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Descirption: NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to the town of Henry Adams with a story of family, friendship, love, and second chances.
In Henry Adams, Kansas, you can't start over without stirring things up . . .
Many a good woman has had to leave a no-good man, but how many of them took a back-seat to his 600-lb. hog? On her own for the first time, Genevieve Gibbs is ecstatic, even if certain people preferred the doormat version of Ms. Gibbs. Finding someone who appreciates the "new" her has only just hit Gen's to-do list when T.C. Barbour appears in her life.
A tiny Kansas town is a far cry from his native Oakland, California, but it's just the change T. C. needs. While helping his divorced nephew acclimate to single fatherhood, T. C. lands a gig driving a limo for the most powerful woman in Henry Adams. It's a great way to meet people-and one in particular has already made the job worthwhile. All it takes is a short trip from...
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Descirption: "Nora was a real gold-plated dish--with expensive tastes, costly love affairs and a daddy with a gold mine as big as the Ritz. Her eyes met Shayne's without faltering, but her lips trembled. She was a poor little rich girl in trouble. Everything she touched turned to gold--but everywhere she went there was murder!"
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The front page tease gives a good example of what's in store:
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">I'm on vacation when I meet this gorgeous trick with a head of golden hair that's worth half of Fort Knox. Her old man has found a mine worth the other half. Putting them together she stacks up as a lucky girl. Then she disappears. With her looks, and her old man's loot, I figure she's a diamond-studded candidate for the morgue. That makes her my dish. After all, murder and blondes are my business.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">From 1957, this was one of the final Mike Shayne books Davis Dresser did before turning the "Brett Halliday" mantle over to other writers. THE BLONDE CRIED MURDER is a remarkably complicated tangle of a story, with a half dozen characters claiming to be someone other than who they really are, a reported murder without a corpse, Shayne smacking his head against the wall in frustration as he tries to figure things out and one beautiful theory after another gets shot down ("Why do these screwy things have to happen to me? Why in the goddamn hell can't I just once in my life get a nice, high-priced clean-cut sort of case...?") Meanwhile, unknown to him, his secretary Lucy is within a hair of being brutally killed herself.
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">And it all takes place between nine-thirty p.m. and midnight on a particularly hectic Miami night. Honestly, I kept up with the plot more from having long years of experience reading mysteries than because of having any innate deductive ability (now let me see, that woman in the taxi is altogether too smug and collected... she's in on the murder. And the guy who mentioned he broke his glasses and doesn't have another pair, that's a Big Clue if I ever saw one). For most of the book, I was doing all right, but toward the end, I lost it completely and threw up my figurative hands and just let the narrative carry me along. It's kinda like looking up the answers in the back of a crossword puzzle book, but I was stuck.
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">At nine-thirty, Shayne is driving his longtime secretary and companion Lucy Hamilton back to her apartment; it's the night that the possibility of their getting married is finally on their minds and they're both subdued and thoughtful about what's going to happen next ("Maybe time has caught up with us, angel. I feel this is a matter for serious discussion over a drink.") . About time, too, I should say. Shayne's wife Phyllis did die fourteen years earlier, after all, and Lucy has been a solid support to him all the years since. But, Shayne's business being what it is, there's an interruption with a desperate call for help and he leaves Lucy with a solemn promise to return before midnight for the brandy she has already poured for him.
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">After that, one puzzling event crowds another so fast the pages practically turn themselves. A beautiful (what else?) blonde swears she saw her brother's bloody corpse in a hotel room, and yet no trace of the corpse is to be found. She's being chased by a big guy with a scar on his face and an Army automatic, and he claims that he IS her brother and that she's more than slightly insane. The whole mess might be tied up with a brother and sister in Jacksonville who were working the old badger game*. Then a body with its throat sliced open does bob up in the ocean not far from the scene, but who the heck is it? And what exactly is happening to poor Lucy Hamilton back in her apartment, unexpectedly finding herself tied to a chair with one arm free to answer the phone call which will signal the end of her life?
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">What slightly surprised me is that Mike Shayne does not end up framed for murder or even threatened with being arrested for covering up a crime. That's a novelty in itself. He does get a gruff lecture from security officer chief Will Gentry for not revealing he kno where her client is hiding (especially since it looks like she is in real jeopardy because of it), but that's nothing. Nine times out of ten in his cases, Shayne is headed for the electric chair unless he can solve the mystery and provide the real killer.
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Davis Dresser thro in a few digressions and bits of character development that aren't strictly speaking necessary for the narrative, but they are amusing or touching just as incidents. A switchboard operator who had to break a date to work late gets interested in all the mayhem happening at the hotel and reflects "what with dead bodies that weren't there and all, maybe she wasn't going to mind missing her date with Roger so much after all." A married woman having a sleazy affair is with her lover when they find the body in the water; she has a sudden flash that the corpse could very easily be someone like her husband who was killed because he was in the way. The thought so troubles her that she rushes off crying and her boyfriend "had no way in the world of knowing that his affair with Muriel was already ended..." . Little sidebars like that are not essential to the plot, but they do give the story some color and resonance.
