Download or read book The Unclaimed Victim written by D. M. Pulley and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living decades apart, two women get caught in the web of an infamous serial killer. In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city. Ethel Harding, a prostitute struggling to survive both the cold streets and the Torso Killer, takes refuge with a devout missionary sect--only to find that its righteous facade conceals the darkest of secrets. Sixty years later, the police find the butchered body of Alfred Wiley in the woods. But before his daughter, Kris, can even identify the remains, things he never told her begin to surface one by one--a mysterious private eye who'd been tracking him, an eerie website devoted to the unsolved "Torso" murders, missing archives, stolen books, and an abandoned Bible factory harboring vagrants. The more she learns about her father's obsession with the Torso Killer, the more Alfred's death appears to be related, pulling Kris further into Cleveland's hellish past. Living decades apart, Ethel and Kris must unravel the truth behind the city's most notorious serial killer...or die trying.
Download or read book Unclaimed Baggage written by Jen Doll and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A New York Times Staff Pick* *An NPR Best Book of 2018* *A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2018* In Jen Doll's young adult debut novel, Unclaimed Baggage, Doris—a lone liberal in a conservative small town—has mostly kept to herself since the terrible waterslide incident a few years ago. Nell had to leave behind her best friends, perfect life, and too-good-to-be-true boyfriend in Chicago to move to Alabama. Grant was the star quarterback and epitome of "Mr. Popular" whose drinking problem has all but destroyed his life. What do these three have in common? A summer job working in a store called Unclaimed Baggage cataloging and selling other people's lost luggage. Together they find that through friendship, they can unpack some of their own emotional baggage and move on into the future.
Download or read book Unclaimed Property written by Tracey L. Reid and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unclaimed Property: A Reporting Process and Audit Survival Guide breaks the unclaimed property process down into manageable steps that you can either handle on your own or with the help of a professional in the field. Author Tracey Reid presents a thorough introduction to every aspect of unclaimed property laws, clarifying what unclaimed property is, how the escheat laws apply to your particular circumstance, and how you can bring your enterprise into compliance with the least amount of manpower and cash outlay possible.
Download or read book The Dead Key written by D. M. Pulley and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1998. For years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved. Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold the bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees, and thwarting a looming federal investigation. In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault's safe-deposit boxes were lost. When engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey, what begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as she unravels the bank's sordid past-- and soon realizes that the key to the mystery comes at an astonishing price.
Download or read book The Lost Highway written by David Adams Richards and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What had happened, from those days until now? And why had it? And how had his life gone? And who was to blame? Or why did he think he had to blame anyone? Certainly he couldn’t even blame Mr. Roach, caught in the same turmoil as everyone believing half-truths in order to blame other people. These are the forlorn thoughts of Alex Chapman, the tragic anti-hero of David Adams Richards’ masterful novel The Lost Highway. An exploration of the philosophical contortions of which man is capable, the novel tracks the desperate journey of an eternally lost and orphaned child/man who has nearly squandered his frail birthright but might yet earn some degree of redemption. David Adams Richards’ The Lost Highway is a taut psychological thriller that goes far beyond the genre into the worlds of Leo Tolstoy, and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, as well as classical Greek mythology, testing the very limits of humankind’s all too tenuous grasp on morality.
Download or read book No One s Home written by D. M. Pulley and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Haunting of Hill House comes a dark tale of a mansion haunted by a legacy of tragedy and a family trapped by lies. Margot and Myron Spielman move to a new town, looking for a fresh start and an escape from the long shadow of their past. But soon after they buy Rawlingswood, a foreclosed mansion rumored to be haunted, they realize they're in for more of the same...or worse. After a renovation fraught with injuries and setbacks, the Spielmans move in to the century-old house, and their problems quickly escalate. The home's beautiful facade begins to crumble around them when their teenage son uncovers disturbing details of Rawlingswood's history--a history of murder, betrayal, and financial ruin. The Spielmans' own shameful secrets and lies become harder to hide as someone or something inside the house watches their every move. As tensions build between the family members, the home's dark history threatens to repeat itself. Margot and Myron must confront their own ghosts and Rawlingswood's buried past before the house becomes their undoing.
