Author: Asa Bordages
Publisher: Stark House Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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MURDERS IN SILK Tie Bixby spots the woman with the red hat getting on the train. But the guy she's trying not to be seen talking to is strictly a lug. After she comes out of the ladies' room and announces that there is a man with his throat cut inside-that same lug-Tie figures she's up to her neck in trouble. That night, while visiting Pa, there is an explosion next door-an inventor is burned to death in the fire-and Tie sees the woman in the red hat fleeing the scene. He could tell the cops about her, but he decides to not to. He decides to play it cagey for awhile, and help her out. There is definitely a mystery here. Why does the inventor's daughter hate him so much? And why is a gangster's lawyer hanging around the scene of the crime? And who is the guy who was murdered on the train? Most importantly of all, what does the woman with the red hat have to do with all of it?
Author: Anthony Berkeley
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father pleading for help. As the amateur sleuth investigates, he discovers that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a door by her own silk stocking. It is presumed suicide, but when more young women are found dead in the same manner, questions arise. Was it merely copycat suicide, or will the case lead Sheringham into a maze of murder?
Author: Anthony Berkeley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780020945
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Anthony Berkeley
Publisher: Collins
ISBN: 9780008333898
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer. Investigating the disappearance of a vicar's daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a screw by her own silk stocking. Reports of similar deaths across the capital strengthen his conviction that this is no suicide cult but the work of a homicidal maniac out for vengeance - a desperate situation requiring desperate measures. Having established Roger Sheringham as a brilliant but headstrong young sleuth who frequently made mistakes, trusted the wrong people and imbibed considerable liquid refreshment, Anthony Berkeley took his controversial character into much darker territory with The Silk Stocking Murders, a sensational novel about gruesome serial killings by an apparent psychopath bent on targeting vulnerable young women.
Author: Anthony Berkeley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Author: Anthony Berkeley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008216401
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer.
Author: Sharon Rowse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad trains
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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John Lansdowne Granville takes a job guarding the silk trains traveling across Canada, along with his friend Sam Scott. By the second day, a body is discovered and and Sam is arrested for the murder. Granville is determined to get Sam out of jail.
Author: Diane Vallere
Publisher: Polyester Press
ISBN: 1954579810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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“Diane Vallere has stitched up an engaging new series.”—Sofie Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of the Magical Cats Mysteries Fabric shop owner Polyester Monroe can get tangled up in textiles, but it's murder that really throws her for a loop in the third Material Witness mystery... The time has come for the annual Miss Tangorli beauty pageant, and Polyester Monroe has agreed to use her fabric store’s inventory of shimmery silks to create gowns fit for a crown. But when the man who revived the city’s citrus trade with his imported Tangorli tree is found dead days before the pageant contestants are announced, something sour takes over the town. To make matters worse, Poly’s closest friend is caught up in the crime, having been seen in the company of the case’s prime suspect. Juicy secrets come to light, creating tension in the small California town. Now while Poly juggles seamstresses and a gaggle of pageant contestants, the killer seems intent to put the squeeze someone she loves. “With delightfully engaging characters and riveting mystery, it is a series I am looking to see more of!”—Open Book Society
Author: Rod Collins
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537237145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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A suspicious death leads to a manhunt and the capture of self-confessed killer Bill Casey. But the evidence nags at Sheriff Bud Blair, and he begins to suspect someone other than his prisoner is the actual killer.Set in Oregon's , Spider Silk introduces readers to a cast of believable characters that give the story it's Western flavor.From a lonely, widowed Oregon rancher to the dark reach of organized crime, Spider Silk is the first in the Bud Blair high desert mystery series to create an entirely believable saga.Surprising forensic findings and sharp detective work, keep the reader's mind engaged and turning pages.Spider Silk is also a love story. Badly burned by divorce, Bud Blair steers shy of women. But his work makes it impossible to avoid the beautiful Yakima Indian woman, Nancy Sixkiller who manages the Emergency Services Center for Lake County, Oregon.That contact is intensified when Bud is injured and Nancy takes on the role of care giver. An excerpt: The horse suddenly dropped and rolled over on its side. Bud was too startled by sudden attack to pull his leg free from the stirrup; then he realized it was too late to do anything but lie there with his right leg pinned under the weight of the saddle and the body of the horse.He was aware enough to get his pistol free of his holster, but he couldn't see anything over the bulk of the horse. Michelle bolted past him, took up a shooters stance and emptied all fifteen rounds from her Glock, hit the eject button, and slammed another clip home.Bud was shouting, "Take some cover, damn it! Take some cover!" And then she was out of sight.
Author: H. Vernor Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933586793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Two mystery thrillers from the mid-1950s: a man's friends turn on him when he is unjustly accused of a crime in Cry Blood, and in Killer in Silk, an alcoholic writer is taken in by a woman who may have murdered her husband.
