Download or read book The Benny Cooperman Mysteries Volume One written by Howard Engel and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three mysteries in a beloved and acclaimed series featuring “one of the most enjoyable private eyes in crime fiction” (The Toronto Star). Benny Cooperman is a Canadian Jewish detective with flair, kinder and gentler than the average PI, and squeamish about violence. According to the New York Times: “In Benny Cooperman, the author has leavened the hard-boiled school of detective fiction with comedy and compassion. . . . Canada’s first and foremost private eye is well on his way to becoming a cherished national institution.” Donald E. Westlake adds: “Benny Cooperman is . . . a lot of fun to hang out with.” Collected here are the first three mysteries in the series by Howard Engel, “a born writer, a natural stylist . . . a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines” (Ruth Rendell). The Suicide Murders: Myrna Yates shows up at Benny’s office asking him to check up on her husband, who she believes is having an affair. It seems like an open-and-shut case, until Benny finds out that the straying spouse has committed suicide. Still, something doesn’t add up: Chester Yates bought a ten-speed bicycle only two hours before he allegedly killed himself. The detective just may have a murder case on his hands, one in which the suspicions of a wife turn out to be much darker than anyone could have imagined. The Ransom Game: It’s February and Ontario is frozen—along with Benny’s private investigation business. That is, until Muriel Falkirk knocks on his door. Her boyfriend, Johnny Rosa, is missing. A decade earlier, Rosa had been involved in the kidnapping of an heiress. He was sent to prison and the ransom money was never recovered. Now Rosa’s out on parole, but he’s nowhere to be found—and it turns out Benny isn’t the only one on his trail. Murder on Location: Niagara Falls is crawling with Hollywood types who are making a movie. But Benny isn’t scouting for talent; he’s investigating the case of a woman named Billie Mason who’s gone missing from Benny’s hometown of Grantham, Ontario. Has she merely been bitten by the acting bug, or is a much more sinister force at play?
Download or read book Suicide Murders written by Howard Engel and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was cool, attractive—a real society lady—and she was in trouble. Benny Cooperman, a private eye with a hard head and a tender heart, was ready to help her in any way he could. But when her husband commits suicide the day Benny begins his investigation, the detective realizes he’s no longer dealing with a simple “family affair.” Probing into the curious circumstances surrounding the death, Benny soon finds himself in the midst of a few more suicides—or murders. Book 1 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.
Download or read book Ransom Game written by Howard Engel and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benny Cooperman is slowly going crazy. It’s winter in Grantham, Ontario, and he has nothing better to do than watch the frost creeping in under his door. Nothing, that is, until blue-eyed, long-legged Muriel Falkirk enters his office because her boyfriend, the notorious Johnny Rosa, has gone missing. It’s been ten years since Johnny pulled off a sensational kidnapping, and he’s served his time. But now he’s skipped parole—or been murdered—and Muriel wants to know where he is. But a lot of other people do, too, most of them interested in the unrecovered half-million-dollar ransom. Benny joins The Ransom Game in this witty and intriguing thriller only to discover that nobody plays by the rules. Book 2 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.
Download or read book Getting Away with Murder written by Howard Engel and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benny is, as always, desperate for paying work, but he flatly refuses an invitation to work for Grantham’s most notorious crime boss. But Benny doesn’t have much of a choice when Abram Wise has him kidnapped in the middle of the night and makes him an ultimatum: either Benny takes the case, or his parents and girlfriend may run into some very bad luck. This mobster’s got a long list of enemies in town, but which one is out to kill him? Book 9 in the Benny Cooperman Mystery series.
