The Long Goodbye (1953) is a milestone in the genre. This novel demonstrated for the first time that hard-boiled fiction could serve as a vehicle for social comment and critique. While the apparent plot is slower paced and less metaphoric than...
Antes de retirarse definitivamente, el famoso detective Hércules Poirot decide resolver sus últimos doce casos a modo de las doce pruebas que el Hércules de la mitología griega tuvo que realizar. De este modo, acepta tan solo los casos que, aun...
Scholarly infighting can get a lot more violent than most outsiders realize, but usually that violence is confined to the printed page. Not so in Concord, Mass., where the arrival of Homer Kelly, an expert on the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, has...