"Robert Galbraith (pseudonym for J. K. Rowling) novel – ""Career of Evil"" (a Cormoran Strike novel). in 2014, ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"" was performed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as part of a drum off between Chad Smith and Will Ferrell. The cowbell part was played by Ferrell. During their career, Blue Öyster Cult have frequently collaborated with outside lyricists, though in the later 70's, the band members also wrote lyrics for some of their songs. Lyricists for Blue Öyster Cult have included all the original members (Bloom, Roeser, Albert & Joe"
"sees Strike investigating the disappearance of a writer hated by many of his old friends for insulting them in his new novel. In 2015, Rowling stated on Galbraith's website that the third Cormoran Strike novel would include ""an insane amount of planning, the most I have done for any book I have written so far. I have colour-coded spreadsheets so I can keep a track of where I am going."" On 24 April 2015, Rowling announced that work on the third book was completed. Titled ""Career of Evil"", it was released on 20 October 2015 in the United States, and"
"1845. Allan was L&NWR works manager at Crewe Works from 1843 to 1853. The Railway Detective The Railway Detective is the eponymous opening title in the series of detective mystery novels written by Keith Miles under the pseudonym Edward Marston. Set in 1851, it is about a railway robbery which is investigated and ultimately solved by two Scotland Yard detectives, Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming. The novel was published in 2004 by Allison & Busby of London. The book's cover depicts part of ""The Railway Station"" (1862) by William Powell Frith. According to the publishers in a 2018"
"continues his struggle to keep anyone from finding out about his dyslexia, a definite career-ender, and Will's career is the only thing that keeps the painful demons of his own past at bay. Triptych (Slaughter novel) Triptych is a 2006 thriller novel by American author Karin Slaughter. The first in her Atlanta series, the novel stars Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and features Angie Polaski. Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is on the trail of a serial rapist with a gruesome inclination when he comes into contact with Michael Ormewood, an Atlanta homicide detective"
"season, based on the third book, ""Career of Evil"" which aired in two episodes in February and March 2018. In 2010, Cormoran Strike—private detective, ex–Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch investigator and the illegitimate son of famous rock star Johnny Rokeby (the result of an affair with a notorious groupie)—is broke, and his birth father's business agent is calling in the loan that he gave to Strike to open his agency. Strike lost the lower half of his right leg in an attack in Afghanistan. He had previously studied at Oxford, but left in his second year to join the"
"new partner, they start a quest for Walsh's ex-partner's killer. He was known to be corrupt, but he was also investigating others at the Second Precinct, particularly Det. Henry Cole who once lived by another name and robbed an armored car. Cole's partner, Det. Allison Beaumont, is later revealed to be Walsh's girlfriend. Besides Shraeger, Walsh, Beaumont and Cole, the station has three more detectives: Leo Banks, who wears a bulletproof vest everywhere he goes, because he is afraid he will die at age 42, as his father, grandfather and uncle did; Banks' partner Eric Delahoy, who has a brain"
"The Thieves' Labyrinth The Thieves’ Labyrinth is the third book in a series of four Victorian detective novels by author James McCreet, published in May 2011. It continues the adventures of a set of characters established in the first book, ""The Incendiary’s Trail"", namely: George Williamson, Albert Newsome, Noah Dyson, Benjamin and John Cullen. Following the second instalment of the series, ""The Vice Society"", Inspector Albert Newsome of the Metropolitan Police’s Detective Force has been temporarily demoted to the Thames River Police for his insubordination. He can regain his old position only if he proves himself with good behaviour. Meanwhile,"
"Katherine V. Forrest Katherine V. Forrest (born 1939 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is an American writer, known for her novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. Forrest is best known for her nine novels about Kate Delafield, the first lesbian police detective in the American lesbian mystery genre and is described as ""Miss Marple with k.d. lang, Sherlock Holmes with Candace Gingrich, and you've got Kate Delafield: ex-Marine, homicide detective for the LAPD, queer-as-the-day-is-long heroine."" The second novel in the series, ""Murder at the Nightwood Bar,"" was optioned for film by director Tim Hunter. The screenplay had been written and"
"Robin Ellacott, investigating the disappearance of Owen Quine, a writer in possession of a damaging manuscript. A second sequel, ""Career of Evil"", was published in 2015. The title of the third sequel, ""Lethal White"", was announced on 14 March 2017 , the book being published on 18 September 2018. On 10 December 2014, it was announced that the novels would be adapted as ""Strike"", a television series for BBC One, starting with ""The Cuckoo's Calling"". Rowling will executive produce the series through her production company Brontë Film and Television, along with Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts. The three event dramas"
"detective in the novel ""The Cuckoo's Calling"". Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym of J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels. Sharp's also produce four seasonal ales every year, although these change every year. Sharp's collaborated with Rick Stein to create two beers after challenges set by Stein. Wolf Rock (4.8% abv) is a fusion of Red Ale and IPA styles and combines Noble and New World hops with special malt to deliver its distinctive flavour and red hue. Sharps' Pilsner is brewed with Pilsner malts and Czech lager yeast and Saaz hops. With a refined fruity flavours this"
