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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

    $21.99 USD

  • 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

    $23.79 USD

  • 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

    $33.29 USD

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $500.00 USD

  • Though I Know She Lies

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 8 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    And then he received the small note in a laboured, childish scrawl:"She didn't...she didn't...she didn't!"Is beautiful Barbara Wentworth, on trial for the fatal poisoning of her wealthy sister, Laura Canning, whose heir she was, telling the truth-or is she deceitfully spinning a web of lies? Antony Maitland, brought in by Barbara's barrister, his eminent uncle, Sir Nicholas Harding, Q. C., to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Claverton Affair

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 14 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A scientifically minded professor is stumped by a case involving séances and an inexplicable inheritance . . .After drifting apart from Sir John Claverton, Dr. Lancelot Priestley is finally visiting his old friend for dinner. But Claverton's situation is worrying. He's surrounded by relatives, among them a sister who speaks to the dead—but not to him—and a niece who may or may not be a qualified ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Venner Crime

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 16 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    The "astute and sharp-spoken" crime-solving professor must find out if a missing man got away with murder ( The New York Times).After some initial suspicion, the death of Ernest Venner's wealthy uncle was attributed to natural causes—a simple infection. But Dr. Lancelot Priestley and his crime-solving companions find it intriguing, to say the least, that as soon as Venner collected his much-needed ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Dr. Priestley Investigates

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 8 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    Was it a tragic drunk-driving accident, or something more twisted? "You can never go far wrong with a Dr. Priestley story." — The New York TimesSuperintendent King has concluded that the drunk driver with a dead body in his car was only guilty of manslaughter, not intentional murder. But Dr. Lancelot Priestley thinks there's more to the story—especially considering that the victim's estate, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.39 USD

  • This Little Measure

    An Antony Maitland Mystery

    by Sara Woods ...
    Series Book 6 - The Antony Maitland Mysteries
    " 'To my son Andrew,' it said, 'I leave the problem of the Velasquez.' " He leaned forward and added eagerly, "The thing is, you see, there wasn't any Velasquez... there never had been."The Gaskells, wealthy owners of a family shipping line, were a querulous mix of self-righteous puritans and rascally pirates, so it when it came to light that one of them might have purloined a museum's priceless ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Blackthorn House

    by John Rhode ...
    Series Book 48 - The Dr. Priestley Detective Stories
    A man's car is impounded as a stolen vehicle—but that's not the worst of it—in this classic British mystery starring a "tartly logical professor" ( The New York Times).Kenneth Winslow's company has sold a car to his nephew, Noel Yewdale, who's supposed to transport the large, locked chest in it. But before he can get the job done, the police seize the car—saying they think it's stolen.When the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD