Download or read book Murder in the Mess Hall written by Patricia M. Bloebaum and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-09-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Singleton, the middle-aged wife of a First Sergeant, mother of two teenaged daughters, and part-time tour escort for the U. S. Army Recreation Center in Baumfelder, Germany, leads a busy and fulfilling life. But when her upstairs neighbor is discovered buck-naked, face-down on a mess hall table, surrounded by parsley, with an apple in her mouth, and very, very deadAbbys placid life is turned upside-down. Andy Morton, a young Lieutenant in the Armys Criminal Investigation Division, and friend of the Singleton family, is assigned to investigate the case. He turns to Abby for help. The wives of the First Battalion, Seventy-Eighth Armorall friends of Abbyrefuse to talk openly with the investigators, and Andy asks Abby to try and gather information from them during a Ladies Shopping Tour which is scheduled for the following weekend. Abby is reluctant to spy on her friends, but agrees simply to listen and report any suspicious information to Andy. During the shopping tour to picturesque Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber, she is sickened and dismayed to learn that Sugar Kane had either done harmor threatened to do harmto nearly every one of the women in the group. She begins to look at each of her friends with suspicion. The knowledge that she had no personal grudge against Sugar, and no motive to kill that distasteful woman, is but a small comfort to her. But her comfort is short-lived, for when Abby is once again back home in Baumfelder, Andy shares some shocking information with her. Sugar was strangled with a silky blue cordand Abby recognizes it as the same cord that ties the collar of her new blue blouse! This is only the beginning of the evidence which begins to pile up against Abby. She is soon arrested by German Police Captain Krause and taken to the Baumfelder City Jail, where she is charged with murder. The real murderer has been clever about targeting Abby with several vital pieces of evidence, and she is soon distraught and panickyconvinced that shell have to spend the rest of her life in a German prison. How can she prove her innocence and save herself? Her freedom depends on remembering one tiny detail that will prove who the real murderer is. Will you notice what that tiny detail is as you read Murder in the Mess Hall?
Download or read book Blood on the Dining Room Floor written by Gertrude Stein and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky literary mystery from the iconic modernist writer known for her Jazz-Age Paris salon and bestselling book The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Gertrude Stein was a distinctly unique talent who penned many novels, essays, and poems. And on one occasion, during a bout of writer’s block, she decided to play with the popular genre of mystery fiction. The book that resulted, Blood on the Dining-Room Floor, is not your typical whodunit, just as Stein was not your typical author. With elements of her trademark avant-garde style, the story revolves around the mysterious passing of Madame Pernollet, who is found dead in the courtyard of a hotel owned by her husband. Incorporating some autobiographical details from events at her own French country house, Stein invites the reader to play detective—and offers a glimpse into one of the early twentieth century’s most interesting and challenging literary minds.
Download or read book Death in a Stately Home written by Sara Rosett and published by Sara Rosett. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good houseguests don’t get accused of murder . . . Kate Sharp loves the perks of her location scout profession. When she fills in for a researcher at a Regency-themed English house party, she’s looking forward to indulging in the posh atmosphere of tea on the lawn and elegant candlelight dinners, but when the guest next-door is murdered in a locked room, Kate becomes the prime suspect. As she turns her attention to the guests, the staff, and the owners, Kate must unlock the mystery and uncover the murderer before she’s arrested for a crime she didn’t commit. Death in a Stately Home is the third installment in the Murder on Location collection, a series of British cozy mysteries. If you love engaging characters, compelling British detective mysteries, the works of Jane Austen, and vivid locations that transport you to another place, then you’ll love Sara Rosett’s latest whodunit. Buy Death in a Stately Home to escape into another Kate Sharp mystery today! MURDER ON LOCATION SERIES: Book One - Death in the English Countryside Book Two - Death in an English Cottage Book Three - Death in a Stately Home Book Four - Death in an Elegant City Book Five - Menace at the Christmas Market (Novella) Book Six - Death in an English Garden Book Seven - Death at an English Wedding Have you read Sara Rosett’s other mystery series? If you like historical mysteries with lady detectives, check out the HIGH SOCIETY LADY DETECTIVE mystery series. If you like travel with your mystery, check out the ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL MYSTERIES.
