DescriptionLucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests stage a mock murder beside the swimming pool. Unfortunately, the victim plays the scene for real. As his blood drips into the water, John Christow gasps one final word: "Henrietta". In the confusion, a gun sinks to the bottom of the pool. Poirot's enquiries reveal a complex web of romantic attachments. It seems everyone in the drama is a suspect, and each a victim of love.
DescriptionFirst, a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore. Then, a young scuba diver sent to investigate the wreck is found floating lifeless in the water. Doc Adams, the unhappy friend of the unlucky aquarian, has just been launched through the stormy seas and blood-flecked sands of the Cape Cod coast to plumb a murder he should have prevented. There he uncovers a hidden treasure in illegal arms and barely survives a near-fatal confrontation with a gun. That leaves the killers he's hunting with the comfortable feeling that Doc is dead. Now Doc can watch for the first wrong move they make.
DescriptionGuns of Mark Jardine is set against the wild and lawless territory of Arizona in the years following the Civil War. Jardine, 30 years old, clean cut and a crack shot, is drawn to Arizona to avenge the torture and death of his best friend who was ambushed there after striking a small fortune in gold. Jardine's arrival stirs up a whole hornet's nest of trouble that brings him into the bad graces of Barbara Alan, whose father was one of the largest landholders in Arizona before he was murdered. Whoever killed Barbara's father now wants her ranch as well. And when Jardine takes on the task of single-handedly getting her out of the territory alive, while at the same time tracking the trail of his friend's killers, he may just have saddled himself with one too many problems.
DescriptionHollywood has come to Lake Eden, and The Cookie Jar is snack central for the movie crew. And when the demanding director turns up dead after someone switches the movie's prop gun with a real gun, there's a baker's dozen worth of suspects. Joanne Fluke continues her popular Hannah Swensen mysteries with this mix of crime and confection.
DescriptionLance Kilkenny's gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one desiring for himself the water hole that Davis claims. Beautiful Nita Riordan owns the local saloon, and between her charms and the feuding ranchers, Lance Kilkenny has his work cut out for him.
DescriptionWith more than 60 confirmed kills, Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps' top-ranked sniper. Shooter is his harrowing first-person account of a sniper's life on and off the modern battlefield. Gunnery Sergeant Jack Coughlin is a divorced father of tw…
