The Vejay Haskell Mysteries

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480465313
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Vejay Haskell Mysteries written by Susan Dunlap and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA special three-in-one edition of Susan Dunlap’s Vejay Haskell Mysteries, about an intrepid meter reader who solves the crimes that the police can’t crack/divDIV In An Equal Opportunity Death, Vejay Haskell is playing hooky from her job as an electric-meter reader in Henderson, California. She skirts around the edge of town, making her way to Frank’s Place, a cozy saloon owned by her friend Frank Goulet. After two cups of hot buttered rum, they have an argument and she storms out into the pouring rain. But by the time she gets back to Frank’s bar to apologize, he is dead. Vejay was seen leaving Frank’s house in a huff, and her lack of an alibi combined with her suspicious sick day make her the number-one suspect. As the police close in on her, Vejay turns detective in search of Frank’s real killer. It’s a perilous task, but she has one advantage when she puts on her work clothes: Nobody ever notices the meter reader./divDIV In The Bohemian Connection, a clique of powerful conservatives called the Bohemian Club gathers for a confidential meeting in the backwoods town of Henderson, California. Though their activities are shrouded in secrecy, Henderson meter reader Vejay Haskell is about to get an all-too-close inside look. Searching the countryside for a coworker’s missing niece, she finds the beautiful gymnast lying dead in the bottom of a sewer drain. The sheriff calls it an accident, but Vejay suspects the girl’s death was connected to the Bohemian Club’s unquenchable desire for drugs, booze, and prostitutes. Finding the killer will mean going head to head with the nation’s fiercest politicians./divDIV And in The Last Annual Slugfest, it’s time for Henderson’s regional festival honoring the normally detested California banana slug. Rather than eat crow, the area’s local politicians atone for their sins by eating slug hot dogs, slug chili, and slug pie. This year, one dish will prove murderously foul. Edwina Henderson is the last of her family to live in the town that bears their name. A committed environmentalist, she is also the woman responsible for this year’s slugfest, and will take her place at the judge’s table. When a slug pizza knocks her flat, the crowd assumes it was just an especially gross slice. But when she doesn’t get up, meter reader Vejay Haskell must confront the devious murder of the town’s leading treehugger./divDIV/div/div

Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised)

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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615950095
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Book Synopsis Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised) by : Colleen Barnett

Download or read book Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised) written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).

An Equal Opportunity Death

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145325059X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book An Equal Opportunity Death written by Susan Dunlap and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To escape arrest for her best friend’s murder, Vejay must find the real killer—before it’s too late In the small woodsy town of Henderson, California, the electric company is strict about sick days. So when meterreader Vejay Haskell decides to play hooky, her first concern is staying out of sight. She skirts around the edge of town, making her way to Frank’s Place, a cozy saloon owned by her friend Frank Goulet. After two cups of hot buttered rum, they have an argument and she storms out into the pouring rain. She goes home, takes a nap, and awakens sober, embarrassed, and ready to apologize. But by the time she gets back to Frank’s bar, he is dead. Vejay was seen leaving Frank’s house in a huff, and her lack of an alibi combined with her suspicious sick day makes her the number-one suspect. As the police close in on her, Vejay turns detective in search of Frank’s real killer. It’s a perilous task, but she has one advantage when she puts on her work clothes: Nobody ever notices the meterreader. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection. An Equal Opportunity Death is the 1st book in the Vejay Haskell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

The Last Annual Slugfest

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453250611
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Last Annual Slugfest written by Susan Dunlap and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vejay investigates the poisoning death of one of the town’s most powerful citizens during its oddest annual event Though it sounds violent, Henderson’s annual slugfest is less vicious than it is slimy. The regional festival honors the normally detested California banana slug with competitions to prove which slug is the biggest, fastest, or—in the event that gives the festival its notoriety—the tastiest. Rather than eat crow, the area’s local politicians atone for their sins by eating slug hot dogs, slug chili, and slug pie. This year, one dish will prove murderously foul. Edwina Henderson is the last of her family to live in the town that bears their name. A committed environmentalist, she is also the woman responsible for this year’s slugfest, and will take her place at the judge’s table. When a slug-pizza knocks her flat, the crowd assumes it was just an especially gross slice. But when she doesn’t get up, meter-reader Vejay Haskell must confront the devious murder of the town’s leading treehugger. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection. The Last Annual Slugfest is the 3rd book in the Vejay Haskell Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Fast Friends

