Oxford Bookworms Library: Starter: Dead Man's Money

Oxford Bookworms Library: Starter: Dead Man's Money
Author: John Escott
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-04-07
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780194793650

When Cal Dexter rents one of the Blue Lake Cabins, he finds $3000 - under the floor! He doesn't know it, but it is the money from a bank robbery. A dead man's money.'Do I take it to the police?' he thinks. But three more people want the money, and two of them are dangerous.Can Cal stop them?

Dead Man's Money

Dead Man's Money
Author: K J North
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2021-04-17
Genre:
ISBN:

Private Investigators Troy and Eva Winters are thrilled when Troy's sister, Sadie, announces that she and her family are moving to Elk River, only a twenty-five-mile drive from New Haven, where Troy and Eva live. Now, Sadie will be close to her family, and with their support, they can try to help her overcome her debilitating panic disorder of agoraphobia.Troy's joyful Christmas holiday is suddenly shattered when he receives a cryptic message from his ten-year-old niece, Willow. Her cry for help and the startling message that says, 'the bad guys are here, ' sends Troy's distress alarm into overdrive. It doesn't take him long to realize the deadly consequences that lie ahead.With Eva out of town, Troy sets out for Elk River on his own with no idea of the danger he'll soon be facing. He's close enough to Willow to know the threat is real, and the urgency in her voice confirms it. Just when a flicker of hope appears, Eva goes missing. Time is not on Troy's side and the clock is quickly ticking down.Private Investigators Troy and Eva Winters Thriller Series books are listed in chronological order below#1 Victim of a Delusional Mind#2 Dead Man's Money #3 Every Last Drop#4 Her Kill ListEditorial Review"Private investigators Troy and Eva Winters return to their Oregon bed-and-breakfast following a family Christmas celebration, then Troy gets a disturbing voicemail indicating that his sister's family is in danger. Eva has just left town on a new case and finishes up early, but before she can join her husband in finding out what's wrong at his sister's house, Eva investigates on her own and ends up missing. North has a real knack for ramping up the tension and adding plot twists galore that keep the reader guessing." Angela M., Line Editor, Red Adept Editing

Dead Man's Dancer

Dead Man's Dancer
Author: Tom Brennan
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2015-07-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1935347535

Mechele is young, attractive, and looking to cash in on her aesthetic assets when she moves from New Orleans to Alaska in 1994 to earn money for college tuition. Her charms ensnare the affections of three men, and the combined effects of jealously, lust, and greed take a deadly turn in this true crime story. Before a murder in the woods shatters her contented life, Mechele works as an exotic dancer at the Alaska Bush Company, where she spends her days pleasing a procession of hard-working men. John, Scott, and Kent are simultaneously smitten with Mechele, and offer affection in the form of lavish gifts and ultimately engagement rings. While the three men begin their affairs on the same path, violent murder blasts apart their parallel lives. One of the trio is shot in the back; another is accused of the murder. Dead Man's Dancer follows this murder case from 1996 throughout Mechele's tumultuous trial in 2006 that becomes a nationwide sensation. Shocking in its detailed portrayal of murder and convoluted love affairs, Dead Man's Dancer excites horror in readers that lingers far after the last page is turned.

Dead Man's Blues

Dead Man's Blues
Author: Ray Celestin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681776081

Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat, three disturbing events take place: A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel; a white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Blackbelt; and a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress by the girl’s troubled mother. But it soon proves harder than expected to find a face that is known across the city, and Ida must elicit the help of her friend, Louis Armstrong. While the police take little interest in the Blackbelt murder, Jacob Russo—crime scene photographer—can’t get the dead man’s image out of his head, leading him to embark on his own investigation. And Dante Sanfelippo—rum-runner and fixer—is back in Chicago on the orders of Al Capone, who suspects there’s a traitor in the ranks and wants Dante to investigate. But Dante is struggling with his own problems, as he is forced to return to the city he thought he’d never see again . . .

