Steve Hockensmith
2) Fool me once
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Since taking over the White Magic Five and Dime, Alanis McLachlan has been tracking down old customers and making amends for her mother's con jobs. So when Marsha--one of the shop's most loyal clients--comes looking for a way out of her abusive marriage, Alanis does everything she can to help. But lending a hand leads to unforeseen consequences, including the murder of Marsha's husband. Now Alanis has to use her wiles to undo a mess of her own making....
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Reformed con artist-turned-tarot reader Alanis McLachlan gets paid for predicting the future--too bad she didn't see all the trouble in hers. First a figure from her past tries to drag her back into the life of crime she thought she'd left behind. Then a new suitor tries to sweep Alanis off her feet, forcing her on-again, off-again romance with hunky teacher Victor Castellanos to hit the skids. And then there's the little matter of the client who...
Author
Series
Holmes on the range mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In this hilarious follow-up to Steve Hockensmith's critically acclaimed novel On the Wrong Track, crime-solving cowboys Gus "Old Red" and Otto "Big Red" Amlingmeyer are wandering around San Francisco when they stumble onto another mystery to be solved: the death of their acquaintance Dr. Chan. It turns out that no one wants this mystery solved, but that doesn't stop the brothers from riling up the locals with their heavy-handed investigations. Wild...
Author
Series
Holmes on the range mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Language
English
Description
1893 is a tough year in Montana, and any job is a good job. When Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer sign on as ranch hands at the secretive Bar-VR cattle spread, they're not expecting much more than hard work, bad pay, and a comfortable campfire around which they can enjoy their favorite pastime: scouring Harper's Weekly for stories about the famous Sherlock Holmes. When another ranch hand turns up in an outhouse with a bullet in his brain, Old Red sees...
Author
Series
Holmes on the range mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer is an old-fashioned kind of guy: He prefers a long trail ride even when a train ticket can get him where he's going in one-tenth the time. So when it's Old Red who insists on guarding the Pacific Express, despite a generations-old family distrust of the farm stealin', cattle-killin', money-grubbing' railroads, Big Red is flummoxed. But as usual, he'll follow his ornery brother just about anywhere. Trapped on a thousand...
Author
Series
Holmes on the range mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In 1893, Otto "Big Red" Amlingmeyer and his brother, Gustav "Old Red," find themselves in a situation that they never expected: they have a bit of money and time to do something other than scramble. It's enough to confound even that most unconfoundable of men, their mutual inspiration, Sherlock Holmes. So Old Red decides that it's time for the two of them to head off to the Texas hill country, to San Marcos, and deal with the greatest tragedy of Old...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a funeral at the local parish goes strangely and horribly awry and corpses suddenly spring from the soft earth, only one person can stop them. As the bodies pile up, Elizabeth Bennet evolves from a naive young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead in this prequel to "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."
Author
Series
Secret Smithsonian adventures volume 3
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Schoolmates Eric, Dominique, Ajay, and Josephine are in their homes getting ready for a normal school day after two successful time-travel adventures. But the day might not turn out to be so normal after all! The kids' parents remind them that today is Coronation Day, and when they get to school, they find the Pledge of Allegiance replaced with an Oath to the King. Clearly, something is amiss, and the only way to fix it is to return to the Smithsonian,...
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 3
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old whiz-kids Nick and Tesla discover that someone in the quiet town of Half Moon Bay has placed their beloved Uncle Newt under electronic surveillance, but who is spying on him, and why?
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 4
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to figure out why robotic versions of history's greatest scientists and inventors keep going haywire, siblings Nick and Tesla create a gadget glove.
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 5
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bright siblings and amateur inventors Nick and Tesla Holt are back in this fifth instalment. Fresh off their last case at the museum, the kids are in for a whole new mystery to solve, and they can only do it with their do-it-yourself detective gadgets - plus their zany scientist Uncle Newt and their friends Silas and DeMarco.
13) Nick and Tesla's solar-powered showdown: a mystery with sun-powered gadgets you can build yourself
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 6
Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Super-smart kid inventors Nick and Tesla Holt have outsmarted crooks, spies, and kidnappers, but now it's time to crack their biggest mystery yet: where the heck are their parents? With the help of their eccentric Uncle Newt, the twins trace the clues to their missing Mom and Dad, scientists working on solar-power research for a clandestine government project. They'll need all their wits, along with an assortment of homemade gadgets, to outsmart...
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a series of robberies strike Half Moon Bay, sibling sleuths Nick and Tesla build robots out of household objects in order to catch the culprits.
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
After moving in with their eccentric uncle, Nick and Tesla encounter strange occurrences in their new neighborhood and build gadgets using simple household objects to help them solve the mysteries.
16) Claws and effect
Author
Series
Secret Smithsonian adventures volume 2
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Dominique, Eric, Josephine, and Ajay return to the Smithsonian they see that modern animals are extinct and dinosaurs have been brought back to life, so they time travel to the 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition to stop this wicked plot.
Author
Series
Secret Smithsonian adventures volume 1
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this first book of Secret Smithsonian Adventures, four midde-schoolers, Dominique, Eric, Josephine and Ajay are excited about a field trip to the Smiithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, but when they get there, they find that aviation development seems to have taken a different turn in 1909. It is filled with balloons, blimps,and dirigibles. It is clear that someone has tampered with history. They travel through time to try to restore...
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick and Tesla return in an all-new, robot-filled adventure!
When a rash of robberies hits the town of Half Moon Bay, 11-year-old sleuths Nick and Tesla are determined to catch the criminals—but to do so, they'll have to build a host of new gadgets and gizmos! In this robot-themed follow-up to Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab, the brother-and-sister duo build four different droids out of ordinary household objects—and...
When a rash of robberies hits the town of Half Moon Bay, 11-year-old sleuths Nick and Tesla are determined to catch the criminals—but to do so, they'll have to build a host of new gadgets and gizmos! In this robot-themed follow-up to Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab, the brother-and-sister duo build four different droids out of ordinary household objects—and...
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 1
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick and Tesla are bright 11-year-old siblings with a knack for science, electronics, and getting into trouble. When their parents mysteriously vanish, they’re sent to live with their Uncle Newt, a brilliant inventor who engineers top-secret gadgets for a classified government agency. It’s not long before Nick and Tesla are embarking on adventures of their own—engineering all kinds of outrageous MacGyverish contraptions to save their...
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