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By:David Kocieniewski
Published on 2004-08 by Elsevier
ISBN 9780805076950
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Traces the efforts of NYPD detective Vincent Armanti to infiltrate the mafia family responsible for a fireman's death, during which he discovered that those he was investigating had access to classified police information.
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By:Rick DeDonato
Published on 2015-03-31 by Amazon Children's Publishing
ISBN 9781477826300
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When Pipsie's new friend Frannie the caterpillar goes missing, Pipsie puts on her detective cap and goes searching for clues.
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By:David Paige
Published on 1981-04-01 by Troll Communications Llc
ISBN 9780893754426
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A police homicide detective carries out such daily duties as examining evidence, investigating a fire, appearing in court, and arresting a suspect.
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By:Christopher Pittard
Published on 2011 by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 9781409432890
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Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fiction in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. Situating his discussion within the context of Victorian periodicals, advertisements, medical explorations of criminality and social protest movements, Pittard challenges histories of fin-de-si cle detective fiction that have obscured the heterogeneity of this popular form.|
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By:Peter Lovesey
Published on 2000 by Soho Press
ISBN 9781569472095
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Challenged by departmental red tape and a dearth of clues, British detective Peter Diamond must solve the murder of a down-on-her-luck soap opera actress, who was found floating face down in a reservoir. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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By:Jonathan Lethem
Published on 2017-09-05 by Vintage
ISBN 9781101873670
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Alexander Bruno travels the world playing high stakes backgammon and hunting for amateur |whales| who think they can challenge him. Lately he's had a run of bad luck, not helped by the blot that has emerged in his field of vision, forcing him to look at the board sideways. As the blot grows larger, his game worsens, until he passes out in the middle of a match and receives an alarming diagnosis. Out of money and out of friends, he turns to the only person who can help and the last person he wants to see: a high-rolling former childhood acquaintance who agrees to pay for Bruno's experimental surgery in Berkeley. But Berkeley is the place where Bruno discovered his psychic gift and where he vowed never to return. There, forced to confront patchouli flashbacks and his uncertain future, Bruno confronts two existential questions: Is the gambler being played by life? And what if you're telepathic, but it doesn't do you any good?
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By:Teresa Driscoll
Published on 2017-10 by Thomas & Mercer
ISBN 9781542046596
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When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls - beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard - has disappeared. A year later, Anna is still missing. Ella is wracked with guilt over what she failed to do, and she's not the only one who can't forget
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Published on 2014 by Candlewick Press
ISBN 9780763660512
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A sequel to Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made finds Timmy preparing to crack the biggest case of his generation during a school competition to find a stolen globe and win a $500 prize, an effort he pursues with the dubious help of his lazy polar bear partner and his eccentric Great-Aunt Colander.
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By:C. H. Simpson
Published on 2005-05-01 by Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 9781417925643
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1910. The book begins: The tenth of March! cried Charley Shipton, a young detective, who had just been notified that he was to have a summer's vacation beginning upon the tenth of March. Glad news was this for the young fellow; for he had been working hard and faithfully for the last two years and deserved, if only one did, a recognition of his faithful services. Happy and light hearted was Charley Shipton when the welcome and long looked for tidings were received.
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By:A. G. Cairns-Smith
Published on 1990-09-13 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521398282
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This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a case to crack it. This approach to the essential biological problems is not merely light-hearted, but a fascinating scrutiny of some very fundamental questions. 'I know of no other book that succeeds as well as this one in maintaining the central question in focus throughout. It is a summary of the best evolutionary thinking as applied to the origins of life in which the important issues are addressed pertinently, economically and with a happy recourse to creative analogies.' Nature '... a splendid story - and a much more convincing one than the molecular biologists can offer as an alternative. Cairns-Smith has argued his case before in the technical scientific literature, here he sets it out in a way from which anyone - even those whose chemistry and biology stopped at sixteen - can learn.' New Statesman
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By:James Lardner
Published on 1996 by Random House Incorporated
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Chronicles the career of a police officer whose work with Frank Serpico against police corruption brought about the Knapp Commission investigation
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By:Kathleen Gregory Klein
Published on 1995-01-01 by University of Illinois Press
ISBN 9780252064630
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Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.
