Download or read book The Con Man Til Death written by Ed McBain and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Con Man written by Ed McBain and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Con Man: a trickster taking money from an old woman for his own private charity, a cheater fleecing businessmen out of thousands of dollars, and a lady-killer. If the boys of the 87th Precinct know every trick he plays, then why are the bodies still washing up on shore?
Download or read book The Chisholms written by Evan Hunter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family as raw and unyielding as the soil of the Virginia farm they left behind, they pursued their dream, journeying west across the American continent. In a boundless land of unimaginable dangers, they discovered their own will for survival -- and forged a triumph of the human spirit.
Download or read book Death of a Con Man written by G. R. Williamson and published by Indian Head Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The undisputed king of the confidence men of the Old West, Jefferson Randolph Smith II (Soapy Smith) ruled criminal gangs in Colorado and Alaska. No other scoundrel could match Soapy Smith’s utter audacity and unrelenting pursuit of skinning a sucker. He was a genius at running a scam, at organizing a gang of confederates, and at paying off authorities. He had the inherent ability to look a man in the eye and lie like every word was etched in stone. But, on July 8 1898, Soapy was killed in a shootout in Skagway, Alaska. At the time, newspapers attributed a man, Frank Reid, with putting the fatal bullet through Soapy’s heart. Now, 100 years later, historical research has shown that was not the case. Death of a Con Man is a concise, accurate account of the truth behind the myth. Entertaining, as well as informative, the story of the most notorious con man is told with many vintage photographs
Download or read book Alice in Jeopardy written by Ed McBain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-01-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the master of the suspense novel comes another gripping tale of mystery, money, and mayhem that skillfully weaves together an elegant plot and compelling characters, once again. “I have your children. Don't call the police, or the’ll die.” It’s a nightmare no parent should ever endure. Especially Alice Glendenning, a South Florida real estate agent who hasn’t managed to sell a single home—or collect any insurance money—after her husband’s fatal boating accident. Her daughter and son’s kidnappers demand $250,000, the exact amount she’s supposed to receive from the insurance company. To complicate matters, her housekeeper has contacted the police—a glaring error in judgment that puts a spotlight on the crime, the children’s lives at risk…and Alice in jeopardy.
Download or read book Romance written by Ed McBain and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not a mystery, it's a story of survival and triumph. That's what some people say about Romance, a would-be hit play about an actress pursued by a knife-wielding stalker. But isn't it romantic! Before the show can open, the leading lady is really attacked, outside the theater. And before the detectives of the 87th can solve that crime, the same actress is stabbed again. This time for keeps. A.D.A. Nellie Brand moves in for a murder conviction, but Detective Steve Carella is sure she's got the wrong guy, and wrestles for the case with Fat Ollie Weeks, Isola's foulest cop. While Bert Kling interviews witnesses and suspects ranging from the show's producers to the author - who has written novels about cops and knows how it's done - to the lead's lovely understudy, he can't keep his mind off what's happening to him. He's falling in love. With a doctor. Who happens to be a deputy chief surgeon. Who happens to be a black woman. In the city of Isola, nothing is black and white. In the play Romance, no one is guilty or innocent. And in the gritty reality of the 87th Precinct, everyone is in love with something - even if it's only murder.
Download or read book Nocturne written by Ed McBain and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just in case anybody thought the 47 earlier novels in the 87th precinct were a fluke, McBain's gone and revitalized the routine with Nocturne"". -- The New York Times Book Review In Isola, the hours between midnight and dawn are usually a quiet time. But for 87th Precinct detectives Carella and Hawes, the murder of an old woman makes the wee hours anything but peaceful -- especially when they learn she was one of the greatest concert pianists of the century long vanished. Meanwhile 88th Precinct cop Fat Ollie Weeks has his own early morning nightmare: he's on the trail of three prep school boys and a crack dealer who spent the evening carving up a hooker.
Download or read book The Police Procedural written by George N. Dove and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1940s and early 1950s a new kind of detective story appeared on the scene. This was a story in which the mystery is solved by regular police detectives, usually working in teams and using ordinary police routines. This kind of narrative is customarily called the "police procedural" story. And it is the subject of this book. Though there has been numberless writers of these stories, there has never been a book of criticism before.
Download or read book Hark written by Ed McBain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-08-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed McBain concocts a brilliant and intricate thriller about a master criminal who haunts the city with cryptic passages from Shakespeare, directing the detectives of the 87th Precinct to a future crime -- if only they can figure out what he means. The 87th Precinct gets a visit from one of the city's most accomplished criminals -- a thief known as the Deaf Man. Because he might be deaf. Or he might not. So little is known about the man who is harassing Detective Steve Carella with puzzling messages that it is hard to tell. But as soon as a pattern emerges, the detectives of the 87th are forced to hit the books and brush up on their Shakespeare -- because each new clue contains a line from one of his works. Unless they can crack the complicated riddles and beat the Deaf Man at his own cat-and-mouse game, someone is going to end up hurt, or something will be stolen -- or both. It's always so hard to tell with the Deaf Man. Ed McBain brings his most intelligent and devious criminal back to the 87th Precinct with a richly plotted and literary crime.
