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A classic whodunit, originally published in 1946, follows the plucky New Orleans reporter Margaret Slone as she tries to solve the murder of a womanizing surgeon.

Here are twelve classic essays by True Crime pioneer William Roughead, including The Fatal Countess and Physic and Forgery.

A family saga set during the American Revolution, traces the path of the powerful Hessian family, the Haynows, as they navigate a tumultuous path from Europe to America.

A compilation of letters sent by Daphne du Maurier to her close friend Oriel Malet with further text by Oriel Malet linking and contextualizing the letters.

This collection of essays looks at how films in the last few years have reflected and juxtaposed the ascent of Barack Obama and his administration. The films examined here include The Help, Django Unchained, Lincoln, The Mist, Invictus, Black Dynamite, and The Great Gatsby.

This workbook offers a comprehensive review of existing violence prevention programs, which can help schools evaluate their existing programs and select the right approach for them. Author Dr. Jared M. Scherz offers practical guidance on building a prevention paradigm that integrates into the existing mission and vision of a given school.

Completing Elisabeth Ogilvie's Tide Trilogy, The Ebbing Tide follows Joanna Bennett as she works to keep the home fires of Bennett's Island burning while the men of the island are off fighting in World War II. A handsome stranger shows up on the island, helping Joanna at a critical time, but also instigating a crisis of the heart.

This essential party primer includes new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America's political parties and the effects of new media and campaign finance laws, and the implications of all these things on future policymaking and electoral prospects moving forward.

This collection of essays uses the term "Arab Uprisings" as the organizing frame to address numerous socio-cultural, economic, political, experiential, and communicative aspects of the uprisings. The text is organized around three themes: origins, experiences, and trajectories. The first section addresses catalyzing factors that help explain the emergence of the uprisings from various political, economic, and socio-cultural perspectives. The second section examines the functions and responses of diverse people, institutions, and ideologies during the initial years of the uprisings. It includes an in-depth case study on women's changing political situation in the catalyzing country of Tunisia, as well as discussions about the roles of political Islam, new mass media, and social networks in these rapidly changing contexts. The third section discusses cross-national implications and the multitude of repercussion the uprisings are having on the global system.

This is perhaps the most revealing case history of the politics of modern warfare ever set down. It is a story of a time when image making and public relations took precedence over strategy at the cost of thousands of lives. It is the story of the distortion of history and the promulgation of questionable glory.By August 1942, disaster had struck Great Britain in every theater of war, Singapore had fallen; Crete was gone; the Egyptians were hammering at Egypt. The British Navy and Air Force were being repulsed, and Churchill wrote: ¿I should have then vanished from the scene and the harvest would have been ascribed to my belated disappearance.¿ The shadow of becoming a second class power was already falling on Britain, and Churchill and his generals were about to be eclipsed by Roosevelt and the strength of America. Churchill was desperate for victory and a glamorous hero.General Auchinleck, commander of Britain¿s Eighth Army, had already fought a successful battle at El Alamein. But Churchill needed something more theatrically effective than what Auchinleck could provide. SO he set the propaganda machinery working to obliterate that victory. Auchinleck was sacked and replaced by Montgomery.Although Rommel was by this time a very sick man with a weakened army, the myth of the Desert Fox was revived as well. And the second Battle of El Alamein, the one recorded in the history books, was launched. Every man played his part well, including the public relations staff, General Montgomery¿s personal photographers, the moving picture teams, and those who fell in battle.This is a fascinating book, not just for buffs of military history, but for anyone concerned with how a war is really run in an age of propaganda.

Here is the enthralling story of the Grand Duchess of Courland and her daughters, and their cunning navigation of the courts of Napoleonic Europe. They shared beds with the most powerful men of Europe-Metternich and Talleyrand-and these remarkable women were able to subtly shape history from their boudoirs.

Bonnie Ehrlich was tired of Dior suits and diamond necklaces and being told by her press agent, "You're just not newsworthy." She had made headlines once before when she sued world famous filmmaker Hercules Fokis for running her over in a drive-in brothel. And she would, at any cost, make headlines again. She would, at any cost, make headlines again. She would write a book."I'll write about the broads I used to know in Hollywood," she explained to her husband Manny."No good," he said. "Polly Adler done that bit years ago.""Not those broads, stupid. I mean actresses I knew when they were starting out. The ones who made it big. Of it's dirty enough it can't miss."The Broadbelters is the story of what happened when Bonnie Ehrlich signed a contract with Dave Shmeer, publisher of bestsellers, and made use of his formula: Chapter = 2 Bedroom Scenes + Narrative. It's a very funny story. In fact The Broadbelters is probably the funniest book since Candy, or Candide, or Candle in the Night, or Valley of the Dolls, or Up the Down Staircase, or Jean Christophe, or Auntie Mame.

