Death at the Drunken Duck
Death at the Drunken Duck

Author: Kitty Kildare

Publisher:

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781915378750

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A resourceful sleuth. And a murky murder. London 1920: Veronica Vale is enjoying a quiet life of obituary writing at the newspaper and volunteer work at her beloved dogs' home. But when her best friend's brother is accused of murdering Arthur Buchanan following a sumptuous party, Veronica won't rest until she learns the truth. Todd Smythe is innocent! Veronica and her street-smart dog, Benji, get to work figuring out what happened. But with the evidence mounting against Todd, she has her work cut out for her. Will our headstrong amateur sleuth catch the killer and clear Todd's name? And what troubling twists will she uncover when she does? *** If you love witty dialogue, 1920s British historical glamour, intrigue, and a fast-paced mystery, you'll adore Kitty Kildare's unputdownable whodunnits. Death at the Drunken Duck is book two in the Veronica Vale Investigates series. It's a delightful 1920s British historical cozy murder mystery series set in the charms of London, with a dash of countryside manor house, and a swirl of classic whodunnit to tempt every mystery reader.

Dead Beside The Thames
Dead Beside The Thames

Author: Stephanie Laurens

Publisher: Savdek Management Proprietary Limited

Published: 2024-10-17

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1925559718

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#1 NYT-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with a confounding case that sees her favorite sleuths acting to save a friend wrongly accused of murder. When a detested viscount is found murdered by the banks of the Thames and Charlie Hastings becomes the prime suspect, Barnaby and Penelope Adair join forces with Stokes to discover the real story behind the unexpected killing. Charlie Hastings is astonished to find himself accused of murdering Viscount Sedbury. Admittedly, Charlie had two heated altercations with Sedbury in the hours preceding the man’s death, but as Charlie is quick to point out to Stokes – and to Barnaby and Penelope – there are a multitude of others in the ton who will be delighted to learn of Sedbury’s demise. As Penelope, Barnaby, and Stokes start assembling a suspect list, Charlie’s prediction proves only too accurate. Yet the most puzzling aspect is who on earth managed to kill Sedbury. The man was a hulking brute, large, very strong, and known as a vicious brawler. Who managed to subdue him enough to strangle him? As the number of suspects steadily increases, the investigators are forced to ask if, perhaps, one of their suspects hired a killer capable of taking Sedbury down. With that possibility thrown into the calculations, narrowing their suspect list becomes a futile exercise. Their pursuit of the truth leads them to investigate the many shady avenues of Sedbury’s life, much to the consternation of Sedbury’s father, the Marquess of Rattenby. Rattenby does not want Sedbury’s distasteful proclivities exposed for all the world to see, further harming the other family members who Sedbury has taken great delight in tormenting for most of his life. In the end, the resolution of the crime lies in old-fashioned policing coupled with the fresh twists Barnaby and Penelope bring to Scotland Yard’s efforts. And when the truth is finally revealed, it raises questions that strike to the very heart of justice and what, with such a victim and such a murderer, true justice actually means. A historical novel of 62,500 words interweaving mystery and murder with a touch of romance.

I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone
I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

Author: Jim Dickinson

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2017-03-23

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1496811208

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I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, including Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Arlo Guthrie, and Albert King. With verve and wit, Dickinson (1941–2009) describes his trip to Blind Lemon's grave on the Texas flatlands as a college student and how that encounter inspired his return to Memphis. Back home, he looked up Gus Cannon and Furry Lewis, began staging plays, cofounded what would become the annual Memphis Blues Festival, and started recording. The blues, Elvis, and early rock 'n' roll compelled Dickinson to reject racial barriers and spurred his contributions to the Memphis music and experimental art scene. He explains how the family yardman, WDIA, Dewey Phillips, Furry Lewis, Will Shade, and Howlin' Wolf shaped him and recounts how he went on to learn his craft at Sun, Ardent, American, Muscle Shoals, and Criteria studios from master producers Sam Phillips, John Fry, Chips Moman, and Jerry Wexler. Dickinson is a member of the Mississippi Music Hall of Fame and an inaugural inductee of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Engineering and Production from the Americana Music Association, a Brass Note on the Beale Street Walk of Fame in Memphis, and a Heritage Marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This memoir recounts a love affair with Memphis, the blues, and rock 'n' roll through Dickinson's captivating blend of intelligence, humor, and candor.

Frost
Frost

Author: William H. Pritchard

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780870238383

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Although this book does not attempt to revive the image of Frost as a benign, white-haired sage, it does present him in a strikingly different light than did Lawrance Thompson's controversial three-volume biography. William H. Pritchard sees Frost whole, demonstrating the complex interaction between the poet's life and work. Based not only on the poetry, but on letters, notebooks, recorded interviews, and public appearances as well, 'Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered' examines the most interesting and significant aspects of Frost's life and poetry and offers an attentive, sensitive portrait of an artist whose critical reputation continues to grow.

Picture Them Dead
Picture Them Dead

Author: Brynn Bonner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1476776814

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"Make no bones about it, genealogist Sophreena McClure and her psychic business partner Esme Sabatier have a lot of dirty work ahead of them. "The Forgotten man," a skeleton found inside of an unusual coffin in a nearby backyard, is creating a buzz around their small town. But it's the fresh corpse of a mysterious young woman that soon grabs everyone's attention ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Murder and Miscalculation
Murder and Miscalculation

Author: Anne Ginty

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-10-09

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1447849035

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Is it possible for a heart-transplant patient to develop the phobias of the donor? That is the question plaguing Richard Paynter who makes for the Lakes in a desperate attempt to overcome the obsessive fear of water that came with his new heart. Instead, he finds love with wealthy widow and businesswoman, Liberty Westerman - and a watery grave. It is left to Liberty to overcome her own fears in order to discover just how much Richard's transplant - and the Lakes - contributed to his death. Murder and Miscalculation is the fourth in a series of murder mysteries set in the English Lake District.

Death's Head
Death's Head

Author: Leo Kessler

Publisher: Benchmark Publishing

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1311463933

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SS Assault Battalion Wotan, the toughest troops in Europe, are to spearhead a whole new theater of war. Not to the West, but now to the East. Von Dodenburg, Schulze, Schwarz, and the unwavering Vulture fight their way into winter's iron claws at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa: Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. This is the sixth gritty installment in Leo Kessler's fictional series The Dogs of War. Leo Kessler is the pseudonym of the late writer Charles Whiting. More than three million of his books have been sold worldwide.

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

Author: Rick Meyerowitz

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1683357671

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Reprints and reminiscences from the magazine’s first decade: “Fun to flip through . . . Where would American humor be without the National Lampoon?”—The New Yorker From its first issue in April 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons—even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. This is the story of a band of young talents who “irrevocably rewrote the landscape of American humor” (Publishers Weekly). “A vivid picture of a tight-knit family of twentysomething humorists at the dawn of their careers.” —Newsweek "The other night I started laughing so hard I had to leave the room . . . And then I realized that I hadn’t laughed so hard in 35 years, since I was a teenager, reading National Lampoon.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you grew up with the Lampoon, this book is a trip down memory lane like no other; if not, it will demonstrate that the much maligned 70s could produce humor that has never been surpassed.” —Vanity Fair