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From The New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke ... Read more

From The New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes five thrilling audiobooks in one package, all read by the phenomenal Will Patton. A STAINED WHITE RADIANCE The death of a cop draws police detective Dave Robicheaux into a dangerous web of madness, murder and incest. But Robicheaux has devils of his own. And they've come out of hiding to destroy the tormented investigator -- and the people he holds most dear. IN THE ELECTRIC MIST WITH CONFEDERATE DEAD Hollywood has sent its emissaries to New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic in the steaming mists of the Louisiana bayou -- reawakening the ghosts of a past best left undisturbed. The restless specters wait in the shadows for cajun cop Dave Robicheaux -- as he hunts a serial butcher who is preying on young. DIXIE CITY JAM Detective Dave Robicheaux finds himself and his family at serious risk when he is stalked for his knowledge of a watery burial ground by a mysterious man named Will Buchalter -- a man who believes that the Holocaust was one big hoax. BURNING ANGEL Dave Robicheaux becomes entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot family, descendants of sharecroppers whose matriarch helped raise Dave as a child. They are in danger of losing the land they've lived on for more than a century. As Dave tries to discover who wants the land so badly, he finds himself in increasing peril from the local mobsters and a hired assassin. CADILLAC JUKEBOX When former Klansman Aaron Crown is finally imprisoned for a decades-old murder, it is to Detective Dave Robicheaux that he proclaims his innocence loudest. Crown seems to be a lightning rod for every kind of trouble that the state of Louisiana can unearth. But it's not until a figure from Dave's past is elected governor that his involvement with Aaron Crown becomes deadly. Minimize

Covering a broad spectrum of primary and secondary referenc ... Read more

Covering a broad spectrum of primary and secondary reference resources about mystery and detective fiction, this annotated bibliography focuses on all print and key electronic sources in the field that are produced in English. Organized thematically, it reviews encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, annotated guides, bibliographies, bio-bibliographies, vade mecums, compendiums, indexes, and so on. Many Web sites are also described. Lengthy, informed reviews often provide evaluative information and compare books to similar or related titles. Essential to researchers, this is a valuable guide for any collection that holds a substantial number of mystery and detective titles, including college, university, public, and some high school libraries. Minimize

The Web of Iniquity is a study of detective fiction written ... Read more

The Web of Iniquity is a study of detective fiction written by American women between the Civil War and World War II. Refuting the idea that no American detective fiction of substance was produced between the times of Edgar Allan Poe and Dashiell Hammett, Catherine Ross Nickerson shows how these women writers blended Gothic elements into domestic fiction to create a unique and all-but-ignored subgenre that she labels “domestic detective fiction.” This subgenre allowed women writers to participate in postbellum culture and to critique other aspects of a rapidly changing society. Domestic detective fiction combined elements of sensationalist papers, popular nonfiction crime stories, and the domestic novel. Nickerson shows how it also incorporated the gothic tropes found in the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and Charlotte Brontë and influenced the work of Pauline Hopkins. Mid-nineteenth-century writer Metta Fuller Victor, who represented such important areas of cultural conflict as the role of professions in the formation of class identity and the possibility of women's independence and self-determination, paved the way for the appearance of women detectives in the late-nineteenth-century fiction of Anna Katharine Green. Nickerson credits Mary Roberts Rinehart, in particular, for bringing sophistication to the subgenre by amplifying the humorous, terrifying, and feminist elements inherent in earlier detective novels by women. Throughout the volume, Nickerson focuses on the narrative qualities of the domestic novel tradition and the ways in which it reflected ideologies of domesticity and gender. Also included are a discussion of various rewritings of the Lizzie Borden scandal in this tradition and an afterword on the relation of domestic detective fiction to the hard-boiled style. The Web of Iniquity places the detective fiction written by women between 1850 and 1940 into ongoing discussions regarding women, culture, and literature and will appeal to scholars and students of women's studies, American studies, and literary history. Minimize

