Random Shot - Couverture souple

Warner, Robert James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0759619174 ISBN 13 : 9780759619173

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2001

Synopsis

Random Shot is another Hannable Hathaway Hoe murder mystery. A young woman, Vera Hall, is killed by a random shot that blasts through a window of the Bartell Building on the 12th floor, hits a plaque on a wall then ricochets into Vara Hall's body, killing her almost instantly. The death of Vera Hall is considered a death by an accidental random shot fired by someone unknown.The mysterious Mr. Frost who Hannable first met in Murder in the Key of E Flat, calls again and wants Hannable to investigate Vera Hall's death too, and with another bet that Hannable will fail again to find out who the mysterious Mr. Frost is. Hannable takes the job and the bet.Random Shot is one of the most diabolical, malevolent, and fiendish murder plots Hannable Hathaway Hoe has worked on up to this time. How can a young woman be deliberately murdered in a room on the 12th floor of a building that is higher than the other buildings in the immediate area, which would cause the slug from a rife to shoot almost straight up if shot from the ground, missing the plaque entirely, and, if shot though a window from a nearby building the angle was wrong for a ricocheting bullet from there also, and, if shot from a shorter building's roof that angle would also be wrong. How then can Vera Hall's death be murder? Everybody says it's impossible, but Mr. Frost!Mr. Frost sends an older man, Ethelbert Spoon, to help Hannable. What can Spoon do to help? A great deal as it turns out. Spoon turns out to be somewhat of a magician!

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Biographie de l'auteur

Robert James Warner was born and raised in Long Beach, California. He went to the local schools. He was drafted into the Navy on March 9th, 1944, during the 2nd World War as soon as he finished his last semester in High School. He was discharged from the Navy on June 16, 1946.Mr. Warner went back to school, Long Beach City College, on the G.I. Bill, taking Mechanical Engineering, then he switched to journalism. After about a year and a half at City College he quit. Mr. Warner had always been interested in writing, but he had huge handicaps to overcome: he couldn't spell (he still can't); and grammar was then and is now a mystery to him. Mr. Warner first began to write when he was about 20. During the next few years he wrote some songs and some poetry and some short stories, but his output was quite low.From 1947, after Mr. Warner left City College, to 1950, he had a number of different inconsequential jobs, the longest at Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach where he worked in the blueprint department for eight months, then he quit and loafed awhile.In 1950 he enlisted in the Active Naval Reserve as a Weekend Warrior, so he could learn seamanship and get paid doing it. He has had a life long love affair with boats (building his own) and fishing. About three months later, the Korean War started and Mr. Warner was called back to active duty in the Navy Aircorp for a year, getting discharged in August, 1951, serving on three aircraft carriers, operating off of Korea in the China Sea, bombing and strafing the communists!After Korea, Mr. Warner went back to City College for awhile, then he got a job on a freighter as a deckhand, and made two trips to the Hawaiian Islands, about 30 days round trip, hauling bulk sugar for C&H Sugar in Crocket California on the Sacramento River.Leaving the ship in Crocket he went to Santa Rosa, California, where he washed dishes in some restaurants and got a poem published in the local newspaper, a big day in his life.Next, he went to Yosemite, a

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0759619174
• ISBN 13: 9780759619173
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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