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Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology – Volume 5
''Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology – Volume 5'' is the fifth installment of ''Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology'', one of the many Alfred Hitchcock story collection books; edited by Eleanor Sullivan. Originally published in hardcover as ''Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine'' in 1979, the book contains 29 short stories by many well-known crime fiction novelists. Contents *''A Bottle of Wine'' (1956) by Borden Deal *''The Glass Bridge'' (1957) by Robert Arthur, Jr., Robert Arthur *''Luck is No Lady'' (1957) by Robert Bloch *''The Exit was a Wall'' (1958) by Evans Harrington *''An Interlude for Murder'' (1958) by Paul Tabort *''Peephole'' (1959) by Henry Slesar *''Death Overdue'' (1959) by Eleanor Daly Boylan *''The Best-Friend Murder'' (1959) by Donald E. Westlake *''Man Bites Dog'' (1960) by Donald Honig *''Go to Sleep, Darling'' (1960) by James Holding *''Murder is Dominant'' (1961) by Glenn Andrews *''A Reform Movement'' (1961) by Donald Martin (writer), Donald Marti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is an affinity group for contributors with shared goals within the Wikimedia movement. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within Wikimedia project, sibling projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by ''Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Martin (writer)
Don Martin may refer to: * Don Martin (cartoonist) (1931–2000), cartoonist for ''Mad Magazine'' * Don Martin (footballer) (1944–2009), English professional footballer for Northampton Town and Blackburn Rovers * Don Martin (basketball) (1920–1997), American professional basketball player * Don Martin (American football) (born 1949), professional American football player * Don Martin (journalist) (born 1956), Canadian television and newspaper journalist * Don Martin (field hockey) (born 1940), former Australian field hockey player * Don Martin, Norwegian rapper, ex-member of Gatas Parlament Donald Martin may refer to: * Donald A. Martin (born 1940), set theorist and philosopher of mathematics at UCLA * Donald Charles Martin (1849–1888), lawyer and political figure in Prince Edward Island * Donald Paul Martin (1940–2019), founder of Martin Research Ltd. * Donald Martin (screenwriter), Canadian screenwriter * Donald Martin (bishop) (1873–1938), Scottish Roman Catholic c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Anthologies
Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *Mystery, a cat character in ''Emily the Strange'' *Mystery, a seahorse that SpongeBob SquarePants adopts in the episode " My Pretty Seahorse" Films * ''Mystery'' (2012 film), a 2012 Chinese drama film * ''Mystery'' (2014 film), a 2014 Chinese suspense thriller adventure film * ''Mystery, Alaska'', a 1999 comedy-drama film * '' Gumnaam – The Mystery'', a 2008 Indian Hindi-language thriller film * '' Room: The Mystery'', a 2014 Indian film Genres * Mystery fiction, a genre of detective fiction * Mystery film, a genre in cinema Literature * ''Mysteries'' (novel) or ''Mysterie'', an 1892 existentialist novel by Knut Hamsun * ''Mystery'' (novel), a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub *'' The Mystery'' (1907), a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams Newspapers * ''Mystery'' (newspaper), an African American newspaper by Martin Delany Music Groups * Mystery ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Anthologies
Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ''Chiquitita'' to commemorate the event. ** In 1979, the United States officially severed diplomatic ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan). This decision marked a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy, turning to view the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate representative of China. ** The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full Sino-American relations, diplomatic relations. ** Following a deal agreed during 1978, France, French carmaker Peugeot completes a takeover of American manufacturer Chrysler's Chrysler Europe, European operations, which are based in United Kingdom, Britain's former Rootes Group factories, as well as the former Simca factories in France. * January 6 – Geylang Bahru family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of personal identity, identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of anxiety, apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, and mostly raised in her infancy by her maternal grandmother, Highsmith was taken to New York City at the age of six to live with her mother and stepfather. After graduating college in 1942, she worked as a writer for comic books while writing her own short stories and novels in her spare time. Her literary breakthrough came with the publication of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Michael Ullman
