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  • Death at Dayton’s Folly
    Curtis Evans / Virginia Rath
    Alfred Leale, wealthy lumber king, buys an old mountain resort hotel, moving his family there for the winter. Temporary deputy sheriff Rocky Allen arrives on the scene just in time to witness Leale's murder; a snowstorm cuts them off from help, forcing Allen to solve this crime while confronting his feelings about a certain red-haired nurse who might just be a suspect.Death...
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    24,66 €

  • Insights into Chinese Agriculture
    Yunhua Zhang / Curtis Evans
    This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China’s agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality.  It also helps the reader to get a clear understanding of economic phenomena, insight into the 'hog cycle' and 'food safety,' as well as other economic and social phenomena. The language of this book is not only easy to understand, but also uses ancient poetry and h...
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    158,86 €

  • Independence Day
    Ariel Evans / Greg Curtis / Kim Calder
    Independence Day© 2018 Greg Curtis, Kim Calder, Ariel EvansInsert Blanc Press“An asteroid, volcano, tsunami or alien army draws near and the camera cuts away to pan across groups of people looking towards catastrophe. Intermittently montaged amidst the progressing apocalypse, each clip lasts for a few seconds. All peoples in the world—that is the movies’ extras—look up and expe...
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    31,67 €

  • Murder in the Closet
    Curtis Evans
    Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of 'the closet'--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed 'queer' was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are...
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    57,15 €

  • The Spectrum of English Murder
    Curtis Evans
    That British mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction (customarily defined as the period between the First and Second World Wars) were not only aesthetically but ideologically conservative has long been a commonplace of mystery genre criticism. In The Spectrum of English Murder, Curtis Evans challenges this view by looking at the detective fiction of Henry Lancelot Au...
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    31,61 €

  • The Conquest of Labor
    Curtis J. Evans
    The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South’s most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of the Civil War had become the largest in the world. Pratt became a household name in cotton-growing states, and Prat...
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    50,80 €

  • Mysteries Unlocked
    Curtis Evans
    In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 24 new essays and two reprinted classics on detective fiction by contributors around the world, including ten Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) winners and nominees. The essays cover a myriad of authors and books from more than a century, from J.S. Fletcher’...
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    71,54 €

  • Clues and Corpses
    Curtis Evans
    Clues and Corpses investigates the life and genre writing of Oklahoma Choctaw detective novelist Todd Downing (1902-1974). Included in this volume are nearly 300 annotated mystery book reviews from the 1930s by Downing and Downing’s essay 'Murder is a Rather Serious Business' (1943), as well as analysis of Downing’s own detective fiction, most of which is set in Mexico.Curtis E...
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    37,41 €

  • Masters of the 'Humdrum' Mystery
    Curtis Evans
    In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the 'crime novel,' influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as 'Humdrums,' condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British '...
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    58,83 €

  • The Burden of Black Religion
    Curtis J. Evans
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    51,74 €