To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Warner Books)

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a story about a relatively isolate and reserve town depicting some emotional incident narrated by a child. Its written by Harper Lee and published by Warner Books. It was first published in 1960 and this version of her book was on December, 1982.
Judging the book, the author seems to be a very good writer to express complex emotional thought in so simple way that it wins the heart. This book also after being published in 1960, became a bestseller and a critical success. In the next year, this book fetched the prestigious Pulitzer prize and made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. This facts demonstrate this masterpiece and the awesome writer.
The book is a deeply moving emotional story of a town which faces the usual orthodox views as in a conventional old town of, so to say, established people. The narration of these events by a little child has made the language more sweet, compassionate and dramatic. The events revolves around their child day mischiefs always resulting in deep knowledge about human values, as analysed by a child's brain, guileless and transparent, questioning every complex rules set by the elder world. The main event of the story revolves around the discrimination of blacks and whites. The heart of this book, the character of Atticus, is an ideal representing the human dignity and humbleness that gives us some of the practical lessons of life.
Instead of the description of all these complex problems, the author has kept the story very simple and dramatic which keeps the reader guessing and interested, till the end; however, thats with a slight dull start of the novels describing the families and rusty town of Maycomb. The reader needs to go forward a little bit deep into the book to find the juice of the story. The book begins with a lot of praise by reputed news papers and magazines such as The New York Times, Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, etc.

Partners In Crime - Agatha Christie (Harper)

PARTNERS IN CRIME is a novel on the character of Tommy & Tuppence written by Agatha Christie. The general ambience of this book indicates of the situation around the early 20th century era. This book has been published in the year of 2001 by Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers. The publish of this book is in great britain in the year of 1929.

Renowned author Agatha Christie referred as "Crime Queen" has written many detective stories and plays. She has written novels on the famous characters of Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy & Tuppence, etc. In fact, the character Hercule Poirot is famous next to the detective Sherlock Holmes. She has written some memoirs too and her books have been published and novelised after her death in the year of 1976, also.

In this book, Partners of Crime, Tommy and Tuppence are the couples famous for their detective skill and have been offered to run a detective farm as partners to solve the cases. Of course, they acquired their pseudonym and acted splendidly as a full fledged detective agency. In addition to that their dexterity and mental skill, made them solve many of the complex cases. The novel describes many cases in chapters where these two partners (not to mention their unusual servant) along with their analytical thinking and humorous gossips have kept the drama alive and reader entertained. They not only solve these mysterious cases putting a challenge to their slogan of 'Any case solved in 24 hours?' but also risk themselve for the main action for which at the first place they have been offered to run the agency.

The book is a very easy going and light dramatised one, with interruption of humorous sections. It also mentions the marital charm of our main characters in a funny mood. However, the novel at length has the air of suspense of peculiar cases and the resulting success which indicate a large cogitative thinking and a bit of luck involved. A short appreciative remark of Books have been mentioned in support.

Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie (Harper Collins Publishers)

MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA is a masterpiece written by Agatha Christie, referred as "the Queen of Crime" and published by Harper Collins Publishers. The story was first published in England by Collins in 1936, however this signature edition was published in 2001. This book has Christie's famous main actor and detective Hercule Poirot, revolving around a crime case with an archaeological team doing research in Mesopotamia.

The famous detective story and drama writer Agatha Christie, considered second after Sherlock Holmes classics, had written 80 Crime stories and short stories, 19 plays and 6 Novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have been translated to 100 different foreign languages and all total over a billion sold copies. She had authored books like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Mousetrap, Sleeping Murder, Black Coffee, Miss Marple's Final Cases, etc; most of which have been dramatised and many have been published as books posthumously after she died in 1976. Before that this crime queen was made a Dame in 1971.

The book Murder in Mesopotamia is an account as noted by the character Amy Leatheran, who is in the role of a nurse and sought after to assist the beautiful and charming wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leadner. When under suspicious condition Mrs. Leadner was murdered, the archaeologist team at the excavation site in Mesopotamia was assisted by famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The rest of the story demonstrate how Poirot, the worshipper of perfection and the admirer of grey cells in his brain, solves this mysterious crime, unleashing a series of emotional and astonishing secrets associated with each character of the excavation team.

Unlike her previous Poirot lead works, this book doesn't mention the role of Captain Arthur Hastings, Poirot's assistance in his other Poirot lead Novels. Instead, in this work Amy Leatheran, the narrator, herself has filled the spot. This work of her is revolving around a high tense and suspense drama and has been appreciated by New York Times, highlighting the accomplishment of Christie's work.

The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton (Arrow Books)

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN is written by Michael Crichton and first published by Arrow Books in the year 1993. Its a very famous book based on a superb imagination of a scientific crisis, specific to the branch of bio-physics.

Just to unnecessarily recount the famous work of the author, he has written Jurassic Park, Congo, Airframe, Prey, Sphere, The great train Robbery; most of which has been produced as motion pictures. He is also the creator of TV serial ER. He is a most famous scientific and fantasy novel writer, whose imagination has no bound. Still his creation dangles on a fine line of fact and fiction that keeps the reader guessing about the authenticity of his stories.

The Andromeda strain as introduced by the author as based on a major American crisis involving five prominent biophysicists. This crisis is about a major breakdown of an epidemic that tells a whole village due to a supposed spread of microbes from outer space, brought on by a government scientific study satellite back to earth. This full novel is based on these five person struggle to unravel the mystery behind this unexplainable catastrophe. In this event they had to keep their and the whole planets future in jeopardy, with a possible nuclear and biological detonations.

This book is just another fabulous collection by the author as his all other famous works. Of course unlike most of the other book this book is more towards fiction than relying to facts. However, his imagination is an excellent base for agencies to take lead on the kind of studies they can do on extra-terrestrial problems that can affect human kind in future. Again an appreciative remark by New York Times and the Library Journal proves the book is up to the classy style and quality that's the hallmark of Michael Crichton Novels.

A Case of Need - Michael Crichton (Arrow Books)

A CASE OF NEED is a medical thriller written by the famous author Michael Crichton. Its a superb novel written during 1960s about the medical practices generally concerning the issue of abortion. This book is published by Arrow Books, first published in the year of 1995. For this book the author had written it under the pseudonym of Jeffery Hudson.
The author is famous for writing Novels like The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Congo, Timeline and is the creator of the famous television series ER. Most of his novels have been casted into motion pictures. The introduction of this book describing a brief account of the author's background while writing this book describes the horrible state of American medicine during 1960s. On this account he had based his story and for not coming to any controversy he had written it under a different name.
Like all his book, this book too danced around the fine line of fact and imagination having an important message for the society. It tells of an account of a supposed murder during abortion of an influential teenage girl and how the actual responsible person has been hunted down by a brave doctor not compromising anything except the truth. In his expedition he had to push through many astonishing medical secrets and facts while struggling with the threats to his life himself.
The total book consists of great many factual details of medical lifestyle and issues with lot many information at the appendices, as consistent with the author's practices of writing his other novels. The author background has helped this book to become more lively and true. A brush with the ongoing medical data sheds light into the pitiable condition of American medicine at that time. At the end, the author's message is clear to legalise the abortion procedure thus saving lives of thousands of women going through illegal abortion practices. A review by famous author Stephen King and Los Angeles Times confirms to the typical quality books produced by Michael Crichton.