Download or read book Freddy the Detective written by Walter R. Brooks and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freddy the pig does some detective work in order to solve the mystery of the missing toy train. The delightful detective story about the beloved animal characters on Mr. Bean's farm, whose adventures have entertained so many children. Freddy the Pig has been reading Sherlock Holmes and knows that he, too, can apply his brain to solving mysteries. beginning with Farmer Bean's son's loss of a toy train Freddy becomes very efficient in the apprehension of criminals. In the end he not only solves the case of the murdered crow, but successfully acts as defense attorney for the falsely accused Jinx the cat. How often did Sherlock do that?
Download or read book The Detective Business written by Michèle Dufresne and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Georgie Giraffe decides to become a detective, his family and friends encourage him and bring him cases.
Download or read book The Detective written by Roderick Thorp and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bestselling book that inspired the hit movie by the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, an apparent suicide forces a PI to reconsider his most famous case Joe Leland returned from World War II with a chest full of medals, but his greatest honor came after he traded his pilot’s wings for a detective’s shield. Catching the Leikman killer made Joe a local hero, but the shine quickly wore off, and it wasn’t long before he left the police force to start his own private agency. Years after his greatest triumph, Joe has a modest income and a quiet life—both of which may soon fall apart. When Colin MacIver dies at the local racetrack, the coroner rules that he took his own life, but his widow knows better. Because MacIver’s life insurance policy doesn’t cover suicide, his wife is left broke, desperate, and afraid for her safety. She hires Leland to find out who could have killed her gentle, unassuming husband—a simple question that will turn this humble city inside out.
Download or read book Detective written by Arthur Hailey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A death row confession sparks an investigation that will tear Miami apart in this “engrossing thriller” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Booklist). Detective-Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former Catholic priest, is about to start his vacation when a call comes in from death row. Before serial killer Elroy Doil is taken to the electric chair, he wants to make a full confession to the cop who put him away. To close the books on additional murder cases in which Doil is a suspect, Ainslie drives four hundred miles to Florida State Prison. Although Doil confesses to ten other homicides, he insists that he didn’t commit the crime for which he will be executed the following day: the grisly slaying of a city commissioner and his wife. In his search for the real killer, Ainslie will discover that the upper levels of Miami’s government—including some of his closest colleagues—are more corrupt and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories written by Patricia Craig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.
Download or read book Where s the Detective written by Gary Knox and published by novum publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of a young junior customer service assistant, an old lady, and a middle-aged man are changed forever when three masked males break into the bank in Roundley, wielding a machete and a large sledgehammer. This becomes a case for officer Steve Welland and new recruit PC Phillipa Walters at Roundley Police Station. Inspector Vincent Parr, known as Faux Pas because of his constant errors in judgement, has missed out on a recent promotion, so he is determined to put this right – whatever the cost to justice, protocol, or the reputation of others. When Steve Welland is suspended from duty, obsessively hardworking Ged Pearson determines to ensure his friend is reinstated. What repercussions will arise from his efforts? And will Steve weather the storm?
Download or read book Leaves from the Note book of a New York Detective written by James Brampton and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Detective written by Jeffrey Fleishman and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles is booming. Money is pouring in. Buildings are going up. But someone is killing architects. Detective Sam Carver journeys through sins scattered across the City of Angels, where hipsters, homeless, immigrants, producers, politicians, movie stars, and cops collide in mysterious ways. Every move Carver makes is anticipated by the killer, Dylan Cross. She has hacked his computer and knows his diaries and secrets. She sees in him a kindred and damaged spirit, a man who can understand her crimes, heal her scars, and love her. Dylan is reclaiming herself from a past of brutal injustices inflicted by a world of misogyny and power. Detective Carver is dealing with his own troubled history: an elusive and violent father. My Detective is a story of obsession set against vengeance and prayers of forgiveness in a city that is as cruel as it is fantastical. It captures modern Los Angeles in real time, an eerie glide through the imagination, where winds gust high above the San Gabriel Mountains and neighborhoods stretch toward the ocean like the flash and tremor of a dream. The novel speaks to our sense of beauty in a new century and the demons we rouse when we dare to create a new metropolis.
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 The Detective Files written by Jeff C Fuller and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former detective with an intimate connection to a gruesome investigation takes on the challenge to nab an international murderer and his evil accomplice. Yet it isn't just guns and excellent investigative skills that prove necessary for this juncture in Emma Stevens's life. Love, faith, and mistrust play a critical role. The Detective Files: The Lord of Crime thrills readers from the initial 911 call of a murder to the final international pursuit of the Alphabet Killer and of Emma Stevens's life thereafter.
