An Urgent Murder
An Urgent Murder

Author: Alex Winchester

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1789014964

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A rookie who questions everything teams up with an experienced detective with a chequered past to investigate a chilling murder ... He had to be killed urgently - if he suffered, all the better. If the blame could be shifted to someone else, so be it. A murder in a private home is quickly and easily solved by the police, their culprit established by fingerprints on the murder weapon: a jar of poison. The private care nurse neither denies nor admits to it. A clear cut case - but one detective isn’t sure. John is an experienced Metropolitan Police detective with a chequered background and a laissez faire attitude who is knocked back when he is suddenly teamed with Alison, a prim young Sussex officer who is out to learn as much as possible in her ambitious pursuit of senior rank. With different approaches to the case and influences from various people, the two must learn to work together in order to bring the true killer to justice. Can Alison trust John? Can John shield Alison for what is to come? And are more laws about to be broken when a nefarious crime lord learns from a highly placed mole that their lucrative way of life is about to come to an end? The reader is led through the ongoing investigation of an apparently solved, simple murder that transpires to be anything but. Twists, turns and clues abound but may not necessarily lead to the expected conclusion. Readers who enjoy thrilling crime books along with baffling mysteries will delight in this novel.

Murder at the Arlington
Murder at the Arlington

Author: Kathleen Kaska

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1627934286

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It's 1952. Reporter Sydney Lockhart checks into the historic Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Before she even unpacks, she discovers the brutally murdered body of the hotel's bookkeeper. What had begun as a simple travel-writing assignment now turns into a murder investigation. The bad news is that Sydney is a suspect. Determined to clear her name and prove herself a reporter deserving more than just travel assignments, Sydney becomes embroiled in the underworld of gangsters and gamblers. In her fight for the truth, she soon faces a more urgent battle: saving her own skin.

Can't Judge a Book By Its Murder
Can't Judge a Book By Its Murder

Author: Amy Lillard

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1492687782

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THE FIRST IN A NEW BOOK THEMED COZY MYSTERY SERIES You won't be able to stop turning the pages of this small town mystery, which is: Perfect for fans of Ellery Adams and Lorna Barrett A riveting bookclub cozy mystery Full of quirky, Southern charm Not every murder is by the book... As Sugar Springs gears up for its all-class high school reunion, Mississippi bookstore owner Arlo Stanley prepares to launch her largest event: a book-signing with the town's legendary alum and bestselling author, Wally Harrison. That's when Wally is discovered dead outside of Arlo's front door and her best friend is questioned for the crime. When the elderly ladies of Arlo's Friday Night Book Club start to investigate, Arlo has no choice but to follow behind to keep them out of trouble. Yet with Wally's reputation, the suspect list only grows longer—his betrayed wife, his disgruntled assistant, even the local man who holds a grudge from a long-ago accident. Between running interference with the book club and otherwise keeping it all together, Arlo anxiously works to get Chloe out of jail. And amidst it all, her one-time boyfriend-turned-private-eye returns to town, just another distraction while she digs to uncover the truth around Wally's death and just what Sugar Springs secret could have led to his murder. If you love women's murder club books, Amy Lillard's cozy mysteries are just for you!

Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens
Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens

Author: Andrea Penrose

Publisher: Wrexford & Sloane Mystery

Published: 2022-07-26

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1496732510

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A USA Today bestseller! “[Penrose] mixes well-thought out mysteries, early forensic science, great details of the era and a slow burning attraction creating a compulsive read.” —The New York Public Library A thrilling new mystery novel from the acclaimed author of Murder at Queen’s Landing, perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Anne Perry! In the fifth installment of Andrea Penrose’s acclaimed, atmospheric mystery series, the upcoming marriage of the Earl of Wrexford and Lady Charlotte Sloane promises to be a highlight of the season, if they can first untangle—and survive—a web of intrigue and murder involving the most brilliant scientific minds in Regency London… One advantage of being caught up in a whirl of dress fittings and decisions about flower arrangements and breakfast menus is that Charlotte Sloane has little time for any pre-wedding qualms. Her love for Wrexford isn’t in question. But will being a wife—and a Countess—make it difficult for her to maintain her independence—not to mention, her secret identity as famed satirical artist A.J. Quill? Despite those concerns, there are soon even more urgent matters to attend to during Charlotte and Wrexford’s first public outing as an engaged couple. At a symposium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, a visiting botanist suffers a fatal collapse. The traces of white powder near his mouth reveal the dark truth—he was murdered. Drawn into the investigation, Charlotte and the Earl learn of the victim’s involvement in a momentous medical discovery. With fame and immense fortune at stake, there’s no shortage of suspects, including some whose ruthlessness is already known. But neither Charlotte nor her husband-to-be can realize how close the danger is about to get—or to what lengths this villain is prepared to go . . .

Murder in Montmartre
Murder in Montmartre

Author: Cara Black

Publisher: Soho Press

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1569477248

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Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc strives to clear the name of a childhood friend, now a policewoman, who's charged with shooting her partner Aimée Leduc is having a bad day. First, she comes home from work at her Paris detective agency to learn that her boyfriend is leaving her. She goes out for a drink with her friend Laure, a police officer, but Laure’s patrol partner, Jacques, interrupts, saying he needs to talk to Laure urgently. The two leave the bar, and when they don’t return, Aimée follows Laure’s path and finds her sprawled on a snowy rooftop, not far from Jacques, who is bleeding from a fatal gunshot wound. When the police arrive, they arrest Laure for murder. No one is interested in helping Aimée figure out the truth. As she chases down increasingly dangerous leads in the effort to free her friend, Aimée stumbles into a web of Corsican nationalists, separatists, gangsters, and artists. Could Jacques’s murder and Laure’s arrest be part of a much bigger cover-up?

A Good Month For Murder
A Good Month For Murder

Author: Del Quentin Wilber

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1509830529

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'Superb - one of the best real-life copy books ever written.' Lee Child In a true crime cross between James Ellroy and David Simon's The Wire, A Good Month for Murder follows twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer in Washington D.C. After gaining unparalleled access to the homicide unit in Prince George's County, which borders the nation's capital, bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber begins shadowing the talented, often quirky detectives who get the call when a body falls. After a quiet couple of months, all hell breaks loose: suddenly every detective in the squad is scrambling to solve one shooting and stabbing after another. Meanwhile, the entire unit is obsessed with a stone-cold 'red ball', a high-profile case involving a seventeen-year-old honour student attacked by a gunman who kicked down the door to her house and shot her in her bed. This is the inside story of how a team of detectives carry out their almost impossible job. Murder is the police investigator's ultimate crucible: to solve a killing, a detective must speak for the dead. A Good Month for Murder is a compelling true crime account which shows what it takes to succeed when the stakes couldn't possibly be higher.

The Message is Murder
The Message is Murder

Author: Jonathan Beller

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780745337302

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The Message is Murder analyses the violence bound up in the everyday functions of digital media. At its core is the concept of 'computational capital' - the idea that capitalism itself is a computer, turning qualities into quantities, and that the rise of digital culture and technologies under capitalism should be seen as an extension of capitalism's bloody logic. Engaging with Borges, Turing, Claude Shannon, Hitchcock and Marx, this book tracks computational capital to reveal the lineages of capitalised power as it has restructured representation, consciousness and survival in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Ultimately The Message is Murder makes the case for recognising media communications across all platforms - books, films, videos, photographs and even language itself - as technologies of political economy, entangled with the social contexts of a capitalism that is inherently racial, gendered and genocidal.

