Julian Symons Pořadí knih

"Sutherland House Classics is proud to bring back to print Julian Symons’ The Tell-Tale Heart, an acclaimed and best-selling biography of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the most influential authors in the English language. A highly-regarded mystery and crime writer in his own right, Symons is in a unique position to understand Poe’s work and to sharply, thoroughly reveal the secrets of his life. He paints Poe as his contemporaries saw him: a man whose life was filled with tragedy and who struggled to make a living through his writing, only to emerge as a definitive voice in murder-and-madness fiction and the inventor of the detective story. More relevant than ever in our horror-obsessed times, The Tell-Tale Heart is the second volume in the Sutherland Classics series, which seeks to rediscover and reprint classic works of narrative non-fiction"-- Provided by publisher

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes's (bonfire) night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green, and there were definitely a number of witnesses. And yet, nobody is clear on what exactly happened and what they saw. In the writhing, violent shadows, it seems as if the truth may have gone up in smoke. Julian Symons's phenomenal 1960 novel is a searing drama of wrongful accusation, twisty police procedural, and account of grim murder all rolled together. Also includes the short story "The Tigers of Subtopia."

General Gordon, charged with defending Khartoum, was stabbed to death when the Mahdi's forces took the town by storm. Two days later, the Expeditionary force arrived to relieve Gordon, but found the town firmly in the hands of the Mahdi. In England's Pride, Julian Symons tells the story of the disastrous and tragic failure of this mission.

Small-time actor, Sheridan Haynes, had a rather unhealthy preoccupation with Sherlock Holmes. So when the chance came for him to play the famous detective in a TV series, it seemed his dreams had come true. And when London was plagued by a series of unsolved murders, well it seemed only natural for him to take his role into real life. Was this a case of a laughable and misguided actor, or was Sheridan actually on to something?

V prosinci 1936 se vydal George Orwell do Španělska, aby zde na republikánské straně bojoval proti Frankovým nacionalistům. Přestože ho Henry Miller v Paříži od úmyslu jít do války zrazoval, Orwell se připojil k milicím POUM na aragonské frontě. V bojích utrpěl vážné zranění, když mu nepřátelský ostřelovač prostřelil krk, a po uzdravení byl donucen za zhoršující se politické situace ze Španělska uprchnout. Ve své reportážní knize Hold Katalánsku autor s odzbrojující upřímností popisuje bezprostřední průběh války, revoluční euforii, hrůzy bombardování, vlastní zranění na frontě, ale i přátelství a zradu mezi stoupenci svobodného Španělska.

Wealth can have its drawbacks. Case in point: The Collard and Vandervent families, who for decades have shared a large estate in the elegant London suburb of Blackheath. It's now the 1890s, and over the years, the families' near-incestuous entanglement has grown into a toxic web of lies and bitterness. While mama keeps an iron grasp on the purse strings, an unmarried daughter sucks greedily on her own disappointment, a son raises corruption to an art form, and an ethereal daughter-in-law casts come-hither glances at anything in pants. She casts them frequently at young Paul Vandervent, who responds by filling his journal with fevered love poems. And when one member after another of the extended clan falls victim to gastric misadventure--and his beloved falls under suspicion--Paul embarks on an equally feverish quest to clear her name, resolving to solve the extraordinary series of crimes popularly called The Blackheath Poisonings.

Tony Jones träumt von einem Leben voller Glück und Reichtum, mit Reisen und einer reichen Frau. Doch die Realität ist düster: Seine Behauptung, den Mann seiner Freundin getötet zu haben, wird nicht ernst genommen. Seine Träume verwandeln sich in einen Alptraum ohne Ausweg.