Russell Kirk
Author
Pub. Date
1978
Description
Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind is one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American conservatism. Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative Mind launched the modern American Conservative Movement when it was first published in 1953 and has become an enduring classic of political thought.
The seventh revised edition...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A founding father of the American conservative movement, Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was also a renowned and bestselling writer of fiction. Kirk's focus was the ghost story, or "ghostly tale"-a "decayed art" of which he considered himself a "last remaining master." Old House of Fear, Kirk's first novel, revealed this mastery at work. Its 1961 publication was a sensation, outselling all of Kirk's other books combined, including The Conservative Mind,...
5) Shell Games
Author
Series
John Marquez crime novels volume 1
Description
Involved in an investigation into an abalone poaching operation that leads to murder, Lieutenant John Marquez discovers that his own life is in danger from Kline, a vicious drug smuggler and abalone poacher with a grudge against Marquez.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
San Francisco homicide inspector Ben Raveneau, and his ambitious new partner, Elizabeth la Rosa, catch their first case together when a young woman is found strangled in an empty building in China Basin. The victim's identity is unknown, a false confession leads nowhere, and the case spins unresolved. Meanwhile, the death of cancer-ridden homicide inspector Ted Whiteacre raises questions about an old case Whiteacre solved years before when he arrested...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Twenty-two years to the day, a videotape of an unsolved 1989 murder arrives at the San Francisco Homicide Detail. So begins homicide inspector Ben Raveneau's toughest cold case. The victim, Alan Krueger, a former Secret Service agent, carried in his coat sixty-one $100 bills. In 1989, the Secret Service inspected the bills and called them legitimate. They take another look now and say, counterfeit. But there's more. There's a link to the present...
Author
Series
John Marquez crime novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The abduction of a confidential informant draws game warden John Marquez into a desperate race to find the missing woman and into an investigation that leaves him in the middle of a confrontation between the Russian mob and the FBI.