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Murder on Monte Vista

Author : David S. Pederson

Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 41,14 MB

Release : 2022-03-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1636791255

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It’s 1946, and on a hot spring night in Phoenix, Arizona, things are only beginning to heat up at the Monte Vista Road home of flamboyant decorator Walter Waverly Wingate. Private detective Mason T. Adler isn’t thrilled to be turning fifty, and the party Walter throws him makes him even more uncomfortable. Walter has arranged a special birthday present for Mason: a private hour with the handsome, young Henry Bowtrickle in Walter’s upstairs bedroom. But the night turns deadly when his birthday gift turns up murdered. The room was locked, no way in or out, and only Henry and Mason were inside. Mason Adler is on the case, but he is also a suspect, along with the other assorted party guests who were all downstairs at the time of the stabbing. Or were they?



The Mystery of the Invisible Hand

Author : Marshall Jevons

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 30,75 MB

Release : 2024-05-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0691259356

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Economics professor and amateur detective Henry Spearman tackles a mystery where the price of art is murder In The Mystery of the Invisible Hand, Henry Spearman, an economics professor with a knack for solving crimes, is pulled into a case that mixes campus intrigue, stolen art, and murder. Arriving at San Antonio’s Monte Vista University to teach a course on art and economics, he is confronted with a puzzling art theft and the suspicious suicide of the school’s artist-in-residence. From Texas to New York, Spearman traces the connections between economics and the art world, finding his clues in monopolies, auction theory, and Adam Smith. How is a company’s capital like an art museum’s collection? What does the market say about art’s authenticity versus its availability? What is the mysterious “death effect”—and does it lie at the heart of the case? Spearman must rely on his savviest economic thinking to answer these questions—and pin down a killer.



Murder at the Oasis

Author : David S. Pederson

Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 26,77 MB

Release : 2023-08-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1636794173

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A relaxing trip to a Palm Springs resort turns deadly for Mason Adler and his friend Walter Wingate when first one of their fellow guests, then another, ends up murdered. Suspects and motives abound among the remaining guests as well as the owner of the Oasis resort, Marvin Gagliardi, an old friend of Walter’s. Mason investigates, hoping to prove Marvin’s innocence, but the more he uncovers, the more he wonders if Marvin actually might be the murderer. Distracting Mason is the handsome and eligible police detective assigned to the case, Brian Branchford. Mason had vowed not to become interested in anyone living a five-hour drive from Phoenix, but Branchford’s green eyes, gray hair, and toothbrush moustache are compelling reasons to give it a try. It’s up to Mason to uncover the truth about the deaths at the Oasis, and to discover if there’s romance as well as murder at the Oasis.



Fatal Foul Play

Author : David S. Pederson

Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 49,74 MB

Release : 2024-11-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1636797954

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When Milo agreed to accompany his friend Mark for a weekend getaway with six other men in northern Arizona, he did not anticipate a snowstorm stranding them all in their lodge. But they make the best of it. Their biggest concern is how they’re going to entertain themselves until the snowstorm ends. Complicating things for Milo is his secret attraction to Mark, not to mention Mark’s renewed attraction to his handsome ex-boyfriend, Brick, who seems like he wants to rekindle the relationship. But all is not as it seems in their cozy snow-covered lodge. When one of them is found brutally murdered, tension between the friends escalates. It seems that everyone has their secrets, and some of those secrets are proving deadly. Suspicion mounts as each person wonders who is behind the killing, and why. With no way to contact the authorities, it’s up to Milo and Mark to discover which of their friends is the murderer and stop him before they become the next target.



Murder at Union Station

Author : David S. Pederson

Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 48,49 MB

Release : 2022-09-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1636792707

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Phoenix, May 6, 1946 At close to midnight in the Union Station baggage room, the air is hot, still, and thick. The eleven forty-five Golden State Limited to Los Angeles is approaching rapidly when the baggage handler, Alfred Brody, notices a stray hound dog sniffing around one of the steamer trunks. The horrific discovery of a body inside the trunk can mean only one thing: there’s a murderer among them. The young woman was certainly murdered, but who did it, and why? Suspects and motives abound as Private Detective Mason Adler investigates. He soon realizes that nothing, and no one, are what they seem to be as he races to uncover the truth and bring the real murderer to justice without becoming the next victim.