Download or read book The Kill Zone written by Gerald L. Hunt and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a civilian contract driver for K.B.R. (a Halliburton company), Gerald Hunt transported supplies through Iraq from Kuwait to Turkey.
Download or read book Using Murder written by Philip Jenkins and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, serial murder has become a source of major concern for law enforcement agencies, while the serial killer has attracted widespread interest as a villain in popular culture. There is no doubt, however, that popular fears and stereotypes have vastly exaggerated the actual scale of multiple homicide activity. In assessing the concern and the interest, Jenkins has produced an innovative synthesis of approaches to social problem construction. It includes an historical and social-scientific estimate of the objective scale of serial murder; a rhetorical analysis of the construction of the phenomenon in public debate; and a cultural studies-oriented analysis of the portrayal of serial murder in contemporary literature, film, and the mass media. Using Murder suggests that a problem of this sort can only be understood in the context of its political and rhetorical dimension; that fears of crime and violence are valuable for particular constituencies and interest groups, which put them to their own uses. In part, these agendas are bureaucratic, in the sense that exaggerated concern about the offense generates support for criminal justice agencies. But other forces are at work in the culture at large, where serial murder has become an invaluable rhetorical weapon in public debates over issues like gender, race, and sexual orientation. Serial murder is worthy of study not so much for its intrinsic significance, but rather for what it suggests about the concerns, needs, and fears of the society that has come to portray it as an “ultimate evil.” Using Murder is a highly original study of a powerful contemporary mythology by a criminologist and historian versed in the constructionist literature on the origins of “moral panics.”
Download or read book Scenes Of Murder written by Winston Ramsey and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, After the Battle have explored entirely new ground to investigate 150 years of murder and present it through our then and now theme of comparison photographs. Scene of crime plans and photographs from police files focus on a wide variety of murders committed between 1812, when a Prime Minister was shot in the House of Commons, to killings on the streets of London in the 1960s. Far too often it is the perpetrator who is remembered while their victims, many lying in unmarked graves, remain lost to history. So this book sets out to redress the balance by tracking down the last resting places, even going as far as to mark two wartime graves of taxi drivers killed by American servicemen. Homicide is not a subject for the faint-hearted and many of the photographs are distressing which is why the book is made available with that warning.
Download or read book Murder at Mallowan Hall written by Colleen Cambridge and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As head of household for none other than Agatha Christie, Phyllida Bright finds her position includes polishing silver, serving luncheons…and drawing inspiration from the crime author’s fictional detectives when mysterious deaths at Mallowan Hall baffle her famous employer… Tucked away among Devon’s rolling green hills, Mallowan Hall combines the best of English tradition with the modern conveniences of 1930. Housekeeper Phyllida Bright manages the large household with an iron fist in her very elegant glove. In one respect, however, Mallowan Hall stands far apart from other picturesque country houses. For the manor is home to archaeologist Max Mallowan and his famous wife—Agatha Christie… Phyllida is both loyal to and protective of the crime writer, who is as much friend as employer. An aficionado of detective fiction, Phyllida has yet to find a gentleman in real life half as fascinating as Mrs. Agatha’s Belgian hero, Hercule Poirot. But though accustomed to murder and its methods as frequent topics of conversation, Phyllida is unprepared for the sight of a very real, very dead body on the library floor… It soon becomes clear that the victim arrived at Mallowan Hall under false pretenses during a weekend party. And when another dead body is discovered—this time, one of her housemaids—Phyllida decides to follow in M. Poirot’s footsteps to determine which of the Mallowans’ guests is the killer. Now only Phyllida’s wits will prevent her own story from coming to an abrupt end…
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Download or read book Murder Without Borders written by Terry Gould and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am not interested in why man commits evil; I want to know why he does good.” — Vaclav Havel What makes a poor, small-town journalist stay on a story even though threatened with certain death, and offered handsome rewards for looking the other way? Over four years, Terry Gould has travelled to Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia and Iraq – the countries in which journalists are most likely to be murdered on the job – to attempt to answer this question. In each place, through conversations with their colleagues, their families and in some cases their murderers, he uncovers the lives of local reporters and broadcasters who stayed on a story to the point of death. He searches for the moment in which each of his protagonists understood that they were willing to die, and finds complex reasons for their bravery. In his wonderfully vivid portraits of seven courageous souls, he brings their lives and the stories they worked on to light, telling truth to those who would murder truth tellers.
