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Pickax's favorite columnist,
James Qwilleran, is enjoying a
brief holiday in the nearby town
of Black Creek - but his two
Siamese, who prefer the
spaciousness of their home, beg to differ. The blissful tranquility
is soon interrupted by the
discovery of a body floating
down the creek. And a possible
motive for his murder is
suggested when several gold nuggets are found in his
possession. Might he have been
illegally prospecting for gold? If
so, it seems he wasn't the only
one in search of an easy fortune.
And his competitor is far more determined to strike it rich...<
The good people of Moose
County are in a fever of
excitement. It's almost time for
the gala groundbreaking of the
Pickax bookstore - and the
town of Brrr is preparing for its bicentennial celebration. All the
festivities, however; are spoiled
by the discovery of a man's
body on James Qwilleran's
property. Could it be the work
of a killer who used the same MO in northern Michigan? To
solve the case, Qwill and his
feline pals, Koko and Yum Yum,
will have to prick up their ears
and determine who committed
this fowl deed.<
A twenty-ninth installment of
the popular series finds Moose
County in an uproar over a
string of lucrative inheritances
and a bee sting-related death,
throughout which Polly departs for Paris, Koko the irrepressible
Siamese meets a piano tuner,
and Qwill writes a play.<
The New York Times bestselling
author of the Cat Who mysteries
presents a fantastic collection of
feline fiction which includes
fourteen short stories about
kitties who just can’t keep their whiskers out of trouble...
Filled with furballs like a
courageous Siamese who bags a
cunning cat burglar, a country
kitty who proves a stumbling
block in a violent murder, and an intuitive feline whose
premonition helps solve the
case of the missing antiques
dealer, this collection will
delight cat lovers and mystery
aficionados alike! This Collection Includes: Phut
Phat Concentrates • Weekend of
the Big Puddle • The Fluppie
Phenomenon • The Hero of
Drummond Street • The Mad
Museum Mouser • The Dark One • East Side Story • Tipsy and the
Board of Health • A Cat Named
Conscience • SuSu and the 8:30
Ghost • Stanley and Spook • A
Cat Too Small for His Whiskers •
The Sin of Madame Phloi • Tragedy on New Year’s Eve<
Instead of a proper second honeymoon, the newly remarried Harry and Fair Haristeen leave cozy Crozet, Virginia, for Shelbyville, Kentucky, site of the famous saddlebred horse show. There they'll visit dear friends Joan Hamilton and Larry Hodge and enjoy a week among some of the finest horses, trainers, and riders in the country.
But soon after they arrive, events veer mysteriously-and murderously-off course. First, Joan's ruby and sapphire horsehead heirloom pin is stolen from her private box at the fairgrounds. Next, a young film star's prize three-gaited mare disappears into thin air. There is no lack of suspects, from hotheaded trainers and jealous rivals to vicious ex-spouses. Then a body is found flagrantly murdered and it's obvious to Harry that someone at Shelbyville is sending a strong message: winning is only secondary-first prize is survival.
As Harry searches for clues, rediscovers life as a married woman, and deals with her upcoming fortieth birthday, her four-legged detective friends are already on the case. But is animal instinct any match for human depravity? Especially with two humans to protect and a killer on the prowl?<
It's autumn in cozy, idyllic
Crozet, Virginia—a time for
golden days, crisp nights…and
murder. Mrs. Carla Paulson is
one of the diamond-encrusted
“come-here” set who has descended on Crozet with
plenty of wealth and no feeling
for country ways. She's
determined to make her new
house the envy of all her well-
heeled friends—and enemies — and she's hired architect Tazio
Chappers to build it. From the
start, the project—and Mrs.
Paulson—are a major headache
for all involved. But no one could
foresee that it would end with Mrs. Paulson stabbed to death at
a gala fund-raiser with Harry's
friend Tazio standing over her,
holding the knife. Now Harry
must solve what seems to
everyone else an open-and-shut case. Her four-legged partners
—sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy
and Pewter and corgi Tee
Tucker—see it Harry's way. But
will they have to choose
between catching the purrfect killer and saving Harry?<
Bestselling authors Rita Mae
Brown and her feline partner,
Sneaky Pie Brown, are back for
the holidays in a mystery
featuring Mary Minor “Harry”
Haristeen, the sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and
corgi Tee Tucker. Can they save
the season from a killjoy who’s
decided to gift the festive little
town…with murder?
