Download or read book An Urgent Murder written by Alex Winchester and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rookie who questions everything teams up with an experienced detective with a chequered past to investigate a chilling murder ... He had to be killed urgently - if he suffered, all the better. If the blame could be shifted to someone else, so be it. A murder in a private home is quickly and easily solved by the police, their culprit established by fingerprints on the murder weapon: a jar of poison. The private care nurse neither denies nor admits to it. A clear cut case - but one detective isn’t sure. John is an experienced Metropolitan Police detective with a chequered background and a laissez faire attitude who is knocked back when he is suddenly teamed with Alison, a prim young Sussex officer who is out to learn as much as possible in her ambitious pursuit of senior rank. With different approaches to the case and influences from various people, the two must learn to work together in order to bring the true killer to justice. Can Alison trust John? Can John shield Alison for what is to come? And are more laws about to be broken when a nefarious crime lord learns from a highly placed mole that their lucrative way of life is about to come to an end? The reader is led through the ongoing investigation of an apparently solved, simple murder that transpires to be anything but. Twists, turns and clues abound but may not necessarily lead to the expected conclusion. Readers who enjoy thrilling crime books along with baffling mysteries will delight in this novel.
Download or read book Emergency Murder written by Janet McGiffin and published by Fawcett Books. This book was released on 1991-12-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the wife of her lover, Dr. Hank Myer, is poisoned to death--presumably by poison from Dr. Maxene St. Clair's own lab--Dr. St. Clair must call upon Detective Grabowski to clear her name from this apparent crime of passion. Original.
Download or read book Murder at the Arlington written by Kathleen Kaska and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1952. Reporter Sydney Lockhart checks into the historic Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Before she even unpacks, she discovers the brutally murdered body of the hotel's bookkeeper. What had begun as a simple travel-writing assignment now turns into a murder investigation. The bad news is that Sydney is a suspect. Determined to clear her name and prove herself a reporter deserving more than just travel assignments, Sydney becomes embroiled in the underworld of gangsters and gamblers. In her fight for the truth, she soon faces a more urgent battle: saving her own skin.
Download or read book Big Trouble written by J. Anthony Lukas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.
Download or read book One Arranged Murder written by Chetan Bhagat and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2024-02-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keshav has set up an investigation agency with his best friend, Saurabh. Can the two amateur detectives successfully solve another murder case that affects them personally? And where will it leave their friendship? 'Ever since you found Prerna, I lost my best friend' is what I told Saurabh. Hi, this is Keshav, and Saurabh, my best friend, flatmate, colleague and business partner, won't talk to me. Because I made fun of him and his fiance, Saurabh and Prerna will be getting married soon. It is an arranged marriage. However, there is more cheesy romance between them than any love-marriage couple. On Karva Chauth, she fasted for him. She didn't eat all day. In the evening, she called him and waited on the terrace for the moon and for Saurabh to break her fast. Excited, Saurabh ran up the steps of her three-storey house. But when he reached ... Welcome to One Arranged Murder, an unputdownable thriller from India's highest-selling author. A story about love, friendship, family and crime. It will keep you entertained and hooked right till the end.
Download or read book Premeditated Murder written by Ed Gaffney and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a New England courtroom, two young defense lawyers face a trial they cannot win. For attorneys Zack Wilson and Terry Tallach, partners and best friends, it seems an open-and-shut case. Their client confessed to a horrific multiple homicide–and Zack and Terry have only one hope: to spare him from the death penalty. But even that is a long shot…until the case takes a sudden, strange turn. The two lawyers may have stumbled on a loophole: their client had a secret motive for his indefensible act–a motive that might even free him if Zack and Terry can pull off an ingenious defense. But as the media descend on a quiet Massachusetts town, and as Zack and Terry fight to save their client’s life, a surprise witness turns the trial into something no one could have predicted. Because only he can put all the pieces of an astounding puzzle together–and expose a conspiracy that is more shocking, far-reaching, and treacherous than anyone could guess.
