Mail Order Mysteries

Author : Kirk Demarais
Publisher : Insight Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Humor
ISBN : 160887026X

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Mail-Order Mysteries by Kirk Demarais Pdf

Rediscover your sense of wonder! Generations of comic book readers remember the tantalizing promises of vintage novelty advertisements that offered authentic laser-gun plans, x-ray specs, and even 7-foot-tall monsters (with glow-in-the-dark eyes!). But what would you really get if you entrusted your hard-earned $1.69 to the post office? Mail-Order Mysteries answers this question, revealing the amazing truths (and agonizing exaggerations) about the actual products marketed to kids in the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. Pop-culture historian Kirk Demarais shares his astonishing collection, including: 100 Toy Soldiers in a Footlocker Count Dante’s World’s Deadliest Fighting Secrets GRIT Hercules Wrist Band Hypno-Coin Life-Size Monsters Mystic Smoke Sea Monkeys Soil From Dracula’s Castle U-Control Ghost Ventrilo Voice Thrower ...and many, many more! With more than 150 extraordinary, peculiar, and downright fraudulent collectibles, Mail-Order Mysteries is a must-have book comic book fans everywhere. Trust us.

Author : Mimi Granger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593201596

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Murder of a Mail-Order Bride by Mimi Granger Pdf

When real life starts mimicking the plot of one of the romance books that line the shelves in her bookstore, it's up to Lizzie Hale to catch the killer, in this riveting new Love is Murder mystery. Lizzie Hale thought mail-order brides existed only between the pages of the historical romances she stocks in her bookstore, Love Under the Covers. But when not one, but two local men introduce her to their respective new wives, she's forced to reevaluate that notion. Lizzie is surprised when Al Little, the owner of the local hardware store, asks Lizzie and her aunt Charmaine to help Svetlana, his new bride straight from Russia, to settle into Tinker's Creek, but they agree. Everything is going swimmingly—until a wrench gets thrown into their plans when Svetlana is found drowned in the creek. With Al's suspicious best friend—who has his own mysterious mail-order bride—and the secretive matchmaker who put them together, Lizzie's got more suspects than she knows what to do with. But she'll have to nail down who the killer is fast, before someone else winds up dead.

Author : James Mason (Author of Conrad and Columbine.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000634732

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The Old Fairy Tales by James Mason (Author of Conrad and Columbine.) Pdf

Author : Leslie Meier
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758290014

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Mistletoe Murder by Leslie Meier Pdf

Introducing a sleuth that“mothers everywhere will identify with”—first in the long-running series from the New York Times bestselling author(Publishers Weekly). As if baking holiday cookies, knitting a sweater for her husband’s gift, and making her daughter’s angel costume for the church pageant weren’t enough things for Lucy Stone’s busy Christmas schedule, she’s also working nights at the famous mail-order company Country Cousins. But when she discovers Sam Miller, its very wealthy founder, dead in his car from an apparent suicide, the sleuth in her knows something just doesn’t smell right. Taking time out from her hectic holiday life to find out what really happened, Lucy’s investigation leads to a backlog of secrets as long as Santa’s Christmas Eve route. She is convinced that someone murdered Sam Miller. But who and why? With each harrowing twist she uncovers in this bizarre case, another shocking revelation is exposed. Now, as Christmas draws near and Lucy gets dangerously closer to the truth, she’s about to receive a present from Santa she didn’t ask for—a killer who won’t be satisfied until everyone on his shopping list is dead, including Lucy herself . . . Praise for the Lucy Stone Mystery series “A solid mystery.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A surprising and intelligently constructed plot.”—Cape Cod Times “Lucy Stone is an endearing sleuth.”—Dorothy Cannell “Leslie Meier has created a town I’d like to live in and a sleuth I’d love to meet.”—Jill Churchill

Author : Louise Penny
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748129614

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Still Life by Louise Penny Pdf

The CWA Dagger-winning first novel from worldwide phenomenon and number one New York Times bestseller Louise Penny, introducing Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets... 'Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache of the Quebec police isone of the most interesting detectives in crime fiction' The Times 'A cracking storyteller, who can create fascinating characters, a twisty plot and wonderful surprise endings' Ann Cleeves

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Accelerated readers
ISBN : 9780671001216

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The E-mail Mystery by Carolyn Keene Pdf

"Nancy uncovers intrigue on the internet and the password is danger"--Cover.

Author : Maureen Jennings
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771043147

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Beware This Boy by Maureen Jennings Pdf

November, 1940. Tom Tyler, Detective Inspector of the small Shropshire town of Whitchurch, is a troubled man. The preceding summer had been a dark one for Britain, and even darker for Tom's own family and personal life. So he jumps at the opportunity to help out in the nearby city of Birmingham, where an explosion in a munitions factory has killed or badly injured several of the young women who have taken on dangerous work in support of the war effort. At first, it seems more than likely the explosion was an accident, and Tom has only been called in because the forces are stretched thin. But as he talks to the employees of the factory, inner divisions -- between the owner and his employees, between unionists and workers who fear communist infiltration -- begin to appear. Put that together with an AWOL young soldier who unwittingly puts all those he loves at risk and a charming American documentary filmmaker who may be much more than he seems, and you have a page-turning novel that bears all the hallmarks of Maureen Jennings' extraordinary talent: a multi-faceted mystery, vivid characters, snappy dialogue, and a pitch-perfect sense of the era of the Blitz, when the English were pushed to their limits and responded with a courage and resilience that still inspires.

