Catering And Kidnapping

Author : Stacey Alabaster
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153913024X

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Catering and Kidnapping by Stacey Alabaster Pdf

When Rachael gets involved in a high-stakes game of who-dunnit, more than one life depends on her finding the kidnapper before it's too late. Rachael is taking on catering jobs and anything else she can think of to pay the bills at the bakery. When a wealthy man seeks her help to find his kidnapped daughter, she is forced to take on a case she is ill-prepared to solve. When Rachael and Pippa keep running into dead ends, they realize they are in over their heads. Can they sort through the clues and save the kidnapped girl-and themselves-in time? Catering and Kidnapping is part of the Bakery Detectives Cozy Mystery series. If you like fast paced mysteries full of quirky characters and unexpected twists, you're gonna love Catering and Kidnapping. Buy Catering and Kidnapping and start solving your next mystery today! The Bakery Detectives Cozy Mystery Series Each book in the series is a stand-alone story, but your enjoyment of each story will be increased if you read them all. Book 1 - A Pie to Die For Book 2 - Donuts, Antiques and Murder Book 3 - Death by Chocolate Cake Book 4 - Rest, Relaxation and Murder Book 5 - Til a Death Do Us Part Book 6 - The Mud Pie Murderess Book 7 - Catering and Kidnapping Book 8 - Halloween Screams (Coming Soon!)

Author : Jonathan Daniel Wells
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781645037118

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The Kidnapping Club by Jonathan Daniel Wells Pdf

Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists fighting for freedom. We often think of slavery as a southern phenomenon, far removed from the booming cities of the North. But even though slavery had been outlawed in Gotham by the 1830s, Black New Yorkers were not safe. Not only was the city built on the backs of slaves; it was essential in keeping slavery and the slave trade alive. In The Kidnapping Club, historian Jonathan Daniel Wells tells the story of the powerful network of judges, lawyers, and police officers who circumvented anti-slavery laws by sanctioning the kidnapping of free and fugitive African Americans. Nicknamed "The New York Kidnapping Club," the group had the tacit support of institutions from Wall Street to Tammany Hall whose wealth depended on the Southern slave and cotton trade. But a small cohort of abolitionists, including Black journalist David Ruggles, organized tirelessly for the rights of Black New Yorkers, often risking their lives in the process. Taking readers into the bustling streets and ports of America's great Northern metropolis, The Kidnapping Club is a dramatic account of the ties between slavery and capitalism, the deeply corrupt roots of policing, and the strength of Black activism.

Author : Jack Teich
Publisher : Bombardier Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781642935240

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Operation Jacknap by Jack Teich Pdf

The New York Times described what happened to New York businessman Jack Teich as a “front page horror.” Two hundred FBI agents and Nassau County police officers combined forces to form a dragnet, hunt for his kidnappers, and rescue him. Teich lay handcuffed and chained to the walls of a closet in the Bronx with a medical bandage wrapped around his head to cover his eyes. His captors demanded that his wife, Janet, drop a bag with $750,000 (the equivalent of four million dollars in today’s currency) in a locker at Penn Station, making the Jack Teich ransom one of the highest in U.S. history at the time. FBI and Nassau County police detectives spent over a year before finally uncovering the meticulously planned kidnapping ploy hatched by radical mastermind Richard Warren Williams. The FBI internally dubbed the Jack Teich kidnapping operation “Jacknap.” The real-life crime drama that followed proved stranger than fiction, involving a tense across-the-country manhunt, a trailer in California stuffed with tens of thousands of ransom dollars hidden inside, a contentious jury trial that dominated NYC headlines for months; a guilty verdict that was overturned twenty-one years later on a controversial technicality; a retrial stymied by a mysterious fire that incinerated court records; and a civil verdict ruling that the kidnapper pay Jack Teich back the ransom money, plus interest. Operation Jacknap tells the incredible true crime story that continues even now. Indeed, as of this writing, no one knows where the majority of the ransom money is located. Inside, Teich also details his offer of a reward to anyone helping track down the still missing money and kidnappers.

