Jack Ritchie

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In the dispatch box of Crippen & Landru, we keep a list of lost classics our readers would like to see. We've had many requests for the works of Jack Ritchie, a mystery writer from the last century, who wowed people with his imagination and prose. While many of his stories were available in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, readers would have to find and read nine different issues to enjoy all of the exploits of Cardula. Crippen & Landru made that pleasure easier. Cardula is perhaps the most popular of Ritchie's series characters. If you can solve an anagram, you have a hunt on the type of person Cardula is. Ritchie never spells out the character's background explicitly, though many hints are thrown in the reader's way. We've also rounded out the book with some long-lost locked room stories by Ritchie. Our editor and introducer for this collection is Brian Skupin, who is a fan who worked with International Locked Room publications. So, sit down, grab some garlic, a mirror, and a hefty stake, not the delicious kind And enjoy the first collection of all of Cardula's stories.

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In the late 1980's when Margaret Thatcher was in power and president Gorbachev was tearing down the Berlin wall, an urban terrorist wave was engulfing the UK, destroying the establishment, murdering the elite and swamping the security services. George Grant a retired SAS private detective becomes sucked into the maelstrom when his intended fianc e, Joanne Schaeffer is murdered at Stringfellows nightclub on the night when Grant planned to propose. Driven to uncover who is behind her murder Grant becomes enmeshed in the security forces desperate search for the organisers and perpetrators of the wave. As the English establishment is crumbling and the military are taking to the streets, Grant's search for leads takes him around the world and submerges him in the political intrigue behind the plot by a group of KGB refusenicks to pull down the oldest democracy in the world and replace it with a new form of communism. As the State opening of Parliament in November 1988 approaches and the cabinet falls into disarray, as industrialists and politicians are kidnapped and murdered and the economy grinds to a halt, the Country is engulfed in a feeling of dread. Ritchie has charted the fictional father of modern urban terrorism and the mother of Al-Qaeda. This is a thrilling, racy novel full of breathtaking twists and turns finishing with a d nouement of such audacity that even the Scorpion himself, the most feared terrorist in the world could not predict.

Many contemporary Anglo-American philosophers describe themselves as naturalists. But what do they mean by that term? Popular naturalist slogans like, "there is no first philosophy" or "philosophy is continuous with the natural sciences" are far from illuminating. "Understanding Naturalism" provides a clear and readable survey of the main strands in recent naturalist thought. The origin and development of naturalist ideas in epistemology, metaphysics and semantics is explained through the works of Quine, Goldman, Kuhn, Chalmers, Papineau, Millikan and others. The most common objections to the naturalist project - that it involves a change of subject and fails to engage with "real" philosophical problems, that it is self-refuting, and that naturalism cannot deal with normative notions like truth, justification and meaning - are all discussed. "Understanding Naturalism" distinguishes two strands of naturalist thinking - the constructive and the deflationary - and explains how this distinction can invigorate naturalism and the future of philosophical research.

Many contemporary Anglo-American philosophers describe themselves as naturalists. But what do they mean by that term? Popular naturalist slogans like, "there is no first philosophy" or "philosophy is continuous with the natural sciences" are far from illuminating. "Understanding Naturalism" provides a clear and readable survey of the main strands in recent naturalist thought. The origin and development of naturalist ideas in epistemology, metaphysics and semantics is explained through the works of Quine, Goldman, Kuhn, Chalmers, Papineau, Millikan and others. The most common objections to the naturalist project - that it involves a change of subject and fails to engage with "real" philosophical problems, that it is self-refuting, and that naturalism cannot deal with normative notions like truth, justification and meaning - are all discussed. "Understanding Naturalism" distinguishes two strands of naturalist thinking - the constructive and the deflationary - and explains how this distinction can invigorate naturalism and the future of philosophical research.