Jack Wolfe On The Trail Of Murder

Author : John Saxxon
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483478975

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Jack Wolfe: On the Trail of Murder by John Saxxon Pdf

It is October 1854 - Jack Wolfe and his friend Bull are both soldiers caught up in the middle of the war raging in the Crimea. A bloody affair that surely couldnÕt get any worse, that is until soldiers start turning up murdered in horrific ways. When superior officers wonÕt admit thereÕs a murderer, Jack makes it his personal mission to catch the killer on his own. He is just starting to close in when the war ends and the trail goes cold. Civilian life leaves Jack with time on his hands. Undeterred, he continues his pursuit driven by the nagging thought that the killer is still out there somewhere. In this historical tale, from the Crimean war to a sleepy mill town in Lancashire with suspicious goings on, to the start of the American Civil war, Jack Wolfe follows adventure across Europe and into America on a determined quest for justice.

Author : Tony Parsons
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448185726

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The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons Pdf

The gripping first novel in the DC Max Wolfe crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. Like Ian Rankin or Peter James? You'll love this. 'Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic.' LEE CHILD ______________ Twenty years ago, seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field. Now, they're being murdered one by one, in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe has recently arrived in the Homicide division of London's West End Central, 27 Savile Row. Soon he is following the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the internet and all the way to the corridors of power. As the bodies pile up, Max finds the killer's reach getting closer to everything - and everyone - he loves. Soon he is fighting not only for justice, but for his own life... ______________ 'Propulsive ... If The Murder Bag marks the launch of a new crime series, count me in.' THE TIMES 'A tense debut crime novel with a dose of dry wit' THE DAILY EXPRESS 'Impressive, page-turning ... Told with conviction and at an ever increasing pace' DAILY MAIL 'Truly emotive crime-writing is a rarity, and The Murder Bag looks set to win Tony Parsons many new fans in the genre' GQ

Author : Bruce Robinson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062296399

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They All Love Jack by Bruce Robinson Pdf

For over a hundred years, the mystery of Jack the Ripper has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists and endless volumes purporting to finally reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorized Victorian England. But what if there was never really any mystery at all? What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to look, while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting to bring him to justice? In They All Love Jack, the award-winning film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of history's most notorious serial killers to remain at large. More than twelve years in the writing, this is no mere radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend and an enthralling hunt for the killer. A literary high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, it is an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian society, a phantasmagoria of highly placed villains, hypocrites, and institutionalized corruption. Polemic forensic investigation and panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinson's inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, They All Love Jack is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts—the so-called Ripperologists—to make clear, at last, who really did it; and, more important, how he managed to get away with it for so long.

Author : Truman Capote
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780812994384

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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Pdf

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.

Author : B. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230107359

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The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery by B. Murphy Pdf

Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.

Author : James Grippando
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061746581

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Hear No Evil by James Grippando Pdf

Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is involved in the most explosive criminal trial of his career -- a case that starts with a murder on a military base and concludes with a shocking surprise that will change Jack's life forever. A beautiful woman comes to see Jack and begs him to represent her. She says she's about to be arrested for the murder of her husband, an officer stationed at Guantanamo Bay. Having no expertise in military law and sensing that the woman isn't telling him the entire truth, Jack turns her down. Then she drops a bombshell: She claims she's the adoptive mother of Jack's biological son -- a child he's never met. Either Jack must represent her or he'll never see the boy. So Jack agrees, but with great foreboding. He has an unreliable client -- a blackmailer who just might be a murderer -- and he has to travel to Gitmo and on to Havana to tussle with people who clearly have a lot to hide. This is a case with as many twists and turns as it has unanswered questions, and the personal toll on Jack won't end until he's forced to confront the ultimate surprise witness in a trial that rocks the city of Miami. In signature Grippando style, Hear No Evil is an intricate, fast-paced, and captivating thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Author : Buck Rainey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476604480

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Serials and Series by Buck Rainey Pdf

While many fans remember The Lone Ranger, Ace Drummond and others, fewer focus on the facts that serials had their roots in silent film and that many foreign studios also produced serials, though few made it to the United States. The 471 serials and 100 series (continuing productions without the cliffhanger endings) from the United States and 136 serials and 37 series from other countries are included in this comprehensive reference work. Each entry includes title, country of origin, year, studio, number of episodes, running time or number of reels, episode titles, cast, production credits, and a plot synopsis.

Author : Rex Stout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:964187335

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Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1982-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026048285

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Monthly Murders by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010592645

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The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael R. Pitts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786463725

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Western Movies by Michael R. Pitts Pdf

This revised and greatly expanded edition of a well-established reference book presents 5105 feature length (four reels or more) Western films, from the early silent era to the present. More than 900 new entries are in this edition. Each entry has film title, release company and year, running time, color indication, cast listing, plot synopsis, and a brief critical review and other details. Not only are Hollywood productions included, but the volume also looks at Westerns made abroad as well as frontier epics, north woods adventures and nature related productions. Many of the films combine genres, such as horror and science fiction Westerns. The volume includes a list of cowboys and their horses and a screen names cross reference. There are more than 100 photographs.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : Rex Stout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Private investigators
ISBN : UVA:X000464164

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Three for the Chair by Rex Stout Pdf

Author : Graham Webb
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476681184

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Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959 by Graham Webb Pdf

Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a "filler" in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts. With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.

Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0520079086

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The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films by American Film Institute Pdf

"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.