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Author | : Donald E. Westlake |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2018-05-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504051645 |
This “high comedy of errors [and] murder” with a cat-and-mouse plot is “real fun on the run” from the Edgar Award–winning Grand Master of Mystery (Kirkus Reviews). Charlie Poole is a bum. His friends know it. His gangster uncle Al knows it. And Charlie himself knows it better than anyone. He’s stuck with his meager lot, tending bar at his uncle’s Brooklyn dive, picking up the occasional package . . . and being a bum. But when two mob hit men show up out of the blue and inform him that his breathing days are over, Charlie doesn’t feel like a bum anymore. He feels like an extremely fast runner. Because not having much of a life is still way better than not having any life at all. Now, the hapless Charlie is on the lam with a pair of heavies on his tail. And over the next few days, he stumbles into a murder he gets blamed for, meets a gorgeous gal he could fall for, discovers what he’s willing to fight for—and finds out just why the hell anyone would want to kill a bum like him . . . Praise for Donald E. Westlake “Westlake has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists.” —San Francisco Chronicle “No writer can excel Donald E. Westlake.” —Los Angeles Times
Author | : Donald E. Westlake |
Publisher | : Mysterious Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1993-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780446401326 |
When two hitmen come calling on Canarsie bartender Charlie Poole, he is forced to stand up for himself, and leave Brooklyn, for the first time in his life. Reprint.
Author | : Donald E. Westlake |
Publisher | : New York : Dell Pub. |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Bartenders |
ISBN | : |
When two men from the Organization come into his bar to kill him, Charlie Poole figures that someone has made a mistake, and he decides to go to the Organization's boss to clear things up. Only, when he gets there the boss is dead--and Charlie has to keep running to save his life.
Author | : John Galsworthy |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2023-02-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368338102 |
Reproduction of the original.
Author | : Nevada Barr |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2011-05-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312381806 |
National Park Service Ranger Anna Pigeon takes the city of New Orleans by storm in her latest adventure from a "New York Times"-bestselling author. Now available in a tall Premium Edition. Martin's Press.
Author | : Colin Jerolmack |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2013-03-20 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 022600192X |
The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance—if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also kept for pleasure, sport, and profit by people all over the world, from the “pigeon wars” waged by breeding enthusiasts in the skies over Brooklyn to the Million Dollar Pigeon Race held every year in South Africa. Drawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three continents, Colin Jerolmack traces our complex and often contradictory relationship with these versatile animals in public spaces such as Venice’s Piazza San Marco and London’s Trafalgar Square and in working-class and immigrant communities of pigeon breeders in New York and Berlin. By exploring what he calls “the social experience of animals,” Jerolmack shows how our interactions with pigeons offer surprising insights into city life, community, culture, and politics. Theoretically understated and accessible to interested readers of all stripes, The Global Pigeon is one of the best and most original ethnographies to be published in decades.
Author | : M. Joseph Heuskin |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2015-05-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1473395410 |
This book contains the first volume of a four-part treatise on the keeping and management of pigeons. It deals primarily with anatomy, physiology, types of pigeons, conformation, and the reproducers. The author of this book draws his knowledge from forty years worth of experience in the subject, and intended this book for true pigeon fanciers who might benefit from his wealth of experience. The chapters of this book include: “Anatomy and Physiology”, “The Skeleton”, “The Muscles”, “The Wings”, “The Circulation of the Blood”, “The Genital Organs”, “The Senses”, “Formation of the Pigeon”, et cetera. This volume has been elected for modern republication due to its educational value, and is being republished now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.
Author | : Guillaume Louis FIGUIER |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 1870 |
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Author | : Donald E. Westlake |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765309181 |
Fred Fitch, a hapless sucker for any type of con, inherits three hundred thousand dollars from his long-lost Uncle Matt, an ex-crook murdered by persons unknown, who have now set their sights on Fred.
Author | : Donald Culross Peattie |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1595341633 |
A Gathering of Birds is an anthology containing selected prose about birds by nineteen famous authors, such as Hudson, Audubon, and Thoreau, and includes brief biographical information about each. The New York Times called the collection “a delightful ‘gathering’ that Mr. Peattie has presented, and his own contributions to the book make it something new and valuable in this field.”