Book Description
In turn-of-the century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see birth and death--and even murder...
Author : Victoria Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440673438
In turn-of-the century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see birth and death--and even murder...
Author : Victoria Thompson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425173615
In turn-of-the century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see birth and death--and even murder...
Author : Victoria E. Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Brandt, Sarah (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9781322856056
Author : Ada Calhoun
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393249794
A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street’s apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant’s pear orchard to today’s hipster playground—organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared “St. Marks is dead.” In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, among many others. She argues that St. Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants’ haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the film Kids—but it has always been a place that outsiders call home. This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community.
Author : Norman Firth
Publisher : Linford Mystery
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781444825558
Dr. Wignall, Headmaster of the venerable public school of St. Mark's, is fiercely proud of the institution. But this pride has been considerably shaken by the murder of a teacher's daughter in the nearby woods. As Mr. Prenderby, the charismatic master of North House, uncovers a sordid undercurrent of gambling, blackmail and immorality amongst the schoolboys, another murder is committed - this time, one of the pupils. When one of the teachers bolts, the police think they are trailing the killer - but are they?
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 6585934016
"The Rue Morgue Murders" is a pioneering tale in the mystery genre, in which detective Auguste Dupin uses his acute observation and logic to solve a brutal double murder in Paris, revealing a surprising and unusual outcome.
Author : Mark Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1682610977
Was journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? Or was her death from an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, as reported? Shaw believes Kilgallen's death has always been suspect, and unfolds a list of suspects ranging from Frank Sinatra to a Mafia don, while speculating on the possibilities of reopening the case.
Author : Moie Charles
Publisher : Samuel French , Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Drama
ISBN :
When the Parson declares rather carelessly 'Anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world at large a service !', he does not realise his words will come back to haunt him. From several potential murderers, Miss Marple must find the real killer
Author : Lois Duncan
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0316182648
From beloved author Lois Duncan comes a frightening novel about a group of students who set out to teach their malicious teacher a lesson -- only to learn that one of them could be a killer. Mr. Griffin is the strictest teacher at Del Norte High, with a penchant for endless projects and humiliating students. Even straight-A student Susan can't believe how mean he is to her crush, Dave, and to the charismatic Mark Kinney. So when Dave asks Susan to help a group of students teach Mr. Griffin a lesson of their own, she goes along with them. After all, it's a harmless prank, right? But things don't go according to plan. When one "accident" leads to another and people begin to die, Susan and her friends must face the awful truth: one of them is a killer.
Author : J. Mark Bertrand
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780764206375
Det. Roland March is a homicide cop on his way out. But when he's the only one at a crime scene to find evidence of a missing female victim, he's given one last chance to prove himself. Before he can crack the case, he's transferred to a new one that has grabbed the spotlight--the disappearance of a famous Houston evangelist's teen daughter. With the help of a youth pastor with a guilty conscience who navigates the world of church and faith, March is determined to find the missing girls while proving he's still one of Houston's best detectives.