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The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond ChandlerThese two classic novels featuring private eye Philip Marlowe made Raymond Chandler's name synonymous with America's hard-boiled school of crime fiction. The Big Sleep was an instant success when first published in 1939. It centers around a paralyzed California millionaire with two psychopathic daughters; he involves Marlowe in a case of blackmail that turns into murder.Farewell My Lovely, which Chandler regarded as his finest work, came out the following year. It has Marlowe dealing with the Los Angeles gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women."Chandler writes like a slumming angel and invests the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence," said Ross Macdonald. And George V. Higgins wrote: "Chandler is fun to read. He's as bleak as tundra, and his dirtbag characters far outnumber his stellar citizens, but Philip Marlowe is a laconic tour guide through a zoo of truly interesting animals."From the Hardcover edition.
The Big Sleep (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesThe Big Sleep (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Raymond Chandler Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster.Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:chapter-by-chapter analysis explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols a review quiz and essay topics Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers.
The Big Sleep: A Novel (Sparknotes Literature Guide Series)
by Raymond ChandlerThe renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.&“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.&” —The New York Times Book Review
The Big Something (Fiercely and Friends)
by Patricia Reilly GiffAn endearing new chapter book series by two-time Newbery Honor author of the bestselling Polk Street series.Jilli and Jim are best of friends. But today, Jim has some news. Something scary is happening next door. Workmen are building something that is big and red. And a woman in a pointy hat is on a ladder painting. Could she be the witch from Hansel and Gretel making a big red gingerbread house?When Jilli's dog Fiercely crawls under the fence and runs into the witch's yard--the children must go over there and rescue him! But a surprise is in store for everyone. The woman is not a witch at all. She's Ms. Berry--the nicest teacher from the school. And soon she will be their teacher! With her characteristic warmth, humor, and irresistible child-friendly drama, Patricia Reilly Giff is at her very best!
The Big Steal (The Sterling Glass Mysteries #2)
by Emyl JenkinsHired to assess the value of broken and missing antiques following a suspicious burglary at a Virginia manor house, intrepid appraiser and amateur sleuth Sterling Glass finds that her job is more complicated than she’d anticipated. The antiques, she realizes, are not always what they seem: some are worth tens of thousands, others are well-done replicas. Whether the well-traveled and well-heeled couple who once owned Wynderly could have been trafficking in fakes is what Sterling must unravel from the secret rooms, hidden treasures, uncovered diaries, and convoluted trail of paperwork and provenance. As our sharp-witted heroine sifts through details doled out by the museum's curators, board members, and the town's local residents, she discovers that objects, unlike people, do not lie. The Big Steal is a delightful mystery that enhances readers' antiques acumen and provides an easy guide to identifying the most popular styles and periods in an illustrated appendix.
The Big Sting
by Rachelle DelaneyA visit to Leo's grandfather's farm turns upside down when his grandmother's bee hives are stolen. A light-hearted and funny middle-grade novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Lynda Mullaly Hunt.Eleven-year-old Leo is an "armchair adventurer." This, according to Dad, means he'd choose adventures in books or video games over real-life experiences. And while Leo hates the label, he can&’t argue with it. Unlike his little sister Lizzie, Leo is not a risk-taker. So when he, Lizzie, Mom and Dad leave the city to visit Grandpa on Heron Island, Leo finds all kinds of dangers to avoid — from the deep, dark ocean to an old barn on the verge of collapse. But nothing on the island is more fearsome than Grandpa himself — Leo has never met anyone so grumpy! According to Mom, Grandpa is still grieving the recent death of his wife, a beekeeper beloved by everyone on the island.Despite Leo's best efforts to avoid it, adventure finds him anyway when Grandma&’s beehives go missing in the dead of night. Infuriated, Grandpa vows to track down the sticky-fingered thieves himself . . . with risk-averse Leo and danger-loving Lizzie (plus a kitten named Mayhem) in tow.
The Big Sugar: A Brigid Reardon Mystery
by Mary LogueA grisly death near her new homestead draws Brigid Reardon into a complicated mystery soon after her arrival in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1881 After the harrowing events that entangled her in Deadwood, Brigid Reardon just wants to move west and get on with her new life in America. But shortly after traveling to Cheyenne to join her brother Seamus, she finds herself caught up in another deadly mystery—beginning with her discovery of a neighbor&’s body on the plains near their homes. Was Ella murdered? Are either of the two men in Ella&’s life responsible? With Seamus away on a cattle drive, her friend Padraic possibly succumbing to a local&’s charms, and the sheriff seemingly satisfied with Ella&’s fate, it falls to Brigid to investigate what really happened, which puts her in the crosshairs of one of Cheyenne&’s cattle barons, called &“big sugars&” in these parts. All she really wants is something better than a crumbling, soddy homestead on the desolate plains of Wyoming—and maybe, just maybe, she wants Padraic—but life, it seems, has other plans: this young immigrant from Ireland is going to be a detective on the western frontier of 1880s America, even if it kills her.Loosely based on the true story of Ellen Watson in Cheyenne in 1889, The Big Sugar continues the adventure begun in Mary Logue&’s celebrated mystery The Streel, which introduced a &“gritty, charming, clever protagonist&” (Kirkus Reviews). With a faultless sense of history, a keen eye for suspense, and a poet&’s way with prose, Mary Logue all but guarantees that readers, like Brigid, will find the mystery at the heart of The Big Sugar downright irresistible.
