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Book Murder on the Hoof

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn O'Sullivan
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2014-05-06
  • ISBN : 1250049466
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Murder on the Hoof written by Kathryn O'Sullivan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's mid-August in the Outer Banks village of Corolla in North Carolina and Fire Chief Colleen McCabe is conducting rookie training and spending increasingly more time with her best friend, Sheriff Bill Dorman. The wild horses have been relocated to the sanctuary, and the town is occupied with the upcoming local theatre production. All is right with the world. But when a member of the acting troupe is found dead in the dunes after an emergency training exercise and Bill's ex-fiancée arrives in town, Colleen knows trouble is back with a vengeance. A second member of the theatre company is discovered dead at the Whalehead Club, and Colleen is forced to put aside her feelings about her relationship with Bill and work with him to uncover who is murdering the thespians and why. She discovers as much drama offstage as on and quickly finds herself swept up in the intrigue of the community theatre group, and struggling to keep her men at the firehouse focused. As the danger mounts and the killer's identity becomes clearer, Bill warns her off the investigation. But despite his warning, Colleen is determined to stop the killer before he or she strikes again, to her own peril. In Murder on the Hoof, her sequel to Foal Play, Kathryn O'Sullivan delivers more laughs and mayhem with charming characters mystery readers will love getting to know.

Book Murder on the Hoof

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  • Author : Gayle Carline
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-05-16
  • ISBN : 9781943654123
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Murder on the Hoof written by Gayle Carline and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young widow goes to a horse show to buy her first horse. What she finds is murder and romance.

Book Talk to the Hoof

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  • Author : Lisa Shay
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Talk to the Hoof written by Lisa Shay and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A missing woman, a dead body, and two horses with a chilling story... Kallie Collins, veterinarian and animal communicator, hopes to enjoy a day of riding with friends until a bay mare shows her a vision of a terrified woman. A second horse adds his images of cloaked figures walking through shadow-filled passages. The visions the two horses share lead to the discovery of a shallow grave near the stable, plunging Kallie into a deadly mystery. With the suspects multiplying, can Kallie expose the killer before it's too late and there's another murder... maybe her own?

Book One Hoof in the Grave

Download or read book One Hoof in the Grave written by Carolyn McSparren and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing ruins an elegant Southern horse show like finding a murdered man with a tent spike through his neck. Merry Abbott is at the top of a long list of suspects who have plenty of reason to want the victim dead. But it soon becomes obvious that she's also at the top of the murderer's next-to-die list. Climb into the carriage seat for a wild ride as Merry hunts for clues, tries to rein in her attraction for a handsome GBI agent, and dodges a killer.

Book Mayhem  Mystery and Murder

Download or read book Mayhem Mystery and Murder written by John A. Broussard and published by Bitingduck Press LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OC Back when I was a kid growing up in South Chicago, I never dreamed that having a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother would turn out to be an asset. But my ancestry paid off big-time when I sat down across from Timothy Fisher at a San Francisco sidewalk cafe on that warm September morning. He bought my cover as a Mid-East terroristOCohook, line and sinker. Of course, being an FBI agent, IOCOd been provided with excellent cover. Even so, he was nervous and kept looking around at our neighbors, the only ones at the time being a young couple who, hands across their table, were obviously and hopelessly in love. OC IOCOve got the money, OCO I told him, assuming that might help to calm him down. It didnOCOt. He kept scanning the street. OC IOCOm not interested, OCO he said. And that surprised me. What he said next surprised me even moreOC OCO Over 50! mystery short stories by John Broussard, a prolific and compelling writer. Boson Books also offers several full length mystery novels by John Broussard. Visit our Fiction page and look under Action, Adventure and Mysteries . For an author bio, photo, and a sample read, visit bosonbooks.com."

Book Killing Over Land

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  • Author : Robert M. Owens
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2024-02-20
  • ISBN : 0806194413
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Killing Over Land written by Robert M. Owens and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early America, interracial homicide—whites killing Native Americans, Native Americans killing whites—might result in a massive war on the frontier; or, if properly mediated, it might actually facilitate diplomatic relations, at least for a time. In Killing over Land, Robert M. Owens explores why and how such murders once played a key role in Indian affairs and how this role changed over time. Though sometimes clearly committed to stoke racial animus and incite war, interracial murder also gave both Native and white leaders an opportunity to improve relations, or at least profit from conflict resolution. In the seventeenth century, most Indigenous people held and used enough leverage to dictate the terms on which such conflicts were resolved; but after the mid-eighteenth century, population and material advantages gave white settlers the upper hand. Owens describes the ways settler colonialism, as practiced by Anglo-Americans, put tremendous pressure on Native peoples, culturally, socially, and politically, forcing them to adapt in the face of violence and overwhelming numbers. By the early nineteenth century, many Native leaders recognized that, with population and power so heavily skewed against them, it was only practical to negotiate for the best possible terms; lex talionis justice—blood for blood—proved an unrealistic goal. Consequently, Indigenous and white leaders alike became all too willing to overlook murder if it led to some kind of gain—if, for instance, justice might be traded for financial compensation or land cessions. Ultimately, what Owens analyzes in Killing over Land is nothing less than the commodification of human life in return for a sense of order—as defined and accepted, however differently, by both Native and white authorities as the contest for land and resources intensified in the European colonization of North America.

