"Sparkling Cyanide Sparkling Cyanide is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1945 under the title of Remembered Death and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the December of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6). The novel features the recurring character of Colonel Race for his last appearance to solve the mysterious deaths of a married couple, exactly one year apart. The plot of this novel"
"Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (""The Maltese Falcon""), Nick and Nora Charles (""The Thin Man""), and the Continental Op (""Red Harvest"" and ""The Dain Curse""). Hammett ""is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time"". In his obituary in ""The New York Times"", he was described as ""the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."" ""Time"" magazine included"
"Ayn Rand Ayn Rand (; born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, ""The Fountainhead"" and ""Atlas Shrugged"", and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, ""The Fountainhead"". In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel ""Atlas Shrugged"". Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy,"
"Caroline Slade Caroline Jennings Slade (October 7, 1886 — June 25, 1975; born Caroline Jennings Beach) was a New York State social welfare worker, child and women’s rights activist, and author of six starkly realistic novels that depicted poverty, misfortune, and social injustice within the lower stratum of American society during the Great Depression. Slade’s books—of which ""The Triumph of Willie Pond"" (1940), ""Lilly Crackell"" (1943), and ""Margaret"" (1946) are probably her best known—have been described as perfecting the social problem novel and are often categorized as Depression Era Literature. Caroline Jennings Beach was born October 7, 1886 in Minneapolis,"
"Sam D'Allesandro Sam D’Allesandro (born Richard Anderson) (April 3, 1956 – February 3, 1988) was an American writer and poet. He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and came to San Francisco as a young man in the early 1980s and published a book of elegant lyrics, ""Slippery Sins"". D'Allesandro was a member of the so-called ""New Narrative"" writers, which included Robert Glück, Bruce Boone, Steve Abbott and others. He reached out to other like-minded writers and contacted Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, Benjamin Weissman, David Trinidad, and Dodie Bellamy. With Bellamy he began an epistolary collaboration she was"
"have received grants. In some cases, these grants have been controversial due to their requiring research or teaching related to Rand. Novels: Other fiction: Non-fiction: Ayn Rand Ayn Rand (; born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, ""The Fountainhead"" and ""Atlas Shrugged"", and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with"
"Jesse Edward Grinstead Jesse Edward Grinstead (October 16, 1866 – March 8, 1948) was an American publisher, editor, poet and politician who in later life became a popular writer of Western fiction. Over his writing career Grinstead penned some 30 novels along with scores of short stories and articles that appeared in magazines and newspapers. At least two of his stories, ""The Scourge of the Little C"" (as ""Tumbling River"") and ""Sunset of Power"", became Hollywood films. Volumes of Grinstead's works were also published in Britain, Sweden and Spain. J. E. Grinstead was born at Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of"
"is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" 1962. Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his Gothic fantasy Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. Angela Carter (1940–1992) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Writing from the 1960s until the 1980s. Sir Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" (1981). His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" (1989) was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia (now"
"Enid Blyton Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into 90 languages; her first book, ""Child Whispers"", a 24-page collection of poems, was published in 1922. She wrote on a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives and is best remembered today for her Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven and Malory Towers series. Following the commercial success of her"
"Jim Knipfel Jim Knipfel (pronounced Kah-nipfel; born June 2, 1965) is an American novelist, autobiographer, and journalist. A native of Wisconsin, Knipfel, who suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, is the author of a series of critically acclaimed memoirs, ""Slackjaw"", ""Quitting the Nairobi Trio"", and ""Ruining It for Everybody"", as well as two novels, ""The Buzzing"" and ""Noogie's Time to Shine"". He wrote news stories, film and music reviews, the crime blotter, and feature articles until June 13, 2006 for the weekly alternative newspaper ""New York Press"", where he was the only staff writer. He also wrote the long-running and popular ""Slackjaw"""
"Noel Gerson Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was an American author who wrote 325 books, including several best sellers, among them two screenplay novelizations penned under the pseudonym Samuel Edwards, ""The Naked Maja"", and ""55 Days at Peking"". Aside from ""Samuel Edwards"", which would seem to have been his dedicated by-line for tie-in work, Gerson used the following nine pseudonyms in addition to his own name: Anne Marie Burgess; Michael Burgess; Nicholas Gorham; Paul Lewis; Leon Phillips; Donald Clayton Porter; Dana Fuller Ross; Philip Vail; and Carter A. Vaughan. He was the son of Sam Gerson, who directed the Shubert theaters"
"His detective novel, ""The Sad Variety"" (1964), contains a scathing portrayal of doctrinaire communists, the Soviet Union's repression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, and the ruthless tactics of Soviet intelligence agents. Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. He is the father of Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, a noted actor, and Tamasin Day-Lewis, a documentary filmmaker and television chef."
