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**A relaxing cruise down the Mississippi on the** Miss Delta Belle**steamboat turns to tragedy** when celebrity **Delilah Dove** falls from the deck and is swallowed by the river faster than you can say βman overboard!β Itβs touted as a tragic accident, but guests **Miss Nora Marsh** and her wily **
In this tongue-in-cheek novella, reluctant amateur sleuth, Doreen Sizemore, vows to never leave her home in South Shore, Kentucky ever again. She's afraid of discovering another dead body since murders only seem to happen when she travels. Her vow to stay home is broken when a newly rich relative of
"Archer Dixon: 37 years old, Ivy educated, smart, funny -- but he never has amounted to much. Now a rookie private detective in Boston, his first case looks simple at first: a rare Porsche has been stolen from a local businessman. But when Arch starts digging, the case grows tangled. He quickly find
'I am a person who would quit authorizing in a minute to go to piloting,' Mark Twain once remarked. 'I would rather sink a steamboat than eat, any time.' And in 1882, Twain did just that: he returned to the river of his youth as a mature writer determined to expand seven articles which he had serial
At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before and after the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an expe