Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/contemporary/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0010 407576 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/contemporary/engine/rss.php:0 Rennison, Nick - Free Library Land Online - Contemporary https://contemporary.library.land/ ru Rennison, Nick - Free Library Land Online - Contemporary DataLife Engine Rivals of Dracula https://contemporary.library.land/rennison-nick/628415-rivals_of_dracula.html https://contemporary.library.land/rennison-nick/628415-rivals_of_dracula.html Rivals of Dracula
]]> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 07:10:46 +0200 Robin Hood https://contemporary.library.land/rennison-nick/394468-robin_hood.html https://contemporary.library.land/rennison-nick/394468-robin_hood.html Robin Hood
Robin Hood is England's greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick Rennison's highly entertaining book begins with the search for the historical Robin. Was there ever a real Robin Hood? Rennison looks at the candidates who have been proposed over the years, from petty thieves to Knights Templar, before moving on to examine the many ways in which Robin Hood has been portrayed in literature and on the screen.]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:39:29 +0200 Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, The https://contemporary.library.land/rennison-nick/394470-rivals_of_sherlock_holmes_the.html https://contemporary.library.land/rennison-nick/394470-rivals_of_sherlock_holmes_the.html Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, The
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. The supremely rational sleuth and his dependable companion, Dr Watson, will forever be associated with the gaslit and smog-filled streets of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London. Yet Holmes and Watson were not the only ones solving mysterious crimes and foiling the plans of villainous masterminds in Victorian and Edwardian England. The years between 1890 and 1914 were a golden age for English magazines and most of them published crime and detective fiction. The startling success of the Holmes stories that appeared in The Strand magazine spawned countless imitators. This volume highlights some of those 'Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'. THE THINKING MACHINE - Jacques Futrelle's dazzlingly intellectual genius Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, aka the Thinking Machine, even more capable than Holmes himself of solving the most baffling of mysteries through brainpower alone. CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER - detective of the occult created by the legendary horror writer William Hope Hodgson, author of The House on the Borderlands EUGENE VALMONT - a sophisticated and urbane French detective, created by Robert Barr, who lives in exile in London and uses his Gallic wit and wisdom to learn the truth about the mysteries that regularly come his way NOVEMBER JOE - Hesketh Prichard's Canadian woodsman who uses his extraordinary powers of observation to track down villains and bring them to justice CRAIG KENNEDY - a scientific detective from the years before the First World War, created by the American writer Arthur B. Reeve, who uses startling new technological advancements like X-rays and microphones to solve crime It may well be true that there never has been and never will be a detective quite like Sherlock Holmes but he did not stand alone. He did have his rivals and, as this collection of short stories shows, many of their adventures were as exciting and entertaining as those of the master himself.]]> Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:39:30 +0200 Carver's Quest https://contemporary.library.land/rennison-nick/394469-carvers_quest.html https://contemporary.library.land/rennison-nick/394469-carvers_quest.html Carver's Quest
It is 1870. When amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his loyal but obdurate retainer Quint are visited in their lodgings in London's Doughty Street by an attractive young woman, their landlady is not pleased. The visitor's arrival pitches Carver and Quint headlong into an elaborate mystery which comes to centre on the existence (or not) of a lost text in Ancient Greek, one that may reveal the whereabouts of the treasure hoard of Philip II of Macedonia. Two deaths soon ensue as master and manservant follow what clues they can grasp in the roughest and most genteel parts of the teeming metropolis, with the whiff of cordite and blackmail never far from their nostrils. The scene shifts to Athens and the wilder fastness of a Greece gripped by political unrest as Carver and Quint join forces with Adam's former Cambridge tutor in an attempt to track down the elusive text. But nothing is quite what it seems, and no one involved is prepared for the final, shocking denouement amidst the extraordinary hilltop monasteries of Meteora... Nick Rennison is a writer, editor and bookseller. His books include Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography, Robin Hood: Myth, History, Culture, The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide and 100 Must-Read Historical Novels. He is a regular reviewer of historical fiction for both The Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine.]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2001 12:39:30 +0200