"Third Girl Third Girl is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1966 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings (18/-) and the US edition at $4.50. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. The novel is notable for being the first in many years in which Poirot is present from beginning to end. It is uncommon in that the investigation includes discovering the first crime, which happens"
"Third Girl Third Girl is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1966 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings (18/-) and the US edition at $4.50. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. The novel is notable for being the first in many years in which Poirot is present from beginning to end. It is uncommon in that the investigation includes discovering the first crime, which happens"
"Joseph Bazalgette, later in the century. The Thieves' Labyrinth The Thieves’ Labyrinth is the third book in a series of four Victorian detective novels by author James McCreet, published in May 2011. It continues the adventures of a set of characters established in the first book, ""The Incendiary’s Trail"", namely: George Williamson, Albert Newsome, Noah Dyson, Benjamin and John Cullen. Following the second instalment of the series, ""The Vice Society"", Inspector Albert Newsome of the Metropolitan Police’s Detective Force has been temporarily demoted to the Thames River Police for his insubordination. He can regain his old position only if he"
"series. In the first three novels, he is a maverick detective with the Minneapolis Police Department, a lieutenant acting independently, running a network of street contacts. At the end of ""Eyes of Prey"", he's forced to resign to avoid excessive force charges, partly due to his knowledge of the connection of a senior police officer to that case. He returns in ""Night Prey"" as a Deputy Chief (a political appointment), running his own intelligence unit. Beginning with ""Naked Prey"", Davenport is an investigator for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, acting occasionally as a special troubleshooter"
"Robert Goldsborough (writer) Robert Gerald Goldsborough (born October 3, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American journalist and writer of mystery novels. He worked for 45 years for the ""Chicago Tribune"" and ""Advertising Age"", but gained prominence as the author of a series of authorized pastiches of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe detective stories, published from 1986 to 1994. The first novel, ""Murder in E Minor"" (1986), received a Nero Award. In 2005, Goldsborough published ""Three Strikes You're Dead"", the first book in an original series of period mysteries featuring ""Chicago Tribune"" reporter Steve (Snap) Malek. Robert Goldsborough was born October"
"Cuckoo's Calling"", the purported début novel of author Robert Galbraith, whom the publisher described as ""a former plainclothes Royal Military Police investigator who had left in 2003 to work in the civilian security industry"". The novel, a detective story in which private investigator Cormoran Strike unravels the supposed suicide of a supermodel, sold 1,500 copies in hardback (although the matter was not resolved ; later reports stated that this number is the number of copies that were printed for the first run, while the sales total was closer to 500) and received acclaim from other crime writers and critics—a ""Publishers"
"The Railway Viaduct The Railway Viaduct is the third title in the ""Railway Detective"" series of detective mystery novels written by Keith Miles under the pseudonym Edward Marston. Set in 1852, it is about a murder on a train which is investigated and ultimately solved by two Scotland Yard detectives, Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming. The title place is the Sankey Viaduct on the former Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The novel was published in 2006 by Allison & Busby of London. The graphic on the book cover is from T. T. Bury's 1831 depiction called ""Viaduct across the"
"the novel follows file clerk Charles Unwin as he attempts to solve a mystery involving a missing detective and a criminal mastermind operating through people’s dreams. Critics have noted that ""The Manual of Detection"" combines elements from several genres of fiction, including mystery and fantasy. Writing for ""The Guardian"", Michael Moorcock situated the book within the tradition of steampunk fiction. ""The New Yorker"" called it “the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka.” A reviewer for ""The Observer"" compared it to ""The Third Policeman"" by Flann O'Brien, and described it as “imaginative, fantastical,"
"May 2013. The video of the event is offered for sale by le Carré to raise money to keep Hay Library open. Le Carre appeared on 60 Minutes with Steve Kroftin in September, 2017. John le Carré David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), better known by the pen name John le Carré (), is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). His third novel, ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one"
"The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the third novel in Inspector Morse series. The Oxford Foreign Examinations Syndicate runs school exams in the Persian Gulf and other places with a British connection. The Secretary Dr Bartlett and Mr Roope, a chemistry don and a member of the committee, disagree about the appointment of a new member of staff. Roope gets his way and Nicholas Quinn, a deaf man who lipreads, gets the job. When Quinn is found murdered in his maisonette, all the staff are under suspicion."
