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Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Les plans a high-profile gala to welcome ninety-four-year-old icon Ada Geiger's return to the area, filled with Hollywood celebrities, supermodels, and high-profile athletes, hoping to boost sales at the inn, but his event is downsized by a blizzard, which makes it even easier for Des and Mitch to track down a guest is really a murderer in disguise
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Desiree Mitry is furious to discover that a major drug cartel has been operating in Dorset, Connecticut, right under her nose. Matters escalate when a troubled Sour Cherry Lane resident turns up dead. Desiree pursues the case in her own way. The problem is that her way gets her in way too deep. And there's only person who can possibly get her out--New York film critic Mitch Berger
Author
Publisher
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A kidnapping tests the mettle, resourcefulness, and intuition of Harlem's first "colored" policeman in this mystery, set during New York's Harlem Renaissance. The story references the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Under pressure to capture a flasher who has been targeting wealthy women in the Dorset Historic District, police officer Desiree Mitry becomes convinced about the culprit's identity and is wrongly accused of murder when her suspect turns up dead after a heated public confrontation
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"Mitch Berger has been accepted at least on the surface by some of the posh families in the small enclave to which he's moved - even his open affair with the beautiful black policewoman is looked upon peaceably. But when a member of the small group of men who gather for early-morning walks is found dead, the subsequent investigation, involving both Mitch and Desiree, opens a very large container of personal evil that has no place in any society."--...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law Today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics -- and their impact on people of color -- are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic...
30) Blazing saddles
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A hilarious spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town in the Old West of 1874.
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Series
Tales of the talented tenth volume 1
Publisher
Fulcrum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Bass Reeves : Tales of the Talented Tenth tells the story of Bass Reeves, an escaped slave who became one of the most successful lawman of the Old West and the rumored inspiration for The Lone Ranger. Volume I chronicles his life from winning shooting matches in early childhood to traveling with his master, living with Native Americans in Indian Territory, and finally becoming a Deputy US Marshal. The Tales of the Talented Tenth series will feature...
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