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Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The stakes couldn't be any higher. Stephen Parkes, a former Airborne Ranger and law school graduate, has been charged with a brutal crime. A career prosecutor has made him an offer of thirty years in prison in return for a guilty plea. He has a hanging judge and his own public defender wants him to die in prison. The circumstances have never been more grim!
So, he decides to take matters into his own hands. He drops more than eight feet into a noose....
2) Key Witness
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After witnessing an armed robbery, a woman in danger needs a bodyguard's protection in this suspenseful romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Christy Barritt, part of The Security Experts series. When Elle Philips witnesses an armed robbery while standing in line at the bank, she sets into motion a deadly game of cat and mouse. Mark Denton, a security contractor and former Navy SEAL, also witnesses the robbery, and is hired by Elle's father to...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over £40 million today) has never been recovered, and there has not been a single year since 1963 when one aspect of the crime or its participants has not been featured in the media. Despite the wealth and extent of this coverage, a host of questions have remained unanswered: Who was behind the robbery? Was it an inside...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In December 1910, an armed gang of Latvian revolutionaries attempted to rob a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch, in the City of London. In their escape, they killed three policemen and crippled another two. After a manhunt of nearly three weeks, police were tipped off by an informant that two of the gang were hiding in a house in Sidney Street, in London's East End. So began the siege and a gun-battle involving both the police and the army, and more...
5) Body Heat
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lori Foster turns up the heat in this sizzling fan-favorite tale, available for the first time as a standalone ebook! The last person Melanie Tucker wants to find herself trapped with on a party boat is her nemesis, Adam Stone. As always, he's too smooth ... and a bit too sexy for comfort. But when they both fall overboard -- and wind up stranded together -- Melanie just can't resist all the delicious body heat smoldering between them ... Originally...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Why is the highwayman largely perceived as a romantic, glamorous, and gallant figure? How is it that men who were really nothing more than bandits, who were often gratuitously violent, sometimes murderers and rapists as well, have become the swashbuckling heroes of history? To put their roles in context, the book probes into the economic, social, and technological factors that at certain times made highway robbery highly lucrative and which help to...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Mistaken identity and intrigue abound in this classic mystery tale In the midst of a high-society masquerade ball, someone pulls off a daring heist. Several gold plates have been stolen, their value estimated at $15,000. Even more shocking is the fact that the crime seems to have been committed by a guest attired as a burglar, the costume complete with a loaded revolver! Hiding in plain sight, the thief escapes with his loot and drives off with his...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A riveting and frequently hilarious insider account of one of the twentieth century's most outrageous capers. On the evening of January 17, 1950, armed robbers wearing Captain Marvel masks entered the Brink's Armored Car building in Boston, Massachusetts. They walked out less than an hour later with more than $2.7 million in cash and securities. It was a brazen and expertly executed theft that captured the imaginations of millions of Americans...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The fur starts flying when a gang from L.A. comes up to tranquil Molena Point, California, and begins breaking into the village's quaint shops. The fur of Joe Grey, Feline P.I., that is. After all, Molena Point has been his home since he was a kitten eating scraps from the garbage behind the local delicatessen, and he doesn't take well to marauding strangers. Joe even wonders whether the blonde who's moved into next to his human companion Clyde could...
10) Unseelie
Author
Series
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An autistic changeling trying to navigate her unpredictable magic, Seelie finds it difficult to fit in with the humans around her, unlike her twin sister, until they both get caught up in a heist gone wrong that changes everything"--
11) Undercover Bride
Author
Series
Undercover ladies volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Pinkerton detective Maggie Cartwright is tasked with going undercover as a mail-order bride. Her "fiance" is widower Garrett Thomas, aka the suspected Whistle-Stop Bandit. No sooner does Maggie arrive in Arizona Territory when she's confronted with an early wedding date--the clock is ticking on her detective work or she may end up a criminal's wife! Garrett Thomas is immediately smitten with the blue-eyed beauty and feels the need to protect her--especially...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The shocking true story of a diamond theft gone wrong offers a fascinating glimpse at the cultural currents of 1930s London. In December 1937, four young men, all products of elite English schools, lured a Cartier diamond salesman to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel. There, the "Mayfair men" brutally bludgeoned the man and made off with eight rings that today would be worth approximately half a million pounds. The press had a field day with the story,...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Edgar Award nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery The book is about, among other things: the strongest boy in the world, a talking cockatoo, a faulty mind reader, a beautiful bearded lady and a nervous magician, an old museum, and a shrunken head. Blessed with extraordinary abilities, orphans Philippa, Sam, and Thomas have grown up happily in Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders. But when a fourth child, Max, a knife-thrower, joins...
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