Download or read book Dutch Curridge written by Tim Bryant and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part To Kill a Mockingbird and part Ugetsu, Bryant's Dutch Curridge examines the life of early 1950s Fort Worth from the bottom up. Alvis Curridge is an ex-employee of the Fort Worth Sheriff's Department. When he isn't found at Peechie Keen's Bar & Kanteen, drinking and swapping stories with buddies, he is busy trying to keep things in line around Cowtown—even if that means occasionally tangling with his former boss. In his spare time, he enjoys taking in the local music scene. He likes western swing and jazz music almost as much as he likes Ruthie Nell, the spunky writer for the Fort Worth Press. Things are all going smoothly until Dutch—his friends all call him that, even if he isn't thrilled about it—is contacted by an old friend to help locate her missing son. Hard boiled crime and mystery meets good old-fashioned ghost story as Dutch, who knows a great deal about the ways of the world, learns a little about himself and how he fits into the scheme of things. "Hardboiled, but hot as a door knob after a nuclear blast. Tim Bryant's work is blessed not only with originality, but with a kind of madness that makes it one of a kind and as special and surprising as a one eyed, three hundred pound toad with a picnic basket. I love this guy's stuff. Seems to me, his success is assured." —Joe R. Lansdale
Download or read book Old Mother Curridge written by Tim Bryant and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch gets naked! In OLD MOTHER CURRIDGE, Private detective Alvis "Dutch" Curridge asks questions like: "Did Elvis Presley kill this poor dead girl?" "Did I kill the bastard son of lawman Bat Masterson?" and "Did Alvis Sr. leave me with the greatest mystery of them all?" Dutch Curridge leaves his beloved Fort Worth to find some answers in OLD MOTHER CURRIDGE, the greatest Dutch Curridge tale of them all. And yes, he gets naked in both a physical and metaphorical sense. It's a story about questions that lead to more questions. A story about stories, and each one comes with a price.
Download or read book Spirit Trap written by Tim Bryant and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit Trap not only reunites the Fort Worth detective with his friends, Slant Face and James Alto; it also brings back favorites like Ruthie Nell Parker and Verbal and Noble Whitaker. There's a dead family in a small country house, a blind man working in a gun store, a vindictive dancehall owner, and a wild animal waiting at the edge of the woods. All have one thing in common, and it isn't their love for the Texas two-step.
Download or read book William Randolph Packard Hearse written by Tim Bryant and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s different kinds of fire... William Randolph Packard Hearse... Dutch has his hand in at least two, maybe three kinds of fires. He’s investigating the mysterious house-fire that left Fisher Pulaski in the city morgue without a single burn on him. Then there’s the unknown man found burned to a crisp in a car on a desolate road. Nicknamed Bernie by the townspeople, word is he might have been with the mob. Then again, he might have been a cop. Dutch is also hired to capture an escapee from an area mental hospital, a man he knows all too well. Along the way, he decides to pull into Fast Mike’s and trade his pickup truck for a Packard hearse. His friendship with Slant Face Sanders breaks down and may be irreparable, but his side hustle taxiing people around town in the hearse, christened William Randolph Packard Hearse, soon starts to pay dividends. He may be driving a glamor girl across nighttime Fort Worth, but it’s Ruthie Nell that his heart burns for. And that may prove to be the most dangerous kind of fire of them all.
Download or read book Southern Select written by Tim Bryant and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Worth, TX detective Alvis "Dutch" Curridge is back, and he's bringing Slant Face Sanders and the gang along for the ride of their lives. When the bartender at his favorite hangout, Peechie Keen's, is murdered, it's up to Dutch to set things right. And this time, he has to do it without Ruthie Nell Parker. Peechie Keen's bar in Old Fort Worth's Hell's Half-Acre is the site of the brutal murder of barkeep Patrick Cavanaugh, and Alvis "Dutch" Curridge's investigation of the crime presents a rogue's gallery of the southern criminal element with concisely-drawn characters that would have made Raymond Chandler weep with envy. As insightful as a red-tailed hawk riding the hot Texas wind over a rabbit warren, Tim Bryant's noirish literary wit and charm leaves me spellbound. Southern Select is most highly recommended! —George Wier, author of The Bill Travis Mysteries.
