Download or read book This Girl for Hire written by G.G. Fickling and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bustling streets of 1950s Los Angeles, Honey West emerges as a dazzling beacon of wit, charm, and unwavering courage. This Girl for Hire marks the thrilling debut of the first female private eye in popular fiction. Honey isn't just any detective; she's a trailblazer in a man's world, combining unparalleled intellect with a femme fatale's allure. Whether she's navigating the shadowy alleys of crime or the intricate puzzles of love, West proves time and again that she's more than capable of cracking the toughest cases.
Download or read book Honey West written by Trina Robbins and published by Moonstone Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honey West: equal part Marilyn Monroe and part Mike Hammer! The first woman of private eye fiction, and the first woman character in the lead role of an action TV show, returns with all-new, swinging 60's sexy and thrilling mysteries by best-selling authors Trina Robbins and Elaine Lee!
Download or read book Honey West This Girl for Hire written by G.G. Fickling and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honey West is the nerviest, curviest P.I. in Los Angeles-or anywhere else for that matter. She's a cross between James Bond and The Avengers' Emma Peel-a girl detective with the sleuthmanship of Mike Hammer and the measurements of Marilyn Monroe, and This Girl for Hire is the first in a series of darkly funny and innuendo-laden crime novels originally published in the 1950s and 1960s. In this one, Honey finds herself playing strip poker with four murder suspects... and a deck that's as stacked as she is! Honey has her hands full with the corpse of a washed-up Hollywood entertainer, a battered beauty, and a poisoned pipsqueak-not to mention the guy who tries to get her to model a transparent bathing suit in his swimming pool "shaped like the body of a very large-bosomed woman". Fortunately, with her 38-22-36 measurements, taffy colored hair, big blue eyes, and baby-bottom complexion, Honey fits right in with the Hollywood types as she searches out the clues aboard a yacht christened Hell's Light. "Just bring a swimsuit and a toothbrush," says Sam Aces, the producer, but it's a good thing Honey's packed her.32, too.
Download or read book This Girl for Hire written by G. G. Fickling and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hand in the Glove written by Rex Stout and published by Crimeline. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wealthy industrialist P. L. Storrs has never approved of lady detectives, and he normally would not have made an exception of Theodolina "Dol" Bonner. But faced with a very delicate problem and surprisingly impressed, he hires her instantly. It seems that Storrs’ bird-witted wife has fallen under the spell of a smooth-talking religious charlatan, and now Storrs wants Dol to get the goods on him. But when the gorgeous gumshoe arrives at Storrs’ picturesque country estate, Birchhaven, to meet the scoundrel, she finds more than she bargained for – namely, the corpse of her client and a garden party teeming with suspects!
Download or read book A Gun for Honey written by G G Fickling and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MYSTERY HOUSE REPRINT: I'm H. West, private eye. The H stands for Honey. I may be female, but I know my business. Two beautiful young women have been murdered. They were smothered or, as the newspapers call it--kissed to death. Now I've been hired to catch the killer with the deadly kiss. A trap has been set. I'm the bait. W A N T E D HONEY WEST Occupation: Private eye Age: Over 21 Measurements: 38" - 22" - 36" Height: 5' 5" Weight: 120 lbs. Description: Taffy-colored hair, blue eyes, baby bottom complexion Identifying Marks: Small birthmark inside of right thigh. Warning: Usually armed--sexiest private eye ever to pull a trigger.
Download or read book Kiss for a Killer written by G.G. Fickling and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cult classic Honey West mystery that “reintroduce[s] the sassy private eye bombshell . . . to a new generation” (Los Angeles Times). LA’s nerviest, curviest PI is up to her navel in trouble again, and this time she’s being framed for murder. The Victims: Honey’s boy toy Rip Spensor, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback who got sacked by a steamroller (“ground right into the asphalt”), and Angela Scali, an Italian Hollywood beauty that set out for an innocent weekend at a nudist colony run by some quirky evangelical Christians and ended up hanging dead in a romantic mountain glade (“the grass underneath red with her blood”). What connects the two: Both were associated with a certain blonde gumshoe with an unmistakable 38-22-36 figure and a license to carry. Looks like Honey has gotten caught in a sticky situation . . . “One of the first female private detectives in popular fiction . . . If you are looking for some fun, summer reading, you could do a lot worse than meeting Ms. Honey West.” —Pulp Fiction Reviews
Download or read book Sugar Shannon written by Lawrence Lariar and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hep female reporter combs the back-alley Bohemian bistros of Greenwich Village looking for a beatnik killer— Can you dig it? When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From the 1940s through the 1960s, Lariar continued to switch from sketching caricatures to sketchy characters, writing hardboiled crime fiction under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Michael Stark, Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence, and Marston La France, and creating a series of memorable gumshoes. Now his classic whodunits are available as ebooks. Newspaper gal Sugar Shannon is New York City’s top tabloid dream girl. But her latest scoop has a personal edge. Sugar’s friend, George DeBeers, an avant-garde abstract painter so young and so talented is now so dead—knifed in the short ribs. So who among his coffeehouse crowd wanted the hot new artist to cool it? There’s an Amazonian hooker as eager to give a client a bounce as she is to roll him; a boy-crazy Zen poet and easy target for the vice squad; a former stripper gone legit, pouring joe at a village dive; and a moody sculptress carving out her own niche in the art world. One of these cats may have had their claws out for George, but now that Sugar’s on the case they have to cover their tracks. That means an offbeat killer is in Sugar’s shadow, and her deadline may be closer than she feared.
