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Murder on Nob Hill

Author : Shirley Tallman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312328559
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Murder on Nob Hill written by Shirley Tallman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1880, the place San Francisco. Intelligent, outspoken Sarah Woolson is a young woman with a goal and the fortitude to achieve it. She has always dreamed of becoming a lawyer. The trouble is, everyone believes women belong in the home---that it is not only unnatural, but against God's will for them to seek a career. When Sarah finagles an interview with one of the city's most prestigious law firms, no one thinks she has a prayer of being hired. Except Sarah. Using her brains and a little subterfuge, she not only manages to become the firm's newest (and only female) associate attorney, she also acquires her first client---a lovely young society matron suspected of brutally stabbing to death her wealthy but abusive husband. Sarah is sure of her client's innocence, but the revelation of the woman's secret lover may make that innocence impossible to prove. When four more victims fall prey to the killer's knife, Sarah fears she has bitten off more than she can chew. Bucking her boorish employer and the judicial system, Sarah finds herself embroiled in shady legal maneuvers, a daring Chinatown raid, and a secret and very scandalous sex club in this irresistible blend of history, romance, and murder.

Death on Telegraph Hill

Author : Shirley Tallman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250010438
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Death on Telegraph Hill written by Shirley Tallman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tallman offers an entertaining mystery . . . will appeal to fans of Anne Perry and Rhys Bowen"--"Library Journal." San Francisco, 1882. When her brother is hit by a bullet, a crusading young lawyer discovers more murder and mayhem on Telegraph Hill.

The Russian Hill Murders

Author : Shirley Tallman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429932805
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Hill Murders written by Shirley Tallman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though her own San Francisco law firm barely tolerates her, gutsy young attorney Sarah Woolson flouts proper feminine behavior in this nineteenth-century answer to Legally Blonde. While her mother begs her to settle down, her chauvinistic boss tries to come up with ever more spiteful ways to pressure his only female associate into quitting. Naturally, Sarah digs in her heels and vows to retain her position at any cost. Besides, she has no intention of straying too far from the action. When the wife of wealthy society entrepreneur Leonard Godfrey drops dead of an apparent heart attack at a charity dinner for the new Women and Children's Hospital, Sarah's curiosity gets the better of her. But no one will believe in her theory that Caroline Godfrey's death was not natural---until several more people affiliated with the hospital die of inexplicable causes. Meanwhile, when a pregnant widow whose husband has died in a sweatshop fire asks for Sarah's help in finding the owner so that she can sue for recompense, our feisty heroine insists on taking the case against her boss's orders. With the help of her colleague Robert Campbell and an eager young hansom cabdriver named Eddie, Sarah goes on a manhunt for Killy Doyle, the menacing head of the factory underworld. But she can't ignore the mysterious deaths at the Women and Children's Hospital---especially when the hospital's Chinese chef is arrested for the murders and the Chinese community's most powerful Tong Lord asks her to defend him. Faced with her first criminal trial, Sarah stops at nothing to determine the killer's identity. But in trying to exonerate her client, she places her own life in danger. Will Sarah figure out who the murderer is, or will she be the final victim?

The View from Nob Hill

Author : Ty Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789798375248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book The View from Nob Hill written by Ty Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Inventor and the Tycoon

Author : Edward Ball
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0767929403
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Inventor and the Tycoon written by Edward Ball and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the Year Nearly 140 years ago, in frontier California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured time with his camera and played it back on a flickering screen, inventing the breakthrough technology of moving pictures. Yet the visionary inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial became a national sensation. Despite Muybridge’s crime, the artist’s patron, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University, hired the photographer to answer the question of whether the four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground all at once—and together these two unlikely men launched the age of visual media. Written with style and passion by National Book Award-winner Edward Ball, this riveting true-crime tale of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads puts on display the virtues and vices of the great American West.

The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford

Author : Robert W. P. Cutler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804747936
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford written by Robert W. P. Cutler and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroners jury verdict of murderby strychnine poisoning. Stanford University President David Starr Jordan promptly issued a press release claiming that Mrs. Stanford had died of heart disease, a claim that he supported by challenging the skills and judgment of the Honolulu physicians and toxicologist. Jordans diagnosis was largely accepted and promulgated in many subsequent historical accounts. In this book, the author reviews the medical reports in detail to refute Dr. Jordans claim and to show that Mrs. Stanford indeed died of strychnine poisoning. His research reveals that the professionals who were denounced by Dr. Jordan enjoyed honorable and distinguished careers. He concludes that Dr. Jordan went to great lengths, over a period of nearly two decades, to cover up the real circumstances of Mrs. Stanfords death.

