Download or read book Columbo The Glitter Murders written by William Harrington and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Columbo tackles a case involving the death of famed motion picture director Gunnar Svan, who appears to have been murdered during a routine robbery, but Columbo senses foul play.
Download or read book Columbo The Helter Skelter Murders written by William Harrington and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-07-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wife of a wealthy L.A. businessman is found murdered in bed with her lover, with the words "Helter Skelter" painted in blood on the walls. Columbo, America's favorite TV detective, must ask himself whether the horror of the Manson Family's massacres could return--and whether Manson himself is ordering a fresh round of atrocities from his San Quentin prison cell.
Download or read book Columbo written by William Harrington and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find out who killed a Madonna-like superstar and dumped her body in her Beverly Hills swimming pool, the TV detective must unlock the mystery of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance twenty years earlier.
Download or read book Wolves Eat Dogs written by Martin Cruz Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-11-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Moscow detective is sent to Chernobyl for a frightening case in the most spectacular entry yet in Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko series. In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical, and haunted by melancholy, Arkady Renko survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find his transformed nation just as obsessed with corruption and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In Wolves Eat Dogs, Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case yet: the death of one of Russia’s new billionaires, which leads him to Chernobyl and the Zone of Exclusion—closed to the world since 1986’s nuclear disaster. It is still aglow with radioactivity, now inhabited only by the militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly peasants who refuse to relocate. Renko’s journey to this ghostly netherworld, the crimes he uncovers there, and the secrets they reveal about the New Russia make for an unforgettable adventure.
Download or read book Columbo written by William Harrington and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lovable television detective returns to tackle a case involving the death of famed motion-picture director Dunnar Svan, who appears to have been murdered during a routine robbery, but Columbo senses foul play.
Download or read book Columbo written by Amelie Hastie and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, generations of television fans have been enraptured by Lt. Columbo, played by Peter Falk, as he unravels clues to catch killers who believe they are above the law. In her investigation of the 1970s series cocreated by Richard Levinson and William Link, Amelie Hastie explores television history through an emphasis on issues of stardom, authorship, and its interconnections with classical and New Hollywood cinema. Through close textual analysis, attentive to issues of class relations and connections to other work by Falk as well as Levinson and Link, Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder sees American television as an intertextual system, from its origins as a commercial broadcast medium to its iterations within contemporary streaming platforms. Ultimately, Hastie argues, in the titular detective’s constant state of learning about cultural trends and media forms, Columbo offers viewers the opportunity to learn with him and, through his tutelage, to become detectives of television itself.
Download or read book Columbo written by William Harrington and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lt Columbo, star of TV, unravels a mystery that has held the world's attention for 30 years - who killed JFK?
Download or read book Columbo The Game Show Killer written by William Harrington and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over twenty-five years, Columbo has been the most popular , and persistent, detective on television, drawing millions of viewers a week. William Harrington's compelling new novel pits the famous TV detectives against one of the most brilliant and flamboyant lawyers in the country. It may seem like the perfect murder, but if there's the tiniest flaw, the famous Lieutenant Columbo will find it.
Download or read book Well Schooled in Murder written by Elizabeth George and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published.”—Entertainment Weekly When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad’s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child—and then, tragically, for a child killer. Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers’s cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew’s death leads them perilously close to their own emotional wounds—and blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making. . . . Praise for Well-Schooled in Murder “George is a master . . . an outstanding practitioner of the modern English mystery.”—Chicago Tribune “A spectacular new voice in mystery writing.”—Los Angeles Times “A compelling whodunit . . . a reader’s delight.”—Daily News, New York “Like P.D. James, George knows the import of the smallest human gesture; Well-Schooled in Murder puts the younger author clearly in the running with the genre master.”—People “Ms. George may wind up creating one of the most popular and entertaining series in mystery fiction today.”—The Sun, Baltimore
Download or read book Passages from the French and Italian Note books of Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faithful Place written by Tana French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post), the bestseller called “the most stunning of her books” (The New York Times) and a finalist for the Edgar Award. Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover squad, is going home whether he likes it or not.
