Ask A Policeman

Ask A Policeman PDF Author: Rolando Hinojosa
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611920659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
The scene is the Texas-Mexico border. Historically a site of conflict and violence, today it is the dividing line over which the business of drug-smuggling and its attendant mayhem takes place. Well-worn and wise in middle age, Rafe Buenrostro of the Belken County Homicide Squad is a master detective. When drug-related slayings begin occurring practically in his own backyard, Buenrostro must pierce the mystery of a crime family apparently at war with itself. As cadavers keep turning up on both sides of the Rio Grande, Buenrostro and his corps of bi-cultural sleuths visit the small cantinas, houses of ill repute, and expansive ranches of drug lords south of the river. Yet profiting equally from the illicit trade are some seemingly immaculate, well-kept suburban homes on the northern side. It is in these suburbs that revelations of seamy sex and revenge unfold. In Ask a Policeman, as well as his other novels, Rolando Hinojosa reveals a rich cross-section of life among both the high and low inhabitants of the two nations sharing the Rio Grande Valley.

Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman PDF Author: The Detection Club
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504058283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
With “a touch of genius,” this round-robin mystery follow-up to The Floating Admiral features famous detectives including Lord Peter Wimsey (The Times Literary Supplement). Following the success of The Floating Admiral, in which certain members of the Detection Club—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton—collaborated on a whodunit, six writers pooled their talents to create another coauthored mystery. This time the premise had an added twist: authors would swap their detective characters, allowing for some extremely entertaining parodies of one another’s sleuths. When a ruthless British newspaper tycoon is shot dead in his home, the high-level suspects include the assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, casting doubt on the impartiality of a formal police investigation. As a solution, the home secretary brings in four brilliant detectives to solve the murder: Mrs. Bradley, Sir John Saumarez, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Roger Sheringham. Featuring a preface by inaugural Detection Club member Agatha Christie, this playful tour de force gathers together half a dozen Golden Age Mystery masters: John Rhode, Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Milward Kennedy.

Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman PDF Author: Edith Caroline Rivett Lorac
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780860250357
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman PDF Author: Anthony Berkeley
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425109717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
When a ruthless newspaper tycoon is murdered, the suspicion falls on an Archbishop, an MP, and a Scotland Yard commisioner

Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman PDF Author: E. C. R. Lorac
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman PDF Author: Anthony Berkeley Cox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Last Policeman

The Last Policeman PDF Author: Ben H. Winters
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN: 1594745773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
"[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."—John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback Original! What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered? Ebook contains an excerpt from the anticipated second book in the trilogy, Countdown City.

Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman PDF Author: E.C.R. Lorac (Schriftstellerin)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description

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