"Neil Simon Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly adaptations of his plays. He received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression, with his parents' financial hardships affecting their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters where he enjoyed watching the early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After a few years in the"
"Annie S. Swan Annie Shepherd Swan (8 July 1859 – 17 June 1943) was a Scottish journalist, novelist and story writer, who wrote mainly under her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. As a popular writer of romantic fiction for women, she published over 200 novels, serials, short stories and other fiction between 1878 and her death in 1943. She has been called ""one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"". Swan was politically active throughout her life: during the war effort of the First World"
"Chris Claremont Christopher S. Claremont (; born November 25, 1950) is a British-born American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 1975–1991 stint on ""Uncanny X-Men"", far longer than that of any other writer, during which he is credited with developing strong female characters as well as introducing complex literary themes into superhero narratives, turning the once underachieving comic into one of Marvel's most popular series. During his tenure at Marvel, Claremont co-created numerous X-Men characters, such as Rogue, Psylocke, Shadowcat, Phoenix, The Brood, Lockheed, Shi'ar, Shi'ar Imperial Guard, Mystique, Destiny, Selene, Reverend William Stryker, Lady Mastermind, Emma Frost,"
"F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of the ""Lost Generation"" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: ""This Side of Paradise"", ""The Beautiful and Damned"", ""The Great Gatsby"", and ""Tender Is"
"Chandler Brossard Chandler Brossard (July 18, 1922 – August 29, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, editor, and teacher. He wrote or edited a total of 17 books. With a challenging style and outsider characters, Brossard had limited critical success in the United States. His novels were more appreciated in France and Great Britain. His early works have been described as ""landmarks of the postwar American novel."" Since 2000, three of his novels have been reprinted. Brossard was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and had brothers Vincent and Boyd and a sister Adele. Both their mother Therese and father were"
"L. Neil Smith Lester Neil Smith III (born May 12, 1946), better known as L. Neil Smith, is an American libertarian science fiction author and political activist. His works include the trilogy of Lando Calrissian novels, all published in 1983: ""Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu"", ""Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon"", and ""Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka"". He also wrote the novels ""Pallas"", ""The Forge of the Elders"", and ""The Probability Broach"", each of which won the Libertarian Futurist Society's annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian science fiction novel. In 2016, Smith received a Special"
"writer. He was the author of the Professor Sally Good and the Carl Burns mysteries, the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, the Truman Smith P.I. series, and wrote three books in the series under the pseudonym ""Jack Buchanan"". He was also the writer of several westerns and horror novels. Crider had two children, Angela Crider Neary and Allen Crider, with his wife of 49 years Judy (née Stutts, 1943-2014). Crider died at his home in Alvin, Texas, on February 12, 2018 of cancer, at the age of 76. Bill Crider Bill Crider (July 28, 1941 – February 12, 2018) was an"
"Dead or Alive (novel) Dead or Alive is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and co-written with Grant Blackwood, and released on December 7, 2010. It is Clancy's first novel in seven years after ""The Teeth of the Tiger"" (2003), and follows the hunt by The Campus for ""the Emir"", a Middle Eastern terrorist based on Osama bin Laden. It unites several characters from the Ryanverse, including former president Jack Ryan, his son Jack Ryan Jr., his nephews Dominic and Brian Caruso, and Rainbow Six veterans John Clark and Domingo Chavez. The book debuted at number one on the"
"essays, as well as his memoirs. He often recalls pleasant or defining moments from his youth, usually describing the state of his vision loss in those years. Jim Knipfel Jim Knipfel (pronounced Kah-nipfel; born June 2, 1965) is an American novelist, autobiographer, and journalist. A native of Wisconsin, Knipfel, who suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, is the author of a series of critically acclaimed memoirs, ""Slackjaw"", ""Quitting the Nairobi Trio"", and ""Ruining It for Everybody"", as well as two novels, ""The Buzzing"" and ""Noogie's Time to Shine"". He wrote news stories, film and music reviews, the crime blotter, and feature articles"
"Sam Savage Sam Savage (born November 9, 1940) is an American novelist and poet, best known for his 2006 novel """". Other published works are ""The Cry of the Sloth"", ""The Criminal Life of Effie O"", and ""Glass"". Samuel Phillips Savage was born in 1940 in Camden, South Carolina. His father, Henry Savage Jr., a lawyer by profession, was also an author, publishing several books of history and natural history. Savage graduated from Yale University in 1968. He subsequently studied philosophy at Yale and at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, receiving a Phd from Yale University with a dissertation on"
"Reagan’s 'perfect yarn' franchised into neatly packaged commodity."" Dead or Alive (novel) Dead or Alive is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and co-written with Grant Blackwood, and released on December 7, 2010. It is Clancy's first novel in seven years after ""The Teeth of the Tiger"" (2003), and follows the hunt by The Campus for ""the Emir"", a Middle Eastern terrorist based on Osama bin Laden. It unites several characters from the Ryanverse, including former president Jack Ryan, his son Jack Ryan Jr., his nephews Dominic and Brian Caruso, and Rainbow Six veterans John Clark and Domingo Chavez."
