The Fall of the House of Spade

الغلاف الأمامي
AuthorHouse, 30‏/07‏/2007 - 320 من الصفحات

In 1913, several brutal murders occurred in the small town of Canton, Kentucky. Quentin Spade, the scion of a wealthy familyintellectual, respected. artistic, reserved,was accused of being a psychotic killerbut was he? In the early Twenty-First Century, Tiffany Gray, a college student, becomes obsessed with the century old murders and attempts to discover what really happened. The Fall of the House of Spade is a fast-paced novel which moves back and forth from past to present. It presents a story of greed, hatred, political treachery, vengeance, violence, and love, set against the decline of Canton as a center of riverboat trade and wealth.

"Kenneth Tucker has woven a haunting story whose characters linger beyond a final page of history or text."

Katherine C. Kurk, Kentucky Philological Review

"Tucker tells a fascinating story of these evil doers... It's an interesting part of our history..."

Jesse Stuart Foundation.

"Tucker effectively uses dialogue and and clear, graphic details to bring to light a sad chapter in Kentucky's history."

Steve FlairtyKentucky Monthly

 

الصفحات المحددة

المحتوى

Chapter One
1
Chapter Two
15
Chapter Three
26
Chapter Four
43
Chapter Five
65
Chapter Six
84
Chapter Seven
103
Chapter Eight
118
Chapter Twelve
195
Chapter Thirteen
213
Chapter Fourteen
232
Chapter Fifteen
239
Chapter Sixteen
261
Chapter Seventeen
272
Chapter Eighteen
288
Epilogue
299

Chapter Nine
138
Chapter Ten
159
Chapter Eleven
172
About the Author
305
Back Cover
307
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The Fall of the House of Spade
<span dir=ltr>Kenneth Tucker</span>‏
لا تتوفر معاينة - 2007

عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة

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مقاطع مشهورة

الصفحة i - For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.‏
تظهر في 1202 من الكتب من 1755-2008
الصفحة i - Who casts true shadow in the sun, And die, but play no truant. This is more horrible: that the darling egg Of the chosen people hatch a creature Of noblest mind and powerful leg Who cannot fathom nor perform his nature. The larks' tongues are never stilled Where the pale spread straw of sunlight lies.‏
تظهر في 12 من الكتب من 1895-2007

نبذة عن المؤلف (2007)

Kenneth Tucker grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and received his Ph. D. from the University of Kentucky. Now retired, Dr. Tucker taught English at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky for 31 years. His academic specialties were Shakespeare and literature of the English Renaissance. He has published widely, writing book reviews and articles on a variety of writers, including Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Penn Warren, H. G. Wells, and H. P. Lovecraft. He is also the author of Eliot Ness and the Untouchables, The Historical Reality and the Film and Television Depictions (2000), Shakespeare and Jungian Psychology, a Reading of the Plays (2003), and A Wilderness of Tigers, a Novel of the Harpe Brothers and Frontier violence (2005).

معلومات المراجع

العنوانThe Fall of the House of Spade
المؤلفKenneth Tucker
الناشرAuthorHouse, 2007
رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب)1467829501, 9781467829502
عدد الصفحات320 من الصفحات
  
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