First published as a monthly serial in 1870, only six of the planned twelve installments were published before Dickens' death left the story unfinished, and readers have often speculated how it might have ended.
This 1990 radio adaptation uses the ending written by Leon Garfield in 1980.
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The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne
The Red House Mystery is an amateur detective story written by the author of the Winnie the Pooh books. Milne wrote his only novel for his father, an avid reader of mysteries. Could the children's book author really write an entertaining mystery?
FlashForward is a science-fiction television series, based on the 1999 novel Flashforward by Canadian science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer. It began airing on September 24, 2009.
The underlying question — can you change your future? — is at the heart of FlashForward, among the most-awaited new fall TV series, and one that some are calling the next Lost.
In this book, Lindsay offers biographies of 90 female English language mystery writers. Each A-Z entry includes the author's full name, a short biography, a summary of the author's major works and themes, a discussion of the author's critical reception, a bibliography of the author's works separated by series, and a list of works about the author. Appendixes list by year all of the women who have either been nominated or won major mystery awards. The book ends with a bibliography of monographs about women mystery writers and a name and subject index.
Kellerman's psychologist/sleuth Alex Delaware nimbly executes tricky steps of his own when called in to consult on the mysterious ailments afflicting a baby being seen at his training hospital in Los Angeles. In his seventh appearance (after Private Eyes), Delaware is in top form, carefully pursuing the possibility that 21-month-old Cassie Jones may be the victim of Munchausen's Disease by Proxy, a complex syndrome in which a parent, usually the mother, secretly causes the symptoms that endanger the child.