"how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.""The Wrong Case"" (1975) Obituaries and remembrances James Crumley James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008) was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as ""one of modern crime writing's best practitioners"", who was ""a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel"" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. His"
"He wrote a book on photography and collected Japanese photographs, prints, and old books. Hankinson married in 1894 and was the father of numerous children. Charles James Hankinson Charles James Hankinson, pen name: Clive Holland (23 April 1866, Bournemouth – 14 February 1959, London), was an English journalist and photographer. Hankinson lectured on France, Belgium, the English countryside of Hardy's novels, and other travel and literary subjects. He made many contributions to ""The Westminster Gazette"" and ""The Pall Mall Gazette"" and wrote a number of books. He wrote three novels in the genre of science fiction and fantasy: ""Raymi; Or,"
"Cyril Hume Cyril Hume (March 16, 1900 – March 26, 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine ""The Yale Record"". He was an editor of the collection ""The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872-1922"" (1922). He wrote for 29 films between 1924 and 1966, including ""Tarzan the Ape Man"" (1932), ""Flying Down to Rio"" (1933), ""The Great Gatsby"" (1949), ""Tokyo Joe"" (1949) and ""Forbidden Planet"" (1956). Hume died on March 26, 1966, just 10 days after his 66th birthday, at his home in Palos Verdes, California, and"
"Austin Clarke (novelist) Austin Ardinel Chesterfield ""Tom"" Clarke, (July 26, 1934 – June 26, 2016), was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and short story writer who was based in Toronto, Ontario. Among his notable books are novels such as ""The Polished Hoe"" (2002), memoirs including ""Membering"" (2015), and two collections of poetry, ""Where the Sun Shines Best"" (2013) and ""In Your Crib"" (2015). Austin Clarke was born in 1934 in St. James, Barbados, where he received his early education in Anglican schools. He taught at a rural school for three years. In 1955 he moved to Canada and attended the University"
"discuss papers on the life and works of Lewis and the other Inklings, and generally appreciate all things Lewisian. Film adaptations have been made of three of ""The Chronicles of Narnia: "" (2005), """" (2008) and """" (2010). C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially ""The Screwtape Letters"", ""The Chronicles of Narnia"", and ""The Space Trilogy"", and"
"the four novels are ""The Secret Adversary"" (1922), ""N or M?"" (1941), ""By the Pricking of My Thumbs"" (1968); and ""Postern of Fate"" (1973). ""Postern of Fate"" was the last novel Christie ever wrote, although not the last to be published. Tuppence appears as a charismatic, impulsive, and intuitive person while Tommy is less imaginative and less likely to be diverted from the truth (as their first adversary sums him up ""he is not clever, but it is hard to blind his eyes to the facts"") which is why they are shown to make a good team. It is in"
"T. M. Wright Terrance Michael ""T. M."" Wright (September 9, 1947 – October 31, 2015) was an American author best known as a writer of horror fiction, speculative fiction, and poetry. He wrote more than 25 novels as well as novellas and short stories, over 40 years. His novels were translated into many different languages around the world. His works were reviewed by ""Kirkus Reviews"", ""Publishers Weekly"", ""Library Journal"", ""Booklist"", and many genre magazines. Wright's first publication was the non-fiction study of unidentified flying objects, entitled ""The Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers"" in 1968 for AS Barnes. ""Strange Seed"""
"Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghostwriters, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees. Clancy's literary career began in 1984 when he sold ""The Hunt"
"J. G. Ballard James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as ""The Wind from Nowhere"" (1961) and ""The Drowned World"" (1962). In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories (or ""condensed novels""), such as those collected in the controversial ""The Atrocity Exhibition"" (1970). In the mid 1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial ""Crash"" (1973), a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism, and ""High-Rise"" (1975), a"
"Ann C. Crispin Ann Carol Crispin (April 5, 1950 – September 6, 2013) was an American science fiction writer, the author of twenty-three published novels. She wrote several ""Star Trek"" and ""Star Wars"" novelizations and created an original science fiction series called ""Starbridge"". Crispin's writing career began in 1983. As a writer of ""tie-in"" novels she was known for developing the backgrounds and emotional lives of on-screen characters. Two of her ""Star Trek"" novels — ""Yesterday's Son"" and ""Time for Yesterday"" — were direct sequels to the third-season episode """", and detail Spock and Zarabeth's son. ""Yesterday's Son"" was the"