Download or read book Rent written by Jonathan Larson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Libretto Library). Finally, an authorized libretto to this modern day classic! Rent won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score for Jonathan Larson. The story of Mark, Roger, Maureen, Tom Collins, Angel, Mimi, JoAnne, and their friends on the Lower East Side of New York City will live on, along with the affirmation that there is "no day but today." Includes 16 color photographs of productions of Rent from around the world, plus an introduction ("Rent Is Real") by Victoria Leacock Hoffman.
Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Download or read book Girl of the Limberlost written by Gene Stratton-Porter and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, A1909.
Download or read book Little Heaven written by Nick Cutter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman to evaluate the safety of a boy who may have been taken against his will to a New Mexico backwoods settlement, where the mercenaries encounter paranoia, mistrust, and insanity in the shadow of a monolithic idol.
Download or read book Kiss for a Killer written by G.G. Fickling and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cult classic Honey West mystery that “reintroduce[s] the sassy private eye bombshell . . . to a new generation” (Los Angeles Times). LA’s nerviest, curviest PI is up to her navel in trouble again, and this time she’s being framed for murder. The Victims: Honey’s boy toy Rip Spensor, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback who got sacked by a steamroller (“ground right into the asphalt”), and Angela Scali, an Italian Hollywood beauty that set out for an innocent weekend at a nudist colony run by some quirky evangelical Christians and ended up hanging dead in a romantic mountain glade (“the grass underneath red with her blood”). What connects the two: Both were associated with a certain blonde gumshoe with an unmistakable 38-22-36 figure and a license to carry. Looks like Honey has gotten caught in a sticky situation . . . “One of the first female private detectives in popular fiction . . . If you are looking for some fun, summer reading, you could do a lot worse than meeting Ms. Honey West.” —Pulp Fiction Reviews
Download or read book And the Sea Will Tell written by Vincent Bugliosi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grips you by the throat from beginning to end."—Cleveland Plain Dealer ALONE WITH HER NEW HUSBAND on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily complex and puzzling true-crime story. Only Vincent Bugliosi, who recounted his successful prosecution of mass murderer Charles Manson in the bestseller Helter Skelter, was able to draw together the hundreds of conflicting details of the mystery and reconstruct what really happened when four people found hell in a tropical paradise. And the Sea Will Tell reconstructs the events and subsequent trial of a riveting true murder mystery, and probes into the dark heart of a serpentine scenario of death.
Download or read book Beyond Reach written by Karin Slaughter and published by Dell. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Powerful and complex . . . [Karin] Slaughter gradually unspools her fascinating story, all the way up to its shocking conclusion.”—Chicago Sun-Times In a small Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams is accused of a vicious murder. A hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver learns that his young detective has been arrested. And Jeffrey’s wife, pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton, fighting a heartbreaking malpractice suit, is thrust into the center of a bizarre and murderous case. For Lena has fled to the place where she grew up, careening back through the shadows of her past. Now only Jeffrey and Sara can free Lena from the web of lies that has trapped her—as this powerful novel races toward its shattering climax and a final, unforgettable twist. Praise for Karin Slaughter and Beyond Reach “Will leave you breathless.”—USA Today “Slaughter writes with a razor.”—The Plain Dealer “Slaughter will have you on the edge of your seat.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Download or read book Peace Like a River written by Leif Enger and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davy kills two men and leaves home. His father packs up the family in a search for Davy.
Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
