The Whistling Hangman

The Whistling Hangman
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9781504065603
ISBN-13 : 1504065603
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis The Whistling Hangman by : Baynard Kendrick

What seems like an unfortunate fall turns out to be far more disturbing, as a blind detective discovers, in this mystery from the author of The Last Express. Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex–intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City . . . Wealthy businessman Dryden Winslow spent over twenty years self-exiled in Australia, but he’s recently returned to the United States. He’s staying at Doncaster House, a luxury hotel in Manhattan, where he’s rented out six suites for himself and his estranged family. Given Winslow’s weakened heart has him on the verge of death, the hotel staff are on high alert, knowing he could drop at any moment. Of course, no one expects him to drop from his balcony . . . Captain Maclain is playing chess with the hotel manager when a startled housekeeper reports her account of Winslow’s accident, claiming she heard whistling before the fall. Stranger yet, when Maclain examines the body, he declares Winslow was hanged. Now, with his seeing eye dog at his side and a hotel full of secrets, Maclain sets out to prove his case. It’s a lofty goal and, with a lunatic killer still roaming the hotel, a dangerous one too. Baynard Kendrick was the first American to enlist in the Canadian Army during World War I. While in London, he met a blind English soldier whose observational skills inspired the character of Capt. Duncan Maclain. Kendrick was also a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America and winner of the organization’s Grand Master Award.

The Dark Monk

The Dark Monk
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 513
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ISBN-10 : 9780547807683
ISBN-13 : 0547807686
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dark Monk by : Oliver Pötzsch

Picking up where international bestseller "The Hangman's Daughter" left off, the highly anticipated sequel about a dark legacy of the Knights Templar.

Animal Stories

Animal Stories
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9780816670321
ISBN-13 : 0816670323
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Animal Stories by : Susan McHugh

How cross-species companionship is figured across a variety of media--and why it matters.

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
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Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Total Pages : 369
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307374721
ISBN-13 : 0307374726
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by : Alan Bradley

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce didn’t intend to investigate another murder — but then, Rupert Porson didn’t intend to die. When the master puppeteer’s van breaks down in the village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is front and centre to help Rupert and his charming assistant, Nialla, put together a performance in the local church to help pay the repair bill. But even as the newcomers set up camp and set the stage for Jack and the Beanstalk, there are signs that something just isn’t right: Nialla’s strange bruises and solitary cries in the churchyard, Rupert’s unexplained disappearances and a violent argument with his BBC producer, the disturbing atmosphere at Culverhouse Farm, and the peculiar goings-on in nearby Gibbet Wood — where young Robin Ingleby was found hanging just five years before. It’s enough to set Flavia’s detective instincts tingling and her chemistry lab humming. What are Rupert and Nialla trying to hide? Why are Grace and Gordon Ingleby, Robin’s still-grieving parents, acting so strangely? And what does Mad Meg mean when she says the Devil has come back to Gibbet Wood? Then it’s showtime for Porson’s Puppets at St. Tancred’s — but as Nialla plays Mother Goose, Rupert’s goose gets cooked as the victim of an electrocution that is too perfectly planned to be an accident. Someone had set the stage for murder. Putting down her sister-punishing experiments and picking up her trusty bicycle, Gladys, Flavia uncovers long-buried secrets of Bishop’s Lacey, the seemingly idyllic village that is nevertheless home to a madwoman living in its woods, a prisoner-of-war with a soft spot for the English countryside, and two childless parents with a devastating secret. While the local police do their best to keep up with Flavia in solving Rupert’s murder, his killer may pull Flavia in way over her head, to a startling discovery that reveals the chemical composition of vengeance.

The Hangman's Replacement

The Hangman's Replacement
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Publisher : Chiveneko Publishing Inc
Total Pages : 490
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780991852406
ISBN-13 : 0991852400
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Hangman's Replacement by : Taona D. Chiveneko

If you had to interview the candidates for a country's new hangman, what questions would you ask them? If your family was on the verge of starvation, and becoming a hangman was the only job available, would you apply? If you were hired, what would you do if the prisoners looked like your loved ones? If you knew that another good man was taking the job out of desperation, would you do anything to prevent him from getting it? What if that man's recruitment would somehow guarantee your own survival, would you encourage his candidacy? All these questions were asked of people who never thought they would find themselves in such a position, until they became mired in the chaos surrounding the hangman's replacement.

W.A.R.P. Book 2: The Hangman's Revolution

W.A.R.P. Book 2: The Hangman's Revolution
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Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages : 351
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781423187967
ISBN-13 : 1423187962
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis W.A.R.P. Book 2: The Hangman's Revolution by : Eoin Colfer

Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a Facsist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror. Chevie's memories come back to her in fragments, and just as she is learning about the WARP program from Professor Charles Smart, inventor of the time machine, he is killed by secret service police. Now they are after Chevie, too, but she escapes--into the past. She finds Riley, who is being pursued by futuristic soldiers, and saves him. Working together again, it is up to Chevie and Riley to find the enigmatic Colonel Clayton Box, who is intent on escalating his power, and stop him before he can launch missiles at the capitals of Europe.

Hangman's Creek / Jury of Six

Hangman's Creek / Jury of Six
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 499
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780312947804
ISBN-13 : 0312947801
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Hangman's Creek / Jury of Six by : Matt Braun

Luke Starbuck poses as an outlaw in order to infiltrate a dangerous gang of cattle rustlers.

Hangman's House

Hangman's House
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 506
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015019131898
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Hangman's House by : Donn Byrne

Hangman's Creek

Hangman's Creek
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 260
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0312981759
ISBN-13 : 9780312981754
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Hangman's Creek by : Matt Braun

Luke Starbuck poses as an outlaw in order to infiltrate a dangerous gang of cattle rustlers.

The Hangman's Whip

The Hangman's Whip
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 278
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781453257289
ISBN-13 : 1453257284
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Hangman's Whip by : Mignon G. Eberhart

DIVA Chicago socialite braves death to save her beloved from the gallows/divDIV/divDIVSearch Abbott is high over Chicago when Howland proposes marriage, but her heart is far away. Since childhood she has loved Richard Bohan, and her passion has not dimmed in the three years since he made the mistake of marrying Eve. Howland has few kind words for Richard, but Search’s heart cannot be moved. She declines him, and leaves to visit her Aunt Ludmilla, a kindly old woman who claims she is being poisoned./divDIV /divDIVShe finds Richard staying at Ludmilla’s estate, and all her old feelings come rushing forth. His marriage is finished, he says, as he takes Search in his arms. But joy is fleeting—Eve will never let him go. Search’s hatred for her rival evaporates the moment she finds Eve dangling from a hangman’s noose. The woman was murdered, and the police are going to take Richard away./div