Piggy Tucker's Poison

Piggy Tucker's Poison

Author: Malcolm Noble

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781905237180

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Timberdick is back! She's living in a church vestry and working nights in the Curiosity Shop, when a stranger is murdered at the top of the stairs. Timberdick's girls are the likely suspects, and Timbers is arrested - but she has no time to waste in a police cell. She has a murder to solve - and a 'bun in the oven' as well.


The Poisons of Goodladies Road

The Poisons of Goodladies Road

Author: Malcolm Noble

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 178088348X

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When a game of marbles ends with a body, the citizens of Goodladies Junction fear that one of their neighbours was wrongly hung for murder, twenty years before. They turn to their local policeman, PC Ned Machray, who has to cope with a runaway pig and a wayward cinema usherette as he picks his way through a web of blackmail, stolen love affairs and guilty silence. He is hit by a widow’s bucket, nearly strangled on a drainpipe and shot by his own side. But he is no nearer solving the mystery until Timberdick, the cheapest call-girl on Goodladies Road, saves the day and the true depth of poison is horribly revealed.


Kissing Bill O'Reilly, Roasting Miss Piggy

Kissing Bill O'Reilly, Roasting Miss Piggy

Author: Ken Tucker

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1429909730

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According to Ken Tucker, television is where the mass culture action really is. It's where the weasel goes pop. But for such a fluid, of-the-moment, democratic yet "cool" medium, a strangling accretion of false pieties, half-remembered history, and misplaced nostalgia has grown up around it--the prose equivalent of choking vines. In this book, Ken Tucker shares his zealous opinions about the best and worst of television, past and present Everyone has firm beliefs about what he loves and hates about TV. If TV fans think the high point of televised political wit was M*A*S*H, or that Johnny Carson was the true king of late-night, Ken Tucker does his damnedest to convince them that they've been hoodwinked, duped by pixilated mists of memory and bad TV criticism. His dazzling, provocative, and entertaining pieces include LOVES: James Garner as TV's Cary Grant, Pamela Anderson's breasts, David Brinkley--the only anchor who understood that being an anchor was a hollow ego-trip, Heather Locklear as the ultimate TV Personality, Bill O'Reilly--why the biggest asshole on TV is a great TV personality. And from his HATE lists: "The Sopranos" as The Great Saga That Sags, Miss Peggy as media star, Bob Newhart: Human Prozac, Worst Mothers on TV, Star Trek-Sci-Fi suckiness decked out as utopian idealism. His perception and passion about this much maligned medium gives the lie to passive cliché's like "vegging out in front of the boob tube." This book is the TV version of Michael Moore's Stupid White Men or Bill O'Reilly's The No-Spin Zone.


The Case of the Dirty Verger

The Case of the Dirty Verger

Author: Malcolm Noble

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2007-04-05

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1905886314

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When Ned Machray, an out of work policeman, is dispatched to help an old soldier flee the country, he finds that the old tavern has been bombed, Ma Shipley is working her girls from a smutty tearoom, and the manor is controlled by an embittered Chief Inspector who works from the back of a taxi office.


The Parish of Frayed Ends

The Parish of Frayed Ends

Author: Malcolm Noble

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2008-03-07

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1906221790

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1965 delivers a new baby and an old murder for Timberdick, our saucy detective and the cheapest call-girl on Goodladies Road.


The Clue of the Curate's Cushion

The Clue of the Curate's Cushion

Author: Malcolm Noble

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2010-04-05

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1848763026

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“I’m twice the detective you’ll ever be. I already know who murdered Amy Bulpit and I’m not telling you.”Ned Machray knew she was teasing. It was all part of Timberdick’s game to teach him a lesson... Can Ned and Timberdick work as a team to solve the mystery?


A Mystery of Cross Women

A Mystery of Cross Women

Author: Malcolm Noble

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1848760922

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The year is 1937. Ned Machray has been a policeman for only a few weeks when he finds his first murder. But five nosy housewives think he is too much of a tenderfoot to solve the crime on his own...


Wicked Cowboy Wolf

Wicked Cowboy Wolf

Author: Kait Ballenger

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2020-01-28

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1492670839

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"Her thoughts turned to the kiss they'd shared. Sure, she'd been kissed before, but never like that. Never in a way that had left her feeling forever changed, like the memory of it was as much a part of her as any of her limbs. She could still feel the tingling sensation on her lips, and dark criminal or not, she wanted more." Years ago, Grey Wolf Jared Black was cast from the pack for a crime he didn't commit. If they wanted him to be an outlaw cowboy, fine. Now, he's the mysterious criminal wolf known only as the Rogue, a name his former packmates won't soon forget. But when a vampire threat endangers the lives of their entire species, Jared must confront his former packmates again, even if that means betraying the only woman he's ever loved... Ever since Maeve Gray escaped the pack's bloodsucking enemies, she's been determined to save her species—and fast. But when a wicked cowboy wolf shows up on the Grey Wolf ranch, offering everything Maeve's heart desires, her eyes are opened to a whole new world beyond the packlands. For this cowgirl, sleeping with the enemy could prove as desirable as it is deadly... To his enemies, he's known as the Rogue. To her, he's her only chance at survival...


Teaching at Its Best

Teaching at Its Best

Author: Linda B. Nilson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-04-20

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0470612363

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Teaching at Its Best This third edition of the best-selling handbook offers faculty at all levels an essential toolbox of hundreds of practical teaching techniques, formats, classroom activities, and exercises, all of which can be implemented immediately. This thoroughly revised edition includes the newest portrait of the Millennial student; current research from cognitive psychology; a focus on outcomes maps; the latest legal options on copyright issues; and how to best use new technology including wikis, blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and clickers. Entirely new chapters include subjects such as matching teaching methods with learning outcomes, inquiry-guided learning, and using visuals to teach, and new sections address Felder and Silverman's Index of Learning Styles, SCALE-UP classrooms, multiple true-false test items, and much more. Praise for the Third Edition of Teaching at Its BestEveryone veterans as well as novices will profit from reading Teaching at Its Best, for it provides both theory and practical suggestions for handling all of the problems one encounters in teaching classes varying in size, ability, and motivation." Wilbert McKeachie, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, and coauthor, McKeachie's Teaching TipsThis new edition of Dr. Nilson's book, with its completely updated material and several new topics, is an even more powerful collection of ideas and tools than the last. What a great resource, especially for beginning teachers but also for us veterans!" L. Dee Fink, author, Creating Significant Learning ExperiencesThis third edition of Teaching at Its Best is successful at weaving the latest research on teaching and learning into what was already a thorough exploration of each topic. New information on how we learn, how students develop, and innovations in instructional strategies complement the solid foundation established in the first two editions." Marilla D. Svinicki, Department of Psychology, The University of Texas, Austin, and coauthor, McKeachie's Teaching Tips


The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

Author: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 1616405414

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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.