The Man With The Black Valise

Author : John Goddard
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781459745384

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The Man with the Black Valise by John Goddard Pdf

The story of one of the vilest murders in Canadian history. One glorious autumn day in 1894, a drifter attacked thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith so violently that people thought Jack the Ripper must be loose in rural Ontario. To solve the crime, the government called in Detective John Wilson Murray, the true-life model for Detective William Murdoch of the popular TV series Murdoch Mysteries. His prime clue was a black valise. The Man with the Black Valise traces the killer’s trajectory through three counties, a route that today connects travellers to poignant reminders of nineteenth-century life. Chief among them stands the statue of the Roman Goddess of Flora, gesturing as though to cast roses onto Jessie’s grave.

Author : John Goddard
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781459745377

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The Man with the Black Valise by John Goddard Pdf

The Man with the Black Valise tracks the killer of thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith as he tramped along railway lines through rural Ontario in 1894.

Author : John Goddard
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 1459723759

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Inside the Museums by John Goddard Pdf

Illuminates Toronto's early history through its small heritage museums and their prized objects. For the first time, it showcases the scattered historic homes and other buildings as a single community.

Author : Nat Brandt
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781475915846

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The Man Who Tried to Burn New York by Nat Brandt Pdf

In a desperate attempt to bring the North to the bargaining table and end what was to the South a losing war, Confederate spies in Canada launch a plot to burn New York City on the day after Thanksgiving in 1864. A group of rebel officers, escapees from Union prison camps who had fled to neutral Canada for safety, reach the city by train and, in disguise, take rooms in various hotels in downtown New York. They fail but only because, unknowingly, they use a chemical mixture that requires oxygen. Smoke from the incipient fires they set is quickly discovered and the fires put out. In the dramatic search for the conspirators that follows, only one of them is caught, Robert Cobb Kennedy, a captain from Louisiana. He is tried, convicted and hanged... the last rebel executed by the North before the end of the war. The Man Who Tried to Burn New York won the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award in 1987.

Author : Harry Stephen Keeler
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781605431994

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Strands of the Web by Harry Stephen Keeler Pdf

Author : Lawrence L. Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433075758437

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Shadowed by Three by Lawrence L. Lynch Pdf

Author : Joe Meno
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933354101

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The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno Pdf

As children Billy Argo and his sister Caroline solve a series of mysteries using a detective kit, but as an adult, Billy faces an uncertain future after his sister commits suicide and he finds himself trying to connect with the world again after a stay in

Author : Colin MacKinnon
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429936293

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The Contractor by Colin MacKinnon Pdf

Rick Behringer is an outside contractor working for the Central Intelligence Agency. He owns a small company that, in the light of day, provides communications security for government offices, including the CIA. In the shadows, though, Rick's a spy. He runs overseas agents for the CIA and, through his firm, buys foreign military technology that the Agency wants to inspect but can't be seen purchasing. The divorced father of two little girls, Rick carries on a cold war with his ex, Liz, and a hot romance with his sexy girlfriend, Frannie. He still broods over the mysterious death of his father, a high-level CIA officer during the Vietnam War, who committed suicide when Rick was thirteen. Through contacts in what he calls the "Black World," Rick hears of a mysterious Pakistani Islamist, a rogue nuclear physicist, who is trying to acquire highly-enriched uranium in order to construct "an Islamic bomb" - a scheme that is all too credible. In tracking him down, Rick encounters a host of characters, some willing to help, many more willing to take his life. And in the explosive conclusion, he struggles in a deadly game of wits with Russian gangsters and the terrorist who is plotting nuclear mass murder in America. In The Contractor, Colin MacKinnon shows once again his rare ability to turn real-world facts into riveting spy fiction. The Contractor could happen...could be happening now.

Author : Margeaux Van Dijk
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438916002

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A Legacy of Murder by Margeaux Van Dijk Pdf

Margeaux van Dijk's new thriller sequel The legacy lives on... "A Legacy of Murder" A novel you won't be able to put down as once again Margeaux van Dijk takes you from the asylum to the courtroom to the morgue and from the sane to the insane in a suspense filled drama with twists and turns at every corner. "A Legacy of Murder" promises to raise the hair on your neck as the saga of The West End Ripper continues in a page-turning tale of epic proportions Spanning the globe again from the heights of opulence in Bristol, England to the Hamptons in Long Island and the incredible estates of Oliver Wendel Harrington IV The characters you loved and hated in "Let Us Prey" return in "A Legacy of Murder" with a renewed intensity that will keep you on the edge of your seat in this story of mystery, intrique, and suspense! "A Legacy of Murder" may be read independently but is truly enhanced by her first novel, "Let Us Prey". Coming soon to bookstores near you, "A Winter Sun".

