Download or read book MURDEROUS HUMOR written by BARRY BONNER and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-07-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight irreverent tales with a twist! Pure entertainment just for you. Comical, fascinating reading that will stir your imagination. Dangerous, out-of-control people playing deadly games. This extreme variety of villains will stop for nothing – not even a coffee break. Bad people at their best – murder! But they haven’t lost their shocking sense of humor, and that’s important. Step into the eye of the whirlwind and experience fast-paced stories of suspense, mystery, and bizarre crimes – but crimes with a laugh. An outrageous diversion of bedlam and mayhem with dead beats, screwballs, cowards, lunatics and liars – some even loveable. You might feel guilty for laughing, but you’ll have to laugh anyway.
Download or read book More Homicidal Humor written by Sgt Brian R Foster and published by Black Dog Swamp Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-06-04 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of urban police legend and lore. Homicidal Humor offers a glimpse of life through the eyes of a homicide detective, whose ability to see the funnier side of tragedy has helped keep him sane. These fictional short stories, inspired by real cops and real cases, are set in areas along the Texas Gulf Coast and include historical facts and interesting tidbits about the city of Houston and its police department. All individuals, as well as locations alluded to, are fictitious. You might say the names have been changed to protect the imbeciles. Note: This book contains adult language. From the Author: "As a rookie cop I learned that idiots were put on this earth for our entertainment. I was taught not to take personally those things that street animals said or did. You must actively seek out humor, because if you internalize what you see, it will eat you alive. In this book I have attempted to expose both the humor and the reality I observed as the unwashed wallowed in the mud, the blood, and the beer." What fans are saying about More Homicidal Humor: "Being a trained investigator, I've determined the author of this book is the real deal. His stories, while generally humorous, reveal a side of the criminal element that the media rarely thinks you need to see. It's a reminder of why you should keep a sense of humor, and also own a gun. Jesse Jackson probably won't buy a copy of this book, but you ought to." --Sheriff Jim Wilson, Handgun Editor, Shooting Times "It's like having an old Irish cop tell you 'Now, Lad, let me tell you what really happened out there.'" --Sergeant Brent Boren, Houston P.D. (ret) "Welcome to the real world. Pure fiction based on nothing but the facts. Things Mom never told you about." --Sergeant R. L. Pagel, Houston P.D. Westside Command From More Homicidal Humor: Poor Grandma This scene took place in a cemetery. It was a clear, hot and dry-blast furnace kind of central Texas mid-summer day. It was almost noontime. The flag-draped coffin was still above ground and the preacher was coming to the end of his graveside service. He was going through the Dust to dust, ashes to ashes routine that everybody and their dog knows was wrapping up the show. The dead man was a decorated military veteran. The immediate family sat upon folding chairs and they had been seated under a canvas awning set up for shade. The dead man's aged sister sat on the front row at the far end. Beside her sat a rather angelic looking little girl about seven to eight years old. The child was holding a purse in her lap and wearing ruffled white socks and black Mary Jane shoes. At the end of the ceremony a group of men from the local VFW chapter moved forward and gave the 21-gun salute. At this point the old woman became overcome by either the heat, emotion, grief or a combination of all three. She fainted dead away and passed out-slumping onto the ground. For a moment nobody moved and there was complete silence. Then the angelic-looking little girl sitting next to her blurted out, "God Damn-they done shot Grandma!" Uncle Bob sure as hell would have approved and could not have orchestrated it any better himself.
Download or read book Funny Thing About Murder written by David Geherin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores the reasons writers and filmmakers inject humor into their work and identifies the various comic techniques they use. The author covers both American and European books from the 1930s to the present, by such authors as Rex Stout, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich, along with films from The Thin Man to the BBC's Sherlock series.
Download or read book Funny Thing About Murder written by David Geherin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores the reasons writers and filmmakers inject humor into their work and identifies the various comic techniques they use. The author covers both American and European books from the 1930s to the present, by such authors as Rex Stout, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich, along with films from The Thin Man to the BBC's Sherlock series.
