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The Big Bow Mystery
- Author: Zangwill Israel
- Genre: Book reviews
The Big Bow Mystery is known as the first detective story in which the door closes and the game begins. The text of the novel is full of the keys and clues to the solution that makes the reading even more interesting as the reader is faced a mystery which is to be discovered. It is possible to find many solutions and quite difficult to choose the right one. The novel uses a classic approach according to which the least suspected person turns out to be miscreant. The Big Bow Mystery narrates about a murder of a famous union agitator. Somebody has cut his throat in his apartment in East End in Bow Street. There was nobody inside because the door was locked from inside and the windows were bolted. As there is no weapon nearby, we cannot state that this was a suicide. We run across one suspected person but he has a really good alibi. The police seems to be completely lost that can be told from their words: "It seems clear that the deceased did not commit suicide. It seems equally clear that the deceased was not murdered." The novel is recommended to all lovers of detective stories.
The Mystery
- Author: Adams Samuel Hopkins
- Genre: Book reviews
This book is part of a series that contains of about 60 fiction and non-fiction books. "The Mystery" is a sea adventure, where all events are taking place around an unexplainable force contained in a chest found on an island. It smacks of the Pandora box opened with the advent of the "Atomic Age". It should be admitted that though the book was written in the early 1900's, it is still full of interesting technical details. "The Mystery" is entertaining, a little weird, and serious book that is definitely will be a great reading for everyone who is interested in science fiction.
The Albert Gate Mystery
- Author: Tracy Louis
- Genre: Book reviews
Louis Tracy (1863-1928) was a British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator from the start of the twentieth century. Among his most famous works are: The Invaders (1901), The Wooing of Esther Gray (1902), The Wings of the Morning (1903), The Stowmarket Mystery; or, A Legacy of Hate (1904), The King of Diamonds (1904), The Albert Gate Mystery (1904), Heart's Delight (1906), The Wheel O' Fortune (1907), The Captain of the Kansas (1907), The Red Year (1908), One Wonderful Night (1912), The Stowaway Girl (1912), Number Seventeen (1915) and The Postmaster's Daughter (1916). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
The mystery of Newman
- Author: Bremond, Henri, 1865-1933
- Genre: Book reviews
Bibliography: p.[359]-360
The mysteries of Mithra
- Author: Cumont, Franz Valery Marie, 1868-1947
- Genre: Book reviews
A translation of the "'Conclusions' qui terminent le tome premier de mes Textes et monuments figures relatifs aux mysteres de Mithra." cf. Preface of 2d French edition
the mystery of the pinckney draught
- Author: charles c nott
- Genre: Book reviews
THE MYSTEKY OF THE PINCKKEY DRAUGHTCHAPTER Istatement of the caseWHEN I began the studies which have resulted in this book someone asked me what I was doing, and I chanced to answer that I was looking into the mystery of Pinckney's draught of the Constitution. Afterwards I received a letter from Professor J. Franklin Jameson in which he spoke of the uncertainties attending the draught as ' * mysteries'' ' ; and later I found that Jared Sparks, back in 1831, had been engaged in the same study and had used the same term. With two such scholars as Professor Jameson and Mr. Sparks recognizing the knowable but unknown element which we call mystery, I retain the term which I chanced to use."A true mystery, instead of ending discussion, calls for rnore." "What constitutesTable of Contents chapter page; I Statement of the Case 3 II The Draught in the State Department 16; III Op the Issue op Fraud 23; IV Madison as a Witness 29 V Madison as an Advocate 40; VI The Position Taken by Madison 58; VII The Plagiarisms65; VIII The Improbabilities85; IX The Observations105; X The Silence op Madison 143 XI The Wilson and Randolph; Draughts158; XII The Committee's Use op the; Draught206; XIII What Became of the Draught 225; XIV What Pinckney Did for the Con-; stitution 243; XV Conclusions on the Whole Case 257 XVI Of Pinckney Personally 278; Appendix; Mr Charles Pinckney's Draught; of a Federal Government 295 Draught of the Committee of Detail 306; Index325About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original for