Saving Endangered Heirs and Estates - Studies in European Literature

This book is a collection of great and insightful essays which discuss heroic endeavors to save endangered heirs and estates by searching devotedly for the truth in various criminal and civil situations. This book focuses especially on important works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodor Storm, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Agatha Christie, while also discussing works by other important European authors. In each of these literary masterpieces the landowner or heir is emotionally and physically endangered and his or her house and estate imperiled by one or more individuals from within his or her own family or from within the sphere of influence of the family. In these works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodor Storm, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Agatha Christie there is a valiant attempt by such individuals as Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Mary Lennox, Hercule Poirot, and others to save the landowners and heirs who are endangered and the estates which are threatened by thoroughly investigating their situations and by searching meticulously for the truth. These protagonists share and exemplify the "passion for getting at the truth" which Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Murder in Three Acts declares is the primary motivating force and inspiration for his criminal investigations.

List of contents

Acknowledgments - Introduction - Arthur Conan Doyle - Theodor Storm - Frances Hodgson Burnett - Agatha Christie - Conclusion - Works Consulted - Index.

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"In this excellent study Hugo G. Walter takes us on an extraordinary journey through splendid houses, crime scenes, and secret gardens showing effectively how the search for truth saves endangered heirs and imperiled estates."-Luisa Ferreira, Berkeley College

Product details

• Authors: Hugo G Walter, Hugo G. Walter, Walter Hugo G.
• Assisted by: Edward T. Larkin (Editor), Ginny Lewis (Editor), Hugo G. Walter (Editor), Larkin Edward T. (Editor of the series), Lewis Ginny (Editor of the series), Walter Hugo G. (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781433141072
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-4107-2
• No. of pages: 202
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 16 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 368 g
• Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Literature, Europe, Edward, Studies, Simpson, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Hugo, WALTER, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Lewis, European, endangered, Ginny, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, estates, heirs, Saving, Meagan, Larkin