Murder on the Bluff
Author | : Esther Tyler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : Esther Tyler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : William Rawlings |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780881465525 |
A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff recounts the rise and fall of Georgia's rural population as told through the story of Charles Graves Rawlings. His life followed the fortunes of cotton-based agriculture and Georgia's small towns after the Civil War. From modest beginnings as a liveryman, Rawlings acquired nearly 40,000 acres of land, as well as a bank, a railroad, and diverse other businesses. By 1920, he was one of the state's wealthier men, with a loving wife and family, and powerful political connections. Five years later he was facing a life sentence for his role in the alleged murder of his first cousin, Gus Tarbutton. The growth of wealth in rural Georgia during the first two decades of the twentieth century was dramatic, as was the economic crash of the so-called Great Recession of 1920/1921. While the rest of the nation recovered rapidly, transitioning to the era of the Roaring Twenties, the rural South remained mired in social and financial despair. The forces that led to this economic whipsaw were multiple, including the loosening of credit and inflation that accompanied and followed World War I, the effective monetization of cotton as a commodity, the competition for labor from the industrialized North, and the bubble in cotton prices that burst in 1920. Although the boll weevil arrived in the state in 1915, it was only in 1921 that the pest began to severely affect the cotton crop. By then other economic forces were in play, relegating the role of the weevil to that of delivering a final blow to an already moribund economy. This is the story of rural Georgia that foreshadowed our own day, our own story. Book jacket.
Author | : Silver RavenWolf |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781567187274 |
At the foot of Hag's Head Mountain, four people discover the terrifying secrets that boil in a cauldron of local legend, including a monster that lusts after human souls.
Author | : Jane Stanton Hitchcock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-04-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781464210693 |
There has never been a better time for revenge. One-time socialite Maud Warner polishes up the rags of her once glittering existence and bluffs her way into a signature New York restaurant on a sunny October day. When she walks out again, a man will have been shot. Maud has grown accustomed to being underestimated and invisible, and she uses her ability to fly under the radar as she pursues celebrity accountant Burt Sklar, the man she believes stole her mother's fortune and left her family in ruins. Her fervent passion for poker has taught Maud that she can turn weakness into strength to take advantage of people who think they are taking advantage of her, and now she has dealt the first card in her high-stakes plan for revenge. One unexpected twist after another follows as Maud plays the most important poker hand of her life. The stakes? To take down her enemies and get justice for their victims. Her success depends on her continuing ability to bluff--and on who will fold. Can she win?
Author | : Dundee |
Publisher | : TSR |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780786906857 |
Author | : Carlene O'Connor |
Publisher | : Kensington Cozies |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1496719107 |
The luck of the Irish runs out for a professional poker player in this mystery set in County Cork that will “will leave cozy readers well satisfied” (Publishers Weekly). A poker tournament in the small village of Kilbane in County Cork is drawing players from across the country, but none more famous than Eamon Foley. A tinker out of Dublin, he’s called the Octopus for playing like he has eight hands under the table. But when Foley is found at the end of a rope, swinging from the rafters of Rory Mack’s pub, it’s time for the garda to take matters into their own hands. Detective Sargent Macdara Flannery would lay odds it’s a simple suicide—after all, there’s a note and the room was locked. But officer Siobhán O’Sullivan suspects foul play, as does Foley’s very pregnant widow. Soon it’s up to Siobhán to call a killer’s bluff, but if she doesn’t play her cards right, she may be the next one taken out of the game.
Author | : James Tate Hill |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393867188 |
A New York Times Editors' Choice A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2021 A writer’s humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight—and how he hid it from the world. At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. When high-school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for C’s in his classes, he tried to escape the stigma by pretending he could still see. In this unfailingly candid yet humorous memoir, Hill discloses the tricks he employed to pass for sighted, from displaying shelves of paperbacks he read on tape to arriving early on first dates so women would have to find him. He risked his life every time he crossed a street, doing his best to listen for approaching cars. A good memory and pop culture obsessions like Tom Cruise, Prince, and all things 1980s allowed him to steer conversations toward common experiences. For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, his blurry peripheral vision would bring the world into focus. At thirty, faced with a stalled writing career, a crumbling marriage, and a growing fear of leaving his apartment, he began to wonder if there was a better way.
Author | : Faye Kellerman |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2009-08-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 006190077X |
“A well-tangled web of intrigue and murder.” —Entertainment Weekly “Kellerman invariably rides high in the bestseller lists…Blindman’s Bluff shows why.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch One of the popular couples in contemporary crime fiction, LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina Lazarus are back in Blindman’s Bluff—and placed in harm’s way in the wake of a horrific home invasion and brutal multiple murder. Author Faye Kellerman, whose novels perennially live on the New York Times bestseller list, proves once again that “no one working in the crime genre is better” (Baltimore Sun) with this twisty, surprising shocker.
Author | : Jane O'Brien |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2015-10-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781515296140 |
The story of Kelsey Turner, a bride who is jilted on her wedding day. Kelsey answers an ad for an assistant in the Pinewood Bluff Resort, far away from her friends, family, and memories of the man who broke her heart. Her boss is the handsome, but sullen, Alex Bradford. Alex is overwhelmed with guilt over the death of the mother of his child. On a walk in the woods, Kelsey comes upon a body lying face down in the snow. Does Alex have a connection to the dead woman? Could he have been responsible for her death?
Author | : R.J. Lee |
Publisher | : Kensington Cozies |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1496731484 |
Bridge expert and investigative reporter Wendy Winchester knows a thing or two about navigating life along the Mississippi River, but murder isn’t something she foresees . . . Who could have predicted it? The daughter of Police Chief Bax Winchester married to a cop—Detective Ross Rierson. It’s a beautiful wedding, and the newlyweds are in bliss—even if they do have to postpone their Hawaiian honeymoon for now. In the meantime, Wendy is teaching a group of newbies the game of bridge so they can join the Rosalie Country Club Bridge Bunch. One of the newcomers, flamboyant psychic Aurelia Spangler, invites the group to meet at her new home. The historic Overview mansion sits atop the High Bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, and the local lore is that it’s possibly haunted, definitely cursed by the original builder, who fell down the stairs to his death. Unfortunately, the house is about to claim another life. Following a night of bridge practice and cold readings by their clairvoyant host, Aurelia is found dead in her home by Wendy, a suicide note and cocaine residue by her corpse. But Wendy, an investigative reporter for the Rosalie Citizen, doesn’t buy it. The scene seems phonier than Aurelia’s act, and now Wendy needs to call the bluff of a cold-blooded killer playing a psychic bid . . .