A detailed study of the use of cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal Detective stories. It provides an insight into the attitudes prevalent in the late nineteenth century toward the use of and addiction to cocaine. The authors trace the effects of Holmes's drug habit on his career as a detective and on his relationship with Doctor Watson. The concise and interesting style is enhanced by many illustrations giving graphic historical perspective to the narrative. The book is a must for the Holmes buff and for those interested in early Anglo-American beliefs about cocaine and its effects. 89pp, 5"x8", pub 1978, illustrated. The text and format were planned by James A. Rock & Jack Tracy, typography by Lynne A. Rock. Composed in 12 pt Baskerville type, printed on creme-white Sebago, 60 pound stock. The entire book was printed by the web-offset method by R.R. Donnelley & Sons, of Chicago, Illinois.

Subcutaneously, my dear Watson : Sherlock Holmes and the cocaine habit

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Jack Tracy

Jim Berkey

Berkey, Jim

Mystery

James A Rock & Co. Publishers

A Bibliographical Dictionary, Being A Guide to The Works of Authors Who Have Contributed to the Literature of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Who Have Published Some or All of Their Works Pseudonymously Compiled by James A. Rock Quarto, vii+201pp., 9"x12", illustrated Over 1200 hundred authors and 2000 pseudonyms with comprehensive bibliography of each author and 1st Edition bibliographic information on each author. Cross referenced by pseudonyms and real name. Covers the period from 1588 through 1978. Includes a guide to collecting science fiction. Published 1979.

Who Goes There, Science Fiction and Fantasy Pseudonyms: A Bibliographic Dictionary of SF & F Pseudonyms 1588-1978

Reference

James A Rock

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

If It Ain't True, It Oughta Be and Other Lessons from Life

Shewmake, William

Thrillers & Suspense

Her Name Was Olivia: A Story of Post Civil War Tennessee

Carol Britt Eason

Based on True Characters and Events: During the Civil War, North Carolina was a state with divided loyalties. There were no great battlefields in the Blue Ridge Mountains; no regiments lined up against unknown opponents. Here the fighting was up-close and personal. Torn from a little-known page in history, Chasm tells the story of four families shattered by war: the Pritchards, Moores, Coffeys, and above all, the Blalocks. When Keith Blalock, a Unionist, is forced to join the Confederate Army, his wife Malinda cuts her hair, dons Keith's clothes, and goes with him, posing as his kid brother, Sam. Soon they escape to Union lines and thus begins the Blalocks' harrowing ride through history-one that results in the devastation of their family and places Keith on trial for murder. (The "real" Keith and Malinda are featured on the Front Cover.) Was Keith Blalock a Robin Hood or a rogue elephant? The answer depends on where your feet were planted on the Mason-Dixon line. About the Author The author began her career as an investigative reporter. Her lust for literature, history and travel took her to Europe where she fell in love with Paris.  And a Parisian. The couple married and lived for awhile in "The City of Lights," later settling in New England where they raised their four children. A descendant of one of the characters in Chasm, Dr. John Whitehead, the author became intrigued with the Blalock's story. Knowing that in order to be true to these people she would have to walk the paths they had walked, become immersed in the ways and mores of the mountains, she and her husband pulled up their New England roots and moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Chasm is the result of five years of research and writing. The author now makes her home in New England.

Chasm: A Novel Based on a True Story from the Civil War

Literature & Fiction

Elaine Evain

Genre Fiction

<p>ABOUT THE BOOK: 'Tis severe to sever the silent e, thereby softening the others; less so the u in Faust.'-Fast 'A great design appears at first insane.'-Goethe, Faust 'In the dictionary as well - Goethe is found to be just under the gods.'-Fast Rithian Fast has made his Fastian Deal with the Devil, or rather, it was made upon him; a Tome was 'signed' in blood. He denies it stubbornly, even to the Foul Fiend's filthy face: "You do not exist " But in the end, there is no evading it, no avoiding it; there is no believing it, no believing in it, or not. There is only The Desolate One come for his delicious soul Twenty-Four years. The Door is closed ... to Real Eyes. 'Let us play a most serious game: Rithmomachia.'-Fast 'How could there be anything more selfish than the desire to save one's own precious soul '-Fast This 'Tale from Ahead, ' his Fast'sworded 'Otto's Biography, ' a confused-at-best "Self-Story," is fastidiously penciled on these thin slivers of wood in chapter and verse, omitting chapters, yet umbly offering as surrogate a continuous chorus. It was played out in Rithian's one-room, as a means. To what end? Is this merely a temptingly timed attempt to save his own precious soul from that Great Pit of Eternal Pain? So it seems, though he does not believe it, or believe in it. A dream? A darkening nightmare? Doctor Fastus is tied-up tight, positioned jacket-straight in White Room, he thinks, simply circling in mind, though in a well-thought-through-and-thorough way, he thinks. Or, rather, time is up He is stuck Below for all eternity -redundantly and in contradiction. To grasp this -is his Fast task; it is the human task. 'The senses are not senseless.'-Fast 'The Mute Ant sweetly spoke softly of the silent e."-Fast At tender-aged twelve, the Notes and Rithms were put upon the ears of our youthly Rith, the 6-Stringed and 88-Keyed. The fate was offered. The Fast One holemindedly grasped it, with all ten fingers of both hands. He quickly learned however, that with this noble art, comes a gravity, a noble deal. And, comes the great weight of that which is grave. Perchance in this darkest of depthly darkened cases a finding was found, a silent e to yield the others strong in sound, with ears both in depth percepted space. Just defied or justified, a Window is opened ... to the Real-Eyed. 'Even the lion knows - not to share his pride.'-Fast 'Misunderstanding the dream. In the ages of crude primeval culture man believed that in dreams he got to know another real world; here is the origin of all metaphysics ... 'The dead live on; for they appear to the living in dreams'; this inference went unchallenged for many thousands of years.' - Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human 'Of this, one must not ask; tis as the silent e in its task.-Fast 'The spirit of Rithian is within me '-Ian, student of Fast ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mr. McRill holds a Master of Music degree in Composition. He has written, performed, and recorded 6 CDs: The 'Rithian Fast' songs (acoustic rock); and the solo piano works. He has enjoyed teaching Music and English as a second language at various educational institutions, and lives happily and humbly with his sweet wife.</p>

The Window: The Self Story of Rithian Fast

McRill, Randy

Literary

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