Ever consider betting $25,000 on a poker hand? High rollers at an exclusive card room in a Palm Springs casino doAnd when the same person wins too oftenThat person becomes a threat to their livelihoodA threat that needs to be taken care of - like in murderJoin Marty and her husband, Detective Jeff, as they investigate the lives of the casino high rollers to find out which one was the murderer.And if you like dogs, you must meet Miss Olive and Miss Simone!This is book number 10 in the High Desert Cozy Mystery Series by a two-time USA Today Bestselling Author.
Droban presents the inside story of the murder of Gary Triano, an Arizona real estate developer who was killed in 1996 by a car bomb planted by his ex-wife's lover. Original.
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press When Edmund Creffield and his "Holy Roller" religious cult made headlines in 1903, it was page one news - not just in the Pacific Northwest, but around the nation. Yet few people in the region today have heard Creffield's name or his story. In fact, the descendants of the people who were involved still refuse to discuss those events of a century ago.
Axel gave Victoria an impossible choice, and she chose him. Victoria My brother is dead. He’s been dead for five years and no one seems inclined to bring those who killed him to justice. Well, no one except me. Axel I’m in negotiation with the Albanian mob. They think I’m going to stand with them against the others. They’re wrong. Atlantic City is my town… or at least it’s going to be. And then I see her across a crowded bar at one of the city’s best casinos. When Axel saves me from a drunk at the Blue Eye, I let myself have a wonderful weekend of indulgence and pleasure. When Axel wants me for arm candy at a high-stakes poker game I figure why not? Only that poker game is about far more than I knew and now I’m caught up in it with no way out. The Syndicate Masters are in the US! They were assigned as Guardians by the goddess over six centuries ago. Each generation brings new and different challenges. These ruthless and wild dons are the protectors, the Guardians of their territories. On the Eastern Seaboard the Masters control horse racing, casinos, and gambling among other things. Get ready for over-the-top, possessive mob bosses who will do what is needed to find and protect their fated mates.
Chronicles the rags-to-riches story of Ray Ryan, the Evansville, Ind., oil millionaire, who went on to gamble with H.L. Hunt and other high rollers, hobnob with celebrities in his El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs, develop the Mount Kenya Safari Club with actor William Holden and a Swiss banker, only to fall victim to a car bomb on a beautiful fall day in 1970s Evansville.
By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high rollers to its racetracks, clubs, and bordellos. Still, the town was shaken to its core after a girl was found dead on a nearby ranch. The ranch owner claimed it was an accident. Then the rancher was found to be the killer of another woman – his fourth wife. The story begins when 13-year-old Cathie Ward was found dead after horseback riding at Blacksnake Ranch on the outskirts of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Frank Davis, the owner of the ranch, tells authorities Cathie’s death is an accident. He claims her foot caught in a stirrup and she was dragged to her death despite his pursuit of the runaway horse. People who know the 42-year-old skilled horseman don’t believe his story, and soon rumors of her rape and murder begin swirling around town. The rumors reach a crescendo after Davis viciously guns down his fourth wife and mother-in-law in broad daylight outside of a laundromat. Davis is arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Soon after, Hot Springs authorities re-open the investigation into Cathie Ward’s death. Snake Eyes is the first book to examine this decades-old murder and cover-up, and the only in-depth account of the man who would become the town’s most notorious villain. Featuring personal interviews, crime scene records, court documents, and Davis’ own prison files, author and lifelong Hot Springs resident Bitty Martin reveals the true story for the first time.
The world is burning down and all I can think about is a girl. The only woman that’s off limits—my best friend’s little sister. No one is thrilled to hear that I have her on my mind, but why should they be? I’m not worthy of such affection and no one is thinking about anything but taking down the psychopath that’s taking over our city. I gotta get my head in the game. The stakes are high, and everyone is looking my way to make things right alongside our leader. How this beauty worked her way into the heart of the club is beyond me, but one thing is for sure—I’m rolling high bets that she’s mine. No matter the ante.
The “enormously entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that “artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off” (The New York Times) AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME • “Fascinating . . . won’t disappoint readers in search of a book like Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.”—The Washington Post On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. The police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era’s most perplexing murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus, as their rival newspapers the World and the Journal raced to solve the crime. What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial. The Murder of the Century is a rollicking tale—a rich evocation of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re-creation of the tabloid wars that forever changed newspaper journalism.
