An Excellent Night for Murder: (A Rocky Allen Mystery), Rath Virginia

Автор: Rath Virginia
Название: Ferryman, Take Him Across!: (A Rocky Allen Mystery)
ISBN: 1616464720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616464721
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 1875.00 р.
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In this book the author of Death at Dayton^'s Folly and Murder on the Day of Judgment has done for the small-town high school what Dorothy Sayers did for Oxford's woman's college in Gaudy Night.

Once again the amiable and homespun Rocky Allan, aided and abetted by his red-haired wife Eleanor, is featured in this tale dealing with the stabbings of a local Don Juan and Circe. The trouble began at a charity dance given at the Merton High School gymnasium. During that time the many hatreds and antipathies which flowed beneath the apparently calm surface of the social life of the families of the high-school faculty were revealed.

And on the morning following the dance the town awoke to a shocking tragedy. A dual stabbing had occurred during the night, and in the mouth of the murdered high-school teacher was discovered an old coin dated 1565 and bearing the Latin inscription, "Whom God hath joined, let no man put asunder." Rocky, with only this amazing modern example of Charon's fare to guide him, undertook the investigation. He found, that a terrifically tangled web of enmities, violent emotions and cross-purposes involved the whole high-school faculty. He also learned of the three colored bibelot cats, at least two of which were associated with the murder. He further learned of a stolen kitchen knife, and was heard to remark, "Nothing happened. People did a lot of talking. About divorces, purses and the smell of onions." But perhaps in the end he received his greatest assistance in solving the case from Mary of Scotland and Henry Darnley.

This is not only an engrossing mystery story, but Mrs. Rath has constructed a solid background which gives her book much of the quality of a straight novel. She has taken her own intimate knowledge of backstage life in a typical American high school and worked it into her story in a way to give an almost unique picture of this little-discussed phase of American social life.

Ferryman, Take Him Across was published in 1936.

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Автор: Rath Virginia
Название: Murder on the Day of Judgment: (A Rocky Allen Mystery)
ISBN: 1616464712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616464714
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 1875.00 р.
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Sapphira Barlow started life as one of Madame Sophie's girls, but at seventy, after many vicissitudes, she was a revivalist of shadowy reputation. At her Coon Hollow camp in the California mountains she had gathered her Satellites about her to await the end of the world, at 3:45 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, August 26. Into this weird and fanatical group comes Rocky Allan with that engaging redhead, Eleanor, his wife. They have been summoned to the camp by their lean, saturnine friend, Theophilus Pope, who rightly suspects that murder, and not the Judgment Day, is the menace threatening the camp.

The first to meet death is the potbellied and dour Rev. Saul Cheney, former side-show barker. Then, on the morning of August 26, Sapphira is found strangled, with a card reading "The Day of Judgment has come" in her lap. And Rocky, in the remote fastness of the California mountains, with no criminological accessories at hand, is confronted with one of the most baffling crimes human ingenuity could evolve.

Murder on the Day of Judgment was published in 1936.

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Автор: Rath Virginia
Название: The Anger of the Bells: (A Rocky Allen Mystery)
ISBN: 1616464739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616464738
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 1875.00 р.
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When Kitty Featherstone-Quinn tired of writing "At Kitty's Advice to the Lovelorn" she took the money she had saved and bought a resort hotel in Gold Gulch, a "ghost" mining town. Her arrival in the Gulch precipitated an outlay of ghostly manifestations and bell ringing. Convinced that there was a plot to run her out of the neighborhood, she appealed to Rocky Allan, the local sheriff. Rocky visited Kitty's El Dorado Inn in time to meet the strange group of bohemian characters there assembled and in time to witness a fire which left in its ashes only two sets of false teeth to account for the missing Quinn brothers. Rocky also discovered the evidence of the mysterious midnight shave, the "white stone," the lost china brooch, and the mystery of the tolling bells. Finally, in exasperation, he turned a bell to his own advantage and with the aid of some pink and yellow embroidered roses solved a baffling murder.

This is the most ingenious of all Mrs. Rath's stories, and it is peopled with thoroughly delightful and entertaining characters. The reader will not soon forget Mary Anne and her malapropisms, Dad Allan who put on his fancy boots to go gunning, Olivia James who had her face slapped, or the garrulous Kitty Featherstone-Quinn. This book is particularly recommended to the reader who likes his mystery story to possess some of the substantial qualities of a novel of character.

The Anger of the Bells was published in 1937.

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Автор: Rath, Tom Conchie, Barry
Название: Strengths-based leadership
ISBN: 1595620257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781595620255
Издательство: Perseus
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Цена: 4224.00 р.
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Описание: From the author of the long-running #1 bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0 comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams and the reasons why people follow.