The abduction and brutal murder of Adam Walsh went unsolved for 27 years. This is the story of the determination of one dedicated detective who would not let the case rest until a monster was brought to justice.A powerful, well written account that is heartbreaking, infuriating, horrifying and final...
I love noir and apparently there's a series of noir with some known and not quite so known writers contributing. Just to name a few, there's Brooklyn Noir, D. C., LA and New Orleans, London, San Francisco, and many more. My edition had map of Miami area with places starred by palm tree where the sto...
Dickens can more accurately be called the man who reinvented Christmas. The focus is the books is, of course, on Dickens's most beloved work and its phenomenal cultural impact but there is also a good deal of fascinating biographical information on Dickens, cultural history, British publishing and b...
Les Standiford is a favorite author of mine, so had to read the book. Being from the south, I have limited knowledge of the northern industrial states so the first thing I had to do was print out a map of the Pittsburgh area. It would have been nice to include for those of us not so familiar with ...
Attended a writer's conference because I like and read Les Standiford and James W. Hall (they were speakers) and this was the only book for sale that Standiford had which I hadn't read. Although I (along with the rest of America) followed the Adam Walsh story and John Walsh's later success on telev...
This book makes me rage for the parents and in shock that the police could do this.
It's almost hard to believe that 30 years have passed since Adam Walsh was abducted from a south Florida Sears store. Thanks to the efforts of his parents, John and Reve Walsh, modern law enforcement now has a number of tools that were not available at the time: VICAP, the National Center for Miss...
The literary history of Charles Dickens's books and influence on the holiday seasons. The book discusses Dickens role in the publishing of all his books, and how his holiday ghost tale, A Christmas Carol, effected many in Europe and America. This is a worthwhile read if you like Dickens.Most interes...
A fine post-prandial choice. Just the thing to come after the turkey, and help me get into the Christmas mood. Standiford covers a lot of territory I've already been over in other books, fluffing up a magazine piece to a respectable book size. But the specifics of Dickens' life when he wrote Carol w...
Frankly, I have no idea how I ran across this very interesting book. Henry Flagler, one of the last great industrialists and oil barons, built a railroad across the Florida Keys, a feat that had been considered impossible, in order to capitalize on the proximity of Cuba to the nascent Panama Canal. ...
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