Author: Raymond ChandlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bug Muldoon and the Killer in the Rain
Author: Paul ShiptonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192751355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A sequel to the popular book, 'Bug Muldoon', about a beetle detective told in a Raymond Chandler-type narrative. Bug's latest case is to find out who the killer in the rain is - and this means a treacherous trip to the House, where the Humans live. No insect in their right mind would go there- except Bug. * Humorous detective story with a twist that will appeal to boy readers who are into comics and young detective stories (and insects!!). * US film interest in first 'Bug Muldoon' story. * Second in series, with a third story to come. * Being reissued in mass market format with a new cover. * Paul Shipton lives in the USA with his wife and two daughters.
Requiem for an Assassin
Author: Barry EislerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399154263
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Blackmailed by a rogue CIA operative to carry out three assassinations or see his best friend murdered, reluctant killer-for-hire John Rain struggles with numerous moral dilemmas as well as his growing certainty that the operative is hiding a more sinister agenda. 125,000 first printing.
Author: Barry EislerKiller in the Rain
Author: Raymond ChandlerPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141970065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
'I pushed her back into the house without saying anything, shut the door. We stood looking at each other inside. She dropped her hand slowly and tried to smile. Then all expression went out of her white face and it looked as intelligent as the bottom of a shoe box...I lit my cigarette, puffed it slowly for a moment and then asked: "What are you doing here?" Before creating Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler perfected the hardboiled private detective story in the pages of Blask Mask magazine - tough, spare tales of gumshoes and murder, laced with a weary lyricism and deadpan, laconic wit. 'Killer in the Rain' is vintage Chandler, the groundwork for his classic first novel The Big Sleep.
A Killing Rain
Author: P. J. ParrishPublisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786016068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A deep freeze is bearing down on the Florida Everglades. For Detective Louis Kincaid, the coldest night of the year brings a grisly discovery that will lead him into a nightmarish battle of wits with a ruthless predator.
The Big Sleep
Author: Raymond ChandlerPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Butterfly in the Rain
Author: James L. NeibaurPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442251204
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
On December 17, 1927 in Los Angeles, twelve year old Marion Parker, daughter of a prominent banker, was called to the school office where a stranger told her that her father had been in an accident and that she must leave with him right away. Fewer than 48 hours later, she was dead. What started as a tragic, but otherwise ordinary, kidnapping turned out to be a shocking murder by one of the period’s most twisted killers, William Edward Hickman. James L. Neibaur takes a step into history, depicting how this abduction was soon labeled the “crime of the century” and sparked a change in the nation’s attention to such cases. With a media-driven nationwide manhunt, one of the biggest and most wide-ranging in California history, and then a desperate attempt at sparing the killer’s life with the unfamiliar insanity plea, this infamous case left the abduction and murder of Marion Parker to be etched into 1920s pop culture. The murder of Marion Parker brought to light the unthinkable reality of child abduction. Neibaur resourcefully weaves together the events surrounding the crime in the context of the contemporary culture and attitudes of the late 1920s, covering the impact of the media’s first involvement in a criminal justice case, and how the admired notions of the glamorized ‘20s were crushed by this ordinary family’s chilling reality.
The Last Assassin
Author: Barry EislerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451412409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hoping to reconcile with the mother of his child, reluctant contract killer John Rain inadvertently places them in the path of dangerous enemies and is forced to recruit the help of his nemesis from the Japanese FBI and an ex-Marine sniper. Reprint.
Rain Gods
Author: James Lee BurkePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439137366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) brings back one of his most fascinating characters—Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, cousin to lawman Billy Bob Holland—in this heart-pounding bestseller. In a heat-cracked border town, the bodies of nine illegal aliens—women and girls, killed execution-style—are unearthed in a shallow grave. Haunted by a past he can’t shake and his own private demons, Hack attempts to untangle the grisly case, which may lead to more bloodshed. Damaged young Iraq vet Pete Flores, who saw too much before fleeing the crime scene, and his girlfriend, Vikki Gaddis, are running for their lives. Sorting through the lowlifes who are hunting down Pete, and with Preacher Jack Collins, a Godfearing serial killer for hire, in the mix, Hack is caught up in a terrifying race for survival—for Pete, Vikki, and himself.