Author : Geoff Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Americans
ISBN : 0340553723

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The Food Chain by Geoff Nicholson Pdf

Author : Richard A Erickson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781543465648

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Kidnapped by Richard A Erickson Pdf

Kidnapped: The Disappearance of Christian McKinley is a captivating and horrifying kidnapping plot that twists and turns itself from the suburbs of Minneapolis to the Canadian border and beyond. On September 6, 2003, two men walked into the Hilton Hotel in downtown Minneapolis with an elaborate plan to kidnap a young teenager and hold him hostage for a seventeen-million-dollar payoff. The victimChristian McKinley. The fourteen-year-old is the adopted grandson of one of Minnesotas wealthiest bankers and business tycoons. The kidnapperstwo ex-cons, both products of neglectful and abusive childhoods, who turned to a life of crime early and havent looked back. Now they have only one thing on their drug-addled and psychologically damaged minds: scoring enough money for a luxurious retirement. But when jealousy and distrust invite themselves into the picture, plans begin to fall apart.

Author : Jayne Garcia Valseca,Mark Ebner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781101528624

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We Have Your Husband by Jayne Garcia Valseca,Mark Ebner Pdf

In the mountains of Guanajuato, Mexico sits a picturesque community favored by artists and tourists. But for American-born Jayne Valseca and her husband Eduardo, son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, it became a hell on earth when Eduardo was ambushed by strangers and kidnapped in the summer of 2007. Jayne knew that in Mexico kidnapping was a pervasive and lucrative business-a burgeoning criminal industry with few happy endings. This time the merchandise was her husband. Sealed in a dark seven-by-six, two-feet-wide box, Eduardo lived for seven months on little more than eggshells and chicken bones. He was subjected to the most cruel and humiliating mental and physical torture imaginable. He had no reason to believe he'd ever be found alive. As the ransom escalated, so did the stakes. But Jayne refused to be a pawn in the kidnappers' sick game. She decided to become a player. If she was to get her husband back alive, she'd have to be more cunning than the kidnappers and be cool, calculated and determined...

Author : Maggie Haberman
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Abduction
ISBN : 0739436074

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Held Captive by Maggie Haberman Pdf

On a June night in 2002, Salt Lake City teenager Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her own bedroom. for months afterward her distraught family prayed for her safe return while a massive manhunt was undertaken. Then, in March of the following year, Elizabeth Smart was discovered alive just a few miles from home, the prisoner of a man who believed himself the messiah and his loyal, complacent wife. What happened to Elizabeth during her nine months of captivity is shocking; how she finally gained her freedom is remarkable. And now the story can be told -- including startling information about the controversial investigation. -- book jacket.

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307486714

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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer Pdf

Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award Finalist The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.

Author : United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : American newspapers
ISBN : UVA:X030226907

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Annals of Cleveland by United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) Pdf

Author : Jan Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743273862

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Kidnapped by Jan Burke Pdf

News reporter Irene Kelly untangles the threads of a past crime and a haunting disappearance while trying to survive the present -- in this suspense-charged bestseller from Edgar® Award winner Jan Burke. Not long after the Las Piernas Express publishes Irene Kelly's articles profiling missing children cases, bones turn up at a California estate -- and a notorious murder-kidnapping is churned up once more. When artist Richard Fletcher was found bludgeoned in his studio years ago, his stepson was quickly apprehended with the murder weapon and ultimately convicted. But Richard's young daughter, Jenny, who went missing at the time of the murder, was never found. Now Irene has joined Richard's son Caleb, a graduate student of forensic anthropology, in the fight to prove his stepbrother's innocence and solve Jenny's disappearance. But digging up the tragedies of the sprawling and powerful Fletcher family isabout to set off a murderous chain reaction -- and put Irene's own life in peril.

