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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 humor to
make the subject interesting, as it speaks to the history and
current situation of Chinese agriculture. It also opens a window
for the people to read about agriculture. This is a unique book on
agricultural science that fills an important gap in works on
agricultural science and agricultural economics.
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 humor to
make the subject interesting, as it speaks to the history and
current situation of Chinese agriculture. It also opens a window
for the people to read about agriculture. This is a unique book on
agricultural science that fills an important gap in works on
agricultural science and agricultural economics.
Analysis of LGBTQ life before the Stonewall Riots of 1969
traditionally has been dominated by the powerful negative image of
the closet, the metaphorical space where that which was deemed
""queer"" was necessarily sheltered from hostile, heteronormative
public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in
crime fiction have tended to focus on works published in the freer
environment that has existed in the years since Stonewall, queer
material, so the traditional belief runs, having been, for the most
part, only negatively or obliquely presented in crime fiction of
the closet-bound pre-Stonewall era. This book tempers this
traditional view, offering readers a groundbreaking collection of
twenty-three essays, in which the authors investigate queer aspects
to crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted
Victorian era to the unbuttoned Swinging Sixties, on the very eve
of Stonewall. ""Murder will out,"" so the saying goes, and this is
true as well of queer material in pre-Stonewall crime fiction, if
one but follows the clues.
Charles was in a vile temper and Anne was catching the full benefit
of it. Charles Courtley is a difficult man. Prone to violent
outbursts and a bully to his wife and daughters, he has uprooted
the family from London to an old manor house in remote East Anglia.
Spoilt by his growing wealth and increasingly intolerant of any
dissent, Charles enjoys controlling everyone around him. His
family, his employees and even the locals - banned from using the
traditional footpaths on his forested estate - have multiple
reasons to bear a grudge. When Charles is shot dead in a woodland
clearing, evidence from an unreliable witness points to Courtley's
secretary, but he has a cast iron alibi and the resulting trial
ends in an acquital. A year later, a seemingly innocent death and
an odd cenotaph leads Chief Inspector Simon Sturt to reconsider the
case. Dorothy Erskine Muir (1889-1977) was one of seventeen
children of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich. She attended
Oxford, worked as an academic tutor, and began writing
professionally to supplement the family income after the unexpected
death of her husband in 1932. Muir published historical biographies
and local histories, as well as three accomplished detective
novels: In Muffled Night (1933), Five to Five (1934) and In Memory
of Charles (1941).
'When a man has three separate notices by three different women
inserted in the local paper, and he's my own namesake besides, I
feel I owe him something.' Sequential death notices appear for
Robert Raynald: one by his mother, one by his estranged wife, one
by his daughter. This odd approach draws the attention of
Superintendent Mallett and his friend Dr. Fitzbrown. The inquest
had decided that Raynald shot himself whilst temporarily insane,
but his daughter Geraldine is not convinced and presents enough
evidence to arouse the investigator within Mallett. Raynald's story
is presented in flashbacks, as Mallett and Fitzbrown build a
picture of his life through the people who knew him best. Requiem
for Robert combines the excitement of a detective story with a
haunting reading of character.
While placidly pedaling his bicycle on the morning before Easter,
Constable Simmons, a twenty-year veteran of the Bermuda Police
Force, discovers a beautiful woman's lifeless body on Snake Road.
She has been stabbed to death. Incongruously, a bouquet of lilies
lies by her side. From this slender clue of the Easter lilies an
intricately interlaced murder problem quickly blossoms in Bermuda.
Soon another person, a man this time, is found dead in Hamilton,
the territorial capital. He has been struck down by mercury
bichloride. Can the intrepid Bermuda Police Force send Death, a
most unwelcome visitor, packing, before a third victim is found? A
pioneering police procedural crime novel, Willoughby Sharp's Murder
in Bermuda focuses not on the investigative activities of a
solitary super-detective, but rather on those of several ordinary
policemen. The author, who at the time he wrote the novel lived
with his family in Bermuda, also presents his readers with
appealing local color and a tricky, fair play problem that is in
the best tradition of Golden Age detective fiction. Originally
published in 1933, Murder in Bermuda provides readers with, as a
contemporary reviewer stated, "as complicated and satisfying a
mystery as one could hope to find."
Hugh Rennert, now retired from the U. S. customs service and
cultivating a citrus grove in Cameron County, Texas, again finds
himself south of the border, motoring through the mountains to
Victoria to settle a legal dispute with the Mexican owners of a
tract of land bordering his own. Stranded by the chipi chipi-an
endless drizzling, enervating rain-and the landslide that it
produces, Rennert seeks shelter-along with the ten other people who
have preceded him-in a providentially located ranch house. At least
the ranch house, "a square, one-storied, fortresslike house of
adobe roofed with tiles," seems providentially located-until the
people stranded there start dying Who will survive this deadliest
of nights over Mexico? Tonight no one is safe: not the frightened
schoolteacher Miss Pirtle and her devil-may-care driver Mr.
Woodmansee, nor those toughs Bohannon and Lurcott, nor the
mysterious Mr. Smith, his daughter Wilma and her pistol-packing
beau, Keith Kerwick, nor the exceedingly irritating Gulliver
Damson, Ph. D., nor the Midwestern oil tycoon Jesse Elkins and his
fatally attractive, decades younger wife, Vera, nor even Hugh
Rennert himself. Night over Mexico is the final Hugh Rennert
mystery. Does it chronicle Hugh Rennert's last night on Earth? Read
on and see what happens in this superb Golden Age detective novel,
originally published in 1937, about which the Saturday Review
raved: "Actions and suspense at concert pitch throughout,
characterization vivid, background exotic, method and motive of
murder unique. . . . Excellent." As the New York Times Book Review
put it, Todd Downing "has again shown us that Mexico, in the hands
of one who knows it, makes an excellent background for a mystery
story."
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Five to Five (Paperback)
D. Erskine Muir; Introduction by Curtis Evans
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Much had been risked, and the murderer had escaped by such a rare
combination of chances. Elderly invalid Simon Ewing was bludgeoned
in his maisonette and a stranger was seen exiting the building by
several of the residents. The murderer had entered-and escaped-in
just a few minutes when Ewing was left unattended, implying that
someone knew the movements of both his household and the
neighbours. Who would run such a risk in a building with multiple
comings and goings? Robbery appears to be the motive, but why was
only one ring taken from Ewing's secret hoard of valuable
jewellery? A second death leads Detective-Inspector Woods to
untangle exactly who was where in the crucial minutes before the
murder. Dorothy Erskine Muir (1889-1977) was one of seventeen
children of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich. She attended
Oxford, worked as an academic tutor, and began writing
professionally to supplement the family income after the unexpected
death of her husband in 1932. Muir published historical biographies
and local histories, as well as three accomplished detective
novels: In Muffled Night (1933), Five to Five (1934) and In Memory
of Charles (1941). Each is an intricate fictional account based on
an unsolved true crime.
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Cry Murder (Paperback)
Edith Howie; Introduction by Curtis Evans
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Only the Good (Paperback)
Mary Collins; Introduction by Curtis Evans
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