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By:Raj Haldar,Chris Carpenter
Published on 2018-11-06 by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
ISBN 9781492674313
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From wacky words to peculiar pronunciations, get kids excited about language with this unconventional alphabet book from Raj Haldar (aka Lushlife) Turning the traditional idea of an alphabet book on its head, P is for Pterodactyl is perfect for anyone who has ever been stumped by silent letters or confused by absurd homophones. This whimsical, unique book takes silent letter entries like |K is for Knight| a step further with |The noble knight's knife nicked the knave's knee.| Lively illustrations provide context clues, and alliterative words help readers navigate text like |a bright white gnat is gnawing on my gnocchi| with ease. Everyone from early learners to grown-up grammarians will love this wacky book where |A is for Aisle| but |Y is definitely not for Why.|
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By:R. F. Stewart
Published on 1980 by David & Charles Publishers
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By:Lassiter Wren,Randle McKay
Published on 2006-10-01 by David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 9781567923193
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If you revel in the sport of armchair criminal investigation, The Baffle Book is just your cup of poisoned orange pekoe. Here are fifteen old-fashioned but wonderfully challenging |detective puzzles,| the unraveling of which requires you to develop your latent powers of observation and deduction ? |those qualities of mind,| the authors argue, |which make the solution of the most inscrutable mysteries a veritable pleasure.|In words, charts, and diagrams, Messrs. Wren and McKay put you at the crime scene and present you with the facts established by the police. What do you observe? Which are the telltale clues? What do you deduce? And how will you answer the questions posed at the end of each problem: |Who stole the emerald?| |Where did the gang plan to meet?| |In what city had the amnesia victim once worked?| Each question is scored to a degree of difficulty, with a perfect score of ten points per puzzle. And if you find you are stumped, you can turn to the back of the book, where the answers are printed (but upside-down, to deter you from giving up too easily). Don't cheat: you'll only spoil the fun.In such puzzle-stories as |The Evidence on the Japanned Box,| |The Toledo Death Threat,| and |The Huppheimer Museum Robbery,| Wren and McKay sparked a craze for |ten-minute mysteries| that spread through the American pulp-detective magazines of the late 1920s. These are the granddaddies ? and perhaps the most perfect examples ? of this venerable puzzle genre.
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By:Wong Herbert Yee
Published on 2007 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 9780618472857
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When shop owners call on Detective Small to track down a banana thief, he follows the clues to a likely suspect, then learns that the real culprit is still on the loose.
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By:Patricia D. Maida
Published on 1989-01-01 by Popular Press
ISBN 9780879724450
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When The Leavenworth Case, Anna Katharine Green's first novel, was published in 1878, it quickly became a bestseller as well as a seminal work of detective fiction. Critics were to perceive Green's work as the link to Edgar Allan Poe in the American line of classic detective fiction. But the development of serial detectives is perhaps her greatest achievement. (Ebenezer Gryce of the New York Metropolitan Police, who makes his first appearance in 1878, precedes Sherlock Holmes by almost a decade.) In examining the life and works of Anna Katharine Green, one discovers a slice of American life: in the social events of New York City, in the plight of young working women, in the moral dilemmas of upright citizens pursuing the American dream.
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By:Michael P. Oakes
Published on 2014-05-15 by John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 9789027270139
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Computational linguistics can be used to uncover mysteries in text which are not always obvious to visual inspection. For example, the computer analysis of writing style can show who might be the true author of a text in cases of disputed authorship or suspected plagiarism. The theoretical background to authorship attribution is presented in a step by step manner, and comprehensive reviews of the field are given in two specialist areas, the writings of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the various writing styles seen in religious texts. The final chapter looks at the progress computers have made in the decipherment of lost languages. This book is written for students and researchers of general linguistics, computational and corpus linguistics, and computer forensics. It will inspire future researchers to study these topics for themselves, and gives sufficient details of the methods and resources to get them started.
