Murder At The Million Dollar Pier

Author : Sarah E. Glenn,Gwen Mayo
Publisher : Three Snowbirds
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1949281078

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Murder at the Million Dollar Pier by Sarah E. Glenn,Gwen Mayo Pdf

"Never waste good rum on a bad night." - Teddy Lawless, February 1926.There are many bad nights ahead for Teddy. Shortly after she arrives at the newly opened Vinoy Hotel in Saint Petersburg, she comes face to face with her ex-fianc�, Ansel Stevens, in the dining room. Cue the slap that was thirty years in the making. Unfortunately, her ex-fianc� dies during a yacht race shortly thereafter. Conclusion of the authorities: poison. His family closes ranks, leaving Teddy as the prime suspect. Worse, Teddy's hair comb is found on the deck of Ansel's boat, leading to her swift arrest. Can Cornelia Pettijohn and Uncle Percival save fun-loving Teddy before she goes from the grand hotel to the big house?

Author : Edward Sidney Aarons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 0745195458

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Million Dollar Murder by Edward Sidney Aarons Pdf

Author : Art Weldy
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426975974

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The Death of the Mannikin by Art Weldy Pdf

The mannikin who washes ashore one morning in Atlantic City has red hair, a painted face, and the word Pengo stamped on her bum. It brings together two spectators: a seventy-five-year-old highly sophisticated widow of a naval officer who feeds feral cats and a retired Pittsburgh cop, just a guy from the gritty Lawrenceville district of Pittsburgh, working part-time for the coroner. The appearance of a real redheaded young woman washing up on the same location days later bonds these two older people who live in the present and plan for the future. They begin a private investigation of their own and experience a budding romance. One wonders, Arent they too old for that? Tom has a wife back home by the way, suffering from Alzheimers disease. Their snooping introduces us to an assortment of suspects ranging from members of a rock band to a badly wounded Korean War vet, as well as two gangsters from Newark. Locales range from Carnegie Street in Pittsburgh to Reading Market in Philly and Peacock Alley in the Waldorf, and lead us through many streets and attractions with Monopoly Board names. Lest the readers think this is a sad, dark story, its unexpectedly upbeat and humorous. Lillian and Tom eventually connect the dots that mark the rise and fall of a young woman exposed to the ugly undercurrents of life in Century 21. The very unlikely and unexpected murderer is uncovered, and the mystery is solved (or is it?) by two senior citizens who firmly believe that life is full of new beginnings.

Author : Bill Richardson,Kevin Maurer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101475140

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Valleys of Death by Bill Richardson,Kevin Maurer Pdf

"Richardson never pulls his punches in these vivid descriptions." --Publishers Weekly Caught in the Chinese counterattack at Unsan-one of the deadliest American battles of the Cold War Era-Colonel Bill Richardson led an Alamo like defense of the few survivors before being taken prisoner. The North Koreans marched them through sub-zero weather without food, shelter, or medical attention to the area known as Death Valley. Enduring torture designed to break the mind and body, Richardson remained strong enough to lead his fellow prisoners in resistance, sabotage, and new plans for escape. Valleys of Death is a stirring story of survival and determination, an intimate look at the soldiers who fought America's first battle of the cold war in the unvarnished words of one of their own.

Author : Gregory F Michno
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682470251

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Death on the Hellships by Gregory F Michno Pdf

Now available in paperback, Death on the Hellships chronicles the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. It is a disturbing story; many believe the Bataan Death March even pales by comparison. Survivors describe their ordeal in the Japanese hellships as the absolute worst experience of their captivity. Crammed by the thousands into the holds of the ships, moved from island to island and put to work, they endured all the horrors of the prison camps magnified tenfold. Gregory Michno draws on American, British, Australian, and Dutch POW accounts as well as Japanese convoy histories, declassified radio intelligence reports, and a wealth of archival sources to present a detailed picture of the horror.

Author : Francine Mathews
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616957292

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Death in Rough Water by Francine Mathews Pdf

Fresh from her first murder case, Nantucket detective Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. When Joe Duarte, a fishing boat captain with decades of experience on the wild seas off Nantucket, is swept overboard during a spring storm, his death is pronounced accidental. But his estranged daughter, Del, is convinced it’s murder. She moves back to Nantucket to get closer to the truth, and enlists her old friend, detective Merry Folger, to help. But Del is also hiding secrets of her own, and the police are not inclined to help her with what they see as a wild goose chase. Merry has to defy her boss—her father—in order to investigate.

