Download or read book Headed for a Hearse written by Jonathan Latimer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just days from meeting the reaper, a convicted murderer hires Chicago’s most hard-boiled PI to save his neck—before the executioner can claim it Robert Westland’s death is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap that’s sending him to the electric chair. Fingered for his wife’s grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who’s as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicago’s most brutal criminal element. Crane’s got just a few days to suss out the real killer—someone clever enough to off Westland’s wife and lock her in a room whose only key belongs to Westland himself. Fueled by an abundance of liquor and a habit of bad manners, Crane sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters among whom hides a murderer. But in 1930s Chicago, everyone’s got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before it’s too late.

Download or read book Chapter Hearse written by Lorna Barrett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery bookstore owner Tricia Miles has been spending more time solving whodunits than reading them. Now a nearby gas explosion has injured Tricia's sister's boyfriend, Bob Kelly, the head of the Chamber of Commerce, and killed the owner of the town's history bookstore. Tricia's never been a fan of Bob, but when she reads that he's being tight-lipped about the "accident", it's time to take action.

Download or read book For Better Or Hearse written by Laura Durham and published by Broadmoor. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chef is impaled on an ice sculpture in the latest Annabelle Archer

Download or read book The Convertible Hearse written by William Campbell Gault and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now who would kill a used-car salesman? In a city like L.A., Brock Callahan figures there’s about a million suspects—each with a motive. Nevertheless, the former gridiron star turned private eye is hired by the widow to find out just who killed the one and only Loony Leo Dunbar. It seems someone offed the king of the dubious deal as he was sitting in the front seat of his Lincoln. And now Brock “the Rock” is looking for Loony Leo’s killer. It’s not easy work; Brock’s got to go through a bevy of Leo’s girlfriends and seedy associates on a trail that leads into the sleaziest side of the used-car business he’s ever seen …

Download or read book Professional Cars written by Greg Merksamer and published by Krause Publications. This book was released on 2004-06-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning as station wagons from the likes of Ford, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick, and the car of choice, Cadillac, and converted into emergency and professional service vehicles, professional cars have become recognized as visual icons. Having only commercial chassis and the front and rear clips in common, each is unique with ornately carved pillars, body length windows, and custom mobile casket tables. &break;&break;Author Greg Merksamer, prolific automotive journalist, compiles this photographic history of hearses, flower cars, service cars, ambulances, and hearse-ambulances. More than 500 clear, large format photographs, combined with technical specifications, pay tribute to the cars used in professional service and the coachbuilders who made them.

Download or read book Better Off Wed written by Laura Durham and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of a particularly difficult mother-of-the-bride has cast a pall on wedding planner Annabelle Archer's latest triumph -- and suspicion falls heavily on her sometime-business partner and friend Richard Gerard. Annabelle knows that even her trusted wedding emergency kit won't be able to salvage their careers if she and Richard can't find the real culprit. It's no easy task since the slain matron was perhaps the most hated socialite in D.C., but Annabelle navigates through the city's colorful wedding industry and powerful social scene on the deadly trail of a killer. Always the bridal consultant and never the bride, she's seen her fair share of bouquet tosses. But there's no telling what surprises a ruthless killer will throw her way if she gets too close.

Download or read book For Better or Hearse written by Laura Durham and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iced! Wedding planner extraordinaire Annabelle Archer is used to dealing with difficult personalities -- neurotic brides, despotic mothers, and prima donna bridesmaids. However, being chased from a swank hotel kitchen at knifepoint by a shrieking Chef Henri takes the cake. Soon after, Washington's most thoroughly despised culinary artist is discovered dead, impaled on an ice sculpture -- a crime which surprises no one, since revenge is, after all, a dish best served cold. Unfortunately, the police think the hotel's sometimes temperamental but always stylish catering exec (and Annabelle's good friend) Georgia Rhodes did Henri in -- so the planner and her posse set out to put the real murderer on ice. But when the corpse of a rival culinarian turns up in a walk-in freezer -- and more nasty chef-deaths quickly follow -- the suspect list suddenly shrinks . . . as do Annabelle and her cronies' chances for survival, if they get caught poking around in a killer's kitchen.

Download or read book For Better Or Hearse written by Ann Yost and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Burial Brothers written by Simon Mayle and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strap down for a roller coaster of a journey as Simon Mayle recounts his trip--with his accomplice, Lenny--from New York to Rio's Carnival in a 1973 Cadillac hearse--15,000 miles of war zones, beautiful women, corrupt cops, narco-gansters, Marxist guerrillas, cheap cocaine, and bad food. It's the anti-travelogue of the year!

