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Author: Lloyd Gold
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780822204787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE STORY: The time is Mardi Gras, the place a New Orleans funeral parlor. As the action begins, in a wildly farcical scene, a bereaved family, accompanied by a young priest, is reviled and driven away by the irate funeral director--a man who, while
Author: Mark de Castrique
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2011-12-31
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1615950400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"[A] first-rate installment in an excellent series." —Booklist Barry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father's funeral home in the peace and quiet of the Appalachian mountains. But Buryin' Barry is an undertaker with a problem he keeps finding unwanted business. Moving a grave on a snowy mountainside should be routine. No funeral, no procession, no grieving widow to console. Routine until Barry unearths an unexpected intruder, a skeleton lying atop the original occupant. A bullet hole in the skull piques his ex-cop curiosity; the photograph of his girlfriend Susan Miller in the murdered man's wallet makes the case very personal. Suddenly, Barry's life is turned upside down, as Susan becomes the prime suspect. Joining forces with his pal Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins, Barry sets out to find the real killer. But a terrible secret had been buried in that mountain grave and one murder is only the down payment someone is willing to pay to keep it hidden. Barry is torn between discovering the solution to the crime and uncovering a part of Susan's past that could destroy their relationship. When the killer strikes again, Barry learns that even more is at stake. In a duel of deceit and misdirection, one thing becomes crystal clear. Barry's grave undertaking could very well lead to his own funeral.
Author: James R. McCahery
Publisher: Knightsbridge Publishing Company
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781877961687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark de Castrique
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2011-05-27
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781590581162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Barry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father’s funeral home in the peace and quiet of the Appalachian mountains. But Buryin’ Barry is an undertaker with a problem—he keeps finding unwanted business. Moving a grave on a snowy mountainside should be routine. No funeral, no procession, no grieving widow to console. Routine until the crew unearths an unexpected intruder, a skeleton lying atop the original occupant. A bullet hole in the skull piques Barry’s ex-cop curiosity; the photograph of his girlfriend Susan Miller in the murdered man’s wallet makes the case very personal. Suddenly, Barry’s life is turned upside down, as Susan becomes the prime suspect. Joining forces with his pal Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins, Barry sets out to find the real killer. But a terrible secret had been buried in that mountain grave and one murder is only the down payment someone is willing to ante up to keep it hidden. Barry is torn between discovering the solution to the crime and uncovering a part of Susan’s past that could destroy their relationship. When the killer strikes again, Barry learns that even more is at stake. In a duel of deceit and misdirection, one thing becomes crystal clear: Barry’s grave undertaking could very well lead to his own funeral.
Author: Lionel White
Publisher:
Published: 2024-06-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A GRAVE UNDERTAKING Earl Cradle has put together the perfect bank heist. He's got a safecracker, a gunman, some extra muscle-and a crooked undertaker. All the details are set. They'll access the bank from the funeral home next door and hit the bank when it opens, then escape as part of a funeral procession. All they need is a body. When Earl discovers that a bowery bum has just died and is laying in the morgue, he has his girlfriend claim the body as her father. There's only one problem. Newspaperman Jake Epstein has been researching this death, and discovers that the bum is a disgraced professor, with a real daughter. And she wants to know what the hell has happened to her father's body! OBSESSION Conrad Madden is out of work and irritated at his wife and kids when he takes the babysitter home that night. Which is no excuse for getting drunk and spending the night with her. But how could he know that he would wake up to a corpse in the living room the next morning? The babysitter, Allie, claims the man was going to kill him while he slept. It was self-defense. She had to kill him. If Madden wasn't falling for the young woman, becoming obsessed with her, he could call the cops. He probably should call the cops. But there's the suitcase full of cash to consider. Now he is on the run, trying to keep one step ahead of the cops-and the hoods whose suitcase Allie has stolen.
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0451476158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Visiting a ladies-only club for intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is challenged to save a society art patron from execution.
Author: Mark de Castrique
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2011-09-30
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1615950362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"[A] marvelous mystery you won't want to put down." —Publishers Weekly Barry Clayton has a job he doesn't want. When his father became stricken with Alzheimer's, Barry left the Charlotte police force for the small mountain community of Gainesboro, North Carolina, where his family runs the local funeral home. "Buryin' Barry" reluctantly assumed the mantle of town undertaker, trying to fit his life into this somber profession. Almost at once it turns deadly. At the graveside service for an elderly woman, a grieving grandson strides in clad like Clint Eastwood in a duster, rips out a shotgun, and murders his family. Then the shooter turns the weapon on Barry. "Take a message to my grandmother," Dallas Willard shouts. "Tell her they tried to take the land. Tell her I love her." The blast hits Barry in the shoulder. Barry is not cut from the same black cloth as his father, and his irreverent wit and independence have already won him the friendship of the county sheriff, one-eyed war hero Tommy Lee Wadkins. Besides, Barry's a police pro. Trusting his wounds to the hands of local surgeon Susan Miller, Barry begins a search for both the killer and the reason for his crime. It isn't long before a second shooting occurs—but when Dallas Willard's body is discovered at the bottom of a quarry pond, it becomes clear that Gainesboro is caught in the grip of something more than a deadly family quarrel...
Author: Raymond Blaine Fosdick
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark de Castrique
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1464210381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The dark humor, a small community in a regional mystery, and a strong supporting cast of believable characters will appeal to Margaret Maron's readers." —Library Journal STARRED review Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral director and part-time deputy sheriff Barry Clayton and his childhood nemesis, Archie Donovan, Jr., unite to create a fundraising float in Gainesboro's annual Apple Festival Parade, what could go wrong? With Archie involved—anything! First, the Grand Marshal, NC Secretary of Agriculture Graham James, is attacked by a gunman and Barry's Uncle Wayne is critically wounded in the melee. The assailant is killed. Then, when the body of a convenience store owner is discovered less than an hour later with the gunman's food stamp card in his wallet, the case escalates. Two men dead. What is the connection? Barry and Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins swiftly learn their small town offers no protection against big-time crime. The body count rises as the scope of their homicide investigation crosses into the realm of the U.S. Marshals and their secretive Witness Protection Program. To penetrate its walls, Barry and Tommy Lee resort to a most unlikely ally: Archie. Is the insurance agent, generally a victim of his own hare-brained schemes, capable of breaking the case, or will Archie find a way to become another of its casualties? The trio's secret undertaking into a convoluted conspiracy becomes a fight for survival in a world filled with betrayals where it's impossible to know which people to trust.
