Download or read book The Penguin Pool Murder written by Stuart Palmer and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dead stockbroker in a penguin tank leads Miss Withersto a shocking mystery For the third graders at Jefferson School, a field trip is always a treat. But one day at the New York Aquarium, they get much more excitement than they bargained for. A pickpocket sprints past, stolen purse in hand, and is making his way to the exit when their teacher, the prim Hildegarde Withers, knocks him down with her umbrella. By the time the police and the security guards finish arguing about what to do with Chicago Lew, he has escaped, and Miss Withers has found something far more interesting: a murdered stockbroker floating in the penguin tank. With the help of Detective Oscar Piper, this no-nonsense spinster embarks on her first of many adventures. The mystery is baffling, the killer dangerous, but for a woman who can control a gaggle of noisy third graders, murder isn’t frightening at all. The Penguin Pool Murder is part of the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries series, which also includes Murder on the Blackboard and Murder on Wheels.
Download or read book The Dark and Deadly Pool written by Joan Lowery Nixon and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes The Dark and Deadly Pool from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Liz enjoys her summer pool job at the glamorous Ridley Hotel. Until the dark and lonely night when a ghastly shadow surges up from the pool. A face—eyes wide, mouth gaping—stares at Liz. A hand clutches at her sneaker. Then it, whatever it is, is gone. But danger isn’t. Strange things are happening at the hotel, and a shaken Liz wants to know why. But whoever is behind the trouble will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants. “[A] suspenseful mystery, rounded out with touches of humor and romance.” –Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Murder by the Pool written by Victoria Hart and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Killed Frankie Levine, Hollywood's Sexiest Woman? LARGE PRINT EDITION Beautiful Vera Paige left home full of hope and dreams. Now in Hollywood, these dreams are slowly fading away... until her agent gets her a gig as a private secretary to Hollywood's big shot actor, Jack Kilian. He is young, drop-dead gorgeous, and thinks Vera Paige has a lot to offer... Is there more to Jack Kilian than meets the eyes? Handsome FBI agent Green seems to think so. As things are starting to look up for Vera, the body of Frankie Levine, the sexiest woman in Hollywood and Jack's fiancée, is found floating in his swimming pool the morning after a glamorous party. As agent Green starts his investigation, he soon realizes there is more to this murder than its looks... Is Vera Paige on his side? Or, is she Jack Kilian's puppet? Can Vera get out of this mess and make her dreams come through? Find the answers in this 1950s cozy mystery and Hollywood romance book! Scroll back up and order your copy now!
Download or read book The Swimming Pool written by Holly LeCraw and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illicit affair, an unsolved murder, an intense summer romance in Cape Cod - introducing Holly LeCraw's explosive and stunningly-written debut. Seven summers ago, on Cape Cod, Marcella Atkinson - a married woman - fell in love with Cecil McClatchey, married father of two. Fuelled by desire and mutual respect, a secret affair blossomed, but when Cecil's wife was murdered, their romance promptly ended. Cecil died soon after, and while his wife's murder has never been solved, he remains a suspect. Years later, Marcella returns to her beach house on the Cape, where she encounters Cecil's grown son, Jed, who remembers her quite vividly from his youth. As both of them struggle to cope with the grief and loss of the past, they fall into a torrid and complicated affair. But as their relationship deepens, it leads to emotional crises and revelations about the unsolved murder of Jed's mother. Brilliant and seductive, this is a debut novel about love in all its forms and about the ripple effects of actions both good and evil.
Download or read book The Swimming Pool Murder written by John Hutcheson Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dragon Murder Case a Philo Vance Detective Story written by S. S. Van Dine and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by S. S. Van Dine was originally published in 1933 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Dragon Murder Case' is one of Van Dine's novels of crime and mystery. S. S. Van Dine was born Willard Huntington Wright in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1888. He attended St. Vincent College, Pomona College and Harvard University, but failed to graduate, leaving to cultivate contacts he had made in the literary world. At the age of twenty-one, Wright began his professional writing career as literary editor of the Los Angeles Times. In 1926, Wright published his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright went on to write eleven more mysteries. The first few books about his upper-class amateur sleuth, Philo Vance, were so popular that Wright became wealthy for the first time in his life. His later books declined in popularity as the reading public's tastes in mystery fiction changed, but during the late twenties and early thirties his work was very successful.
Download or read book The Drowning Pool written by Ross Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lew Archer investigates the death of a wealthy matriarch found floating in her pool.
Download or read book Murder Under the Pool written by G.G. Rodriguez and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a murder mystery about a young woman who marries a money hungry creep who will stop at nothing to acquire her fortune. This man will kill anyone who gets in his way. Kay (the main character) is blind to his lies. How many women want to be loved and accepted so badly that they too, will close their eyes to lies, abuse, and even affairs with other just to find the happiness in life? Kay is no different, until her husband says he can predict the future. The book is easy reading with a very surprising ending.
Download or read book Murder Under the Pool written by G. G. Rodriguez and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a murder mystery about a young woman who marries a money hungry creep who will stop at nothing to acquire her fortune. This man will kill anyone who gets in his way. Kay (the main character) is blind to his lies. How many women want to be loved and accepted so badly that they too, will close their eyes to lies, abuse, and even affairs with other just to find the happiness in life? Kay is no different, until her husband says he can predict the future. The book is easy reading with a very surprising ending.
Download or read book The Drowning Pool written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred—and sufficient motive for a dozen murders.