As Harry well knows, there’s hardly a place on earth cozier
than Crozet, Virginia, at
Christmastime. The snowflakes
drifting lazily down, the soft
glow of the winter light, the
sound of old carols in the streets…even cats Mrs. Murphy
and Pewter get into the spirit
batting ornaments and climbing
the holiday tree. In fact, it’s this
year’s tree that Harry and her
husband, Fair, have gone to fetch when they find the one
they’ve chosen grimly decorated
with a dead body.
The tree farm is run by The
Brothers of Love, a
semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients. The
brothers live in a monastery
atop the scenic Blue Ridge
Mountains. Harry is surprised to
find an old high-school friend
associated with The Brothers of Love. Christopher Hewitt wasn’t
a bad man, but good works
weren’t exactly one of his
priorities. But then, if even
Scrooge could turn over a new
leaf, certainly Chris could. And after the scandal that all but
destroyed his life, there were
probably few in Crozet who
needed the gift of a second
chance more.
Harry knows she shouldn’t take it personally, but it was her tree
that someone left the corpse
under. Now, as the season
grows merrier, a murderer is
growing bolder. One by one,
prominent men of Crozet are being crossed off Christmas
shopping lists and added to the
morgue. And if Harry and her
four-legged helpers aren’t very
good—and very careful—this
Christmas may be her last.<
A sobering account of conflict on the Eastern Front of World War II told from the perspective of a Russian soldier.
Honest and irrepressibly frank, these are the dramatic memoirs of a Russian officer on the Eastern Front, where he played his part in a clash of titans and witnessed the shuddering collapse of the Third Reich.
The cataclysmic battle of Kursk in 1943 put an end to Hitler’s hopes of victory on the Eastern Front, and it was Evgeni Bessonov’s first battle. From then on the Germans were forced into a long, bitter retreat that ended in the ruins of Berlin in 1945. An officer in an elite guards unit of the Red Army, Bessonov rode tanks from Kursk, through a western Russia and Poland devastated by the Germans, and right into the heart of Nazi Germany.
Tank Rider is the riveting memoir of Evgeni Bessonov telling of his years of service at the vanguard of the Red Army and daily encounters with the German foe. He brings large-scale battles to life, recounts the sniping and skirmishing that tried and tested soldiers on both sides, and narrates the overwhelming tragedy and horror of apocalyptic warfare on the Eastern Front.
So much of the Soviet experience of World War II remains untold, but this memoir provides an important glimpse into some of the most decisive moments of this overlooked history.<
Beloved authors Rita Mae Brown
and her feline co-conspirator,
Sneaky Pie Brown, sow the
seeds of an all-new mystery
featuring Mary Minor "Harry"
Haristeen, sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and that
incorrigible corgi Tee Tucker.
This time around, the onset of
spring ushers in more than hay
fever as the animal friends must
come to the aid of an ailing Harry to sniff out the season's
first blossom of murder. Ah,
spring! The redbuds open, the
robins return, and the days
lengthen. People's spirits lift--as
do those of their animal companions. As a wave of tilling
and planting sweeps over
Crozet, Virginia, Harry is
especially excited: This year is
her first harvesting grapes to
sell. But then a health crisis sends her reeling into the
forbidding world of hospitals
and doctors, treatments and
procedures. Surviving this
journey will be tough, but Mrs.
Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker will do their best to steer Harry in
the right direction--as will her
ever-helpful husband, Fair.
Others will have worse luck: An
especially promising nurse's
lifeless body is discovered without a mark on her. Then
another hospital employee, who
had seemed in perfect health, is
also found dead. It's clear
there's a mystery afoot--and
that's one thing Harry and her menagerie can't keep their
noses out of.<
To celebrate the twentieth
anniversary of the beloved Mrs.
Murphy mystery series, Rita Mae
Brown and her intrepid feline
co-author Sneaky Pie Brown
return with a charming claw- biting tale starring Mary Minor
“Harry” Haristeen. Of course
prowling faithfully at Harry’s
side are the sleuthing cats Mrs.
Murphy, ever wise, and Pewter,
reliably cranky and always primed with a razor-sharp quip.
Fiercely loyal and on the alert,
corgi Tee Tucker is also never far
behind. This time, Harry and her
menagerie throw a wrench into
the gears of a killer of grease monkeys.
It’s mid-May, and Crozet,
Virginia, is heating up fast, or so
it seems to Harry. The town’s
beloved ex–post mistress is
never idle, dividing her time between raising this year’s
bounty of crops; taking care of
her veterinarian husband, Fair;
indulging her passion for classic
cars; and adding further to her
reputation as a nosy neighbor. It starts when Harry’s dear
friend Miranda Hogendobber
takes her on a leisurely drive
that ends in a narrow drainage
ditch. The chaos continues when
the Very Reverend Herbert Jones’s Chevy pick-up also
abruptly goes kaput. But these
vehicular mishaps are nothing
compared to the much more
distressing state of a mechanic
discovered by Harry in a local repair shop: His head’s been
bashed in.