Download or read book Unclaimed Experience written by Cathy Caruth and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field.
Download or read book The Unclaimed written by Pamela Prickett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity.”—Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Poverty, by America For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters’ fields—a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried to avoid. Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies. Up to 150,000 Americans now go unclaimed each year. Who are they? Why are they being forgotten? And what is the meaning of life if your death doesn’t matter to others? In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans uncover a hidden social world. They follow four individuals in Los Angeles, tracing the twisting, poignant paths that put each at risk of going unclaimed, and introducing us to the scene investigators, notification officers, and crematorium workers who care for them when no one else will. The Unclaimed lays bare the difficult truth that anyone can be abandoned. It forces us to confront a variety of social ills, from the fracturing of families and the loneliness of cities to the toll of rising inequality. But it is also filled with unexpected moments of tenderness. In Boyle Heights, a Mexican American neighborhood not far from the glitter of Hollywood, hundreds of strangers come together each year to mourn the deaths of people they never knew. These ceremonies, springing up across the country, reaffirm our shared humanity and help mend our frayed social fabric. Beautifully crafted and profoundly empathetic, The Unclaimed urges us to expand our circle of caring—in death and in life.
Download or read book A Bad Character written by Deepti Kapoor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed story of a young woman in New Dehli, and the love that both shatters and forever changes her—offering an intimate and raw exploration of female transformation in contemporary India, and an unforgettable hymn to a dangerous, exhilarating city. “Searing.... Intoxicating.” —The New York Times Book Review Our narrator is “twenty and untouched” when her mother dies. Sent by her absentee father to live with a relative in a modest New Delhi apartment, she is ill-equipped to resist the allure of the rich and rebellious young man who approaches her one day at a cafe. He is a few years older, and from a different social class, but they both yearn to break free of tradition. As they drive around Delhi—eating, making love, falling apart—he introduces her to an India that she never knew existed, and will never be able to forget. Told in a voice at once gritty and lyrical, A Bad Character is an astounding book.
Download or read book Acceleration written by Graham McNamee and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority’s Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endless dusty boxes overflowing with stuff no one will ever claim, Duncan’s just about had enough. Then he finds a little leather book. It’s a diary filled with the dark and dirty secrets of a twisted mind, a serial killer stalking his prey in the subway. And Duncan can’t make himself stop reading. What would you do with a book like that? How far would you go to catch a madman? And what if time was running out. . . .
Download or read book Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers written by Mary Roach and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.
Download or read book The Disposition of Assets Deposited in Swiss Banks by Missing Nazi Victims written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walk of Death written by Mike Tabor and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When J.D. Scott and Clint Logan, two addicts, start feeling the heat of the law, they deivse an elaborate plan involving murder, switched identities, and the fraudulent cashing of a $250,000 life insurance policy. Dr. Chris Walsh, Chief Forensic Odontologist, is determined to identify the victim. His quest takes him from the world famous Body Farm in Knoxville, Tennessee to the Twin Tower collapse.
Download or read book Body 115 written by Paul Chambers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chambers discusses the emotional search for the last piece in the puzzle of the King's Cross fire and the forensic investigation it took to solve it.
Download or read book Uncovering the Governess s Secrets written by Marguerite Kaye and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensual Victorian gothic romance set in Scotland She’s running from the past… Am I the key to her future? As a private investigator to the rich, it’s my job to be impartial, but returning to moody Edinburgh—the city where I made my name—to locate Marianne Crawford unsettles me. And when I meet the beguiling governess in question, I’m inexplicably drawn to her… Marianne Crawford is a survivor. She’s lived through experiences designed to destroy her. But I’m here to reveal her true identity, not to fall under her spell. I’ve never been afraid of secrets, but once I uncover this one, I’m afraid I won’t be able to walk away… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.