Blood on the Streets!

Author : Roland Hepola

Publisher : Page Publishing Inc

Page : 95 pages

File Size : 17,65 MB

Release : 2022-08-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1642142689

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Blood on the Streets is a statistical analysis of US City Murder Rates in four classifications from 1970aEUR"2015. Follow statistically the rises and declines of blood on the streets in four classes of American cities from 1970aEUR"2015. Here, we summarize the long lost past from 1970aEUR"1989. Then, we examine yearly per capita homicide rates from 1985aEUR"2015.



Puzzles Can Be Deadly

Author : David S. Pederson

Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 44,99 MB

Release : 2024-05-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1636796168

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A bizarre old woman who worships the memory of her lost son. A nun with hidden secrets. A spinster housekeeper with a secret of her own. An angry young man with a troubled past. A neighbor who claims to talk to dead people at seances. Skip Valentine and Henry Finch encounter these eccentric people on their weekend trip to visit Henry’s uncle. When they learn of the groundskeeper who died in a mysterious fire shortly before they arrived, strange occurrences are imbued with ominous portent. The peculiar accidents, ghostly barking, a pounding heard late at night in the creepy old mansion, and a strange old box buried behind the burned-out carriage house all add up to something. Skip yearns to investigate. It’s all so perplexing. But when another death raises the stakes, the puzzle turns deadly. The solution may lie in a curious rhyme told by the groundskeeper before he died, but first Skip and Henry must decipher it.



The Only Suspect

Author : Jonnie Jacobs

Publisher : Pinnacle Books

Page : 452 pages

File Size : 19,1 MB

Release : 2006-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780786016693

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When Dr. Sam Russell finds himself the only suspect in the murder of his wife, it will take the investigative skills of Hannah Montgomery to figure out if he is a monster who killed his wife, or if there is something much more sinister going on.



Murder in Pleasanton

Author : Joshua Suchon

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 16,44 MB

Release : 2015-09-21

Category : History

ISBN : 1625855389

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A journalist digs into the California cold case of a teenager murdered in his hometown in this disturbing true crime account. In April 1984, fourteen-year-old Foothill High freshman Tina Faelz took a shortcut on her walk home. About an hour later, she was found in a ditch, brutally stabbed to death. The murder shook the quiet East Bay suburb of Pleasanton and left investigators baffled. With no witnesses or leads, the case went cold and remained so for nearly thirty years. Then the investigation finally got a break in 2011. Improved forensics recovered DNA from a drop of blood found at the scene matching Tina’s classmate, Steven Carlson. Through dusty police files, personal interviews, letters and firsthand accounts, journalist Joshua Suchon revisits his childhood home to uncover the story of a shocking crime and the controversial sentencing that brought long-awaited answers to a tormented community.



When the Bishop Needs an Alibi

Author : Vannetta Chapman

Publisher : Harvest House Publishers

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 47,27 MB

Release : 2017-09-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0736966498

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A Terrible Secret Hides in the Bulrushes Amish bishop Henry Lapp eagerly awaits the annual arrival of 20,000 sandhill cranes to the San Luis Valley of Colorado. But his visit to the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge reveals more than just a miracle of God's creation. Hidden among the bulrushes and cattails is the deceased body of a young woman. As the local authorities attempt to unravel the mystery, Henry feels God's calling to use his extraordinary talent to aid in the investigation. His ability to draw from memory in photographic detail could help solve this puzzling case. Henry's closest friend, Emma Fisher, has always urged him to embrace his gift. As their relationship deepens, Henry realizes his involvement could put him and those he loves in the direct path of a killer, one who is willing to do anything to cover up a brutal crime, including framing the bishop. When the Bishop Needs an Alibi is a compelling story of faith, friendship, and finding courage only God can provide.