Download or read book Vespers written by Ed McBain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the symbol of a Satanic cult is left at the murder scene of a young Catholic priest, the cops of the 87th Precinct must keep it from becoming the spark which ignites the racial and ethnic tensions smoldering in the city.
Download or read book The Frumious Bandersnatch written by Ed McBain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-01-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It should have been the night that launched a new pop idol. Tamar Valparaiso is young and beautiful, with the body and voice of an angel, and the stage is set for her to launch her debut album, Bandersnatch, on a luxury yacht in the heart of the city. But halfway through her performance, while the partygoers look on helplessly, masked men drag Tamar off the stage and into a waiting speedboat. Detective Steve Carella is just showing up for the graveyard shift when news of the kidnapping comes in. Working disjointedly with a Joint Task Force that calls itself "The Squad," Carella and the men and women of the Eight-Seven must find Tamar before time -- or indeed her very life -- runs out. In this brilliant look at the music industry, Ed McBain once again combines his mastery of the form with the fast-paced dialogue and intricate plotting that have become his signature.
Download or read book The Moment She Was Gone written by Evan Hunter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-07-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Blackboard Jungle comes a shattering novel of a family confronting its collective secrets, marking the high point in a writing career spanning almost five decades. It's two o'clock in the morning when Andrew Gulliver gets a phone call from his mother, who tells him his twin sister, Annie, is gone. This is not the first time. Ever since she was sixteen, she's been taking off without notice to places as far distant as Papua New Guinea, then returning unexpectedly, only to disappear yet another time, again and again and again. But this time is different. Last month, Annie got into serious trouble in Sicily and was briefly held in a mental hospital, where an Italian doctor diagnosed her as schizophrenic. Andrew's divorced mother refuses to accept this diagnosis. Andrew himself just isn't sure. But during the course of a desperate twelve hours in New York City, he and the Gulliver family piece together the past and cope with the present in a journey of revelation and self-discovery. Recognizing the truth at last, Andrew can only hope to find his beloved sister before she harms herself or someone else.
Download or read book The Boys from Grover Avenue written by George N. Dove and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examines the 87th Precinct series of police procedural novels and stories written by Ed McBain (pseudonym of Evan Hunter).
Download or read book Fat Ollie s Book written by Ed McBain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While investigating a councilman's murder with Kling and Carella, Fat Ollie's manuscript for a novel he is writing is stolen from a briefcase in his car.
Download or read book Death of a Con Man written by G. R. Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death of a Con Man -Soapy Smith's Demise in 1898No other scoundrel could match "Soapy" Smith's utter audacity and unrelenting pursuit of skinning a sucker. Jefferson Randolph Smith II was a genius at running a scam, at organizing a gang of confederates, and at paying off authorities. Smith presented himself as a man of wisdom, a philosopher, a philanthropist, a supporter of law and order, and above all else, an American patriot. He had the inherent ability to look a man in the eye and lie like every word was etched in stone. But, on July 8 1898, Soapy was killed in a shootout in Skagway, Alaska. At the time, newspapers attributed a man, Frank Reid, with putting the fatal bullet through Soapy's heart. Now, 100 years later, historical research has shown that was not the case. Death of a Con Man is a concise, accurate account of the truth behind the myth.Entertaining, as well as informative, the story of the most notorious con man is told with many vintage photographs and illustrations.
Download or read book Widows written by Ed McBain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a beautiful young woman is found murdered in a lush penthouse apartment, the only clues are a steamy collection of erotic letters and 32 separate knife wounds. Soon the young woman's elderly lover, who leaves behind his ex-wife, two daughters, and a current wife, is also murdered. Reissue.
Download or read book Til Death Do Us Part written by C. Dale Baldwin and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resheda-Rae Alexandria Mona and Clyde Ramon Muscat are newlyweds living a very successful, lavish, and lucrative lifestyle in New York City. They love the lifestyle that New York offers, as the couple enjoys the high life. Working hard and playing hard, their marriage is exciting and new. They say their vows in Manhattan and honeymoon in Hawaii. They purchase a home and open a bar in the City that they name Tempo NYC! And they also vacation in the Hamptons in the summer with friends. Clyde is a successful and esteemed banker who relishes spending and investing his money. He heads one of Manhattan’s largest financial institutions, and as president of operations he makes the decisions. Well-salaried Clyde has always been enamored with money; he loves money so much that he even wallpapers his office with it. So when a big offer comes his way for an easy payday, he cannot miss out on a chance to have more. Unbeknownst to Clyde, Resheda-Rae is a CIA special agent. She covers her career as a special agent by working as a broker of her own real estate firm and a professional home decorator. She cannot disclose her status to Clyde for his safety. Their love is new and affectionate as they live life fast and free … until he comes under her scope. Then she must deal with the pain of bringing him to justice and possibly losing the love of her life. Their marriage will indeed last Til Death Do Us Part.
