Carter Brown 06

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Author: Carter Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781922267344

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Death on the Downbeat She was a glamorous blonde who ran a jive joint that specialised in cool jazz ... and hot corpses! In Death on the Downbeat, "unorthodox" Lieutenant Al Wheeler is ready for love until three cool corpses get in his way. He finds the first in a jive joint run by a sultry blonde who calls the tune when it comes to music and men. The second turns up in a back-street rooming house that's a front for dope peddling. The third, smack on his own doorstep. Suddenly Al is up against a plug-happy killer out to make a cop his fourth corpse. A cop named Wheeler. The Blonde The party girl was going to tell all about a Hollywood scandal-- right on TV. But then she was scooped ... by her murderer! In The Blonde, Al Wheeler is sent to investigate the alleged suicide of filmland Romeo Lee Manning. Georgia Brown knows what really happened and is ready to spill the beans on TV. But before the story gets a chance to sizzle the airwaves, a killer steps in and stops George Brown dead. Al Wheeler finds himself playing a near fatal role in an underground production of murder. ...

The Wanton / The Dame / The Desired

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Author: Carter Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03-21

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781951473723

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THE WANTON In which Lieutenant Al Wheeler must figure out -who killed the youngest member of the Randall family by hanging her from a tree -what the mysterious "W" brand on her neck signifies -who's next as the Randalls are each threatened with a similar fate THE DAME In which Lieutenant Al Wheeler is called upon to -discover who murdered the secretary of famous actress, Judy Manners -find out who is lying about the signed contracts which the producer claims are legit -maneuver his way around Camille, the mistress of Judy's philandering husband THE DESIRED In which Lieutenant Al Wheeler finds himself in the midst of murder -when he almost collides with a car with a dead body in its trunk -involving a beautiful, spoiled vixen who had been driving the car -with a prime patsy for the killing in the form of the vixen's labor boss father

Carter Brown 02: Delilah Was Deadly/No Harp for My Angel

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Author: Carter Brown

Publisher: Carter Brown Books

Published: 2018-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781922057358

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Two classic Al Wheeler thrillers Delilah Was Deadly "Someone's throwing corpses around so fast I'd call a cop -- only I'd look sort of silly if I did!" In Delilah Was Deadly, 'unorthodox' LA cop Lieutenant Al Wheeler has just been promoted to the head of Homicide following his success cracking his last case. This time round, a 'social editor' of a fashion magazine is discovered dead inside a safe, strangled with a pink nylon girdle, wearing his silk pyjamas with a rose inside his breast pocket. It looks like this might be the work of Satanists but before long the bodies start to pile up when one of Al's colleagues gets killed ... No Harp For My Angel She was sitting on a stool at the bar with an old-fashioned in front of her. It was the only old-fashioned thing about her! In No Harp For My Angel Al Wheeler is vacationing in Florida when he hits on a redhead named Julie Adams, and thus meets crime boss Johnny Lynch. Lynch has Wheeler beat up and framed for a car theft, but fortunately the chief of police is an old friend of Al's. He tells Al that a lot of pretty, young girls have gone missing in the area, and that he thinks Lynch is involved. Al is talked into going undercover, posing as a Chicago gangster, to infiltrate Lynch's gang and get to the bottom of it...

Carter Brown 04

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Author: Carter Brown

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Published: 2019-06

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781922057396

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No Law Against Angels There are only three things I indulge myself in: my hi-fi, my Austin-Healy and women! In No Law Against Angels, "unorthodox" LA cop Lieutenant Al Wheeler investigates the death of two beautiful young girls with identical snake symbols tattooed on their shoulders. Al soon finds himself slugging it out with a big-time gangster and cracking down on the West Coast's most profitable racket - prostitution. Luscious dames and plug-happy thugs - the chase begins in a fashionable mansion ... but ends in fashionable mortuary! Doll for the Big House She was a living doll and it took a grand a day to keep her that way. A grand ... and a Grand Jury! In Doll for the Big House, Al Wheeler finds himself suspended from duty and transferred to the lowly Eighth Precinct. Commissioner Lavers cryptically tells Al to keep on working "as a private citizen" and finds himself helping a beautiful witness named Lois Hertz whose sister has disappeared. Missing Persons is policing 101 but Al soon realises the case is much bigger and that Lavers has really got him investigating corruption at the highest level ...

Carter Brown 03

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Author: Carter Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781922057372

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Booty for a Babe "Get over to the Hotel Imperial. Drive yourself over in that natty little Austin-Healy you acquired illegally in Ocean Beach!" In Booty for a Babe, "unorthodox" LA cop Lieutenant Al Wheeler is sent to solve a murder at a science fiction convention. There he discovers a professor who wants to stop time by tricking the elusive Delfs, meets an intellectual gangster who wants to get his hands on the professor's latest invention, and is frustrated by the generously proportioned convention organiser who somehow manages to keep one step ahead of Al's wolfish designs! Eve, It's Extortion "Ask Wheeler," Commissioner Lavers said, "if he would like a nice blue uniform and a traffic detail!" In Eve, It's Extortion, Al Wheeler is under pressure to crack a big case. Commissioner Lavers sends him to investigate the hit-and-run murder of a "no-good" lush called Henry Farnham. At least that's what Henry was according to his widow. She's a beautiful brunette who diligently looked after her husband, working hard and paying for everything ... including their hefty life insurance premiums. Is this a classic case of insurance fraud ... or something more sinister?

Carter Brown 01: the Wicked/Blonde Verdict

Carter Brown 01: the Wicked/Blonde Verdict PDF

Author: Carter Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781922057334

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Two classic Al Wheeler thrillers The Wicked "A guy who knows Deirdre Damour that well," he said, "is just wasting time being dead!" The Wicked was the first Carter Brown novella to feature the 'unorthodox' LA Lieutenant Al Wheeler and it sees Al investigating the murder of a screenwriter of a western who made enemies of the cast and crew by writing a series of kiss and tell articles for a gossip magazine. Al knows that the cop who found the body is hiding something and soon there are dead bodies aplenty while our hero falls for the leading lady -- and pretty much every other dame in town! Blonde Verdict "I was just sitting there minding my own business, when this guy dropped dead at my feet!" In Blonde Verdict (published as The Brazen in the US) Lieutenant Al Wheeler investigates the murder of a lawyer after the man is scratched with curare. Before long his mistress and her lover are also bumped off in the same manner. Is the killer the lawyer's merry widow, a Chicago mobster who recently arrived in town, or someone else? And what of the woman Al ends up proposing to?

Measuring the New World

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Author: Neil Safier

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0226733564

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Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.

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