Download or read book The Case of the Mystery Meat Loaf written by David Lewman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you dust for fingerprints on a meat loaf? Club CSI: is on the case in this new middle-grade series about forensic science! Calling all kid crime-solvers: Forensic science isn’t just for grown-ups anymore! Thanks to the popularity of shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, forensic science has made its way into the classroom. This new middle-grade series stars a group of students whose forensic science class inspires them to form a “Club CSI:” to investigate crimes and capers at school. As Club CSI: collects clues, readers will love trying to put the pieces together to find out what really happened in this series that is part mystery, part detective story, and just plain fun! In The Case of the Mystery Meat Loaf, Ben, Corey, and Hannah’s first case as Club CSI: begins when a bunch of students and the principal get food poisoning from the cafeteria’s hot lunch. Everyone blames the new science teacher because she pushed the lunch lady to add her healthy “meatless meat loaf” recipe to the menu, but Club CSI: isn’t pointing fingers until they evaluate the evidence. Can they find out who messed with the meat loaf before the science teacher gets in trouble or more people get sick? Club CSI: is on the case!

Download or read book Dial M for Meat Loaf written by Ellen Hart and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RECIPE FOR MURDER As Minnesota housewives race to meet the deadline for the Times Register's meat loaf contest, an unsavory small-towner named Kirby Runbeck is blown to smithereens by a car bomb. Days later, the town's former mayor, John Washburn, near death from a stroke, confesses to the killing. His wife and two children vehemently deny it, but when Sophie Greenway, food maven and friend of the family, happens upon an old snapshot, a bundle of letters, and a tattoo of a red-eyed snake, she wonders about Washburn's innocence. Unlike the recipe for a prize meat loaf, this murder is seasoned with spicy secrets and a generous portion of scandal, which Sophie dares to bring to a roiling boil. . . .

Download or read book The Case of the Plagued Play written by David Lewman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a saboteur begins stealing props and vandalizing sets for the school play, Hannah, Ben and Corey apply their investigative and scientific skills to rule out suspects such as a jealous classmate and a disgruntled actor.

Download or read book Sticky Evidence XBooks written by D. B. Beres and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was it the perfect crime? When Bob Moranes unlocks the door to his pharmacy, he gasps in shock. The store is in ruins, and the cash register is empty. But medicine and money aren't all that's missing; so are the burglar's fingerprints! High-interest topics, real stories, engaging design, and astonishing photos are the building blocks of the XBooks, a new series of books designed to engage and motivate reluctant and enthusiastic readers alike. How can DNA help a convicted person prove their innocence? How did a burglar steal from a store without leaving any fingerprints? Why was the tiny town in Hardin, Missouri, awash with skeletons after a huge flood? With topics based in science, these action-packed books will help students unlock the power and pleasure of reading... and always ask for more!

Download or read book The Maltese Meatloaf Mystery and Other Tales written by Robert Oster and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two part rollicking tongue-in-cheek film noir mystery begins in 1951 in Eda City, a small metropolis in the Mid-West. Retired detective Phillip Bartlow has made a name for himself as the citys only Culinary Private Eye. In Part One, The Maltese Mystery Meatloaf, Bartlow is hired by a beautiful young lady to hunt down an up and coming new chef who is serving his patrons dry meatloaf. Bartlow is thrown into a comic adventure which brings him in contact with a cast of characters that include local gangsters, restauranteurs, angry police and a psychotic murderer. In the midst of this tangled web of crime and mayhem, our hero suddenly finds himself falling in love with his secretary/research assistant, Connie. Part two, The California Honeymoon Caper finds our now newlyweds, Phillip and Connie Bartlow, traveling cross country to spend their honeymoon in San Francisco and at Connies aunts caper farm in Santa Rosa, California. Phillip and Connie find themselves caught up in another perilous, but humorous, adventure involving revenge, murder, and exploitation by the unsavory characters that they meet on the train.

Download or read book The Case of the Disappearing Dogs written by David Lewman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Club CSI members Hannah, Ben, and Corey combine what they have learned in their forensic science class with investigative skills to find Hannah's missing dog.

Download or read book Hit Men written by Fredric Dannen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copiously researched and documented, Hit Men is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling the evolution of America's largest music labels from the Tin Pan Alley days to the present day, Fredric Dannen examines in depth the often venal, sometimes illegal dealings among the assorted hustlers and kingpins who rule over this multi-billion-dollar business. Updated with a new last chapter by the author.

