Bøger af Rae Davis

After taking a permanent position with Dr. Porter Gaven, Andy Sloan sets off for Europe on a case, planning to give her companions the slip in order to locate her friend, Humberto Castillo, who is missing. Finding him will lead to the whereabouts of Priceless treasures: a golden Menorah, a jeweled Templar crown, a golden staff, and most importantly, a sacred manuscript called 'The Lost Book of Uriel, written by James the brother of Christ.

AN ANDRIETTA SLOAN ADVENTURE Andy Sloan has been sent by Dr. Porter Gaven to acquire publishing rights to diaries written aboard the Mayflower by pilgrim John Alden. When Andy visits George Alden, owner, she sees him dead and his cabin tossed. Andy finds the diaries under the floor, grabs the bag containing them, and loads them into her vehicle, fleeing for her life. When she looks inside Volume II, she discovers what the villains were really after: The diaries are not just historically significant; their contents could lead to the whereabouts of priceless treasures and the discovery of an ancient scroll that could unlock the secret to the origin of Christianity itself; even foretell the end of the age.

The first three Dusty Deals Mystery series novels in one box set. Read along in this fun cozy mystery series as amateur sleuth and antique store owner, Lucy Mathews, her Alaskan malamute, Kiska and a cast of quirky characters discover romance and murder in the mountains of Montana. Loose Screw Lucy Mathews, crime reporter turned antiques dealer, avoids confrontation like a home perm. She even lets a cat shove her around. When Lucy trips over the body of a buckskin-clad relics trader, her ex-boss asks her to cover the story. She tries to tell him no, but old habits die hard and soon she finds herself directly in the path of a killer and the exasperating, if attractive, detective in charge. Can Lucy catch a killer or is this the last confrontation for her-period? Cut Loose No one's perfect. At least that's what Lucy Mathews tells herself. Except faced with her boyfriend's rodeo queen ex-wife and perfectly trained Australian shepherd, she has to wonder if maybe this whole 'no one's perfect' thing was made up by someone like...Lucy. Lucky for Lucy though, things are hopping around Helena. It's rodeo season, and she has a booth. It's a great opportunity to expand her clientele and maybe even snag a cash prize for Kiska as the world's first sheep herding malamute. Except Kiska can't herd, Lucy loses her wallet, and oh yeah...there's that dead rodeo queen Lucy just stumbled over. Good thing her boyfriend's a detective. Except that's not going so well either. A new detective is in town, and he's convinced Lucy's involved in the rodeo queen's murder. Her boyfriend is no help at all and worse he's spending a little too much time with his ex-wife. Lucy finds herself out of money, out of love, and maybe this time, out of luck. Loosey Goosey You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. You can though move two thousand miles away and hope they don't come to visit. Unfortunately, for Lucy Mathews that only works for so long. Lucy has a perfect week planned. The kind of week that includes a romantic dinner with her cowboy detective boyfriend, big dollar sales to the visiting Beef Ranchers Association and their wives, and maybe a relaxing holiday weekend at home with her Alaskan malamute, Kiska. What she doesn't have planned is a visit from her animal activist brother, his pet goose, Pauline, and his neon yellow van. Lucy's plans quickly go to the birds. First, her date is interrupted by brother and goose. Second she discovers a dead body, under her brother's van. Then, when her brother gets arrested for the murder, the worst thing imaginable happens, Lucy's mother finds out. Not only is Lucy is left in charge of babysitting the recalcitrant goose, but her mother is threatening to come to Montana herself to solve the murder. Lucy has no choice but to dive into the investigation, and find the real murderer before her brother is put away for good.

The Story of the Telegraph in Jamaica discusses the scientific principles governing telegraphy. And so the reader is taken through the Morse code, the Telex machine, Intelsat, various technical improvements such as those of Frederick Creed, including the Creed High Speed Automatic Printing Telegraphy System (from which the Telex machine emerged). The nineteenth century was remarkable for the growth of new technologies which were destined to have, in some cases, a revolutionary impact on the quantity of social and economic life. This book concentrates on one of the inventions telegraphy which was significant for local and international communication. The telegraphy and the cable, airmail and surface mail gave the post office a central role in the life of the villages scattered over the Jamaican countryside. The history of the telegraph is in part the history of the post office in Jamaica. The telegraph was an essential instrument. Indeed, not until 2004 was the news of the death of the telegraph announced by Cable and Wireless. Up to then it had served with an economy of words and in its distinct peach coloured envelope as the bearer of good news and bad. The people of Jamaica took to the telegram all the more so because telegraph assisted the illiterate or barely literate to compose their thoughts and record then in the format required. On the international front, Jamaica was first lined to the international telegraphic system by submarine cable through Cuba. The book outlines how the system spread into the rest of the Caribbean and to Latin America. Indeed, the books preface not only points to the potential loss to the historical record if the story of the telegraph was not written, but to the demand for this kind of data from students of social history and the history of science and technology.