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This book is a collection of great essays which discuss four
brilliant and impressive investigators and detectives in literary
masterpieces by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy
Bowers. The focus of this book is on Sherlock Holmes, Hercule
Poirot, Jane Marple, and Dan Pardoe. These highly intelligent,
perceptive, problem-solving, resilient, and resourceful
investigators are committed to examining the evidence in any
situation carefully, fairly, and honestly and devoted to searching
for and discovering the truth in various criminal cases, even
though such heroic endeavors frequently threaten their own lives.
In Chapter Seven of Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Hercule Poirot agrees to accept the case which is presented to him
only if he may "go through with it to the end" and search for "all
the truth." In numerous investigations Sherlock Holmes, Hercule
Poirot, Jane Marple, and Dan Pardoe demonstrate not only an
extraordinary commitment to searching meticulously and valiantly
for the whole truth but also the absolute genius to discover it.
This book is a collection of great and insightful essays which
discuss heroic endeavors to save endangered heirs and estates by
searching devotedly for the truth in various criminal and civil
situations. This book focuses especially on important works by
Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodor Storm, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and
Agatha Christie, while also discussing works by other important
European authors. In each of these literary masterpieces the
landowner or heir is emotionally and physically endangered and his
or her house and estate imperiled by one or more individuals from
within his or her own family or from within the sphere of influence
of the family. In these works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodor Storm,
Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Agatha Christie there is a valiant
attempt by such individuals as Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Mary
Lennox, Hercule Poirot, and others to save the landowners and heirs
who are endangered and the estates which are threatened by
thoroughly investigating their situations and by searching
meticulously for the truth. These protagonists share and exemplify
the "passion for getting at the truth" which Hercule Poirot in
Agatha Christie's Murder in Three Acts declares is the primary
motivating force and inspiration for his criminal investigations.
The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and
insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington
Irving's The Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty,
peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In
addition, the book presents a short history of sanctuaries in
nineteenth-century American and European literature.
Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature is a
collection of great and imaginative essays that explore the theme
of magnificent and aesthetically interesting houses in twentieth
century European literature. It focuses especially on important
works by Thomas Mann, Evelyn Waugh, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Siegfried
Lenz, while also discussing other significant houses in modern
European literature.
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