Download or read book Burnt Out written by Susan Koefod and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CAN SHE FORGET THE PAST TO SAVE HER OWN LIFE? A burnt-out social worker is reluctantly caught up in the suspicious disappearance of a world-famous geologist and learns her own life is in danger. Will she be able to forget the disaster of her failed love affair and reach out to the only person who can truly help her—detective Arvo Thorson? "Prickly-but-principled social worker Christine Ivory is feeling burned out on the job and retreats to the family place in Minnesota's north woods. Burnt Out the third in a richly realized series from Susan Koefod, captures the complex push-pull of home and family, not to mention the dark underbelly of idyllic small-town life. Add a missing geologist and a ripped-from-the-headlines clash over oil and gas rights, and Koefod hits a gusher of motives for murder." —Erin Hart, award-winning author of The Book of Killowen "Koefod skillfully captures the many layers of drama and tension underlying small town life." —Brian Freeman, international bestselling author of Spilled Blood
Download or read book The Red Shoelace Killer written by Susan Sundwall and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Shoelace Killer, Book One, in the Minnie Markwood Mysteries: Minnie Markwood can out-sleuth Miss Marple any day of the week—in her imagination. But when a real killer begins to target Minnie and her young sidekicks, reality trumps imagination big time. Who's buying up all the red shoelaces at the mall and stalking a cashier? Is it the killer who terrorized Minnie on the highway and kidnapped her coworker? It soon becomes frighteningly clear that Minnie's onto something, and The Red Shoelace Killer's days are numbered.
Download or read book Deadly Currents written by Beth Groundwater and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkable book by an author who clearly knows and loves her territory. Don’t miss it!”—New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger The Arkansas River, heart and soul of Salida, Colorado, fuels the small towns economy and thrums in the blood of river ranger Mandy Tanner. When a Whitewater rafting accident occurs, she deftly executes a rescue, but a man dies anyway. Turns out, it wasn't the rapids that killed him—he was murdered. Tom King was a rich land developer with bitter business rivals, who cheated on his wife, refused to support his kayak-obsessed son, and infuriated environmentalists. Mandy’s world is upended again when tragedy strikes closer to home. Suspicious that the most recent death is connected to Tom King's murder, Mandy goes on an emotionally turbulent quest for the truth—and ends up in dangerous waters. “A heart-racing debut with as many twists and turns and unexpected upsets as a ride through the rapids itself."—Margaret Coel, author of The Silent Spirit
Download or read book Strangler written by Larry Maness and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A JAKE EATON MYSTERY New England-based private detective Jake Eaton and his canine sidekick Watson return in their third fast-paced mystery thriller. One of the most disturbing criminals of the twentieth century was the Boston Strangler. Although Albert DeSalvo was convicted for the killings of thirteen Boston women, many have never been satisfied that DeSalvo was the real killer. The murder of DeSalvo in prison forever sealed his lips. Acclaimed mystery writer Larry Maness revisits this crime, speculating that the true killer, a person who might have had ties to a politically powerful Massachusetts family dynasty was allowed to escape. Fast forward thirty years: female Harvard research assistants are being killed. Is it The Strangler or a demented copycat? Boston is in a panic and Jake Eaton fears someone he is close to may be the next victim.
Download or read book The Weatherman s Daughters written by Richard Hoyt and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A JOHN DENSON MYSTERY In The Weatherman's Daughters, Richard Hoyt returns to his highly acclaimed John Denson mystery series with a natty new twist. Two daughters of a Portland weatherman have been killed for no apparent reason and John Denson and his Native American partner, Willie Sees the Night, are called from their remote cabins on Whorehouse Meadow in the Cascade Mountains to help. But for once Denson is stumped—this is a trail he can't seem to follow. Frustrated by his inability to trace a criminal monster, Denson sets down his skepticism and accepts, provisionally, Sees the Night's shamanistic ways. Out-of-body flying? Entering the spirit of an animal? Can it be true? Can Denson solve murders by playing Carlos Castaneda to Willie's Don Juan? An exotic dancer wants to join the investigation, and Denson cannot resist her. But does she really intend to help? Or is she a spy or saboteur? Willie offers Denson a challenge. Since your rational ways aren't working, open the door to shamanism. Leave your body and seek to join the spirit of an animal who might be a guide. Though fearing that he will never come back, Denson takes the risk. The trail revealed smells of bear galls, ancient Chinese medicine, and right-wing malcontents. Denson, the tracker, is profoundly changed by his discoveries. “Hoyt has a fresh, invigorating style that grabs the reader immediately. He is a master.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
Download or read book Buffalo Bayou Blues written by George Wier and published by Flagstone Books. This book was released on 2020-05-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston, Texas may be the blues capitol of the world, but when aging blues musician and Vietnam veteran Willard “Cottonmouth” Dalton is asked to kill a man, only Bill Travis can sort out why and get to the bottom of a war between two competing blues taverns and discover the identity of who stands behind a seeming accidental death, an explosion, and a brutal murder—all within a single day and night! Darkness, death and danger stalk the dirty piers of the ship channel and the back street jive joints, but Bill Travis is no stranger to any of them, as what unfolds becomes a deadly confrontation and a climactic fight for his life to the final bars of the darkest ballad of his career. Buffalo Bayou Blues is the 15th installment in the Bill Travis Mystery series.
