Christie describes entirely different working methods for every book in her autobiography thus contradicts this claim, more likely from theatre, screen film and TV adaptations that vary perpetrators to keep viewers coming back.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

The book describes the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

In his book The Prophets, Abraham Joshua Heschel describes the unique aspect of the Jewish prophets as compared to other similar figures.

In his book Born Again ( 1976 and 2008 ), Watergate conspirator Chuck Colson describes his path to faith in conjunction with his criminal imprisonment and played a significant role in solidifying the " born again " identity as a cultural construct in the US.

One account from the book describes it being prepared for the casualties at Mons where " the orderlies were just beginning to make Bovril for the wounded, when the Germans deliberately shelled the bearers and ambulance wagons as they were bringing the wounded into the hospital.

Unlike Blackstone and the Restatements, Holmes ' book only briefly discusses what the law is ; rather, Holmes describes the common law process.

In his 1806 book Attempt at a Flora ( Försök til en flora ), Retzius describes how chives are used with pancakes, soups, fish and sandwiches.

Said himself describes his book, Orientalism, as a humanist critique of the enlightenment.

In book three, Adomnán describes different apparitions of the Saint, both that Columba receives and those that are seen by others regarding him.

The Old Testament book of the prophet Habbakuk describes the Chaldeans as " a bitter and swift nation ".

In his 1810 book entitled The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Joseph Strutt describes the way pall mall was played in England in the early 17th century: " Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.

Howard once describes him as having a hairy chest and, while comic book interpretations often portray Conan as wearing a loincloth or other minimalist clothing, Howard describes the character as wearing whatever garb is typical for the land and culture in which Conan finds himself.

The book includes several biographies of saints, and describes the process of the New England settlement.

The book describes the general pattern of the past official dynastic historiography on structure, method, order of arrangement, sequence, caption and commentary back to the pre-Qin era.

Those are the things that he describes in this book.

In the book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Hubbard describes techniques that he suggests can rid individuals of fears and psychosomatic illnesses.

Another prominent source, which Cervantes evidently admires more, is Tirant lo Blanch which the priest describes in Chapter VI of Quixote as " the best book in the world.

Herman describes in his book, Beyond Hypocrisy the principle characteristics of doublespeak ;

In this book, Hofstadter jokingly describes himself as " pilingual " ( meaning that the sum total of the varying degrees of mastery of all the languages that he's studied comes to 3. 14159 ...), as well as an " oligoglot " ( someone who speaks " a few " languages ).

One book describing the MIT train room describes two buttons by the door: labelled foo and bar.

The biblical account of Pentecost in the second chapter of the book of Acts describes the sound of a mighty rushing wind and " divided tongues like fire " coming to rest on the apostles.

The book describes its own structure around ten " toledot " sections ( the " these are the generations of ..." phrases ), but many modern commentators see it in terms of a " primeval history " ( chapters 1 – 11 ) followed by the cycle of Patriarchal stories ( chapters 12 – 50 ).

The first book of Call of Cthulhu adventures was Shadows of Yog-Sothoth.

The game includes rules, three adventures and four adventure outlines, a wargame by Matthew Hartley, a long section on the ' science ' of Flatland which attempts to explain aspects of the world and its natives, and the original book.

Grimmelshausen's adventures of the young and naïve Simplicissimus, in the eponymous book Simplicius Simplicissimus, became the most famous novel of the Baroque period.

The early Tintin adventures each took about a year to complete, after which they were released in book form by Le Petit Vingtième and, from 1934, by the Casterman publishing house.

The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of a looking glass.

In 1271, during the dogado of Doge Lorenzo Tiepolo, Marco Polo ( at seventeen years of age ), his father, and his uncle set off for Asia on the series of adventures that were later documented in Marco's book.

Two animated Pokey adventures ( which originally appeared in 2002 ) have been released into the " Hall of Whimsy ", which also suggests forthcoming availability of Pokey shirts and a book.

In addition to the main rule book ( now in its fourth edition ) there have been over 100 supplemental books published with adventures and expansions to both the rules and the game settings.

Two early adventures for the game by Bill Willingham, Death Duel with the Destroyers and The Island of Dr. Apocalypse, used characters that would later appear in his Comico comic book series, Elementals.

* August – Robert Knox escapes prison in Ceylon, and details his adventures across Kandy and life in the kingdoms of the Tamil country Vanni in his book An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon.

" After returning to Baghdad, Ja ' afar reads the same book that caused Harun to laugh and weep, and discovers that it describes his own adventures with Attaf.

In other words, it was Harun's reading of the book that provoked the adventures described in the book to take place.

As a child, he was fascinated by the adventures recounted in the book, and he attributes some of his creations to his love of the 1001 Nights.

In 1978, Asprin began the " MythAdventures " series, chronicling the comic adventures of Skeeve and Aahz, with the book Another Fine Myth.

On his return, he wrote a book about his experiences: How I Found Livingstone ; travels, adventures, and discoveries in Central Africa.

The first book, Tarnsman of Gor, opens with scenes reminiscent of scenes in the first book of the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs ; both feature the protagonist narrating his adventures after being transported to another world.

In the comic book Storyteller, C-3PO is found partially destroyed and abandoned on a planet enslaved by the Vindar by Otalp and Remoh, two boys indigenous to the planet, whom he tells stories of Luke Skywalker's adventures.

In 1784, on his 50th birthday, historian John Filson published The Discovery, Settlement And present State of Kentucke, a book which included a chronicle of Boone's adventures.

* The character also co-starred in the three-issue comic book miniseries Harley and Ivy, and was given her swan song in the critically acclaimed The Batman Adventures comic book series, which contains stories about Batman's adventures in Gotham City after a break from the Justice League.

They tend to either take the form of direct sequels ( or prequels ) to the first book published or detail the ongoing adventures of particular characters.

Milne extracted the adventures of Mr. Toad ( which form only about half of the original book ) because they lent themselves most easily to being staged.

This book is a combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe.