Author: Ted Gregory
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609385233
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon, Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers’ lane is murdered. The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Long Beach, California. But after a sweeping manhunt, no one is arrested and the violent deaths of Mary Jane Reed and Stanley Skridla fade into time’s indifference. Fast forward fifty years. Eccentric entrepreneur Michael Arians moves to Oregon, opens a roadhouse, gets elected mayor, and becomes obsessed with the crime. He comes up with a scandalous conspiracy theory and starts to believe that Mary Jane’s ghost is haunting his establishment. He also reaches out to the Chicago Tribune for help. Arians’s letter falls on the desk of general assignment reporter Ted Gregory. For the next thirteen years, while he ricochets from story to story and his newspaper is deconstructed around him, Gregory remains beguiled by the case of the teenaged telephone operator Mary Jane and twenty-eight-year-old Navy vet Stanley—and equally fascinated by Arians’s seemingly hopeless pursuit of whoever murdered them. Mary Jane’s Ghost is the story of these two odysseys.
Author: William Thompson
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781095637302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Elizabeth, the sister of nine-year-old Mary Jane Hall, drowned near her home in the backwoods of Arkansas. Mary Jane also went missing and presumed dead after a year of investigation. Although authorities suspected foul play, no clues, suspects, or her body turned up, causing the case to go cold.Seventeen years later, Mary Jane appeared as an apparition to nine-year-old Stormy Taylor, where she lived in Texas. As Mary Jane gave Stormy clues about her disappearance and death, Stormy tried to convince her parents that her visions were real. To get the notion out of her head, Stormy's parents made some inquiries from the information Stormy revealed to them, and discovered information about a missing girl named Mary Jane. Eventually, the police reopened the cold case and investigated the disappearance of Mary Jane. Mary Jane revealed in one of Stormy's visions that she is Stormy's sister. Stormy, related to Mary Jane, how was that even possible? Her name was Elizabeth, and she died in 1950 from drowning in the creek behind her house. Eventually, Stormy, working with the FBI, discovered the identification of Mary Jane's killer and led the police and the FBI to her body. Through Stormy's visions, the police were then able to capture Mary Jane's killer.In another vision, Mary Janes told Stormy that she would have a sister. Stormy knew her mother would have another child and insisted she is named Mary Elizabeth. After the birth of Mary Elizabeth, Stormy ceased having further visions of Mary Jane.
Author: Mary Quattlebaum
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375862072
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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Fred the ghost is perfectly happy haunting his ramshackle New Orleans house until Pierre and his daughter Marie move in and turn the house into a restaurant.
Author: Ellen Hart
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312317485
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Jane Lawless caters a wedding and it looks like the menu may have led to murder.
Author: Brian Hicks
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345466659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth. The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It was Briggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed into history. In Brian Hicks’s skilled hands, the story of the Mary Celeste becomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividly recreates the events leading up to the crew’s disappearance and then unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath—the dark suspicions that fell on the officers of the ship that intercepted her; the farcical Admiralty Court salvage hearing in Gibraltar; the wild myths that circulated after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a thinly disguised short story sensationalizing the mystery. Everything from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction has been hauled out to explain the fate of the Mary Celeste. But, as Brian Hicks reveals, the truth is actually grounded in the combined tragedies of human error and bad luck. The story of the Mary Celeste acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of divers funded by novelist Clive Cussler located the wreck in a coral reef off Haiti. Written with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy of the best popular history, Ghost Ship tells the unforgettable true story of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery of all time.
Author: Mary C. Jane
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479426687
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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When Janice and Tommy Brooks are invited to visit their Aunt Annabelle and her son Hubert at their new house in Maine near the Canadian border, they expect to have a wonderful summer. What they don’t expect is to hear galloping hoofbeats in a rock or to see an old man with a flickering light appear out of nowhere in the middle of a midnight storm. They don't expect to have a guest who creeps around the top floor when he thinks the family is asleep. And they never dream that they might get involved in the dangerous adventures of the Border Patrol! These puzzling and frightening events increase the general feeling of mystery that surrounds Mountain View House. Aunt Annabelle bought it to run as a guest house, but both local visitors and tourists keep away. The children have to find the explanation for these strange happenings before Fall, or Aunt Annabelle will have to give up her dream of running a guest house!
Author: Seanan Mcguire
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302519549
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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Collects Ghost-Spider (2019) #1-5. Gwen Stacy makes her way to the Marvel Universe! With a cloud of infamy hanging over her head in her home dimension of Earth-65, Gwen now travels to the Prime MU for super hero action…and school! The newest student at ESU is about to get a crash course in multiversity as she splits her time between the world she loves and the world she’s just getting to know! School isn’t all bad, though, as Gwen’s taking classes right down the hall from Peter Parker. But Peter isn’t the only person who may recognize Gwen — and not everyone shares Spider-Man’s noble intentions. How will Gwen handle the return of the Jackal?
Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547385609
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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Florence looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at an old manor house. But Florence doesn't expect the ghost of her cousin Sophia, who concocts a plan to use Florence to help her achieve her murderous goals.
Author: Margriet Ruurs
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459820371
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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Just when Josh starts to think his break from school is going to be all chores and no cheer, his best friend, Mark, invites him to spend their break helping restore a historic home and mill in Oregon. With the help of their friends Angela and Mary Jane, and under the watchful eye of Aunt Sue and Uncle Doug, the kids spend weeks fixing up the grounds, basking in the freedom of country life and learning about the surrounding area. Not to mention eating bugs, domesticating feral cats and starring in a movie! But it's not all fun and filming. The mill is in financial trouble, and the kids have to figure out a way to help Aunt Sue and Uncle Doug keep it running, in spite of it being haunted. Ghost of the Mill House follows Bus to the Badlands, where we first met Josh and his classmates.
Author: Sue Ann Jaffarian
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738731188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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A new series debut from Odelia Grey mystery author Sue Ann Jaffarian! Granny was famous for her award-winning apple pies-and notorious for murdering her husband Jacob at their homestead in Julian, California. The only trouble is, Granny was framed, then murdered. For more than one hundred years, Granny's spirit has been searching for someone to help her see that justice is served—and she hits pay dirt when she pops in to a séance attended by her great-great-great-granddaughter, modern-day divorced mom Emma Whitecastle. Together, Emma and Granny Apples solve mysteries of the past—starting with Granny's own unjust murder rap in the final days of the California Gold Rush. Along with a sprinkling of history, this spirited new mystery series features the amateur sleuth team of Emma Whitecastle and the spirit of her pie-baking great-great-great-grandmother, Granny Apples. Praise: "A delectable first in a new paranormal cozy series from Sue Ann Jaffarian."—Publishers Weekly "A fun new series. Ghostly puzzles are one of the trendy new themes in cozy mysteries, and this is a good one."—Booklist "Jaffarian has done a nifty job of incorporating Julian's history into her tale of unresolved ghosts, uncanny psychics, unsolved murders and unhappy divorcees, while handily introducing some characters, alive and dead, to carry the series forward."—North Country Times "Emma handles her 'gift' of seeing the dead with aplomb, and class. I'll look forward to seeing where the sequel will take Emma and Granny."—Deadly Pleasures "A charming tale, as appealing as apple pie. I predict a long life (and afterlife) for Sue Ann's latest series."—Harley Jane Kozak, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Award-winning author of Dating Dead Men "Take colorful characters in a charming setting, mix in a dash of romance, add a pinch of the paranormal, and serve it up like one of Granny's famous pies. I guarantee you'll be back for seconds."—Deborah Sharp, author of Mama Rides Shotgun