Download or read book Cambridge English Readers Level 5 Upper Intermediate written by Janet McGiffin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the wife of a well-known surgeon dies suddenly in the emergency room of Mercy Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dr. Maxine Cassidy suspects murder. The police agree, but they suspect her! Maxine is determined to find the killer and starts an investigation of her own. However, when someone tries to kill her, she begins to wonder which of her medical colleagues she can trust.
Download or read book Targeted For Murder Mills Boon Love Inspired Suspense Wilderness Inc Book 1 written by Elizabeth Goddard and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOUNTAIN PURSUIT
Download or read book Murder within Murder written by Frances Lockridge and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. and Mrs. North seek the killer of a terribly unpleasant society woman Miss Amelia Gipson doesn’t tolerate foolishness. She doubts she’s ever made a mistake, and it’s unlikely she would change anything about her life—even if she knew she was in danger. While researching a famous murder case at the public library, she becomes ill at her desk. Within minutes, she’s dead. Miss Gipson would be pleased with the coroner. He doesn’t muck around when delivering the cause of death. There’s simply no question: She was poisoned. Fortunately, Miss Gipson was one of Jerry North’s authors, which means that the accomplished amateur sleuth has another case on his hands. With the help of his utterly brilliant—if slightly strange—wife, Pamela, Mr. North soon finds that the question isn’t who wanted Miss Gipson dead, but who didn’t. Murder within Murder is the 10th book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Murder on the the Thirty first Floor written by Per Wahloo and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unnamed country, in an unnamed year sometime in the future, Chief Inspector Jensen of the Sixteenth Division is called in after the publishers controlling the entire country's newspapers and magazines receive a threat to blow up their building, in retaliation for a murder they are accused of committing. The building is evacuated, but the bomb fails to explode and Jensen is given seven days in which to track down the letter writer. Jensen has never had a case he could not solve before, but as his investigation into the identity of the letter writer begins it soon becomes clear that the directors of the publishers have their own secrets, not least the identity of the 'Special Department' on the thirty first floor; the only department not permitted to be evacuated after the bomb threat.
Download or read book Couple Found Slain written by Mikita Brottman and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories end but the defendant's life goes on. On February 21, 1992, 22-year-old Brian Bechtold walked into a police station in Port St. Joe, Florida and confessed that he’d shot and killed his parents in their family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He said he’d been possessed by the devil. He was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and ruled “not criminally responsible” for the murders on grounds of insanity. But after the trial, where do the "criminally insane" go? Brottman reveals Brian's inner life leading up to the murder, as well as his complicated afterlife in a maximum security psychiatric hospital, where he is neither imprisoned nor free. During his 27 years at the hospital, Brian has tried to escape and been shot by police, and has witnessed three patient-on-patient murders. He’s experienced the drugging of patients beyond recognition, a sadistic system of rewards and punishments, and the short-lived reign of a crazed psychiatrist-turned-stalker. In the tradition of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Couple Found Slain is an insider’s account of life in the underworld of forensic psych wards in America and the forgotten lives of those held there, often indefinitely.
Download or read book Murder in the Primary written by John Seldon and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter's day was off to a bad start ... Walter Stillwell, superintendent of the Port Talbot Water Resource Recovery Facility, was a methodical man. Each weekday he got up at 6:30 a.m., recorded his blood pressure and heart rate, and prepared his breakfast, carefully measuring out 15 millilitres of homemade dressing for his modest salad of leaf lettuce and baking a serving of protein--usually a pork chop or chicken breast--in the toaster oven. Then, after watching a few minutes of the morning news, he dressed and left for work. But today an urgent phone call from the plant foreman interrupts Walter's routine. A man has been found dead at the plant, in the east primary. As the police begin investigating, it soon becomes all too clear that Walter's life--and the lives of his friends and colleagues--will never be the same. In this, the first mystery novel ever set in a water resource recovery facility--or, to use the lay term, a sewage plant--wastewater expert John Seldon introduces readers not only to a fascinating cast of characters but also to the overlooked systems and processes that make modern urban life possible. The result is a novel that will leave you guessing until the last chapter not only whodunit--but why.