Despite numerous warnings
from her much-loved coterie of
friends, human and otherwise,
Harry rather quickly surmises that the time has come to pop
the hood and conduct her own
investigation. Her animal
companions see disaster fast
approaching but can do little
except try their best to protect their foolishly intrepid human.
Harry’s race to the truth leads
straight to powerful forces
determined to avoid scrutiny at
any cost—even if it means
running Harry Haristeen off the road for good.<
In a futuristic, fascistic Rome, a brilliant, unstable scientist proves that she can transcend the human body’s limitations. The test subject? Her own daughter. A mother-daughter mad scientist story, THE DESTROYER asks how far we’ll go to secure our own legacies—and how far we’ll run to escape them.<
Finally, a candidate representing all Americans—both predator and prey!
Tired of politics as usual? Despair not: This election year, Rita Mae Brown has thrown her cat into the ring. Her intrepid feline co-author, Sneaky Pie Brown, is taking time off from her busy schedule writing bestselling mysteries to run for President of the United States.
Hail to the Chief: Sneaky Pie heads to the Oval Office with an animal-friendly agenda to unify all Americans—regardless of whether they walk on two or four feet or even if they fly.
With help from her friends—the irascible gray cat Pewter, the wise Corgi Tee Tucker, and Tally, the exuberant Jack Russell—Sneaky crisscrosses her home state of Virginia hoping to go where no cat since Socks Clinton has gone: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In the tradition of her heroine, Sojourner Truth, she takes her case to the masses. Journeying from the lair of the red-shouldered hawk to the nest of the tufted titmouse, from a pasture full of curmudgeonly cows to the stately halls of Monticello, the tenacious tiger cat even secures the chattering support of Thomas Jefferson’s mice.
Mice backing a cat for president? Yes, we can!
Now, if Sneaky can get the animal community to band together for the common good, why not the humans? After all, who better to get the economy purring again than an honest tabby with authentic political stripes? Human candidates have had their chance in Washington, with dubious results of late: nowhere does it say in the Constitution that the president cannot be a cat.
Isn’t it time for real change? Vote Sneaky!<
Autumn has descended and crops are being harvested all over Crozet, Virginia, ideal conditions for a scenic drive for Harry and husband Fair. Bucolic views are all well and good, but Harry’s nose for trouble leads her straight to a cornfield’s macabre scarecrow—an all too real murder victim that frightens all but the noisy crows.
This accountant’s gruesome death is only the first of many disturbing events in this normally pastoral corner of the world. While Harry tends her beloved grapes and sunflowers, a killer edges closer—as does Harry’s protective menagerie of animals.
Halloween’s approach brings with it bona fide terror and a beloved local tradition that threatens to become fatal. Rooting out the guilty in the treacherous center of a lucrative conspiracy requires Harry’s farmer’s wisdom—along with the quick wits and extraordinary senses of Sneaky Pie, Pewter, and Tucker. A vicious murderer may know the lay of the land far better than Harry does, but that’s about to change. It’s up to her vigilant four-footed companions to make sure that the unearthing of this plot is not Harry’s last act.<
Winter has come to Crozet, Virginia, bringing with it a fresh blanket of snow. Harry and her husband, Fair, are hip deep in their usual end-of-the-year activities: distributing food to needy residents, and shopping for outfits for the Silver Linings youth organization’s annual fundraising gala. But buried beneath the white stuff are dark secrets from Crozet’s past—and Harry and her posse of pet detectives are determined to sniff them out.
Two Silver Linings mentors have been found dead in suspicious circumstances. If that weren’t enough to chill the bones of the locals, a pair of severed human fingers has turned up in a pencil jar in the bookkeeper’s office at St. Cyril’s church. What does this grisly display have to do with the mysterious disappearance of Harry’s voluptuous high school Latin teacher, a quarter of a century ago? Maybe nothing. But when the animals make another gruesome discovery in the woods behind Harry’s farm, it becomes clear that terrible crimes have been committed in Crozet—and somebody’s gone to great lengths to cover them up. It’s time to stop shoveling snow and start digging for clues.
