Download or read book Hotel Detective written by Alan Russell and published by Mysterious Press. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novice hotelier Am Caulfield, left happily in charge of a luxurious southern California resort, is underprepared for the ensuing mayhem, which includes a grisly double murder that must be solved before his boss's return.

Download or read book Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective written by Peter Greenberg and published by Villard. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable information for away-from-home lodging, from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Travel Detective In Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, America’s best-known and most trusted travel authority reveals the insider knowledge that can make every hotel stay as comfortable as (and sometimes even more cost-efficient than) home. With his incomparable access and nose for news, Peter Greenberg shares the secrets that people who know hotels—managers, maids, reservation clerks, bellhops, chefs, and maintenance guys—don’t want you to know about value, service, safety, security, and cleanliness. Tips include: • How to tell if your room is really clean • What never to order from room service • The real way to prevent hotel crime • How to beat excessive hotel phone charges • The exact rooms where headline-making events took place Drawn from the author’s experiences as both an investigative reporter and a constant traveler, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective is an essential guide to everything from luxury resorts to motels, from airport hotels and bed-and-breakfasts to outrageous (and often secret) alternatives to hotels.

Download or read book Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief written by Wendelin Van Draanen and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2003-09-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" —Midwest Children's Book Review What Sammy should have done was put the binoculars down and call 911. What she does instead is tighten up the focus on her right eye to get a better look. There's something very familiar about this thief. But when Sammy eventually spills her story to Officer Borsch, he doesn't believe her. He treats her like some snot-nosed little kid. Well, Sammy's not going to stand for that. She's a snot-nosed seventh grader now, and she knows what she saw. And somehow she's going to prove it. The Sammy Keyes mysteries are fast-paced, funny, thoroughly modern, and true whodunits. Each mystery is exciting and dramatic, but it's the drama in Sammy's personal life that keeps readers coming back to see what happens next with her love interest Casey, her soap-star mother, and her mysterious father.

Download or read book At Bertram s Hotel written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Bertram’s Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events. An old-fashioned London hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out to be.… When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service, and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly-polished veneer. Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccentric guest makes his way to the airport on the wrong day.…

Download or read book The Messy Adventures of Dick Piston Hotel Detective written by Jeff Goode and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 2002 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ladies and Gentlemen Boys and Girls written by Murray Pomerance and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.

Download or read book A Banner of Love written by Josephine Garner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States of the 1950s, there is peace, prosperity, and the American Dream. Aiming to claim their fair share of it, Taylor and Esther Payne begin their lives as a married couple in the haven of Haverly Street in Greenwich Village, New York. Here they can have their love and their license, and though their journey is one of love and trust, it is not without its challenges. As a Negro woman, Esther learns to live in Taylors white world no longer as his housekeeper but as his wife. In addition to the social conventions that are still against them, even in New York, Esther fears that their marriage has exacerbated the distance between Taylor and his family. Taylor wont talk about it. He is dismissive of his sister and uncle, but Esther is haunted by their absence. She yearns for their family to be wholebut what she learns in the process may endanger their happiness permanently. Set in New York in the 1950s, this novel tells the story of a bold passion between two newly married people as they change their ways for the sake of love.

Download or read book The Warehouse written by Rob Hart and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave. “A thrilling story of corporate espionage at the highest level . . . and a powerful cautionary tale about technology, runaway capitalism, and the nightmare world we are making for ourselves.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter Film rights sold to Imagine Entertainment for director Ron Howard! • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Financial Times • Real Simple • Kirkus Reviews Paxton never thought he’d be working for Cloud, the giant tech company that’s eaten much of the American economy. Much less that he’d be moving into one of the company’s sprawling live-work facilities. But compared to what’s left outside, Cloud’s bland chainstore life of gleaming entertainment halls, open-plan offices, and vast warehouses…well, it doesn’t seem so bad. It’s more than anyone else is offering. Zinnia never thought she’d be infiltrating Cloud. But now she’s undercover, inside the walls, risking it all to ferret out the company’s darkest secrets. And Paxton, with his ordinary little hopes and fears? He just might make the perfect pawn. If she can bear to sacrifice him. As the truth about Cloud unfolds, Zinnia must gamble everything on a desperate scheme—one that risks both their lives, even as it forces Paxton to question everything about the world he’s so carefully assembled here. Together, they’ll learn just how far the company will go…to make the world a better place. Set in the confines of a corporate panopticon that’s at once brilliantly imagined and terrifyingly real, The Warehouse is a near-future thriller about what happens when Big Brother meets Big Business--and who will pay the ultimate price. Praise for The Warehouse “A fun, fast-paced read [that] walks a fine line between a near-future thriller and a smart satire . . . makes you wonder if we’re already too far into a disastrous future, or if there’s still some hope for humanity.”—NPR “I loved The Warehouse, although and because it made my blood run cold. This is what our world could be by this time next year.”—S.J. Rozan, Edgar award-winning author of Paper Son “An inventive, addictive, Crichton-esque, page-turning, near-future dystopian thriller.”—Paul Tremblay, Stoker award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghostsof Lock Every Door

