The Midas Murders

Author : Charlotte Gray
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781443449366

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Murdered Midas by Charlotte Gray Pdf

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year In this “engrossing must-read” by “Canada’s most accomplished popular historian” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated. Murdered Midas is “superior true-crime writing” (The Globe and Mail). On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his death surges across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder becomes celebrated as the crime of the century. The layers of mystery deepen as the involvement of Count Alfred de Marigny, Oakes’s son-in-law, comes into question. Also suspicious are the odd machinations of the governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. But despite a sensational trial, no murderer is convicted. Rumours about Oakes’s missing fortune are unrelenting, and fascination with the story has persisted for decades. Award-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores the life of the man behind the scandal—from his early, hardscrabble days during the massive mineral rush in Northern Ontario, to the fabulous fortune he reaped from his own gold mine, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial on the remote colonial island, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. Murdered Midas is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, a man both admired and reviled who, despite great wealth and public standing, never experienced justice.

Author : Pieter Aspe
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453239759

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The Midas Murders by Pieter Aspe Pdf

DIVIn the second novel by the international bestselling Pieter Aspe, Inspector Van In races against the clock to thwart a series of terrorist plots One quiet snow-covered Sunday morning in Bruges, a prominent business executive is found dead in the streets, apparently due to an alcoholic hemorrhage, but for Inspector Van In, there is something about the autopsy that does not add up. When he questions the businessman’s friend, a Dutchman, he too is found dead the next morning, burned to death in a house fire. When there is an explosion in the middle of a popular tourist area in downtown Bruges, Van In strives to find the connection between the three incidents, but no one is coming forward to claim responsibility for this terrorist attack. Just an anonymous letter to the police, threatening more bombings—unless they cooperate with a series of demands that would undermine the entire city government. Aided by the spunky and beautiful assistant DA, Hannelore Martens, Inspector Van In finds himself enmeshed in the case that threatens not just the lives of countless innocent people, but the heart of the city he loves. /div

Author : Pieter Aspe
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1163 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504046237

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The Pieter Van In Mysteries by Pieter Aspe Pdf

Four gripping police procedurals set in Bruges, starring “a brusque cop with every bad habit you can think of” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review). Featuring the bad-tempered, libidinous, alcoholic but skilled police investigator Deputy Commissioner Pieter Van In, these four gritty crime novels from a #1 international bestselling author reveal the darker side of the beautiful Belgian city of Bruges. The Square of Revenge: The perpetrators who broke into an elite jewelry store in Bruges stole nothing, but dissolved a fortune in priceless gems in jars of powerful acid—a perplexing crime that entangles Deputy Commissioner Pieter Van In and his beautiful colleague, assistant district attorney Hannelore Martens, in a wealthy family’s darkest, deadliest secrets. The Midas Murders: Two suspicious deaths and an explosion at a popular tourist site lead Van In and Martens into the heart of a terrorist nightmare that could leave their beloved Bruges in ruins. From Bruges with Love: The discovery of a thirty-year-old skeleton during the restoration of a farmhouse pits Van In against high-level Belgian officials determined to prevent the detective from digging too deeply into the house’s sordid and terrible past. The Fourth Figure: In this novel, nominated for a Hercule Poirot Award, Deputy Commissioner Van In’s investigation of a young woman’s bizarre death is a prelude to a massacre, and it places him in the rifle sights of a sinister satanic cult. In the vein of Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret, “Aspe’s writing is crisp and his characters memorable” (Booklist).

Author : Margot Arnold
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0881503940

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The Midas Murders by Margot Arnold Pdf

American anthropologist Penny Spring and British archaeologist Sir Toby Glendower embark on their twelfth adventure aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, where a rakish father-and-son pair of millionaires meet their end

Author : David Patrick Cook
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Detective and mystery plays, American
ISBN : 1583420649

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Monday Always Leads to Murder by David Patrick Cook Pdf

Harry Monday tries to solve a 20-year-old mystery and write a play about his career at the same time.

Author : Steven M. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Murder
ISBN : 1772420328

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The Midas Bomb by Steven M. Moore Pdf

The murders of a Wall Street broker and a Navy SEAL in Manhattan only miles and minutes apart seem unrelated, but Chen and Castilblanco, two NYPD homicide detectives, discover a connection. As the strange cases merge and they chase down the killers, even with federal stonewalling, they uncover a terrorist plan to destroy two American icons and generate a financial crisis bigger than the implosion of 2008-2009. Hiding in the background are webs of international intrigue taken from today’s post 9/11 world." --

Author : Colleen A. Barnett
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 9781459612327

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Mystery Women by Colleen A. Barnett Pdf

Author : Tom Collins
Publisher : I 65 North, Inc.
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780982589885

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The Claret Murders by Tom Collins Pdf

It's Nashville... with a devastating flood, a beautiful lawyer, a deadly secret, and wine to kill for! The old man finished a glass of wine—his favorite claret—went to bed, and died. Now more than fifty years later, Nashville attorney, Ann Sims, is preparing to auction off his estate—a derelict old mansion with its long-forgotten secret. Sims has lived with a secret of her own, a secret that could cost her the fortune she is in line to inherit and end her career.