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480430730
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Fast Friends written by Susan Dunlap and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVFrom the award-winning mystery author hailed by the Washington Times as “the leading proponent of gutsy, nontraditional women who nimbly tread in he-man territory,” comes a roller coaster of a suspense novel about two friends racing to escape a police dragnet/divDIV Beautiful, blond Liza Silvestri has put her bad-girl ways behind her and is living the California dream in a Malibu beach house with her adoring venture-capitalist husband, Jay—until gunfire erupts one evening at their L.A. loft. Liza doesn’t dare call the police—she’s got a secret in her past—and it turns out Jay has secrets of his own./divDIV /divDIVNow, running from professional killers and dirty cops, Liza begs her college friend, Ellen, to come with her. At the last moment, Liza grabs her piglet, Felton, as well. Racing through the back roads of Northern California and Oregon, she tracks the only clue she has, to end the nightmare that has enveloped her, hoping it will prove to be Ellen’s and her salvation—and not their grave./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection./div/div

Detective Agency

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520921467
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis Detective Agency by : Priscilla L. Walton

Download or read book Detective Agency written by Priscilla L. Walton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-05-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s, a subgenre of crime fiction, written by women and featuring a professional woman investigator, has exploded on the popular fiction market. Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones focus on this recent proliferation of women writers of detective fiction, providing the first book-length study of the historical and societal changes that fueled this popularity, along with insightful and entertaining readings of the texts themselves. Walton and Jones place the genre within its aesthetic, social, and economic contexts, reading it as an index of cultural beliefs. Addressing the ways that Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, and others work through the conventions of the "hard-boiled" genre made popular by writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, the authors show how the male hard-boiled tradition has been challenged and transformed. Issues of child, spousal, and sexual abuse are more likely to surface in women's detective novels, the authors show, and female sleuths face many of the same dilemmas as those who read about them—everyday problems with relationships, parenting, and money. Detective Agency also integrates interviews with authors and publishers, reader surveys, publication data, and analysis of internet discussion groups to present a fascinating picture of the "industry" of women's detective fiction. Authors of these works are powerful players in the publishing system as well as agents of cultural intervention, Walton and Jones claim. They conclude by examining the rise of female detectives in television and film.

Mystery Women

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458768368
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Mystery Women written by Colleen Barnett and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar- and Agatha-nominated author Colleen Barnett here updates her essential reference for readers and writers of mystery, examining women who detect, women as sleuths, and the evolving roles of women in professions and in society.

Mystery Women

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459612329
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Mystery Women written by Colleen A. Barnett and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1997 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mystery Women, Volume One (Revised)

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Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615950087
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book Mystery Women, Volume One (Revised) written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.

American Mystery and Detective Novels

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313003270
Total Pages : 297 pages
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Download or read book American Mystery and Detective Novels written by Larry Landrum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-05-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.

Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers

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Publisher : Chicago : St. James Press
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Total Pages : 1338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers written by Lesley Henderson and published by Chicago : St. James Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** Cited in Sheehy and BCL3. The foremost reference in the field, completely revised and updated, and now covering about 600 authors, mainly English-language writers whose work appeared during or since the time of Conan Doyle. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay. Living authors were invited to add a comment on their work; many of them accepted, and their remarks are both entertaining and enlightening. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Pious Deception

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453250557
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Pious Deception written by Susan Dunlap and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former medical examiner Kiernan O’Shaughnessy investigates a scandalous suicide in a Catholic church Quick-witted, precise, and comfortable with corpses, Kiernan O’Shaughnessy was perfectly suited to life as a medical examiner. In her four years with the coroner’s office, she never had one unhappy shift until the day they let her go. Enraged and adrift, she made her way to La Jolla, California, to set up a high-class private investigation service for medically suspicious deaths. She works only the cases she wants, and charges a steep enough fee that she can afford a cherry red Triumph and a former NFL player as a houseman. Her latest client is one of the biggest moneymakers on the planet: the Roman Catholic Church. A troubled young priest is found hanged in Mission San Leo in Phoenix, Arizona. Hoping to avoid scandal, the bishop bypasses the police, and hires Kiernan to determine whether the death was an accident or a suicide. They ask her to be quiet, but the secrets she uncovers will make her want to sing louder than any church choir. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection. Pious Deception is the 1st book in the Kiernan O'Shaughnessy Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Karma