Download or read book Driving with Dead People written by Monica Holloway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. Small wonder, with a father who drives his Ford pick up with a Kodak movie camera sitting shotgun just in case he sees an accident, and whose home movies feature more footage of disasters than of his children. In between her father's bouts of violence and abuse, Monica becomes fast friends with Julie Kilner, whose father is the town mortician. She and Julie preferred the casket showroom to the parks and grassy backyards in her hometown of Elk Grove, Ohio, where they would take turns lying in their favourite coffins. In time, Monica and Julie get a job driving the company hearse to pick up bodies from the airport, yet even Monica's growing independence can't protect her from her parents' irresponsibility, and from the feeling that she simply does not deserve to be safe. Little does she know, as she finally strikes out on her own, that her parents' biggest betrayal has yet to be revealed...

Download or read book Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By written by Elizabeth J. Duncan and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bloody Words Light Mystery 2014 Finalist Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies, there to give a talk on theft prevention. But behind the ornate red sandstone facade of this most respectable of Victorian buildings, Penny encounters deception, blackmail, and murder. When the bishop's secretary dies of a suspicious case of food poisoning, Davies leads the investigation. At Penny's suggestion, Florence Semble, a friend from Penny's adopted hometown, is invited to the Library to decode the secretary's shorthand notebook in the search for clues. As the conference continues, another body is found in the beautiful Library itself, and Penny must once again search for a killer. Elizabeth J. Duncan's Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By is a fine entry in a series celebrated for its small-town charm, Welsh flavor, and lovable characters.

Download or read book Along These Highways written by Rene S. Perez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rene Perez has the ability to stop time. In fact, time stops as soon as you start reading one of his short stories. You find yourself transported into the minds and lives of people you thought you didn't know. Suddenly they are your best friends. They live in Texas. Most of them are Hispanic. But their problems are universal. Like Alfredo, driving home from Dallas to Greenton with the body of his friend "Frankie" Ochoa in the back of his hearse and his son Ramon ready to drive if Alfredo's eyesight fails again. Or Joey, just back from basic training and ready to ship out with his Marine platoon. He's having beers with his best friend J.R. at Flojo's, a bar outside of Greenton run by Liz and Vicente, "the toughest couple in town." Or Benny, who drops into Flojo's for the first time in years and finds his one-time friend Gumby drinking himself into oblivion. Turns out Gumby's luck is even worse than Benny's. Or Virginia, the schoolteacher who's trying to become better educated in the hope that her son who went to Stanford will come back home to Corpus Christi. Or Eric, who spent all his money on two flashy wheels for his car and put them both on the passenger side so that they'll impress everyone on the sidewalk as he passes. Or Andy, who breaks into a home he's always wanted to see from the inside. You'll want to know them all. And you will count yourself fortunate to have met them.

Download or read book The Victorian Book of the Dead written by Chris Woodyard and published by Kestrel Publications (OH). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.

Download or read book The View from a Hearse written by Joseph Bayly and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The View from a Hearse is Joe's simple, helpful meditation on death and grieving. Joe knew that peace with death doesn't come from understanding everything that happens to us, but in knowing the God who is in control of everything.

Download or read book All Aboard the Marriage Hearse written by Matt Morillo and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play. After nearly three years together, Amy wants to get married but Sean does not believe in the institution. The game is on!!! Tonight is the night when they will settle the marriage question once and for all.

Download or read book Taurus written by Sephera Giron and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifth volume of The Witch Upon a Star series, the only astrological romance series written by a witch, we meet Dorothy, our Taurus. Spring has come to the witchy town of Hermana bringing with it thoughts of love, lust, romance and tourists. As the Beltane festivities wind down, Lucy’s coven prepares to cast a love spell for perpetually single Dorothy. Dorothy has been stretching her powers, practicing small tasks to build her magic, and now, on her birthday, Lucy presents her with new tools to explore mystical realms even further. Dorothy is even sent on a secret mission with Natasha to perform a dangerous task as a test of her strength. The coven has set a love spell in motion, but Taurus Dorothy stubbornly has her sights set on her celebrity crush, newly divorced actor Oscar Dominion, who has come to town as part of the production team for her favorite TV show, Scary Haunted Tales. Dorothy is consumed by her lust for Oscar but does he feel the same about her? Can Dorothy beguile Oscar? Will Dorothy run away to Hollywood?

Download or read book Only Fools and Hearses written by Dav Ardlie and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-warmingly familiar tale to multitudes of travellers who have backpacked overseas. Its a warts and all humorous account of three loveable lads - and a hearse - travelling the world.