Author : Shyam Sundar Bulusu
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781946556585

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The Kidnap by Shyam Sundar Bulusu Pdf

"A daring daylight kidnap. A missing twelve-year old. A grieving mother. A helpless father. A ransom demand. A day gone waste. A dead end. A nudge from powers-that-be. A crack team. A proven deliverer. A prodigious child witness. A heroic canine. A faceless criminal. A ruthless gang. A criminal empire. An action-packed investigative thriller. A clock ticking. Tic, tic, tic… "

Author : Jacqueline Diamond
Publisher : K. Loren Wilson
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936505463

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Kidnapped? by Jacqueline Diamond Pdf

She’s going to turn the tables on a dangerous hitman! When the most feared hitman in Las Vegas kidnaps a beautiful reporter, she’s thrilled. An interview with Hal “The Iceman” is exactly the boost Melanie’s career needs. And just wait until she learns his dark secret: He’s never actually killed anyone. With no idea that Melanie’s writing an exposé on him and his felonious friends, Hal whisks the lady to a hideaway where only criminals are allowed. When their secrets are revealed, there’s a whole island full of klutzy gangsters hot on their trail. This hilarious romantic comedy received a Romantic Times Award, along with a review that calls it “an unexpectedly endearing tale brimming with wonderful humor.” Welcome to this laugh-out-loud caper by USA Today bestselling author Jacqueline Diamond.

Author : Thomas Doherty
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231552653

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Little Lindy Is Kidnapped by Thomas Doherty Pdf

The biggest crime story in American history began on the night of March 1, 1932, when the twenty-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was snatched from his crib in Hopewell, New Jersey. The news shocked a nation enthralled with the aviator, the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. American law enforcement marshalled all its resources to return “Little Lindy” to the arms of his parents—and perhaps even more energized were the legions of journalists catering to a public whose appetite for Lindbergh news was insatiable. In Little Lindy Is Kidnapped, Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction and its aftermath. Beginning with Lindbergh’s ascent to fame and proceeding through the trial and execution of the accused kidnapper, Doherty traces how newspapers, radio, and newsreels reported on what was dubbed the “crime of the century.” He casts the affair as a transformative moment for American journalism, analyzing how the case presented new challenges and opportunities for each branch of the media in the days before the rise of television. Coverage of the Lindbergh story, Doherty reveals, set the template for the way the media would treat breaking news ever after. An engrossing account of an endlessly fascinating case, Little Lindy Is Kidnapped sheds new light on an enduring quality of journalism ever since: the media’s eye on a crucial part of the story—itself.

Author : Charlotte Douglas
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459251441

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Undercover Dad by Charlotte Douglas Pdf

He'd forgotten everything—his identity, his woman, his baby It had been sixteen months since Rachel Goforth had seen or heard from FBI agent Stephen Chandler, but she wasted no time heeding his frantic call warning her of danger. Yet when Stephen met her at the Smoky Mountain safe house, he arrived bleeding, dazed—and with amnesia. Stephen had no memory of the cases they'd worked together or the night they'd spent together—but Rachel could never forget the feel of his body against hers. She had a baby daughter to remind her. A daughter whose father didn't know her…a daughter whose life was suddenly put in danger unless Stephen could remember who was on their trail. But if he did remember the past, would he and Rachel have a future? A MEMORY AWAY… from passion, danger—and love!

Author : John DeChancie
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497613577

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Castle Kidnapped by John DeChancie Pdf

When the magical Castle Perilous goes haywire, guests find themselves venturing into bizarre other worlds that could bring the castle crumbling down. Castle Perilous is a magic castle full of mystery and adventure, but sometimes even magic castles can go awry. This particular castle has the power to send its guests to 144,000 alternate worlds, each a fantastic voyage to the unknown. But each voyage seems to backfire. Computer whiz kid Jeremy is stuck on a planet of golf-playing dinosaurs. Gentrified Gene finds himself on a planet overrun with amazon women where the queen has taken a particular shine to him and only the Lord of the Castle Incarnadine can stop this witty madness from shaking Castle Kidnapped to its foundations.