Murder Theory
Title | Murder Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Mayne |
Publisher | Thomas & Mercer |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781503904347 |
Computational biologist Theo Cray matches wits with a diabolically brilliant scientist who intends to unleash a virus that turns ordinary people into serial killers.
Towards a Theory of Whodunits
Title | Towards a Theory of Whodunits PDF eBook |
Author | Dana Percec |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2021-08-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 152757346X |
Bringing together academics from Romania, the USA, Spain and Turkey, this volume follows the evolution of detective fiction, from its early forms during the late eighteenth century until its contemporary multi-media expressions. Tackling the best-known authors in the genre, as well as marginal, forgotten or eccentric names, and discussing prose which fits perfectly in the pattern of the genre or texts which have been conventionally associated with other genres, as well as films, the book explores the impact of whodunits in both highbrow and popular culture.
The Seventh Function of Language
Title | The Seventh Function of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Laurent Binet |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2017-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374715084 |
From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) comes a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies—struck by a laundry van—after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. The world of letters mourns a tragic accident. But what if it wasn’t an accident at all? What if Barthes was . . . murdered? In The Seventh Function of Language, Laurent Binet spins a madcap secret history of the French intelligentsia, starring such luminaries as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Julia Kristeva—as well as the hapless police detective Jacques Bayard, whose new case will plunge him into the depths of literary theory (starting with the French version of Roland Barthes for Dummies). Soon Bayard finds himself in search of a lost manuscript by the linguist Roman Jakobson on the mysterious “seventh function of language.” A brilliantly erudite comedy, The Seventh Function of Language takes us from the cafés of Saint-Germain to the corridors of Cornell University, and into the duels and orgies of the Logos Club, a secret philosophical society that dates to the Roman Empire. Binet has written both a send-up and a wildly exuberant celebration of the French intellectual tradition.
Conspiracy to Murder
Title | Conspiracy to Murder PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Melvern |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2020-05-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1789602157 |
Conspiracy to Murder is a gripping account of the Rwandan genocide, one of the most appalling events of the twentieth century. Linda Melvern's damning indictment of almost all the key figures and institutions involved amounts to a catalogue of failures that only serves to sharpen the horror of a tragedy that could have been avoided.
The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies
Title | The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies PDF eBook |
Author | William Hanchett |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1989-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780252013614 |
Examines the many theories that have led to speculation that Lincoln's assassination was a conspiracy.
The CASE of the DROWNING MEN: Investigating the Smiley Face Serial Murder Theory
Title | The CASE of the DROWNING MEN: Investigating the Smiley Face Serial Murder Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Eponymous Rox |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2012-06-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781477668412 |
The police are calling them accidents. They say young men are simply drinking too much and meeting a tragic end in icy lakes and rivers. But the public thinks something else has been going on in America's northland since 1997. They're calling the sudden disappearances of hundreds of college-age men mysterious. They're calling the drownings murder. [Special Black & White Illustrated Discounted Edition]
Taking Life
Title | Taking Life PDF eBook |
Author | Torbjörn Tännsjö |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190225580 |
When is it right to kill? Three ethical theories are examined, deontology, a moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of killing. In the final analysis, utilitarianism can best account for our considered intuitions about these kinds of killing.