Ben Abbott
Author: Fanny Long
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 352
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Author: Justin Scott
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHardscape, in Susan Isaacs' words, had enough suspense to make the reader hyperventilate. Now witty, literate Ben Abbott--who served time for a Wall Street indiscretion and is struggling to revive his family's real estate firm--returns in a mystery even more complex, richly plotted, and enthralling.
Author: Justin Scott
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2011-05-27
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781590580615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Fisks’ weekend party, a “sleep-over” for select couples, remains the talk of the town long after Reg Hopkins’ body turns up in an isolated covered bridge. It appears Reg may have paid the party a fleeting visit—before dying in a way everyone swears was impossible. Ben, who used to play backyard baseball with Reg and all the party guests, must take up the matter with a hometown cast of friends, foes, and family—including his ninety-year-old Aunt Connie, the rising politician and his sometime lover Vicky McLachlan, the comely and ambitious State Police Detective Marian Boyce, and a pair of deadly housebreakers. Soon everybody’s getting much more in the way of kicks than they bargained for.
Author: Justin Scott
Publisher: iBooks
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780743487047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn quaint Newbury, Connecticut, real estate broker Ben Abbott gets caught in a nasty land battle between two neighbors, which soon leads to a mysterious death. "A thoroughly good read."--"Publishers Weekly."
Author: Jacob Abbott
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Justin Scott
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2011-05-27
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9781590584682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Newbury Connecticuts three hundred year old village cemetery is invaded by a gaudy, half-million dollar mausoleum, Ben Abbott is not happy. Newcomer Brian Grosess tall, wide, mirror-polished eruption of eternal ego sticks out in the peaceful burying ground like a McMansion in an apple orchard. Bens fellow drinkers at the bar have nicknamed the monstrosity, McTomb. But no one expected to find Brians body locked in his mausoleum, fifty years ahead of schedule. Then Homeland Security Immigration Criminal Enforcement agents descend on Newbury hunting for Charlie Cubrero, an illegal immigrant farm handand supposed gang leaderwho bought a gun after he was stiffed for fifty bucks by Brian Grose. Ben Abbott doesnt buy it. Half the town was in the graveyard celebrating Newburys tercentennial when Brian was shot and most of them were mad at him. Besides, Ben admires the hard working Charlie. And he fears that the news that the illegal worked for the Village Cemetery Association will destroy the venerable society already torn asunder by suing and counter-suing anti-mausoleum traditionalists and pro-mausoleum insurgents.
Author: Justin Scott
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2011-05-27
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781590580622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHardScape and StoneDust, the first Ben Abbott novels, established Ben as one of the most engaging and canny investigators to have appeared in a long time. Britain’s Literary Review terms the Abbotts “Smooth, sardonic, impeccably argued, immaculately written” while author Lawrence Block says: “Frostline is the best book in a series that started strong and keeps getting better.” When Newbury’s newest resident, ex-diplomat Harry King, the close confidant of Kissinger and reputed to have been heavily involved in the Vietnam War, summons real estate agent Ben Abbott to his new McMansion, Ben dreams of big dollar signs. The commission from selling the Fox Trot estate would be huge. But King doesn’t want Ben’s selling expertise, he wants him to act as a mediator between him and his troublesome neighbour, surly Vietnam vet Ronnie Butler. A strip of Butler’s land cuts straight into King’s estate like a knife, acting as a red flag for two neighbors who are as ornery and quarrelsome as a pair of rival bulls. In fact, the testoserone is flowing heavier than the waters in the stream King is damming up for a picturesque lake. Before Ben can mediate, an explosion rocks a lavish party on the Fox Trot lawn. The blast blows up the dam—and Butler’s ex-con son, Dickie, along with it. Butler, an army-trained sapper, is arrested for setting the dynamite. Ben, whose childhood friend Dickie had tried his patience and loyalty many times before, refuses to accept Butler’s guilt. Besides, too many things don’t add up. Could it be the work of terrorists? Of one of the many groups holding a grudge against King? Or just someone with his own axe to grind? With the Feds on the scene, caught in state and locallaw enforcement jockeying, Ben negotiates an unpopular course through the usual minefield of his various loyalties to friends, family and lovers, of whom there are plenty....
Author: Ben Lesser
Publisher: Abbott Press
Published: 2012-04-19
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1458202739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his highly readable, educational and inspiring memoir, Holocaust Survivor Ben Lesser’s warm, grandfatherly tone invites the reader to do more than just visit a time when the world went mad. He also shows how this madness came to be—and the lessons that the world still needs to learn. In this true story, the reader will see how an ordinary human being—an innocent child—not only survived the Nazi Nightmare, but achieved the American Dream.
Author: Justin Scott
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Published: 2007-01-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781590583722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn quaint Newbury, Connecticut, real estate broker Ben Abbott gets caught in a nasty land battle between two neighbors, which soon leads to a mysterious death. "A thoroughly good read."--"Publishers Weekly."
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 1530
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