The Missing Corpse

Author : Jean-Luc Bannalec
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250173379

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The Missing Corpse by Jean-Luc Bannalec Pdf

"Roll over Maigret. Commissaire Dupin has arrived." —M.C. Beaton on Death in Brittany "Very satisfying...along the lines of Martin Walker’s novels set in Dordogne, or M.L. Longworth’s Aix-en-Provence mysteries." —Booklist on Murder on Brittany Shores The Missing Corpse is internationally bestselling author, Jean-Luc Bannalec’s fourth novel in the Commissaire Dupin series. It’s picturesque, suspenseful, and the next best thing to a trip to Brittany. Along the picturesque Belon River, home of the world famous oyster beds, between steep cliffs, ominous forests and the Atlantic Ocean, a stubborn elderly film actress discovers a corpse. By the time Commissaire Dupin arrives at the scene, the body has disappeared. A little while later, he receives a phone call from the mystical hills of Monts d'Arree, where legends of fairies and the devil abound: another unidentified body has turned up. Dupin quickly realizes this may be his most difficult and confounding case yet, with links to celtic myths, a sand theft operation, and mysterious ancient druid cults.

Author : Joan Sanger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590774823

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The Case of the Missing Corpse by Joan Sanger Pdf

Some years ago New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater walked out of his office, turned south along Broadway, and disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again.. There were headlines, public clamor and widespread excitement, but the true-life case was never solved. Something of that same breathless mystery is aroused in this story when Stephen P. Wyndham, internationally known sportsman and last in a line of a rich and respected New York family, vanishes into the gloom of a drizzly Havana night. What is behind the grim crime in that fashionable hotel room? Why would a popular young sporting idol drop blankly from existence? Follow in the steps of the ambitious young newspaperman, as he pieces together a set of mocking clues that lead through murder and violence, all the way from a sedate Murray Hill mansion to a lonely tropical waterfront. As he works to solve The Case of the Missing Corpse he encounters a varied cast of characters: an erratic spinster, a beautiful dancer, a prominent judge, a movie director, fisherfolk, and gangsters. To get to the bottom of it all, our newspaper must sift the treacherous characters from the sincere, hoping beyond hope that he will be able to solve the riddle of Stephen Wyndham’s disappearance and write the story of a lifetime.

Author : Piu Marie Eatwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781856095

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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell Pdf

Author : Janet Evans
Publisher : Publisher s21017
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788892529014

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The Missing Corpse ( The Lakeside Cozy Cat Mysteries Series - Book One) by Janet Evans Pdf

Susan Becker keeps finding herself mixed up in mysteries when she should be busy cooking up something sweet in her bakery in the small tourist town of Lakeside, Missouri. Her best feline friend, Mr. Giles, is one of those curious cats who can't keep away from a fresh crime scene. Detective Kip Fletcher has the unpleasant job of finding out who dug up and stole the corpse of one of the town's leading citizens. A missing body. A mysterious skeleton key. Unexplained lights that could be the town's first ghost... Mr. Giles already knows the truth. But can he guide Susan and Kip to the body snatchers before they vanish along with the corpse?

Author : Piu Eatwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631491245

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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Eatwell Pdf

“It’s Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family in [this] delightfully offbeat history.”—Library Journal At the close of the Victorian era, as now, privacy was power. The extraordinarily wealthy 5th Duke of Portland had a mania for it, hiding in his carriage and building tunnels between buildings to avoid being seen. In 1897, an elderly widow asked the court to exhume the grave of her late father-in-law, T. C. Druce, under the suspicion that he’d led a double life as the 5th Duke. The eccentric duke, Anna Maria contended, had faked his death as Druce, and her son should inherit the Portland millions. Revealing a dark underbelly of Victorian society, Piu Marie Eatwell evokes an era when the rise of sensationalist media blurred every fact into fiction and when family secrets and fluid identities pushed class anxieties to new heights.

Author : Kọ́lá Akíṇlàdé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nigeria
ISBN : IND:30000115596342

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The Missing Corpse by Kọ́lá Akíṇlàdé Pdf

Author : Debra Sennefelder
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496728913

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The Corpse Who Knew Too Much by Debra Sennefelder Pdf

Food blogger Hope Early takes on a cold case that's heating up fast . . . Building on her recipe for success with her food blog, Hope at Home, Hope is teaching her first blogging class at the local library in Jefferson, Connecticut. She’s also learning about podcasts, including a true-crime one called Search for the Missing, hosted by Hope's childhood friend, Devon Markham. Twenty years ago on Valentine's Day, right here in Jefferson, Devon's mom disappeared and was never found. Finally Devon has returned to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother—and she asks Hope to help. The next day Hope discovers Devon's apartment has been ransacked. Her laptop with the research on her mother's cold case is missing, and Devon is nowhere to be found. When her friend's body is later discovered in a car wreck, Hope is convinced it's no accident. Clearly, Devon was too close to the truth, and the cold-blooded killer is still at large in Jefferson. Now it's up to Hope to find the guilty party—before the food blogger herself becomes the next subject of another true-crime podcast . . . Includes Recipes from Hope’s Kitchen!