Author : Ron Roy
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 0738371017

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Detective Camp by Ron Roy Pdf

While learning detective skills at a sleep-away camp, Dink and his friends undercover a real mystery involving stolen paintings

Author : Penumbra Quill
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316557399

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My Little Pony: Ponyville Mysteries: Riddle of the Rusty Horseshoe by Penumbra Quill Pdf

Join the Cutie Mark Crusaders in the third book of the Ponyville Mysteries series as they solve the mystery of the Rusty Horseshoe! Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle have been spending a lot of time with their new friend, Lilymoon, at the spooky house on Horseshoe Hill. One night, Scootaloo actually sees the ghostly Olden Pony -- a character from one of Rainbow Dash's scary stories. Scootaloo worries everypony will think she's just a scaredy-pony, but she's too frightened to sleep. Scootaloo needs the help of her friends to figure out the mystery of the Olden Pony and her Rusty Horseshoe...and soon. Ideal for younger readers, these mysterious and sweetly spooky stories are sure to appeal to all My Little Pony fans--both girl and boy.

Author : Louise Penny
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748129652

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A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny Pdf

Previously published as The Murder Stone The acclaimed fourth novel in the bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache series, by international phenomenon and number one New York Times bestseller Louise Penny. It's the height of summer, and the wealthy Finney family have gathered at the Manoir Bellechasse to pay tribute to their late father. But as the temperature rises, old secrets and bitter rivalries begin to surface. When the heat wave boils over into a mighty storm, a dead body is left in its wake. Chief Inspector Gamache, a guest at the Bellechasse, finds himself with a building full of suspects. With the hotel locked down, the murderer is trapped. But a cornered predator is always the most dangerous of all... 'A cracking storyteller, who can create fascinating characters, a twisty plot and wonderful surprise endings' Ann Cleeves 'Impossible to put down' Globe and Mail

Author : Kyle Lucia Wu
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951142810

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Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu Pdf

A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post, Shondaland, NPR Books, Parade, Lit Hub, PureWow, Harper’s Bazaar, PopSugar, NYLON, Alta, Ms. Magazine, Debutiful and Good Housekeeping Best Book of Fall A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging—of a young woman determined to be seen. Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too. For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens—a wealthy white family in Tribeca—as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home. Self-examining and fraught with the emotions of a family who fails and loves in equal measure, Win Me Something is a nuanced coming-of-age debut about the irreparable fissures between people, and a young woman who asks what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life.

Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781459725089

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Mysteries of Ontario by John Robert Colombo Pdf

Mysteries of Ontario brings together, for the first time, some five hundred accounts of strange events and eerie experiences, each keyed to one of 250 places in the province. It turns out that, far from being a humdrum part of the planet in which to live and work, Ontario is a province that is alive with ghosts and spirits, mysterious disappearances, and peculiar happenings enough to make your hair stand on end, turn your blood cold, and send shivers up and down your spine! John Robert Colombo has been collecting materials for this book since 1967. Even so, more than two years were devoted to researching, writing, copy-editing, and photo editing Mysteries of Ontario. The reader is invited to peruse the great historical mysteries that have moved Canadians in the past from LaSalle's missing Griffon to the peculiar disappearance of Ambrose Small, from the spiritualistic legacy of the Fox Sisters of Consecon to the appearance in the 1990s of "ghost walks," "haunted hayrides," and "boo barns." This is a book that unites folklore and scholarship, the supernatural and the speculative, culture and mysticism, the occult and the peculiar, the psychical and the cultural, the human and the non-human.

Author : Richard Scarry,Erica Farber
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1402773218

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The Mixed-Up Mail Mystery by Richard Scarry,Erica Farber Pdf

When Huckle finds an old letter in a library book, he and his friends set out to deliver it.

Author : Edward Powys Mathers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1460765397

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Cain's Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers Pdf

Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations... but only one is correct. Can you solve Torquemada's murder mystery? 'If James Joyce and Agatha Christie had a literary love child, this would be it.' The Daily Telegraph In 1934, the Observer's cryptic crossword compiler, Edward Powys Mathers (aka Torquemada), released a novel that was simultaneously a murder mystery and the most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle ever written. The pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order, but it is possible - through logic and intelligent reading - to sort the pages into the only correct order, revealing six murder victims and their respective murderers. Only three puzzlers have ever solved the mystery of Cain's Jawbone: do you have what it takes to join their ranks? Please note: this puzzle is extremely difficult and not for the faint-hearted. 'A unique hybrid of word puzzle and whodunnit.' Literary Review

Author : Iona Whishaw
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771511995

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A Killer in King's Cove by Iona Whishaw Pdf

A smart and enchanting postwar mystery that will appeal to fans of the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for a fresh start. When she finds herself happily settled into a sleepy hamlet in the interior of British Columbia surrounded by a suitably eclectic cast of small-town characters she feels like she may finally be able to put her past to rest. But then a body is discovered, the victim of murder, and although she works alongside the town’s inspectors Darling and Ames to discover who might have possibly have motivation to kill, she unknowingly casts doubt on herself. As the investigation reveals facts that she has desperately tried to keep a secret, it threatens to pull her into a vortex of even greater losses than the ones she has already endured. A clever postwar mystery that will appeal to fans the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear or the Bess Crawford series by Charles Todd.