The Hearse

The Hearse
Author: Henry Clement
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1980
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780523410562

Headed for a Hearse

Headed for a Hearse
Author: Jonathan Latimer
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453206000

Just days from meeting the reaper, a convicted murderer hires Chicago’s most hard-boiled PI to save his neck—before the executioner can claim it Robert Westland’s death is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap that’s sending him to the electric chair. Fingered for his wife’s grisly demise, Westland is in a bind, and his last hope is Bill Crane, a booze-soaked detective who’s as ruthless with a quip as he is when trawling the streets for Chicago’s most brutal criminal element. Crane’s got just a few days to suss out the real killer—someone clever enough to off Westland’s wife and lock her in a room whose only key belongs to Westland himself. Fueled by an abundance of liquor and a habit of bad manners, Crane sets his sights on a cast of oddball characters among whom hides a murderer. But in 1930s Chicago, everyone’s got a secret, and the pressure is on for Crane to separate the dangerous from the truly homicidal before it’s too late.

The Trojan Hearse

The Trojan Hearse
Author: Richard S. Prather
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480498246

A pop star’s death puts Los Angeles PI Shell Scott on the hit list in the mystery series with more than 40 million copies in print. With a national election going on, Shell Scott’s timing might have been less than perfect. Perhaps he did prevent the victory for the shoo-in candidate, but a lot of strange things were happening. There was Polly Plank, whom he encountered in her psychiatrist’s office in her birthday suit. What about the American singing idol Johnny Tray, who turned up dead? And of course Joe Rice, leader of the West’s underworld, who wanted Shell under the world too—six feet under. The Trojan Hearse is the 28th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Hearse of a Different Color

Hearse of a Different Color
Author: Tim Cockey
Publisher: Hachette Books
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2002-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1401396992

Hitchcock Sewell, Baltimore's hippest undertaker and civilian sleuth, is back in a second sly, original mystery. One of the most charming and offbeat amateur detectives to come around in years, Hitchcock Sewell does for the undertaking profession what Marilyn Monroe did for the ukulele--gives it a touch of class. In this rollicking follow-up to Tim Cockey's "witty, punchy, snappy, well-written, and dang funny debut" (Harlan Coben, author of The Final Detail), a surprise blizzard dumps more than snow on the steps of Sewell & Sons funeral home--it leaves behind the corpse of a murdered waitress as well. Hitch's television meteorologist girlfriend sees the crime as an opportunity to move into hard news. Her unctuous mentor wants to beat Hitch to the punch. Hitch's snooping takes him from low-life strip joints to high-tone mansions, proving yet again that undertakers and their clue-happy cohorts can be a pretty lively bunch.

When the Hearse Goes By

When the Hearse Goes By
Author: DeLoris Stanton Forbes
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2002-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595220126

Five female friends, close since elementary school days, find themselves with a serious dilemma. They are the keepers of a 20-year-old corpse (the corpse not the man) that they must dispose of immediately and even though one of the women is a respected mortician the solution is not an easy one. Especially since the body belongs to a murder victim and it seems probable that Jane, Rissa, Penny, Gwenda or Primrose is the killer. That it happened so long ago who remembers? How does Polly fit into the picture? Can 80-year-old Dietrich H. Fenster save the day?

DAD, CAN I BORROW THE HEARSE?

DAD, CAN I BORROW THE HEARSE?
Author: Thomas J. Van Kula
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1662913818

Located within the boundaries of one of the East Side of Detroit's "bluest" of blue collar neighborhoods, 9074 St. Cyril Avenue served a dual purpose - funeral home and family residence. Occupying the first floor of the impressive yellow bricked structure from 1942 until 1978 was the Van Kula Funeral Home - the second floor I called home. For over four decades I was associated with death and dying on an almost daily occurrence. Residing over a funeral home with five siblings added to the plenitude of memories - poignant, humorous and enduring. As an observer and eventual practitioner of one of the world's oldest professions, I have borne witness to human nature under the most demanding of emotional circumstances. In "DAD, CAN I BORROW THE HEARSE?" I have attempted to present a summary of events as they related to me - "The Funeral Director's Kid".

The Convertible Hearse

The Convertible Hearse
Author: William Campbell Gault
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2012-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440540691

Now who would kill a used-car salesman? In a city like L.A., Brock Callahan figures there’s about a million suspects—each with a motive. Nevertheless, the former gridiron star turned private eye is hired by the widow to find out just who killed the one and only Loony Leo Dunbar. It seems someone offed the king of the dubious deal as he was sitting in the front seat of his Lincoln. And now Brock “the Rock” is looking for Loony Leo’s killer. It’s not easy work; Brock’s got to go through a bevy of Leo’s girlfriends and seedy associates on a trail that leads into the sleaziest side of the used-car business he’s ever seen …

Chapter & Hearse

Chapter & Hearse
Author: Lorna Barrett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101189061

Mystery bookstore owner Tricia Miles has been spending more time solving whodunits than reading them. Now a nearby gas explosion has injured Tricia's sister's boyfriend, Bob Kelly, the head of the Chamber of Commerce, and killed the owner of the town's history bookstore. Tricia's never been a fan of Bob, but when she reads that he's being tight-lipped about the "accident", it's time to take action.

Things I Learned While Waiting for the Hearse

Things I Learned While Waiting for the Hearse
Author: Andrea Czarnecki-Galgon
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2018-11-09
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 198456501X

In death, as in life, there are so many choices. Sometimes you make the right ones; sometimes you don’t. The difference is that in life, some of those questionable choices (truck-stop sushi, anyone?) have consequences. Death choices have consequences, too, except they’ll be someone else’s, not yours.

The View from a Hearse

The View from a Hearse
Author: Joseph Bayly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2014-10-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781940017044

The View from a Hearse is Joe's simple, helpful meditation on death and grieving. Joe knew that peace with death doesn't come from understanding everything that happens to us, but in knowing the God who is in control of everything.