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Author: Nancy Bell
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780312300029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The sleuthing Texas grandmother, Biggie Weatherford, investigates a murder on the opening night of an all-chicken restaurant. The owner's body is found covered in gravy and garnished with parsley.
Author: Nancy Bell
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-11-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1466842105
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biggie's back...for a murder most fowl. Murder's afoot when Biggie Weatherford's around, and now, fresh from Biggie and the Mangled Mortician, this Lone Star grandma is ready to put the bite on another ornery killer, Texas-style. It's chicken on the burner-- any way you want it-- in Firman Birdsong's new restaurant. Problem is, old Firman's under the table, gussied up like a prize goose, gravy on top, parsley garnish, and a blood-red tomato in his mouth. Biggie's twelve-year-old grandson, J.R., saw the dead man with his own two eyes. Clearly, this is a case for Biggie-- and her cousin, Sheriff Paul and Silas Wooten (yep, that's one man). But J.R. figures he and Biggie have other problems as well: his other grandmother and her buzzard husband have turned up, ready to snatch him back to Montana. So while Biggie and Paul and Silas are busy rooting out suspects, J.R. is planning his own great escape from wanna-be grandparents with their fancy car with longhorns on the hood, money to burn, and secrets to curdle the blood...
Author: Bell
Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin
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ISBN-13: 9780312300104
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nancy Bell
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1429970774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 5th book in a delightful series by Nancy Bell where a young boy, JR, serves as the narrator. In this adventure Biggie Weatherford and her grandson JR go to Quincy to learn about their historical society. That night their host tells them a ghost story about a young woman who went on a picnic and was never seen alive again. The next morning JR finds a body in the hotel fountain. The deputy in charge of the case asks Biggie to help him solve it.
Author: Colleen Barnett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2010-12-31
Total Pages: 1090
ISBN-13: 1615950109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780815338840
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Nancy Bell
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2005-03
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0312327811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Somebody murders the local barber in this second installment in the new down-home Judge Jackson Crain series.
Author: Nancy Bell
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-08-19
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1466820802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the beloved author of the Biggie Weatherford mystery series comes this third thrillin’ installment featuring Texas judge Jackson Crain. An old love, a new flame, and the murder of a real estate tycoon thrust County Judge Jackson Crain smack in the middle of the most baffling case he has ever seen. Add a glamorous lady evangelist and a victim’s tippling wife, and suspects abound. It is only through delving into the past that Jackson is able to unravel the mystery and see the killer brought to justice. Paint the Town Dead is a sure-to-please cozy that should win Nancy Bell many new fans.
Author: Janet G. Husband
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2009-07-30
Total Pages: 793
ISBN-13: 0838909671
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Author: Steve Glassman
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780879728465
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman's oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on Southwest film noir from Humphrey Bogart's tough hood in The Petrified Forest to Russell Crowe's hard-nosed cop in L.A. Confidential.
