Death Takes A Bow

Author : Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504031165

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Death Takes a Bow by Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge Pdf

At a banquet in 1940s New York, the guest of honor is a goner: “A genuinely puzzling mystery . . . with the delightful wackiness that has made the Norths famous.” —The New York Times Tonight, Jerry North faces something so terrifying that no amount of martinis could quiet his nerves: He has to make a speech. He’s introducing one of his authors, Victor Leeds Sproul, a continental novelist whose delicate tales of Parisian life have been selling like hotcakes ever since the Nazis goose-stepped into the City of Light. Crippled by stage fright, Mr. North enters the banquet hall feeling like a condemned man, but he isn’t the one who will die. Despite his terror, North delivers the speech of his life. But when he introduces the guest of honor, the distinguished author doesn’t stand. Sproul’s eyes jerk open, his chest heaves, and he breathes his last. He has been murdered in plain sight, but it will take the combined genius of Jerry and Pamela North to find out who killed the writer, and committed the unforgivable crime of ruining a perfect speech. “[An] excellent series.” —The New Yorker Death Takes a Bow is the sixth book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Author : David S. Pederson
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635554731

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Death Takes a Bow by David S. Pederson Pdf

Alan Keyes takes a break from his police duties to scratch his acting itch in a local stage production. But when the leading man is murdered during the opening night performance, his partner Detective Heath Barrington is thrust into the limelight to find the killer. Alan soon learns the theater has a deadly past and ghostly forebodings, including a telegram that seems to have come from the beyond. Among the large cast of suspects is Oliver Crane, the director whose finances depend on the success of this play, Jazz Monroe, Milwaukee’s sweetheart with a secret, and the handsome actor Henry Hawthorne, who has designs on Alan. When Alan seems to return Henry’s attentions, Heath must put his jealousy and insecurities aside to determine what’s real, what’s illusion, and who’s acting and who’s telling the truth before death takes a bow. A Detective Heath Barrington Mystery

Author : Frances Louise Davis Lockridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1274594185

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Author : Frances Louise Davis Lockridge,Richard Lockridge
Publisher : Perennial
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060925167

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Death Takes a Bow by Frances Louise Davis Lockridge,Richard Lockridge Pdf

Author : David S. Pederson
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636790855

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Death Foretold by David S. Pederson Pdf

A traveling spiritualist is found shot to death in an alley late at night with his underwear around his ankles. But the perpetrator is an enigma. Was it the young trick with a drug problem the spiritualist met in the alley? The unusual woman who runs the boarding house where the trick lives? The dead man’s wife, another spiritualist with secrets of her own? The handsome, alcoholic protégé? The beautiful woman who leads the spiritualist’s fan club? Or someone else altogether? With a list of suspects a mile long, only Detective Heath Barrington will be able to crack the murder. But Heath’s handsome fellow detective, Grant Riker, has an unlikely connection to their prime suspect that reveals a shady past he’s ashamed to admit. With more questions than answers, a séance may be the only way to the truth. Or perhaps the answer is in the cards? While Heath searches for the murderer, he uncovers more dark secrets than he bargained for, and witnesses firsthand the relentless pressure for LGBTQ+ people in the 1940s to stay hidden in the shadows.

Author : David S. Pederson
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635557879

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Death's Prelude by David S. Pederson Pdf

It’s 1937, and Heath Barrington is a naïve twenty-two-year-old about to set sail across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary. While on board, he meets the handsome Lord Simon Quimby, who invites Heath to his estate. Heath falls for Simon hard, but Simon soon becomes withdrawn and distant. Is Simon all he appears to be, or is there more to him than meets the eye? And what of the old gypsy curse Simon claims his family is under? Did it really cause his mother’s death, his sister’s suicide, and his father’s murder, or did Simon have something to do with it all? It’s up to Heath to uncover the truth, despite his heart telling him otherwise. In this prequel to the Detective Heath Barrington Mystery series, Heath discovers that first love changes you forever and drives you to become the person you’re destined to be.

Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780893700225

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Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959 by R. Reginald Pdf

This was the first bibliography and guide to the American mass market paperback book, and it remains one of the most definitive. The major index is by author, and lists: author, title, publisher, book number, year of publication, and cover price. The title index lists titles and authors only. The publisher index provides a history of that imprint, with addresses, number ranges, and general physical description of the books issued. This is the place that all study of the American paperback must begin.

Author : David S. Pederson
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636791258

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Murder on Monte Vista by David S. Pederson Pdf

It’s 1946, and on a hot spring night in Phoenix, Arizona, things are only beginning to heat up at the Monte Vista Road home of flamboyant decorator Walter Waverly Wingate. Private detective Mason T. Adler isn’t thrilled to be turning fifty, and the party Walter throws him makes him even more uncomfortable. Walter has arranged a special birthday present for Mason: a private hour with the handsome, young Henry Bowtrickle in Walter’s upstairs bedroom. But the night turns deadly when his birthday gift turns up murdered. The room was locked, no way in or out, and only Henry and Mason were inside. Mason Adler is on the case, but he is also a suspect, along with the other assorted party guests who were all downstairs at the time of the stabbing. Or were they?

