brother, the Druggist (The Marty Gold Mysteries #2)
by Marvin KayeWhile on vacation in DC, Marty must outwit kidnappers at a magicians' conventionMarty Gold deserves a vacation. For years he has toiled behind the pharmacy counter at Spector's, a Manhattan institution whose classic soda fountain makes it a magnet for every overstuffed rear end on the West Side. Amo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1979 -
The Soap Opera Slaughters (Hilary Quayle Mystery #5)
by Marvin Kaye[From the front flap:] "The plot of the popular daytime soap opera "Riverday" was melodramatic to be sure, but, as detective Hilary Quayle and her sometime lover Gene discover, it's not nearly as tangledor as deadlyas the drama its stars were acting out in real life. First, the unclad body of the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1982 -
Weird Tales
by Marvin KayThis book contains 43 classic horror stories from all incarnations of the "unique" magazine Weird Tales up to 1988, including stories by such well known authors as Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, H. G. Wells, Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp, Fredric Brown, Fritz Leiber, Tanith Lee, Richard Mat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1988 -
The Dragon Quintet
by Orson Scott Card • Elizabeth Moon • Mercedes Lackey • Tanith Lee • Marvin Kaye • Michael SwanwickAround the world, the dragon has been reborn in modern fantasy fiction. The classic winged fire-breathing reptiles often associated with evil (they do despoil villages and demand virgin sacrifices, after all) tend nowadays to be more kindly disposed to humanity, sometimes aloofly offering magical wi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe: Parodies and Pastiches Featuring the Great Detective of West 35th Street
by Lawrence Block • John Lescroart • Marvin Kaye • Mack Reynolds • Loren D. Estleman • Jon L. Breen • Robert Goldsborough • Robert Lopresti • Marion Mainwaring • Dave Zeltserman • Thomas Narcejac • Patrick Butler • William Brittain • O. X. Rusett • Frank Littler • Michael Bracken • Joseph GoodrichStories that pay tribute to Rex Stout&’s legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1995