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By:Jordan Stratford
Published on 2016-01-26 by Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 9780385754460
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This history-mystery series continues with another fine display of brains and bravery from the Wollstonecraft Girls—Ada Bryon Lovelace and Mary Shelley. Inspired fun for middle grade readers and fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society and Lemony Snicket! The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency was supposed to be a secret constabulary, but after the success of their first case, all of London knows that Lady Ada and Mary are the girls to go to if you have a problem. Their new case is a puzzle indeed. It involves a horrible hospital, a missing will, a hasty engagement, and a suspiciously slippery servant. But Mary’s stumbled onto a mystery of her own. She spotted a ghostly girl in a grey gown dashing through the park. A girl who is the spitting image of their new client. The two cases must be linked . . . or else there’s a perfectly supernatural explanation.
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By:Carolyn Webster-Stratton
Published on 1998 by
ISBN 9781892222015
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By:Diana Cooper-Clark
Published on 1983 by Popular Pr of Bowling Green State
ISBN 9780879722234
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By:Bill Pronzini
Published on 2015-06-23 by Forge Books
ISBN 9781466825239
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When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter. Kenneth has fled San Francisco in a drug-induced panic to avoid trial on a charge of stealing a valuable necklace from the alcoholic wife of the man for whom he works, wealthy yachtsman Andrew Vorhees. When agency operative Jake Runyon locates and questions the frightened young man, Cory Beckett's motives come into question and the case takes on darkly sinister complexities. Cory lied to Nameless about her livelihood, her relationship with Vorhees, her brother's alleged drug use, and the nature of his alleged crime. Not only is she Andrew Vorhees' mistress, Cory has a secret second lover, factory owner Frank Chaleen, with whom she conspired to frame Kenneth. This bizarre sibling betrayal is part of a diabolical plan that reveals her to be a deadly, designing woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her warped desires. A series of twists and turns drive the story to a truly shocking climax. For not until then do the detectives realize how devilish Cory Beckett really is, a femme fatale who has brought something new to the species—new, and terrible. Bill Pronzini's Vixen is the latest in the Nameless Detective series, the longest-running P.I. series currently in print. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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By:Stephen Bowkett,David Burroughs
Published on 2007-09-01 by Capstone
ISBN 9781598898262
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TV detective Roy Kane tries to solve the mystery when the priceless Kay-To-Bah Diamond is stolen from the city's museum.
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By:Octavia Spencer
Published on 2013-10-15 by Simon and Schuster
ISBN 9781442476837
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Meet Randi Rhodes, the world’s first ninja detective! Mystery abounds in this “assured, entertaining whodunit” (Publishers Weekly), a 2014 IndieNext pick and the first in a new middle grade series from Academy Award–winning actress Octavia Spencer. Deer Creek is a small town whose only hope for survival is the success of their Founder’s Day Festival. But the festival’s main attraction, a time capsule that many people believe hold the town’s treasure, has gone missing. Twelve-year-old Randi Rhodes and her best friend, D.C., are Bruce Lee–inspired ninjas and local detectives determined to solve the case. Even if it means investigating a haunted cabin and facing mean old Angus McCarthy, prime suspect. They have three days to find the treasure…the future of their whole town is at stake! Will these kids be able to save the day?
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By:Philip Kerr
Published on 2018-04-03 by Penguin
ISBN 9780698413146
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A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series. Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages |Christoph Ganz| to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece. Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war. Witzel's claimed losses are large , and, even worse, they may be the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. But when Bernie tries to confront Witzel, he finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a corpse in his place. Enter Lieutenant Leventis, who recognizes in this case the highly grotesque style of a killer he investigated during the height of the war. Back then, a young Leventis suspected an S.S. officer whose connection to the German government made him untouchable. He's kept that man's name in his memory all these years, waiting for his second chance at justice... Working together, Leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases--new and old--to bed. But there's a much more sinister truth to acknowledge: A killer has returned to Athens...one who may have never left.
