Download or read book A Touch of Frost written by R.D. Wingfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 1992 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous tale of a local police force's fight against crime and corruption, featuring the raffish Detective Inspector Frost. by the author of áFrost at Christmas'.

Download or read book The Adventures of Jack Cannon written by Brett Ermilio and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Cannon and his team of detectives have an incredible adventure ahead of them in the wonderous land of Pierrany. When a magical girl named Jade arrives at the Cannon household in the middle of the night, she comes with urgency and whisks Jack, Teddy, Stacey, Veronica and Grandpa Telly away to a whole other world. As they arrive in Pierrany, the young detectives must work through some social issues they are dealing with. Veronica has pulled away from the team to "focus on her schoolwork" and has become isolated. At the same time, Teddy is trying to work toward his own identity, feeling as though he has been lost in Jack's shadow. As the kids work through issues of their own, Grandpa Telly begins to remember Pierrany, a place he somehow once visited as a child with Jade long, long ago. The detectives encounter a wide array of interesting characters as well as dangerous creatures in this fascinating world that threatens their very existence. But the team forges ahead as they realize they have powers of their own in this magical place and must come together to conquer evil and stave off the dark powers of Pierrany that threaten not only this world, but their world, in this, Part I of the two-part adventure!

Download or read book Dog Den Mystery written by Darrel Odgers and published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When someone steals an old boot, Jack doesn't care. Then someone steals his squeaker bone. And his blanket. And Red's ball. Now Jack does care. Who is the thief of Doggeroo? How will Jack solve the case of the Dog Den Mystery?

Download or read book Year of the Dog written by Henry Chang and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are Chinatowns in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, London ... in many different countries all around the globe. But wherever they are located geographically, Chinatown is one community, Fire a gun in New York's Chinatown and the echo reverberates seconds later in Hong Kong. Political pressures emanating from Mainland China are felt by the new wave of immigrants on Mott, Hester, and Delancey Streets in hours." "American-born Jack Yu became one of the few ethnically Chinese officers in the NYPD. Now he has been promoted out of the Chinatown Precinct. But he cannot get away from Chinatown's criminals - his old friends - who are hooked up with Hong Kong based triads in a crooked scam of international proportions." "Henry Chang shows us the people he understands so well: a Chinese yuppie whose loss of face ends in tragedy; an ailing bookie with romance in his soul; a would-be gang leader and the tough new immigrants from Fukien who confront him; and the triad official, Grass Sandal, sent from Hong Kong to liase with local benevolent societies. Year of the Dog shows us what exists beneath the surface of the tourists' Chinatown."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Chinatown Beat written by Henry Chang and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Jack Yu is assigned to the Chinatown precinct as the only officer of Chinese descent. He investigates a series of attacks on children and a missing mistress, shifting between the world of street thugs and gangs and the Chinatown of the rich and powerful. When Detective Jack Yu is transferred to New York’s Chinatown, he isn’t ready to face the changes in his old neighborhood. His childhood friends are now hardened gangsters, his father is dying, and he is constantly reminded of this teenage blood brother, murdered in front of him years before. Then community leader and tong boss Uncle Four is gunned down and his mistress goes missing. But unlike the rest of the culturally clueless police department, Jack knows his district’s gritty secrets. He will have to draw on his knowledge in order to catch this killer in a crime-ridden precinct where brotherhoods are just as likely to distribute charity as mete out vigilante justice.

Download or read book Detective Jack Diamond Investigations written by Mary Beni and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CEAs Jack Diamond Schuster is an intelligent doctor of forensics. He has years of experience with problem-solving, especially with crime scene investigations. He doesnt like the district attorneys offices' way of doing things. Diamond feels that it should be the police that solve the crimes. The district attorneys staff judges the crimes too soon. Schuster has a close partner who he appreciates very much. Rachel Machiavelli is usually right by his side. These two hard working detectives dive head first into the crime scene investigtions. Each crime is unique. Jack is sure that there is more than meets the eye in each investigation. Jack is suspicious all the time. Diamond's spiritual love life is tantalizing. Diamond smokes cherry cigars so often, the reader can actually smell the aroma of the cloudy smoke.

Download or read book Death Money written by Henry Chang and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a floater that surfaces in the Harlem River turns out to be Chinese, Yu leaves his downtown precinct to investigate. Yu knocks on the usual doors, and the trail leads to the Gee family, noodle manufacturers who on the surface look like the ideal immigrant success story. When the body of an unidentified Asian man is found in the Harlem River, NYPD Detective Jack Yu is pulled in to investigate. The murder takes Jack from the benevolent associations of Chinatown to the take-out restaurants, strip clubs, and underground gambling establishments of the Bronx, to a wealthy, exclusive New Jersey borough. It's a world of secrets and unclear allegiances, of Chinatown street gangs and major Triad players. With the help of an elderly fortune teller and an old friend, the unpredictable Billy Bow, Jack races to solve his most difficult case yet.

