The Caterpillar Cop

Author : James McClure
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569476536

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The Caterpillar Cop by James McClure Pdf

When a twelve-year-old boy is found strangled to death with multiple stab wounds, his killer is assumed to be a pedophile. Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his sidekick, Bantu Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi begin to investigate and soon learn that the boy had been involved in a detective club that encouraged children to spy and snitch on people, and no one likes a snitch. Whom was Boetie spying on? As the two men look into possible leads on the case, they must also navigate increasing tensions surrounding racism in the ’70s in South Africa, and Kramer finds himself on the receiving end of much of the hatred himself.

Author : James McClure
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569478950

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The Caterpillar Cop by James McClure Pdf

The author of The Steam Pig delivers a “powerful picture of South African society . . . The pace is fast, the solution ingenious” (The New York Times Book Review). When a twelve-year-old boy named Boetie is found strangled to death with multiple stab wounds, his killer is assumed to be a pedophile. Lt. Tromp Kramer and his sidekick, Bantu Det. Sergeant Mickey Zondi, begin to investigate and soon learn that the boy had been involved in a detective club that encouraged children to spy and snitch on people—and no one likes a snitch. Whom was Boetie spying on? As the two men look into possible leads on the case, they must also navigate increasing tensions surrounding racism in the seventies in South Africa, and Kramer finds himself on the receiving end of much of the hatred himself. “McClure’s first novel, The Steam Pig, was one of the most memorable books in the genre last year . . . The Caterpillar Cop may prove to be even better.” —Newsday “The Caterpillar Cop . . . unusually enough—is just as good, if not better, than its predecessor.” —St. Louis Post Dispatch “The integrated South African police team of Lt. Tromp Kramer and Sgt. Zondi did a good job in McClure’s The Steam Pig. They’re even better this time . . . The gathering of clues is described with McClure’s special blend of humor, cheerfully sexy scenes and startling realism. Good to see a second novel come out so well.” —San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

Author : James McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3293207650

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Caterpillar Cop by James McClure Pdf

Author : George N. Dove
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 087972188X

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The Police Procedural by George N. Dove Pdf

In the late 1940s and early 1950s a new kind of detective story appeared on the scene. This was a story in which the mystery is solved by regular police detectives, usually working in teams and using ordinary police routines. This kind of narrative is customarily called the "police procedural" story. And it is the subject of this book. Though there has been numberless writers of these stories, there has never been a book of criticism before.

Author : James McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Police
ISBN : LCCN:84025431

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Cop World by James McClure Pdf

Author : James McClure
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569478967

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The Steam Pig by James McClure Pdf

In the debut mystery featuring Lieutenant Kramer and Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi set in South Africa, a beautiful blonde has been killed by a bicycle spoke to the heart, Bantu gangster style. Why?

Author : James McClure
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569479698

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Snake by James McClure Pdf

Lieutenant Kramer and Sergeant Zondi have their hands full. On the same day that an adult entertainer known as Eve is found accidentally strangled to death in her dressing room, her pet python wrapped dead around her neck, a beloved candy shop owner named "Lucky" Siyayo is shot to death at his counter in a botched robbery. The detective duo quickly realize neither death is as simple as it looks on the surface: Lucky Siyayo's cash register was all but empty the day he was murdered, which suddenly throws a whole rash of fatal neighborhood robberies into perspective—were none of them robberies at all? It becomes clear a killer is on the loose, but Zondi and Kramer must figure out what the killer is after. Meanwhile, postmortem analysis reveals that Eve didn't die at the time her ex-boss had stated he'd discovered her body; the more Kramer picks the circumstances apart, the less they make sense. With two very different sets of crimes to solve, Kramer and Zondi set off on treks that take them all over town, from the poorer villages to the sleazy dressing rooms of con artists and pimps to gorgeous steop of the South African countryside in another surefire investigation full of both stirring observations of Apartheid and plenty of mischief. Only one thing is for sure—no one is getting to take his day off this week!