Download or read book Murder at Dusk written by Ian W. Shaw and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far away from any World War II battlefront, the citizens of Melbourne lived in fear of a serial killer - the Brownout Strangler. May 1942: Melbourne was torn between fearing Japanese invasion and revelling in the carnival atmosphere brought by the influx of 15,000 cashed-up American servicemen. But those US forces didn't guarantee safety. Not long after their arrival, the city would be gripped by panic when the body of a woman was found strangled, partially naked and brutally beaten. Six days later another woman was found dead and her body told the same horrific story. A murderer was stalking the streets. As women were warned not to travel alone, an intense manhunt ensued. Not long after a third woman was murdered, American soldier Eddie Leonski was arrested. A calculating psychopath, he had a twisted fascination with female voices, especially when they were singing . . . Acclaimed author Ian W. Shaw brings World War II Melbourne to life, and takes us into the mind of the Brownout Strangler, and a very different kind of terror. 'enthralling . . . makes for a fascinating read.' Canberra Times on Ian W. Shaw's The Rag Tag Fleet
Download or read book Bulletin of the Judge Advocate General of the Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Judge Advocate General of the Army written by United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charlemagne Murders written by Carl Douglass and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six famous (or infamous, if you prefer) World War Two generals have been murdered in six different countries leading to separate quiet but intense investigations. INTERPOL is finally involved because the police in each country come to realize that there has to be a connection, but no one knows what that connection is. Once links seem plausible, the Mossad joins the international police investigation and search; and the greatest manhunt in history is launched spreading over four continents and delving into secrets best left undisturbed.
Download or read book Murder Take Three written by Eric Brown and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1950s Private Investigator Donald Langham discovers that truth is stranger than fiction when he investigates a murder on an American movie set. 1956. Having just started work as a professional private investigator, Donald Langham’s first client is American movie star Suzie Reynard, currently shooting a murder mystery film at Marling Hall, an Elizabethan manor house in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The film’s director – Suzie’s lover – has been receiving threats and Suzie is convinced his life is in danger. On arriving at Marling Hall with his fiancée Maria, Langham finds the film set awash with clashing egos, petty jealousies, ill-advised love affairs and seething resentments. Matters come to a head when a body is discovered in the director’s trailer. It would appear to be an open-and-shut case when someone confesses to the murder. Donald and Maria are not convinced – but why would someone confess to a crime they haven’t committed? If Langham is to uncover the truth, he must delve into the past and another murder that took place more than twenty years before...
Download or read book A June of Ordinary Murders written by Conor Brady and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling, beautifully written mystery debut that brings Victorian Dublin vividly, passionately to life, drawing readers on a gripping journey of murder and intrigue. In the 1880s the Dublin Metropolitan Police classified crime in two distinct categories. Political crimes were classed as "special," whereas theft, robbery and even murder, no matter how terrible, were known as "ordinary." Dublin, June 1887: The city swelters in a long summer heat wave, the criminal underworld simmers, and with it, the threat of nationalist violence is growing. Meanwhile, the Castle administration hopes the celebration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee will pass peacefully. Then, the mutilated bodies of a man and a child are discovered in Phoenix Park and Detective Sergeant Joe Swallow steps up to investigate. Cynical and tired, Swallow is a man living on past successes in need of a win. With the Land War at its height, the priority is to contain special crime, and these murders appear to be ordinary—and thus of lesser priority. But when the evidence suggests high-level involvement, and the body count increases, Swallow must navigate the treacherous waters of foolish superiors, political directives, and frayed tempers to solve the case, find the true murderer, and deliver justice. Written by Conor Brady, the former editor of The Irish Times, A June of Ordinary Murders is an accomplished, atmospheric debut that captures the life and essence of Dublin in the 1880s and introduces an unforgettable new sleuth.