Download or read book Mystery Midrash written by Lawrence W. Raphael and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confront murder, mayhem--and your own mysteries of being. From a corporate giant's kidnapping of a rabbi, to the disappearance of the clarinetist in a klezmer band, to four rabbis' use of their text interpretation skills to help a detective solve a murder that one of them has committed, this unique collection of mysteries will enlighten you at the same time it intrigues and entertains. While featuring enough death and deception to keep the detective protagonists on their toes, each story presents the uncertainties that are a part of contemporary Jewish identity--inviting us all to confront our own mysteries of being. Throughout the stories' tangled puzzles and suspenseful adventures, the characters solve not only the "whodunit"-type mysteries, but also struggle to solve the mystery of their spiritual lives. Mystery Midrash will be a lasting delight for mystery buffs of all faith traditions. Contributors include: Joel Siegel * Lawrence W. Raphael * Toni Brill * Howard Engel * Richard Fliegel * Michael A. Kahn * Stuart M. Kaminsky * Faye Kellerman * Ronald Levitsky * Ellen Rawlings * Rabbi Bob Sloan * Janice Steinberg * James Yaffe * Batya Swift Yasgur
Download or read book There Was an Old Woman written by Howard Engel and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Canadian detective looks into a wealthy lady’s mysterious demise in “an entertaining read” (Library Journal). Thanks to a noisy toilet, Benny Cooperman is pulled into a new case—when he learns that his janitor’s elderly girlfriend has died of hunger—despite having plenty of money. The question is why she couldn’t get access to it, and Benny will find himself investigating a lot of unsavory characters to find out, in a novel by an Arthur Ellis Award winner “who can bring a character to life in a few lines” (Ruth Rendell). “Benny Cooperman, the low-key Grantham, Ontario, private eye who has as little success shushing his Jewish mother as getting Kogan, the janitor of his building, to fix the leaky hall toilet, agrees to a trade: If Kogan will deal with the plumbing, Benny will plumb the death of his pal Lizzy Oldridge, who died of starvation . . . Benny’s a charmer.” —Kirkus Reviews “Benny Cooperman is one of the most enjoyable private eyes in crime fiction.” —The Toronto Star There Was an Old Woman is the eighth book in the Benny Cooperman Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Murder Sees the Light written by Howard Engel and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detective guards a televangelist in hiding—and tries to solve a murder—in this novel by the Arthur Ellis Award–winning author. Benny Cooperman is camped out at the Petawawa fishing lodge, watching over a famous televangelist who has gone into hiding while waiting for a court decision. It seems like a simple assignment—that is, until the lifeless body of a missing Indian guide is found. Suddenly the Canadian private detective is reeled into yet another deadly mystery, and everyone at the lodge becomes a suspect . . . “The Cooperman novels are heavy on full-bodied characters, sharp dialogue, and rich humor. Benny just plain charms the socks off anyone he meets.” —Booklist “Benny Cooperman is . . . a lot of fun to hang out with.” —Donald E. Westlake Murder Sees the Light is the fourth book in the Benny Cooperman Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Memory Book written by Howard Engel and published by Carroll & Graf Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering in a Toronto hospital from a serious blow to the head, private investigator Benny Cooperman struggles with memory loss and a condition that has rendered him able to write but unable to read, a circumstance that compromises his ability to remember his attacker and the case he was on the brink of solving. Simultaneous.
Download or read book Murder in Montparnasse written by Howard Engel and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's autumn 1925, and a killer uncannily like England's Jack the Ripper is stalking the city streets of Paris and preying on young women. Michael Ward is a journalist newly arrived to the Left Bank. When he falls in with Jason Waddington, an expatriate American writer who introduces him to the cafe scene and his crowd of writers and artists, Ward soon discovers that Jack de Paris is not the only trouble afoot in the City of Light.
Download or read book Iced Under written by Nadine Doolittle and published by Gatineau Hills Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 Shortlist for Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel (Crime Fiction) The ice was clear that year, clear as rain right down to the bottom.... A bitter divorce drives Sara Wolesley to abandon her comfortable urban life, and with her two young daughters in tow, she takes up residence in a rundown cottage on a frozen lake in Quebec. The rashness of this action soon becomes apparent when the pipes in the cottage freeze. With no money, no job prospects, and now no water, Sara is close to a breakdown when she discovers the body of a child trapped under the ice. Her name is Oralee Pelletier and she has been missing for five months. As Detective Sergeant Rompré of the MRC des Collines Police launches his investigation, Sara is drawn into the lives of the mother of the child who has a secret, her former friend who has all the answers, and that of a quiet solitary man with a past no one wants to talk about. When there is a second suspicious death and nothing adds up, Sara doesn't know who can be trusted in the seemingly idyllic village of St. Jude. Recommended for readers of women’s crime fiction in the style of Louise Penny, Ruth Rendell and P.D. James. "A mixture of literature, mystery, and romance. The story soars thanks to Doolittle's elegant and poetic language..." ~ Montreal Review of Books
Download or read book De Niro s Game written by Rawi Hage and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. In Rawi Hage's unforgettable novel, winner of the 2008 IMPAC Prize, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon's civil war. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown to adulthood in war torn Beirut. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and consolidate power through crime; or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. Bassam chooses one path: obsessed with leaving Beirut, he embarks on a series of petty crimes to finance his departure. Meanwhile, George builds his power in the underworld of the city and embraces a life of military service, crime for profit, killing, and drugs. Told in the voice of Bassam,De Niro's Gameis a beautiful, explosive portrait of a contemporary young man shaped by a lifelong experience of war. Rawi Hage's brilliant style mimics a world gone mad: so smooth and apparently sane that its razor-sharp edges surprise and cut deeply. A powerful meditation on life and death in a war zone, and what comes after.