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ISBN 13 : 145325045X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Karma written by Susan Dunlap and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVHard-nosed beat cop Jill Smith combs Berkeley for a Buddhist guru-killing cultist/div DIVIn Berkeley, California, Telegraph Avenue is the headquarters for the city’s strangest inhabitants. Cultists, drug addicts, and hippie burnouts wander its streets, looking to raise their consciousness or, if that fails, to just get high. And Jill Smith walks with them, a beat cop with her finger on the pulse of one of the most unique neighborhoods in America./divDIV /divDIVWith time on her hands after her divorce, Jill lets a friend drag her to hear the district’s hot new guru, a Buddhist holy man from Bhutan. As his disciples clap and cheer , Jill tries to keep from smirking. The guru finally draws her attention, however, when he slumps forward with a knife in his back. She calls for backup and cordons off the temple. Jill doesn’t care about karma, but she knows when justice is due. DIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection./div/div

Sudden Exposure

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453250530
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Sudden Exposure written by Susan Dunlap and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Olympic athlete finds her life in danger when she starts a feud with a ruthless gym owner Homicide detectives don’t chase streakers. So it shouldn’t be Jill Smith’s problem when Berkeley’s new public nudity ban stirs the spirit of the city’s exhibitionists, unleashing a horde of indignant flashers on the city streets. But department infighting has resulted in Jill being stripped of her gold detective badge and put back in uniform to pursue the naked radicals. She’s pursuing one of these au naturel miscreants though a patch of poison oak when she’s stopped by Bryn Wiley, Olympic diver, gym owner, and local hero. Bryn is in a feud with a rival fitness club, whose owner she suspects of shooting bullets through her car windows. Jill can’t help her—she has nudists to apprehend!—and so Bryn resolves to take matters into her own hands, holding a press conference where she calls her rival out. It’s a bold move, and may also be a foolish one. Her assailant’s next target will be something far more valuable than a car. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Time Expired

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ISBN 13 : 1453250522
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Time Expired written by Susan Dunlap and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVWhen a rash of pranks on the city’s meter maids turns deadly, Jill Smith isn’t amused /div DIVTwo witnesses see the man drag the old woman into a canyon while brandishing a rifle. As night falls, detective Jill Smith and the Berkeley police department set up a perimeter. The canyon is a hostage negotiator’s nightmare—dark, rough, and full of escape routes—and when she finally opens communication, the gunman doesn’t respond. Rather than wait for dawn, Jill leads her team into the darkness. At the bottom of the canyon they find a battered old mannequin and a box of stolen parking tickets. The entire incident was another skirmish in one man’s ongoing war to humiliate the city’s meter maids./divDIV /divDIVInterviewing the residents on the canyon’s lip, Jill meets Madeleine Riordan, retired attorney and legendary firebrand She seems to know something, but refuses to tell until the next day. When Jill returns, the woman has been murdered, and Jill suspects that the prankster may have lost his sense of humor. DIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection./div/div

Cop Out

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ISBN 13 : 1453250549
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Cop Out written by Susan Dunlap and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a PI vanishes and leaves a body in his office, it’s up to Jill Smith to pick up the pieces Jill knows something’s wrong with Herman Ott as soon as she sees him on the patio at the Claremont Hotel. A perpetually broke ex-hippie private investigator, Ott is known around town for owning a wardrobe of nothing but yellow second-hand clothes. Yet today he wears all black, and after asking Jill to meet him at Berkeley’s most elegant hotel, he clams up and refuses to explain why he needs to see her. Apologizing, he asks her to call him an hour later. Jill obliges, but Ott never answers his phone. And the next day, inside Ott’s office, she finds a body. Jill doesn’t know what kind of trouble Ott is in, but if she doesn’t find him soon, his notorious yellow suit may be marred with a dash of blood red. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Too Close to the Edge

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ISBN 13 : 1453250484
Total Pages : 333 pages
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Download or read book Too Close to the Edge written by Susan Dunlap and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn activist’s murder forces Jill to infiltrate Berkeley’s psychedelic underworld/div DIVA town as diverse as Berkeley, California, is never without controversy. This year the uproar is over the Rainbow Village, a hippie-occupied bayside lot that has degenerated into a drug-infested cesspool. As the city tries to eject the squatters, two Grateful Dead fans are murdered and a developer is assaulted. But for homicide detective Jill Smith, the conflict at the Village is only a nuisance until the violence gets personal./divDIV /divDIVWhile staking out a coffee shop, Jill sees Liz Goldenstern, a handicapped activist who has long been a thorn in the side of local business. Her wheelchair has broken down, and Jill offers to push her home. The next morning, Liz is found savagely murdered at the Village. To find her killer, Jill will have to remember that sometimes hippies are far from pacifists. DIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection./div/div