Author: Ango Sakaguchi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548377816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A New Detective for a New AgeMeiji Era (1868-1912) -- Japan Toranosuke, the owner of a dojo for swordfighting, is also an amateur detective. He takes cases too baffling for the police to the Great Detective, Yuki Shinjuro, a handsome and brilliant man. He also explains the case to Katsu Kaishu, a man greatly admired by Toranosuke. The great intellect Kaishu tries to unravel the mystery from the comfort of his home. At the scene of the crime, Shinjuro unveils the murderer. In the final scene, Kaishu consoles himself for being wrong as usual.
Ango's Detective Casebook
Author: Ango Sakaguchi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548377816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A New Detective for a New AgeMeiji Era (1868-1912) -- Japan Toranosuke, the owner of a dojo for swordfighting, is also an amateur detective. He takes cases too baffling for the police to the Great Detective, Yuki Shinjuro, a handsome and brilliant man. He also explains the case to Katsu Kaishu, a man greatly admired by Toranosuke. The great intellect Kaishu tries to unravel the mystery from the comfort of his home. At the scene of the crime, Shinjuro unveils the murderer. In the final scene, Kaishu consoles himself for being wrong as usual.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548377816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A New Detective for a New AgeMeiji Era (1868-1912) -- Japan Toranosuke, the owner of a dojo for swordfighting, is also an amateur detective. He takes cases too baffling for the police to the Great Detective, Yuki Shinjuro, a handsome and brilliant man. He also explains the case to Katsu Kaishu, a man greatly admired by Toranosuke. The great intellect Kaishu tries to unravel the mystery from the comfort of his home. At the scene of the crime, Shinjuro unveils the murderer. In the final scene, Kaishu consoles himself for being wrong as usual.
Ango's Detective Casebook
Author: Ango Sakaguchi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781981898145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Justice over Fame and Fortune The Gentleman Detective, Yuki Shinjuro, matches wits with more cunning and ruthless rivals in these classic murder mysteries.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781981898145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Justice over Fame and Fortune The Gentleman Detective, Yuki Shinjuro, matches wits with more cunning and ruthless rivals in these classic murder mysteries.
Science and the Detective
Author: Brian H. Kaye
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 3527615547
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Who killed Napoleon? Were the witches of Salem high on LSD? What do maggots on a body tell us about the time of death? In his unique, engaging style, Brian Kaye tells the story of some spectacular cases in which forensic evidence played a key role. You'll also read about the fascinating ways in which scientific evidence can be used to establish guilt or innocence in today's courtroom. The use of voice analysis, methods for developing fingerprints and for uncovering art forgeries, and the examination of bullet wounds are just a few topics considered. In a special section on fraud, the author takes you into the world of counterfeit money. There's no solving crime without science. Written for everyone interested in whodunnits, this book explains the basis of the analytical techniques available for studying evidence in offenses ranging from doping in sports to first-degree murder.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 3527615547
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Who killed Napoleon? Were the witches of Salem high on LSD? What do maggots on a body tell us about the time of death? In his unique, engaging style, Brian Kaye tells the story of some spectacular cases in which forensic evidence played a key role. You'll also read about the fascinating ways in which scientific evidence can be used to establish guilt or innocence in today's courtroom. The use of voice analysis, methods for developing fingerprints and for uncovering art forgeries, and the examination of bullet wounds are just a few topics considered. In a special section on fraud, the author takes you into the world of counterfeit money. There's no solving crime without science. Written for everyone interested in whodunnits, this book explains the basis of the analytical techniques available for studying evidence in offenses ranging from doping in sports to first-degree murder.
A Perry Mason Casebook
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Case of the Sulky Girl,
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Case of the Sulky Girl,
The Complete Casebook of Sgt. Brinkhaus
Author: Frederick Nebel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781618271587
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Following Donahue and Cardigan, Frederick Nebel's longest-running detective series featured the hard-boiled exploits of Sgt. Otto Herman "Brinky" Brinkhaus and Inspector Peter Larsen of the Portsend Detective Bureau as chronicled in the pages of Detective Action Stories, Dime Detective Magazine, and Detective Fiction Weekly. Now, for the first time, all of their cases are reprinted in another volume in the uniform Nebel Library.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781618271587
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Following Donahue and Cardigan, Frederick Nebel's longest-running detective series featured the hard-boiled exploits of Sgt. Otto Herman "Brinky" Brinkhaus and Inspector Peter Larsen of the Portsend Detective Bureau as chronicled in the pages of Detective Action Stories, Dime Detective Magazine, and Detective Fiction Weekly. Now, for the first time, all of their cases are reprinted in another volume in the uniform Nebel Library.
