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Patrick Quentin
Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 – 26 July 1987), Richard Wilson Webb (August 1901 – December 1966), Martha Mott Kelley (30 April 1906 – 2005) and Mary Louise White Aswell (3 June 1902 – 24 December 1984) wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection ''The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow'' was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. In 1949, the book ''Puzzle for Pilgrims'' won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière International Prize, the most prestigious award for crime and detective fiction in France. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Wheeler
Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 – 26 July 1987) was a British novelist, screenwriter, librettist, poet and translator. He resided in the United States from 1934 until his death and became a naturalized citizen in 1942. He had attended London University.Hugh Wheeler profile filmreference.com, accessed May 28, 2009. Under the noms de plume , Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge, Wheeler was the author or co-author of many novels and short stories. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Widow (1954 Film)
''Black Widow'' is a 1954 American DeLuxe Color mystery film in CinemaScope, with elements of film noir, written, produced, and directed by Nunnally Johnson, based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Patrick Quentin. The film stars Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, and George Raft. Plot Peter Denver, a renowned Broadway producer, is attending a cocktail party hosted by the viciously haughty and celebrated actress Carlotta "Lottie" Marin and her quiet husband Brian Mullen when he meets Nancy "Nanny" Ordway. The seemingly naïve Nanny, a 20-year-old aspiring writer, says she hopes to make it big in New York. She convinces a reluctant Peter to persuade his wife, Iris—another famous actress, who is temporarily out of town—to agree to Nanny's use of the couple's apartment to write in during the day. After the Denvers return from the airport and find Nanny hanging dead in their bathroom, a variety of people Nanny has recently met in New York begin to reveal deeper and dark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evening Standard
The ''Evening Standard'', formerly ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), also known as the ''London Evening Standard'', is a local free daily newspaper in London, England, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format. In October 2009, after being purchased by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, the paper ended a 180-year history of paid circulation and became a free newspaper, doubling its circulation as part of a change in its business plan. Emily Sheffield became editor in July 2020 but resigned in October 2021. History From 1827 to 2009 The newspaper was founded by barrister Stanley Lees Giffard on 21 May 1827 as ''The Standard''. The early owner of the paper was Charles Baldwin. Under the ownership of James Johnstone, ''The Standard'' became a morning paper from 29 June 1857. ''The Evening Standard'' was published from 11 June 1859. ''The Standard'' gained eminence for its detailed foreign news, notably its reporting of events of the American Civil War (1861–1865 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death And The Maiden (short Story)
Death and the Maiden, a concept ultimately derived from the Medieval " Dance of Death", may refer to: Drama * ''Death and the Maiden'' (play), by Ariel Dorfman * ''Death and the Maiden'' (film), an adaptation by Roman Polanski *''Prinzessinnendramen: Der Tod und das Mädchen I-V'' (Princess Dramas: Death and the Maiden I-V), five theatrical plays by Elfriede Jelinek Literature * ''Death and the Maidens'', a biography of Fanny Imlay * ''Death and the Maiden'' (novel), a 1947 novel by Gladys Mitchell * "Death and the Maiden", a 1960 short story by Ray Bradbury * ''Death and the Maiden'', a 1994 novel by P. N. Elrod * '' Batman: Death and the Maidens'', a graphic novel by Greg Rucka * ''Death and the Maiden'', a 1939 mystery novel by Q. Patrick Music * "Death and the Maiden" (song), composed by Franz Schubert in 1817 * ''Death and the Maiden Quartet'', an 1824 string quartet by Franz Schubert * ''Death and the Maiden Ballet'', a 1938 ballet by Nikos Skalkottas * "Death and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Boy Lost (short Story)
Little Boy Lost may refer to: *" The Little Boy Lost", a simple lyric poem by William Blake from his ''Songs of Innocence'' series *" A Little Boy Lost", a later poem by William Blake from his ''Songs of Experience'' series *''A Little Boy Lost'', a 1905 novel by William Henry Hudson William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) – known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson – was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. Life Hudson was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine (), U ... * ''Little Boy Lost'' (novel), a 1949 novel by Marghanita Laski * Little Boy Lost (sculpture), a silicon sculpture by Australian artist Paul Trefry * ''Little Boy Lost'' (1953 film), a 1953 film based on Laski's book starring Bing Crosby * ''Little Boy Lost'' (1978 film), a 1978 Australian film based on the true story of a missing child, Stephen Walls. * "Little Boy Lost" (''The Twilight Zone''), a 1985 episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' * "Little Boy Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellery Queens's Mystery Magazine