Much of the information that was once only available to pro ... Read more

Much of the information that was once only available to professional researchers from expensive, fee-based sources is now available for free on the Internet, if you know how to find it. There s more to conducting a comprehensive search for information on the Internet than just relying on the results returned by search engines, though. The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet will show you how to be your own cyber-detective and unearth this information for FREE (or at low cost!) on the Web. The Cybersleuth s Guide to the Internet includes numerous examples based on real world research scenarios. Whether you re just starting to use the Internet for serious research or you re a seasoned online research veteran, this book can help you find what you re looking for fast and free. For "novice searchers," the book covers many overlooked features of Web browsers, the "mechanics" of navigating the Internet, and basic research strategies and tools. For "power searchers," it covers more advanced search strategies, and uncovers tips and tricks for getting the most out of many of the sites discussed. - Learn How to Search More Effectively - Discover Quick and Easy Methods to Access Information from Public Records & Publicly Available Data - Learn Why Social Network Sites and Twitter are Becoming the Latest & Greatest Investigative Tool To Obtain Useful Background Information and for Jury Selection (Juror Research) - Using the Internet for Substantive Legal Research Minimize

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in th ... Read more

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in the heart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America's premier writer of psychological suspense, the author of ten successive New York Times bestsellers.  Three months in paradise, all expenses paid.  It's an invitation Alex Delaware can't refuse.  Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, a revered scientist and philanthropist on the tiny Pacific island of Aruk, has invited Alex to his home to help him organize his papers for publication-- a light workload leaving Alex plenty of time to enjoy a romantic interlude with Robin Castagna.Quickly, however, secretive houseguests, frightening nocturnal visitors, and the elusive Dr. Moreland himself dim the pleasures of deep blue water and whitesand.The cases Moreland chooses to share--a patient driven to madness by a cruel, unspeakable act; a man who succumbed forty years ago to radiation poisoning after a nuclear blast; a young woman, brutally murdered, whose mutilated body was found on the beach just six months before-- seem unconnected.  And yet Alex can't help wondering what the good doctor is trying to tell him...and what Moreland's real reason for inviting him to Aruk is.As Alex probes--with a little long-distance help from his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis--he comes to believe the answer lies hidden somewhere on Moreland's vast estate.  Yet when he finally discovers the truth, the revelation will be more shocking than he could have imagined.  And it will come too late to stem the tide of violence that threatens guilty and innocent alike on the lovely lost island of Aruk.Once again, with his brilliant characterizations and rapid-fire pace, Jonathan Kellerman has redefined the boundaries of suspense, probing real-life horrors and innermost fears in a novel that transfixes from first page to last.Also available on BDD Audio Cassette. Minimize

This updated and expanded edition of Be Your Own Detective ... Read more

This updated and expanded edition of Be Your Own Detective includes the new technological advances in the art of snooping. High-tech devices developed for the most part by the military--night vision goggles, bugging and tapping equipment, sound amplification dishes are all now available (at reasonable to staggering prices) at the neighborhood electronics shop. The worldwide web is an amazing one-stop source of information. Authors Fallis and Greenberg have compiled the host of opportunities offered by the web and point out how they may be accessed most efficiently and effectively. Minimize

Roy Slater left town 25 years ago to escape the consequence ... Read more

Roy Slater left town 25 years ago to escape the consequences of an unspeakable crime. Now he returns, only to get caught up in another scandal.... Minimize

Things are getting serious between Sophie Mae and Detective ... Read more

Things are getting serious between Sophie Mae and Detective Ambrose. But there's another love in her life--spinning. Pursuing her newfound passion is great fun, until fellow co-op member Ariel is found strangled to death with Sophie Mae's first skein of yarn. Minimize

The death of a seemingly respectable missionary draws Denis ... Read more

The death of a seemingly respectable missionary draws Denis Nayland Smith and his devoted companion, Dr. Petrie, back into the web of the diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu. The investigation takes our heroes on a harrowing journey where they cross paths with the Si-Fan, a rival theosophist society and the famous French detective, Gaston Max. The clash of Eastern and Western cultures contrasts sharply with the age-old battle between the forces of Good and Evil, as Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie grapple with the fragile truths that rule their world. A suspenseful thriller that moves rapidly between London and Paris in December 1913, The Terror of Fu Manchu is William Patrick Maynard's first novel. This action-packed thriller is the first authorized Fu Manchu adventure in over twenty years and reintroduces Sax Rohmer's classic characters to a new generation of readers. This collector's edition features a foreword by Dr. Lawrence Knapp and an Epilog written especially for this volume by William Patrick Maynard. Minimize

