Death Of A Damn Yankee

Author : Toni L. P. Kelner
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625670451
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of a Damn Yankee written by Toni L. P. Kelner and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boston woman visiting her Southern hometown must smoke out a fire-starting killer in this cozy mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author. Laura Fleming is always happy to visit her ever-extending family in Byerly, North Carolina. This time, though, it’s not kin calling her back home, but businessman Burt Walters. Burt’s hoping Laura can dig up dirt on Marshall and Grace Saunders, proposed buyers of Walters Mill. Laura knows Burt has good reasons for opposing the deal, and not just because the Saunderses are Yankees. But the mill has long been Byerly’s bread-and-butter, and stakes are high. Half her family is pro-buyout and half against—Laura’s Shakespeare-quoting husband, Richard, likens it to the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, only nastier. Soon it’s more than tempers flaring, for a spate of suspicious fires culminates in Marshall’s death. With her cousin Linwood a prime suspect, Laura is called to uncover the truth. Amid a mess of double-crossing, blackmail and fraud, she sets a trap to catch a killer—but may catch more than she bargained for...

Author : Christopher Phillips
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807121030
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damned Yankee written by Christopher Phillips and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861) was the first Union general to die in the Civil War. Killed at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, he became the North’s first war hero, famed as the man who saved Missouri for the Union. In Damned Yankee, chosen by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book in 1991, Christopher Phillips portrays Lyon not as the savior of a border state threatened by secessionist extremists but as an unbalanced, monomaniacal Unionist zealot who purposely—and perhaps unnecessarily—brought war to a fragile state whose populace had voted overwhelmingly to stay out of the conflict. Phillips meticulously examines Lyon’s role in the Camp Jackson affair, his quest to oust the pro-southern governor of Missouri, and his campaign to eliminate the secessionist element in the state. He contends that Lyon’s actions in Missouri in 1861 were congruent with his dogmatic personality and troubled past. Damned Yankee is a complex, often shocking, portrait of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War and a sobering study of how the faults of men may greatly affect history.

Author : Troy Nooe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692581902
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damn Yankee written by Troy Nooe and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankie McKeller is back on the beach, this time as the new House Detective of The Ocean Forest Hotel. When he is asked to look into the disappearance of a young girl, he is thrown into an underworld of bootleggers, illegal gambling and vice. When another girl turns up dead, Frankie's limited skills are put to the ultimate test. It's murder and mayhem in the sand as Frankie contends with the other side of life in 1940's Myrtle Beach and a taboo romance that can never be.

Author : Colleen Barnett
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615950109
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised) written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.

Author : Frances A. DellaCava
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815338840
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleuths in Skirts written by Frances A. DellaCava and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Author : Toni L. P. Kelner
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625670419
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Ringer written by Toni L. P. Kelner and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A puzzling corpse stirs up trouble for a Boston woman visiting her Southern hometown in this cozy mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author. A Burnette family gathering is no small affair, thanks to Laura Fleming’s ever-extending extended clan. Being back in Byerly, North Carolina, gives Laura and her scholarly husband a chance to catch up on gossip about old rivalries and rekindled romances. New love is in the air too, though uncharitable kinfolk speculate that cousin Thaddeous’s girlfriend, mill receptionist Joleen, has an ulterior motive for dating him. Byerly’s mill has long been the town’s lifeblood, but when Laura arrives to try and fix Joleen’s faulty PC, she finds that death has just paid a visit. A stranger’s body lies on the office floor, and the victim bears a striking resemblance to Big Bill Walters. Did the mill’s founder have a doppelganger, or was someone in Byerly’s first family spreading wild oats? Laura isn’t planning to get involved—she’s busy trying to help Aunt Daphine, who’s being blackmailed over a decades-old secret. But the twin mysteries will have other deadly repercussions, unless Laura can see through a killer’s disguise . . .

Author : Bill Madden
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1617496480
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damned Yankees written by Bill Madden and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand, behind-the-scenes account of the turmoil that pervaded the New York Yankee franchise in the late 1970s, this book discusses George Steinbrenner's purchase and continual rebuilding of the team--alongside a colorful cast of players and businessmen. Not merely a look at the time spent in Yankee Stadium, this chronicle also describes the team's public arguments, practical jokes, drunken excess, self-aggrandizing publicity efforts, and the ups and downs that accompanied the Yankees and George Steinbrenner through the 1970s and beyond.

Author : Carole Nelson Douglas
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812579017
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Louie's Pet Detectives written by Carole Nelson Douglas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology comprising seventeen mystery stories with animals as sleuths. The heroes and heroines range from cats to birds, to an elephant. Each entry is accompanied by an introduction.

Author : Toni L. P. Kelner
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625670443
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tight as a Tick written by Toni L. P. Kelner and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crafty killer lurks among the prized collectibles of a Southern smalltown flea market in this cozy mystery by a New York Times–bestselling author. There’s nothing Laura Fleming’s Southern family likes better than a get-together, and cousin Augustus returning from the army is a perfect reason to gather for a party in Byerly, North Carolina. While Laura and her scholar husband, Richard, are in town, her formidable great-aunt Maggie has an assignment in mind. Carney Alexander was recently found dead under his own table at Tight as a Tick Flea Market, where Aunt Maggie is a regular dealer. She and the other vendors weren’t overly fond of Carney—general opinion is that the man was nosy, ornery, and had a mean streak a mile wide. Why Aunt Maggie is so intent on solving the crime is a mystery in its own right, but Laura can’t let her down. The flea market’s regulars prove as colorful and quirky as the goods they offer, and plenty had reason for wanting to see Carney and his stall shut down permanently. But locating the genuine article among a slew of motives won’t be easy—especially with the killer in the market for another victim . . . Praise for Tight as a Tick “Decidedly homey characters, country charm, and an upbeat tone should make this a popular choice.” —Library Journal

Author : Toni L. P. Kelner
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625670478
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wed and Buried written by Toni L. P. Kelner and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southern smalltown wedding attracts well-wishers—and a killer—in this cozy mystery by the New York Times–bestselling author of Mad as the Dickens. Romance is in the air—and so is murder—in the eighth in Agatha Award-winning author Toni L.P. Kelner’s small-town Southern mystery series. Laura Fleming knows that love plays by its own rules. After all, she did the unthinkable and married a Yankee. But even she’s shocked to hear that her indomitable Aunt Maggie, a spinster closer to eighty than seventy, has eloped with Big Bill Walters. Laura, her husband Richard, and their baby daughter hightail it home, where Laura discovers the real motive behind Aunt Maggie’s marriage. Someone is trying to kill Big Bill, and Aunt Maggie plans to stick close enough to find the culprit—with Laura’s help. Big Bill is Byerly’s wealthiest businessman, so it’s little surprise certain folks have a beef with him. In fact, there’s a stack of threatening letters going back decades to wade through. Claims of land theft and worker injury abound, plus Aunt Maggie’s one-time beau, Pudd’nhead Wilson, is back in town. Innocents are getting caught in the crossfire, and Laura concocts a risky plan to lure the killer into the open. But she’ll need to keep Aunt Maggie safe too, or Byerly’s oldest newlywed will soon be its newest widow . . . Praise for Wed and Buried “The Southern milieu with its friendly warmth and innumerable relatives belies the hatred and tensions smoldering beneath the surface in Kelner's eighth airy Laura Fleming cozy. . . . Good humor abounds amid the murder and mayhem in this sprawling family.” —Publishers Weekly “Decidedly homey characters, country charm, and upbeat tone.” —Library Journal