Download or read book Homicidal Humor written by Sgt Brian Foster and published by Black Dog Swamp Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of urban police legend and lore. Homicidal Humor offers a glimpse of life through the eyes of a homicide detective, whose ability to see the funnier side of tragedy has helped keep him sane. These fictional short stories, inspired by real cops and real cases, are set in areas along the Texas Gulf Coast and include historical facts and interesting tidbits about the city of Houston and its police department. All individuals, as well as locations alluded to, are fictitious. You might say the names have been changed to protect the imbeciles. See what fans think about Homicidal Humor: "Funny and enlightening, but the author may have to change his name and leave the state once this publication hits the streets." --The Hon. Judge R. H. Bielstein, Richmond/Fort Bend County, Texas "An old cop's book. Rough and unvarnished. Fast-moving and very entertaining." --Breck Porter, Editor, Galveston County Police News "I usually don't think things are funny unless someone gets killed, maimed, or at least highly inconvenienced. I truly enjoyed this book." --Sgt. M. D. Beale, Houston Robbery (ret.) An excerpt from Homicidal Humor: Both the police and the district attorney's office in Houston understand that "there are some folks out there that just need killing." These shootings are referred to locally by many investigators as either urban renewal or predator control cases. When it comes to urban renewal shootings, Fort Worth and Houston share a similar perspective. The good citizens of Tarrant County support their law enforcement to the hilt. Many rural counties in Texas literally do not have the necessary funds to prosecute cases. Their position (though they will never openly admit it) is that they do not want to pay for an autopsy, much less the investigation and prosecution of crimes committed against victims not from their jurisdiction. A capital murder case in Texas can cost taxpayers up to one million dollars from conviction through to the appeals process. An example of such a mindset comes from down near the Mexican border, where one Houston investigator's father was the foreman on a large south Texas gas pipeline project. In that region of Texas sat one particularly huge ranch where illegals frequently crossed to enter Texas from Mexico. This ranch had its own full-time security force, staffed by personnel-most of whom were former Army Rangers-who drove four-wheel drive vehicles to patrol the premises. Many of these security personnel were born on that land. Their roots often went back multiple generations on that particular ranch. Their parents and possibly their great-grandparents may have been buried in the ranch cemetery. During the pipeline construction project, human skeletal remains were discovered on an almost daily basis, and construction would have to stop. The sheriff's department and a justice of the peace were called out. The local authorities would walk around for a bit, kick a few rocks and proclaim the remains to be "old Indian bones." They would then gather up the bones in question and direct the construction operations to continue. One thing continued to strike the construction crew chief as odd, though. It bothered him that some of those old Indians were still wearing remnants of blue jeans and some had gold or silver fillings in their teeth. The sheriff's department in that particular county is highly acclaimed and supported by the local residents. Whenever a homeowner or rancher was forced to shoot someone, the deputies were known to be very community oriented. The County Mounties (as they are called) are so thoughtful that they will literally drag a body to any location you'd like prior to the taking of crime scene photographs. The most human side of life is evident in homicide investigations, and if you don't get personally involved, it can be darned entertaining as well.
Download or read book A Little Class on Murder written by Carolyn Hart and published by Crimeline. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max Darling, and dons her thinking cap to probe intrigue and vengeance among Chastain's faculty. A Dangerous Thing Max and Annie, with dubious help from three of their own great ladies of the mystery -- Annie's pixilated mother-in-law, a batty local dowager, and a Christie crime fanatic -- learn that just about everyone at the school had means, motive, and access to the murder weapons. From the secretly boozing professor of advertising to the muscle-bound campus cad who barters passing grades for a little extracurricular activity, anyone on the faculty is a possible killer -- waiting to strike again!
Download or read book Motherhood is Murder written by Diana Orgain and published by Diana Orgain. This book was released on 2020-06-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA Today Bestselling Author of Bundle of Trouble A fun new installment to the Maternal Instincts Mystery Series Nights out are hard to come by for new parents. So when Kate's new- mommy club, Roo & You, holds a dinner cruise, she and her husband leave baby Laurie with Kate's mom and join the grown-ups for some fine dining on the San Francisco Bay. But when one of the cofounders of Roo & You takes a fatal spill down a staircase, the police department crashes the party. Suddenly every mom and her man has a motive. Kate's on deck to solve the mystery- but a killer's determined to make her rue the day she joined the first-time-mom's club… To Do: 1. Buy diapers. 2. Make Laurie's two-month check. 3. Find good "how to" book for PI business. 4. x Find dress for the cruise (done) 5. x Ask Mom to babysit (done) 6. Exercise.
Download or read book Die Laughing written by William Novak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the co-creator of the celebrated Big Book of Jewish Humor comes a laugh-out-loud collection of jokes about growing older that makes fun of memory loss, marriages, medicine, sex, the afterlife, and much more, making this the perfect gift for almost anyone who was born before you were. Growing older can be unsettling and surprising. (How on earth did this happen? Where did the years go?) So what better way to deal with this new stage of life than to laugh about your new reality? Die Laughing includes more than enough jokes (not to mention cartoons!) to let that laughter burst out. Whether it’s dealing with doctors, dating in one’s seventies, or unexpected bodily changes (not to mention funny noises), some things are easier to face with a smile of recognition. That’s why Die Laughing is the perfect gift for your parents, anyone celebrating a significant birthday, or any boomer with a sense of humor whose age begins with a six or higher.
