β Scribed by John Escott
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Criminals in the United States of America are much the same as criminals in any other place. They lie, cheat, steal, carry guns, break into houses β and murder people. Sometimes they get caught, sometimes they donβt. And some of them have bad dreams for the rest of their lives. These seven stories by well-known American writers show us the many faces of crime. There are murders of passion, and of revenge; murders that look like suicides or accidents. There is robbery and mugging, fear and hate, love and laziness. There are the innocent and the guilty β but which are which? And there are the detectives: the amateur Louise, who wonβt accept that her cousinβs death was suicide, and who goes looking for a lipstick; and the coolly professional private eye, who knows whose hand is behind the machine guns and hand grenades on a stormy night in Couffignal. We begin with Death Wish, with a man leaning over the Morrissey Bridge late at night β a man with dark thoughts of suicide in his mindβ¦
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The colt-Adams affair (1842) -- Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge (1847) -- The bloody Benders family (1870s) -- The Lamana kidnapping and the New Orleans Black Hand -- The murder of Grace Mae Brown -- The Mansfield Walworth parricide -- Laura Bullion and the wild bunch -- Henrietta Robinson, the veiled murd
In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of *Writing to Save a Life*, blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other. With characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel
Created by Jerry eBooks.
This collection features twenty short stories from humorous thriller writer J. A. Konrath. Included are a few hardboiled tales, some noir, some parody and satire, a few straight-out comedy pieces, and a few stories that didn't fit into Konrath's other two collections, Horror Stories and Jack Daniels
**A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century to the modern civil rights movement.** Back in print for the first time in over a decade, this landmark collection features writings from well-known black writers, activis
"New from award-winning Michigan writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not