A masterful satire for our time, this is a novel about celebrity envy—and the anarchic imperatives of desire. The antagonist, a down-on-his-luck and malcontent young man, sets out to destroy a successful older writer by devising and unleashing a diabolical scheme to ruin his reputation and seize his fortune. He accomplishes this by enlisting his eighteen-year-old girlfriend to pose as the writer's lost daughter, but with a mission to seduce him, report him, and sue for emotional damages. The scheme turns on switching DNA samples so that the teenager's claim to be the writer's daughter is believed. What ensues is a descent into psychological nightmare for the famous writer. As readers, we know that the girl is not his child but, like watching Othello fall to Iago's masterful manipulations, we are riveted by this cruel trick, this coldly calculated destruction of another human being—this tragic spectacle of an upright man brought low by the evil of envy and the... Views: 30
The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world's first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since."The Detective Story Club", launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers.Originally published as The Big Bow Mystery in 1891, and re-published by the Detective Club to coincide with a new film version called 'The Perfect Crime', Israel Zangwill's novel invented the concept of the 'locked room mystery' and influenced almost every crime writer thereafter.'A man is murdered for no apparent reason. He has no enemies and there seemed to be no motive for anyone murdering him. No clues remained and... Views: 30
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Captain Jason Northcross desperately desires his sister, Lily, to marry into noble society. To achieve a duchy for his sister, he needs a proper marriage for himself. His status guarantees an easily achieved betrothal, and he should have no trouble selecting one of the eligible young ladies during his party in the countryside. However, distracted from his goal, he has a hard time keeping his hands off his neighbor, Lady Rushford.The late Earl of Rushford's widow, Bess Webster, believes romance has passed her by. So why can’t she keep Captain Northcross out of her dreams? And how does he inflame passions she didn’t know she had? While she should be focused on penning novels and finding husbands for her friends, her thoughts center on broad shoulders and laughing green eyes. Will these misaligned engagements be set straight before the final vows have been spoken? Views: 30
