Bøger af S D Parker

Actor turned detective Calvin Carter stands on his favorite place-a stage-when armed bandits attack. Carter and his partner, Thomas Jackson, foil the robbery, and the surviving gunman snitches the name of the mystery man who hired the gang.Both men soon die, taking their secrets to the grave.Turns out, the entire robbery was an elaborate distraction. In the melee, a master thief with a unique calling card swipes a prized artifact: a macuahuitl, an Aztec sword, dating back to the Spanish conquest of the New World.But when Carter and Jackson are assigned to track down and recover the sword, those men who know about the macuahuitl start dying, one by one. If Carter and Jackson aren't careful, they will be next

When a group of bandits derails a train and murders an engineer in cold blood, it's not the loot they're after. It's the coffins. Debonair former actor turned railroad detective, Calvin Carter, is on that train. He zeroes in on the object of the robbery. From the clues left behind, corpses weren't the only things in the caskets. And a sniper's bullet silences the only witness. Now, Carter may be the only player in this twisted script who can solve this Wild West mystery. But will he get to the truth in time, or end up in a pine box himself?

Full Title: Report of the Trial of Dr. Samuel Thomson, The Founder of the Thomsonian Practice, for an Alleged Libel in Warning the Public Against the Impositions of Paine D. Badger, as a Thomsonian Physician Sailing Under False ColorsDescription: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial.Trials provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++MonographNew York City BarBoston: Printed by Henry P. Lewis. 1839