Ellery may refer to: * Ellery (duo), an American pop group * Ellery (given name) * Ellery (surname) * Ellery, New York, a US town * Ellery, Illinois, a US town See also * Ellery Lake, a lake in Ontario, Canada * Mount Ellery, Australia * Mount Ellery (Antarctica) * Ellery Bop, a 1980s British pop group * Eleri (other) * Elery (other) Elery may refer to: * Elery, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Henry County, in the U.S. state of Ohio * Elery Hanley, English former rugby league player and coach * Elery Hamilton-Smith, Australian interdisciplinary scholar and academic * E ... * Ellery Queen (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction. Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, ''EQMM'' is named after the fictitious author Ellery Queen, who wrote novels and short stories about a fictional detective named Ellery Queen. From 1993, EQMM changed its cover title to be ''Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine'' (without the 's), but the table of contents still retains the full name. Background Ellery Queen was the pseudonym of the team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who had been writing under the name since 1929. ''EQMM'' was created to provide a market for mystery fiction above the common run of pulp crime magazines of the day. Dannay served as the magazine's editor-in-chief (although still under the name Ellery Queen) from its creation until his death in 1982, when managing editor Eleanor Sullivan succeeded to the post. Following her death in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Week (magazine)
''This Week'' was a nationally syndicated Sunday magazine supplement that was included in American newspapers between 1935 and 1969. In the early 1950s, it accompanied 37 Sunday newspapers. A decade later, at its peak in 1963, ''This Week'' was distributed with the Sunday editions of 42 newspapers for a total circulation of 14.6 million. When it went out of business in 1969 it was the oldest syndicated newspaper supplement in the United States.Henry Raymont"This Week Magazine Ends Publication Nov. 2,"''The New York Times,'' August 14, 1969, page 27. It was distributed with the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Dallas Morning News'', ''The Plain Dealer'' (Cleveland, Ohio), the ''Boston Herald'', and others. Magazine historian Phil Stephensen-Payne noted, "It grew from a circulation of four million in 1935 to nearly 12 million in 1957, far outstripping other fiction-carrying weeklies such as '' Collier's'', ''Liberty'' and even ''The Saturday Evening Post'' (all of which eventually folded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordeal (short Story)
''Ordeal'' may refer to: * Trial by ordeal, a religious judicial practice to determine "the will of God" Books * ''Ordeal'' (autobiography), a 1980 autobiography of Linda Lovelace * ''Ordeal'' (trilogy), 1918–1941 novel trilogy by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy * ''Ordeal'', the American title of ''What Happened to the Corbetts'', a 1939 novel by Nevil Shute Film and television * ''The Ordeal'' (film), a 1922 American silent drama * "Ordeal" (''UFO''), a 1971 episode of the TV series ''UFO'' * ''Ordeal'', a 1973 American television film for American Broadcasting Company * ''Calvaire'' (film), also known as ''The Ordeal'', a 2004 psychological horror film *"The Ordeal", an episode of ''Doctor Who'', see ''The Daleks'' Other uses * ''Ordeal'' (album), by Skepticism * Ordeal (horse) (born 1957), New Zealand Standardbred racemare * Ordeal (level of OA membership), the first degree of membership in the Order of the Arrow, an organization within the Boy Scouts of America See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Rides The Ski Trail
Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. Death is an inevitable process that eventually occurs in almost all organisms. Death is generally applied to whole organisms; the similar process seen in individual components of an organism, such as cells or tissues, is necrosis. Something that is not considered an organism, such as a virus, can be physically destroyed but is not said to die. As of the early 21st century, over 150,000 humans die each day, with ageing being by far the most common cause of death. Many cultures and religions have the idea of an afterlife, and also may hold the idea of judgement of good and bad deeds in one's life (heaven, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Weekly
''The American Weekly'' was a Sunday newspaper supplement published by the Hearst Corporation from November 1, 1896, until 1966. History During the 1890s, publications were inserted into Joseph Pulitzer's ''New York World'' and William Randolph Hearst's ''New York Journal''. Hearst had the eight-page ''Women's Home Journal'' and the 16-page ''Sunday American Magazine'', which later became ''The American Weekly''. In November 1896, Morrill Goddard, editor of the ''New York Journal'' from 1896 to 1937, launched Hearst's Sunday magazine, later commenting, "Nothing is so stale as yesterday's newspaper, but ''The American Weekly'' may be around the house for days or weeks and lose none of its interest." Magazine and illustration historian Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. outlined the contents and detailed the publication's leading illustrators: :It was billed as having a circulation of over 50,000,000 readers and was filled with scantily clad showgirls and tales of murder and suspense. It was l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The American Magazine
''The American Magazine'' was a periodical publication founded in June 1906, a continuation of failed publications purchased a few years earlier from publishing mogul Miriam Leslie. It succeeded ''Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly'' (1876–1904), ''Leslie's Monthly Magazine'' (1904–1905), ''Leslie's Magazine'' (1905) and the ''American Illustrated Magazine'' (1905–1906). The magazine was published through August 1956. History Under the magazine's original title, ''Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly'', it had begun to be published in 1876 and was renamed ''Leslie's Monthly Magazine'' in 1904, and then was renamed again as ''Leslie's Magazine'' in 1905. From September 1905, through May 1906, it was entitled the ''American Illustrated Magazine''; then subsequently shortened as ''The American Magazine'' until publication ceased in 1956. It kept continuous volume numbering throughout its history. In June 1906, muckraking journalists Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens and Ida M. Tar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