Download or read book A Man A Can A Plan written by David Joachim and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Man, A Can, A Plan, inspired by an article in the most popular mens magazine, Men's Health, is a cookbook that presents 50 simple, inexpensive recipes featuring ingredients guys have right in their cupboards--canned food. Great and healthy food can be had for a low price and minimum effort, and A Man, A Can, A Plan lays it all out, in pictorial, easy-to-follow steps, for the culinary-challenged. It features special sections on cooking for her and cooking for the morning after for dudes with a lady on their minds. Author David Joachim received the 1999 James Beard Award for Steven Raichlen's Healthy Latin Cooking, so he knows his stuff and makes it accessible to beginners and experienced guys as well. Get your can openers ready to rumble!

Download or read book Mad Craze Middle School the Case of the Crumpled Balls written by V. L. Nabors and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three days remain before 12 yr. old Cuban Linn's 2-week holiday break and he couldn't be more excited. First, he'll hang out at the mall with the most popular girl at his school and other friends. Then, he'll play in his school's division championship basketball game. Finally Cuban and his cousin/best friend Jaria will celebrate their 13th birthday with a huge party. Unfortunately, Cuban has unknowingly stumbled into the middle of a crime at his school. He is now the prime suspect and could lose everything, including his freedom. Join Cuban and Jaria as they set out to clear his name. Will they find the perpetrator in time? It's middle school fun, craziness, and suspense for readers 9 through 15 years of age.

Download or read book Citizen Jane written by James Dalessandro and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom O'Donnell had been living off the graces of Jane Alexander for six years. He regaled her with his wit, charm, and tales of oversea adventure. He also borrowed money extensively for home business operations and future investments.But Tom O'Donnell was more than just a con man. He would do anything for money--even murder Jane's 88-year-old aunt. After he fled with over $10,000 of her money, Jane was determined to put him behind bars.This is her story.

Download or read book Phases of Existence and Things I Learned When I Was Dead written by Justin Case and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-08-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are we here? Where do we go from here? Do I have a guardian angel? When I die, is it over? How can I live a happier life? Did I ever have a past Life? Why do I feel the way I do? What is most important? I was in a coma for ten days after getting shot 4 times. When I woke up, I knew things that I did not know before. I learned the answers all these questions and many more. 30000 kids age out of foster care every year with little or no safety net. Proceeds from this book will go to help kids who are homeless or facing homelessness they are our future and they need our help.

Download or read book New Adventures of Mary Kate Ashley 46 The Case of the Unicorn Mystery written by Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girls' friend Lindsay wants to enter her beautiful tulips in a flower contest, but someone-- or something-- ripped the flowers right off the stems. All clues point to a unicorn.

Download or read book Recipe for Death written by Robert Oster and published by Lulu Publishing Services. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's April 1949 in Eda City and former detective, Phillip Bartlow, has big plans for a new career. In this prequel to The Maltese Mystery Meatloaf and Other Tales, Bartlow's first case as a culinary private investigator gets him entangled in a web of murder, intrigue, political corruption and conspiracy.

Download or read book The Case of the Missing Moola written by David Lewman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crack a case with Club CSI: in this new middle-grade series about forensic science! Calling all kid crime-solvers: Forensic science isn’t just for grown-ups anymore! Thanks to the popularity of shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, forensic science has made its way into the classroom. This new middle-grade series stars a group of students whose forensic science class inspires them to form a “Club CSI:” to investigate crimes and capers at school. As Club CSI: collects clues, readers will love trying to put the pieces together to find out what really happened in this series that is part mystery, part detective story, and just plain fun! In Club CSI: Untitled #2, Ben, Corey, and Hannah will have to use all they’ve learned about forensic science—plus good old-fashioned detective work and a little bit of luck—to solve their next case! Inspired by the CSI franchise, Club CSI: is “required reading” for young scientists-in-training, or for anyone who loves a good mystery!

Download or read book Dead Man s Fancy written by Keith McCafferty and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third novel starring Montana's favorite fly fisherman-cum-detective Sean Stranahan, for fans of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box. Cold Hearted River, the sixth in the series, is forthcoming from Viking. Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The missing woman, Nanika Martinelli, is better known as the Fly Fishing Venus, a red-haired river guide who lures clients the way dry flies draw trout. As Sheriff Martha Ettinger follows hoof tracks in the snow, she finds one of the men who has fallen under the temptress’s spell impaled on the antler tine of a giant bull elk, a kill that’s been claimed by a wolf pack. An accident? If not, is the killer human or animal? With painter, fly fisherman, and sometimes private detective Sean Stranahan’s help, Ettinger will follow clues that point to an animal rights group called the Clan of the Three-Clawed Wolf and to their svengali master, whose eyes blaze with pagan fire. In their most dangerous adventure yet, Stranahan and Ettinger find themselves in the crossfire of wolf lovers, wolf haters, and a sister bent on revenge, and on the trail of an alpha male gone terribly wrong.

