Author: Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569470758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the twelfth book in an acclaimed series, retired Amsterdam policeman Henk Grijpstra gets a frantic telephone call from his old partner, Rinus de Gier, who thinks he may have killed his girlfriend. He is being blackmailed and can’t remember if he did it; he was just too drunk. But if he did, where is the corpse? Would his old partner please fly over to the US at once? Urged on by their former superior officer, the commissaris, Grijpstra grudgingly travels to Maine to rescue his partner and to confront his own demons as well as de Gier’s.
Just a Corpse at Twilight
Author: Janwillem van de Wetering
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569470758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the twelfth book in an acclaimed series, retired Amsterdam policeman Henk Grijpstra gets a frantic telephone call from his old partner, Rinus de Gier, who thinks he may have killed his girlfriend. He is being blackmailed and can’t remember if he did it; he was just too drunk. But if he did, where is the corpse? Would his old partner please fly over to the US at once? Urged on by their former superior officer, the commissaris, Grijpstra grudgingly travels to Maine to rescue his partner and to confront his own demons as well as de Gier’s.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569470758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the twelfth book in an acclaimed series, retired Amsterdam policeman Henk Grijpstra gets a frantic telephone call from his old partner, Rinus de Gier, who thinks he may have killed his girlfriend. He is being blackmailed and can’t remember if he did it; he was just too drunk. But if he did, where is the corpse? Would his old partner please fly over to the US at once? Urged on by their former superior officer, the commissaris, Grijpstra grudgingly travels to Maine to rescue his partner and to confront his own demons as well as de Gier’s.
No Road Leading Back
Author: Chris Heath
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805243720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust. No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian forest of Ponar after the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941. Anxious to hide the incriminating evidence of the murders, the S.S. later in the war enslaved a group of Jews to exhume every one of the bodies and incinerate them all in a months-long labor—an episode whose specifics are staggering and disturbing, even within the context of the Holocaust. From within that dire circumstance emerges the improbable escape made by some of the men, who dug a tunnel with bare hands and spoons while they were trapped and guarded day and night—an act not just of bravery and desperation but of awesome imagination. Based on first-person accounts of the escapees and on each scrap of evidence that has been documented, repressed, or amplified since, this book resurrects their lives, while also providing a complex, urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told, and never accurately. Heath explores the cultural use and misuse of Holocaust testimony and the need for us to face it—and all uncomfortable historical truths—with honesty and accuracy.
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 0805243720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust. No Road Leading Back is the remarkable story of a dozen prisoners who escaped from the site where more than 70,000 Jews were shot in the Lithuanian forest of Ponar after the Nazi invasion of Eastern Europe in 1941. Anxious to hide the incriminating evidence of the murders, the S.S. later in the war enslaved a group of Jews to exhume every one of the bodies and incinerate them all in a months-long labor—an episode whose specifics are staggering and disturbing, even within the context of the Holocaust. From within that dire circumstance emerges the improbable escape made by some of the men, who dug a tunnel with bare hands and spoons while they were trapped and guarded day and night—an act not just of bravery and desperation but of awesome imagination. Based on first-person accounts of the escapees and on each scrap of evidence that has been documented, repressed, or amplified since, this book resurrects their lives, while also providing a complex, urgent analysis of why their story has rarely been told, and never accurately. Heath explores the cultural use and misuse of Holocaust testimony and the need for us to face it—and all uncomfortable historical truths—with honesty and accuracy.
The Corpse Without a Clue
Author: Robert Alfred John Walling
Publisher: New York : Morrow
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Morrow
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
No Good From A Corpse
Author: Leigh Douglass Brackett
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786258412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn’t believe that her boyfriend had killed her. Pursuing her own lonely trail, he found out just how easily jealousy and twisted rage could turn a human being into a monster of violence. Originally published in 1944, this is Leigh Brackett’s unputdownable pulp fiction debut novel.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786258412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn’t believe that her boyfriend had killed her. Pursuing her own lonely trail, he found out just how easily jealousy and twisted rage could turn a human being into a monster of violence. Originally published in 1944, this is Leigh Brackett’s unputdownable pulp fiction debut novel.
