The Constables Tale

Author : Donald Smith
Publisher : Pegasus Crime
ISBN 13 : 9781605988610
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constable's Tale written by Donald Smith and published by Pegasus Crime. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a tumultuous period that helped to forge a nation, a riveting mystery that takes a volunteer constable through the wilds of colonial North Carolina to track down a shadowy killer. When a traveling peddler discovers the murder of a farm family in colonial North Carolina whose bodies have been left in bizarre positions, circumstances point to an Indian attack. But Harry Woodyard, a young planter who is the volunteer constable of Craven County during a period in America's past when there was no professional police force, finds clues that seem to indicate otherwise. The county establishment wants to blame the crime on a former inhabitant, an elderly Indian who has suddenly reappeared in the vicinity like an old ghost. But he is a person to whom Harry owes much. Defying the authorities, Harry goes off on his own to find the real killer. His investigation takes him up the Atlantic seacoast and turns into a hunt for even bigger quarry and more adventure then he ever dreamed possible. During his search for the truth about the murders, Harry learns that the eyes are not always to be trusted and people are not always as they seem.

Author : Donald Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605988626
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constable's Tale written by Donald Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a traveling peddler discovers the murder of a farm family in colonial North Carolina whose bodies have been left in bizarre positions, circumstances point to an Indian attack. But Harry Woodyard, a young planter who is the volunteer constable of Craven County during a period in America's past when there was no professional police force, finds clues that seem to indicate otherwise. The county establishment wants to blame the crime on a former inhabitant, an elderly Indian who has suddenly reappeared in the vicinity like an old ghost. But he is a person to whom Harry owes much. Defying the authorities, Harry goes off on his own to find the real killer. His investigation takes him up the Atlantic seacoast and turns into a hunt for even bigger quarry and more adventure then he ever dreamed possible. During his search for the truth about the murders, Harry learns that the eyes are not always to be trusted and people are not always as they seem.

Author : Garry Disher
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616953969
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell to Pay written by Garry Disher and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern western set in an isolated Australian bush town with a soaring crime rate, where a local constable with a troubled past must investigate the death of a teenage girl whose murder threatens to set the dusty streets ablaze. Constable Paul Hirschhausen—”Hirsch”—is a recently demoted detective sent from Adelaide, Australia’s southernmost booming metropolis, to Tiverton, a one-road town in rustic, backwater “wool and wheat” country three hours north. Hirsch isn’t just a disgraced cop; the internal investigations bureau is still trying to convict him of something, even if it means planting evidence. When someone leaves a pistol cartridge in his mailbox, Hirsch suspects that his career isn't the only thing on the line. But the tiny town of Tiverton has more crime than one lone cop should have to handle. The stagnant economy, rural isolation, and entrenched racism and misogyny mean every case Hirsch investigates is a new basket of snakes. When the body of a 16-year-old local girl is found on the side of the highway, the situation in Tiverton gets even more sinister, and whether or not he finds her killer, there’s going to be hell to pay. Paperback edition found under the title Bitter Wash Road. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Claire Constable
Publisher : Surrey Mills Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780954035907
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Constables of Horley Mill written by Claire Constable and published by Surrey Mills Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Constable (1749-1838), son of James Constable (1703-1778) and Mary Dabner (1711-1771), married Susanna Jordan (1748-1820) in about 1774. They had nine children and lived in Horley, Surrey. Includes Blundell, Grece and related families.

Author : Katharine Schellman
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643853570
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body in the Garden written by Katharine Schellman and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young widow takes her first steps back into London society only to get drawn into a murder investigation in this series debut, perfect for fans of Tasha Alexander and Rhys Bowen "Fast-paced, expertly researched, and intricately plotted. I actually gasped when I got to the end!”—Alex Grecian, New York Times bestselling author of The Saint of Wolves and Butchers Regency London, 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of London's upper crust. At a ball thrown by her oldest friend, Lady Walter, she expects the scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn't expect is the dead body in Lady Walter's garden. Lily overheard the man just minutes before he was shot: young, desperate, and attempting blackmail. But she's willing to leave the matter to the local constables--until Lord Walter bribes the investigating magistrate to drop the case. Stunned and confused, Lily realizes she's the only one with the key to catching the killer. Aided by a roguish navy captain and a mysterious heiress from the West Indies, Lily sets out to discover whether her friend's husband is mixed up in blackmail and murder. The unlikely team tries to conceal their investigation behind the whirl of London's social season, but the dead man knew secrets about people with power. Secrets that they would kill to keep hidden. Now, Lily will have to uncover the truth, before she becomes the murderer's next target.