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">I like the way Mike Shayne is a local celebrity in a notorious, slightly shady way. A taxi driver recommends him to a distraught woman ("He always seems to be getting himself mixed up in screwy cases....") and another guy says to an intimidating stranger looking for the woman, "He took her to see Michael Shayne, and if you feel like tangling with that redhead, he'd like to be around to see it." Of course, maybe these Miami natives had seen the B movies and listened to the radio show.
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">THE BLONDE CRIED MURDER has a little note on the indicia page (it's copyrighted 1956) that "an abbreviated version of this book has appeared serially under the title TWO HOURS TO MIDNIGHT." Since I don't see it listed in Halliday's own MIKE SHAYNE'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, I'm curious to know where it did first see print. From DIVIDEND ON DEATH in 1939 to the last issue of MIKE SHAYNE'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, our favorite redheaded private eye had quite a respectable run.
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS Shell Dlg 2', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">* I don't know if it's fallen out of use, but the "badger game" involved a woman picking up someone in a bar and going to a hotel with him. Then her beefy accomplice stormed in, claiming to be her husband or father, and violence was only averted by the victim handing over a large sum of money. What all this has to do with a badger escapes me.
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How to make simple sense of complex statistics-from the author of Numbers Rule Your World
We live in a world of Big Data-and it's getting biggerevery day. Virtually every choice we make hinges on how someone generates data . . . and how someone else interprets it-whether we realize it or not.Where do you send your child for the best education?Big Data. Which airline should you choose to ensure a timely arrival? Big Data. Who will you vote for in the next election? Big Data.The problem is, the more data we have, the more difficult it is to interpret it. From world leaders to average citizens, everyone is prone to making critical decisions based on poor data interpretations.In Numbersense, expert statistician Kaiser Fungexplains when you should accept the conclusions of the Big Data "experts"-and when you should say, "Wait . . . what?" He delves deeply into a wide range of topics, offering the answers to important...
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Descirption: In 1745 a little-known German princess named Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst married the nephew of Empress Elizabeth of Russia. Seventeen years later she overthrew her husband to become Catherine the Great, one of the most celebrated monarchs in history, turning eighteenth-century Russia into arguably the largest and most powerful state since the fall of the Roman Empire. Admired for her achievements and satirized for her personal life, she wrote the most revealing memoirs by any European ruler. She promoted radical political ideas and emphasized moderation in government. Ruthless when necessary, she charmed everyone she met, joking at private dinner parties in the Hermitage, which she had built for her own use. Determined to endear herself to the Russians, she made religious devotions in which she never believed. Intimate and revealing, Simon Dixon's new biography examines the lifelong friendships that sustained the empress throughout her personal life, and places her within the context of the royal court: its politics, its flourishing literature, and the very culture that became central to her exercise of absolute power.
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Eker's claim to fame is that he took a $2,000 credit card loan, opened "one of the first fitness stores in North America," turned it into a chain of 10 within two and a half years and sold it in 1987 for a cool (but somewhat modest-seeming) $1.6 million. Now the Vancouver-based entrepreneur traverses the continent with his "Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar," on which this debut motivational business manual is based. What sets it apart is Eker's focus on the way people think and feel about money and his canny, class-based analyses of broad differences among groups. In rat-a-tat, "Let me explain" seminar-speak, Eker asks readers to think back to their childhoods and pick apart the lessons they passively absorbed from parents and others about money. With such psychological nuggets as "Rich people focus on opportunities/ Poor people focus on obstacles," Eker puts a positive spin on stereotypes, arguing that poverty begins, or rather, is allowed to continue, in one's imagination first, with actual material life becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. To that end, Eker counsels for admiration and against resentment, for positivity, self-promotion and thinking big and against wallowing, self-abnegation and small-mindedness. While much of the advice is self-evident, Eker's contribution is permission to think of one's financial foibles as a kind of mental illness-one, he says, that has a ready set of cures.
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Eker, a multimillionaire, teaches us how to become rich. He believes thoughts lead to feelings, which lead to actions, which lead to results, and hence the key to attaining great wealth begins with thinking--like rich people do. He offers new ways of thinking and acting that will lead to new and different results, and he tells us, "Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything." The book emphasizes Eker's 17 principles for amassing wealth, which include: rich people believe that they create their life, while poor people believe "life happens to me." Rich people focus on opportunities, while poor people focus on obstacles. Rich people act in spite of fear, while poor people let fear stop them. Rich people constantly learn and grow, while poor people think they know enough. This is an obvious infomercial for the author's training seminars; however, although many may not agree with all of Eker's ideas, his book offers thought-provoking advice and valuable insight. Mary Whaley
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