Book Wapakoneta

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  • Author : Ken Elchert
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2022-12-16
  • ISBN : 1662485824
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Wapakoneta written by Ken Elchert and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to tell the fascinating history of the region in western Ohio which became the city of Wapakoneta before it was settled by white settlers and became the birthplace of Neil Armstrong. It covers the time period from 300 million years ago when this site was on the equator to 1832 and 1833 when the Shawnee Indians who lived there were removed to the Indian lands west of the Mississippi River. The book talks about the great river that flowed through that area before the mile-thick glaciers terraformed the landscape to what we see today. It then proceeds to provide the details of the earliest maps of the area made by the first explorers of European descent into the Ohio Country as well as the earliest French and British trading posts and forts in the Ohio Country. This includes information never published before about Fort Au Glaize built along the Auglaize River in 1748 in Wapakoneta. It also provides details of the Ohio Indians focusing on the Shawnees and tracing their movements in Ohio up to the time they were placed on reservations. The Wapakoneta Shawnee Reserve was the site of two Shawnee council houses which are highlighted in the book. Shawnees whose interesting exploits are covered include Black Hoof, Tecumseh and his brother, The Prophet, Logan and Blue Jacket. The book also provides some details of the lives of Francis Duchouquet, their interpreter, and John Johnston, their government agent. To place all the events in perspective, 19 chronologies and timelines are provided. Throughout, the book reveals interesting and surprising connections between Neil Armstrong and the people, places and events in this very early history. The book is supplemented with 78 figures, 47 tables and 10 appendices.

Book Howard W  Odum s Folklore Odyssey

Download or read book Howard W Odum s Folklore Odyssey written by Lynn Moss Sanders and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard W. Odum (1884-1954), the pioneering social scientist and founder of the University of North Carolina's department of sociology, played a leading and well-documented role in the modernization of the South. This is the first book-length study of Odum's contributions to southern folklore, which had important but largely unappreciated consequences for his legacy of social justice. Lynn Moss Sanders shows how Odum, as a collector of African American blues and work songs, anticipated some important precepts of modern folklore. Notably, Odum perceived the benefits of a collaborative and nonhierarchical approach to folk studies. Influenced by a racially tolerant former student and by one of his black folk informants, Odum changed his previous paternal, segregationist attitudes about race. Comparing Odum's two song collections, The Negro and His Songs (1925) and Negro Workaday Songs (1926), Sanders links the growing influence of Odum's coauthor and former student, Guy Johnson, to a decrease in instances of racial condescension between the first and second book. The three "folk" novels in Odum's Black Ulysses trilogy (completed in 1931) also reveal a progressive refinement of Odum's racial views. The change, Sanders believes, came with Odum's growing ability to see John Wesley "Left-Wing" Gordon, the black, working-class model for the trilogy's hero, as a friend rather than simply as a representative of "the Negro." From his authorship of Social and Mental Traits of the Negro (1910), now a relic of scientific racism, to his final publication, Agenda for Integration, Odum exemplifies how the study of folklore changed the folklorist--a change felt by a whole generation of southern liberals whose work Odum encouraged and shaped.

Book A Cent a Story

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  • Author : Garyn G. Roberts
  • Publisher : Popular Press
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780879723538
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book A Cent a Story written by Garyn G. Roberts and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reproduces ten of the best stories that appeared in Ten Detective Aces. The detectives that appeared during the height of Ten Detective Aces, that period from 1932 to 1936, were Hard-Boiled, Avengers or a mixture of the two.

Book Ming Tea Murder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Childs
  • Publisher : Berkley
  • Release : 2016-03
  • ISBN : 0425281655
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Ming Tea Murder written by Laura Childs and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes excerpt from Little girl gone (pages 311-323).

Book Quarterly Bulletin

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  • Author : Chicago Veterinary College
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by Chicago Veterinary College and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tecumseh

Download or read book Tecumseh written by John Sugden and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Sitting Bull is the most famous Indian, Tecumseh is the most revered. Although Tecumseh literature exceeds that devoted to any other Native American, this is the first reliable biography--thirty years in the making--of the shadowy figure who created a loose confederacy of diverse Indian tribes that exted from the Ohio territory northeast to New York, south into the Florida peninsula, westward to Nebraska, and north into Canada. A warrior as well as a diplomat, the great Shawnee chief was a man of passionate ambitions. Spurred by commitment and served by a formidable battery of personal qualities that made him the principal organizer and the driving force of confederacy, Tecumseh kept the embers of resistence alive against a federal government that talked cooperation but practiced genocide following the Revolutionary War. Tecumseh does not stand for one tribe or nation, but for all Native Americans. Despite his failed attempt at solidarity, he remains the ultimate symbol of eavor and courage, unity and fraternity.

Book Adventure

Download or read book Adventure written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clattering Hoofs

Download or read book Clattering Hoofs written by William MacLeod Raine and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Webb suspects the owner of the Johnny B. of killing his father, defrauding his mother of the mine and framing him for murder.

Book Death by Polo

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  • Author : Richard Crissman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007-12
  • ISBN : 9780595477258
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Death by Polo written by Richard Crissman and published by . This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polo on the Pacific Coast of Mexico is high-speed fun. Jack and Penny Battle leave San Miguel to join the players and sponsors at San Pancho Resort. They find that murder has distracted the powerful Gustios family from its favorite sport. A long-missing and murderous Gustios brother must be nearby, but which claimant is he, and is he more dangerous than ever? Glamorous places and nasty people. A chase to Budapest, Jack locked in an Aztec vault, and an alpha dog are exciting. A bloody ending in a spooky house in Mexico City leaves us wondering which character is the real villain.

Book The Four Courts Murder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Nugent
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2005-05
  • ISBN : 9780312327583
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book The Four Courts Murder written by Andrew Nugent and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Denis Lennon and his sergeant, Molly Power, are given a lead in the murder of a hated judge. Bring in a series of high and low Irish characters, add a delightful young German student, and one has a highly seasoned story in unusual settings, told with a small twinkle sure to endear readers to this new author.

Book Using Murder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Jenkins
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780202305257
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Using Murder written by Philip Jenkins and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 218 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.”