A Grave Undertaking / Obsession

A Grave Undertaking / Obsession PDF

Author: Lionel White

Publisher:

Published: 2024-06-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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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.

Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries)

Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries) PDF

Author: Barbara Goldsmith

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2011-05-16

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0393079767

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The bestselling, "excellent…poignant—and scientifically lucid—portrait" (New York Times Book Review) of the remarkable Marie Curie. Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth—an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding family, the prejudice of society, and her own passionate nature. Obsessive Genius is a dazzling portrait of Curie, her amazing scientific success, and the price she paid for fame.

Rossetti's Obsession

Rossetti's Obsession PDF

Author: Ramón Saizarbitoria

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Describes an insecure writer's efforts to retrieve a note he once sent to a woman that caused her to fall in love with him. He hopes that the note will have the same effect on his new romantic interest.

A Grave Robbery

A Grave Robbery PDF

Author: Deanna Raybourn

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2024-03-12

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0593545974

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Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud’s. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would do such a dreadful thing, and why? Sleuthing out the answer to this question sets Veronica and Stoker on their wildest adventure yet. From the underground laboratories of scientists experimenting with electricity to resurrect the dead in the vein of Frankenstein to the traveling show where Stoker once toured as an attraction, the gaslit atmosphere of London in October is the perfect setting for this investigation into the unknown. Through it all, the intrepid pair is always one step behind the latest villain—a man who has killed once and will stop at nothing to recover the body of the woman he loved. Will they unmask him in time to save his next victim? Or will they become the latest figures to be immortalized in his collection of horrors?

Brainstorm

Brainstorm PDF

Author: Eric Maisel

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1577316215

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It's true: a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Yet that's what we do when we spend our weekend -- and neurons -- reliving a workplace squabble, spend a family visit chewing over childhood issues, or spend hours beating ourselves up when someone brings one of our own long-held (but never worked on) ideas to fruition. This kind of obsessing gets us, like a hamster on a wheel, nowhere. But as noted creativity expert Eric Maisel asserts, obsessing productively leads to fulfillment rather than frustration. A productive obsession, whether an idea for a novel, a business, or a vaccine, is chosen deliberately and pursued with determination. In this provocative, practical guide, Maisel coaches you to use the tendency to obsess to your creative advantage, fulfilling both your promise and your promises to yourself.

Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers

Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers PDF

Author: Lee Server

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1438109121

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Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.

Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)

Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised) PDF

Author: Colleen Barnett

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2010-12-31

Total Pages: 1090

ISBN-13: 1615950109

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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.