Plain Clothes & Sleuths

Plain Clothes & Sleuths
Author: Stephen Wade
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2007-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0752496492

The detective is a familiar figure in British history. This work looks at famous cases such as the Ripper murders and the beginnings of the Special Branch and Detective Branch of Scotland Yard. This history covers various aspects of crime history, including the career of Jim 'the Penman' Saward, a notorious forger, and more.

Psychic Sleuths

Psychic Sleuths
Author: Joe Nickell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Parapsychology
ISBN: 9780879758806

Do psychics have special powers, allowing them to succeed where ordinary police work fails? How often do the police actually enlist psychics in solving crimes, and what do they really think of these paranormal "experts"? These are just some of the questions discussed in this illuminating study of those who supposedly use extrasensory powers to help solve crimes. Famed paranormal investigator Joe Nickell assembled a psychic "task force" of experienced researchers - investigative writers, professional magicians, private detectives, and paranormal investigators - and challenged them to examine the claims of a famous paranormal crimebuster. Among the "psychic sleuths" examined are Greta Alexander, Dorothy Allison, Gerard Croiset, Peter Hurkos, Phil Jordan, Rosemarie Kerr, Noreen Reiner, and Bill Ward. Noted psychologist James E. Alcock offers an assessment of the psychics' claims in light of the investigative reports. Nickell's distinguished team of investigators includes Michael R. Dennett, Professor Kenneth Feder, Henry Gordon, Jim Lippard, Ward Lucas, Professor Michael Park, Stephen Peterson, Dr. Gary Posner, and Professor Lee Roger Taylor. Psychic Sleuths will excite the curiosity of both skeptics and believers, and all who are puzzled by psychic claims and paranormal mysteries.

The Not Quite Enlightened Sleuth

The Not Quite Enlightened Sleuth
Author: Verlin Darrow
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2024-04-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 150925420X

When her elderly mother suffers a stroke, Ivy Lutz leaves her life as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka and returns home to northern California. Her sheltered life is blasted apart by a series of murders, which she attempts to solve with the help of a smitten detective. She understands why someone might want to kill her stepfather, who it turns out is a smuggler on the run, but what about her mother? Was she was murdered, too? As Ivy struggles to live by her Buddhist principles and employ her mindfulness skills, she discovers they both hinder and help in her search for the truth.

Food, Drink, and the Female Sleuth

Food, Drink, and the Female Sleuth
Author: Patricia Wells Lunneborg
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595179762

From the author of books about women police officers and a retired editor who’s now a volunteer cop in small town America, Food, Drink, and the Female Sleuth gathers together the best food scenes in mainstream detective fiction. Over 140 flavorful contributors, over 250 slurpy excerpts, 23 rich chapters with titles like “Undercover Grub and Stakeout Takeout,” “Junk Food on the Run,” “A Dozen Ways to Feed Your Lover,” “Bribing with Food,” and “The Last Bite.” Like us, PIs, cops, and amateur sleuths ARE what they eat. Also they are known by how they eat, where they eat, why they eat, and by who does the cooking. What better way to flesh out a sleuth’s work partner than “Let’s Have A Drink,” or spell out social class with humor in “Upper and Lower Crusts”? What better way to get a plot underway than breakfast? Or stir in suspense and foreshadow events in “Let’s Do Lunch”? This book is for anyone whose shelves are stacked with really good detective novels and really good food. Face it, if you like to eat, put Food, Drink on your table.

Zhivago's Children

Zhivago's Children
Author: Vladislav Martinovich Zubok
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2009-05-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674033442

The story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin is poorly chronicled. Zubok turns a compelling subject into a portrait as intimate as it is provocative. Zhivago’s children, the spiritual heirs of Pasternak’s noble doctor, were the last of their kind—an intellectual and artistic community committed to a civic, cultural, and moral mission.

Alley Life in Washington

Alley Life in Washington
Author: James Borchert
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2023-02-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252054903

Forgotten today, established Black communities once existed in the alleyways of Washington, D.C., even in neighborhoods as familiar as Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. James Borchert's study delves into the lives and folkways of the largely alley dwellers and how their communities changed from before the Civil War, to the late 1890s era when almost 20,000 people lived in alley houses, to the effects of reform and gentrification in the mid-twentieth century.

Old Sleuth's Freaky Female Detectives

Old Sleuth's Freaky Female Detectives
Author: Garyn G. Roberts
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1990
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 9780879724757

This collection provides a concentrated sampling of female detective stories from the Old Sleuth serials.