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Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making
Agatha Christie’s life and career told through the decades, from the never-before-published original ending to her first book to the unused ideas for her last, complete with two unpublished Agatha Christie stories - including a lost Miss Marple. In this follow-up volume to the acclaimed Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, Christie archivist and expert John Curran leads the reader through the six decades of Agatha Christie's writing career, unearthing some remarkable clues to her success and a number of never-before-published excerpts and stories from her archives. Starting his investigation in the 1920s, John Curran examines the conventions of detective novels as they existed then and how Agatha Christie's publisher talked her into changing the ending of her very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a move that almost certainly changed the fortunes of not only her career but the future of the whole crime writing genre. For the very first time, this book prints Agatha's original ending, painstakingly transcribed from her notebooks. Every decade saw Agatha Christie's success grow to new heights. The emergence of the world-famous Collins Crime Club in 1930 brought with it the very first Miss Marple mystery, the austerity of the 1940s had Agatha Christie preparing to kill off Hercule Poirot, and the 1950s saw her experiment increasingly with formats influenced by more modern thrillers. Focusing on the detail of more than 20 Christie novels to illustrate this, John Curran shows the evolution of Agatha's writing through the decades, including the influence of the swinging sixties and seventies, concluding the book with a look at Agatha's last notebook, using his Christie knowledge to speculate about what she had in mind based on her brief notes for an unwritten final book. Also includes a number of short stories from the archives reproduced in full, including the unpublished The Man Who Knew, How I Created Hercule Poirot, and an early draft for a Miss Marple story, The Case of the Caretaker's Wife.
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The Complete Long Stories of Sherlock Holmes
Present in this omnibus edition, are four unabridged novels of Baker Streets most famous resident – Sherlock Holmes and his confidant and aide, Dr. Watson. The saga of their adventures begin right from the time they are first introduced to each other by a certain “young stamford” to share rooms in Baker Street, where Watson chronicled their first adventure ‘A Study in Scarlet’. ‘The Hound of Baskervilles’ is perhaps the most popular of his long stories, followed by ‘The Sign of the Four’ and ‘The Valley of Fear’.
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Light from Many Lamps
Light From Many Lamps is a book written by Lillian Watson. This book is considered a classic under the inspirational books genre. It contains a few of the world’s most enthusiastic stories and the ideas behind them; how these stories were formed, and the impact they have had on the lives of other people. Light From Many Lamps contains inspirational stories for aspiring readers. The book showcases quotes and brief chapters about happiness, faith, valour, love, the importance of family, and how to be content. Each page present in the book has a moral and lesson to it, which helps the readers to learn from their mistakes and become better people. The book contains experiences synced with reality other than fictional experiences, which makes it hard for the reader to connect with the book. It contains quotations from authors like Saint Paul, Henry David, Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. Lillian Watson is an author known for her motivational writings, especially meant to help people overcome their various difficulties by giving them a series of practical examples. Books authored by her include Book of Etiquette and Bantam Book of Correct Letter Writing. Watson is a very learned and a highly read author in the social section of the literary world. She has motivated and helped millions of readers with her inspirational books, highlighting short incidents and quotations.
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The Long Tail
What happens when there is almost unlimited choice? When everything becomes available to everyone? And when the combined value of the millions of items that only sell in small quantities equals or even exceeds the value of a handful of best-sellers? In this ground-breaking book, Chris Anderson shows that the future of business does not lie in hits – the high-volume end of a traditional demand curve – but in what used to be regarded as misses – the endlessly long tail of that same curve. As our world is transformed by the Internet and the near infinite choice it offers consumers, so traditional business models are being overturned and new truths revealed about what consumers want and how they want to get it. Chris Anderson first explored the Long Tail in an article in Wired magazine that has become one of the most influential business essays of our time. Now, in this eagerly anticipated book, he takes a closer look at the new economics of the Internet age, showing where business is going and exploring the huge opportunities that exist: for new producers, new e-tailers, and new tastemakers. He demonstrates how long tail economics apply to industries ranging from the toy business to advertising to kitchen appliances. He sets down the rules for operating in a long tail economy. And he provides a glimpse of a future that’s already here.
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The Lucifer Code
A secret scroll remains hidden deep in an ancient sanctuary. It is guarded by a sacred order who await to unleash its true powers and bring doomsday upon mankind. Only one man - Dr. Thomas Lourds, the world's foremost scholar of ancient languages, who we first met in the bestselling novel The Atlantis Code - can safely bring this secret scroll to its rightful place in history. Lourds soon becomes the focus of a deadly manhunt, taking him from Istanbul through Eastern Europe, right to the heart of the Vatican, where the forces of good and evil will collide…
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The Complete True Crime Diaries
This volume contains 360 real-life murder stories, arranged in diary form for the fascination of all true crime addicts. From notorious killers like Crippen, Nilsen, the Kray twins, Florence Maybrick and Charles Manson to less infamous crimes of the 20th century and before, it is a catalogue of tragic, quirky, gory, ingenious, bungled and horrifying murders.