|
Three Blind Mice And Other Stories
''Three Blind Mice and Other Stories'' is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950. The first edition retailed at $2.50. Stories from the collection later appeared in the British collections ''The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding'' (1960), ''Poirot's Early Cases'' (1974), ''Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories'' (1979), and ''Problem at Pollensa Bay'' (1992). However, the title story, an alternate version of the play ''The Mousetrap'', has not been published in book form in the UK. Plot summaries Three Blind Mice During a blinding snowstorm, a homicidal maniac traps a small group of people in an isolated boarding house. Giles and Molly Davis have just inherited Monkswell Manor from Molly’s Aunt Katherine, and they have decided to open it as a guest house. During a heavy blizzard, an intriguing cast of characters are trapped together, yet not everything is what it appears. After on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery ''The Mousetrap'', which has been performed in the West End since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. ''Guinness World Records'' lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. Christie was born into a wealthy upper middle class family in Torquay, Devon, and was largely home-schooled. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dell Books
Dell Publishing Company, Inc. is an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, that was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr. with $10,000 (approx. $145,000 in 2021), two employees and one magazine title, ''I Confess'', and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines, which included penny-a-word detective stories, articles about films, and romance books (or "smoochies" as they were known in the slang of the day). During the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Dell was one of the largest publishers of magazines, including pulp magazines. Their line of humor magazines included '' 1000 Jokes'', launched in 1938. From 1929 to 1974, they published comics under the Dell Comics line, the bulk of which (1938–68) was done in partnership with Western Publishing. In 1943, Dell entered into paperback book publishing with Dell Paperbacks. They also used the book imprints of Dial Press, Delacorte Books, Delacorte Press, Yearling Books, and Laurel Leaf Library. Dell was acquired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hercule Poirot Short Story Collections
Hercule may refer to: Fictional characters * Hercules, in Roman mythology * Hercule Poirot, a detective created by Agatha Christie * Hercule Flambeau, in the Father Brown mysteries by G. K. Chesterton * Hercule (''Dragon Ball'') or Mr. Satan, in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise * Hercule, from the comic book '' Pif et Hercule'' People * Hercule, Duke of Montbazon (1568–1654), French peer * Hercule Audiffret (1603-1659), French orator and religious writer * Hercule Corbineau (1780–1823), French soldier * Hercule Dupré (1844–1927), Canadian farmer, lumber merchant, and political figure * Hercule Mériadec, Duke of Rohan-Rohan (1669–1749) * Hercule Mériadec, Prince of Guéméné (1688–1757) * Hercule Nicolet (1801–1872), Swiss lithographer, natural history illustrator, librarian, and entomologist * Hercule de Serre (1776–1824), French soldier, lawyer, and politician * Hercule-Louis Turinetti, marquis of Prié (1658–1726), Dutch noble Other uses * ''Hercule'' (film), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story Collections By Agatha Christie
Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as the Short Arts, entertainment, and media * Short film, a cinema format (also called film short or short subject) * Short story, prose generally readable in one sitting * ''The Short-Timers'', a 1979 semi-autobiographical novel by Gustav Hasford, about military short-timers in Vietnam Brands and enterprises * Short Brothers, a British aerospace company * Short Brothers of Sunderland, former English shipbuilder Computing and technology * Short circuit, an accidental connection between two nodes of an electrical circuit * Short integer, a computer datatype Finance * Short (finance), stock-trading position * Short snorter, a banknote signed by fellow travelers, common during World War II Foodstuffs * Short pastry, one which is rich in butt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Short Story Collections
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Problem At Pollensa Bay And Other Stories
''Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories'' is a short story collection by Agatha Christie published in the UK only in November 1991 by HarperCollins. It was not published in the US but all the stories contained within it had previously been published in American volumes. It retailed at £13.99. It contains two stories with Hercule Poirot, two with Parker Pyne, two with Harley Quin and two gothic tales. List of stories * ''Problem at Pollensa Bay'' * ''The Second Gong'' * ''Yellow Iris'' * ''The Harlequin Tea Set'' * ''The Regatta Mystery'' * ''The Love Detectives'' * ''Next to a Dog'' * ''Magnolia Blossom'' Publication history * 1991, HarperCollins, November 1991, Hardcover, 232 pp * 1992, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback First publication of stories The first UK magazine publication of all the stories has not been fully documented. The known listing is as follows: * ''Magnolia Blossom'': First published in issue 329 of the ''Royal Magazine'' in March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
''Cosmopolitan'' is an American monthly fashion and entertainment magazine for women, first published based in New York City in March 1886 as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and, since 1965, has become a women's magazine. ''Cosmopolitan'' is one of the best-selling magazines and is directed mainly towards a female audience. Jessica Pels is the magazine's current editor-in-chief. Formerly titled ''The Cosmopolitan'' and often referred to as ''Cosmo'', throughout the years, ''Cosmopolitan'' has adapted its style and content. Its current incarnation was originally marketed as a woman's fashion magazine with articles on home, family, and cooking. Eventually, editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown changed its attention to more of a women empowerment magazine. Nowadays, its content includes articles discussing relationships, sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, fashion, horoscopes, and beauty. ''Cosmopolitan'' is published by New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ... [...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] |
Collier's Weekly
''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened in 1905 to ''Collier's: The National Weekly'' and eventually to simply ''Collier's''. The magazine ceased publication with the issue dated the week ending January 4, 1957, although a brief, failed attempt was made to revive the Collier's name with a new magazine in 2012. As a result of Peter Collier's pioneering investigative journalism, ''Collier's'' established a reputation as a proponent of social reform. After lawsuits by several companies against ''Collier's'' ended in failure, other magazines joined in what Theodore Roosevelt described as "muckraking journalism." Sponsored by Nathan S. Collier (a descendant of Peter Collier), the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability was created in 2019. The annual US$25,000 prize is one of the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detective Story Magazine
''Detective Story Magazine'' was an American magazine published by Street & Smith from October 15, 1915, to Summer, 1949 (1,057 issues). It was one of the first pulp magazines devoted to detective fiction and consisted of short stories and serials. While the publication was the publishing house's first detective-fiction pulp magazine in a format resembling a modern paperback (a "thick book" in dime-novel parlance), Street & Smith had only recently ceased publication of the dime-novel series '' Nick Carter Weekly'', which concerned the adventures of a young detective. From February 21, 1931, to its demise, the magazine was titled ''Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine''. During half of its 34-year life, the magazine was popular enough to support ''weekly'' issues. Ludwig Wittgenstein, the eminent philosopher, was among the magazine's readership. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Book (magazine)
''Blue Book'' was a popular 20th-century American magazine with a lengthy 70-year run under various titles from 1905 to 1975. Ashley, Mike, "Blue Book—The Slick in Pulp Clothing". ''Pulp Vault'' Magazine, No. 14. Barrington Hills, IL: Tattered Pages Press, 2011: pp. 210–53. It was a sibling magazine to '' The Red Book Magazine'' and ''The Green Book Magazine''. Launched as ''The Monthly Story Magazine'', it was published under that title from May 1905 to August 1906 with a change to ''The Monthly Story Blue Book Magazine'' for issues from September 1906 to April 1907. In its early days, ''Blue Book'' also carried a supplement on theatre actors called "Stageland". The magazine was aimed at both male and female readers. For the next 45 years (May 1907 to January 1952), it was known as ''The Blue Book Magazine'', ''Blue Book Magazine'', ''Blue Book'', and ''Blue Book of Fiction and Adventure''. The title was shortened with the February 1952 issue to simply ''Bluebook'', continuin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
