Death of a Travelling Man

Death of a Travelling Man
Author: M. C. Beaton
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780446573511

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A TRAVELING MAN: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryLochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has-horrors!-been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village. Hamish smells trouble, and he's right as usual. The doctor's drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors suddenly become unneighborly. The tension only explodes after the itinerant Sean is found brutally beaten to death. Suspicion quickly falls on his girlfriend, but with nobody willing to talk, the canny Hamish faces the tough task of worming the facts out of the villagers. As he uncovers a bizarre story around the murdered traveler, Macbeth knows he must find the truth soon, before the killer gets away for good.

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman
Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1998-05-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 110104215X

The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity—and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room. "By common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the American theater." —Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times "So simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." —Time

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393249905

A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.

Gumshoes

Gumshoes
Author: Mitzi M. Brunsdale
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2006-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313040885

The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. This dictionary of fictional detectives helps readers learn about the series in which their favorite detectives are featured. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 150 fictional detectives, which provide information about the works in which the detective appears, the locales in which the detective operates, the detective's investigative methods, and other important information. Helpful bibliographical citations direct the reader to other interesting works. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography; various appendices; and an extensive index. The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. Many of the most popular mystery books appear in series, and these series feature carefully developed detectives.

Death of a Travelling Man

Death of a Travelling Man
Author: M. C. Beaton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 167
Release: 1993
Genre: Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN:

When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth, along with a new promotion and more money, is given a new partner--young, eager P.C. Willis Lamont--he and Lamont race to solve a mystery involving a handsome young drifter.

The Traveling Man

The Traveling Man
Author: Michael P. King
Publisher: Blurred Lines Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2015-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0986179604

“King’s uncommonly solid debut is a must-read.”—Kirkus Reviews In a life-and-death contest among criminals, even the most cunning may not survive… The Traveling Man and his wife have built a life for themselves conning criminals and getting away scot-free. But when their latest scheme to sell contaminated land goes south, they find themselves in a cat-and-mouse game with the crime boss who’s turned the tables on them and the partners who’ve betrayed them. Are you ready to take a walk on the wild side? If you like pulse-pounding action, nail-biting plot twists, and criminal intrigue, then you’ll love The Traveling Man, the first book in the Travelers series of sizzling page-turners. Buy The Traveling Man today to arm yourself for an explosive thrill-ride. “Loved the story, loved the characters, loved the con, loved the feel of the crime. The Traveling Man is a great first novel. Michael P. King is a writer to watch.”—Charles L. P. Silet (author of Talking Murder) The Travelers crime thrillers contain profanity, violence, and sexual situations typical of the genre and similar to R rated movies.

Traveling Man

Traveling Man
Author: Tony Casey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1493126636

This book is collection of reflections by a Traveling Man as he speaks of his experiences in foreign land. The Traveling Man invites you to take a step inside the pages of this book. Be part of the moment and share your personal reflections.

100 Years on the Road

100 Years on the Road
Author: Timothy B. Spears
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300070668

Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.

Every Dead Thing

Every Dead Thing
Author: John Connolly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501122622

PI Charlie Parker, a former New York policeman, searches for the killer of his wife and daughter. Two women help him, a pretty criminal psychologist and an old Creole woman with psychic vision.