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  • Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery

    Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961

    by Curtis Evans ...
    In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and critic Julian Symons cast numerous Golden Age detective fiction writers into literary perdition as "Humdrums," condemning their focus on puzzle plots over stylish writing and explorations of character, setting and theme. This volume explores the works of three prominent British "Humdrums"--Cecil John ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • A Theology of Brotherhood

    The Federal Council of Churches and the Problem of Race

    by Curtis J. Evans ...
    Examines the influence of the Federal Council of Churches’ Department of Race RelationsA Theology of Brotherhood explores how the national umbrella Christian organization, the Federal Council of Churches, acted as a crucial conduit and organizational force for the dissemination of “progressive” views on race in the first half of the twentieth century.Drawing on years of archival research, Curtis J ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • TELECOMMUNICATION

    by curtis evan ...
    Hamming distance is one of the several string metrics for determining the edit distance between two sequences. It is named after the mathematician Richard Hamming. Hamming distance is the number of bit positions in which the corresponding symbols are different. In other words, the hamming distance measures the minimum number of substitutions required to change one string to another or the minimum ... Read more

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  • The Burden of Black Religion

    by Curtis J. Evans ...
    Religion has always been a focal element in the long and tortured history of American ideas about race. In The Burden of Black Religion, Curtis Evans traces ideas about African American religion from the antebellum period to the middle of the twentieth century. Central to the story, he argues, was the deep-rooted notion that blacks were somehow "naturally" religious. At first, this assumed natural ... Read more

    $59.19 CAD

  • The Conquest of Labor

    Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization

    by Curtis J. Evans ...
    Series series Southern Biography Series
    The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of the Civil War had become the largest in the world. Pratt became a household name in cotton-growing states, and Prattville-the site of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Peril at Cranbury Hall

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 9 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A shady operator is targeted for death and needs help from a professor with an "uncanny ability to ferret out the truth" ( The New York Times).An expert in alternative medicine is creating a clinic in Cranbury Hall that promises to cure fatigue, and Arnold Gilroy is happy to invest in this promising moneymaking venture.Unfortunately, his brother Oliver has just finished a stint in prison for fraud ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Let's Choose Executors

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 10 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    "It had sometimes seemed to Maitland, in the course of his researches, that there was nothing original left to be done when it came to extracting poisonous substances from the hedgerow; they were all there, foxglove and monkshood and deadly nightshade, and man's ingenuity more than sufficient to exploit their murderous qualities, even if he had been a little slow to split the atom or find a cure ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Murder in the Closet

    Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall

    Edited by Curtis Evans ...
    Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Knives Have Edges

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 13 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    "What a beautiful word, darling," said Meg Hamilton."Embracery," she repeated in a thoughtful tone, and gave her companion a speculative look, so that he said hastily:"It doesn't mean anything like that."She didn't question his interpretation. "What does it mean then?"Charming stage actress Meg Hamilton (Enter Certain Murderers) struts back into Antony Maitland's life again when her actor friend ... Read more

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  • Past Praying For

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 14 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    "Arsenic." She paused to consider the adequacy of the statement."One large dose, certainly. Rice pudding. Arguable whether there'd been any before."Is beautiful Camilla Barnard a black widow who put a pair of husbands into their graves? In 1957 Camilla was found guilty of the shooting death of her first spouse, Tony Barnard, and sentenced to four years in prison. Now, eight years later, she is on ... Read more

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  • The Case is Altered

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 11 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    "You think Roy's guilty, and unless I can make you believe me-""I've nothing to go on yet," he protested. "But I suppose the police had a case.""Yes. Oh, yes. A very good one. It was at a party, you see, and they found the emeralds in his pocket."When the beautiful Italian movie star Giuditta of the Anglo-Italian Film Company is coshed in her dressing room and her fabled d'Albret emerald necklace ... Read more

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  • Tarry and be Hanged

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 15 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    "What have you got, Geoffrey?""A body.""Dead?""Dead and buried. At least, it was.""You're not going to tell me you've discovered the secret of eternal life?It is another case of murder--and the defendant's prescription is Antony Maitland! Here Antony takes up the defense of Henry Langton, a doctor from the suburban London village of Oakhurst who is accused of having strangled two women-his own ... Read more

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