Author : Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781682333

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The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg by Rosa Luxemburg Pdf

The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements––Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht––who were among her closest friends, lovers and colleagues. Much of this correspondence appears for the first time in English translation; all of it helps to illuminate the inner life of this iconic revolutionary, who was at once an economic and social theorist, a political activist and a lyrical stylist. Her political concerns are revealed alongside her personal struggles within a socialist movement that was often hostile to independently minded women. This collection will provide readers with a newer and deeper appreciation of Luxemburg as a writer and historical figure.

Author : Nicole Marafioti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442668706

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The King's Body by Nicole Marafioti Pdf

The King’s Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066. Using contemporary texts and archaeological evidence, Nicole Marafioti reconstructs the political activity that accompanied kings’ burials, to demonstrate that royal bodies were potent political objects which could be used to provide legitimacy to the next generation. In most cases, new rulers celebrated their predecessor’s memory and honored his corpse to emphasize continuity and strengthen their claims to the throne. Those who rose by conquest or regicide, in contrast, often desecrated the bodies of deposed royalty or relegated them to anonymous graves in attempts to brand their predecessors as tyrants unworthy of ruling a Christian nation. By delegitimizing the previous ruler, they justified their own accession. At a time when hereditary succession was not guaranteed and few accessions went unchallenged, the king’s body was a commodity that royal candidates fought to control.

Author : Edna Buchanan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781416578925

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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face by Edna Buchanan Pdf

This classic by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is her nonfiction masterpiece--a tale of life and death on Miami's streets, which she covered for 18 years for "The Miami Herald." Reissue.

Author : Harvey Kurtzman
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606995457

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Corpse on the Imjin! by Harvey Kurtzman Pdf

EC reprint series kicks off with war-story masterpieces from the legendary Harvey Kurtzman. The creation of MAD would have been enough to cement Harvey Kurtzman’s reputation as one of the titans of American comics, but Kurtzman also created two other comics landmarks: the scrupulously-researched and superbly-crafted war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat. Here were finally war comics without heroic, cigar-chomping sergeants, wisecracking privates from Brooklyn, or cartoon Nazis and “Japs” to be mowed down by the Yank heroes, but an unflinching look at the horror and madness of combat throughout history.

Author : Nsununguli Mbo
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1495271188

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The Missing Corpse by Nsununguli Mbo Pdf

THE SECRET You're a hard-working casual labourer digging a hole somewhere in rural Botswana. You find a human skeleton at the bottom of the hole. The skeleton brings back memories that you had long since forgotten about and would rather keep to yourself. THE BLACKMAIL But there are people who already know about the secret. And these people are out to blackmail you: you do as they say, or else they tell everyone about your secret. And they want more than you can afford.They turn you into a murderer. STUCK You can't run because these people always find you no matter where you go. But you're desperate because you want to feed your wife and children, who don't know where you are. And anyone you turn to for help could be working with these people...

Author : Jeffrey P. Bishop
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268075859

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The Anticipatory Corpse by Jeffrey P. Bishop Pdf

In this original and compelling book, Jeffrey P. Bishop, a philosopher, ethicist, and physician, argues that something has gone sadly amiss in the care of the dying by contemporary medicine and in our social and political views of death, as shaped by our scientific successes and ongoing debates about euthanasia and the “right to die”—or to live. The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, informed by Foucault’s genealogy of medicine and power as well as by a thorough grasp of current medical practices and medical ethics, argues that a view of people as machines in motion—people as, in effect, temporarily animated corpses with interchangeable parts—has become epistemologically normative for medicine. The dead body is subtly anticipated in our practices of exercising control over the suffering person, whether through technological mastery in the intensive care unit or through the impersonal, quasi-scientific assessments of psychological and spiritual “medicine.” The result is a kind of nihilistic attitude toward the dying, and troubling contradictions and absurdities in our practices. Wide-ranging in its examples, from organ donation rules in the United States, to ICU medicine, to “spiritual surveys,” to presidential bioethics commissions attempting to define death, and to high-profile cases such as Terri Schiavo’s, The Anticipatory Corpse explores the historical, political, and philosophical underpinnings of our care of the dying and, finally, the possibilities of change. This book is a ground-breaking work in bioethics. It will provoke thought and argument for all those engaged in medicine, philosophy, theology, and health policy.

Author : Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590176962

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Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Pdf

An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the 2014 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2014 Read Russia Prize The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography of his room’s previous occupant; the fingers of a celebrated pianist’s right hand run away to spend a night alone on the city streets; a man’s lifelong quest to bite his own elbow inspires both a hugely popular circus act and a new refutation of Kant. Ordinary reality cracks open before our eyes in the pages of Autobiography of a Corpse, and the extraordinary spills out.

Author : Janet Evans
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1364489732

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The Missing Corpse - The Lakeside Cozy Cat Mysteries Series by Janet Evans Pdf

Susan Becker keeps finding herself mixed up in mysteries when she should be busy cooking up something sweet in her bakery in the small tourist town of Lakeside, Missouri. Her best feline friend, Mr. Giles, is one of those curious cats who can't keep away from a fresh crime scene.Detective Kip Fletcher has the unpleasant job of finding out who dug up and stole the corpse of one of the town's leading citizens. A missing body. A mysterious skeleton key. Unexplained lights that could be the town's first ghost...Mr. Giles already knows the truth. But can he guide Susan and Kip to the body snatchers before they vanish along with the corpse?