Author: C G Lambert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781914531101
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
When Mike Reid, a British forensics expert, stays in an Auckland hotel apartment he inadvertently gets involved in a murder. Entrusted with a data source that proves Russian involvement, Mike hotfoots it back to London to deliver it safely into the right hands. Avoiding poisoning by a Russian seductress and detecting mobsters disguised as scientists are the least of Mike's worries. Unwilling to let go of the case, he falls even deeper down the rabbit hole, risking his life to track down the Handler in a race against time. Who is The Handler, how is he connected with the man in the hotel ceiling, and what does he want with Uncle Reggie?
The Man In The Hotel Ceiling
Author: C G Lambert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781914531101
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
When Mike Reid, a British forensics expert, stays in an Auckland hotel apartment he inadvertently gets involved in a murder. Entrusted with a data source that proves Russian involvement, Mike hotfoots it back to London to deliver it safely into the right hands. Avoiding poisoning by a Russian seductress and detecting mobsters disguised as scientists are the least of Mike's worries. Unwilling to let go of the case, he falls even deeper down the rabbit hole, risking his life to track down the Handler in a race against time. Who is The Handler, how is he connected with the man in the hotel ceiling, and what does he want with Uncle Reggie?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781914531101
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
When Mike Reid, a British forensics expert, stays in an Auckland hotel apartment he inadvertently gets involved in a murder. Entrusted with a data source that proves Russian involvement, Mike hotfoots it back to London to deliver it safely into the right hands. Avoiding poisoning by a Russian seductress and detecting mobsters disguised as scientists are the least of Mike's worries. Unwilling to let go of the case, he falls even deeper down the rabbit hole, risking his life to track down the Handler in a race against time. Who is The Handler, how is he connected with the man in the hotel ceiling, and what does he want with Uncle Reggie?
The Voyeur's Motel
Author: Gay Talese
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802189733
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The controversial chronicle of a motel owner who secretly studied the sex lives of his guests by the renowned journalist and author of Thy Neighbor’s Wife. On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your long-awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,” the letter began, “I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book.” The man—Gerald Foos—hen divulged an astonishing secret: he had bought a motel outside Denver for the express purpose of satisfying his voyeuristic desires. Underneath its peaked roof, he had built an “observation platform” through which he could peer down on his unwitting guests. Over the years, Foos sent Talese hundreds of pages of notes on his guests, work that Foos believed made him a pioneering researcher into American society and sexuality. Through his Voyeur’s motel, he witnessed and recorded the harsh effects of the war in Vietnam, the upheaval in gender roles, the decline of segregation, and much more. In The Voyeur’s Motel. “the reader observes Talese observing Foos observing his guests.” An extraordinary work of narrative journalism, it is at once an examination of one unsettling man and a portrait of the secret life of the American heartland over the latter half of the twentieth century (Daily Mail, UK). “This is a weird book about weird people doing weird things, and I wouldn’t have put it down if the house were on fire.” —John Greenya, Washington Times
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802189733
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The controversial chronicle of a motel owner who secretly studied the sex lives of his guests by the renowned journalist and author of Thy Neighbor’s Wife. On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your long-awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,” the letter began, “I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book.” The man—Gerald Foos—hen divulged an astonishing secret: he had bought a motel outside Denver for the express purpose of satisfying his voyeuristic desires. Underneath its peaked roof, he had built an “observation platform” through which he could peer down on his unwitting guests. Over the years, Foos sent Talese hundreds of pages of notes on his guests, work that Foos believed made him a pioneering researcher into American society and sexuality. Through his Voyeur’s motel, he witnessed and recorded the harsh effects of the war in Vietnam, the upheaval in gender roles, the decline of segregation, and much more. In The Voyeur’s Motel. “the reader observes Talese observing Foos observing his guests.” An extraordinary work of narrative journalism, it is at once an examination of one unsettling man and a portrait of the secret life of the American heartland over the latter half of the twentieth century (Daily Mail, UK). “This is a weird book about weird people doing weird things, and I wouldn’t have put it down if the house were on fire.” —John Greenya, Washington Times
Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine
Author: Thomas Graham
