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Book Synopsis The Highly Effective Detective by : Richard Yancey
Download or read book The Highly Effective Detective written by Richard Yancey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his ailing mother dies, Teddy quits his job as a night watchman and becomes a detective. He hires his favorite waitress from the local diner to be his Girl Friday. His first case, finding out who ran down six baby geese, quickly evolves into an investigation of a vicious murder.
Book Synopsis The Highly Effective Detective Plays the Fool by : Richard Yancey
Download or read book The Highly Effective Detective Plays the Fool written by Richard Yancey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deserves mention with the wackiest of today's comic crime novelists... similar to Donald E. Westlake or Carl Hiaasen." —Booklist on The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs In this third installment of Richard Yancey's hilarious Teddy Ruzak P.I. series, Teddy's latest client is a good looking dame with long blond hair and great gams. Her husband, she suspects, is stepping out on her, and she hires Teddy to nail the cheater. Then the client disappears. Is this a divorce case—or a murder?
Book Synopsis The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs by : Richard Yancey
Download or read book The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs written by Richard Yancey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of The Highly Effective Detective comes this deliciously funny follow-up featuring the lovable but bumbling P.I. Teddy Ruzak. After the state shuts him down for practicing detection without a license, Teddy thinks his investigating days are over. Then he discovers the body of a man outside his office, a homeless man whom he had befriended just the day before. Teddy suspects foul play, but the police think he's barking up the wrong tree. Then his normal befuddlement is exponentially enhanced by two very unexpected--and potentially very dangerous--visitors from the pound. With his signature wit and gripping suspense, Richard Yancey has written yet another irresistible page-turner. It is sure to win him and Teddy Ruzak a whole new series of fans.
Book Synopsis The Highly Effective Detective by : Richard Yancey
Download or read book The Highly Effective Detective written by Richard Yancey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of Confessions of a Tax Collector and The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp comes The Highly Effective Detective--a hilarious and thrilling series debut featuring a lovable but bumbling private investigator. Meet Teddy Ruzak, the oversized, over-his-head P.I. whose first case begins with the hit-and-run killing of a gaggle of goslings. After his ailing mother dies, Teddy quits his job as a night watchman to fulfill his childhood dream of being a detective. With little planning and even less foresight, he hangs up his shingle and hires his favorite waitress from the local diner to be his Girl Friday. And his first case? Bringing to justice the thoughtless driver who mows down six baby geese. Not the most exciting assignment--until Teddy's "wild-goose chase" quickly evolves into an investigation of a vicious murder.
Book Synopsis The Highly Effective Detective Crosses the Line by : Richard Yancey
Download or read book The Highly Effective Detective Crosses the Line written by Richard Yancey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fourth installment of Rick Yancey's touching and funny Highly Effective Detective Series, lovable but bumbling PI Teddy Ruzak is out of his league again, and this time, things are getting serious. Farrell, one of Teddy's old friends, is in desperate need of Teddy's help. His daughter Isabella's ex-boyfriend, locked up for assault, is days away from being released from jail, and Farrell knows his first stop out of the slammer will be at his daughter's door. Farrell enlists Teddy to keep any eye on Isabella. But when the bad seed ex-boyfriend turns out to have associates even more alarming than he is,Teddy finds himself dealing with truly dangerous criminals. To make matters worse, Felicia, his secretary, is being threatened by mysterious men whom she can't seem to shake. Can Teddy keep Felicia getting hurt while still protecting Isabella? And do his strong feelings towards Felicia run deeper than just a friend looking out for a friend? This funny and engaging mystery starring Teddy Ruzak will delight and entertain his many devoted fans.
Download or read book Snowize & Snitch written by Karen Briner and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever attends the School for Children of Gifted Parents. Unfortunately, she has no idea if her parents were particularly gifted. They vanished without a trace nine years ago, and Ever now lives with the Doc, an eccentric inventor. When the Doc, too, goes missing, Ever enlists the help of an unlikely pair of detectives: Harry Snowize, a once-intrepid spy, and Snitch, a dignified rat. As the trio sets off to catch the diabolical mastermind behind a spate of crimes against ingenious humanity, Ever has her doubts. But she's about to discover that there's a whole lot more to these detectives -- and herself -- than meets the eye!