The Big Thaw
by Donald HarstadA killer is placing his cross hairs over the American heartland....The pair of frozen corpses were found under a tarp in the machine shed of an empty farmhouse. Two males -- brothers -- both killed by bullets from a Russian automatic fired at close range. The cops have a suspect: a man Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman busted five years earlier and the county's lead suspect in a series of recent robberies.Houseman knows they have the wrong guy. He also knows they've got something bigger than a burglary gone bad ... especially when the FBI starts showing up in Maitland. The brutal double homicide is just the tip of the iceberg in a case where a killer's trail keeps disappearing like footprints in freshly fallen snow, and where one bad break can send a good cop into a deep freeze.From the Paperback edition.
The Big Thaw
by Donald HarstadA killer is placing his cross hairs over the American heartland....The pair of frozen corpses were found under a tarp in the machine shed of an empty farmhouse. Two males -- brothers -- both killed by bullets from a Russian automatic fired at close range. The cops have a suspect: a man Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman busted five years earlier and the county's lead suspect in a series of recent robberies.Houseman knows they have the wrong guy. He also knows they've got something bigger than a burglary gone bad ... especially when the FBI starts showing up in Maitland. The brutal double homicide is just the tip of the iceberg in a case where a killer's trail keeps disappearing like footprints in freshly fallen snow, and where one bad break can send a good cop into a deep freeze.From the Paperback edition.
The Big Thaw (Carl Houseman #3)
by Donald HarstadWhat initially looks like a small time midwinter break-in, leads to something much bigger - a million dollar siege of a floating casino on the frozen Mississippi River. But the temperature is rising and the heat is on Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman. Following hard on the heels of the bestselling Eleven Days and The Known Dead, Donald Harstad really hits his stride with The Big Thaw, an irresistible big thriller with a Fargo-like atmosphere. The dead of winter has hit the heartland. It's thirty below zero and all anyone has to look forward to in Nation County, Iowa is an evening's entertainment aboard a floating casino docked a short drive away on the Mississippi River. With his friend and partner Hester Gorse pulling security duty on the Beauregard, it's left to Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman to keep Nation County criminals in check. In Carl's experience, though, crime takes a holiday when the mercury falls. But the men lying low at a nearby compound have much bigger plans. They're waiting for a break in the weather to pull off a masterful million-dollar siege of the state's biggest economic asset. While desperately trying to maintain his control of the investigation, Carl has to plan for disaster relief, lobby the FBI for a team of SWAT sharpshooters, hold the media at bay, and save Hester's life before the temperature rises for the big thaw...
The Big Whatever
by Peter Doyle Introduction by Luc SanteWhen Billy Glasheen picks up a trashy paperback he finds in his cab, its plot seems weirdly familiar. One of the main characters is based on him . . . Only one person knows enough about his past to have written it--Max, his double-crossing ex-partner in crime. But Max is dead. He famously went up in flames, along with a fortune in cash, after a bank heist. If Max is somehow still alive, Billy has a score to settle. And if he didn’t get fried to a crisp, maybe the money didn’t either. To find out, Billy has to follow the clues in the strange little book--and rapidly discovers he’s not the only one on Max’s trail. The Big Whatever is the fourth instalment of Peter Doyle’s acclaimed series, which has grown into an epic underground history of postwar Australia, where crooks, entertainers, scammers, corrupt cops and politicians all rub shoulders, chasing their big paydays.
The Bigger Fish: Two Girls, One Guy, Some Choices
by Roets MagdelTwo girls, one man, drugs, and salvation. They all have to choose, and when they do, their choice have to be from a sincere and undivided heart.
The Bigger They Come (Cool & Lam)
by Erle Stanley GardnerThe story of how a man can commit a brutal murder, confess, and get away with it!The killer was guilty without a shred of doubt. The police had him behind bars. The district attorney had plenty of evidence. But - no court in the state could convict him!The Bigger They Come features that fast-moving, skull-cracking team: Bertha Cool, a two-hundred pound "lady" who uses the language of a longshoreman. And Donald Lam, a pint-sized process server who would have been in the morgue long ago except that he can think faster than the next man ... or woman.
