Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"Unoccupied and unsupervised while mother is working, the children of widowed crime writer Marion Carstairs find diversion wherever they can. So when the kids hear gunshots at the house next door, they jump at the chance to launch their own amateur investigation--and after all, why shouldn't they? They know everything the cops do about crime scenes, having read about them in mother's novels. They know what her literary detectives would do in such...
Author
Series
Robin Paige Victorian-Edwardian mysteries volume 1
Victorian mystery volume 01
Victorian mysteries volume 01
Victorian mystery volume 01
Victorian mysteries volume 01
Language
English
Description
"Kathryn Ardleigh, an outspoken, free-thinking American, accepts employment with a kindly maiden aunt living in England and finds herself investigating a mysterious death at an archaeological site and two other murders much closer to home."--from NoveList.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 355
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In April 1988, Valerie Solanas--the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol--was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the...
5) Collected writings: Two serious ladies ; In the summer house ; Stories & other writings ; Letters
Author
Series
Library of America volume 288
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
One novel, one play, nine shorter works originally published from 1944-1966, twelve notebook excerpts, and 133 letters from 1935-1970.
Two serious ladies: A modernist cult-classic, mysterious, profound, anarchic, and funny, and only novel by avant-garde literary star and wife of legendary writer Paul Bowles. Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield, both upper-class women, embark on separate quests of salvation, ultimately descending into debauchery--...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request