When DuBose writes of the lives of her principal players, she relates them to their times, their families, their personal situations, and above all to their books. The biographies of these women are as engrossing as the stories they wrote, and Martha DuBose has shined a different, intimate, and intriguing light on them, their works, and the lives that informed those works.
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FOREWORD: Guilty Pleasures..........................................ix PART ONE—In the Beginning: The Mothers of Detection..................1 Anna Katharine Green: The Lady and the Inspector.................5 Mary Roberts Rinehart: The Buried Story.........................18 PART TWO—A Golden Era: The Genteel Puzzlers.........................73 Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime.............................86 Dorothy L. Sayers: The Passionate Mind.........................161 Ngaio Marsh: The Secret Self...................................225 Josephine Tey: A Singular Soul.................................262 Margery Allingham: Odd Woman Out...............................280 PART THREE—Modern Motives: Mysteries of the Murderous Mind...............................................................319 Patricia Highsmith: Murder with a Twist (M. C. Thomas).........326 P. D. James: An Artful Kind of Order...........................340 Ruth Rendell: Triple Threatening...............................362 Mary Higgins Clark: Damsels in Distress........................374 ... read full excerpt from Women of Mystery ebook
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You'll need a Palm OS or PocketPC/Windows CE Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or a Windows or Macintosh desktop (or laptop) PC.
Palm OS Hardware:
Palm OS Software:
PocketPC/Windows CE Hardware:
PocketPC/Windows CE Software:
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The Palm Reader can read doc files. A doc file is a type of PDA file that ends in either .pdb or .prc. These text files have been specifically packaged for use on a PDA. Doc format is pretty much a standard for PDA documents, and the latest version of the Palm Reader can view them.
Yes, the Palm Reader is compatible with the following PocketPCs: Hewlett-Packard Jornada420, 430, 430se, 540, 545, 547, 548, 680, 690, 720, and 820 CompaqiPAQ H3600 series, iPAQ H3100 series and Aero 1500 series CasioCassiopeia E115, E-125 and EM-500 series.
Yes, the Palm Reader is compatible with the following PocketPCs:
