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From Sam Spade to Philip Marlowe, Nero Wolfe, Lord Peter Wimsey, and the formidable Ellery Queen, Great Detectives assembles the star sleuths of the past century in a dazzling array of classic tales. There has never been a collection to match this one, featuring two compete novels, a novella, and sixteen short stories by the best mystery writers from England and America.
A collection of excerpts from various autobiographies, journals, and diaries recreating a range of childhood experiences, featuring both famous and unknown writers of the past and present
The fascinating and illuminating history of one of the significant private schools in the South during this century.
The greatest superheroes face their greatest threat. • Explosive fighting tips customized for each character's superpowers • Smashing strategies for using the destructible environments to your advantage • Heroic tactics guide you through all seven levels of Story Mode • Reveals special moves, juggles, and critical hits for all characters • Maps, hazards, weapons, and strategies for each arena
this collection is a compendium of lies, distoetios, myths, dreams, facts, and amazing insights
The Unending Mystery is a charming, offbeat, generously illustrated exploration of a form that has hada place in the culture of almost every civilization since the beginning of human history—and is now experiencing amodern revival.Labyrinths appear on Neolithic rock outcroppings and in some of the oldest legends from the Greek Isles and the American Southwest. They have been created to represent everything from the birth of a child to the descent into hell, and legions of claims—from facilitating pregnancy to freeing souls from Purgatory—have been made for their power. In them we see perhaps the first human effort to create a form not found in nature, and we experience a mystery that has survived the millennia in countless manifestations.From the Mediterranean to Tuscany and Scandinavia, from English villages to French cathedrals and Italian palace gardens, David Willis McCullough takes us on a grand tour of the great labyrinths and mazes. Using a distinctive blend of history and research, he tells the story of their interpretations and uses, from the exalted to the ridiculous. He visits with today's labyrinth enthusiasts, including a Scotswoman who creates them in the South Bronx, the canon of San Francisco's Grace Cathedral who wants to pepper the world with them, and the showman who conceived the first cornfield maze—a phenomenon that is staving off bankruptcy for many American farmers.McCullough's infectious enthusiasm and wit make him the ideal guide to the age-old, ever-alluring world of labyrinths and mazes.