Download or read book A Grave Undertaking written by Lloyd Gold and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1976 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The time is Mardi Gras, the place a New Orleans funeral parlor. As the action begins, in a wildly farcical scene, a bereaved family, accompanied by a young priest, is reviled and driven away by the irate funeral director--a man who, while

Download or read book Grave Undertaking written by Mark de Castrique and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] first-rate installment in an excellent series." —Booklist Barry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father's funeral home in the peace and quiet of the Appalachian mountains. But Buryin' Barry is an undertaker with a problem he keeps finding unwanted business. Moving a grave on a snowy mountainside should be routine. No funeral, no procession, no grieving widow to console. Routine until Barry unearths an unexpected intruder, a skeleton lying atop the original occupant. A bullet hole in the skull piques his ex-cop curiosity; the photograph of his girlfriend Susan Miller in the murdered man's wallet makes the case very personal. Suddenly, Barry's life is turned upside down, as Susan becomes the prime suspect. Joining forces with his pal Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins, Barry sets out to find the real killer. But a terrible secret had been buried in that mountain grave and one murder is only the down payment someone is willing to pay to keep it hidden. Barry is torn between discovering the solution to the crime and uncovering a part of Susan's past that could destroy their relationship. When the killer strikes again, Barry learns that even more is at stake. In a duel of deceit and misdirection, one thing becomes crystal clear. Barry's grave undertaking could very well lead to his own funeral.

Download or read book GRAVE UNDERTAKING written by LIONEL. WHITE and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Grave Undertaking written by James R. McCahery and published by Knightsbridge Publishing Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Grave Undertaking Obsession written by Lionel White and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GRAVE UNDERTAKING Earl Cradle has put together the perfect bank heist. He's got a safecracker, a gunman, some extra muscle-and a crooked undertaker. All the details are set. They'll access the bank from the funeral home next door and hit the bank when it opens, then escape as part of a funeral procession. All they need is a body. When Earl discovers that a bowery bum has just died and is laying in the morgue, he has his girlfriend claim the body as her father. There's only one problem. Newspaperman Jake Epstein has been researching this death, and discovers that the bum is a disgraced professor, with a real daughter. And she wants to know what the hell has happened to her father's body! OBSESSION Conrad Madden is out of work and irritated at his wife and kids when he takes the babysitter home that night. Which is no excuse for getting drunk and spending the night with her. But how could he know that he would wake up to a corpse in the living room the next morning? The babysitter, Allie, claims the man was going to kill him while he slept. It was self-defense. She had to kill him. If Madden wasn't falling for the young woman, becoming obsessed with her, he could call the cops. He probably should call the cops. But there's the suitcase full of cash to consider. Now he is on the run, trying to keep one step ahead of the cops-and the hoods whose suitcase Allie has stolen.

Download or read book Grave Undertaking written by Mark de Castrique and published by Poisoned Pen Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father’s funeral home in the peace and quiet of the Appalachian mountains. But Buryin’ Barry is an undertaker with a problem—he keeps finding unwanted business. Moving a grave on a snowy mountainside should be routine. No funeral, no procession, no grieving widow to console. Routine until the crew unearths an unexpected intruder, a skeleton lying atop the original occupant. A bullet hole in the skull piques Barry’s ex-cop curiosity; the photograph of his girlfriend Susan Miller in the murdered man’s wallet makes the case very personal. Suddenly, Barry’s life is turned upside down, as Susan becomes the prime suspect. Joining forces with his pal Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins, Barry sets out to find the real killer. But a terrible secret had been buried in that mountain grave and one murder is only the down payment someone is willing to ante up to keep it hidden. Barry is torn between discovering the solution to the crime and uncovering a part of Susan’s past that could destroy their relationship. When the killer strikes again, Barry learns that even more is at stake. In a duel of deceit and misdirection, one thing becomes crystal clear: Barry’s grave undertaking could very well lead to his own funeral.

Download or read book A Perilous Undertaking written by Deanna Raybourn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting a ladies-only club for intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is challenged to save a society art patron from execution.

Download or read book The Undertaking Life Studies from the Dismal Trade written by Thomas Lynch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Finalist "One of the most life-affirming books I have read in a long time…brims with humanity, irreverence, and invigorating candor." —Tom Vanderbilt "Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople." So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open, his ear tuned to the indispensable vernaculars of love and grief. In these twelve pieces his is the voice of both witness and functionary. Here, Lynch, poet to the dying, names the hurts and whispers the condolences and shapes the questions posed by this familiar mystery. So here is homage to parents who have died and to children who shouldn't have. Here are golfers tripping over grave markers, gourmands and hypochondriacs, lovers and suicides. These are the lessons for life our mortality teaches us.

