Stephen Knight

Who really was Jack the Ripper? Was he a solitary assassin lurking in the shadows of gaslit London? Or was Jack the Ripper three men: two killers and an accomplice? In this work the author investigates all aspects of this strange case shrouded in mystery and misconception. The discovery of the murders is described by the men who were there, and evidence reveals that the hitherto unsolved Ripper murders were in fact a culmination of a full-scale cover-up organized at the highest level of government.

The Final Solution

Jack the Ripper

Bernard Taylor

A Century of Unsolved Homicides

Perfect Murder

700,000 Freemasons, all male, probably make up the largest secret society in Britain today. Who are they? Why are they so incredibly secretive? Is Freemasonry a positive, charitable organisation which incorporates a certain amount of harmless mumbo-jumbo, or does it in fact represent something more sinister? Stephen Knight's impartial - but highly controversial - investigation addresses these vital questions and asks - Does Freemasonry influence our police and judiciary? Can a Christian be a Freemason? Have the KGB penetrated the Freemasons? Does freemasonry lead to corruption in public life? Freemasons are all bound to silence, but now some of them have been impelled to break ranks and reveal part of the truth.

The Secret World of the Freemasons

The Brotherhood

Lecturer Department of Planning Stephen Knight

The Horde Is Always Hungry... The zombie apocalypse has begun, and Major Cordell McDaniels is given the most important mission of his career: lead a Special Forces team into New York City to rescue the one man who can stop the ghastly virus that reanimates the dead. But as a growing army of flesh-eating corpses takes over the streets and a violent storm renders airborne extraction impossible, McDaniels struggles to find a way out of the Big Apple. The odds of anyone getting out alive plummet further when slaughtered members of his own Special Forces team join the ranks of the gathering dead... with their military skills intact!

The Gathering Dead

One of the world's foremost authorities on the only mythical person in the Dictionary of National Biography delves deeply into the Robin Hood story, probing ballads, epitaphs on old gravestones, and Disney films in search of the man behind the legend. (Mythology & Folklore)

A Mythic Biography

Robin Hood

Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern. Stephen Knight's fascinating book is a comprehensive analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre have evolved, explores a range of authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts – the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The expanded second edition has been thoroughly updated in the light of recent research and new developments, such as ethnic crime fiction, the rise of thrillers in the serial-killer and urban collapse modes, and feel-good 'cozies'. It also explores a number of fictional works which have been published in the last few years and features a helpful glossary. With full references, and written in a highly engaging style, this remains the essential short guide for readers of crime fiction everywhere!

Detection, Death, Diversity

Crime Fiction since 1800

Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts: the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The best criticism is cited and the book provides full references and a helpful chronology, making this a highly readable complete study of a popular and still relatively underexamined genre.

Crime Fiction, 1800-2000

Crime fiction--a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century--features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role, the protagonists tended to be lawyers or other professionals. Major English writers like Gaskell, Dickens and Collins contributed to the genre--Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was a best-seller in 1887--and American and French authors created new forms. This book explores thematic aspects of 19th century crime fiction's complex history, including various social and gender roles between different time periods and settings, and the imperial elements that made Sherlock Holmes seem dynamically contemporary.

A Thematic History of Crime Fiction in the 19th Century World

Towards Sherlock Holmes

The third collection in the Crimes for a Summer Christmas series, featuring stories by 14 Australian writers, including Elizabeth Jolley, Marion Halligan, Peter Corris, Brian Castro, Marele Day and Jean Bedford,

A Crimes for a Summer Christmas Anthology

A Corpse at the Opera House

RESEARCH PROFESSOR IN ENGLISH LITERATURE STEPHEN. KNIGHT

London, 1902. A string of murders committed by a killer dubbed 'The Deptford Strangler' has the police mystified. The victims seem to have nothing in common, and the crimes appear random and motiveless. Meanwhile, retired Inspector Brough and his nephew, Nicholas Calvin, researching a book on the history of murder, unearth a series of killings committed in Rogano, Italy in 1454 identical in pattern to the present-day crimes. What possible connection could there be between these horrific events separated by almost 450 years? Brough and Calvin are determined to find out--but they are not prepared for the terrible truth they will uncover. Originally published in 1979, Requiem at Rogano was the only novel by Stephen Knight (1951-1985), best known for a nonfiction bestseller that promised the 'final solution' in the case of Jack the Ripper. This new edition of Knight's novel, a page-turning supernatural thriller whose plot twists will keep readers enthralled, features an introduction by Bernard Taylor. "A superlative thriller ... I have not had such a good weekend with a thriller for years ... I recommend this to all who enjoy literate crime fiction." - Martin Seymour-Smith, Financial Times "A confident debut." - The Guardian "Ingenious." - The Observer

Requiem at Rogano

A Novel

Rogano

The author studies different kinds of highly popular crime fiction to show their social function, drawing on recent work in the sociology of literature, which has explained how stories both shape and ratify our response to the world.

Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction

Stephen Knight's book is a full analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the most recent developments. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre evolved, explores major authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts: the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The best criticism is cited and the book provides full references and a helpful chronology, making this a highly-readable complete study of a popular and still relatively underexamined genre.

A classic and highly controversial exposé of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with an introduction by Martin Short, author of ‘Inside the Brotherhood’.

Eine unbekannte, mysteriöse Krankheit verwandelt die Einwohner Bostons in sadistische, blutgierige, irre lachende Killer - die Crazies! Nur ein tapferes Infanterie-Bataillon kämpft gegen die irren infizierten Horden an und versucht, die wenigen verbliebenen Überlebenden zu beschützen. Und das gesamte Land zu retten ... "Wow. Scheiße, ich brauche einfach mehr Sterne." - Amazon.de Nach den Ereignissen von Band 4 haben die Lightfighters von Colonel Lees 10th Mountain herbe Verluste erlitten. Die übrig gebliebenen Soldaten sind von den anhaltenden Kämpfen erschöpft und zermürbt. Und doch wartet bereits die nächste Mission auf die Einheit: Sie sollen sich nach Fort Stewart begeben und dort Dr. Courtney Moreau finden, eine der Entwicklerinnen jenes Virus, welches nun die Menschheit ausrottet. Deren Immunität könnte der Grundstein für die Entwicklung eines Gegenmittels sein. Die Sache hat nur einen Haken; Fort Stewart wird bereits von den Crazies belagert ...

Horror-Thriller

FEUERPROBE (Retreat 5)

Craig DiLouie

Joe McKinney

Der Wahnsinn beginnt ... wenn die Welt lachend zugrunde geht! RETREAT - aus der Feder der bekannten Horror-Autoren Craig DiLouie, Joe McKinney und Stephen Knight! Nach wochenlangen Kämpfen quer durch ein Amerika, welches von furchtlosen, kreischenden Killern überrannt wurde, stehen Lt. Colonel Harry Lee und seine Männer vom 55. Infanterie-Regiment am Stadtrand von Philadelphia. Auf dem Weg dorthin haben sie Tausenden Flüchtlingen Schutz geboten und standen oft vor schier unlösbaren Aufgaben. Die "Stadt der Nächstenliebe" befindet sich zur Zeit unter dem Schutz von General Anthony Bell, Kommandant der berühmten 56. Stryker Brigade. Aber in einer Welt, die total verrückt geworden ist, ist nichts wie es scheint. Und während Bell Lee verhaften lässt, um ihn vor eine tödliche Wahl zu stellen, versucht dessen rechte Hand, Major Chris Walker, alles in seiner Macht Stehende, um eine Katastrophe zu verhindern. Schafft er es, Lee der Schlinge des Henkers zu entreißen? Und kann er seine Truppen und die vielen Zivilisten unbeschadet durch ein Philadelphia voller verrückter Killer führen? Oder werden sie alle lachend sterben?

STIRB LACHEND! (Retreat 3)

Medieval Literature and Social Politics brings together seventeen articles by literary historian Stephen Knight. The book primarily focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval literature, in the past and the present. It provides an account of how early heroic texts relate to the issues surrounding leadership and conflict in Wales, France and England, and how the myth of the Grail and the French reworking of Celtic stories relate to contemporary society and its concerns. Further chapters examine Chaucer’s readings of his social world, the medieval reworkings of the Arthur and Merlin myths, and the popular social statements in ballads and other literary forms. The concluding chapters examine the Anglo-nationalist `Arctic Arthur’, and the ways in which Arthur, Merlin and Robin Hood can be treated in terms of modern studies of the history of emotions and the environment. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of medieval Europe, as well as those interested in social and political history, medieval literature and modern medievalism.

Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts

Medieval Literature and Social Politics

"New York City has fallen to the zombie horde...First Sergeant David Gartrell is cut off and alone in the city, miles away from the nearest military units which might be able to assist...Together with a frightened woman and her young son, Gartrell sets out to accomplish his final objective: find a way to leave the city of the gathering dead, or perish at the hands--and teeth--of the ravenous horde"--P. [4] of cover.

Left with the Dead

﻿ Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction, including Fergus Hume's 1887 international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. The 1980s saw a surge of private-eye thrillers, popular in a society skeptical of police. Twenty-first century authors have focused on policemen--and increasingly policewomen--and finally indigenous crime narratives. The author explores in detail this rich but little known national subgenre.

Australian Crime Fiction

A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which grappled with the rise of enormous, anonymous cities, beginning in France in 1842, then spreading rapidly across the continent and to America and Australia. Writers covered include Eugène Sue, George Reynolds, Paul Féval, George Lippard, “Ned Buntline” and Donald Cameron.

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