Mary Janes Ghost

Author : Ted Gregory
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609385233
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Jane's Ghost written by Ted Gregory and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon, Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers’ lane is murdered. The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Long Beach, California. But after a sweeping manhunt, no one is arrested and the violent deaths of Mary Jane Reed and Stanley Skridla fade into time’s indifference. Fast forward fifty years. Eccentric entrepreneur Michael Arians moves to Oregon, opens a roadhouse, gets elected mayor, and becomes obsessed with the crime. He comes up with a scandalous conspiracy theory and starts to believe that Mary Jane’s ghost is haunting his establishment. He also reaches out to the Chicago Tribune for help. Arians’s letter falls on the desk of general assignment reporter Ted Gregory. For the next thirteen years, while he ricochets from story to story and his newspaper is deconstructed around him, Gregory remains beguiled by the case of the teenaged telephone operator Mary Jane and twenty-eight-year-old Navy vet Stanley—and equally fascinated by Arians’s seemingly hopeless pursuit of whoever murdered them. Mary Jane’s Ghost is the story of these two odysseys.

Author : William Thompson
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781095637302
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost of Mary Jane written by William Thompson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth, the sister of nine-year-old Mary Jane Hall, drowned near her home in the backwoods of Arkansas. Mary Jane also went missing and presumed dead after a year of investigation. Although authorities suspected foul play, no clues, suspects, or her body turned up, causing the case to go cold.Seventeen years later, Mary Jane appeared as an apparition to nine-year-old Stormy Taylor, where she lived in Texas. As Mary Jane gave Stormy clues about her disappearance and death, Stormy tried to convince her parents that her visions were real. To get the notion out of her head, Stormy's parents made some inquiries from the information Stormy revealed to them, and discovered information about a missing girl named Mary Jane. Eventually, the police reopened the cold case and investigated the disappearance of Mary Jane. Mary Jane revealed in one of Stormy's visions that she is Stormy's sister. Stormy, related to Mary Jane, how was that even possible? Her name was Elizabeth, and she died in 1950 from drowning in the creek behind her house. Eventually, Stormy, working with the FBI, discovered the identification of Mary Jane's killer and led the police and the FBI to her body. Through Stormy's visions, the police were then able to capture Mary Jane's killer.In another vision, Mary Janes told Stormy that she would have a sister. Stormy knew her mother would have another child and insisted she is named Mary Elizabeth. After the birth of Mary Elizabeth, Stormy ceased having further visions of Mary Jane.

Author : Ellen Hart
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312317485
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Intimate Ghost written by Ellen Hart and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Lawless caters a wedding and it looks like the menu may have led to murder.

Author : Mary C. Jane
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479426687
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Rock Mystery written by Mary C. Jane and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Janice and Tommy Brooks are invited to visit their Aunt Annabelle and her son Hubert at their new house in Maine near the Canadian border, they expect to have a wonderful summer. What they don’t expect is to hear galloping hoofbeats in a rock or to see an old man with a flickering light appear out of nowhere in the middle of a midnight storm. They don't expect to have a guest who creeps around the top floor when he thinks the family is asleep. And they never dream that they might get involved in the dangerous adventures of the Border Patrol! These puzzling and frightening events increase the general feeling of mystery that surrounds Mountain View House. Aunt Annabelle bought it to run as a guest house, but both local visitors and tourists keep away. The children have to find the explanation for these strange happenings before Fall, or Aunt Annabelle will have to give up her dream of running a guest house!

Author : Mary Downing Hahn
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547385609
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall written by Mary Downing Hahn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at an old manor house. But Florence doesn't expect the ghost of her cousin Sophia, who concocts a plan to use Florence to help her achieve her murderous goals.

Author : Seanan Mcguire
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1302519549
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost-Spider Vol. 1 written by Seanan Mcguire and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Ghost-Spider (2019) #1-5. Gwen Stacy makes her way to the Marvel Universe! With a cloud of infamy hanging over her head in her home dimension of Earth-65, Gwen now travels to the Prime MU for super hero action…and school! The newest student at ESU is about to get a crash course in multiversity as she splits her time between the world she loves and the world she’s just getting to know! School isn’t all bad, though, as Gwen’s taking classes right down the hall from Peter Parker. But Peter isn’t the only person who may recognize Gwen — and not everyone shares Spider-Man’s noble intentions. How will Gwen handle the return of the Jackal?

