Intended for writers who are looking for ways to improve their output. This guide focuses on: fiction writing and the world of genre fiction; ways of drawing on personal experience in order to write non-fiction articles on a variety of topics in a number of different styles; and, writing for children.
Do you make your own greeting cards and wish you could write
beautifully instead of depending on rubber stamps for what you want to
say? Would you like to hand letter a gorgeous sign, perhaps a poem and
frame it but your third grade teacher was right when she said you had
poor handwriting? Then this book is for you.
Mr Waddington carefully
teaches many beautiful styles of calligraphy, the Caroline manuscript
which most people are familiar with as well as my favorite, the
italics, with quite a few other styles thrown in for good measure. You
will learn the process step by step, from the materials you will need
to the technique to keep from smearing the ink.
In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduces readers to the heroic detective, Hercule Poirot. This is a classic murder mystery set in the outskirts of Essex. The victim is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. The list of suspects is long and includes her gold-digging new spouse and stepsons, her doctor, and her hired companion.
This is the very first Poirot/Hastings story. Set in 1916, we meet Captain Hastings as he is invalided out of the Great War and goes to convalesce at Styles Court, the family home of his great friend, John Cavendish. By an extraordinary coincidence, billeted in the village is a brilliant little retired detective with an egg-shaped head, who made a considerable impression on the Captain when he was in Belgium. Styles is not a happy household and in the blistering summer heat, tensions mount. Even so, the tragic murder, which occurs is not expected. The entire family is drawn into the case but with their reluctant permission, Hastings calls upon the services of the diminutive Belgian.
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