Author : Kate Constable
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760873896
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The January Stars written by Kate Constable and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twelve-year-old Clancy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Tash, visit their Pa at his aged-care facility, they have no idea that the three of them will soon set out on an intrepid adventure. Along the way there are many challenges for Tash and Clancy to overcome and in the process, they discover their own resourcefulness and resilience and demonstrate their heartfelt love for their grandfather. 'A warm-hearted tale of the complications and magic of family life.' WENDY ORR

Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leather-stocking Tales: The pioneers written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Ash
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578036150
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Brass Griffin: A Children's Tale written by Christopher Ash and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the crew of the Brass Griffin is hired to search for two children aboard a missing airship, they uncover a murderous plot that spans from London, England to a distant, ancient Roman ruin deep in the Jura mountains of France. Captain Hunter, Moira, Krumer and Tonks must fight against a foul plan that pits them against an evil mercenary captain bent on the children's demise!

Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465607366
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Robber: A Tale written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was in the olden time of merry England--not at that far removes period when our native land first received its jocund name from the bowmen of Sherwood, and when the yeoman or the franklin, who had wandered after some knightly banner to the plains of the Holy Land, looked back upon the little island of his birth with forgetfulness of all but its cheerful hearths and happy days. Oh, no! it was in a far later age, when, notwithstanding wars and civil contentions not long past by, our country still deserved the name of merry England, and received it constantly amongst a class peculiarly its own. That class was the "good old country gentleman," an antediluvian animal swallowed up and exterminated by the deluge of modern improvements, and whose very bones are now being ground to dust by railroads and steam-carriages. Nevertheless, in that being there was much to wonder at as well as much to admire; and the inimitable song which commemorates its existence does not more than justice to the extinct race. It was in the days of Walton and Cotton, then or somewhere thereabouts (for it is unnecessary in a tale purely domestic, to fix the date to a year), that the events which we are about to narrate, took place, and the scene is entirely in merry England. The court and the country were at that period--with the present we have nothing to do--two completely distinct and separate climates; and while the wits and the libertines, the fops and the soldiers, the poets and the philosophers, of the reigns of Charles, James, William, and Anne, formed a world in which debauchery, vice, strife, evil passion, rage, jealousy, and hatred, seemed the only occupations of genius, and the true sphere for talent; while Oxford and Cambridge had their contentions, and vied with the capital in nourishing feuds and follies of their own; there was a calm and quiet world apart, amidst the shady brooks and sunny fields and dancing streams of merry England; a world which knew but little of the existence of the other, except when the vices, or follies, or crimes of the world of the court called upon the world of the country to resist the encroachments of its neighbour, and defend its own quiet prosperity. From the peasant who tilled the glebe, and whistled to outsing the lark over his happy toil, up to the lord of the manor, the knight whose many ancestors had all been knights before him, the countrymen of England mingled hardly, if at all, with the world of the metropolis and of the court; except, indeed, when some aspiring spirit, filled with good viands and a fair conceit, raised his wishes to be knight of the shire, and sit in parliament amongst the more courtly of the land; or else when some borough sent its representative to the senate to bring down strange tales of London life and fresh fashions for the wives and daughters.

Author : Anne E. Weber
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548165680
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constabulary Tales written by Anne E. Weber and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constabulary Tales is a collection of short stories that describes the hilarious escapades of a woman who becomes a reluctant constable on a small island inn Maine. They are stories that spin you into the special life of islanders and the antics that ensue between the full time residents and the "seasonal" characters who invade the island's tranquility each summer!