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1) Murderers
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Murderers is a trio of three monologues written by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher. Each monologue is a confession of murder. The murders all take place on the same night on the premises of Riddle Key, a fictitious senior retirement center in Sarasota Florida. The Stories: 1. "The Man Who Married His Mother-in-Law" is Gerald Halverson's confession of an elicit love and a plan to shelter five million dollars from the IRS. When...
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"Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady -- ah, lady of a certain age -- who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of oolong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what...
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There's no holiday from homicide for amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe and his long-suffering brother-in-law, Jeff Cody. Murderers' Row, their second casebook of shorter stories, collects three adventures connected with what should have been happy occasions.
When Meg Russert's destination wedding on the tropical island of Barbados becomes A Destination Murder, Mac is a fish out of water dealing with a local police inspector less than impressed by his...
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Sam Rave, a young reporter arrives in Dancyville, Tennessee in 1948 after flunking out of the University of Missouri. Sam is one of the first people on the scene when Honey Boy Cunningham is found dead. Cunningham, 17, belongs to the town's most prominent family. He has dressed as a girl and taken poison. Sam's curiosity leads him to the story of a bootlegger named Marion Whitlow, who was shot down at the town's only stoplight the year before. The...
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Badge of honor volume 6
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396 pages ; 24 cm.
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In Philadelphia, a policeman suspected of drug dealing is murdered, a bar owner and his wife are gunned down and a young woman dies from drug overdose. It is up to detectives Matt Payne and Jason Washington to put together the pieces. Sixth novel in a police series by the author of The Assassin.
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Professional assassin and counter-agent Matt Helm has been given a distasteful assignment. He is to disguise himself as gangster Jimmy "the Lash" Petroni and assault a fellow agent in order to help establish her cover in a top-secret operation. But now Jean is dead, and Helm must take her place on a dangerous mission. Alone in Chesapeake Bay, pursued by his own government, Helm must carry out an assassination-before his employers catch up to him.
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Criminoloogist Robin Odell has compiled this gruesome gallery of cases from all over the world, revealing the growth in serial slayings, contract killings and middle-class murders and investigating what motivates people to commit the ultimate crime. As well as gangsters and ordinary felons, the book includes doctors, millionaries, housewives, children, lawyers, accountants, officers and gentlemen who have succumbed to the killing instinct. Behind...
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A trio of the most vile serial killers in modern American history. Gary Heidnik was the inspiration behind the film "Silence of the Lambs" as he targeted mostly African American prostitutes during his reign of terror. Angel Maturino patrolled the railroads of the midwest as he sought out victims to satisfy his bloodlust. Meanwhile, Donald Leroy Evans would claim to murder almost sixty people as they found their way into rest stops where he was laying...
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Exploring the world's greatest mysteries, evil serial killers and monsters from nightmare. We are all familiar with some of the world's myths and legends, such as the Loch-ness monster, tales of ghost sightings and infamous murderers such as Ted Bundy.
In the first edition of Mysteries, Murderers & Monsters we look at individual cases of true crime and the strange happenings of the world!
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a "tale of ratiocination" featuring the brilliant deductions of C. Auguste Dupin; it is today regarded as one of the first detective stories and is almost certainly the first locked room mystery. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and...
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A "Chief Inspector Damiot" mystery!
All the newspapers would be certain to make a big thing out of it tomorrow: Sadoyan escaping from a prison van in the courtyard of the Prefecture de Police. Young Officer Lorant was a fool to have turned his back even for a second, giving Sadoyan that instant he needed to bring the metal handcuffs down on his skull.
Now Chief Inspector Damiot of the French Police had to clean up the mess...
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xi, 244 pages ; 21 cm
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What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? What is it like to start over from nothing? To answer these questions Sabine Heinlein followed the everyday lives and emotional struggles of Angel Ramos and his friends Bruce and Adam-three men convicted of some of society's most heinous crimes-as they return to the free world.Heinlein spent more than two...
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This entertaining collection features thirteen short mystery stories from some of our finest writers, all based on some piece of music. Each story is accompanied by a short introduction, song lyrics, and an interview with the writer. Finally, the book is packaged with a music CD with recordings by the authors.
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