Eric Wright
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English
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Joe Barley, full-time English professor and part-time private detective, is given a simple case: to track Jason Tyler and find proof of his adultery. But as he's investigating, Barley stumbles across the story of a missing manuscript containing writings by a young Ernest Hemingway. What is Tyler's connection to the Hemingway papers? And why does Tyler's wife insist that Barley stay on the case, long after he's come up with the required evidence of...
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English
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Be a Climate Warrior is an information-driven, nonfiction book about climate change and American society. It is a motivational climate change toolkit that provides individuals guidance on how to contribute to broader climate initiatives while reducing their own carbon footprints. The book casts a blacklight over one's life and their connection to society, illuminating the carbon-scrubbing opportunities that lurk everywhere. The book contains two primary...
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English
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Eric Wright's popular detective, Charlie Salter, is introduced in this collection of the first three books in the well-loved mystery series: The Night the Gods Smiled, Smoke Detector, and Death in the Old Country. Self-righteous and outspoken, Salter has gotten himself shunted to routine duties from what he considers the "real" police work of investigation. However, circumstances give him the chance to redeem himself, and his intelligence and sensitivity...
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Series
Lucy Trimble Brenner mysteries volume 2
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English
Description
In Eric Wright's Death on the Rocks, when private detective Lucy Trimble is retained by Greta Golden to find the identity of the ominous lurking stranger who Greta is certain is following her, it doesn't appear to be too challenging a mystery. Lucy has no trouble learning who her client's pursuer is: a British investigator has been engaged to probe into Greta's life. But, the question of what he is trying to discover about Greta, and why, begins to...
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Mel Pickett mysteries volume 2
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English
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Eric Wright, author of the highly acclaimed Charlie Salter novels, introduced readers to Mel Pickett in Buried in Stone when Pickett helped the police solve a bake-shop murder. In his newest adventure, Mel Pickett, a retired police officer from Toronto, once again becomes involved in police work when a body is discovered in the cabin that he owns.
The day shift at the Ontario Provincial Police Station had just come on duty when they received a disturbing...
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Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 11
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English
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Charlie Salter, Staff Inspector with the Toronto police, is Eric Wright's best-known and most loved character. Over the years, Salter has made a name for himself with his cunning detective skills and his determination to get the job done.
However, Salter's days with the force appear to be numbered. He has recently turned sixty and is starting to realize that he isn't as young as he used to be. Tasks that used to be easy are now more difficult and...
7) Riptide
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English
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Ashlyn Forsyth believes she and her husband have come to idyllic St. Simons Island to restore romance to their flagging marriage. Then, without warning, Craig hands Ashlyn divorce papers. In shock, Ashlyn watches him drive off with a female colleague from his office. She soon discovers he is being pursued by the Russian mafia and investigated by the FBI for money-laundering. Abandoned on St. Simons Island, Ashlyn faces not only emotional turmoil but...
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Series
Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 4
Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Author
Series
Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Author
Series
Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
Toronto Police Inspector Charlie Salter and his wife Annie are vacationing in England and trying to repair their marriage. One rainy afternoon while they are touring the countryside, a motorcycle crashes into their rental car, thus ending their sightseeing for the day. They decide to spend a few days at the small Boomewood Hotel and enjoy the local comforts. During their stay, they encounter a peeping tom spying on them and Charlie's pockets have...
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Series
Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 9
Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
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Series
Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
©1988
Language
English
Description
Toronto cop Charlie Salter must protect a British princess who may be the target of a terrorist attack, in the toughest case he has faced to date.
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Series
Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
©1987
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English
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Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1984
Language
English
Description
Charlie Salter tries to solve the murder of an antique dealer who died from smoke inhalation.
15) Final cut
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Series
Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Author
Series
Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
©1983
Language
English
18) Death by degrees
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Series
Inspector Charlie Salter mysteries volume 10
Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Author
Series
Mel Pickett mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In a remote community in Ontario, retired policeman Mel Pickett, a widower who just built himself a cabin, goes to the aid of a man falsely accused of murder. There is romance with a lady who runs the local diner. By the author of A Sensitive Case.
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Series
Joe Barley mysteries volume 1
Publisher
J. Daniel and Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English