Download or read book The Case of the Angry Actress written by Howard Fast and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDetective Masuto investigates a Hollywood mogul’s sudden death/div DIVThe residents of Beverly Hills tend to underestimate a Buddhist homicide detective, and Masao Masuto is happy to let them make that mistake. A second-generation Japanese-American, he relishes the thrill of a puzzling murder case. And Masuto will need all his powers of deduction to understand the murder of Al Greenberg./divDIV /divDIVThe producer was giving a party when his heart stopped. After years of bad health, Greenberg’s abrupt death is no surprise. But one of the dead man’s producing partners claims to have overheard an unknown woman taunting Greenberg, while he pleaded, “put that gun away and give me my medicine.” It appears Greenberg was frightened to death. To find the killer, Masuto must dig into the darkest secrets of the mogul’s past. Greenberg will not be the last to die./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div
Download or read book The Case of the Angry Actress written by E. V. Cunningham and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Sergeant Masao Masuto searches for the ingenious killer of a movie mogul amid the posh surroundings and wealthy celebrities of Beverly Hills
Download or read book The Case of the Angry Actress written by Linda Lee Maifair and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of her dog Max, Darcy is able to figure out who is responsible for sabotaging the fifth-grade class play.
Download or read book The Masao Masuto Mysteries Volume One written by Howard Fast and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thrilling murder mysteries featuring “an unusually interesting detective” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus (The Washington Star). Japanese-American Beverly Hills homicide detective Masao Masuto is a karate expert, a devotee of roses, and a Zen Buddhist. He does his job with a cool, caustic wit—and with surprising force when necessary. He possesses a singular sense of justice, taking action on his own and occasionally pushing the boundaries of the law . . . The Case of the Angry Actress: When a Hollywood mogul drops dead at his own party, Detective Masuto must dig into the darkest secrets of the magnate’s past. Now he must uncover a secret worth killing for before someone else dies. “A good fast-paced thriller.” —Reader’s Syndicate The Case of the One-Penny Orange: Masuto has a break-in and a murder to solve, both of which are baffling. But when he suspects a connection between the two crimes, he uncovers a bizarre conspiracy that reaches back to the darkest days of World War II. “A finely perceived mystery puzzle . . . an unusually interesting detective.” —The Washington Star The Case of the Russian Diplomat: When a dead body is found in a pool at a high-class hotel notorious for its illicit activities, Matsuo finds himself hunting for a killer and tangled in a web of espionage and international intrigue. “An enjoyable, highly professional entertainment.” —The New Yorker The Case of the Poisoned Eclairs: A pleasant lull in murder cases is broken when a series of unusual poisoning deaths puts Masuto on the hunt for someone whose terrifying vendetta has only just begun. “A consummate storyteller.” —The Baltimore Sun
Download or read book Heroes and Humanities written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery fiction, although essentially the same in all its national varieties, nevertheless comes in several types and several wrappings. The present study of American, Australian, and Canadian detective fiction concerns literature which speaks in the ways of heroes and humanities about the human condition. All authors studied here, to one degree or another, demonstrate their concern with human society, some more strongly than others, but all with their eyes on the human situation and human existence. At times these studies lean toward the tragic in their outlook and development. In all instances they center on the humanistic.
Download or read book The Mystery Readers Advisory written by John Charles and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three librarians from Scottsdale, Arizona provide library staff with an introduction to the mystery genre and offer tips and techniques for providing advice to mystery readers in the library. They include some of their own bibliographies, but refer readers elsewhere for fuller ones. They also include a brief history of the genre to pass on to readers new to it.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Jewish American Literature written by Gloria L. Cronin and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reference on Jewish American literature providing profiles of Jewish American writers and their works.
Download or read book Diversity and Detective Fiction written by Kathleen Gregory Klein and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguishing characteristic of the book is its mix of essays focusing on teaching cultural diversity in the classroom and illustrating diversity through fiction to the general readers."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Case of the Missing Max written by Linda Lee Maifair and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darcy, her brother, and their dog Max are staying with their grandparents when Max disappears and Darcy faces the most important case of her detective career.
Download or read book Angry Movie Guy written by Izzy Church and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to achieve fame and success an off-beat film reviewer named Charlie Zimmerman chooses to become a sensational, verbally incontinent film critic known as the "Angry Movie Guy." Charlie's must re-examine his personal life and career when his biting review and explosive T.V. fits threaten to destroy the career of Alexa, a fiery independent filmmaker whom Charlie has fallen in love with. This event serves as a catalyst for his Grinch-like personal redemption. More in touch with his feelings, Charlie relentlessly pursues Alexa like a love-struck fool while Harry, the lewd producer of his show unrelentingly plots against the budding romance using the "bad publicity" model as his tool to keep them apart. Charlie won't give up without a fight! "Angry Movie Guy," flawlessly blends witty dialogue, inadequacy, self-hatred, and a comfortable familiarity with the types of personalities that readers will connect with.
Download or read book Impossible Monsters written by Kasey Lansdale and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eschewing romantic vampires and shambling zombies, this collection presents monsters that do not merely kill, but suddenly and incomprehensibly consume, destroy, and reduce their victims to mere bones... Readers who stay up late wondering if there really is something out there will find these stories to be perfect nightmare fodder"--Publishers Weekly.
Download or read book I m Glad My Mom Died written by Jennette McCurdy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by American former actress and singer Jennette McCurdy about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013
Download or read book The Silent Patient written by Alex Michaelides and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....
Download or read book A Slight Trick of the Mind written by Mitch Cullin and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking–about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. A novel of exceptional grace and literary sensitivity, A Slight Trick of the Mind is a brilliant imagining of our greatest fictional detective and a stunning inquiry into the mysteries of human connection.
Download or read book Millie written by Howard Fast and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA PR man investigates the tortured life of a mysterious acquaintance—and winds up knee-deep in the wrong kind of trouble/div DIVFor a public relations guru like Al Brody, witnessing death is not part of the job description. But that is just what the call from Andrew Capestone requires. When Brody arrives at his old friend’s bedside, it’s not long before the man dies. Brody has not thought of Capestone, his onetime Harvard acquaintance, for decades. In the years since college he has established a successful career, gotten married, gotten divorced, and fallen in love with his assistant Millie. But everything Brody has worked for is put in peril when Capestone’s dead body goes missing, and Brody is suddenly involved in a shocking criminal cabal./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div
Download or read book Masuto Investigates written by Howard Fast and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally written under the pseudonym E.V. Cunningham"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book Sally written by Howard Fast and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA small-town girl flees from the assassin she hired to kill her/div DIVWhen the doctor in her small hometown tells Sally Dillman that she has six months to live, the quiet young schoolteacher sells her house and moves to New York City. She comes not to see the sights, not for one last thrill, but to die as quickly as possible. Savings in hand, she pays a mobster $3,000 to put a contract out on her life. She wants to be killed before leukemia saps her strength, and she wants it to be a surprise. Only later does she learn of her terrible mistake./divDIV /divDIVAs the date of her appointed death draws closer, Sally feels none of the effects of her disease. A visit to the hospital confirms that the first diagnosis was wrong. She is no longer in danger from leukemia, but it is too late to stop the assassin. No longer prepared to die, Sally must fight to escape the deadly trap she laid for herself./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div