Download or read book The CS Detective written by Jeremy Kubica and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Frank Runtime. Disgraced ex-detective. Hard-boiled private eye. Search expert. When a robbery hits police headquarters, it’s up to Frank Runtime and his extensive search skills to catch the culprits. In this detective story, you’ll learn how to use algorithmic tools to solve the case. Runtime scours smugglers’ boats with binary search, tails spies with a search tree, escapes a prison with depth-first search, and picks locks with priority queues. Joined by know-it-all rookie Officer Notation and inept tag-along Socks, he follows a series of leads in a best-first search that unravels a deep conspiracy. Each chapter introduces a thrilling twist matched with a new algorithmic concept, ending with a technical recap. Perfect for computer science students and amateur sleuths alike, The CS Detective adds an entertaining twist to learning algorithms. Follow Frank’s mission and learn: –The algorithms behind best-first and depth-first search, iterative deepening, parallelizing, binary search, and more –Basic computational concepts like strings, arrays, stacks, and queues –How to adapt search algorithms to unusual data structures –The most efficient algorithms to use in a given situation, and when to apply common-sense heuristic methods
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Detective Stories by : Patricia Craig
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Detective Stories written by Patricia Craig and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of detective fiction is vast, and The Oxford Book of Detective Stories brings together the best short fiction from around the world to show how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on the genre. As well as English and American stories from acknowledged masters such as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie, the anthology includes stories by Simenon, Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin, and roams across Europe and further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries are all here, and in her introduction Patricia Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.
Book Synopsis Body Line by : Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Download or read book Body Line written by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brand-new Bill Slider Mystery David Rogers was a doctor, handsome, charming and rich. He lived the lifestyle of a consultant, expensive clothes, top restaurants, exclusive clubs, until someone killed him in the hallway of his lovely million-plus-pound house. But when Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into the mystery, they soon discover that nothing is as it seems, for though David's girlfriends are plenty, none of them can tell Slider anything about where he worked or what exactly he did . . .
Book Synopsis The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath by : Rick Yancey
Download or read book The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath written by Rick Yancey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Henryis anassistant to a doctor with a most unusual speciality: monster hunting!In the short time he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown usedto late night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was feeding on her, Will's world changes forever. The doctor has discovered a baby Anthropophagi- a headless monster that feeds through the mouthfuls of teeth in its chest - and it signals a growing number of Anthropophagi.Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatening to consume our world and find the rest of the monsters before it is too late...
Book Synopsis The Last Detective (Deluxe Edition) by : Peter Lovesey
Download or read book The Last Detective (Deluxe Edition) written by Peter Lovesey and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am so excited for you to be at the very beginning of this trend-setting, beautifully written, vivid series."—from the introduction by LOUISE PENNY The first installment in one of crime fiction’s most enjoyable, iconic series—now featuring a rare peek into Diamond’s origins and the author’s process in bringing him to life. A woman’s body has been found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath. There are no marks on her and no murder weapon. No one will identify her. It looks like Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has his work cut out for him. Diamond is one of the last detectives of his kind, a gumshoe whose heroes solved crimes by question and answer, door stepping and deduction. To unravel this one, Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors in order to save a woman unjustly accused of murder. Over thirty years and twenty-one subsequent novels, Peter Lovesey has bewitched his enormous fandom with the wry, stubborn, and fiendishly clever Peter Diamond. The Last Detective started it all, and it is now reissued in a gorgeous deluxe edition featuring an introduction by Louise Penny, an afterword by the author, and fascinating true-crime context describing how this book came to be.