British Murder Mysteries - Ultimate Collection
British Murder Mysteries - Ultimate Collection

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-05-17

Total Pages: 18259

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you a collection of the greatest thriller novels and murder mystery stories of all time Edgar Wallace:_x000D_ The Four Just Men_x000D_ The Council of Justice _x000D_ The Just Men of Cordova_x000D_ The Law of the Four Just Men _x000D_ The Nine Bears_x000D_ Angel Esquire _x000D_ The Fourth Plague or Red Hand _x000D_ Grey Timothy or Pallard the Punter_x000D_ The Man who Bought London_x000D_ The Melody of Death _x000D_ A Debt Discharged _x000D_ The Tomb of T'Sin _x000D_ The Secret House _x000D_ The Clue of the Twisted Candle_x000D_ Down under Donovan _x000D_ The Man who Knew_x000D_ The Green Rust_x000D_ Kate Plus Ten_x000D_ The Daffodil Murder_x000D_ Jack O'Judgment_x000D_ The Angel of Terror _x000D_ The Crimson Circle_x000D_ Take-A-Chance Anderson_x000D_ The Valley of Ghosts_x000D_ P.-C. Lee Series_x000D_ Arthur Conan Doyle:_x000D_ Sherlock Holmes Series_x000D_ A Study in Scarlet_x000D_ The Sign of Four_x000D_ The Hound of the Baskervilles_x000D_ The Valley of Fear_x000D_ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_x000D_ The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes_x000D_ The Return of Sherlock Holmes_x000D_ His Last Bow_x000D_ Other Mysteries_x000D_ True Crime Stories_x000D_ Wilkie Collins:_x000D_ The Woman in White_x000D_ No Name_x000D_ Armadale_x000D_ The Moonstone_x000D_ The Haunted Hotel_x000D_ The Law and The Lady_x000D_ The Dead Secret_x000D_ Miss or Mrs?_x000D_ R. Austin Freeman:_x000D_ Dr. Thorndyke Series_x000D_ Other Mysteries_x000D_ Agatha Christie:_x000D_ The Mysterious Affair at Styles_x000D_ The Secret Adversary_x000D_ H. C. McNeile:_x000D_ Bulldog Drummond_x000D_ The Black Gang_x000D_ G. K. Chesterton:_x000D_ The Innocence of Father Brown_x000D_ The Wisdom of Father Brown_x000D_ Arthur Morrison:_x000D_ Martin Hewitt Series_x000D_ Dorrington & Hicks Stories_x000D_ Ernest Bramah:_x000D_ Max Carrados Stories_x000D_ Victor L. Whitechurch:_x000D_ The Canon in Residence_x000D_ Thrilling Stories of the Railway_x000D_ Thomas W. Hanshew:_x000D_ Hamilton Cleek Series_x000D_ E. W. Hornung:_x000D_ A. J. Raffles Series_x000D_ Mystery Novels_x000D_ J. S. Fletcher:_x000D_ Mystery Novels_x000D_ Paul Campenhaye – Specialist in Criminology_x000D_ Rober Barr:_x000D_ The Triumph of Eugéne Valmont_x000D_ Jennie Baxter, Journalist_x000D_ The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs_x000D_ The Adventure of the Second Swag_x000D_ Frank Froest Mystery Novels_x000D_ C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson Mystery Novels_x000D_ Isabel Ostander Mystery Novels

Somerset Murders
Somerset Murders

Author: Nicola Sly

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2012-02-29

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0752484311

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Somerset Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made headlines throughout the country. They include the cases of Elizabeth and Betty Branch, a mother and daughter who beat a young servant girl to death in Hemington in 1740; 13-year-old Betty Trump, whose throat was cut while walking home at Buckland St Mary in 1823; factory worker Joan Turner, battered to death in Chard in 1829; George Watkins, killed in a bare knuckle fight outside the Running Horse pub in Yeovil in 1843; Constance Kent, who confessed in 1865 to killing her half-brother at Rode in 1860, nearly five years earlier; and elderly landlay, Mrs Emily Bowers, strangled in her bed in Middlezoy in 1947. Nicola Sly and John van der Kiste, co-authors of Cornish Murders in this series, have an encyclopedic knowledge of their subject. Their carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to anyone interested in the shady side of Somerset's history.