[PDF] The Transcendental Murder eBook

Author : Jane Langton
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9049984916

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In an intellectual hamlet, century-old love letters give rise to murder The citizens of Concord, Massachusetts, never tire of their heritage. For decades, the intellectuals of this little hamlet have continued endless debates about Concord’s favorite sons: Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and their contemporaries. Concord’s latter-day transcendental scholars are a strange bunch, but none is more peculiar than Homer Kelly, an expert on Emerson and on homicide. An old-fashioned murder is about to put both skills to the test. At a meeting of the town’s intellectuals, Ernest Goss produces a cache of saucy love letters written by the men and women of the transcendentalist sect. Although Homer chortles at the idea that Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson might have had a fling, Goss insists the letters are real. He never gets a chance to prove it. Soon after he is found killed by a musket ball. The past may not be dead, but Goss certainly is.

Author : Jane Langton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2008-05-02
Category : Cambridge (Mass.)
ISBN : 9781934609033

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Scholarly infighting can get a lot more violent than most outsiders realize, but usually that violence is confined to the printed page. Not so in Concord, Mass., where the arrival of Homer Kelly, an expert on the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, has stirred up passions concerning a manuscript that may or may not have been written by Henry David Thoreau. Things come to a head during the town's annual re-enactment of Paul Revere's famous ride, when one of the 'Minutemen' turns up dead, still in full Revolutionary regalia. Accustomed to little more than the odd stolen bicycle, the local police are way over their head, but Kelly in this, his first outing proves as gifted at sleuthing as he is at scholarship.

Author : Jane Langton
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9049984894

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Homer defends a crazed poet accused of using an eclipse as cover for murder For all her life, poet Kitty Clark has waited to see a total eclipse of the sun. News of an impending eclipse thrills her until she learns it will be visible only from Nantucket, where one year ago her ex-lover Joe Green moved with his new wife. Unable to resist the astronomical lure, she flies in from Boston, and makes her way to an isolated lighthouse, hoping to avoid seeing Joe. The eclipse itself is overwhelming; Kitty screams when the sun vanishes behind the dark blot of the moon. When the sun returns a few minutes later, Kitty stands over the bloodied body of Mrs. Joe Green, claiming “the moon did it.” Transcendentalist scholar and former detective Homer Kelly agrees to defend the troubled young poet, but the more Kitty insists she is innocent, the crazier she appears. To clear her name he must discover who set her up, and what happened during the two minutes when the Nantucket sun disappeared.

Author : Diane Mott Davidson
Publisher : Crimeline
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553560247

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“A classic whodunit . . . the perfect book for food lovers.”—New York Daily News Goldy Bear is the bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life is a recipe for disaster, with bills taking a bite out of her budget and her abusive ex-husband making tasteless threats. Determined to take control, Goldy moves her business to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club. Soon she’s preparing decadent dinners and posh society picnics—and enjoying the favors of Philip Miller, a handsome local shrink, and Tom Schulz, her more-than-friendly neighborhood cop. Until, that is, the dishy doctor drives his BMW into an oncoming bus. Convinced that Philip’s bizarre death was no accident, Goldy begins to sift through the dead doc’s unpalatable secrets. But this case is seasoned with unexpected danger and even more unexpected revelations—the kind that could get a caterer killed. Praise for Diane Mott Davidson and Dying for Chocolate “You don’t have to be a cook or a mystery fan to love Diane Mott Davidson’s books.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune “A cross between Mary Higgins Clark and Betty Crocker.”—The Baltimore Sun Includes recipes!

Author : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1416551743

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Originally published: Oscar Wilde and the candlelight murders. London : John Murray, 2007.

Author : Joseph Weber
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2014-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1609382358

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Stores selling exotic goods popped up, TM followers built odd-looking homes that modeled the guru's rules for peace-inspiring architecture, and the new university knocked down a historic chapel, even as it erected massive golden-domed buildings for meditators. Some newcomers got elected--and others were defeated--when they ran for local and statewide offices. At times, thousands from across the globe visited the small town. Yet Transcendental Meditation did not always achieve its aims of personal and social tranquility. Suicides and a murder unsettled the meditating community over the years, and some followers were fleeced by con men from their own ranks. Some battled a local farmer over land use and one another over doctrine. Notably, the world has not gotten more peaceful. Today the guru is dead. His followers are graying, and few of their children are moving into leadership roles.

Author : J. Warner Wallace
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1434705463

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Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity. A unique apologetic that speaks to readers’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianity inspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity.

Author : Jane Langton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Concord (Mass.)
ISBN : 9780440189947

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The peaceful town of Concord, Massachusetts is steeped in a glorious past, celebrating, as it did each year, the pageant of Paul Revere's fateful ride and the birth of American liberty. But this year, the Shot Heard Round the World would be followed by more sinister gunfire. Suddenly Concord was swept up in a mystery of the past and the menace of the future, plunged into a race against death with a killer in the saddle and a lovely young woman caught under the pounding hooves of terror.