Showing results for "As If" in Literature & Fiction

Impossible crime stories have delighted people since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards brings together a whole new casebook of mystifying locked room mysteries and impossible crimes. Featuring more great stories by John Dickson Carr, Julian Symons and Margery Allingham alongside newly rediscovered writers, this selection of stories will bring you more insight into one of the most celebrated and dazzling sub-genres of detective fiction.

"IF", a poem by Rudyard Kipling, is a timeless gem that recently reemerged in popular culture when it was put to music in a 2007 Joni Mitchell release. In the poem, a father gives advice to his son.

Erin se dogter wat op ses verdwyn het, klop 20 jaar later aan haar deur. Maryna praat vlotter Chinees as Afrikaans, sy is grotesk, het ’n daggagewoonte, is stuurs en stil. Erin is nie ’n emosionele mens nie, haar greep op die werklikheid is glibberig en sy praat moeilik oor haar gevoelens. Sy is obsessief oor die man wat haar verlaat het en die jeugvriend wat steeds na haar hunker. Hoe gemaak met die kuiken wat onder haar vlerk uit gesteel is, wat deur vreemdelinge hanteer is sodat sy haar reuk nie meer eien nie, wat grootgeword en tuisgekom het om te broei?