Things are getting serious between Sophie Mae and Detective ... Read more

Things are getting serious between Sophie Mae and Detective Ambrose. But Sophie Mae has a new love in her life—spinning. Pursuing her newfound passion is great fun . . . until her fellow co-op member, Ariel, is found strangled to death with Sophie Mae's very first skein of yarn. Young and pretty, Ariel used her feminine charms and sexual magnetism to lure married men. Was the murder victim truly a gold digger in hot pants? Or just a troubled girl who met a bad end? With a tangled weave of suspects to wade through and Barr's ex turning up, it's all Sophie Mae can do to unravel this tightly knitted mystery—without coming undone herself! Praise for Spin a Wicked Web, book three in the Home Crafting Mystery series: "Cozy up for a finely crafted mystery-lots of twists and tangles, a most entertaining yarn."-Laura Childs, author of Death by Darjeeling: A Tea Shop Mystery "A fast-paced contemporary cozy."-Monica  Ferris, author of Thai Die: A Needlecraft Mystery    Minimize

The death of a seemingly respectable missionary draws Denis ... Read more

The death of a seemingly respectable missionary draws Denis Nayland Smith and his devoted companion, Dr. Petrie, back into the web of the diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu. The investigation takes our heroes on a harrowing journey where they cross paths with the Si-Fan, a rival theosophist society and the famous French detective, Gaston Max. The clash of Eastern and Western cultures contrasts sharply with the age-old battle between the forces of Good and Evil, as Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie grapple with the fragile truths that rule their world. A suspenseful thriller that moves rapidly between London and Paris in December 1913, The Terror of Fu Manchu is William Patrick Maynard's first novel. This action-packed thriller is the first authorized Fu Manchu adventure in over twenty years and reintroduces Sax Rohmer's classic characters to a new generation of readers. This collector's edition features a foreword by Dr. Lawrence Knapp and an Epilog written especially for this volume by William Patrick Maynard. Minimize

A case from his past is about to ruin Assistant Chief Const ... Read more

A case from his past is about to ruin Assistant Chief Constable Ned French's career.... Minimize

Books. Paul Auster's noirish trilogy emphasizes the fragili ... Read more

Books. Paul Auster's noirish trilogy emphasizes the fragility and mysteriousness of identity. In each short novel, a detective figure haunts a man caught up in a web of strange events which he may or may not have orchestrated himself. Minimize

The painting's compelling blue eyes fascinate former police ... Read more

The painting's compelling blue eyes fascinate former police detective David Schaeffer. Those beautiful eyes, that gorgeous face, couldn't possibly belong to a killer. But according to all the evidence in this small, sleepy river town in Alabama, that's exactly who the man in the portrait is...or was. David never expects his inherited mansion to come with its very own ghost. And certainly not the ghost of handsome, mischievous Brian Terhune, the man in the portrait, chained for eternity to his family home and accused of a horrific double murder he didn't commit. When Brian's ghost proves to be not just a pretty face on canvas but a wonderful, sensitive man, David's fascination turns to passionate love. Deeply enamored, he vows to clear his adored Brian's name, wading through a fifty-years-cold web of hatred and suspicion. But clearing Brian's name comes at a price. Acknowledged as innocent, Brian will be freed from this world, able to pass into the afterlife to the peaceful rest he deserves. Breaking Brian's shackles could very well break David's heart... Minimize

When a young reporter is viciously murdered, Mobile,Alabama ... Read more

When a young reporter is viciously murdered, Mobile,Alabama, detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus find themselves drawn into the dealings of the wealthy Kincannon family-until Ryder is abducted-with no clues as to who did it or why. Digging to uncover the truth that could lead him to his partner, Nautilus discovers a web of connections between the dead reporter, an enigmatic behind-the-scenes powerbroker, and the Kincannons' own dark secrets.The question quickly becomes:What would the perfect family do to protect that image of perfection? The answer: Whatever it takes. Minimize

It was six-thirty in the morning when Detective Superintend ... Read more

It was six-thirty in the morning when Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens took the call that informed her that Britain's number one tennis star and media darling has been murdered.... Minimize

Pages: 24, Library Binding, PowerKids Press

Atlanta homicide detective Patrick 'Tick' Kelly turned his ... Read more

Atlanta homicide detective Patrick 'Tick' Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. Abandoning his city and his career, he holed up in a beach house on Mango Key, Florida, and drowned his grief in Jack Daniels. Now sober and a bestselling author, Tick would gladly stay a recluse forever if his brother Pete didn't keep trying to drag him back to the land of the living. After years of sacrificing her personal life in favour of her DEA job, special agent Kate Rush resigned and moved back to her native Miami. But the unofficial assignment that has just come her way is too intriguing to pass up. She and a fellow ex-agent are relocated to Mango Key to keep an eye on an imposing, mysterious fortress believed to be at the centre of a human trafficking ring. At first, the Kelly brothers are suspected of involvement, but Kate is sure Tick poses no danger - except for the slow-burning gaze that makes her breath catch and her heart race. Tick finds himself fascinated by Kate's investigation - and by her inviting mix of courage and kindness. Teaming up, they uncover a web of betrayal, blackmail, and ruthless greed. And as danger mounts, Tick realizes how far he'll go to protect the rare and surprising gift that's come his way: a second chance at a happy ending. Minimize