Download or read book Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection 2 volumes written by Mitzi M. Brunsdale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to 24 iconic figures, real and fictional, that have shaped the detective/mystery genre of popular literature. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection spans the history of the detective story with series of critical entries on the field's most evocative names, from the originator of the form, Edgar Allan Poe, to its first popular running character, Sherlock Holmes; from the Golden Age of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Charlie Chan—in fiction and films—to small screen heroes, such as Columbo and Jessica Fletcher. Also included are other accomplished practitioners of the craft of mystery/crime storytelling, including Agatha Christie, Tony Hillerman, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Download or read book SAFA Guidelines written by and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture Systems (SAFA) Guidelines were developed for assessing the impact of food and agriculture operations on the environment and people. The guiding vision of SAFA is that food and agriculture systems worldwide are characterized by all four dimensions of sustainability: good governance, environmental integrity, economic resilience and social well-being.
Download or read book Hollywood Babylon written by Kenneth Anger and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1975 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Columbo written by William Harrington and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a biographer threatens to reveal secrets buried in the Hoover files, Lt. Columbo must determine if a former FBI agent will stop at nothing--including murder--to keep those secrets hidden.
Download or read book Call the Midwife A Labour of Love written by Stephen McGann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and engrossing celebration of the first ten years of the beloved TV series Call the Midwife. Learn the up-close and personal story of Call the Midwife as told by the cast and crew. Call the Midwife: A Labour of Love is a moving journey through the iconic series and features personal reflections, photos of fan-favourite moments, and anecdotes and insights from co-stars, producers, technical crew, and guests. Each chapter, spanning each of the ten years of Call the Midwife - set from 1957-1966 - takes a deep dive into the themes, locations, fun times and technical challenges from each season. Author Stephen McGann, who plays the indefatigable Dr Turner, intersperses personal interviews with key cast and crew about their feelings, thoughts, and memories of filming key moments of the drama. MUST-HAVE FOR ALL FANS: From Trixie's mod outfits to the Buckle's courtship to Sister Monica Julienne's wise words, fans of Call the Midwife will revel in favourite moments, images, stories and quotes. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Includes original interviews and reflections from the cast and crew. LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED: With stunning photos from both behind and in front of the camera, Call the Midwife: A Labour of Love reveals rare behind-the-scenes moments and captures favourite scenes. FROM THE DESK OF DR TURNER: Author and actor Stephen McCann has played beloved Dr Patrick Turner on all ten seasons of Call the Midwife and offers an insiders' perspective and unprecedented access to the cast and creators.
Download or read book Six Degrees of Paris Hilton written by Mark Ebner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the burgeoning Hollywood club scene, where ecstasy dealers dine alongside celebrities, and illicit money bubbles up from below like the La Brea Tar Pits, a handsome double-murderer and ex-con of refined wit and taste charmed his way into young Hollywood's most elite social circles. Serving as their hired muscle and arbiter of street justice, he ultimately went on to expose their scandalous, hard-kept secrets -- all the while waging a criminal campaign against the ill-deserving rich and famous. Filled with sex, drugs, and sudden violence, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood is the shocking true tale of Darnell Riley, a well-mannered middle-class kid from Los Angeles who reinvented himself as a stone-cold gangster in the boxing gyms and bruising streets of South Central, before serving seven years for a double homicide at fifteen. Released at age twenty-three, he infiltrated a far more decadent crowd whose privileged lifestyle is familiar to most only in weekly magazines. During his six-year stab at Hollywood, Darnell ran with its It girls and bully boys: He befriended Paris Hilton; was associated with multiple sex tapes; held Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis at gunpoint and humiliated him on camera; dated models; ran numbers; trafficked in drugs; carried out contract beatings; and "possibly" staged a daring series of home-invasion robberies, many of which were attributed to the infamous Bel-Air Burglar. In a potent real-life mix of Entourage and The Wire, award-winning journalist Mark Ebner follows Darnell's riveting story, from exclusive interviews conducted inside Corcoran State Prison, through the mean streets of Los Angeles, employing a Rogues Gallery of characters unrivaled in modern crime. The ultimate exposé of the greed, hypocrisy, and vulgarity behind Hollywood's new breed of feral rich and illicitly famous, Six Degrees of Paris Hilton is a front-row seat to the best show in town.