Scandal on Rincon Hill

Author : Shirley Tallman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429984074
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Scandal on Rincon Hill written by Shirley Tallman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bringing Victorian San Francisco to colorful life, Tallman offers an entertaining mystery...will appeal to fans of Anne Perry and Rhys Bowen." —Library Journal A body is found just blocks from attorney Sarah Woolson's home on Rincon Hill. Sarah is on the case, but 19th-century San Francisco is soon thrown into a state of panic as a gruesome crime spree begins to take hold of the city.

1st to Die

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759524548
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book 1st to Die written by James Patterson and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2001-03-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong. Full of the breathtaking drama and unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson is famous, 1st to Die is the start of the #1 New York Times bestselling series of crime thrillers.

Death in the Tenderloin

Author : Tom Carter (journalist.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888956177
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Death in the Tenderloin written by Tom Carter (journalist.) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the Tenderloin at its most tender. It was inspired by the obituaries published in the Central City Extra - monthly newspaper for the neighborhood's fixed income and no-income populace. This is a hardscrabble script.

Hastened to the Grave

Author : Jack Olsen
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781429979054
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Hastened to the Grave written by Jack Olsen and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were a notorious gypsy family that seeped into their victims' lives like a deadly cancer. And they couldn't be stopped-- until one courageous woman took on the cases no one else would touch... THE VICTIMS: Elderly, well-to-do men and women who, due to their failing health, strength, and faculties, could be conned out of their fortunes by heinous neglect, abuse, and possibly even murder. THE ACCUSED: Several members of a ruthless family of Gypsies known for their cunning con-games and remarkable ability to extract large sums of money from their unwitting pawns. THE INVESTIGATOR: Fay Faron, a beautiful, never-say-die P.I., determined to bring these culprits to justice-- even when the authorities turned a blind eye to the Gypsies' crimes time and time again. In this shattering expose, bestselling author Jack Olsen follows Fay Faron as she retraces every step of the Gypsy family and the crimes they stand accused of: moving in on their helpless prey, extorting money, signing the fortunes of elderly millionaires into their own names-- and speeding up the death process with sadistic neglect, slow poison, and unspeakable cruelty. Not since Peter Maas' King of the Gypsies has the world of Gypsy crime been exposed in such shocking detail and with more fascinating insight.

1906

Author : James Dalessandro
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811843133
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book 1906 written by James Dalessandro and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2004-04-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the great San Francisco earthquake and fire, this page-turning tale of political corruption, vendettas, romance, rescue--and murder--is based on recently uncovered facts that will forever change the public's understanding of what really happened.

Snow

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488077193
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Snow written by John Banville and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD* A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick “Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format…superbly rich and sophisticated.”—New York Times Book Review The incomparable Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel—the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford—flinty, visibly Protestant and determined to identify the murderer—faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in the tight-knit community he begins to investigate. As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. And when his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community’s secrets, like the snowfall itself, threaten to obliterate everything. Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, Snow is “the Irish master” (New Yorker) John Banville at his page-turning best. Don't miss John Banville's next novel, The Lock-up! Other riveting mysteries from John Banville: April in Spain

The View from Nob Hill

Author : Ty Hutchinson
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book The View from Nob Hill written by Ty Hutchinson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I think I had the perfect life. I was married to an amazing man, had two beautiful children, and lived in a three-story home with a million-dollar view. That all changed in three days. While waiting for my husband to come home for date night, I finished two bottles of Cabernet and watched a man fall to his death. Actually, I'm not sure what I saw because of the wine. But the following day, the news reported that Errol Tiller, someone I sort of knew, had fallen from his penthouse suite. It's a troubling sight if that's what I witnessed. While Errol's death saddened me, I tried to move on. But that didn't happen because I learned my family and friends had shocking connections to Errol. To make matters worse, the police have questions about what I may or may not have seen. Did I see something more than Errol falling? I wish I could answer that question, but I drank a lot of wine that night. The View from Nob Hill is a gripping read that will have you guessing from beginning to end. If you're a fan of Frieda McFadden and Shari Lapena, you'll love this page-turning thriller.

Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror

Author : Richard Linthicum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror written by Richard Linthicum and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond His Control

Author : Linda Hale Bucklin
Publisher : ePublishing Works!
ISBN 13 : 1644576384
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Beyond His Control written by Linda Hale Bucklin and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Hale Bucklin's Inspiring Story of Forgiveness and Resilience Beyond His Control is for anyone seeking to understand the power of forgiveness and resilience. Linda Hale Bucklin recounts her extraordinary life, the unraveling of her family, and her own journey of forgiveness. With this book, you will discover: • The power of resilience and overcoming adversity • The strength to forgive and find peace • How to make the most of your life, no matter the circumstances In March 1969, Linda learned of her vivacious mother's death, her right temple blown out by a bullet from her father's pistol. Was it suicide or homicide? Standing up to her father, Prentis Cobb Hale—heir to the Broadway/Hale Department Store fortune—Linda is disinherited and ostracized from the family she loves. The family unravels when her father marries Hollywood hostess Denise Minnelli, stepmother to Liza Minnelli. This book includes Linda's vivid account of her life, her father's decision to leave the family fortune to Denise Minnelli, and her own journey to forgiveness. It also includes her recollections of the family's 10,000-acre ranch, hunting trips to Africa and Alaska, and high society vignettes of a fourth-generation San Francisco family. With this book, you will find the power of resilience in overcoming adversity that brings life-transforming peace. REVIEWS: "...a jolting memoir." ~The New York Post" "...a book you won't be able to put down." ~David Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary

To Kingdom Come

Author : Will Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439107203
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book To Kingdom Come written by Will Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a bomb destroys the recently formed Special Irish Branch of Scotland Yard, all fingers point to the increasingly brazen factions of Irish dissidents seeking liberation from English rule. Volunteering their services to the British government, Barker and Llewelyn set out to infiltrate a secret cell of the Irish Republican Brotherhood known as the Invisibles. Posing as a reclusive German bomb maker and his anarchist apprentice, they are recruited for the group's ultimate plan: to bring London to its knees and end the monarchy forever. Their adventures take them from a lighthouse on the craggy coast of Wales to a Liverpool infested with radicals, and even to the City of Light, where Llewelyn goes undercover with Maire O'Casey, the alluring sister of an Irish radical. Llewelyn again finds himself put to the test by his enigmatic employer, studying the art of self-defense and the brutal sport of hurling -- and, most dangerous of all, being schooled in the deadly science of bomb making.

San Francisco Noir

Author : Peter Maravelis
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781888451917
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco Noir written by Peter Maravelis and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Alejandro Murguia, Sin Soracco, Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nesbit, and David Henry Sterry. San Francisco Noir lashes out with hard-biting, all-original tales exploring the shadowy nether regions of scenic "Baghdad by the Bay." Virtuosos of the genre meet up with the best of S.F.'s literary fiction community to chart a unique psycho-geography for a dark landscape. From inner city boroughs to the outlands, each contributor offers an original story based in a distinct neighborhood. At times brutal, darkly humorous, and revelatory--the stories speak of a hidden San Francisco, a town where the fog is but a prelude to darker realities lingering beneath. "The protagonists of noir fiction have their own agendas, but for readers much of the pleasure is unraveling the mystery and deciphering the clues that constitute a city, and if there is a love story in noir writing it's the passion of writers, readers, and protagonists for the gritty geographical details. As the bodies drop in the strong stories here, steep, fog-wrapped, fratricidal San Francisco comes alive: here are old neighborhoods, bars, bookstores, the famous and then forgotten landlord arson at 16th and Valencia, buried streams, streetcars, parks, a lost city and the new city haunting almost every page of this gorgeous anthology of San Francisco noir." -Rebecca Solnit "I was wondering about the city's shadowside that the guides didn't show. These top writers are of the 'As bad as it gets' brand, and then worse. If you like puke, fear & loathing caused by stray bullets, happenstance getting the hero who is an anti-hero really, a male corpse rotting in the bathtub while the woman poops in the garden, the Reverend Christmas shot in the ear by the PO-lice, then this is your good read for a murky, maybe even gritty, weekend." -Janwillem van de Wetering "San Francisco has long been a city of back alleys and black figures; this is its romantic map." -Michael Ray, Editor, Zoetrope All-Story