American Spiritual Magazine
Author: Samuel Watson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385559782
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385559782
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Body Counting
Author: David Whitman
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
David Whitman (co-author of Scary Rednecks And Other Inbred Horrors and author of Deadfellas and Delightful Agony) offers up a dozen weird, creepy, and sometimes darkly funny short stories in this collection. "Body Counting" : Join slackers Vern and Tony as they attempt to retrieve a key from a house that is undergoing a breakdown in the space/time continuum. The body count will rise to absurd levels as they attempt to put a lid on the madness, heart attacks, and doppelgangers. "Dust in the Wind" : Two men attempt to solve a weird murder at an isolated desert gas station. And possibly stop a jukebox that won't stop playing Kansas.... "The Eyes of God" : A grieving father recreates his dead son using DNA and triggers an apocalyptic epidemic and confrontation with God.... "The Mind of Hunter Castle" : A serial killer who consumes the souls of his victims allows a father to talk to his dead son one last time.... "The Death of the Piano Man" : Billy Joel is kidnapped and put on trial by a psychotic man who despises his music... "The Thursday Night Poker Players" : Madness overtakes a small town and the only way to avoid losing your mind is to smoke lots of marijuana in this B-movie tribute... "What Love Was" : A young man bent on revenge digs up the dead wife of his enemy and terrorizes him with it.... "Broken Souls: A Fairy Tale" : A weird and macabre mix of Disney fairy tale and horror. A squirrel and a kitten, with the souls of dead children, team up to take revenge on their supernatural killer.... "Angel Lust" : A man finds a strangely attractive and wounded humanoid creature on the side of the road.... And 4 other tales of the strange and beautifully weird. You can read the first story "Angel Lust" by clicking on the cover.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
David Whitman (co-author of Scary Rednecks And Other Inbred Horrors and author of Deadfellas and Delightful Agony) offers up a dozen weird, creepy, and sometimes darkly funny short stories in this collection. "Body Counting" : Join slackers Vern and Tony as they attempt to retrieve a key from a house that is undergoing a breakdown in the space/time continuum. The body count will rise to absurd levels as they attempt to put a lid on the madness, heart attacks, and doppelgangers. "Dust in the Wind" : Two men attempt to solve a weird murder at an isolated desert gas station. And possibly stop a jukebox that won't stop playing Kansas.... "The Eyes of God" : A grieving father recreates his dead son using DNA and triggers an apocalyptic epidemic and confrontation with God.... "The Mind of Hunter Castle" : A serial killer who consumes the souls of his victims allows a father to talk to his dead son one last time.... "The Death of the Piano Man" : Billy Joel is kidnapped and put on trial by a psychotic man who despises his music... "The Thursday Night Poker Players" : Madness overtakes a small town and the only way to avoid losing your mind is to smoke lots of marijuana in this B-movie tribute... "What Love Was" : A young man bent on revenge digs up the dead wife of his enemy and terrorizes him with it.... "Broken Souls: A Fairy Tale" : A weird and macabre mix of Disney fairy tale and horror. A squirrel and a kitten, with the souls of dead children, team up to take revenge on their supernatural killer.... "Angel Lust" : A man finds a strangely attractive and wounded humanoid creature on the side of the road.... And 4 other tales of the strange and beautifully weird. You can read the first story "Angel Lust" by clicking on the cover.