Download or read book Secrets of Unclaimed 400 Billion Dollars Lost Fortunes Held By The U S Government How To Claim Your Share written by Daniel Okoronkwo and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVERVIEW Secrets of Unclaimed $400 Billion Dollars Lost Fortunes Held By the U.S. Government; How To Claim Your Share. AN AUTHORITATIVE GUIDE FOR OWNERS OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY AND CAREER LOCATORS. AN INCREDIBLE HOW-TO-DO-IT BOOK THAT COULD CHANGE YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE !! Nine out of ten Americas based on reliable sources have some kind of money sitting latent in government treasuries, state and federal. You could be one of those. For many many years, forgotten money continue to grow and crowd government treasuries because owners and next of kin to deceased relative owners cannot be found. Within the last ten yeaes lost or forgotten unclaimed assets of individuals have skyrocketted to over $400 Billion dollars, and continue to grow. Government is waiting and has been making effort to find owners to come forth and claim their money, but the rate is minimal. The funds continue to pile up year after year in government treasuries. New York unclaimed property alone is estimated to be over $5 billion. California figure stands at $3 billion. Many other states figures are in millions and millions of dollars. These forgotten money accumulate from daily business transactions of individuals. After a while people forget all about it, and then the funds are turned over to the state treasury for safekeeping until the owner comes forward to claim it.These assets are from checking and savings accounts; insurance proceeds; corporation stocks and dividends; U.S.savings bonds; security deposits with utility companies; uncashed government checks; gift certificates and credit memo issued by department stores; royalties paid to owners of minerals, inventions, authors, music recordings, motion pictures, other forms of creativity; and contents of safe deposit box from banks. This book offers an opportunity to learn how to claim your share of unclaimed funds. It is also a manual for Locators who wish to make a living assisting owners and heirs, who cannot claim the funds themselves, for a fee and hefty reward as much as 50%. The book target audience are schools, libraries, senior citizen centers, hospitals, community centers, online booksellers, military installations and bases, and anywhere Americans reside or do business, as .they may be the rightful owners or heirs of this huge unclaimed funds to be claimed. Library of Congress Ref: #: TX 6 844 125 Addendum to Book Free Preview It is established and documented by authorities that unclaimed property belonging to millions of Americans throughout the United States, stood at $400 billion dollars in 2005, held at state and federal treasuries. Government is urging people to come forth to claim their money, but the rate of claim is very slow. People wonder if they have unclaimed money held by the government. Definitely they do. This book will show the procedure on how to claim your funds. It will also prepare aspiring Locators the permissible way to operate to conform to government rules, for his important position, to assist owners claim their funds speedly, in full amount without hassle. How People Loose their Money: Individuals loose or forget their money in many ways, but typically by accident, forgetfulness, or death. The money is still yours, but you must follow the procedure as elaborated in my book and put a claim. Also, great many owners and beneficiaries cannot claim their money themselves due to physical handicap, in the hospital, or mentally impaired. These exigencies prompted the idea of elaborate exposition on the Locator job as a career, not a hobby, and shows what he or she need to do to perform his job with dignity, trust, and in a professional manner.. Vital Records and Resources for the Locator: The resources for the Locator to function efficiently are presented in great detail in the book, including, how to perform heir searches in the absence of a compute
Download or read book Billy No Mates written by Max Dickins and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Where have all my friends gone?’ When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man. He quickly learned that he wasn’t the only man struggling with friendships. For decades, countless studies from across the world have confirmed that men have fewer close friends than women – and the problem gets worse the older men get. But what goes wrong? And what can men do about it? Dickins is going to find out. Join Max on his funny and charmingly candid search as he takes a defibrillator to his social life. As he ultimately discovers that if he wants a Best Man, then he needs to be a better man.
