Reluctant Detective

Author : Martha Ockley
Publisher : Lion Fiction
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782641261

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"Couldn't resist touching the body, eh?" observed Ben. Faith was defiant. "I had to check for a pulse." Faith Morgan may have quit the world of crime, but crime won't let her go. The ex-policewoman has retrained as a priest, disillusioned with a tough police culture and convinced that she can do more good this way. But now her worlds collide. Searching for the first posting of her new career, she witnesses a sudden and shocking death in a quiet Hampshire village. And of all people, Detective Inspector Ben Shorter, her former colleague and boyfriend, shows up to investigate the crime. Persuaded to stay on in Little Worthy, she learns surprising details about the victim and starts to piece together a motive for his death. But is she now in danger herself? And what should she do about Ben? Then a further horrifying event deepens the mystery...

Author : Finley Martin
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781894838863

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A single mom finds herself taking over a private investigation business in coastal Canada in this involving crime thriller. A young widowed mother, Wilhelmina Anne Brown is just beginning to find some stability in her new home in Prince Edward Island when she is forced to deal with the death of her beloved uncle, Bill Darby. Darby, an Ontario cop turned Charlottetown private investigator, has left Anne and her fourteen-year-old daughter a small savings account and his business, where Anne has worked as office manager for six years. Anne has faced hardships in her life before, but she’s about to begin a whole new kind of struggle—to protect her family, find justice for her clients, and forge a new life for herself in this picturesque place that has become her new home.

Author : Tom Fowler
Publisher : Widening Gyre Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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It’s C.T.’s first case. He wants an easy one. Instead, he gets Alice. C.T. Ferguson spent years as a hacker. He lived in Hong Kong, working against the Chinese government. Then they found him, threw him in jail, and eventually kicked him out. In Baltimore, C.T. sets himself up as a private investigator. Then Alice walks in. She’s sure her husband is cheating on her. C.T. looks into it but isn’t convinced. He soon discovers Alice has serious problems of her own. When Alice’s troubles get even worse, C.T. finds his own life in danger. With a liar for a client and enforcers hounding him, can C.T. prevent his first case from becoming his last? You’ll love The Reluctant Detective because it blends classic mystery with modern cyber intrigue. Keywords: private investigator, private detective, crime thriller, crime fiction, hard-boiled, noir, mystery, mystery series, murder mystery

Author : Adrian Spalding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798647703194

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The Reluctant Detective Goes South by Adrian Spalding Pdf

The Reluctant Detective Goes South is a stand-alone humorous crime novel following the escapades of Martin Hayden and his irreverent sidekick Susan. Just because Martin runs a detective agency, it does not mean he has any intention of investigating anything, except the lunchtime menu at his favourite Michelin-starred restaurant. However, for the benefit of his mother he must occasionally appear to be working. Consequently, he agrees to help an old school friend who has found himself on the wrong side of the law and is now serving his community service in a charity centre in south London. Not that Martin ever wanted to visit such a place, but old dormitory chums help each other. Things become complicated for Martin when his eager assistant Susan sees a pile of parking tickets strewn across his desk. She believes his number plate has been cloned and decides they should investigate and find the culprit. Martin is not so sure that another investigation is such a good idea. After all, he has enough money to support his privileged lifestyle and pay the fines without question. Never one to be discouraged, Susan follows the leads, which take them to a run-down south London council estate, where Martin is introduced to a side of the capital he never imagined existed. Before long, Martin is reluctantly mixing with drug dealers, sex chat-line operators, loan sharks, ageing criminals plus an unbearable little girl, all of whom he considers to be UPS (unpleasant people sorts). Yet nothing will stop Susan getting at the truth, not even a male, good-looking Italian who collects saucy postcards and charms her with chilled Italian white wine.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Marplesi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A young widow, orphan and mother, Wilhelmina Anne Brown is just beginning to find some stability in her new home in Prince Edward Island when she is forced to deal with the death of her beloved uncle, Bill Darby. Darby, a Charlottetown private investigator, leaves Anne and her fourteen-year-old daughter a small savings account and his business, where Anne has worked as office manager for six years. What follows is Anne's struggle to protect her family, find justice for her clients, and forge a new life for herself.

Author : Jason Jacobs
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438492254

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Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives by Jason Jacobs Pdf

Reluctant Sleuths, True Detectives examines the detective figure in four noir and neo-noir films: Out of the Past (1947), Notorious (1946), Vertigo (1958), and Chinatown (1974). Exploring the way that these characters each move from an initial state of reluctant passivity to one of passionate engagement with the world around them, it questions the cinematic forces required to motivate and move them. In its close examinations of each film, the book meditates on the detectives' hunts and how they interact with the cinematic apparatus that captures and presents them to an audience, and it tracks the receptive experience of these films in relation to these questions of motivation and movement.