Author : David S. Pederson
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636796161

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Puzzles Can Be Deadly by David S. Pederson Pdf

A bizarre old woman who worships the memory of her lost son. A nun with hidden secrets. A spinster housekeeper with a secret of her own. An angry young man with a troubled past. A neighbor who claims to talk to dead people at seances. Skip Valentine and Henry Finch encounter these eccentric people on their weekend trip to visit Henry’s uncle. When they learn of the groundskeeper who died in a mysterious fire shortly before they arrived, strange occurrences are imbued with ominous portent. The peculiar accidents, ghostly barking, a pounding heard late at night in the creepy old mansion, and a strange old box buried behind the burned-out carriage house all add up to something. Skip yearns to investigate. It’s all so perplexing. But when another death raises the stakes, the puzzle turns deadly. The solution may lie in a curious rhyme told by the groundskeeper before he died, but first Skip and Henry must decipher it.

Author : David S. Pederson
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636794174

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Murder at the Oasis by David S. Pederson Pdf

A relaxing trip to a Palm Springs resort turns deadly for Mason Adler and his friend Walter Wingate when first one of their fellow guests, then another, ends up murdered. Suspects and motives abound among the remaining guests as well as the owner of the Oasis resort, Marvin Gagliardi, an old friend of Walter’s. Mason investigates, hoping to prove Marvin’s innocence, but the more he uncovers, the more he wonders if Marvin actually might be the murderer. Distracting Mason is the handsome and eligible police detective assigned to the case, Brian Branchford. Mason had vowed not to become interested in anyone living a five-hour drive from Phoenix, but Branchford’s green eyes, gray hair, and toothbrush moustache are compelling reasons to give it a try. It’s up to Mason to uncover the truth about the deaths at the Oasis, and to discover if there’s romance as well as murder at the Oasis.

Author : Alberto Cassella,Walter Ferris
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573607885

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Death Takes a Holiday by Alberto Cassella,Walter Ferris Pdf

Death suspends activities for three days during which he falls in love with a beautiful girl, and through her realizes why mortals fear him.

Author : David S. Pederson
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635557121

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Death Overdue by David S. Pederson Pdf

I know what you are. Five words scrawled on a note, and Heath knew his life was now in jeopardy. He had no choice but to confront the blackmailer and find out what proof he had. But what then? Pay up and risk demands for future payments? Or not give in and throw his life away? The decision’s made for him when the blackmailer turns up dead. Is Heath a murderer? Even he isn’t sure, thanks to several double martinis. Other suspects include a voluptuous neighbor, a smarmy grocer, a ruthless gangster, Heath’s cousin Liz, who was once married to the blackmailer, and Miss Caldwell, a wily librarian who has eyes for the blackmailer’s current wife, Alice. Heath tries to read between the lines to solve the case of a death overdue before he’s arrested for the crime.

Author : Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504031141

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Death on the Aisle by Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge Pdf

Mr. and Mrs. North win front-row seats to a murder on Broadway Dorian Hunt intends to marry Lt. William Weigand, and she doesn’t care how many murderers get in the way. Every time they’ve tried to tie the knot, her fiancé has let Jerry and Pamela North sweep him up in another mystery, and Dorian has had enough. Today, she’s demanding a wedding—murder or no murder—but before the couple can find a minister, Lieutenant Weigand gets sidetracked again. A dead man is found sitting in the West 45th Street Theatre, a stab wound in the back of his neck. As Dorian expects, the Norths are tied to the case—Mr. North represents the play’s author—and they plan on helping Weigand solve the caper, whether he likes it or not. The bride-to-be will soon find that solving mysteries is a cakewalk, but getting married can be murder. Death on the Aisle is the 4th book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Author : Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504031400

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Death of an Angel by Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge Pdf

For the sake of a Broadway hit, Mr. and Mrs. North search for a playboy’s killer Naomi Shaw has taken the stage in Around the Corner one hundred times. And with every performance, she has brought the audience to tears. But while she’s an angel onstage, she’s rather harder to like once the curtain drops. Nevertheless, the play is a hit. The critics are awed, the crowds are lively, the producers are happy, and Around the Corner could run forever—as long as it has its star. At the celebration following the hundredth performance, Naomi announces she’s going to marry one of the show’s backers, slimy playboy Bradley Fitch. He’s rich enough that Naomi will never have to act again, which means that Around the Corner will die as soon as their vows are read. But when someone murders Bradley in order to stop the wedding, it falls to Pamela and Jerry North to find the killer and ensure that the show will go on. Death of an Angel is the 20th book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Author : Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504031394

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A Key to Death by Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge Pdf

When their lawyer is murdered, Mr. and Mrs. North find that everyone in Manhattan is a suspect Jerry and Pamela North have targets on their backs. It’s not fair, but that’s what happens when you make a hobby out of catching killers. The murderers get upset, and, well, you know how they are. And with all this homicidal attention directed at the Norths, it’s about time they made out a will. Unfortunately, they have only just started the process when their lawyer is stopped for good, and the sleuthing couple is in trouble again. Forbes Ingraham is found in his office, a bullet in his head. He was killed just a few yards from the desk of his secretary, which should make this a cut-and-dried case, but the young woman is notoriously unobservant. Discovering who took out the lawyer falls to Mr. and Mrs. North, who must work carefully—lest they should need that will sooner than expected. A Key to Death is the 19th book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.