Showing results for "The Rival" in Anthologies & Short Stories

As the early years of detective fiction gave way to two separate golden ages - of hard-boiled tales in America and intricately-plotted, so-called “cozy” murders in Britain - the legacy of Sherlock Holmes, with his fierce devotion to science and logic, gave way to street smarts on the one hand and social insight on the other, but even though these new sub-genres went their own ways, their detectives still required intelligence and clear-sightedness as characterized the earliest works of detective fiction: the trademarks of Sherlock Holmes, and of all the detectives featured here.

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he gets his own back, introducing 16 tales of detectives whose abilities rival that of the great Sherlock Holmes.

A collection of five spicy standalone romantic comedies from #1 New York Times Bestseller Lauren Blakely. Experience some of your favorite tropes like forced proximity, friends to lovers, rivals to lovers, brother’s best friend and only one bed! With PERFORMANCES BY Vanessa Edwin, Julia Whelan, Sebastian York, Jason Clarke, Joe Arden, Erin Mallon, and Andi Arndt!

More Davies and Montgomery mayhem: Three Ruthless Rivals novellas in one volume!

Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña "Clarín" nació el 25 de abril de 1852 en Zamora, donde se había trasladado su familia desde Oviedo, al ser nombrado su padre gobernador de la ciudad.

Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers and listeners of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn. Quinn's short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales's original publication run.

When an aged watchmaker pits his two protégés against each other, the result is magnificent imperfection. The Rival Mechanicians has been lauded as one of the finest science fiction tales from the first half of the nineteenth century. The Western Literary Messenger declared it to be “above praise” when it was first published in 1847.

Chamando sempre a atenção do leitor para o que se vai narrando, Valentim Magalhães traz, no conto "Vaporosa", um retrato do dia a dia de um pobre poeta em seu amor platônico por uma mulher encantadora e delicada. "Uma rival", por sua vez, surpreende o leitor, que vai sendo levando a crer, à medida que avança o enredo, que encontrará uma cena de ciúme de uma mulher em relação ao marido. Não.

Fall into the small town charm of Roan Parrish’s Garnet Run with the final two books in this heartfelt MM romance collection The Lights on Knockbridge Lane Can one man’s crowded, messy life fill another man’s empty heart? Raising a family was always Adam Mills’ dream, although solo...

A nation will fight for its freedom. The first novel in a major new series as Robert Low moves from the Vikings to the making of Scotland. In the dying days of the 13th century, Scotland is in turmoil. The death of Alexander III has plunged the country into war, both with itself and with Edward...

Being a preacher in the countryside is not for the faint of heart nor faith. Four inexperienced preachers face a myriad of challenges including those who figure a man of the cloth needs a wife. Can they meet the expectations of "helpful" congregants and be true to their hearts?