Showboat World, written in 1975, is the second, stand-alone novel in a pair of science fiction novels by Jack Vance, was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer, he also wrote how many mystery novels, under the pseudonym Ellery Queen?
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Showboat World Showboat World (original title: The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII, Big Planet), written in 1975, is the second, stand-alone novel in a pair of science fiction novels by Jack Vance (the first being "Big Planet") that share the same setting, a backward, lawless, metal-poor world called Big Planet. The plot structure which involves a series of dramatic presentations, often with humorous consequences, has parallels with Vance's 1965 novel Space Opera.
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Jack Vance John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote 9 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and one each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse. Some editions of his published works give his year of birth as 1920.
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Julian May Julian Clare May (born July 10, 1931) is an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also uses several literary pseudonyms, best known for her "Saga of Pliocene Exile" ("Saga of the Exiles" in the United Kingdom) and "Galactic Milieu Series" books.
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The League of Frightened Men The League of Frightened Men is the second Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. The story was serialized in six issues of "The Saturday Evening Post" (June 15–July 20, 1935) under the title "The Frightened Men". The novel was published in 1935 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. "The League of Frightened Men" is a Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, one of the most influential works of mystery fiction listed by crime fiction historian Howard Haycraft and Ellery Queen.
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The Benson Murder Case The Benson Murder Case is the first novel in the Philo Vance series of mystery novels by S. S. Van Dine, which became a best-seller.
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Evelyn E. Smith Evelyn E. Smith (25 July 1922 – 4 July 2000) was an American writer of science fiction and mysteries, as well as a compiler of crossword puzzles.
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Kate Fansler Kate Fansler is the main character in a series of fourteen mystery novels written by Carolyn Gold Heilbrun from 1964-2002, under the pseudonym Amanda Cross. Like Heilbrun, Fansler was a literature professor at a prestigious New York university. In the books, she is called upon to solve mysteries set in an academic context, usually involving the murder of a professor or student. Her work is accomplished through conversation with the people involved, rather than through the physically adventurous antics preferred by other fictional detectives. Midway through the series, she married her partner, district attorney Reed Amhearst, but as she tells another character in "A Trap For Fools", she "neither uses his name nor wears his ring". Echoing Heilbrun's personal views, she has little sentimental attachment to children, enjoys smoking, drinking, and fatty food, and in later books such as "Sweet Death, Kind Death", meditates on the nature of middle age and on the liberating nature of death.
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The Unicorn Murders The Unicorn Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery (more precisely, it is a subset of that group, an impossible mystery) and features his series detective, Sir Henry Merrivale.
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Agatha Christie bibliography Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. Although she wrote six romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, her reputation rests on the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections that she wrote under her own name, which have sold over two billion copies—an amount only surpassed by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others, even though she thought the character to be "rather insufferable". Following the publication of the 1975 novel "Curtain", Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of "The New York Times". The literary historian Howard Haycraft considered that "few fictional sleuths can surpass the amazing little Belgian—with his waxed moustache and egg-shaped head, his inflated confidence in the infallibility of his 'little grey cells', his murderous attacks on the English language—either for individuality or ingenuity."
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Clair Blank Clarissa Mabel Blank was an American author, writer of the Beverly Gray mystery series and four other novels.
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Chester K. Steele Chester K. Steele was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for a series of mystery books.
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Jerry Sohl Gerald Allan "Jerry" Sohl Sr. (December 2, 1913 – November 4, 2002) was an American television scriptwriter and science fiction author who worked for "The Twilight Zone" (as a ghostwriter for Charles Beaumont), "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "The Outer Limits", "" (once using the pseudonym "Nathan Butler"), and other shows. He wrote more than twenty novels as well as feature film scripts. He also wrote the nonfiction works "Underhanded Chess" and "Underhanded Bridge" in 1973.
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Stanley Ellin Stanley Bernard Ellin (October 6, 1916 – July 31, 1986) was an American mystery writer. Ellin was born in Brooklyn, New York. After a brief tenure in the Army, at the insistence of his wife, Ellin began writing full time. While his novels are acclaimed, he is best known for his short stories. In May 1948, his first sale, and one of Ellin's most famous short stories, "The Specialty of the House" (""Speciality" of the House" in England), appeared in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine".
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Too Many Detectives "Too Many Detectives" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout, first published September 14, 1956, in "Collier's". It first appeared in book form in the short-story collection "Three for the Chair", published by the Viking Press in 1957.
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The Egyptian Cross Mystery The Egyptian Cross Mystery is a novel that was written in 1932 by Ellery Queen. It is the fifth of the Ellery Queen mysteries.
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Leslie Esdaile Banks Leslie Esdaile Banks, "née" Peterson (December 11, 1959 – August 2, 2011), was an American writer under the pen names of Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. Banks, Leslie Banks, Leslie Esdaile Banks and L. A. Banks. She wrote in various genres, including African-American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction.
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Saving the Queen Saving the Queen is a 1976 American spy thriller novel by William F. Buckley, Jr., the first of eleven novels in the Blackford Oakes series.
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Scott William Carter Scott William Carter is an American fiction writer. He writes in multiple genres, including fantasy, mystery, and young adult.
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Kate Ross Katherine Jean "Kate" Ross (June 21, 1956 – March 12, 1998) was an American mystery author who wrote four books set in Regency-era England about the dandy Julian Kestrel.
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John Dickson Carr John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977) was an American author of detective stories, who also published using the pseudonyms Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn.
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Jack Ritchie John George Reitci (February 26, 1922 – April 25, 1983) was an American writer of detective fiction who wrote under the name Jack Ritchie. Although he wrote one novel, he was primarily known for his vast output of short stories.
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John G. Hemry John G. Hemry (LCDR, USN ret.) is an American author of military science fiction novels. Drawing on his experience as a retired United States Navy officer, he has written the "Stark's War" and "Paul Sinclair" series. Under the name Jack Campbell, he has written six volumes of the "Lost Fleet" series. He has also written over a dozen short stories, many published in "Analog" magazine, and a number of non-fiction works.