The Basics of Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 is intended fo ... Read more

The Basics of Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 is intended for use in a beginning web design or web development course. The text covers the basics that web designers need to develop their skills:Introductory Internet and Web conceptsCreating web pages with HTML5Configuring text, color, and page layout with Cascading Style SheetsConfiguring images and multimedia on web pagesWeb design best practicesAccessibility, usability, and search engine optimization considerationsObtaining a domain name and web hostPublishing to the Web Minimize

Carrying out an Audubon bird census on Hobson's Choice, a p ... Read more

Carrying out an Audubon bird census on Hobson's Choice, a piece of undeveloped Gulf shore property, with his friend Helen Bradley, Harry Brock, a private detective by trade and naturalist by inclination, stumbles on the rotting corpse of Truly Brown, an eccentric town character who in two months, had he lived, would have inherited a large fortune, which includes Hobson's Choice. Helen's wealthy friend Riga Kraftmeier wants to buy Hobson's Choice and hires Harry to help her, but Brown's murder and Kraftmeier's efforts to purchase the land lead Harry into a tangled web of quarrelling families, broken friendships, and murder as events in the past bear their bloody fruit in the present and bring Harry face to face with death. Harry's wife Katherine, pregnant with their first child and deeply anxious about her two children from an earlier, disastrous marriage, presses Harry to abandon his life as a private investigator and take up a less dangerous profession. Harry's struggle to retain his way of life and ease his wife's fears grows increasingly fraught as he plunges deeper and deeper into the Truly Brown murder and a second case involving rustled cattle, a prize quarterhorse, and two feuding families whose violent pasts erupt again with fatal consequences, placing both Harry's life and his marriage in jeopardy. Kinley Roby is the author of Death In A Hammock, the first Harry Brock mystery. Roby lives in Southwest Florida with his wife, Mary Linn Roby, a writer and editor. (20050701) Minimize

The body of a young man is discovered in a windswept Nottin ... Read more

The body of a young man is discovered in a windswept Notting Hill churchyard. The killer has left Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster a grisly, cryptic clue.... Minimize

While visiting Colonel Melrose, Mr. Satterthwaite hears of ... Read more

While visiting Colonel Melrose, Mr. Satterthwaite hears of the murder of Sir James Dwighton, a friend and neighbor of his host.... Minimize

In The Weapons Detective, Rod Barton tells of a professiona ... Read more

In The Weapons Detective, Rod Barton tells of a professional life replete with adventure, urgency and achievement. From the chaos of Somalia to the inner sanctums of the UN, Barton has more than once been at the eye of the storm. He describes interviewing Iraq's Dr Germ and painstakingly uncovering a biological weapons program. He also tells of resisting political pressure from the CIA and MI6 in the aftermath of the 2003 war, when WMD failed to appear. The Weapons Detective describes the fascinating chess-game of weapons inspection, with its mixture of detective work, scientific analysis and mind-games. It offers a fresh look at figures including Richard Butler, Hans Blix, Scott Ritter and David Kelly. Written with humour and authority, it reveals an unsung Australian hero and sheds new light on a vital chapter of contemporary history. With a foreword by Robert Manne. Minimize

Harriet Martens, named 'The Hard Detective' by th ... Read more

Harriet Martens, named 'The Hard Detective' by the media because of her unrelenting opposition to every sort of evil-doing, has been secretly summoned to London to investigate corruption.... Minimize

Free Worldwide Delivery : Web Application Architecture : Pa ... Read more

Free Worldwide Delivery : Web Application Architecture : Paperback : John Wiley and Sons Ltd : 9780470518601 : 047051860X : 27 Mar 2009 : In-depth examination of concepts and principles of Web application development Completely revised and updated, this popular book returns with coverage on a range of new technologies. Authored by a highly respected duo, this edition provides an in-depth examination of the core concepts and general principles of Web application development. Minimize