Download or read book For the Love of Family written by Rose Marie Ash and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miriam Cordell would do anything to protect those closest to her, especially her family if put in a position to do so. Many years would pass before she would be put in such a position. Her thinking of protection would include doing things above the law. She had no qualms of doing what she had to do. Her marriage to Jack Cordell provided her and their children a very comfortable and happy life. This fairy tale existence would abruptly come to an end. After visiting her sister, she started that long drive down a dark road in the Hollywood hills home. Miriam picked up a hitchhiker starting the chain of events that would affect the lives of the Cordell family for the next thirty decades; of world wars, espionage, child ignored by a father, bribery, sibling rivalry, a mother’s mistrust and secrets kept and murder. Even when the Cordell sons grew into men, Jack continued his animosity toward the younger son Trace, while twins Jack Jr., and Al were doted by their father. Miriam knew of her husband’s treatment of their youngest son was because of that night she was attacked. Jack Jr. and Al had blond hair and blue eyes like their father while Trace had dark brown hair and brown eyes like his mother. It just added into Jack Sr.’s belief that Trace was not his son. Miriam would bide her time for the right time and place to make Jack believe differently. It took a murder for the truth of Trace’ conception to finally come out but many years later. After the murder of Miriam’s antagonist, Jack pleaded guilty to manslaughter thus protecting his family from the truth of the true murderer. Once out of prison, Jack kept his secret from Miriam and his sons. The whole sorted story would come out in a letter penned by Jack to his sons after he and Miriam had passed away. At the end, the Cordell sons vowed to help those who suffered in the hands of unscrupulous people, no matter what for love of family.

Download or read book The Hotel Neversink written by Adam O'Fallon Price and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2020 Edgar Award Winner! "A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen King's Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." —Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears. This mysterious vanishing—and the ones that follow—will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion. His daughter Jeanie sees the Hotel Neversink into its most lucrative era, but also its darkest. Decades later, Asher's grandchildren grapple with the family’s heritage in their own ways: Len fights to keep the failing, dilapidated hotel alive, and Alice sets out to finally uncover the murderer’s identity. Told by an unforgettable chorus of Sikorsky family members—a matriarch, a hotel maid, a traveling comedian, the hotel detective, and many others—The Hotel Neversink is the gripping portrait of a Jewish family in the Catskills over the course of a century. With an unerring eye and with prose both comic and tragic, Adam O’Fallon-Price details one man’s struggle for greatness, no matter the cost, and a long-held family secret that threatens to undo it all.

Download or read book From Finland with Love written by J. S. Volpe and published by J. S. Volpe. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years have passed since the fateful events of Book One. Now sophomores in college, Calvin and Cynthia investigate a campus murder linked to the legendary Ur-Tarot, the original Tarot cards created by a psychic monk a millennium ago. Along the way, the duo befriends Kaarina Nurmi, a beautiful bisexual Finnish girl who helps out with the investigation. Unfortunately Kaarina’s involvement might prove to be more trouble than it’s worth, given that Calvin is straight, Cynthia is gay, and both of them are frustrated virgins who see their sensual new friend as the answer to their lonely prayers. Will the duo’s ensuing rivalry for the delectable Finn derail both the investigation and their friendship? Then again, considering the way the dead bodies are piling up, they might not be alive long enough for it to matter…

Download or read book Three Brothers Plus One written by Alfred Sanford Hamby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace wishes to make her own way like her other three brothers and attempts to balance her new political life with her husbands. He husband for months at a time is left alone and therefore becomes involved in extra martial affairs. As Secretary of State, the fourth in line to become the President of the United States without actually being voted for, wants to show the world that she can do the job and becomes involved in all sorts of foreign policies that have been historically established and some of her own., There is presented some actual data about the life of Alfred Hamby, the author of the 8 series of Three Brothers Plus On, while growing up into maturity. There are four (4) possibilities that are presented in regards to his growing up. You must use your imagination and maybe combine all his life stories into one (1) to get the real truth and or just take one (1).

Download or read book Critical Companion to F Scott Fitzgerald written by Mary Jo Tate and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Gatsby and its criticism of American society during the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald claimed the distinction of writing what many consider to be the "great American novel." Critical Companion to F.

Download or read book TWO SHORT DETECTIVE STORIES written by Hümeyra Kaya and published by K Medya. This book was released on with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STALKER You don't have to be James Bond to be a spy anymore. Many technological devices that we use at our disposal contain spyware that can show all the information about us in our homes, in our pockets and in our vehicles. Today, we're not talking about "stalkers" who innocently follow you on your social media. These are obsessive, psychologically disturbed people who take things to the level of perversion. What happened to Claire is a story that can happen to any woman today. A young girl who is trying to save her life innocently, and will live unaware of the terrible plan behind her. It's an emotional yet suspenseful story that draws you in towards the terrifying ending. ABRACADABRA Is it the sleight or the quickness of the tongue that counts as cunningness? Who wants to crack the door to a mysterious world and walk through the hidden halls with the famous illusionist Edi? A criminal short story full of adventure and thrill, you will be swept away from a magical world to the reality. You will be the prisoners of your own curiosity!

Download or read book The Detective s Holiday written by Charles Barry and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Barry was the pseudonum of Charles Bryson. This classic mystery is a facsimile of the 1926 Dutton first edition.

Download or read book 18 written by Kiarameil Goudy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Depot written by D R Ashley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young brothers embark on a trip to visit their grandparents for Christmas. They are allowed to make the trip alone. While the boys plan a fulfilled holiday with their grandparents, what they get is more gruesome than they could have ever imagined. One by one the passengers on the bus they are traveling on are dying. No one knows who is committing the murders, but there is a tall stranger who just might have an answer. This trip turns from fulfilled to frightening. Even though things appear one way, they are never what they seem. Find out if the brothers make their trip safely or not.