Author : Manral, Kiran
Publisher : Westland
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9381626111

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A hilarious account of how not to get involved in other people's murders, The Reluctant Detective is very school-gate mom, searching for a purpose to her life beyond kitty lunches, shopping and fish predicures.

Author : Tom Fowler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1953603009

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It's C.T.'s first case. He wants an easy one.Instead, he gets Alice.C.T. Ferguson spent years as a hacker. He lived in Hong Kong, working against the Chinese government. Then they found him, threw him in jail, and eventually kicked him out. In Baltimore, C.T. sets himself up as a private investigator.Then Alice walks in.She's sure her husband is cheating on her. C.T. looks into it but isn't convinced. He soon discovers Alice has serious problems of her own.When Alice's troubles get even worse, C.T. finds his own life in danger. With a liar for a client and enforcers hounding him, can C.T. prevent his first case from becoming his last?

Author : Fabricio Tocco
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793651655

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Latin American Detectives against Power by Fabricio Tocco Pdf

This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational “poetics of failure” rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.

Author : Sinclair Macleod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0956698336

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The Reluctant Detective by Sinclair Macleod Pdf

Craig Campbell's quiet life as an insurance investigator is turned upside down when Ann Kilpatrick hires him to find her son's killer. He doesn't believe he can help but reluctantly agrees to investigate. Before long he is plunged into a world of corruption, deceit and greed. His journey takes him from the underbelly of Glaswegian society to the rural idyll of a millionaire's mansion. Along the way, a death close to home ensures that he has a personal reason to face the dangers and bring the murderer to justice.

Author : Anna Katharine Green
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2823 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547688105

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Detective Ebenezer Gryce - Complete Murder-Mysteries Collection: 11 Novels in One Volume by Anna Katharine Green Pdf

Detective Ebenezer Gryce Series is a collection of eleven novels featuring the author's main character, Detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police Force. The author, Anna Katharine Green, is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Table of Contents: The Leavenworth Case A Strange Disappearance The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow The Sword of Damocles Hand and Ring That Affair Next Door Lost Man's Lane The Circular Study One of My Sons The House of the Whispering Pines Initials Only Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel". She stamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits".

Author : Adrian Spalding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1720069956

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Following a 90 year old gambler was easy until she died in strange circumstances. Thankfully Martin has some help from his assistant Susan who charts his horoscope, and Colin who offers fashion tips. But what Martin really needs is advice on how to solve a murder. The Hayden Detective Agency has no need of clients. The very existence of the Agency allows Martin Hayden to claim his large monthly allowance from the family fortune - without lifting a finger. Martin's biggest problem is his interfering mother, who understands her idle son too well. She takes steps to find him not just clients but also a personal assistant to keep an eye on him. Under pressure from the women in his life, Martin agrees to take on his first client. How hard can it be to follow a 90-year-old woman who spends her time losing money at roulette tables? As it turns out harder than Martin ever thought possible, especially with the old lady dying in strange circumstances. Soon the Reluctant Detective is grappling with shady estate agents, an intellectual artist, missing charity money and an irritating Indian waiter. Luckily for Martin there is help in the form of Colin, a transvestite who, apart from having very good fashion sense, is an expert at breaking into houses.

Author : Michael Z. Lewin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 1885941625

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The Reluctant Detective and Other Stories by Michael Z. Lewin Pdf

Author : Megan McDonald
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763652081

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Judy Moody, Girl Detective by Megan McDonald Pdf

It’s an honest-to-jeepers mystery! Agent Judy Drewdy sets out to solve the case of the missing puppy when a canine-cop-in-training vanishes into thin air. Judy Moody is in a mood. A sleuthing, Nancy Drew kind of mood. So what’s a WBMS (world’s best mystery solver) to do? Go find a mystery, that’s what! And she doesn’t have to snoop for long: when Mr. Chips, a beloved crime-dog-in-training, goes missing, Judy Drewdy and her chums, agents Dills Pickle (Frank), Spuds Houdini (Rocky), and James Madagascar (Stink) find themselves smack-dab in the middle of a real-life, scare-your-pants-off whodunit. Was Mr. Chips stolen by dirty dognappers? And why are chocolate chip cookies disappearing all over town? Watch out for red herrings—along with plenty of clever references to classic Nancy Drew mysteries—as Eagle Eye Moody and company are hot on the case! With a bonus story featuring the winner of the Judy Moody Ultimate Fan Contest!

Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Detectives
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004713475

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The Spiritualists and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton Pdf