Midnight Alley

Midnight Alley PDF Author: Miles Corwin
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
ISBN: 1608090396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A gritty, atmospheric glimpse into Los Angeles’s noir underworld. Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD's elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. The case is a high priority because one of the victims is the son of City Councilman Isaac Pinkney, a frequent critic of the LAPD. Searching for the killer throws Levine into the world of Los Angeles's Russian Mafia, Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, and Middle Eastern archaeologists. Ash's history as a child of a Holocaust survivor gives him a unique perspective on murder, redemption, and justice. His background as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and his relentless, single-minded focus on his investigations make him a thoroughly absorbing character. As Ash closes in on the killer, the investigation becomes increasingly complex—and personal. Ash soon discovers that he is not just an investigator, but a target.

Midnight Alley

Midnight Alley PDF Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1921880007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Morganville is such a nice place to live . . . And die. If you don't mind that sort of thing. When Claire Danvers learnt that her college town was run by vampires, she did what any intelligent, self-preserving student would do: she applied for a transfer and stocked up on garlic. The transfer is no longer an option, but that garlic may come in handy. Now Claire has pledged herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town. The protection her contract secures does little to reassure her friends. All of a sudden, people are turning up dead, a stalker resurfaces from Claire's past, and an ancient bloodsucker extends a chilling invitation for private lessons in his secluded home. 'Thrilling, sexy, and funny! These books are addictive. One of my very favorite vampire series.' Richelle Mead, author of the international bestselling Vampire Academy series.

Midnight Alley

Midnight Alley PDF Author: Miles Corwin
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
ISBN: 1608090396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
A gritty, atmospheric glimpse into Los Angeles’s noir underworld. Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD's elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. The case is a high priority because one of the victims is the son of City Councilman Isaac Pinkney, a frequent critic of the LAPD. Searching for the killer throws Levine into the world of Los Angeles's Russian Mafia, Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, and Middle Eastern archaeologists. Ash's history as a child of a Holocaust survivor gives him a unique perspective on murder, redemption, and justice. His background as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, and his relentless, single-minded focus on his investigations make him a thoroughly absorbing character. As Ash closes in on the killer, the investigation becomes increasingly complex—and personal. Ash soon discovers that he is not just an investigator, but a target.

Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley PDF Author: William Lindsay Gresham
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette. Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he’s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan’s for the taking. At least for now.

Los Angeles Noir 2

Los Angeles Noir 2 PDF Author: Paul Cain
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617752207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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“This entry, with its high-quality stories from such genre masters as Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, outshines the typical all-original anthology.”—Publishers Weekly In Akashic Books’s acclaimed series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. This collection of classic stories—the sequel to the award-winning, bestselling Los Angeles Noir—“reaffirm[s] that the shadows cast by the Southland’s sun, and its gloomy ocean fog, have proved some of noir’s most fertile territory” (Los Angeles Times). This anthology features stories by Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross MacDonald, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey Tervalon, Kate Braverman, and Yxta Maya Murray. “If you love either mysteries or tales about our corner of the world, pick up Noir 2 . . . Hey, the concept of ‘noir’—dark, steamy mystery stories—was invented here.”—Los Angeles Daily News

Stink Alley

Stink Alley PDF Author: Jamie Gilson
Publisher: HarperColl
ISBN: 9780688178642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The year is 1614. Recently orphaned Lizzy Tinker has lived half of her twelve years in Holland, but she does not feel at home there. Lizzy belongs to a small congregation of religious refugees who have fled England in order to worship as they choose. The Dutch people enjoy a free and easy lifestyle that Master William Brewster constantly admonishes his austere English Pilgrims to resist. Many find this difficult, including Lizzy. Although the Brewsters took her in when her father died, she doesn't feel at home with them either. Her undisciplined tongue always seems to get her in trouble. What is more, Lizzy has a talent for cooking, and she loves making sinfully delicious Dutch cookies and cakes. Her kitchen craft has landed her a job cooking for a Dutch family whose precocious eight-year-old son has a stubborn nature, artistic talent, and nose for trouble even greater than Lizzy's own. Heaven help her now! With meticulous research and great imagination, Jamie Gilson has created an authentic, entertaining story that brings to life seventeenth- century Holland and the unique culture that fostered both the Mayflower Pilgrims and master painters such as Rembrandt.

Midnight Alley

Midnight Alley PDF Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440620016
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning. Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.

Midnight Alley

Midnight Alley PDF Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424247059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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A truce between the living and the dead has made Morganville relatively safe. Now, however, people are turning up dead, she is being stalked by a psycho and an ancient blood sucker is offering private mentoring.

Midnight Alley

Midnight Alley PDF Author: Miles Corwin
Publisher: Calmann-Lévy
ISBN: 2702152619
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 413

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« Recommandez ce superbe roman aux fans du policier de procédure. Cela peut se lire comme une reprise obsédante du Faucon maltais...» Booklist Ancien des forces israéliennes et fils d’un rescapé de la Shoah, Ash Levine, l’inspecteur d’élite de la Felony Special du LAPD, est appelé à résoudre le meurtre de deux jeunes Noirs retrouvés tués par balle dans une ruelle de Venice. L’affaire est d’importance, l’une des victimes, Raymond Pinkney, étant le fils d’un conseiller municipal. Mais Levine comprend très vite que Raymond se trouvait simplement au mauvais endroit au mauvais moment. C’est l’autre victime, son ami d’enfance Teshay Winfield, qui était visé. Il était en possession d’un masque inestimable volé lors du pillage des musées de Bagdad pendant la guerre d’Irak. Connaissant sa valeur, Teshay l’a fait passer aux États-Unis dans l’espoir de le vendre. Quand Levine découvre que les victimes n’ont pas été tuées là où on les a retrouvées, il ne se doute pas qu’il est en danger: il est en effet sur le point de trouver la solution et nombreux sont les individus qui n’ont aucune envie de le voir réussir...

Alley Life in Washington

Alley Life in Washington PDF Author: James Borchert
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Forgotten today, established Black communities once existed in the alleyways of Washington, D.C., even in neighborhoods as familiar as Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. James Borchert's study delves into the lives and folkways of the largely alley dwellers and how their communities changed from before the Civil War, to the late 1890s era when almost 20,000 people lived in alley houses, to the effects of reform and gentrification in the mid-twentieth century.

Midnight Bites

Midnight Bites PDF Author: Rachel Caine
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 1101989785
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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"Featuring six original stories, together with sixteen all-time favorites"--Cover.