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The Black Spider is a novella by the Swiss writer Jeremias Gotthelf written in 1842. Set in an idyllic frame story, old legends are worked into a Christian-humanist allegory about ideas of good and evil. Though the novel is initially divided, what is originally the internal story later spills over into the frame story as well.
The Spider King (1954). A dynamic biographical novel of Louis XI and his struggle to create a mighty nation from a weak medieval France. Queen's Cross (1955, 2008). A biographical romance novel of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand during the Reconquista. The Revolutionary (1958). A biographical novel of sea captain John Paul Jones during his ...
Transmetropolitan is a cyberpunk transhumanist comic book series written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Darick Robertson; it was published by the American company DC Comics in 1997–2002. [1] The series was originally part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint Helix , but upon the end of the book's first year the series was moved to the Vertigo ...
Spider is a novel by the British novelist Patrick McGrath, originally published in the United States in 1990. In the novel, a psychological thriller with an unreliable narrator , the protagonist wrestles with mental illness and trauma from his past.
The book was written following the successful publication of the novelizations of the 1930 play Black Coffee in 1998 and the 1958 play The Unexpected Guest in 1999. Like those books, the novelization is a straightforward transfer of the stage lines and directions of Christie's script into a written narrative.
In reviewing it in The Observer, Philip Toynbee wrote, . This is a wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza; it is intrinsically and essentially, the book of a young man – Durrell was 24 when he wrote it – richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny indeed, self-pitying, but, above all, stylistically and verbally inventive as no other young man's ...
Various persons suspect each other of taking it and some suspect Billy of having it. Once Billy recovers from his wounds enough to leave the hospital, another two murders take place and Billy is suspected of these. The book is a thriller novel where various persons accuse each other of the theft of the black book and of the murders.
The Black Book is a 1993 crime novel by Ian Rankin, the fifth of the Inspector Rebus novels. [1] [2] It is the first book to feature Siobhan Clarke and Morris Gerald Cafferty appears as a main character. It is also the first book where Rebus is based at St Leonards police station.