Download or read book The Adventures of Jack Lime written by James Leck and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A film-noir novel featuring a hard-boiled, narcoleptic teenage PI who solves mysteries for his fellow high schoolers.

Download or read book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher written by Kate Summerscale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction.

Download or read book Detective Jack written by Aditya Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following series of A-Star Stories is the best detective series by Aditya Kumar. It is a very good detective story in which a man named Steven narrates his work as an assistant of a well known detective Jack who solves criminal cases by risking his own life. This story has a good action needed to be in a perfect detective story. Readers will enjoy the story as it creates a suspense in the mind of readers.

Download or read book Data Jack written by Christopher Greyson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jack Stratton's back is up against the wall. He's broke, kicked off the force, and the bounty hunting business has slowed to a trickle. With no money coming in, Jack's license to carry suspended, and no good job prospects on the horizon, Jack's got it tough. He thinks things are turning around when Replacement gets a lucrative job setting up a home data network. That is, until he discovers it's for a handsome, jet-setting software tycoon. The 'boy billionaire' as Jack begrudgingly refers to him, takes a liking to computer-savvy Alice. Jealous, Jack thinks life can't get any worse, but when the computer program the CEO invented becomes the key tool in an international data heist, things turn deadly."--Back cover.

Download or read book Murder Secret written by C. T. Mitchell and published by Austin MacAuley. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A serial killer is on the loose. Cabarita Beach residents want an arrest. But with no clues, no budget and an inexperienced investigating team, Detective Jack Creed has his back to the wall.The killings started a decade ago. However with five murders in the past eighteen months, the town's residents are petrified. The killings are identical - all black, drug using, female prostitutes. Except for the latest victim. He's different. Jo Boston-Wright joins Creed's team. She comes from a pedigree police family but with no murder experience, female and a double-barrelled surname, she'll need to prove herself fast on this male chauvinistic team. She unearths a vital clue that links a quiet, retired ex-Military police officer to the killings. The media is hungry for an arrest. If she's right, she'll stamp her place on the team. But if she's wrong, not only will it end her career but destroy Detective Jack Creed's as well. "This has everything....great story line, wonderful characters, tension and just the right amount twists and turns. C T Mitchell's best work."

Download or read book Jack Frost written by Christopher Greyson and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you get when you mix Agatha Christie's masterpiece And There Were None with the blockbuster television show Survivor? JACK FROST! Jack and Alice have a new assignment: to investigate the suspicious death of a soundman on the hit TV show Planet Survival. While Alice researches the incident from home in Darrington, Jack goes undercover as a security agent where the show is filming on nearby Mount Minuit. Soon trapped on the treacherous peak by a blizzard the media are calling the "Two-Headed Beast," the mysterious killer continues to stalk the cast and crew of Planet Survival. As the temperature falls, the body count begins to rise and what started out as a game is now a deadly competition for survival. Only one thing is clear...Jack is back and winter is going to be white hot.A page-turning avalanche of excitement from cover to cover.

Download or read book I Didn t Know I Was Black Until You Told Me written by Thomas Kirst and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational book detailing the profound changes in the life of a black child being left at a hospital after birth. Thirteen months into his life being adopted by a white couple that migrated from Europe before World War 2, who would later adopt over twenty children with different nationalities. The author writes of his emotional struggles from being abandoned and not knowing how to accept love to searching for answers to the pain and confusion that comes with growing up in white churches and schools while being black in the 1980s. Through anger, drugs, alcohol, jail, death, racism, and having the feeling there's no one to connect with to finding out who he is. The author takes you for a riveting ride through his life as he never gives up to find the answers he is looking for that haunted him throughout his life. Through life, love, hate, hurt, tears, and confusion, the author finds what he is looking for. But did he? An unbelievable ending to a lost soul that endured emotional trauma as in the end, he learns to love what he pushed away, learns to accept his life and who he is.

Download or read book Death Scenes written by Sean Tejaratchi and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strange and gruesome crime-scene snapshot collection of LAPD detective Jack Huddleston spans Southern California in its noir heyday. Death Scenes is the noted forerunner of several copycat titles.

Download or read book The Angels Wept written by Jack Roney and published by A Detective Jarrod O'Connor Story. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Angels Wept is the first book in the Detective Jarrod O'Connor series. Gripping fictionalised crime authored by a real-life detective.

Download or read book Buried written by Lynda La Plante and published by Zaffre. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in a brand new thriller series from Lynda La Plante. A burnt-out cottage, a fortune buried in the ashes - and a body that could solve a decades-old crime.