Author : Louis Tracy
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2837 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547397632

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British Murder Mysteries - Louis Tracy Collection by Louis Tracy Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited mystery collection: Detectives White & Furneaux Mysteries: The Postmaster's Daughter Number Seventeen The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The De Bercy Affair What Would You Have Done? Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective: The Albert Gate Mystery The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate Inspector White: A Mysterious Disappearance Detective-Inspector Clancy: The Bartlett Mystery Supernatural Mystery: The Late Tenant International Intrigue & Murder Mystery: One Wonderful Night Political Mysteries: His Unknown Wife The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 The Stowaway Girl

Author : Louis Tracy
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 2830 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547765035

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British Murder Mysteries - The Louis Tracy Edition by Louis Tracy Pdf

This carefully edited mustery collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Detectives White & Furneaux Mysteries: The Postmaster's Daughter Number Seventeen The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The De Bercy Affair What Would You Have Done? Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective: The Albert Gate Mystery The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate Inspector White: A Mysterious Disappearance Detective-Inspector Clancy: The Bartlett Mystery Supernatural Mystery: The Late Tenant International Intrigue & Murder Mystery: One Wonderful Night Political Mysteries: His Unknown Wife The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 The Stowaway Girl

Author : Gary S. Cross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350145146

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Freak Show Legacies by Gary S. Cross Pdf

Society has long been fascinated with the freakish, shocking and strange. In this book Gary Cross shows how freakish elements have been embedded in modern popular culture over the course of the 20th century despite the evident disenchantment with this once widespread cultural outlet. Exploring how the spectacle of freakishness conflicted with genteel culture, he shows how the condemnation of the freak show by middle-class America led to a transformation and merging of genteel and freak culture through the cute, the camp and the creepy. Though the carnival and circus freak was marginalised by the 1960s and had largely disappeared by the 1980s, forms of freakish culture survived and today appear in reality TV, horror movies, dark comedies and the popularity of tattoos. Freak Show Legacies will focus less on the individual 'freak' as 'the other' in society, and more on the audience for the freakish and the transformation of wonder, sensibility and sensitivity that this phenomenon entailed. It will use the phenomenon of 'the freak' to understand the transformation of American popular culture across the 20th century, identify elements of 'the freak' in popular culture both past and present, and ask how it has prevailed despite its apparent unpopularity.

Author : Robert Ellis
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429995542

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Murder Season by Robert Ellis Pdf

Detective Lena Gamble knows how to handle the hottest cases--do it fast and keep her head down. Because if it all goes south, the department won't hesitate to make a scapegoat out of her. So when she gets called to the scene of a double murder at Club 3 AM, the latest A-list hangout for Hollywood celebs, she knows the fun is only beginning. And she's not wrong. It's just much worse than she imagined. As expected, one of the victims is club owner Johnny Bosco, one of the most well-connected men in Hollywood politics. But the shocker comes when Lena sees the other victim: twenty-five-year-old Jacob Gant, acquitted just days ago of murdering his sixteen-year-old neighbor, after L.A.'s latest trial-of-the-century. But are these victims of a father's righteous anger or is something bigger at play? Robert Ellis delivers all the twists and turns fans have come to expect in this bestselling series with plenty to spare in Murder Season, his most outstanding white-knuckled thriller yet.

Author : Manny Lawton
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781565128378

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Some Survived by Manny Lawton Pdf

Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who had surrendered on Bataan had perished. But this is not a chronicle of despair. It is, instead, the story of how men can suffer even the most desperate conditions and, in their will to retain their humanity, triumph over appalling adversity. An epic of quiet heroism, Some Survived is a harrowing, poignant, and inspiring tale that lifts the heart.

Author : Jane Allen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 147660357X

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Pier Angeli by Jane Allen Pdf

“In Pier Angeli, a nineteen-year-old Italian girl, Hollywood has found an actress who eludes the town’s traditional classifications and whose unvarnished beauty and instinctive talent have already caused her to be called ‘Little Garbo’”—Theodore Strauss in Collier’s, April 1952. This work is the first full-length biography of actress Anna Maria Pierangeli, from her early life in Italy to her death at the age of 39. She was discovered by Vittorio De Sica and soon after starred in her first film, Domani è troppo tardi (Tomorrow Is Too Late), which began her meteoric rise to fame in Italy. She arrived in Hollywood in 1950 at the age of 18, and the first thing MGM did was change her name to Pier Angeli and predict great things for its newest actress. The book covers her seven year career with MGM, her two unhappy marriages to Vic Damone and Armando Trovajoli, her love for her children Perry and Andrew, her brief and stormy relationship with James Dean, her dependent relationships with her mother and such stars as Kirk Douglas, Richard Attenborough and Debbie Reynolds, and the mystery surrounding her death.

Author : James L. Merriner
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780809328659

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The Man Who Emptied Death Row by James L. Merriner Pdf

"This biography traces Ryan's family history and the Illinois political climate that influenced his development as a politician. Merriner goes beyond Ryan's life and career to explore the politics of crime, highlighting the successes and failures of the criminal justice system and suggesting how both white-collar fraud and violent crime shape politics. A fascinating story that reveals much about the way Illinois politics works, The Man Who Emptied Death Row will help determine how history will judge Illinois governor George Ryan."--Jacket.

Author : Louis Tracy
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 2792 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027246021

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14 Murder Mysteries in One Volume by Louis Tracy Pdf

This unique collection of 14 murder mystery novels has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: Detectives White & Furneaux Mysteries: The Postmaster's Daughter Number Seventeen The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley The De Bercy Affair What Would You Have Done? Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective: The Albert Gate Mystery The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate Inspector White: A Mysterious Disappearance Detective-Inspector Clancy: The Bartlett Mystery Supernatural Mystery: The Late Tenant International Intrigue & Murder Mystery: One Wonderful Night Political Mysteries: His Unknown Wife The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 The Stowaway Girl

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Music
ISBN : IOWA:31858028447187

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The Billboard by Anonim Pdf