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In the midst of a demonstration staged by sit-down strikers, WPA Administrator Henry Ireton is murdered at his desk. Ex-newspaperman Jim Moore has been sent from Washington to look into trouble in Ireton's district, and finds himself both the temporary new deputy administrator and sidekick to Lieut. Pietro Tonelli, the hard-boiled but human ace of the Homicide Squad, as they investigate the murder. The killer strikes again, but Moore and Tonelli discover further trouble as evidence arises that a secretive criminal organization has spread its tentacles throughout Ireton's district, threatening to spread nationwide. Politics and murder go hand in hand in Murder in the WPA.Murder in the WPA was published in 1937. (More classic mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.)

A scream, mounting higher and higher over the bustle and clatter back-stage at the Bolton Theatre- A woman staggers from the star's dressing-room, her white satin gown stained and patterned with the gory foot-prints of a little dog, her face contorted into a mask of horror-But the show must go on!The audience must be entertained-must laugh-while murder stalks among them. A killer may be on the stage among the players, he may be among the musicians in the orchestra, or he may be sitting there among the spectators.Anything might happen here. The Bolton Theatre is known to the theatrical profession as a "jinx house."Defying convention, public opinion, the press, the District Attorney himself, Detective-Sergeant Pietro Tonelli, who glories in the proud title of "cop," carries out a bold plan to detect a murderer who has come and gone like a phantom.A crisp story, with action in every line. A glamorous picture of life behind the scenes of a great city written by a newspaper man who knows.The Jinx Theatre Murder was published in 1933. (More classic mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.)

The body of Dr. John R. Holstead, Gramercy Park inventor and owner of a wholesale drug house, is hurled out of an airplane above Market Street in Newark. Suspects are plentiful: his latest (and missing) formula is worth millions (as foreign agents well know), his nephew is suspected of peddling cocaine, his late best friend's grasping widow is in dire need of money, and some clues point to shifty smugglers. Detective Sergeant 'Pete' Tonelli of New York's homicide squad untangles the clues, leading to a lively climax and desperate battle. Death over Newark was published in 1933.

Clad only in a filmy nightdress, brutally murdered Marguerite Scholl lies horribly dead in the bedroom of her tiny Greenwich Village apartment, her throat cut so deeply that her head has been nearly severed from her body.Who among the free-loving and loose-living denizens of the Village hated the beautiful blonde stenographer with such awful passion as to do this dark and bloody thing? Police suspicion lands fast on Marguerite's live-in boyfriend, struggling artist Bob Crocker. But seasoned crime reporter Peter Adams, who seemingly always manages to be on hand for a murder, thinks Bob is innocent. ("The lice!" he raves about the perfunctory police investigation. "They're so damn sure Crocker bumped this girl they don't even bother to look around!")Spurred by the weird writing and cryptic symbols left at the scene of the crime, Peter, along with another of Bob's women friends, Houston King, looks into Marguerite's hidden past in the backwoods of Pennsylvania to find a motive for murder. There the pair finds stranger things than ever were seen even in bohemian Greenwich Village. . . .Inspired by events in a notorious and bizarre 1928 slaying, The Hex Murder is an original and engrossing detective novel, a "shuddery" [Saturday Review] vintage classic back in print for the first time in over eighty years.

Alexander Williams has been a McKenzie Friend in the Family Courts for the last eighteen years. How to Beat the Family Courts encapsulates his advice, mostly directed at men, on coping with the well-known bias found in the processes of law used to sort out disputes over child arrangements following a couple's separation or divorce. This is the PRINT-ON-DEMAND version of the book. Distributed and wholesaled by Gardner Books, printed via Ingram Lightning Source. The stated intention of this book is clear and unapologetic: to help men who just want to be fathers. What the book does not cover are: financial disputes, property settlements, Public Law action by social services, advise on divorce proceedings, or anything to do with newly defined parenthood resulting from medical intervention or same-sex marriages. The topic of discussion is 'child arrangements orders' made in the Lower Family Courts of England and Wales. As Family Courts in Scotland and Northern Ireland have different practices as well as different laws, especially in Scotland, most of this work does not apply in those countries.When read as a self-help guide for 'litigants in person, ' chapters of the book standalone as advice for men in different personal and financial circumstances. Yet, this work is more than just a legal guide for Private Law litigants. It is also a commentary on the state of Family Law in Great Britain at the start of the 21st Century. For the author is determined we don't lose the history of how countless fathers and their children have already suffered from discrimination at the hands of our Family Court Judges. While some may be alarmed at what he writes, others will find illuminating Williams' examination and explanations of the politics and intrigues surrounding the making of, and the execution of, Family Law. On this you are guaranteed a read that doesn't pull its punches.While the text has been checked by practising solicitors, the publisher cautions that reading this book is not intended to replace any of the other good support available to parents estranged from their children; be that books by lawyers, or assistance from parent support organisations, online forums or lobbyists. Both the author and publisher warn that reading this volume is not the same as getting legal advice, nor does it replace expert assistance in settling disputes about child arrangements following divorce or separation. However, what this book can do is to provide some experience-based glue around all of these different forms of help.