The Bigger They Come: A Cool and Lam Mystery
by Erle Stanley GardnerA private detective searches for a missing person in this "breathlessly dramatic" (Los Angeles Times) whodunnit from the creator of Perry Mason Bertha Cool is the gruff, tough-talking, corpulent head of her private detective agency, opened after the death of her husband; Donald Lam is her meek, slight, and nervy new hire, who makes up for a lack of boldness with brilliant deductive work. The duo couldn’t be any more dissimilar but, with their skills combined, they are an unstoppable force when it comes to solving crimes, as evidenced by their over two dozen successes in the long-running series penned by Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner. In this, their first outing, Donald Lam is tasked with delivering divorce papers to a man who reportedly made a fortune in rigged slot machines. The only problem is that nobody—not even the police—can find him. Before long, Lam’s seemingly-simple assignment finds him caught up in a web of money, mysterious safety deposit boxes, and a gang of toughs every bit as desperate as he is to find the runaway husband. Reissued for the first time in decades, and originally published under the A.A. Fair pen name, The Bigger They Come is an enjoyable private eye novel replete with puzzling scenarios and a humorous tone. As fast and twisty as anything Gardner ever wrote, the novel (and the series it spawned) is more Paul Drake than Perry Mason, but it is sure to please any fan of the Golden Age whodunnit. Includes discussion guide questions for use in book clubs.
The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles (California Century Mysteries #6)
by Ken KuhlkenIn 1926, when musician Tom Hickey reads a broadside about a lynching the Los Angeles newspapers failed to report and discovers the Negro victim was an old friend, he goes to his neighbor, LAPD detective Leo Weiss. Leo confirms that, officially, the lynching didn't occur. Tom has a dance orchestra to lead and a wild younger sister to raise. Yet he decides to investigate the murder. Since the lynching occurred in Echo Park, across the street from evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson's Angelus Temple, he goes there looking for clues. There he is greeted and watched by an usher who follows him after the service and continues to shadow him daily. The investigation earns Tom beatings and gunfire meant to dissuade him. Leo, a speakeasy owner, and a Klansman all warn him that he's made formidable enemies. Among them may be infamous Police Chief Two Gun Davis, Examiner publisher and political heavyweight William Randolph Hearst, and Times owner Harry Chandler. When Tom discovers the key to the murder, it lies--as is too often the case--close to home.
The Bike Race Mystery (Nancy Drew Notebooks #59)
by Carolyn Keene Paul CasaleNancy, Bess, and George are really excited about the bike race River Heights is holding during the girls' spring break. The winner gets lots of cool prizes! George is the most excited because she thinks her bike is the fastest. But a few days before the race, her bike disappears! Nancy and Bess promise to help George find it, but this bikenapper leaves almost no tracks to follow. Nancy must pedal her way through this mystery--and fast--or else George will be sitting on the sidelines!
The Bike Race Ruckus (Frank and Joe Hardy: The Clues Brothers #17)
by Franklin W. DixonA local sporting goods store is sponsoring a Bike Jamboree, and the grand prize is a super cool mountain bike. But someone is playing dirty tricks, and the Hardys are in for some rough riding to keep the big bike race from becoming a big disaster.
The Biker (Nightmare Hall #17)
by Diane HohA joyride turns deadly in this tale of murder and retribution The motorcycle appears out of nowhere, thundering down the quiet residential street. By the time it roars back up the block and disappears from view, a little boy is injured and an elderly woman is dead.Salem University outsider Echo Glenn is paying her own way through college by working part time at the school infirmary. She thinks she knows the identity of the Mad Biker in black leather who&’s been terrorizing the town—she just needs confirmation. And while she&’s at it, maybe she&’ll sneak a ride on his Harley. But the joyride turns into a journey of terror when the bike plows into a group of students outside a college hangout.Now Echo is an accomplice to murder—and the target of an avenging killer who&’s going to make sure she doesn&’t live to tell the tale.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
The Bilbao Looking Glass (The Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries #4)
by Charlotte MacLeodA couple finds an antique mirror that isn&’t broken, but still brings bad luck—&“MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate, and charming mystery&” (Publishers Weekly). According to Max Bittersohn, he and Sarah Kelling have witnessed enough murder and unhappiness, so it&’s high time they got married. And though Sarah hasn&’t yet agreed to such drastic measures, she invites Max to summer with her at Ireson&’s Landing. But they haven&’t been in the house ten minutes when they stumble upon summer&’s first mystery—a mint-condition, antique Spanish mirror that is tremendously rare and valuable. Sarah has never seen it before and she doesn&’t know how it ended up in the summerhouse, but the sleuthing couple will soon find this looking glass to be more troublesome than anything Lewis Carroll ever invented. As the zany Kelling clan descends on Ireson&’s Landing, Sarah and her beau try to uncover the mystery of the Bilbao looking glass—a quest that is disrupted when a vicious next-door neighbor is found hacked to death with a woodshed ax. By summer&’s end, Sarah and Max will learn that some murders can be solved simply by looking in the mirror.
