Author: Hunter Laroche
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665563540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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Wendy Dow and Nancy Eblen, two very financially comfortable business women, head off their annual summer vacation which they have scheduled together for years. They find themselves on the Island of Nantucket in early May. After a wonderful lunch in the garden of The Chanticleer Inn, they start discussing how nice it would be just to give it all up and spend the entire summer on the island. Well, this adventure moves forward, and they find themselves the owners of a five acre parcel of land in Polpis. The property has two run down barns and a home that has been neglected for quite a number of years. When they start their restoration projects, they uncover a long old slender metal box that is locked. Now, the contents of this mysterious box could it possibly hold the clue to a murder? Ahh, the plot thickens...
Author: Amy Lillard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781492687825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Erik J. Wright
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537278438
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Main Street Mayhem: Crime, Murder & Justice in Downtown Paragould, 1888 - 1932 explores some of the forgotten episodes of explosive violence in an Arkansas railroad town. Through extensive investigations by award-winning historian Erik Wright, numerous stories are uncovered from the escape of Arkansas murder suspect James Trammell to Australia to the fumbled highway robbery and murder of young Lewis Reynolds. 2018 revised second edition includes a 20-page chapter on outlaw Frank "Jelly" Nash. Illustrated with sources and a foreword by Dan Stidham, Main Street Mayhem is sure to please the scholar and the casual reader.
Author: Jim Hinckley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940322261
Category : United States Highway 66
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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It was billed as the Main Street of America and the Mother Road. It was a highway of commerce, legal and illicit. It was traveled by vacationing families and serial killers, truck drivers and vagabonds, celebrities and gangsters. In the cities along that highway corridor, crime, racial violence, and gangland strife often transformed them into battlegrounds. This was Bloody 66.
Author: Amy Lillard
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492687782
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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THE FIRST IN A NEW BOOK THEMED COZY MYSTERY SERIES You won't be able to stop turning the pages of this small town mystery, which is: Perfect for fans of Ellery Adams and Lorna Barrett A riveting bookclub cozy mystery Full of quirky, Southern charm Not every murder is by the book... As Sugar Springs gears up for its all-class high school reunion, Mississippi bookstore owner Arlo Stanley prepares to launch her largest event: a book-signing with the town's legendary alum and bestselling author, Wally Harrison. That's when Wally is discovered dead outside of Arlo's front door and her best friend is questioned for the crime. When the elderly ladies of Arlo's Friday Night Book Club start to investigate, Arlo has no choice but to follow behind to keep them out of trouble. Yet with Wally's reputation, the suspect list only grows longer—his betrayed wife, his disgruntled assistant, even the local man who holds a grudge from a long-ago accident. Between running interference with the book club and otherwise keeping it all together, Arlo anxiously works to get Chloe out of jail. And amidst it all, her one-time boyfriend-turned-private-eye returns to town, just another distraction while she digs to uncover the truth around Wally's death and just what Sugar Springs secret could have led to his murder. If you love women's murder club books, Amy Lillard's cozy mysteries are just for you!
Author: Cynthia Manson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566190411
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Forty tales of small-town crime by various authors.
Author: Beverly Lowry
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1984898361
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home. “Mix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspicious town, a sensational trial with colorful lawyers, and a punishment that didn’t fit the crime, and you have the best of southern gothic fiction. But the very best part is that the story is true.” —John Grisham In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn’t recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free. In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowry—who was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons’ home—tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi.
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Publisher: First Avenue Editions TM
ISBN: 1728468884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.
Author: Con Lehane
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250036879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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This first book in an irresistible new series introduces librarian and reluctant sleuth Raymond Ambler, a doggedly curious fellow who uncovers murderous secrets hidden behind the majestic marble façade of New York City’s landmark 42nd Street Library. Murder at the 42nd Street Library follows Ambler and his partners in crime-solving as they track down a killer, shining a light on the dark deeds and secret relationships that are hidden deep inside the famous flagship building at the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. In their search for the reasons behind the murder, Ambler and his crew uncover sinister, and profoundly disturbing, relationships among the scholars studying in the iconic library. Included among the players are a celebrated mystery writer who has donated his papers to the library’s crime fiction collection; that writer’s long-missing daughter, a prominent New York society woman with a hidden past, and more than one of Ambler’s colleagues at the library. Shocking revelations lead inexorably to the traumatic events that follow—the reading room will never be the same.
Author: Robert Dudgeon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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