Book Synopsis The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by : Rick Yancey
Download or read book The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp written by Rick Yancey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Kropp was just trying to survive high school when his guardian uncle gets him roped into a suspicious get-rich-quick scheme that changes his life forever: stealing Excalibur - the legendary sword of King Arthur. But after Alfred unwittingly delivers the sword into the hands of the enemy, he sets off on an unlikely quest to try to right his wrong and save the world from imminent destruction. This gripping, fast-paced, and often hilarious novel is both a thrilling adventure story and an engaging account of one boy's coming of age.
Book Synopsis Gone for Good by : Joanna Schaffhausen
Download or read book Gone for Good written by Joanna Schaffhausen and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gone For Good is the first in a new mystery series from award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen, featuring Detective Annalisa Vega, in which a cold case heats up. The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after twenty years with no trace of him, many believe that he’s gone for good. Not Grace Harper. A grocery store manager by day, at night Grace uses her snooping skills as part of an amateur sleuth group. She believes the Lovelorn Killer is still living in the same neighborhoods that he hunted in, and if she can figure out how he selected his victims, she will have the key to his identity. Detective Annalisa Vega lost someone she loved to the killer. Now she’s at a murder scene with the worst kind of déjà vu: Grace Harper lies bound and dead on the floor, surrounded by clues to the biggest murder case that Chicago homicide never solved. Annalisa has the chance to make it right and to heal her family, but first, she has to figure out what Grace knew—how to see a killer who may be standing right in front of you. This means tracing his steps back to her childhood, peering into dark corners she hadn’t acknowledged before, and learning that despite everything the killer took, she has still so much more to lose.
Book Synopsis The Automatic Detective by : A. Lee Martinez
Download or read book The Automatic Detective written by A. Lee Martinez and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Gil's All Fright Diner comes a fantastic sci-fi mystery read The Automatic Detective Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it's hard for a robot to make his way. It's even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack's not interested in world domination. He's just a bot trying to get by, trying to demonstrate that he isn't just an automated smashing machine, and to earn his citizenship in the process. It should be as easy as crushing a tank for Mack, but some bots just can't catch a break. When Mack's neighbors are kidnapped, Mack sets off on a journey through the dark alleys and gleaming skyscrapers of Empire City. Along the way, he runs afoul of a talking gorilla, a brainy dame, a mutant lowlife, a little green mob boss, and the secret conspiracy at the heart of Empire's founders---not to mention more trouble than he bargained for. What started out as one missing family becomes a battle for the future of Empire and every citizen that calls her home. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis How to Be a Poop Detective by : kristin Struble
Download or read book How to Be a Poop Detective written by kristin Struble and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's book discussing what a well-functioning digestive tract behaves like and details what its end product, poop, should be like. It educates on dietary choices that influence a healthy GI tract, in turn helping to create a healthy body and "normal" poop. Also, highlighted in the book is the product, Squatty Potty due to its unique ability to aide and assist the pooping process naturally.
Book Synopsis The Highly Effective Detective Duo by : Richard Yancey
Download or read book The Highly Effective Detective Duo written by Richard Yancey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Highly effective detective: After the death of his ailing mother, Teddy quits his job as a night watchman to fulfill his childhood dream of being a detective. With little planning and even less foresight, he hangs up his shingle and hires his favorite waitress from the local diner to be his Girl Friday. His first case? Bringing to justice the thoughtless driver who mows down a gaggle of baby geese. Not the most exciting assignment- until Teddy's 'wild-goose chase' quickly evolves into an investigation of a vicious murder. The ... detective goes to the dogs: Teddy thinks his investigating days are over when the state of Tennessee shuts him down for practicing detection without a license. Then he discovers the body of a man outside his office, a man he had befriended just the day before. Though Teddy suspects foul play, the police think he's barking up the wrong tree. Next thing he knows he's getting a visit from two unexpected- and potentially dangerous- characters from the pound. Teddy has a weakness for the underdog, but this puppy could get him killed"--Jacket flaps
Download or read book Cover Her Face written by P.D. James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by People magazine as “the greatest living mystery writer.” Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler’s fingers forever marring her lily-white throat. Someone has decided that the wages of sin should be death...and it is up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find who that someone is. Cover Her Face is P.D. James’ delightful debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.