James Michael Ullman (1925–1997) was an American novelist and newspaper writer/editor known for his work in and about the Chicago area. Education, employment, war service Ullman served in World War II and the U.S. Navy for two and a half years, and also served as an Air Force civilian employee on Guam. Ullman became a newspaperman soon after. He served as police reporter on the La Porte, Indiana ''Herald-Argus'', was editor of the Skokie, IL ''News'' and served as head of the United Press Bureau's Chicago desk. Ullman was educated at Chicago's Wright Junior College and De Paul University, eventually receiving a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1954. He won a prize in the ''Ellery Queen Magazine's'' 1953 contest with his first story ''Anything New on the Strangler?'' His short stories continued to appear in ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' through the early 1960s when he turned to novels. Novels Ullman's first novel ''The Neon Haystack'' won Simon & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Olson (writer)
Donald Olson may refer to: * Donny Olson, member of the Alaska Senate * Donald Olson (astronomer) Donald W. Olson is an astrophysicist and forensic astronomer at the Texas State University. Nicknamed the "Celestial Sleuth," he is known for studying art and history using astronomical data. He is currently regents professor emeritus at Texas S ..., astrophysicist and forensic astronomer See also * Donald Olsen, American architect * Donald P. Olsen, American violinist, educator and painter {{hndis, Olson, Donald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pronzini
Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. Pronzini is known as the creator of the San Francisco-based Nameless Detective, who starred in over 40 books from the early 1970s into the 2000s. Biography William John Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California in 1943. He attended local schools. He has been married three times. The first marriage was to Laura Patricia Adolphson (1965, divorced 1966); the second was to Brunhilde Schier (July 28, 1972, separated December 1985, divorced a couple of years later). He married mystery writer Marcia Muller in 1992. They have collaborated on several novels: ''Double'' (1984), a Nameless Detective novel, ''The Lighthouse'' (1987), ''Beyond the Grave'' (1986), several books in the Carpenter and Quincannon mystery series, and numerous anthologies. DeAnd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Running Man (1968)
"The Running Man" is a short story by American writer Bill Pronzini. The story was originally published in ''Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine'' in January 1968. It was later published again in the Fall-Winter 1979 edition of '' Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology - Volume 5''. Its original copyright belongs to H.S.D. Publications Inc. Synopsis The story takes place at a diner in the warm deserts of Arizona Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort .... The protagonist, Jack, walks through the desert thinking about his love, Karen. He arrives at a diner in which the cook and his daughter, the waitress, were alone. Later on, after Jack gets his food, two well-dressed men, Frank and Earl, come into the diner. Unexpectedly, the two men pull out guns, not to rob the place but to quiet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward D
Edward is an English male name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortunate; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Wilson (writer)
Michael Wilson (July 1, 1914 – April 9, 1978) was an American screenwriter known for his work on '' Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962), ''Planet of the Apes'' (1968), '' Friendly Persuasion'' (1956), '' A Place in the Sun'' (1951), and ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (1957). The latter two screenplays won him Academy Awards. His career was interrupted by the Hollywood blacklist, during which time he wrote numerous uncredited screenplays. Life and career Early life Franklin Michael Wilson Jr. was born on 1 July 1914 in McAlester, Oklahoma. When he was nine, his family relocated, first to a Los Angeles suburb and then to the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1936, he graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Philosophy and a minor in English. He stayed at Berkeley for three years of postgraduate study: one as a teaching assistant in English, one on a Theban Fellowship in Creative Literature, and one on a Gayley Fellowship in American History. Wilson had been a self-described "dilettante" as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. Block has written in the genres of crime, mystery, and suspense fiction for more than half a century, releasing over 100 books. Early life Lawrence Block was born June 24, 1938Rippetoe, Rita Elizabeth (July 23, 2004)''Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel'' McFarland & Company, p. 130. Archived at Google Books. Retrieved June 18, 2018. in Buffalo, New York, where he was raised. He attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, but left before graduating. Career Block's earliest work, published pseudonymously in the 1950s, was mostly in the soft-porn mass market paperback industry, an apprenticeship he shared with fellow mystery author Donald E. Westlake. Block descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