Dead Man's Song

Dead Man's Song
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1496705432

Members of a town terrorized by a monstrous evil search for its source in this horror novel by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Ink. Something evil has awakened in the town of Pine Deep. While a local newsman tries to piece together the gruesome events of a long-buried crime, others are preparing for the return of an unstoppable scourge. Bodies mutilated beyond description, innocents driven to acts of vicious madness—a monstrous legacy is preying on the living and the dead. There are those in Pine Deep who are not what they seem. Who are driven by a thirst for blood and revenge. And who are quietly building an army of the undead . . . Second in the Pine Deep Trilogy Praise for Ghost Road Blues “Maberry supplies plenty of chills, both Earth-bound and otherworldly, in this atmospheric horror novel . . . . This is horror on a grand scale, reminiscent of Stephen King’s heftier works.” —Publishers Weekly Praise for New York Times bestselling Author Jonathan Maberry “Jonathan Maberry’s horror is rich and visceral. It’s close to the heart . . . and close to the jugular.” —Kevin J. Anderson “Maberry has the chops to craft stories at once intimate, epic, real, and horrific.” —Bentley Little “Maberry spins great stories. His (Pine Deep) vampire novels are unique and masterful.” —Richard Matheson “Maberry’s works will be read for many, many years to come.” —Ray Bradbury

Dead Man's Island

Dead Man's Island
Author: Carolyn Hart
Publisher: Crimeline
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2009-09-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307569373

“A sassy heroine . . . [Henrie O] says what she thinks (when it serves her purposes) and pulls no punches.”—Chicago Sun-Times When arrogant media magnate Chase Prescott is nearly killed by a box of cyanide-laced candy, he dials his long-ago lover, retired newshound Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins, with a simple request: He’ll assemble all the suspects if Henrie O will kindly point out the would-be murderer. It’s a case—her first—that fills Henrie O with grave misgivings, especially when she arrives on Chase’s private island off the South Carolina coast to meet the players in this deadly drama. Among Prescott’s unstable young wife, his sullen stepson, and his toady of a secretary, she has trouble narrowing the field of suspects—even when a second attempt is made on Chase’s life. As Henrie O unearths a will and fascinating new evidence, a killer hurricane sweeps up from Cuba, threatening to maroon them in this vacation hell . . . where the trappings of luxury are put to lethal use and the secrets of the past have the power to engulf them all.

Dead Man's Hand

Dead Man's Hand
Author: Luke Murphy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781926997940

"What happens when the deck is stacked against you..." From NFL rising-star prospect to wanted fugitive, Calvin Watters is a sadistic African-American Las Vegas debt-collector framed by a murderer who, like the Vegas Police, finds him to be the perfect fall-guy. ."..and the cards don't fall your way?" When the brutal slaying of a prominent casino owner is followed by the murder of a well-known bookie, Detective Dale Dayton is thrown into the middle of a highly political case and leads the largest homicide investigation in Vegas in the last twelve years. "What if you're dealt a Dead Man's Hand?" Against his superiors and better judgment, Dayton is willing to give Calvin one last chance. To redeem himself, Calvin must prove his innocence by finding the real killer, while avoiding the LVMPD, as well as protect the woman he loves from a professional assassin hired to silence them.

The Money Trail

The Money Trail
Author: Chick Lung
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2008-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1467843229

Deep in the Amazon Jungle she waits for the call that will tell her the prey is near. Sitting silently Shelby raises her field glasses and focuses in on the large white house on the bluff overlooking thenarrow valley below. A "butcher" lives there and he's not a pig farmer. Sweat slowly trickles down between Shelby's breasts as she reaches around and adjusts the straps holding the M11/9 Cobray automatic securely in the small of her back. Assistant Director of the F.B.I., Jordan Daniels, leans back in his office chair at F.B.I. headquarters in the United States and listens as the connection from Houston, Texas to the house deep in the Amazon Jungle is made. The phone is answered and in less than ten seconds the voice of the manhe wanted to hear comes on. An orderfrom this man hadtwo ofDaniels' agents killed in the United States and the time has now come to exact the priceone pays for killing an F.B.I. Agent. The most lethal agentever trained also hears the connection and then thevoice through the small device resting in her left ear canal. Shelbysmiles as she puts away her field glasses and removes the straps holding her automatic weapon.