Choker

Frederick Ramsay

Worldwide Library Worldwide Mystery

Stranger Room

Worldwide Mystery

Danger Woman A Botswana Mystery

Worldwide

Impulse

In a story warm yet suspenseful, amidst a floodtide of emotions and rich characterizations, Frederick Ramsay explores the role of impulse on many levels. Frank Smith, famed writer of murder mysteries, boards a Southwest Airlines flight at Phoenix heading to Baltimore to attend his fiftieth class reunion at Scott Academy. Behind him he leaves the highly mysterious disappearance of his wife four years before, as well as the relentless quest of Officer Ledezma, who suspects that Smith killed his wife and buried the body. Another mystery awaits Frank at Scott Academy -- a mystery from twenty-five years ago, when a group of young boys walked from the campus into the woods and disappeared. What could have happened to them? Who better than he to probe the mystery? When he does so, he relives not only his own boyhood when his father was the upright head of the academy's English department but also that of the classmates of the missing boys, some of whom have returned to Scott Academy for their twenty-fifth reunion.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Robert Hale, Ltd.

Southern sheriff Ike Schwartz and FBI agent Karl Hedrick must investigate the mystery of a murder in the ""stranger room,"" a place of protection for a family expecting trouble, in a historic house that is being restored by its owner.

Stranger Room (An Ike Schwartz Mystery)(Library Edition)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

When a plane disappears off the radar over the Chesapeake Bay, it is called a pilot-error accident. But when an old CIA friend approaches former sheriff Ike Schwartz to investigate, Ike is catapulted into a terrorism plot.

Choker (An Ike Schwartz Mystery)(Library Edition)

The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all of South Africa's neighbors. The arrival of soccer fans, team owners, sponsors, and world dignitaries makes southern Africa, particularly Botswana, ripe for all sorts of intrigue and illicit activities. The American Secretary of State will visit the Chobe; the North Koreans, the Okavango; Arabs, French, Chinese, and Russians are scattered among the various lodges and hotels in the country before, during, and after the games--and all will be watching and waiting on the others. Orgonise Africa, derived from Wilhelm Reich's popularization of orgone energy and transmogrified by bad science and wishful thinking, is an effort by fanatics to push forward a plan to seed Africa with orgone, which they believe will purify the continent, rid it of drought, poverty, and HIV/AIDS. To the north, Patriarche, a silverback mountain gorilla, is forced to share his habitat with coltan miners led by General Le Grande, one of the Congo's many bloody warlords. The profits from the sale of coltan, so prized by electronics manufacturers, help fuel the seemingly endless civil wars that plague that poor country. Sanderson, Game Ranger of Chobe National Park, finds a body. Tracking down the murderer opens doors that lead her and Inspector Kgabo Modise first to evidence of local bribery, then to smuggling, and finally to what could well provoke an international incident, if not for the shrewd action of Modise and Botswana's intelligence community.

Reapers (A Botswana Mystery)

Ike Schwartz and Ruth Harris had to delay a vacation in Las Vegas because, at the last moment, Ruth was required to go to Scone Island, Maine, to settle an estate. But that task is soon complicated by one and then another suspicious death. First, a long-time resident slips off a cliff. Was he pushed? Then the woman who found the body is discovered on a foot path dead from an apparent heart attack and a head wound that is not easily explained. Ruth finds herself briefly cast as a person of interest in the second death. When things seem to be slipping out of hand, Ike arrives just in time to witness the discovery of a third body, that of Simon Weiss. Weiss had come to the island to purchase properties with an eye to turning it into a high-end resort. His tactics and personality so alienated the residents that it is no surprise that he is killed, his body found under the community pier with a professionally placed bullet hole in his forehead. As his plans were allegedly financed by the New York Mafia, it seems obvious who ordered the hit. This brings the FBI into play, to the distress of the local police. With an array of suspects, motives, and even the island's history to confound the investigation, Ike, with the aid of local Deputy Sheriff Tom Stone and the able, if quirky, assistance of Ruth, unravels these three deaths but not without heavy costs to villains, residents, and their children.

Rogue (An Ike Schwartz Mystery)

Blackstone Audiobooks

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] The Eighth Veil is a mystery set in first-century Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles. A murdered servant girl is found in the palace of King Herod Antipas. The prefect, Pontius Pilate, is in attendance. The populace has already been buzzing over the brutal death of one of their prophets, John, known familiarly as the Baptizer, and scandal is in the air. Pilate wants no trouble and insists that there be an independent investigation into the murder. But Antipas will have none of Pilate's men in the palace, and Pilate doesn't trust Antipas. So Pilate turns to Gamaliel, the chief rabbi and head of the Sanhedrin, and coerces him to do the detective work. Gamaliel is a Talmudic scholar, not a sleuth, and he at first struggles; however, he is soon won over to the assignment as he learns more of the dead girl's background and that of the other major players in the drama, particularly Antipas' foster brother, Menahem. Soon, Gamaliel, in Sherlockian fashion, begins to fit the pieces together, or, as his ''Watson'' Loukas says, ''strips the veils from his personal Salome.'' Pilate, in spite of his impatience with the pace and direction of the investigation, is rewarded when it turns out that the girl is not the mere servant that everyone had assumed. Meanwhile, the Battle of Actium and the fascinating histories of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Herod the Great, Mark Antony, and Augustus Caesar become critically entwined with the investigation. And the figure of Jesus, the rabbi from Nazareth, with his ragged band of enthusiasts and his habit of annoying Caiaphas, the High Priest, moves enigmatically in the background.

The Eighth Veil (A Jerusalem Mystery) (Jerusalem Mysteries (Audio))

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.][Read by Robin Field] Jerusalem's deadly secrets are emerging from the smoke. The year is AD 29, and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empire's continued presence and oppressive rule. In spite of that unpleasant fact, life goes on -- but not for everyone. People die, some because it is their time, others by misadventure. One death in particular brings the city's daily routine to a halt. A badly burned body is found behind the veil of the holy of holies -- the temple's inner sanctum and the most sacred space on earth for the Jews. No one except the high priest may enter this place and he only once a year on the Day of Atonement. This is no casual violation, and the authorities are in an uproar. Rabban Gamaliel of the Sanhedrin, the ranking rabbi in all Judea, is drawn into solving this delicate mystery while dark agents with unholy interests plot to seize control of much of the trade in certain highly profitable imports from the east and west. Loukas, the physician, plays Watson to Gamaliel's Sherlock as they slowly unravel the tangled web of intrigue and murder, but not before more bodies, both literal and figurative, show up. All the while Yeshua, the radical rabbi from Galilee, continues to annoy the high priest and smoke -- holy smoke -- rises from the sacrifices in the temple.

Holy Smoke (Jerusalem Mysteries (Audio))

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