Download or read book Mad About Meatloaf Weenie Featuring Frank and Beans Book 1 written by Maureen Fergus and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Weenie, a food-obsessed wiener dog, and his best friends Frank and Beans in this hilarious early graphic novel for fans of Narwhal and Jelly and The Bad Guys. Weenie loves his human, Bob. He loves his guinea pig friend, Beans, and his cat friend, Frank. He loves naps, adventures and sharing. In fact, Weenie loves pretty much everything (except the mail carrier). But the thing Weenie loves and desires more than anything else in the world is meatloaf. And he'll do anything to get it. Join Weenie, Frank and Beans on a laugh-out-loud meatloaf adventure, complete with a trench coat disguise, a wild meatloaf trap and even a hungry wolf.

Download or read book The Detective Joe Ezell Mystery Boxed Set Books 1 3 written by P.J. Conn and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Detective Joe Ezell in 1940s Los Angeles As He Solves Three Murder Mysteries With A Woman of Mysterious Identity, a VA Nurse and an Aspiring Actress BOOK 1: Murder Me Twice - Joe Ezell, GI turned gumshoe, pays the bills by catching philandering husbands for rich dames wanting a divorce. When Faye Marten darkens his door, she doesn't quite fit the bill, but she is willing to pay. A few hours later, Hal Marten, the man Faye hired him to dog, arrives asking for help. The cops believe Hal murdered his now missing wife and Hal wants him to prove his innocence. But the deeper Joe digs, the more convinced he becomes that Faye and Hal aren't who they claim to be. The only question is: can he prove it and solve the murder before another victim is knocked off? BOOK 2: Stairway to Murder - World War II G.I. turned gumshoe, Joe Ezell is hunting a murderer. A Los Angeles VA hospital nurse has been found dead, and RN Mary McBride, the love of Joe's life, is next. Has the Black Dahlia killer struck again or was it one of the VA hospital doctors trying to keep a malpractice case under wraps? There are too many suspects, too few leads, and LAPD Detective Lynch is thwarting Joe's every move. If Joe doesn't succeed, he'll never get the chance to slip a ring on Mary's finger. BOOK 3: Murder on Ice - When aspiring actress Cookie Crumble is found dead in a refrigerator in a vacant apartment, the police immediately suspect the landlord's son whose father hires gumshoe PI Joe Ezell to find the true killer. With a long list of suspects from ardent fans, to jealous lovers, to the mobster who Cookie rebuffed, Joe goes undercover as an actor. Did Cookie's dreams of silver-screen fame lead to her murder? But the closer Joe gets to the truth, the more likely he is to get iced. Publisher Note: The Detective Joe Ezell Mystery Series is a "clean and wholesome" read with no sex or vulgar language and will be enjoyed by readers of cozy mysteries and classic detective "whodunit" mysteries in the spirit of Sam Spade and Humphrey Bogart. While not a true noir or hard-boiled mystery, this series captures the charm of film noir without the drugs, sex or beatings. "This is a wonderful series. The period facts are correct, the plots interesting and the characters believable." ~Lori Biever Launder ". . . charming glimpse of Hollywood in the 1940’s. A relaxing read even with the murder and mayhem." ~Tree House Reader, eBook Discovery Reviewer ". . . a gumshoe you'd like to spend time with . . . a sweet love story and a good mystery with a satisfying ending." ~Pete Croisant, eBook Discovery Reviewer ". . . when at last the clues come together, no-one could have imagined the bizarre outcome. This is a superb whodunit . . ." ~Melanie S., eBook Discovery The Detective Joe Ezell Mystery Series, in order Murder Me Twice Stairway to Murder Murder on Ice Murder on Stilettos Eye for Murder About the Author: Always a passionate lover of books, this New York Times bestselling author first answered a call to write in the 1980s and swiftly embarked on her own mythic journey. MURDER ON STILETTOS, the fourth book in her Joe Ezell Mystery series, written as P. J., is her forty-sixth release. With more than seven million copies in print of her historical, contemporary and futuristic books written under her own name as well as her pseudonyms, Cinnamon Burke, and P. J. Conn, she is as enthusiastic as ever about writing. A native Californian, Phoebe attended the University of Arizona and California State University at Los Angeles where she earned a BA in Art History and an MA in Education. Her books have won Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards and a nomination for Storyteller of the Year. Her futuristic, STARFIRE RISING, won a RomCom award as best Futuristic Romance of the year. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Novelists Inc. and Sisters in Crime. She is the proud mother of two grown sons and two adorable grandchildren, who love to have her read to them.