Download or read book In Case of Emergency written by E. G. Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her boyfriend goes missing and a woman turns up dead, Charlotte must connect the dots for herself before she becomes the suspect, or the next victim. Charlotte, a mid-thirties Long Island woman, has felt so alone since her promising career in neuroscience imploded. But she has an online support group; she has Rachel, a friend who has seen her through the worst of it; and now she also has Peter, a mysterious new boyfriend who has asked that their budding romance remain a total secret. That is why she is too scared to report his disappearance to the authorities when he vanishes without a word. Weeks later, police contact her to make an ID on a body, and she fears the worst for her missing beau. Instead, she arrives at the morgue and feels a terrible relief when she sees a woman she has never met on the table in front of her. But relief is replaced by confusion, then terror, when Charlotte realizes she has become a person of interest. Why did Jane Doe have Charlotte listed as her emergency contact? Was it revenge or a warning? And where exactly does Peter factor into all this? As Charlotte becomes the prime murder suspect, she enters into a race against the clock to find out the truth about the dead woman and the connections they shared. But what she discovers is beyond anything she could have ever imagined.
Download or read book Emergency Murder written by Laura Pettler and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE OBVIOUS CLUE Ultimate Murder Mystery Collection written by Charles Dickens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 8608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited mystery collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Edgar Wallace: The Four Just Men The Clue of the Twisted Candle Victor L. Whitechurch: The Canon in Residence Anna Katharine Green: The Leavenworth Case A Strange Disappearance The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow That Affair Next Door Lost Man's Lane The Circular Study G. K. Chesterton: The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown The Donnington Affair Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Rogêt The Purloined Letter Charles Dickens: Hunted Down Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone The Woman in White The Haunted Hotel Robert Barr: The Triumph of Eugéne Valmont Jennie Baxter, Journalist The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs The Adventure of the Second Swag E. W. Hornung: The Amateur Cracksman The Black Mask; or, Raffles: Further Adventures A Thief in the Night Mr. Justice Raffles John Kendrick Bangs: Mrs. Raffles R. Holmes & Co Melville Davisson Post: The Sleuth of St. James's Square Ellis Parker Butler: Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective Maurice Leblanc: Arsene Lupin The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin R. Austin Freeman: Dr. Thorndyke's Cases The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook A. E. W. Mason: At the Villa Rose The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel Mary Roberts Rinehart: The Circular Staircase The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry Tish – The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions More Tish Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Murder on the Links The Kidnapped Prime Minister The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Secret Adversary
Download or read book Sinistrari written by Giles Ekins and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1888. After Satanist Edward Sinistrari is condemned to hang for ritual murder of four girls, he escapes from the gallows at Newgate Prison, leaving a bloody trail in his wake. DCI Charles Collingwood is assigned to track Sinistrari down. But just as he is closing in on his quarry, Jack The Ripper begins his murderous rampage. In a London awash with blood, Collingwood is about to discover the full force of Sinistrari's diabolic powers and vengeance. But who is he, and can he be stopped?
Download or read book Cry Murder Baby written by Mary Monroe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talented, beautiful Michelle Heywood, 29, has everything going for her. She has just been promoted to Senior Account Executive for A, A & A, a Michigan-Avenue Chicago ad agency and received a huge raise, bonus and company car. Michelle’s new task is to create a blockbuster ad campaign that will sell a new innovative infant formula that contains real human breast milk, Nature Plus Baby Formula by SynCor Foods, to millions of mothers for their newborns and babies. Michelle and Hawk Wilder, Art Director, create a campaign destined to be a huge success. All is great, until ... People start to disappear. People show up dead. Bram Pavolich, President of SynCor Foods wants the success of Nature Plus very much. Perhaps too much. While homicide detective Marcus Harris searches for the truth. Join Michelle in the fast-paced corporate world of marketing where she comes to grip with the realization that her unmistakable talents can play a deadly role in people’s lives.