Author : Mitzi M. Brunsdale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313040887

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Gumshoes by Mitzi M. Brunsdale Pdf

The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. This dictionary of fictional detectives helps readers learn about the series in which their favorite detectives are featured. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 150 fictional detectives, which provide information about the works in which the detective appears, the locales in which the detective operates, the detective's investigative methods, and other important information. Helpful bibliographical citations direct the reader to other interesting works. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography; various appendices; and an extensive index. The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. Many of the most popular mystery books appear in series, and these series feature carefully developed detectives.

Author : James McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : OCLC:154194920

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The Steam Pig by James McClure Pdf

Author : Timothy Williams
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616954635

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The Puppeteer by Timothy Williams Pdf

Northern Italy, 1982: Inspector Piero Trotti is enjoying his breakfast at a café when gunmen drive up and shoot the man sitting at the next table. Was Trotti their intended target? He isn’t sure. The case falls under the jurisdiction of the local Carabinieri, but Trotti decides to make his own inquiries. The Puppeteer is the follow-up to CWA award-winner Timothy Williams’s dazzling crime fiction debut, Converging Parallels. This tautly written novel brings us to the depths of a corrupt, scheming Italian society in which bank officials, clergymen, masons, lawyers, and, of course, politicians are all suspect of resorting to criminal activity for personal gain. Only the police are presumed trustworthy, and even they are sorely divided by departmental rivalries and jealousies.

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569478325

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The Maine Massacre by Janwillem van de Wetering Pdf

The accidental death of his brother-in-law sends Grijpstra—with his companion de Gier in tow—to Jamestown, Maine, where they find a town full of suspects and a series of shady real estate deals.

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569470916

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The Hollow-Eyed Angel by Janwillem van de Wetering Pdf

The thirteenth Amsterdam Cops mystery The commissaris is about to retire from the Amsterdam police force when volunteer officer Johan Termeer approaches him for help. Johan fears his elderly uncle has been murdered in faraway New York, the corpse found decimated by animals in Central Park. The commissaris agrees to look into the matter since he’s already heading to New York for a law enforcement convention, and brings Sergeant de Gier along with him.

Author : Magdalen Nabb
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569478172

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Death in Springtime by Magdalen Nabb Pdf

A police mystery in the acclaimed series set in Florence, Italy: “Nabb is so good she’s awesome” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Two foreign girls are abducted from a Florence piazza in broad daylight. The unusual March snowfall has distracted everyone—even Marshal Guarnaccia, who is unsure of what he has actually witnessed. Then one of the girls turns up in a village in the Chianti, claiming the kidnappers have released her to propose a ransom for the other victim. But the marshal thinks she’s lying. Besides, Italian law forbids paying ransom to criminals, so the marshal must find the missing girl before her kidnappers decide to end her life—in this novel in the series that has been called “crime fiction at its best” (The Sunday Times). “A masterpiece.” —Georges Simenon, author of the Inspector Maigret series

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569478264

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The Perfidious Parrot by Janwillem van de Wetering Pdf

The fourteenth Amsterdam Cops Mystery Retired policemen Grijpstra and de Gier are being blackmailed. The threat is a serious one: to set the income tax authority on them. The blackmailers, a wealthy yacht owner and his son, want them to investigate the mysterious hijacking of a supertanker’s entire cargo in the Caribbean. The Amsterdam cops reluctantly agree to take the case. Their rendezvous is in Key West, where they are confronted with a murder.

Author : Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569470497

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The Corpse on the Dike by Janwillem van de Wetering Pdf

A recluse has been shot right between the eyes while standing at his bedroom window. His neighbor, a schoolteacher and pistol shot champion, admits she discovered the body and failed to report it. Is she guilty of murder? Grijpstra and de Gier will travel to whorehouses, through a shady electronics market and into the house of a very flashy potential suspect to find out.