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813047560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award Arguably no man did more to make over a city—or a state—than Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of America’s elite. Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest men in America spared no expense in transforming the country’s “Oldest City” into the “Newport of the South.” He built railroads into remote areas where men feared to tread and erected palatial hotels on swampland. He funded hospitals and churches and improved streets and parks. The rich and famous flocked to his invented paradise. In tracing Flagler’s life and second career, Thomas Graham reveals much about the inner life of the former oil magnate and the demons that drove him to expand a coastal empire southward to Palm Beach, Miami, Key West, and finally Nassau. Graham also gives voice to the individuals history has forgotten: the women who wrote tourist books, the artists who decorated the hotels, the black servants who waited tables, and the journalists who filed society columns in the newspapers. Filled with fascinating details that bring the Gilded Age to life, this book will stand as the definitive history of Henry Flagler and his time in Florida.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813047560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award Arguably no man did more to make over a city—or a state—than Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of America’s elite. Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest men in America spared no expense in transforming the country’s “Oldest City” into the “Newport of the South.” He built railroads into remote areas where men feared to tread and erected palatial hotels on swampland. He funded hospitals and churches and improved streets and parks. The rich and famous flocked to his invented paradise. In tracing Flagler’s life and second career, Thomas Graham reveals much about the inner life of the former oil magnate and the demons that drove him to expand a coastal empire southward to Palm Beach, Miami, Key West, and finally Nassau. Graham also gives voice to the individuals history has forgotten: the women who wrote tourist books, the artists who decorated the hotels, the black servants who waited tables, and the journalists who filed society columns in the newspapers. Filled with fascinating details that bring the Gilded Age to life, this book will stand as the definitive history of Henry Flagler and his time in Florida.
The Man Who Hated Clouds
Author: Gayleen Froese
Publisher: DSP Publications
ISBN: 1641087579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
PI Ben Ames’s latest assignment is impossible: retrieve a stolen manuscript for an author who has no backups and insists it was taken by aliens. But when the man turns up dead, Ben knows the only way to solve the murder is the find that book….
Publisher: DSP Publications
ISBN: 1641087579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
PI Ben Ames’s latest assignment is impossible: retrieve a stolen manuscript for an author who has no backups and insists it was taken by aliens. But when the man turns up dead, Ben knows the only way to solve the murder is the find that book….
The Pint Man
Author: Steve Rushin
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0767931831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A funny and endearing novel about the comforts of a never-ending adolescence and the glories of Guinness. For Rodney Poole, a friendly and unassuming lover of clever wordplay and television sports of all stripes, Boyle's Irish Pub is a haven of good cheer, pleasantly pointless conversation, elaborate jokes, heated trivia contests, well-poured pints, and familiar faces. The pressures and demands of the outside world hold no sway there- the crowd at Boyle's is his family, and with family all sins are forgiven. But reality cannot be kept at bay forever, and now Rodney's best friend and partner in inertia, Keith, is getting married and moving to Chicago. Since Rodney has for the most part enjoyed his bachelorhood vicariously through Keith, the prospect of being single, middle-aged, unemployed, and without his pal to while away the nights with is causing Rodney to rethink—or rather, create—his priorities. When Keith introduces him to the lovely Mairead (rhymes with parade), a cheerful career woman who seems to enjoy his bad puns, ambitionless nature, and love of literature, Rodney can spy an honorable path to grown-up-hood at last. But a series of comic mishaps jeopardize his budding relationship with Mairead, his friendship with Keith, and most serious of all, his place on a barstool in the idyllic world of Boyle's.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0767931831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A funny and endearing novel about the comforts of a never-ending adolescence and the glories of Guinness. For Rodney Poole, a friendly and unassuming lover of clever wordplay and television sports of all stripes, Boyle's Irish Pub is a haven of good cheer, pleasantly pointless conversation, elaborate jokes, heated trivia contests, well-poured pints, and familiar faces. The pressures and demands of the outside world hold no sway there- the crowd at Boyle's is his family, and with family all sins are forgiven. But reality cannot be kept at bay forever, and now Rodney's best friend and partner in inertia, Keith, is getting married and moving to Chicago. Since Rodney has for the most part enjoyed his bachelorhood vicariously through Keith, the prospect of being single, middle-aged, unemployed, and without his pal to while away the nights with is causing Rodney to rethink—or rather, create—his priorities. When Keith introduces him to the lovely Mairead (rhymes with parade), a cheerful career woman who seems to enjoy his bad puns, ambitionless nature, and love of literature, Rodney can spy an honorable path to grown-up-hood at last. But a series of comic mishaps jeopardize his budding relationship with Mairead, his friendship with Keith, and most serious of all, his place on a barstool in the idyllic world of Boyle's.
