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Cracking the case of who smothered a Florida river The Little Wekiva River. Image via mapio.com. I grew up in a family of mystery fans. My grandfather owned all the Perry Mason novels and never missed the TV show. My great-aunt was head over heels for John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee. My mom read everything Agatha Christie wrote about Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. I started out with Encyclopedia Brown, then graduated to Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, and Phillip Marlowe (and yes, Call it �...

Free Fall in Crimson by MacDonald, John D. at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0002226073 - ISBN 13:  9780002226073 - HarperCollins Distribution Services - 1982 - Hardcover

Every city has a legendary restaurant that everyone knows — and recommends to visiting family, friends and strangers alike. When it comes to iconic restaurants, Florida has plenty, including several open for more than a century, including Tampas original Columbia Restaurant and Miami Beachs Joes Stone Crab. While some are special-occasion restaurants, others are everyday favorites. Heres our list of some of Floridas most enduring (and endearing) restaurants, presented in alphabetical order,�...

Nearly 2,000 Gas Stations Out Of Fuel As Panic-Hoarding Hammers Southeast Posted on On Tuesday evening, 17 states and Washington, DC declared emergency declarations to address fuel shortages. The emergency declaration covers Alabama, Arkansas, D.C., Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The Biden administration projected that the Colonial Pipeline would restar...

I’ve covered arts and entertainment and written humor columns at The Day for almost a quarter-century. What I’ve learned is how privileged I’ve been to explore for readers an incredibly diverse, active, and creative cultural area – from local music clubs, galleries and museums to numerous nationally famous authors, performance organizations and the array of talent that flows through the Garde Arts Center, and Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos, and much more. Rick Koster I’ve covered ...

Thriller - Searching for a wealthy friends yacht, Travis McGee puts himself square in the center of the international cocaine trade, and finds himself the target of some of the most ruthless villains hes ever met. Contemplating his own mortality for the first time, Travis McGee discovers amid all the danger the astonishing surprise behind the cat-shaped pipe cleaners someone is leaving at his door. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Review: "The "great entertainer of our a...

No one knows history quite like Peter Pike does. And thats ironic because the fictional sleuth shows little interest in annals of the past, his creator notes.  A figment of Columbia author Neal Fandeks substantial imagination, the detective put himself in the middle of American religious history and our national lust for treasure in Fandeks first novel, "Peter Pike and the Murderous Mormons."  For his next adventure, Pike inadvertently inserts himself into a debate over the sexuality of no l...

Thrillers: Boston stars in Lisa Gardners latest By Jon Land “Before She Disappeared” (Dutton, 336 pages, $27) is former Rhode Island resident Lisa Gardner’s first stand-alone thriller in years, and, boy, does it stand out as a masterpiece of post-modern noir in the vein of the great Dennis Lehane. Gardner is also at home in Lehane’s backyard of the working-class Boston neighborhoods, Mattapan in this case. The book introduces us to Frankie Elkin, a woman with more than her share of ske...

REVEALED: Off-duty cop arrested in Capitol riot is ALSO a corporal in Virginia National Guard [trunc] Posted on Full Title: REVEALED: Off-duty cop arrested in Capitol riot is ALSO a corporal in Virginia National Guard - making him first serving military member to be charged in the attack ...Robertson said he does not support the violence that happened inside the Capitol. Absolutely not, he said. For it to go like that is absolutely ridiculous. Robertson said he and Fracker went into the buil...

Pixel Scroll 12/17/20 For He To-Day That Scrolls His Pixel With Me, Shall Be My Sibling; Be He Ne’er So File Posted on (1) INSIDE STORY. In “Why I Write”: Samuel R. Delany scrolls through the reasons. This conversation appears in the Winter 2020 print issue of   . … I remember sitting on the steps of the embalming room at the back of the chapel in my father’s Harlem funeral parlor, watching Freddy, my father’s embalmer, working on the corpse of a tan woman with reddish hair st...