Author : Bruce Leonard
Publisher : TouchPoint Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000318346

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Quilt City Murders by Bruce Leonard Pdf

Quilter Hadley Carroll thinks her life can’t get any worse after being demoted from reporter to newspaper courier and having her fiancé, Matt Ackerman, dump her without explanation. But then, while chucking a sack of newspapers into the Ohio River in Paducah, Kentucky—known as Quilt City—she finds Matt's body snagged under the transient dock. She knows she’ll never find peace if she doesn’t figure out why he left her and who killed him, so she gets to work. But the mystery deepens when fellow quilters succumb to foul play, so Hadley must use her investigative skills and impressive intellect to connect a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. As QuiltWeek Paducah, the largest quilting event in the world, approaches, then fills the small town with 30,000 textile connoisseurs, Paducah’s mayor tries to instill calm as citizens panic, protests flair up, and visiting quilters flee by the thousands. Despite grieving the loss of Matt, Hadley perseveres, strengthened by her troubled upbringing and aided by her weekly quilting group. She resolutely determines to solve the murders, to bring peace back to her hometown, and to get a good night’s sleep—finally.

Author : Colleen Barnett
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781458768360

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Mystery Women by Colleen Barnett Pdf

Edgar- and Agatha-nominated author Colleen Barnett here updates her essential reference for readers and writers of mystery, examining women who detect, women as sleuths, and the evolving roles of women in professions and in society.

Author : Steven M. Moore
Publisher : Infinity Pub
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0741456311

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The Midas Bomb by Steven M. Moore Pdf

The murders of an ER physician and a Navy SEAL in Manhattan only miles and minutes apart seem unrelated, but two homicide detectives discover a connection. As the strange cases merge and they chase down the killers, even with federal stonewalling, they uncover a terrorist plan to destroy two American icons and generate a financial crisis bigger than the Wall Street implosion of 2008. Hiding in the background are webs of international intrigue taken from today¿s post-9/11 world.(For Steve¿s other novels and short stories, visit http://stevenmmoore.com.)

Author : Kenneth Benton
Publisher : Dan Benton
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Craig and the Midas Touch by Kenneth Benton Pdf

The oil-rich middle eastern state of Jubayl is peacefully led by a long-serving and well-respected Emir, but that peace is shattered when his son and heir is found weighted in a watery grave beneath a leased oil rig. Peter Craig, overseas police adviser for the British Government, is in the region lecturing on couterinsurgency when his Embassy proffers his services to help find the killer. The chief suspect, an oil company worker with motive – his ex-girlfriend’s liaisons with the dead sheikh – looks to have been framed, but the ‘evidence’ against him is damning unless Craig can present proof that he has been set up, and find another credible suspect. How is the sale of the oil platform to a neighbouring state linked to a local pimp and businessman? And who has most to gain from the death? What had the Sheikh's network of spies discovered? When the final events of the intricate grand plan start to play out, the stakes are far higher than Craig could have anticipated and will call on all his skills and experience to avert international disaster in the Middle East.

Author : Patricia Houck Sprinkle
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1570722439

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Murder in the Charleston Manner by Patricia Houck Sprinkle Pdf

Sheila Travis and her inimitable Aunt Mary investigate a series of petty accidents plaguing two elderly sisters in Charleston, South Carolina, and uncover a host of suspects among the Charleston bluebloods--and murder.

Author : Colleen Barnett
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781615950089

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Mystery Women, Volume One (Revised) by Colleen Barnett Pdf

Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.

Author : Diana DeLuca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0996093419

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The Midas Death by Diana DeLuca Pdf

Inspector "Kaj" Kajiwara must solve the murder of Hawaii State University professor, Harrison Whitworth, Hawaii's first Nobel Prize winner, shot through the heart by an arrow on his Manoa Valley driveway. The investigation means that Kaj's team must deal with political and business leaders, ambitious university administrators, faculty resentful of Whitworth's success, and students angry about grades--all with reason to see him dead. All this is to be done under the intense glare of international media. Then, just when things couldn't get worse, the case involves the secretive Himalayan kingdom of Kuthan whose people believe in spiritual connection between people. Kaj and his team must figure out not only how to work with university and State politics, Hawaii's ways of doing business, and the collection of unique and talented individuals who make up a modern university, but they must also learn how to communicate with the Kuthani Consulate where the people believe in tranquility as part of their form of what they call Vedarinda, a form of Buddhism. "I don't know how tranquil investigating a murder is supposed to be," Kaj complains to his boss. Nevertheless, Kaj, a Vietnam vet and war hero, who has his own issues with the university over the way he was treated when he returned from the war, does what he must to navigate the Hawaii of the late 1990s, a time when budgets were tightening and higher education nationally was pressured to do more to assist with economic development. As it turns out, the victim was in some ways a chameleon. Everyone has very different opinions of him. Their views include arrogant, naive, intensely private, dismissive, cultured, charming, and egotistic. Kaj's job will include unlocking the secrets of this brilliant scientist, a challenge that, to his surprise, will prove amusing and revealing.