The Man Who Saw Himself and Other Stories
Author: Ed Robison
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462807712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462807712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Hotel Years
Author: Joseph Roth
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The first overview of all Joseph Roth’s journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,“I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.” The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: on hotels; pains and pleasures; personalities; and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the First World War, and end in Paris near the outbreak of the Second World War. Roth, the great journalist of his day, needed journalism to survive: in his six-volume collected works in German, there are three of fiction and three of journalism. Beginning in 1921, Roth wrote mostly for the liberal Frankfurter Zeitung who sent him on assignments throughout Germany - the inflation, the occupation, political assassinations - and abroad, to the USSR, Italy, Poland and Albania. And always: “I celebrate my return to lobby and chandelier, porter and chambermaid.”
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The first overview of all Joseph Roth’s journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,“I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.” The Hotel Years gathers sixty-four feuilletons: on hotels; pains and pleasures; personalities; and the deteriorating international situation of the 1930s. Never before translated into English, these pieces begin in Vienna just at the end of the First World War, and end in Paris near the outbreak of the Second World War. Roth, the great journalist of his day, needed journalism to survive: in his six-volume collected works in German, there are three of fiction and three of journalism. Beginning in 1921, Roth wrote mostly for the liberal Frankfurter Zeitung who sent him on assignments throughout Germany - the inflation, the occupation, political assassinations - and abroad, to the USSR, Italy, Poland and Albania. And always: “I celebrate my return to lobby and chandelier, porter and chambermaid.”
The Man with the Black Valise
Author: John Goddard
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 145974537X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Man with the Black Valise tracks the killer of thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith as he tramped along railway lines through rural Ontario in 1894.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 145974537X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Man with the Black Valise tracks the killer of thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith as he tramped along railway lines through rural Ontario in 1894.
Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Life in the Hotel
Author: Jo Jean Thomas DeHony
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493160788
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Over 100 years of life in a Hotel. In 1900 The Chamberlins moved to Cody, a town with few buildings and very few people. Agnes Chamberlin started a boarding house in 1904, later expanded into Hotel Chamberlin. Her ideas filled with interesting challenges, were usually quite successful. She gave her Homestead land to the City in 1935 to enlarge the Airport. In 1939 Agnes sold to George and Hattie Edwards. It was renamed Pawnee Hotel in 1941. In 1974 Edwards sold to Jo Jean DeHony. Jo Jean remodeled and operated the Pawnee Hotel for more than 31 years and sold it in 2005.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493160788
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Over 100 years of life in a Hotel. In 1900 The Chamberlins moved to Cody, a town with few buildings and very few people. Agnes Chamberlin started a boarding house in 1904, later expanded into Hotel Chamberlin. Her ideas filled with interesting challenges, were usually quite successful. She gave her Homestead land to the City in 1935 to enlarge the Airport. In 1939 Agnes sold to George and Hattie Edwards. It was renamed Pawnee Hotel in 1941. In 1974 Edwards sold to Jo Jean DeHony. Jo Jean remodeled and operated the Pawnee Hotel for more than 31 years and sold it in 2005.