To recover his license, Drum must unlock the mystery of a professor's suicide. Duncan Hadley Lord seems too happy to kill himself. But then, he has no reason to sleep around, either. For three months the history professor has carried on an affair with a call girl, and for the last few weeks Chester Drum and his partner, rookie PI Jerry Trowbridge, have watched him do it. When Lord steps onto a fourth-story window ledge on Homecoming night, Drum gets through the police cordon just in time to watch the professor fall to earth. An embittered local sheriff, convinced that Drum and his partner were blackmailing the professor, has their license revoked. To salvage his business, Drum must find the real reason for Lord's suicide. He has tangled with politicians, thieves, and spies, but no detective can truly know treachery until he steps into the hallowed halls of a college campus. Review quote: "Hard-paced and vigorous." - The New York Times Book Review "Not only the best of the Chet Drums but for me his best crime novel period." - Ed Gorman, author of The Poker Club "A masterpiece of atmosphere, plot, and genuine anxiety." - Max Allan Collins, author of Road To Perdition Biographical note: Stephen Marlowe (1928-2008) was the author of more than fifty novels, including nearly two dozen featuring globe-trotting private eye Chester Drum. Born Milton Lesser, Marlowe was raised in Brooklyn and attended the College of William and Mary. After several years writing science fiction under his given name, he legally adopted his pen name, and began focusing on Chester Drum, the Washington-based detective who first appeared in The Second Longest Night (1955). Although a detective akin to Raymond Chandler's characters, Drum was distinguished by his jet-setting lifestyle, which carried him to various exotic locales from Mecca to South America. These espionage-tinged stories won Marlowe acclaim, and he produced more than one a year before ending the series in 1968. After spending the 1970s writing suspense novels like The Summit (1970) and The Cawthorn Journals (1975), Marlowe turned to scholarly historical fiction. He lived much of his life abroad, in Switzerland, Spain, and France, and died in Virginia in 2008.
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A repeat offender freshly sprung from prison tries to do the impossible: Stay out trouble. Peter Frangello hasn't spent three straight years out of jail since he was sixteen. Now past thirty, he's nearing parole when his prison block neighbor is burned alive in his cell, a vicious attack that was intended for Frangello himself. He spends his last week in protective custody, and when he is released back into the world he makes a resolution to stay clean - not for morality's sake, but because if he goes back inside, the next hit won't miss. But for a man whose only skills are stealing and doing time, staying out of trouble is not easy. As old associates and an army of crooked cops put pressure on him, Frangello will find that, inside or out, he's doomed to remain a prisoner for life.
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Egal, ob Sie ein gebürtiger Steirer oder nur im Herzen einer sind – der Entdeckerlaune sind keine Grenzen gesetzt, wenn man eine Grenze überquert und trotzdem in der Steiermark bleibt, auf dem Holzweg genau das Richtige findet, pirscht, ohne eine Büchse auch nur anzurühren, mit Skiern wie ein Weltmeister kurvt oder doch lieber in der „Mutter des Thermenbooms“ die Glieder wärmt. Die „Grüne Mark“ ist etwas ganz Besonderes für „Eingeborene“ wie Besucher – und das nicht nur in Zusammenhang mit dem UNESCO-Weltkulturerbe, wie 50 abwechslungsreiche Kurzporträts zeigen. Die Vielfalt des Steirerlandes hält Überraschendes und Unbekanntes ebenso bereit wie so manchen Insidertipp. Highlights: - Voll im Öl - Ein Besuch beim „Stein der Liebe“ - Jo, wir san mit’m Radl do - Ein Schluck Staatsvertragsbier - Im Lipizzaner-Kindergarten - Kreisfahren auf Steirisch
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Gene Stratton-Porter, the Indiana novelist and bird lover, offers the fruits of several years' loving labor in "Birds of the Bible”, a handsome volume. The riches of bird lore that Mrs. Porter has unearthed will surprise anyone who opens the book. "Birds of the Bible " is designed for all lovers of birds in general, and lovers of Bible birds and Bible poetry in particular. It contains every reference made to birds in the Bible: describes the location, and explains the characteristics of the bird. In this book, the author, one of the most successful writers of her days, both as a naturalist and a novelist, has made her greatest effort to do something worth while for the world, having given three years to the preparation of the text.