Download or read book Mr Doyle and Dr Bell written by Howard Engel and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dead opera star, a brilliant anatomy professor with Sherlockian powers of deduction, and a moody Victorian backdrop--it all adds up to a thrillingly entertaining historical mystery by an award-winning writer.
Download or read book Forty Words for Sorrow written by Giles Blunt and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major television series, CARDINAL, and the first book in the John Cardinal series. When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the force, Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career—and his family. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of serial killers. The case as it unfolds proves eerily reminiscent of the Moors murders in Britain, as an unassuming young man and his belligerently loyal girlfriend scout young victims for their macabre games. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. Time isn't only running out for him, but for another young victim, tied up in a basement wondering when and how his captors will kill him.
Download or read book Dead and Buried written by Howard Engel and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an Arthur Ellis Award–winning author, a mystery starring the Canadian investigator who “just plain charms the socks off anyone he meets” (Booklist). When truck driver Jack Dowden is killed in an accident while hauling toxic waste, his widow, Irma, suspects something fishy. Dowden wasn’t the type to be careless, and Irma has reason to believe that someone may have wanted him dead. Naturally, Benny Cooperman is the man she calls to take the case. It’s up to the affable detective to solve the mystery of Dowden’s death—before the situation proves hazardous to his health . . . “Benny, a private detective in fictional Grantham, Ontario, is a marvelous creation—a hardworking fellow whose innate bad luck just keeps leading him into the wrong cases. (Think Jim Rockford minus the proclivity for getting into fistfights.)” —Booklist “A warmly likable hero with an ironic sense of humor.” —Kirkus Reviews “Benny Cooperman is one of the most enjoyable private eyes in crime fiction.” —The Toronto Star Dead and Buried is the seventh book in the Benny Cooperman Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Imagery and Text written by Mark Sadoski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagery and Text: A Dual Coding Theory of Reading and Writing presents, for the first time, a unified theory of both reading and writing that derives from and is completely consistent with the Dual Coding Theory of cognition, one of the most influential and empirically sound theories of cognition ever developed. This is the first book to take a systematic theoretical approach to all of the central issues of literacy, including decoding, comprehension, and memory in reading; and planning, drafting, and reviewing in writing. Additionally, theoretical accounts are provided for such profound and elusive literacy concepts as meaning, engagement, inspiration, and persona. Dual Coding Theory is unique in theorizing how both verbal and nonverbal cognition are woven throughout all aspects of literacy. An outstanding advancement in understanding literacy, Imagery and Text: A Dual Coding Theory of Reading and Writing: * Explains the major aspects of both reading and writing from an empirically well-established cognitive theory that embraces both language and mental imagery, emphasizing the powerful role of nonlinguistic knowledge and mental imagery in literacy; * Offers a human alternative to current computer-based theories of cognition and literacy derived from artificial intelligence, treating literacy as an essentially human activity that includes imagery and affect; * Provides moment-by-moment accounts of both the reading process and the writing process and comparisons with other theories; and * Presents an extensive review of educational research on the application of dual coding theory.
Download or read book High Chicago written by Howard Shrier and published by Random House of Canada Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his successful debut, Buffalo Jump, Howard Shrier is back with High Chicago, the next in the Jonah Geller series. Toronto investigator Jonah Geller has opened his own agency, World Repairs, and he and his partner, Jenn Raudsepp, are immediately drawn into investigating the apparent suicide of a young girl — and the high-stakes world of construction and development on a long-neglected parcel of Toronto’s waterfront. Clues lead them to suspect that fabled real estate tycoon Simon Birk — the partner of the dead girl’s father — is killing people who get in the way of the project, but the evidence isn’t rock solid. And Jonah has to craft an audacious plan to take down one of Chicago’s most powerful men.
Download or read book Who Killed Janet Smith written by Edward Starkins and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Who Killed Janet Smith?' examines one of the most infamous and still unsolved murder cases in Canadian History: the 1924 murder of twenty-two-year-old Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith. Originally published in 1984, and out of print for over a decade, this tale of intrigue, racism, privilege, and corruption in high places as a true-crime recreation that reads like a complex thriller.We are pleased to be reissuing this title as part of the City of Vancouver's Legacy Book Project."... drug traffic, Roaring Twenties hedonism, official corruption, cutthroat competition among newspapers, a public taste for occultism, etc.- and entrust the whole works to a good storyteller, and you have one terrific political history of Vancouver." - Geist Magazine"Starkins cuts away at the layers with the delicacy of a neurosurgeon. What he uncovers almost defies belief." - Quill & Quire