The Actress
Author: Cordelia Frances Biddle
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504072839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A nineteenth-century Philadelphia heiress must rescue a friend from a criminal underworld in a series that “wonderfully evokes the color and culture of the time” (Publishers Weekly). Becky Grey Taitt is not the sort of woman who would typically infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters, but she is desperate for a powerful judge’s help in preventing her abusive husband from taking custody of her child—and that’ss the price the judge set in exchange for his aid. But the plan goes awry, and now Becky is trapped among criminals and killers. Her only hope is her friend Martha Beale, who, along with her beau, Thomas Kelman, will do everything possible to rescue Becky, in this tale of political machinations, revenge, and murder. “Fresh and believable. Biddle knows her manner and her city, and shows both to great advantage.” —The Plain Dealer “An intricately orchestrated narrative that implicates the Brahmin class and the corruption that comes with their absolute power.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for the Martha Beale Mysteries “The setting is unfolded as vividly as the characters, from the ‘commoners’ working the textile mills to the unseemly criminal types of the upper-crust elite. . . . A fine mix of history and mystery.” —Booklist “A first-rate mystery.” —Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times–bestselling author of Hid from Our Eyes “A good read . . . skillfully evokes the elegant society salons and grubby streets of 1842 Philadelphia.” —Philadelphia Magazine
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504072839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A nineteenth-century Philadelphia heiress must rescue a friend from a criminal underworld in a series that “wonderfully evokes the color and culture of the time” (Publishers Weekly). Becky Grey Taitt is not the sort of woman who would typically infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters, but she is desperate for a powerful judge’s help in preventing her abusive husband from taking custody of her child—and that’ss the price the judge set in exchange for his aid. But the plan goes awry, and now Becky is trapped among criminals and killers. Her only hope is her friend Martha Beale, who, along with her beau, Thomas Kelman, will do everything possible to rescue Becky, in this tale of political machinations, revenge, and murder. “Fresh and believable. Biddle knows her manner and her city, and shows both to great advantage.” —The Plain Dealer “An intricately orchestrated narrative that implicates the Brahmin class and the corruption that comes with their absolute power.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for the Martha Beale Mysteries “The setting is unfolded as vividly as the characters, from the ‘commoners’ working the textile mills to the unseemly criminal types of the upper-crust elite. . . . A fine mix of history and mystery.” —Booklist “A first-rate mystery.” —Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times–bestselling author of Hid from Our Eyes “A good read . . . skillfully evokes the elegant society salons and grubby streets of 1842 Philadelphia.” —Philadelphia Magazine
The Ecclesiastical gazette, or, Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Sons of America
Author: Lancelot Larsen
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532010079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
After unknowingly befriending a serial killer, a man embarks upon a gruesome adventure that leads him to meeting an otherworldly businessman who offers him the opportunity to expand his dark horizons in an act of terrorism.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532010079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
After unknowingly befriending a serial killer, a man embarks upon a gruesome adventure that leads him to meeting an otherworldly businessman who offers him the opportunity to expand his dark horizons in an act of terrorism.
The Chapel in the Woods
Author: Dolores Gordon-Smith
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1448306469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Jack and Betty Haldean's weekend in the country is disrupted by sudden, violent death in this intricately-plotted 1920s mystery. "The surprising revelations just keep coming. This is a real treat for those who enjoy Agatha Christie village murders" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review "There's something in those woods that shouldn't be there . . ." Enjoying a weekend in the country with his cousin Isabelle, Jack Haldean is intrigued to learn that the neighbouring estate of Birchen Bower has been bought by wealthy Canadian businessman Tom Jago. Determined to restore the place to its former glory, Jago has invited the local villagers to a fete to celebrate the grand re-opening of the 17th century family chapel. But the afternoon's entertainment is cut short by the discovery of a body, mauled to death as if by a wild animal. Previously owned by the eccentric Cayden family, Birchen Bower has a long and colourful history, and is rumoured to be haunted. Is there any truth to the ancient family legend of the Jaguar Princess . . . and could she have claimed another victim? And what's happened to Jago's employee, Derek Martin and his wife, who have disappeared without trace . . . along with Mrs Jago's diamonds? Refusing to believe the wild tales of man-eating beasts prowling the grounds, Jack sets out to uncover the truth. But then a second badly-ravaged body is discovered . . . Could the rumours be true after all?
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1448306469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Jack and Betty Haldean's weekend in the country is disrupted by sudden, violent death in this intricately-plotted 1920s mystery. "The surprising revelations just keep coming. This is a real treat for those who enjoy Agatha Christie village murders" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review "There's something in those woods that shouldn't be there . . ." Enjoying a weekend in the country with his cousin Isabelle, Jack Haldean is intrigued to learn that the neighbouring estate of Birchen Bower has been bought by wealthy Canadian businessman Tom Jago. Determined to restore the place to its former glory, Jago has invited the local villagers to a fete to celebrate the grand re-opening of the 17th century family chapel. But the afternoon's entertainment is cut short by the discovery of a body, mauled to death as if by a wild animal. Previously owned by the eccentric Cayden family, Birchen Bower has a long and colourful history, and is rumoured to be haunted. Is there any truth to the ancient family legend of the Jaguar Princess . . . and could she have claimed another victim? And what's happened to Jago's employee, Derek Martin and his wife, who have disappeared without trace . . . along with Mrs Jago's diamonds? Refusing to believe the wild tales of man-eating beasts prowling the grounds, Jack sets out to uncover the truth. But then a second badly-ravaged body is discovered . . . Could the rumours be true after all?