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<p><em>Nigdy nie myślałem, że zostanę gwiazdą rocka. Będąc w college’u, planowałem grać w futbol, następnie dostać się do drużyny ligi zawodowej i poślubić ukochaną z liceum, z którą wiódłbym długie i szczęśliwe życie.</em></p> <p><em>Informacją o wyjeździe złamałem serce nie tylko jej, ale i sobie. Byłem młody. Podjąłem tę decyzję, mając na względzie swoje a nie nasze dobro. Mimo że oddałem duszę muzyce, nie zapomniałem o zapachu czy uśmiechu tej dziewczyny.</em></p> <p><em>Po dekadzie wracam pełen nadziei, że uda mi się to wszystko wyprostować. Wciąż pragnę, aby była moja na zawsze.</em></p> <p><em> </em></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>O Autorce</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Heidi McLaughlin jest autorką bestsellerowych serii: „Beaumont”, „The Boys of Summer” i „The Archers”. </span>Jej powieści trafiają na listy bestsellerów „New York Timesa”, „Wall Street Journal” i „USA Today”. Pochodzi z północno-zachodniej części Stanów Zjednoczonych. Obecnie mieszka z mężem, dwiema córkami i trzema psami w malowniczym Vermont.</p> <p>W 2012 roku Heidi swoje zamiłowanie do czytania przekształciła w pełnoprawną karierę pisarską. Spod jej pióra wyszło ponad dwadzieścia powieści, w tym zdobywająca duże uznanie <em>Forever My Girl</em>. W chwilach wolnych od pisania Heidi można spotkać na trybunach boisk do koszykówki, z których kibicuje córkom.</p> <p>Pierwsza książka pisarki <em>Forever My Girl</em> doczekała się ekranizacji stworzonej przy współpracy z LD Entertainment i Roadside Attractions. Premiera filmu odbyła się 19 stycznia 2018 roku, a w rolę głównych bohaterów wcielili się Alex Roe i Jessica Rothe.</p>
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"Do not laugh," says Miss Ventnor, austerely; "there is nothing to laugh at. A dark and direful tragedy was enacted within the walls of that gloomy red farm-house—let me see—four—yes, nearly five years ago. Do you see that third window to the right, in the attic story? Well, a man was murdered—stabbed to death ...
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<p>Do you tell your dog to lay down or lie down? How do you respond to the question of "How are you?" Do you say good or well?</p> <br> <p>If these questions confuse you, imagine how tough it is for your kids. Don't worry about it anymore. Let Queen Shinobi teach them the proper way. She's been around a long, long time and she knows her stuff. </p> <br> <p>So invest a few bucks in your child's learning and let Queen Shinobi show them how to do it. </p>
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<p>An illustrated Slice of Life novel. Three lives entwine because of a subtle coincidence. A girl on the edge of society, an extremely rich weird kid and one of the most popular pop stars of the planet.<br>Fade lives a life left on her own, struggling constantly to survive in a society that swallows everyone who doesn’t keep up with its pace; her only company is a kitchen knife and a scar embedded in her leg that reminds her every day of who she is and why she is there. While she’s stealing in a supermarket, she meets Jag, a boy with a disturbing appearance who convinces her to join him in his weird plan: to become the main sponsor of one of the most successful bands of the moment, of which he’s a huge fan, and - apparently - he doesn’t lack the money to do so. She allows herself to be convinced to meet Nef, a typical playboy, who eventually will learn that the world isn’t all at his feet like he thought...<br>PUBLISHER: TEKTIME</p>
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