Download or read book Deadly Essence written by Randy Shamlian and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deadly Essence is the second book of A Murder in the Kitchen series where the story continues with Marty who journeys from the Hawaiian shores of Maui to Coastal Southern France in search of more than just new business opportunities. Through her exploits and a subconscious desire of self-discovery, she finds herself in precarious situations, as if trouble seems to follow her wherever she goes. At a chef awards show, Marty meets two women chefs who invite her to their restaurant. Friendships do not always begin for the same reasons, as Marty is taken captive and held for ransom by the two chefs. They take her to a private island and is left in the hands of a cohort who has multi-personalities. In the meantime, Marty's husband, John hires a private detective to help secure Marty’s release, yet Marty manages to escape the island after two of her captives fortuitously die. Marty is subsequently charged with murdering them and goes on the run. Ultimately, she flees France on a Portuguese cargo ship as a cook. While on the ship she is accosted by a few of the crew members. She takes revenge by poisoning each member of the ship and then sinking it. She winds up in New Orleans where the surviving captor tracks her down. Marty falls prey to the captor who gets Marty hooked on opium—it's a ploy. Enter John and the private detective to save the day. But, as a result of Marty going over a psychological cliff with being held captive and drugged, Marty slips into a schizophrenic state.
Download or read book Fast Track written by John DeDakis and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned as an infant, sexually assaulted as a naïve college student, strong-willed, impulsive Lark Chadwick is vexed and trying to figure out what to do with her mixed-up life. When she discovers the body of the aunt who raised her, Lark goes on a search for answers. She is stunned to learn from a 25-year-old newspaper clipping that she’s the “miracle baby” who survived a suspicious car accident that killed her parents at a rural railroad crossing in southern Wisconsin. Lark convinces Lionel Stone, the crusty Pulitzer-Prize winning editor, to let her do a follow-up investigation of the crash. Two of her sources are the sheriff and the town’s mayor, they’re running against each other for Congress, the election is a week away, and both men have a secret that will unravel the mystery. Fast Track is the first book in the award-winning Lark Chadwick mystery-suspense-thriller series penned by former veteran CNN journalist John DeDakis. As Lark learns, in order to find purpose in life, you first have to unravel the mystery of the past.
Download or read book Texas Two Step written by Michael Pool and published by Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooper and Davis are a couple of jam band-obsessed Texas ex-pats growing some of Denver’s finest organic cannabis and living the good life on tour. Or, at least they were, until legal weed put the squeeze on their market and cramped their playboy lifestyle. When their last out-of-state distributor gets busted by an Illinois task force, they're left with no choice but to turn to their reckless former associate Elroy “Sancho” Watts to unload one last crop down in Teller County, Texas. But Sancho Watts has troubles of his own in the form of Texas Ranger Russ Kirkpatrick, tasked under the table with nailing Watts for anything that will stick because of his involvement in the drug-induced suicide of a state senator's son. Not to mention his infamous new business partner, Heisman quarterback and NFL burnout Bobby Burnell, a man working to rise from the ashes of his self-destructed football career by making a name for himself in his criminally inclined Teller County family, no matter who he has to double-cross to get there. What ensues is a pine-curtain criminal jamboree where everyone involved keeps their cards close to their vest, and all the high-stakes two-stepping is sure to result in bloodshed.
Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Alphabetical written by Michael Rosen and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever. How on Earth did we fix upon our twenty-six letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first place? Michael Rosen takes you on an unforgettable adventure through the history of the alphabet in twenty-six vivid chapters, fizzing with personal anecdotes and fascinating facts. Starting with the mysterious Phoenicians and how sounds first came to be written down, he races on to show how nonsense poems work, pins down the strange story of OK, traces our seven lost letters and tackles the tyranny of spelling, among many, many other things. His heroes of the alphabet range from Edward Lear to Phyllis Pearsall (the inventor of the A-Z), and from the two scribes of Beowulf to rappers. Each chapter takes on a different subject - codes, umlauts or the writing of dictionaries. Rosen's enthusiasm for letters positively leaps off the page, whether it's the story of his life told through the typewriters he's owned or a chapter on jokes written in a string of gags and word games. So if you ever wondered why Hawaiian only has a thirteen-letter alphabet or how exactly to write down the sound of a wild raspberry, read on . . .