Download or read book Dangerous Undertaking written by Mark de Castrique and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] marvelous mystery you won't want to put down." —Publishers Weekly Barry Clayton has a job he doesn't want. When his father became stricken with Alzheimer's, Barry left the Charlotte police force for the small mountain community of Gainesboro, North Carolina, where his family runs the local funeral home. "Buryin' Barry" reluctantly assumed the mantle of town undertaker, trying to fit his life into this somber profession. Almost at once it turns deadly. At the graveside service for an elderly woman, a grieving grandson strides in clad like Clint Eastwood in a duster, rips out a shotgun, and murders his family. Then the shooter turns the weapon on Barry. "Take a message to my grandmother," Dallas Willard shouts. "Tell her they tried to take the land. Tell her I love her." The blast hits Barry in the shoulder. Barry is not cut from the same black cloth as his father, and his irreverent wit and independence have already won him the friendship of the county sheriff, one-eyed war hero Tommy Lee Wadkins. Besides, Barry's a police pro. Trusting his wounds to the hands of local surgeon Susan Miller, Barry begins a search for both the killer and the reason for his crime. It isn't long before a second shooting occurs—but when Dallas Willard's body is discovered at the bottom of a quarry pond, it becomes clear that Gainesboro is caught in the grip of something more than a deadly family quarrel...

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Download or read book GRAVE UNDERTAKINGS written by RUBERTONE PATRICIA E and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 2001-03-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By weaving textual and archaeological evidence with community memory, Rubertone challenges the canonical account of Roger Williams' "A Key Into the Language of America" (1643). She imagines a more complicated and dynamic history of Native cultural survival and persistence in New England.

Download or read book Secret Undertaking written by Mark de Castrique and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The dark humor, a small community in a regional mystery, and a strong supporting cast of believable characters will appeal to Margaret Maron's readers." —Library Journal STARRED review Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral director and part-time deputy sheriff Barry Clayton and his childhood nemesis, Archie Donovan, Jr., unite to create a fundraising float in Gainesboro's annual Apple Festival Parade, what could go wrong? With Archie involved—anything! First, the Grand Marshal, NC Secretary of Agriculture Graham James, is attacked by a gunman and Barry's Uncle Wayne is critically wounded in the melee. The assailant is killed. Then, when the body of a convenience store owner is discovered less than an hour later with the gunman's food stamp card in his wallet, the case escalates. Two men dead. What is the connection? Barry and Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins swiftly learn their small town offers no protection against big-time crime. The body count rises as the scope of their homicide investigation crosses into the realm of the U.S. Marshals and their secretive Witness Protection Program. To penetrate its walls, Barry and Tommy Lee resort to a most unlikely ally: Archie. Is the insurance agent, generally a victim of his own hare-brained schemes, capable of breaking the case, or will Archie find a way to become another of its casualties? The trio's secret undertaking into a convoluted conspiracy becomes a fight for survival in a world filled with betrayals where it's impossible to know which people to trust.

Download or read book Foolish Undertaking written by Mark de Castrique and published by Sourcebooks + ORM. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Another stellar entry in an outstanding series that deserves wider recognition: the family focus and rural North Carolina setting make it a natural for Margaret Maron fans." —Booklist STARRED review The night before a funeral that will thrust the mountain town of Gainesboro, North Carolina, into the national spotlight, the body is stolen from the embalming room and funeral director Barry Clayton is knocked unconscious. Ouch. How will Clayton & Clayton deal with the relatives of Y'Grok Eban, the Montagnard hero who aided US troops during the Vietnam War, or the U.S. Senator, three-star general, and famous Hollywood star en route to Y'Grok's service? Barry's friend, Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins has a very personal interest in the missing Y'Grok—the Montagnard had saved his life. So does the Boston detective who also owes his life to Y'Grok and received a death-bed summons from the cancer-stricken old man: "Raven has come home." The three men pledge to crack Y'Grok's code, recover not just the body but a piece of a long-buried past, and deal with new death and betrayal. Is it a heroic or a foolish undertaking?

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Download or read book Deep in the Heart of Trouble written by Deeanne Gist and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a bestselling author and two-time Christy Award winner comes this light-hearted historical romance featuring the intrepid Essie Spreckelmeyer.

Download or read book Final Undertaking written by Mark de Castrique and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "De Castrique offers original plots, strikingly human characters, and a heartwarming portrait of American culture. His writing is to be savored." —Library Journal STARRED review When Barry Clayton's father developed Alzheimers, Barry gave up his career in law enforcement to return to the North Carolina mountain town of Gainesboro and run the family funeral home. But even a small town in the Appalachians is not immune to crime. At a summer street dance, Barry's friend Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins is gunned down by an old man distraught at the death of his wife. To the dismay of Deputy Reece Hutchins, hospitalized Tommy Lee appoints Barry as the deputy in charge of the investigation. Who was the old man stalking? Why was a young woman who was wounded at the scene traveling with the intended victim? What at first appears to be a case of a mentally unstable summer tourist quickly develops into a tangled web of deceit stretching from western North Carolina to the Florida coast. Someone is preying upon senior citizens.... Barry realizes Deputy Hutchins is undercutting his investigation, but as potential witnesses and informants begin to die under mysterious circumstances, Barry confronts a conspiracy that runs so deep he no longer knows who to trust. One false step, one betrayal, will make this case Buryin' Barry's final undertaking.