The Casebook of Gregory Hood
Author: Anthony Boucher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932009828
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The first collection of classic radio plays featuring a suave amateur detective.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781932009828
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The first collection of classic radio plays featuring a suave amateur detective.
Detective Piggot's Case Book
Author: Kevin Morgan
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
ISBN: 9781742702650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Welcome to hell, a world at war. The streets of Melbourne no longer a tidy grid but fractured with laneways like cracks in old varnish, a hotchpotch of chaos u of shanties and factories, woodpiles and chimneys u the city smouldering under its bludgeoned sky. Here, crime flourishes, the damaged fester and the wicked plot: a circle of the damned into which strides Frederick Piggott u enforcer of the King's law. Detective Piggott's Casebook presents for the first time the riveting inside facts on nine of the most important Victoria Police investigations of the early 20th century, drawing on the long-hidden personal papers of forensic pioneer, Frederick Piggott (1874u1962). Likened by his contemporaries to Sherlock Holmes, Piggott's investigations conducted in the shadow and aftermath of World War I covered the state's most gruesome and mysterious crimes, including the notorious schoolgirl murders of Alma Tirtschke and Irene Tuckerman, and the horrific 'headless boy' and 'Yarra baby killer' cases. These uncensored accounts expose the graphic and often perplexing nature of the period's criminal investigation work and point to the dawn of a new era in Australian crime detection the rise of forensic science.
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
ISBN: 9781742702650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Welcome to hell, a world at war. The streets of Melbourne no longer a tidy grid but fractured with laneways like cracks in old varnish, a hotchpotch of chaos u of shanties and factories, woodpiles and chimneys u the city smouldering under its bludgeoned sky. Here, crime flourishes, the damaged fester and the wicked plot: a circle of the damned into which strides Frederick Piggott u enforcer of the King's law. Detective Piggott's Casebook presents for the first time the riveting inside facts on nine of the most important Victoria Police investigations of the early 20th century, drawing on the long-hidden personal papers of forensic pioneer, Frederick Piggott (1874u1962). Likened by his contemporaries to Sherlock Holmes, Piggott's investigations conducted in the shadow and aftermath of World War I covered the state's most gruesome and mysterious crimes, including the notorious schoolgirl murders of Alma Tirtschke and Irene Tuckerman, and the horrific 'headless boy' and 'Yarra baby killer' cases. These uncensored accounts expose the graphic and often perplexing nature of the period's criminal investigation work and point to the dawn of a new era in Australian crime detection the rise of forensic science.
The Nonserial Murders
Author: Ango Sakaguchi
Publisher: Shelley Marshall
ISBN: 1734964480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Guests, invited and uninvited, converge on the mountain villa of their wealthy friend, Utagawa Kazuma, to spend the summer of 1947. Soon after the arrival of these writers, actors, and artists and their tangled relationships of love, fame, and money, the first murder victim is discovered then another and another.... The host, his guests, and an assortment of unusual police detectives struggle to find the murderer during this long, hot summer.
Publisher: Shelley Marshall
ISBN: 1734964480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Guests, invited and uninvited, converge on the mountain villa of their wealthy friend, Utagawa Kazuma, to spend the summer of 1947. Soon after the arrival of these writers, actors, and artists and their tangled relationships of love, fame, and money, the first murder victim is discovered then another and another.... The host, his guests, and an assortment of unusual police detectives struggle to find the murderer during this long, hot summer.
Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction
Author: L. Sussex
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230289401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les femmes', in a project of rediscovery.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230289401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is a study of the 'mothers' of the mystery genre. Traditionally the invention of crime writing has been ascribed to Poe, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, but they had formidable women rivals, whose work has been until recently largely forgotten. The purpose of this book is to 'cherchez les femmes', in a project of rediscovery.
Detective McLevys Casebook
Author: James McLevy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911524007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911524007
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description