At thirty-three, Lady Andrea Harrington is the most glamorous and powerful figure in the American food establishment, star of an award-winning gourmet television show and owner of the catering firm most in demand among the very chic and very rich. Then suddenly, at the height of her career, a miscalculation threatens to destroy everything. And once again she must fight to protect the position her ambition has driven her to reach. Getting there once has guaranteed her nothing.Born Andrea Nilsson in Cleveland, she is the only daughter of doting, middle-class parents who, in giving her all they could, simply taught her how much more there was. She becomes a Broadway star at twenty, and a has-been at twenty-two. She is offered a real-life role wife to an English baronet nearly twice her age, only to become the heroine of a real-life tragedy.Moving from brilliant Broadway openings to backstage despair, from English garden parties to lavish Los Angeles mansions, from the kitchens of the world's greatest restaurants to the bedrooms of the very rich, we follow Lady Andrea on her climb to the top.A gripping saga about a woman force to choose between love and career set in the heady world of international cuisine.

The people have fled the countryside. They have come by the thousands into the city. What it is they are fleeing they cannot say. They fear "the enemy"-an enemy whom they are certain will one day attack. One man sits beyond the gates watching. But when the true enemy attacks, he comes not from the outside, but from within.From the beginning, Marcel Clouzot weaves this fascinating contemporary fable that may be interpreted as a political statement or a philosophical summation of the future of the West.The Walled City is an allegory about the malaise infecting today's world. In it Clouzot has created a Western Society which is about to lose its souls in its battle with technology. It would prefer to lay the blame on external enemies, but the sickness is within-inside the walls. All the symptoms are there: the all-powerful state, Law & Order, the swollen Factory, the controlled Press, inflation and bad money, the ailing Church, the arrogance of Science, the ravages of Pollution, the deadening impact of the egalitarian society, even Feminism-and the man of good will, its protagonist, who is trapped between the Law and his own conscience. When The Walled City was published in France it was called 'a great hallucinatory book' and Clouzot was compared to Celine.

This book is the first collection of essays on the works of William T. Vollmann. It offers a comprehensive overview of his writings through scholarly essays and nonscholarly reflections that assess his oeuvre in terms of four conceptual categories: social, historical, political, and methodological. Taken together, these pieces place Vollmann among his peers in contemporary North American literature and open up new avenues for readers to negotiate the many challenges and rewards his texts present.

The fascinating cases of real-life detective Rupert Schindler details 25 cases he solved during the Thirties and Forties. It provides fascinating insights on both Schindler and the era during which he was solving crimes.

With questions about killers and kidnappers, blackmailers and burglars, The True Crime Quiz Book is the definitive proving ground for readers fascinated with the hard facts of true crime throughout history.

A mid-century tale of passion and scandal that plays out over the course of twenty-four hours at a luxurious beachfront estate.

The first full length account of the Smithsonian's history, and a vintage account of its gigantic and wonderful collections circa 1950.

An epic novel of love, passion, crime, and the criminal system set in America in the 1940s.

An entertaining handbook of magic tricks you can perform without fancy, costly equipment.

Covers the well-known traprock crags as well as lesser-known climbing areas. Ragged Mountain, Pinnacle Rock, Cathole Pass, and other crags offer climbs ranging from moderate fives to tough 5.12s. Detailed route descriptions, maps, and topos are included.

This novel of the Roaring Twenties features the irresistible siren Ruby Wilson as she navigates treacherous affairs, leaving in her wake a trail of broken hearts.

Tascosa Cummings and his band of mounted men find themselves in the crossfire of a two-sided range war, and getting out alive with their guns in their holsters just doesn't seem to be an option. When the people who enforce the law join forces with those who break it, it's up to Tas and his men to defend what's rightfully theirs-law or no law.

This third edition covers Bulgarian history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and over 700 cross-referenced entries on important people, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an access point for students, researchers, and general readers.

Unforgettable collection of the best of John Long's writing on adventure travel and climbing.

Designed to help middle and high school teachers, as well as students new to the rigor of college, Studying and Learning in a High Stakes World incorporates test preparation into classrooms without asking teachers to "teach to the test."

A classic tail of the West, featuring a young Harvard graduate who must reconcile his East Coast education with the customs and heritage of his Cherokee upbringing.

It was a lonely life the Wolfer led. He ate when he felt hungry, drank as he wanted, and slept where he fell. It hadn't always been that way…Once there had been a cabin filled with the warmth of Katie's smile, a bright flower that touched every corner of his life with love…that was all gone now. He'd left her one furious winter's night, and when he'd returned, Katie lay in the snow outside their cabin, dead, surrounded by wolf tracks.Roan McCrae had been taking his revenge on wolves ever since. Soon, however, he learns that the wolf isn't the real scourge of the land. That epithet belongs to Azle Steppe and his men. A powerful man, Azle Steppe's greed knows few limitations. When he decides to take over the valley, Roan McCrae is the first one he'll burn out and run off.And then the Wolfer will become the Wolf..and the Hunter will become the Hunted.