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1941) No child of mine
Author
Series
A San Antonio mystery volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Martinez is an investigator for the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Antonio, a job that's cost him his wife and family. While Daniel is attending a wedding and trying to reconcile with his wife, his foster son, eight-year-old Benny, is kidnapped. Daniel begins a desperate search to recover Benny before the boy becomes another statistic in the deadly world of gang-bangers and drug dealers. The case is immediately complicated by the discovery of...
1942) Hour of the cat
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Late on the night of October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay college student, left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged 'strangers, ' Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that the mountain biker who discovered his battered frame mistook him for a Halloween scarecrow....
Author
Series
Grace and Favor mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a swastika is found painted on the window of a widow who has recently taken delivery on her German grandfather's trunks, and the train porter is found dead, Lily and Robert Brewster know that something dark has moved into their sleepy Depression-deprived town.
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
242 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The 1899 lynching of Sma Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.S. history. Hose was a black laborer accused of killing Alfred Cranford, a white farmer, and raping his wife. The national media closely followed the manhunt and Hose's capture. An armed mob intercepted Hose's Atlanta-bound train and took the prisoner back to Newnan. There, in front of a large gathering on a Sunday afternoon,...
1948) Death amid gems
Author
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, in a jewelry television studio on Long Island, a young woman has been found beaten to death. Detective Zenoni and his partner Wildow soon realize it's not an open-and-shut case.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A New York documentary filmmaker, visiting his wife's small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, is challenged to unravel the truth about a decades-old triple murder in the wake of a devastating accident.
1950) Last nocturne
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"London. May, 1878. Private enquiry agents Matthew Grand and James Batchelor have been hired by the artist James Whistler to dig into the past of outspoken critic John Ruskin, with whom he has an ongoing feud. Not particularly optimistic of success, the two detectives are sidetracked from the investigation by the murder of a prostitute in nearby Cremorne Gardens. Her body posed on a park bench, a book on birth control sitting on her lap, Clara Jenkins...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
1927. While the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school, local farmer and school board treasurer Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. Behind his ordinary demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the sole purpose of destroying the school and everyone in it. Thirty-eight children and six adults were murdered that morning....
1952) Wouldn't it be deadly
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Following her successful appearance at an Embassy Ball--where Eliza Doolittle won Professor Henry Higgins' bet that he could pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchess--Eliza becomes an assistant to his chief rival Emil Nepommuck. After Nepommuck publicly takes credit for transforming Eliza into a lady, an enraged Higgins submits proof to a London newspaper that Nepommuck is a fraud. When Nepommuck is found with a dagger in his back, Henry Higgins...
1953) The border
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a border guard involved in drug smuggling along the Rio Grande, Charlie Smith has crossed the line many times. But when he decides to clean up his act and help unite an illegal woman with her baby, he runs afoul of his corrupt department, his greedy wife and a ruthless neighbor in this action-packed suspense-thriller.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common: murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city. Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof's massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 552 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. His death and the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement. Like...
1960) The innocent spy
Author
Series
DI Ted Stratton novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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