Author : Laura Tillman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501104306
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts written by Laura Tillman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one of America’s poorest cities—John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already run down, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed. In 2008, journalist Laura Tillman covered the story for The Brownsville Herald. The questions it raised haunted her and set her on a six-year inquiry into the larger significance of such acts, ones so difficult to imagine or explain that their perpetrators are often dismissed as monsters alien to humanity. Tillman spoke with the lawyers who tried the case, the family’s neighbors and relatives and teachers, even one of the murderers: John Allen Rubio himself, whom she corresponded with for years and ultimately met in person. Her investigation is “a dogged attempt to understand what happened, a review of the psychological, sociological and spiritual explanations for the crime…a meditation on the death penalty and on the city of Brownsville” Star Tribune (Minneapolis). The result is a brilliant exploration of some of our age’s most important social issues and a beautiful, profound meditation on the truly human forces that drive them. “This thought-provoking…book exemplifies provocative long-form journalism that does not settle for easy answers” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Author : Brian Hicks
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345478355
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Ship written by Brian Hicks and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. What happened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled and tantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book, award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of this fabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth. The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on the Bay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died before completing the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed and sank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm drove her ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered and refitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctant command of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It was Briggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed into history. In Brian Hicks’s skilled hands, the story of the Mary Celeste becomes the quintessential tale of men lost at sea. Hicks vividly recreates the events leading up to the crew’s disappearance and then unfolds the complicated and bizarre aftermath—the dark suspicions that fell on the officers of the ship that intercepted her; the farcical Admiralty Court salvage hearing in Gibraltar; the wild myths that circulated after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a thinly disguised short story sensationalizing the mystery. Everything from a voodoo curse to an alien abduction has been hauled out to explain the fate of the Mary Celeste. But, as Brian Hicks reveals, the truth is actually grounded in the combined tragedies of human error and bad luck. The story of the Mary Celeste acquired yet another twist in 2001, when a team of divers funded by novelist Clive Cussler located the wreck in a coral reef off Haiti. Written with the suspense of a thriller and the vivid accuracy of the best popular history, Ghost Ship tells the unforgettable true story of the most famous and most fascinating maritime mystery of all time.

Author : Sue Ann Jaffarian
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738731188
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost a la Mode written by Sue Ann Jaffarian and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new series debut from Odelia Grey mystery author Sue Ann Jaffarian! Granny was famous for her award-winning apple pies-and notorious for murdering her husband Jacob at their homestead in Julian, California. The only trouble is, Granny was framed, then murdered. For more than one hundred years, Granny's spirit has been searching for someone to help her see that justice is served—and she hits pay dirt when she pops in to a séance attended by her great-great-great-granddaughter, modern-day divorced mom Emma Whitecastle. Together, Emma and Granny Apples solve mysteries of the past—starting with Granny's own unjust murder rap in the final days of the California Gold Rush. Along with a sprinkling of history, this spirited new mystery series features the amateur sleuth team of Emma Whitecastle and the spirit of her pie-baking great-great-great-grandmother, Granny Apples. Praise: "A delectable first in a new paranormal cozy series from Sue Ann Jaffarian."—Publishers Weekly "A fun new series. Ghostly puzzles are one of the trendy new themes in cozy mysteries, and this is a good one."—Booklist "Jaffarian has done a nifty job of incorporating Julian's history into her tale of unresolved ghosts, uncanny psychics, unsolved murders and unhappy divorcees, while handily introducing some characters, alive and dead, to carry the series forward."—North Country Times "Emma handles her 'gift' of seeing the dead with aplomb, and class. I'll look forward to seeing where the sequel will take Emma and Granny."—Deadly Pleasures "A charming tale, as appealing as apple pie. I predict a long life (and afterlife) for Sue Ann's latest series."—Harley Jane Kozak, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Award-winning author of Dating Dead Men "Take colorful characters in a charming setting, mix in a dash of romance, add a pinch of the paranormal, and serve it up like one of Granny's famous pies. I guarantee you'll be back for seconds."—Deborah Sharp, author of Mama Rides Shotgun

Author : Stacy Dittrich
Publisher : Blue Jay Media Group
ISBN 13 : 1936724278
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Jane's Grave written by Stacy Dittrich and published by Blue Jay Media Group. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to legend, Mary Jane was hanged as a witch and still haunts her grave. But when a teenage girl is found brutally murdered there, Detective CeeCee Gallagher knows no ghost is responsible. It's up to her to hunt down the very real killer before he strikes again. Her investigation will take her across the country and land her deep in the middle of a secret so shocking the locals have kept it hidden for a hundred years. With her career--and her life--on the line, CeeCee will have to face her darkest fears if she wants to uncover the truth about... Mary Jane's Grave.