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Glyn Daniel

    Known as Glyn Daniel, this author gained renown for his work in archaeology and as a television personality. His interest in detective fiction is described as a hobby that complements his scholarly pursuits. Daniel's background includes an academic career and wartime service. His popularity expanded through his role in a television quiz show.

    Glyn Daniel
    Enzyklopädie der Archäologie
    The Megalith Builders of Western Europe
    The Idea of Prehistory
    Writing for Antiquity
    Malta
    The Cambridge Murders
    • The Cambridge Murders

      • 220 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.5(58)Add rating

      Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St John's and Trinity Colleges, a fact which may escape those who visit Cambridge trusting only to the official guide books and seeing no more than a gap of twenty feet between those two great houses of learning. Here one morning the bedmakers and gyps, clamouring for admission on the last day of term awere admitted to find, lying across their path, the body of one of the College porters. The murder of the porter begins a mystery which is deepend when it is found that the unpopular Dean of the college is missing. The search for the murderer is conducted in part by the police and partly by the Vice-President of Fisher College Sir Richard Cherrington, an eminent but slightly eccentric archaeologist with a penchant for amateur detection. The Cambridge Murders is a story of murder at high table, of death and detection amid good living and scholarship.

      The Cambridge Murders
    • Malta

      An Archaeological Guide

      • 171 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      Malta
    • Writing for Antiquity

      An Anthology of Editorials from Antiquity

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      "For nearly thirty years, until his death in 1986, the well-known scholar, writer and broadcaster Glyn Daniel was editor of Antiquity, the influential review of archaeology. Under his guidance, it became a journal with a difference. In each issue the editor would air eloquently his decided views on matters not just archaeological--finds, hypotheses, personalities--but of interest or amusement to all: the pleasures of the French countryside, the follies of government policy, the five golden rules that a lecturer should observe." "Here is a collection of the very best of these entertaining, often passionately written essays. Glyn Daniel's range was wide, his tastes eclectic; but he came back again and again to favorite themes--travel, national attitudes, Stonehenge, the return of the Elgin marbles, smuggling, forgery. Forgery especially fascinated him: "I suppose," he wrote once, "that it is my interest in reading and writing detective stories that rubs off onto the study of archaeological forgery." He also loved to see "those on the edge of the lunatic fringes of archaeology plunge headlong down the lush grass that leads to Atlantis and Tiahuanaco and by long straight green tracks to Glozel and the Druids at Stonehenge."" "Writing for Antiquity presents Glyn Daniel exactly as he was--a man of letters, a brilliant raconteur and a wit. This is a volume to keep on one's bedside table, to read or dip into for amusement, enlightenment and the charm of the unexpected."--Jacket

      Writing for Antiquity
    • Enzyklopädie der Archäologie

      • 302 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Die Archäologie leistet einen unschätzbaren Beitrag zu dem Gesamtbild, das wir uns vom Menschen, seinen Ursprüngen und seiner kulturellen Entwicklung machen. Die Enzyklopädie der Archäologie versammelt in übersichtlicher und verständlicher Form und reich illustriert den heutigen Kenntnisstand. Wo immer der Leser das Buch aufschlägt, wird er gefesselt, informiert und zu neuen Entdeckungen angeregt.

      Enzyklopädie der Archäologie
    • Jedné noci je zavražděn děkan Fisherovy koleje a jeden z jejích vrátných. Zavedené postupy policejních vyšetřovatelů vedou do slepé uličky a rovněž zkušený komisař ze Scotland Yardu si s množstvím protichůdných indicií neví rady. Jako intelektuální hádanka zláká problém vražd protektora koleje, který na ně aplikuje postupy, jež se osvědčují při dešifrování archeologických nálezů.

      Vraždy v Cambridgi
    • Tahle knížka obletěla celý svět, a to z prostého důvodu – že máme rádi opravdu dobré detektivky, třeba takové, jaké psávala Agatha Christie. Detektivní žánr má k dispozici spoustu trumfů – hrdelní zločin, zdánlivě neřešitelná záhada, dobrodružné a nebezpečné pátrání, touha po spravedlnosti –, jen s nimi umět sehrát dokonalou partii. Skutečně dobrá detektivka je přísně logická, nepodvádí (žádné tajné chodby), je napínavá, ale nejde o thriller, není užvaněná, postavy jsou psychologicky reálné (žádní blázni) a prostředí uvěřitelné – a snad by se i měla odehrávat ve staré dobré Anglii… Především však řešení představuje opravdový rébus a spravedlnosti musí být učiněno zadost.

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