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89073598898

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The Continental Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Portland (Me.)
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131369097

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Portland Transcript by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Literature
ISBN : IND:32000000681777

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Scribners Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank Richard Stockton
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 3201 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786560186

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Delphi Complete Works of Frank R. Stockton (Illustrated) by Frank Richard Stockton Pdf

Frank R. Stockton is chiefly remembered today for his innovative short stories and children's fairy tales, which established his name as one of America’s greatest storytellers in the last decades of the nineteenth century. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Stockton’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare story collections and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Stockton’s life and works * All 19 novels, with individual contents tables * The complete short stories – with many rare tales * Includes rare story collections appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including AFIELD AND AFLOAT, STEPHEN SKARRIDGE'S CHRISTMAS and many more * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Many of the collections and novels are fully illustrated with their original artwork, featuring hundreds of images * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the tales you want to read * Includes Stockton’s rare non-fiction – available in no other collection * Features the memoir by Marian E. Stockton - discover Stockton’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Short Story Collections TING-A-LING TALES ROUND-ABOUT RAMBLES IN LANDS OF FACT AND FANCY STEPHEN SKARRIDGE’S CHRISTMAS THE FLOATING PRINCE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES THE LADY OR THE TIGER? AND OTHER STORIES A BORROWED MONTH AND OTHER STORIES THE BEE-MAN OF ORN AND OTHER FANCIFUL TALES AMOS KILBRIGHT; HIS ADSCITITIOUS EXPERIENCES, WITH OTHER STORIES THE CLOCKS OF RONDAINE, AND OTHER STORIES THE WATCHMAKER’S WIFE AND OTHER STORIES A CHOSEN FEW SHORT STORIES THE RUDDER GRANGERS ABROAD AND OTHER STORIES JOHN GAYTHER’S GARDEN AND THE STORIES TOLD THEREIN THE MAGIC EGG AND OTHER STORIES AFIELD AND AFLOAT MISCELLANEOUS SHORT STORIES The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Novels WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED RUDDER GRANGE A JOLLY FELLOWSHIP THE CASTING AWAY OF MRS LECKS AND MRS ALESHINE THE LATE MRS. NULL THE DUSANTES THE ASSOCIATE HERMITS THE GIRL AT COBHURST THE HOUSE OF MARTHA THE SQUIRREL INN THE GREAT WAR SYNDICATE KATE BONNET: THE ROMANCE OF A PIRATE’S DAUGHTER A BICYCLE OF CATHAY POMONA’S TRAVELS THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HORN MRS. CLIFF’S YACHT THE GREAT STONE OF SARDIS THE VIZIER OF THE TWO-HORNED ALEXANDER THE CAPTAIN’S TOLL-GATE The Non-Fiction THE HOME: WHERE IT SHOULD BE AND WHAT TO PUT IN IT STORIES OF NEW JERSEY BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES OF OUR COASTS The Biography A MEMORIAL SKETCH OF MR. STOCKTON by Marian E. Stockton Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Author : Frank Richard Stockton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664584526

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Rudder Grange by Frank Richard Stockton Pdf

'Rudder Grange' is a novel written by Frank Richard Stockton. The story begins as a couple, Euphemia and the narrator, search for a rental home. Despite all their efforts, they have yet to find one that meets their criteria: a furnished house in a country location near the city, and not in a mosquito-infested area. They nearly find a suitable house, but it is unfurnished, and the landlord is not willing to furnish it as per their agreement.

Author : Gerard Whelan
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781847174079

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A Winter of Spies by Gerard Whelan Pdf

A sequel to The Guns of Easter which won the Eilís Dillon Memorial Award and a Bisto Merit Award. This books tells the exciting story of Sarah (Jimmy's young sister) and their family who are involved in the spying activities of Michael Collins during the War of Independence. Sarah, a young eleven-year-old, cannot figure out why her family is so neutral towards the war and why everybody is so secretive. A strong rebel herself, she wants to do her bit for Ireland. Then she finds out the terrible truth - and she too carries secrets which could cost her her life.