Download or read book The Mystery of the Hushing Pool written by J.S. Fletcher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’ll never rest until I’ve seen his murderer hanged!” But Dick Blake didn’t know what he was letting himself in for. Not only did he have to contend with the strangely complicated network of intrigue which surrounded the passionate, neurotic Malvery clan, but more baffling still, somehow or somewhere, he had to discover the secret of The Hushing Pool—that turbulent, whirling body of water from which no man or woman had ever returned alive. Was Richard Malvery really dead, or had he for some sinister purpose merely disappeared under mysteriously suspicious circumstances which pointed an accusing finger at his brother, Boyce? Just what did the Clents—that wild, exotic family—know about the secret of the Pool? Against a bleak, desolate background, the master mystery writer of them all weaves an unforgettable tale of passion, horror, and murder.
Download or read book Murder on the Blackboard written by Stuart Palmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schoolteacher sleuth Miss Withers finds a dead body during detention in this mystery starring “one of the world’s shrewdest and most amusing detectives” (The New York Times). Anise Halloran is young to be teaching school, and much too pretty, but third-grade teacher Hildegarde Withers is not the sort to condemn a coworker just because she wears high heels. When she overhears nine-year-old Buster Jones spreading rumors about Miss Halloran being sweet on the principal, Miss Withers orders the schoolyard quarterback to write discipline on the chalkboard one hundred times. Anise Halloran stays late after school, too. In fact, she stays forever. Miss Withers finds Anise in the cloakroom, her head bashed in, and her high heels strewn across the floor. She sends Buster to fetch Inspector Piper, the hard-nosed detective whom she occasionally assists with murder inquiries, but by the time he arrives, the body has vanished. There is a killer inside the elementary school, and Buster Jones is not the only person whom Miss Withers will have to teach a lesson about discipline.
Download or read book Pool written by Robin Beaudette and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes people get lucky. And sometimes those people are cold-blooded killers. Like the killer who left a body in Kyle Mercer's backyard swimming pool. Was it the stranger who kept watching her from the woods behind her house? Or was it her husband, a surgeon who worked long hours, covering up an affair gone wrong? When the remains are discovered, everyone looks to Kyle for answers about the woman's identity. An attorney and a policeman both come to her aid, yet only one wants to uncover the truth. She must choose which one to trust, but if she chooses wrong, she may be the next victim. Help comes from an unlikely source-two young, petty criminals unwittingly trip up the clever murderer. But can they figure out his identity in time to save Kyle?
Download or read book The Marlow Murder Club written by Robert Thorogood and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE, LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN AWARD "An absolute joy to read. Funny, entertaining, and beautifully written." —B. A. Paris, New York Times bestselling author A delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One's hilarious murder mystery series Death in Paradise Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow. Nothing ever happens in Marlow. That is, until Judith hears her neighbor shot while skinny-dipping in the Thames. The local police don't believe her story. It's an open and shut case, of course. Ha! Stefan can't be left for dead like that. Judith investigates and picks up a crew of sidekicks: Suzie the dogwalker and Becks the vicar's wife. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. When another body turns up, they realize they have a real-life serial killer on their hands. And the puzzle they set out to solve has become a trap from which they might never escape... Robert Thorogood, has turned the Christie-mystery on its head with this ever-so-sly cozy perfect for readers who love Richard Osmond's Thursday Murder Club and An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good. "Lightweight but no-nonsense and genuinely brainy"—Kirkus Reviews "Damn right funny and heartwarming...great fun"—Crime Time "I love Robert Thorogood's writing."—Peter James, international bestselling author
Download or read book Murder by Page One written by Olivia Matthews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love Hallmark mystery movies, you’ll love this cozy mystery with humor, intrigue, and a librarian amateur sleuth. Marvey, a librarian, has moved from Brooklyn to a quirky small town in Georgia. When she’s not at the library organizing events for readers, she’s handcrafting book-themed jewelry and looking after her cranky cat. At times, her new life in the South still feels strange...and that’s before the discovery of the dead body in the bookstore. After one of her friends becomes a suspect, Marvey sets out to solve the murder mystery. She even convinces Spence, the wealthy and charming newspaper owner, to help. With his ties to the community, her talents for research, and her fellow librarians’ knowledge, Marvey pursues the truth. But as she gets closer to it, could she be facing a deadly plot twist? This first in series cozy mystery includes a free Hallmark original recipe for Classic Peach Cobbler.
Download or read book The Swimming Pool written by Mary Roberts Rinehart and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a crumbling mansion, two sisters hide from the world, afraid for their lives The Birches was one of the grand mansions of the 1920s, with a ballroom, tennis courts, and, of course, a swimming pool. But after the crash of ’29, when Lois and Judith’s father killed himself to escape his debts, the family turned the summer home into a fulltime retreat from the world. Decades later, Judith is the queen of New York society, a fast-living beauty whose nerves are beginning to fray, while Lois still lives in the dilapidated old mansion, writing mystery novels to pay the bills. She is about to encounter a mystery of her own. To stave off a nervous breakdown, Judith moves in with her kid sister. Terrified of an unnamed threat, she nails her windows shut and locks the door. Soon, a woman is found dead in the pool—a stranger who bears a shocking resemblance to Judith. In a family with a history of tragedy, a chilling new chapter is about to be written.
Download or read book The Hollow written by Agatha Christie and published by Samuel French , Limited. This book was released on 1952 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell, arguably Christie's finest comic grande dame. Dr. Cristow, the Harley Street lothario, is at the centre of the trouble when, assembled in one place, we find his dull but devoted wife Gerda, his mistress and prominent sculptor Henrietta and his former lover and Hollywood film star Veronica. Also visiting are Edward and Midge whose romantic assertions are likewise thrown into the mix. As the list of romantic associations grows so does the list of potential suspects when Cristow is shot dead. Nearly everyone has a motive but only one of them did the deed.
