Murder in Mount Holly
Author: P. THEROUX
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Published: 1969
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ISBN-13: 9780900626074
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Author: P. THEROUX
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Published: 1969
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ISBN-13: 9780900626074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2011-12-06
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 0802195024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A Vonnegut tinged absurdist satire . . . (a) tightly paced, expertly drawn comic romp” from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Mosquito Coast (LitReactor). Paul Theroux, one of the world’s most popular authors, both for his travel books and his fiction, has produced an off-beat story of 1960s weirdos unlike anything he has ever written. During the time of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency, Herbie Gneiss is forced to leave college to get a job. His income from the Kant-Brake toy factory, which manufactures military toys for children, keeps his chocolate-loving mother from starvation. Mr. Gibbon, a patriotic veteran of three wars, also works at Kant-Brake. When Herbie is drafted, Mr. Gibbon falls in love with Herbie’s mother and they move in together at Miss Ball’s rooming house. Since Herbie is fighting for his country, Mr. Gibbon feels that he, too, should do something for his country and convinces Miss Ball and Mrs. Gneiss to join him in the venture. They decide to rob the Mount Holly Trust Company because it is managed by a small dark man who is probably a communist. There are some complications. Combine Donald E. Westlake with Abby Hoffman, add a bit of Gore Vidal at his most vitriolic, and you will have Murder in Mount Holly. “Parodies the American political fringe at a time when flags burned, hippies protested and commies lurked everywhere . . . you’ll have little difficulty inserting today’s fringe characters into Theroux’s lampoon.” —Star Tribune “The geezer psychopath finally gets his due . . . The fun here is in how hateful the characters are.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author: Barry Leonard
Publisher:
Published: 2008-08
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781437950298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of an 1894 pub. recounting the murder of Lizzie Peak by Wesley Warner, who had been married to a woman in Burlington, NJ, with whom he had four children. In 1890 he met Lizzie Peak and forsook his wife and children. When Lizzie Peak first met Wesley Warner she was living in Burlington as the mistress of Otho Bunting. Lizzie and Warner then moved to Brooklyn. Wesley was arrested for injuring a man in a barroom brawl, but was eventually freed. The couple occasionally returned to Burlington County, and because of her activities at the Mount Holly Fair he accused her of being unfaithful and murdered her out of jealousy. This pub. provides the substance of the testimony given at the trial and describes Warner¿s execution. Includes period photos.
Author: Joel Clough
Publisher:
Published: 1833
Total Pages: 7
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joan Hess
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2006-10-31
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1466806249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE GIFT THAT GIVES ON GIVING. . . With Farberville's college on holiday break, Claire Malloy's bookstore is quiet . . . deadly quiet. Breaking the silence is a little old lady looking for volumes on pagan rituals, applied magick, and Celtic mysticism. Claire is intrigued and—miffed that her lover, Farberville police Lieutenant Peter Rosen, says she's in a rut—happily accepts an invitation to welcome the winter solstice at dawn. HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS Showing up at the Sacred Grove, Claire expects wild chanting or even nude dancing. Instead she ends up sitting on a stump watching the Arch Druid clean her bifocals. Then winter arrives and so does a dead man. Someone has shot the wealthy benefactor of Farberville's neo-pagans. Now Claire is mixing some snooping with her Christmas shopping. But instead of wrapping up the case, she finds out ‘tis the season for ho- ho- homicide . . . and she may be the next victim.
Author: Robert L. McCullough
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2024-06-11
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0262552493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow American bicyclists shaped the landscape and left traces of their journeys for us in writing, illustrations, and photographs. In the later part of the nineteenth century, American bicyclists were explorers, cycling through both charted and uncharted territory. These wheelmen and wheelwomen became keen observers of suburban and rural landscapes, and left copious records of their journeys—in travel narratives, journalism, maps, photographs, illustrations. They were also instrumental in the construction of roads and paths (“wheelways”)—building them, funding them, and lobbying legislators for them. Their explorations shaped the landscape and the way we look at it, yet with few exceptions their writings have been largely overlooked by landscape scholars, and many of the paths cyclists cleared have disappeared. In Old Wheelways, Robert McCullough restores the pioneering cyclists of the nineteenth century to the history of American landscapes. McCullough recounts marathon cycling trips around the Northeast undertaken by hardy cyclists, who then describe their journeys in such magazines as The Wheelman Illustrated and Bicycling World; the work of illustrators (including Childe Hassam, before his fame as a painter); efforts by cyclists to build better rural roads and bicycle paths; and conflicts with park planners, including the famous Olmsted Firm, who often opposed separate paths for bicycles. Today's ubiquitous bicycle lanes owe their origins to nineteenth century versions, including New York City's “asphalt ribbons.” Long before there were “rails to trails,” there was a movement to adapt existing passageways—including aqueduct corridors, trolley rights-of-way, and canal towpaths—for bicycling. The campaigns for wheelways, McCullough points out, offer a prologue to nearly every obstacle faced by those advocating bicycle paths and lanes today. McCullough's text is enriched by more than one hundred historic images of cyclists (often attired in skirts and bonnets, suits and ties), country lanes, and city streets.
Author: Joel Clough
Publisher:
Published: 1833
Total Pages: 4
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joel. [from old catalog] Clough
Publisher:
Published: 1833
Total Pages: 6
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph David Cress
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2010-08-13
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1614232512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the horrific Enoch Brown Schoolhouse Massacre of 1764 to settlers who hunted local tribes for a bounty, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, has long had a violent and bloody history. As more people came to the region, murder and mischief of every kind only multiplied. Local author Joseph David Cress explores the dark side of history, from little-known cases such as that of Sarah Clark--who became the first woman hanged in the county after she poisoned a family to dispatch a romantic rival--to high-profile crimes like the shocking 1955 courtroom slaying that left one person dead and three injured. Join Cress on a hair-raising walk down Hell Street as he investigates the underbelly of Cumberland County.
Author: Mike Mathis and Joanna Falcone Sullivan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2022-10-31
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1467152587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFriday, Aug. 15, 1975 began as a typical summer day in the suburbs. Young children played with their friends, adults prepared for work or planned for their vacation at the Jersey Shore... That all changed in the hours before noon, when Gretchen Harrington, the 8-year-old daughter of a Presbyterian minister and his wife, was kidnapped while walking to a vacation Bible school less than a quarter-mile from her house. Her body was found by a jogger in a state park nearly two months later. The crime forever changed the lives of the children who were near Gretchen's age and their parents, many of whom chose to live in Marple Township because they considered it a safe refuge from the crime-ridden streets of Philadelphia. Journalists Mike Mathis and Joanna Falcone Sullivan examine the kidnapping, murder and the nearly five-decade long investigation through rare access to police files in what is still considered an open investigation.