Download or read book Detective LaRue written by Mark Teague and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While on vacation, Mrs. LaRue receives letters from her dog Ike who has been falsely accused of harming the neighbor's cats and is trying to clear his name.
Download or read book The Detective written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secrets of Gaslight Lane written by M. R. C. Kasasian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel in the atmospheric Gower Street Detective series introduces a chilling locked room mystery to Detective Sidney Grice and his precocious ward March Middleton. London, 1883. All is quiet at 125 Gower Street. Private detective Sidney Grice is studying up on the anatomical structure of human hair whilst his ward, March Middleton, sneaks upstairs for her eighth secret cigarette of the day. The household is, perhaps, too quiet. So, when a beautiful young woman turns up at the door, imploring London's foremost private detective to solve the mystery of her father's murder, Grice can barely disguise his glee. Mr. Nathan Garstang was found slaughtered in his bed, but there is no trace of a weapon or intruder. A classic locked-room case. But what piques Grice's interest is the crime's link to one of London's most notorious unsolved murders. Ten years ago, Nathan's uncle aunt and servants were murdered in their sleep in the very same house. Now, it seems, the Garstang murderer is back . . .
Download or read book The Detective s Handbook written by John A. Eterno and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Detective’s Handbook details the vital information law enforcement officers need to know to become better detectives. Since all essential aspects of detective work cannot be covered in a single volume, the editors have selected 20 of the most critical issues detectives face in their day-to-day work and present them in separate chapters. Using a unique format and style, this essential handbook draws on the expertise of contributors with police and academic backgrounds to provide both new and seasoned detectives with invaluable insights. It covers a wide range of detective procedures and practices employed in the United States and can be read as a whole or used as a reference for conducting various types of investigations and interrogations. The book highlights common mistakes and outlines best practices to help readers avoid making the same mistakes in the field. It provides the tools and understanding to conduct the range of investigations that today’s detectives will most likely have to conduct, including those involving sexual predators, healthcare and financial fraud, cyber crime, gangs, cults, personal violence, and property. The text concludes with a section on all-purpose practices and lessons for investigations. In this section, readers will learn the practical aspects of interviewing and interrogating witnesses, including how to interview and communicate with special populations, such as those with mental and physical disabilities. Sharing the most effective investigative practices and procedures in use today, this book is a must-have for police, sheriffs, and other government agencies that are responsible for protecting the public.
Download or read book Kiss the Detective written by Élmer Mendoza and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intelligent, atmospheric police procedural series for fans of John Le Carré and Mick Heron "The most important thing that's happened in Mexican literature in the last thirty years" Gaby Wood, Sunday Telegraph. Detective Lefty Mendieta makes a deal with the devil in a gripping new novel from the Godfather of Narco Lit Short of leads on the execution-style murder of a fortune-teller, Detective Lefty Mendieta turns to his contacts in the drug underworld. They oblige, but there is a quid pro quo: Help Samantha Valdés, head of the Pacific Cartel, slip through the net of Mexican army and federal police encircling the hospital where she is recovering after an attempt on her life. Grudgingly he agrees, but then gets caught on camera during the escape and becomes headline news. Fired from the force and on the run from the Feds, Lefty again seeks Samantha's help when he learns that his son Jason has been kidnapped in Los Angeles. There, he must come to terms with the woman who broke his heart, while contending with a thicket of conspiracies, feints and double-crosses that further blur the distinction between crime and the law. Betrayal is certain. To save his son, who will Lefty sell out? Translated from the Spanish by Mark Fried
Download or read book Oscar the Detective written by Old Sleuth and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 1895 dime novel penned by "Old Sleuth" (a house pseudonym attributed to many writers, including Harry Loveland, Harlan Page Halsey, and Edward T. LeBlanc, who penned this series) following the comedic adventures of Dudie Dunne, the Exquisite Detective!
Download or read book The Death of the Detective written by Mark Smith and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A madman is on the loose in the city. On the verge of psychic collapse, detective Arnold Magnuson follows clues in the murder's wake - through the Chicago of society clubs and nightclubs and the city of hoods and Mafia - through interrogations, lies and improvised stories, moving closer to a culprit who begins to feel alarmingly like himself.
