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52 Best Day Trips from Vancouver: Fourth Edition

52 Best Day Trips from Vancouver: Fourth Edition

Jack Christie

Jack Christie has been sharing his enthusiasm for the outdoors since the 1980s.
Goodness Gracious Green

Goodness Gracious Green

Judy Pace Christie

Theaward is shared byGinger Hamilton, Freda Jones, Carol Lovelady, Paul Christie, Pat Lingenfelter, Jack Pace, Steve Pace, David Pace, Suzanne Christie Zitto, Tony Zitto, Craig Durrett, Peggy Camerino, Alisa Stingley,Martha Fitzgerald,  ...
Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home ...

Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home ...

Linda S. Peavy

For an overview of James Christie's life, see Bonnie Palmquist, "The Journey to Canaan: Letters of the Christie Family." M.A. thesis, Hamline University, 1990. 6. Alexander Christie (hereafter abbreviated as AC) to Sarah Christie (hereafter ...
Murder She Wrote: A Study of Agatha Christie's Detective Fiction

Murder She Wrote: A Study of Agatha Christie's Detective Fiction

Patricia D. Maida

This book explores the inter-relationships between Agatha Christie and her works to seek the wholeness in the Christie experience.
The Hollow (Poirot)

The Hollow (Poirot)

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s ingenious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
4.50 from Paddington (Miss Marple)

4.50 from Paddington (Miss Marple)

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
Zachys Christie's East

Zachys Christie's East

Christie's East (Firm)

A letter of authenticity from J.J. Fernier of the Association of Friends of Gustave Courbet accompanies this lot See color illustration ♢Christie's and the Seller assume no risk, liability or responsibility for the authenticity of authorship of this lot— ...
British Dramatists Since World War II

British Dramatists Since World War II

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... The Mystery of Agatha Christie (Garden City: Doubleday, 1978); Randall Toye, comp., The Agatha Christie Who's Who (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980); Nancy Blue Wynne, An Agatha Christie Chronology (New York: Ace, 1976 ).
The Poetics of murder: detective fiction and literary theory

The Poetics of murder: detective fiction and literary theory

Glenn W. Most

... for the longest uninterrupted run in theater history. (See Nancy Blue Wynne: An Agatha Christie Chronology [New York: Ace Books, 1976].) 1Agatha Christie, Curtain (New York, Dodd, Mead, 1975). Curtain was Agatha Christie: Containment ...
Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie

Bruce Pendergast

Everyman's Guide to the Mysteries of Agatha Christie is a reference book covering Christie's 238 stories.
Mystery and its fictions: from Oedipus to Agatha Christie

Mystery and its fictions: from Oedipus to Agatha Christie

David I. Grossvogel

... uninterrupted run in theater history. (See Nancy Blue Wynne: An Agatha Christie Chronology [New York: Ace Books, 1976].) 2. Agatha Christie, Curtain ( New York; Dodd, Mead, 1975). Curtain 40 MYSTERY AND ITS FICTIONS.
No Place to Hide: How I Put The Black In The Union Jack

No Place to Hide: How I Put The Black In The Union Jack

Errol Christie

How was it possible? How had I let things come to this?’ This is not the story of a celebrity sportsman. It’s not the story of a life covered in glory with its attendant cavalcade of famous friends, easy wins and glamorous encounters.
The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia

The Complete Christie: An Agatha Christie Encyclopedia

Matthew Bunson

Offers biographical details about the mystery writer's life, A-to-Z plot summaries of her novels, character listings, and film and television listings.
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Laura Thompson

Her book is a superb piece of biography' Literary Review 'Affectionate, admiring, perceptive and absolutely convincing' Sunday Telegraph 'This splendid account of [Christie's] life and work is unlikely to be bettered' Evening Standard 'A ...
Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada

Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada

Nancy Christie

Christie makes a major contribution to the fields of gender and family studies, public policy, labour history, and political sociology.'
The Ageless Agatha Christie: Essays on the Mysteries and the ...

The Ageless Agatha Christie: Essays on the Mysteries and the ...

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Patricia D. Maida and Nicholas B. Spornick assert that “Harley Quin and Mr. Satterthwaite continue to spark interest perhaps because they are so different from [Christie's] other detectives” (p. 121). 6. Cook, Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story ...
Duchess of Death: The Unauthorized Biography of Agatha Christie

Duchess of Death: The Unauthorized Biography of Agatha Christie

Richard Hack

Duchess of Death is her story, as full of romance, travel, wealth and scandal as any mystery that Christie ever crafted.
What I Want to Tell Goes Like This

What I Want to Tell Goes Like This

Matt Rader

... on various stories over the years: Darren Bifford, Treena Chambers, Evie Christie, Helen Guri, Steph Harrington, Jack Hodgins, Matthew Hooton, Chris Hutchinson, Will Johnson, Stephen Leckie, Amber McMillan, Grant Shilling, Traci Skuce, ...
An Agatha Christie Chronology

An Agatha Christie Chronology

Nancy Blue Wynne

Wynne lists in chronological order, the English titles, American titles, plot outlines and character analyses of every Christie work through 1975.
Agatha Christie: Murder in four acts : a centenary ...

Agatha Christie: Murder in four acts : a centenary ...

Peter Haining

Profiles the adaptations of Agatha Christie detective fiction for performance in various media, including accounts of the actors who have played Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need

If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need

Colonel Jack Jacobs

Heather (Jack's daughter) marriage, views on marriage (first) Sue Forbes ( Captain), Jack's second wife Zachary (Jack's son) Jacobs, Jack (military training) aircraft, jumping from many different bureaucrat vs. platoon leader cars and command ...
Little Grey Cells: The Quotable Poirot

Little Grey Cells: The Quotable Poirot

Agatha Christie

Discover the man behind the moustache in this book of one-liners by the world’s most famous Belgian detective, revealing the wit and wisdom of Hercule Poirot and his creator, Agatha Christie.
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

Christie Wilcox

Now, in Venomous, the biologist Christie Wilcox investigates and illuminates the animals of our nightmares, arguing that they hold the keys to a deeper understanding of evolution, adaptation, and immunity.
King Me: Short Story

King Me: Short Story

Michael Christie

Michael Christie’s darkly funny debut collection won the Vancouver Book Award; it was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
The Quiet: Short Story

The Quiet: Short Story

Michael Christie

Michael Christie’s darkly funny debut collection won the Vancouver Book Award; it was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
Casualty Actuarial Society Forum

Casualty Actuarial Society Forum

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JACK: HAROLD JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: HAROLD: JACK: JILL: HAROLD JACK: HAROLD JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: HAROLD JACK: JILL: Have you implemented tough, new cost-saving measures? Yes sir! We cutout vacations, holidays, ...
An Ideal Companion: Short Story

An Ideal Companion: Short Story

Michael Christie

Michael Christie’s darkly funny debut collection won the Vancouver Book Award; it was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads. (Abridgement)

The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads. (Abridgement)

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or “The Countess of Errol” Christie, I, 1876, p. 206. a I/M Christie took the tune from his father's Collection of Strathspeys, c. 1820, there given as “The Countess of Errol.” Since the words of this ballad were deemed “unsuited” to his own work,  ...
The Queen of Cans and Jars: Short Story

The Queen of Cans and Jars: Short Story

Michael Christie

Michael Christie’s darkly funny debut collection won the Vancouver Book Award; it was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
Goodbye Porkpie Hat: Short Story

Goodbye Porkpie Hat: Short Story

Michael Christie

Michael Christie’s darkly funny debut collection won the Vancouver Book Award; it was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

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