The truth will be revealed. A cold case will be solved. And a twenty-five-year-old love triangle is about to get untangled. The weather outside may be frightful, but Harry and her four-legged friends refuse to be spooked off the case.<
At any moment a perfect summer day in Crozet, Virginia—nestled within the Blue Ridge Mountains—might turn stormy and tempestuous, as Harry knows too well when a squall suddenly sweeps in. In a blink, Harry’s pickup nearly collides with a careening red car that then swerves into a ditch. Harry recognizes the dead driver slumped over the vehicle’s steering wheel: Barbara Leader was nurse and confidante to former Virginia governor Sam Holloway.
Though Barbara’s death is ruled a heart attack, dissenting opinions abound. After all, she was the picture of health, which gives Harry and her four-legged companions pause. A baffling break-in at a local business leads Harry to further suspect that a person with malevolent intent lurks just out of sight: Something evil is afoot.
As it happens, Barbara died in the shadow of the local cemetery’s statue of the Avenging Angel. Just below that imposing funereal monument lie the remains of one Francisco Selisse, brutally murdered in 1784. Harry’s present-day sleuthing draws her back to Virginia’s slave-holding past and the hunt for Selisse’s killer. Now it’s up to Harry and her furry detectives—Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tee Tucker—to expose the bitter truth, even if it means staring into the unforgiving eyes of history and cornering a callous killer poised to pounce.<
Spring has sprung in Crozet, Virginia—a time for old friends to gather and bid farewell to the doldrums of winter. Harry and her husband, Fair, are enjoying a cozy dinner with some of the town’s leading citizens, including beloved University of Virginia history professor Greg “Ginger” McConnell and several members of UVA’s celebrated 1959 football team. But beneath the cloak of conviviality lurks a sinister specter from the distant past that threatens to put all their lives in jeopardy.
When Professor McConnell is found murdered on the golf course the next day—gunned down in broad daylight by an unseen killer—no one can fathom a motive, let alone find a suspect. Just as Harry and her furry cohorts begin nosing into the case, however, a homeless UVA alum confesses to the crime. Trouble is, no one believes that the besotted former All-American could have done the foul deed—especially after Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker make another gruesome discovery.
As the questions surrounding Ginger’s death pile up, Harry’s search for answers takes her down the fascinating byways of Virginia’s Revolutionary past. The professor was something of a sleuth himself, it seems, and the centuries-old mystery he was unraveling may well have put a target on his back. As Harry edges closer to identifying an elusive killer, her animal companions sense danger—and rally to find a way to keep Harry from disappearing into history.<
Autumn is in the air in the Blue Ridge Mountain community of Crozet, Virginia--and all the traditions of the changing seasons are under way. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen cleans her cupboards, her husband, Fair, prepares the horses for the shorter days ahead, and the clamorous barking of beagles signals the annual rabbit chase through the central Virginia hills. But the last thing the local beaglers and their hounds expect to flush out is a dead body.
Disturbingly, it's the second corpse to turn up, after that of a missing truck driver too disfigured to identify. The deaths seem unrelated--until Harry picks up a trail of clues dating back to the state's post-Revolutionary past.
The echoes of the Shot Heard Round the World pale in comparison to the dangerous shootout Harry narrowly escapes unscathed. Next time, it may be the killer who gets lucky. But not if Harry's furry friends Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tucker can help it. Lending their sharp-nosed talents to the hunt, they'll help their mistress keep more lives from being lost--and right an injustice buried since the early days of America's independence.<
Когато пристига в дома на чичо си в Ню Зебъди, любознателният сирак Луис Барнавелт не очаква, че му предстои да прекрачи прага на мистериозен свят — вълнуващ и пленителен, но и тъй зловещ, че целият настръхваш. Ще се наложи чичо Джонатан и неговата скъпа приятелка г-жа Зимърман да сдружат магическите си способности, за да победят силите на мрака, възкресени от отвъдното, и да им попречат да унищожат света с неукротимата си мъст. Но ще се справят ли без помощта на изобретателния и храбър Луис, който бързо се досеща, че не една и две са тайните на внушителната стара къща с просторни стаи, мраморни камини и мрачни проходи. А най-голямата е скрита в стените й.
Каква ли е? И ще имат ли време да спрат края на света?
Американският писател Джон Белеърс (1938–1991) дължи литературната си слава на своите готически младежки романи. Автор е на повече от 30 произведения и е носител на многобройни литературни награди за най-популярните от тях. „Мистерията на къщата с часовника“ (1973) получава първата си филмова адаптация още през 1979 г. Втората излиза на екран през 2018 г. с участието на Джак Блак и Кейт Бланшет.<
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