Download or read book Untimely Demise written by William Dylan Powell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Be careful whom you cross - they may have read this book! Killed with a toilet? Deadly belt buckles? Sexed to death? Untimely Demise is a daily exploration of the most fascinating ways people have offed one another since the beginning of time. From ninja swords to cyanide, poisons to pistols, the deadly details of 365 dastardly, mundane, ritualistic and just plain bizarre ways people have murdered one another are revealed in this darkly humorous - and suprisingly informative - cautionary collection. Whether you love a good whodunit or solve real-life murders for a living, this daily dose of deadly weapons will shock and amaze you! Or, at least, remind you to lock you doors at night."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Main Stream written by Stuart Pratt Sherman and published by New York : Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1927 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I m Getting Murdered In The Morning written by Lee Mueller and published by Lee Mueller. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the garter toss at Brenda and Eddie's Wedding Reception, a mysterious man falls dead on the dance floor from a gunshot. Luckily the bride's father -the wealthy Harold Montague -invited Damage control expert Mr. Parker to the event. Parker tries "spinning" the murder as "nothing to worry about" but Society columnist Mary Berger insists "something be done".
Download or read book A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum written by Emma Southon and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside Ancient Rome's darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life, death, and what it means to be human.
Download or read book Murder Me Always written by Lee Mueller and published by Lee Mueller. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a very bad performance of "Murder Me Always", a real murder takes place off stage. The Director is shot. The "fake" play comes to a halt and a "real" murder mystery begins.
Download or read book The Deadly Joke written by Hugh Pentecost and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prank outside the Beaumont Hotel goes haywire, and an assassin kills the wrong man Political fundraisers can be cynical and coarse when they’re among their own kind, and Pierre Chambrun, manager of the elegant Beaumont Hotel, prefers not to let them through his doors. But when his friend Douglas Maxwell, a hard-nosed senatorial candidate, asks to host a thousand-dollar-a-plate dinner in the Beaumont’s famous ballroom, Chambrun cannot refuse. The fundraiser has just begun when bad taste rears its ugly head, and Maxwell steps out of his limousine smiling, waving, and wearing no pants. The crowd roars with laughter until the pantsless man falls to his knees, shot dead. Less than half an hour later, Maxwell appears in Chambrun’s office, very much alive. The dead man was his cousin, a lookalike who came to New York to play a prank, and caught a bullet in return. Chambrun must find the gunman to save his friend and spare the Beaumont a second killing—because murder is the ultimate faux pas.
Download or read book Ten Dead Comedians written by Fred Van Lente and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Van Lente’s brilliant debut is both a savagely funny homage to the Golden Age of Mystery and a thoroughly contemporary show-business satire. As the story opens, nine comedians of various acclaim are summoned to the island retreat of legendary Hollywood funnyman Dustin Walker. The group includes a former late-night TV host, a washed-up improv instructor, a ridiculously wealthy “blue collar” comic, and a past-her-prime Vegas icon. All nine arrive via boat to find that every building on the island is completely deserted. Marooned without cell phone service or wifi signals, they soon find themselves being murdered one by one. But who is doing the killing, and why? A darkly clever take on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and other classics of the genre, Ten Dead Comedians is a marvel of literary ventriloquism, with hilarious comic monologues in the voice of every suspect. It’s also an ingeniously plotted puzzler with a twist you’ll never see coming!
Download or read book Murder by the Good Book written by C. Leshure and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located smack-dab in the middle of South Central Texas, just a stone's throw away from Austin, is Smokeweed, Texas. Crime simply didn't happen in Smokeweed. The fact is, just about the worst crime to date was when the town's resident pervert, Moe Lester, got tanked at the church social and flashed his junk at the little old church ladies who were in attendance on that fateful day. Old Moe spent ten days locked up in the town's one and only jail cell and limited any future exhibitions to the ladies down at Mama Sutra's Massage and Hot Tub Grotto, who just laughed him off and charged him $20 for their time. But lately, people have been turning up, well...sort of dead. This first book in the Smokeweed Chronicles humor murder mystery series finds this small town rocked to its rafters by a string of grisly murders. Pressured by Mayor Clyde Custerphluck to solve the crimes, Sheriff Stroker McQueen calls in the "cavalry"- his daughter, Angel McQueen, a successful private investigator in Austin, to help out on the case. It's a race against time for Stroker and Angel to solve the murders before the town goes into panic mode. Who is committing these heinous acts? That's what the McQueens have to find out, along with the help of Stroker's father former sheriff of Smokeweed, B.S. McQueen, as well as the town's coroner-medical examiner-taxidermist, Dr. Cutter Opunze, and other zany characters the reader will meet along the way. Murder by The Good Book is a sexy, bawdy and clever romp through the tiny Texas town of Smokeweed. Amid hilarious situations and quirky characters lays a rock-solid whodunit. Please note: this book contains adult content and language.
Download or read book Allen Lucas written by Emily Chubbuck Judson and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