The Bilbao Looking Glass (The Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries #4)
by Charlotte MacLeodA couple finds an antique mirror that isn&’t broken, but still brings bad luck—&“MacLeod can be counted on for a witty, literate, and charming mystery&” (Publishers Weekly). According to Max Bittersohn, he and Sarah Kelling have witnessed enough murder and unhappiness, so it&’s high time they got married. And though Sarah hasn&’t yet agreed to such drastic measures, she invites Max to summer with her at Ireson&’s Landing. But they haven&’t been in the house ten minutes when they stumble upon summer&’s first mystery—a mint-condition, antique Spanish mirror that is tremendously rare and valuable. Sarah has never seen it before and she doesn&’t know how it ended up in the summerhouse, but the sleuthing couple will soon find this looking glass to be more troublesome than anything Lewis Carroll ever invented. As the zany Kelling clan descends on Ireson&’s Landing, Sarah and her beau try to uncover the mystery of the Bilbao looking glass—a quest that is disrupted when a vicious next-door neighbor is found hacked to death with a woodshed ax. By summer&’s end, Sarah and Max will learn that some murders can be solved simply by looking in the mirror.
The Billie Wilde Thrillers Books One to Three: The Magpie, The Devil's Line, The Mad-Hatter Murders (The Billie Wilde Thrillers)
by Marrisse WhittakerThree hard-hitting police thrillers set in northern England and starring a determined detective with her own demons . . . This collection of gritty mysteries includes:The MagpieFinalist for the Lindisfarne Prize for Debut Crime Fiction To prove that she&’s still at the top of her game, DSI Billie Wilde is on a mission to catch the killer responsible for a horrific showcase of murders. But when hidden skeletons come out of dark corners, Billie is forced to grapple with her past, and learns she isn&’t who she thought she was. And it soon turns out, she has devastating childhood links to each of the victims . . .The Devil&’s Line After a teenage girl&’s body turns up on train tracks, Billie and the police find a link between the girl&’s murder and a County Lines gang of traffickers notorious for exploiting the vulnerable. Someone has been using children to peddle drugs—someone closer to home than Billie can imagine—and she intends to stop those who shatter the innocence of the young . . .The Mad-Hatter Murders DSI Wilde is in the throes of an intense romantic relationship—but it&’s nothing compared to the pressure of her latest case, a series of deaths that seem to have a connection to Alice in Wonderland. And as she works closely with an undercover PI, Wilde starts to feel like she&’s gone through the looking-glass herself . . .
The Billion Dollar Ransom (Hardy Boys Mystery Stories #73)
by Franklin W. DixonFenton Hardy is asked by an old friend to do security for a magician's show, but Frank and Joe are given the job.
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
by Paul E. ErdmanFact sometimes trails in the footsteps of fiction, and so it is that events in the real world have followed much the course predicted by Paul Erdman's famous novel. Written when the first Arab oil embargo sent shock waves through our carefully balanced and delicately tuned economic system, THE BILLION DOLLAR SURE THING describes a plot to control the world's monetary assets.
The Billionaire Who Bought Christmas
by Barbara DunlopWIFE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDERTo save the family fortune, billionaire Jack Osland had to marry a woman he barely knew. Getting struggling clothing designer Kristy Mahoney to a Las Vegas chapel a minute after meeting her was no problem. Even though she supposedly loved someone else. Prenup in hand, Jack planned to enjoy his wedding-night privileges, then walk away with the untouchable Osland billions. He'd teach his gorgeous temporary bride a little lesson and have a very merry Christmas. But he had married the wrong woman.…
The Billionaire's Colton Threat
by Geri KrotowIn the latest The Coltons of Shadow Creek romance, a billionaire and his expectant bride put their lives on the line Single, pregnant and nearly bankrupt, Halle Ford makes a deal with a sexy Scottish devil: she'll marry billionaire Alastair Buchanan. Why? For the sake of their baby-conceived after one night of passion-and to save her beloved Bluewood Ranch. They plan to divorce after one year, but their burgeoning Lone Star love might just surprise them! But no sooner do the cowgirl and her Scotsman say, "I do," than their very livelihoods are threatened. Someone begins sabotaging Halle's ranch, while Alastair's family whiskey empire comes under siege. Drawn together by passion and danger, can the newlyweds protect the family they've both come to cherish?