Springtime Crime

Download or read book Springtime Crime written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help Nancy and her friends find out what happened to a superstar’s flower hat in the ninth book in the interactive Nancy Drew Clue Book mystery series. Spring has sprung in River Heights! The annual Flower Sculpture contest is in a couple of days and everyone in town is working hard to finish their floral works of art. But Nancy, Bess, and George are most excited to see the world-famous pop singer, Miss LaLa, perform. The superstar grew up in River Heights and has agreed to kick off the contest with a song. And just when the girls thought life couldn’t get any better, they run into Miss LaLa herself! The singer is in a bit of a pickle though: She brought a giant hat made of white peonies for the show but she doesn’t have a refrigerator big enough to store it in. George thinks quickly and offers to put it in her mom’s catering refrigerator. But when the girls check on the hat the next morning they see something has gone terribly wrong. Half of the snowy white blooms are wilted and brown! They use their detective skills to rule out a blackout. And George can’t remember if she locked the door last night. Could someone have snuck into the kitchen and switched the fresh flowers with droopy ones? Nancy and her friends are determined to find out! Could it be Madame Withers, whose signature wilted rose perfume was rejected by Miss LaLa? Perhaps it was the famous flower artist Pierre, who was angry that Miss LaLa was the star of the show. Or it maybe it was Benjamin Bing, who ruined his flower sculpture with brown hair spray and had no more white peonies to replace them. It’s up to the Clue Crew—and you—to find out!

Download or read book Death in Springtime written by Magdalen Nabb and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian law forbids paying ransom to criminals, and Marshal Guarnaccia must find the missing girl before her kidnappers decide to end her life. Two foreign girls are abducted from a Florence piazza in broad daylight. The unusual March snowfall has distracted everyone, even the marshal, who is unsure of what he has actually witnessed. One of the girls turns up in a village in the Chianti, claiming the kidnappers have released her to propose a ransom for the other victim. But the marshal thinks she’s lying.

Download or read book Springtime for Murder written by Debbie Young and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth in a planned series of seven cozy mystery novels spanning the course of a Cotswold village year from one summer to the next, Springtime for Murder is set at Easter. Like all of the series, it may be read as a standalone novel and makes a great seasonal read, but anyone who enjoys it is likely to want to collect the set!

Download or read book The Resistance Man written by Martin Walker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another delightful installment in the internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno. It's summer in St. Denis for chief of police Bruno Courrèges, and that means a new season of cases. This time there are three weighing on his mind. First, there’s the evidence that a veteran of the French Resistance is connected to a notorious train robbery; then, the burglary of a former British spymaster's estate; and, finally, the murder of an antiques dealer whose lover is conveniently on the lam. As Bruno investigates, it becomes clear that they are connected--however, figuring out how will take every skill he possesses. Add in juggling the complex affections of two powerful women, maneuvering village politics, and managing his irrepressible puppy, Balzac, and Bruno has his hands full once again.

Download or read book Blood Curse written by Maurizio De Giovanni and published by Commissario Ricciardi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most acute and successful homicide detectives in the Naples police force. But all that horror and suffering has hollowed him out emotionally. He drinks and doesn't sleep. Other than his loyal partner Brigadier Maione he has no friends. Naples, 1931. In a working class apartment in the Sanita' neighborhood an elderly woman by the name of Carmela Calise has been beaten to death. When Ricciardi and Maione arrive at the scene they start asking the neighbors questions. No one wants to talk but slowly a few interesting facts slip out. Carmela Calise was moonlighting as a fortuneteller and moneylender. In her decrepit apartment she would receive clients, among them some of the city's rich and powerful, predicting their futures in such a way as to manipulate and deceive. If economic ruin lurked in their futures, Calise was happy to help. For a price, of course. She had many enemies, those indebted to her, manipulated by her lies, disappointed by her prophesies or destroyed by her machinations. Murder suspects in this atmospheric thriller abound and Commissario Ricciardi, one of the most original and intriguing investigators in contemporary crime fiction, will have his work cut out for him.

Download or read book Murder at the Spring Ball written by Benedict Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Agatha-Christie-style whodunit with a dash of Downton Abbey thrown in. Master detective Lord Edgington and his hapless grandson Christopher must outfox a killer when murder comes to the spring ball!

Download or read book Inside Criminal Networks written by Carlo Morselli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first extensive study of criminal networks The case study designs and analytical paths are straightforward and can serve as a source for future research endeavours using a variety of data sources