"Triptych (Slaughter novel) Triptych is a 2006 thriller novel by American author Karin Slaughter. The first in her Atlanta series, the novel stars Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and features Angie Polaski. Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is on the trail of a serial rapist with a gruesome inclination when he comes into contact with Michael Ormewood, an Atlanta homicide detective with a past who caught the squeal on a case Will is interested in. Ormewood's past involves Angie Polaski, a vice cop who is the only woman Will has ever loved. John Shelley,"
"Maigret at the Crossroads Maigret at the Crossroads () is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest novels to feature Inspector Maigret in the role of the chief police investigator, a character that has since become one of the best-known detectives in fiction. The plot of the novel is driven by the murder of Isaac Goldberg, a Jewish diamond merchant, in a place outside Paris known as the Three Widows' Crossroads. The cast of characters includes: Originally written in French, the novel was translated into English by Robert Baldick"
"Gideon's Wrath ""Gideon's Wrath' is the thirteenth in a series of police procedural novels by John Creasey writing as J.J. Marric. Published in 1967, it centres on Commander George Gideon of the C.I.D., Scotland Yard. ‘Gideon’s Wrath’ sees Gideon wrestling with several major crimes, as well as debating who to recommend to the Commissioner as his new Deputy Commander; Hobbs or Lemaitre? Attacks are being mounted with explosives on places of worship throughout London. The Dean of St Ludd’s approaches Gideon with his suspicions and a plan of action is formulated. As many police as can be spared are posted"
"The Railway Detective The Railway Detective is the eponymous opening title in the series of detective mystery novels written by Keith Miles under the pseudonym Edward Marston. Set in 1851, it is about a railway robbery which is investigated and ultimately solved by two Scotland Yard detectives, Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming. The novel was published in 2004 by Allison & Busby of London. The book's cover depicts part of ""The Railway Station"" (1862) by William Powell Frith. According to the publishers in a 2018 news release, the series has been optioned for television adaptation by Mammoth Screen."
"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company on 19 June 1926. It is the third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend he met in London, Roger Ackroyd, who agrees to keep him anonymous, as he pursues his retirement project of perfecting vegetable marrows. He is not long at this"
"by Marcus's ineptness and the disarray of her former lab. This novel was considered to be an improvement over previous lacklustre installments by some reviewers. Dale Singer of the St Louis Post Dispatch described the book as combining """"sensitivity to human emotions with the latest in forensic techniques - and one of the creepiest villains to come along since ""Silence of the Lambs."""" Others, however, considered it to be repetitious and meandering, still not a full return to form. In ""Trace"", one of Scarpetta's former employees, Edgar Allan Pogue, is discovered to be pursuing her niece, Lucy. Although diagnosed as"
"under the pseudonym Evelyn Elder. Kennedy specialised in police mysteries, but also wrote about the adventures of Sir George Bull, a professional private investigator. He also collaborated with other members of The Detection Club on ""The Floating Admiral"" and ""Ask a Policeman"". His series characters are Sir George Bull and Inspector Cornford. Milward Kennedy Milward Rodon Kennedy Burge (21 June 1894 – 1968) was an English civil servant, journalist, crime writer and literary critic. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He served with British Military Intelligence in World War I and then worked for the International"
"detective. Things get even stranger when Spenser discovers that Marlene Cowley is also being followed by a third P.I. Eventually, Trent winds up dead as Spenser is waiting to follow him outside his place of business, Kinergy, where he is CFO. The investigation picks up steam as Spenser tries to solve the murder. More people end up dead and the other two P.I.s Spenser ran into disappear. The story involves corporate corruption and an accounting scandal that only a detective as determined as Spenser can unravel. Several Spenser-verse reappearing characters are featured in this book including Hawk, Vinnie Morris, Susan"
"involved, loving and passionate about his patients and his family relationships and cynical only about 'bad guys.'"" Additionally, Kellerman brings a professional ""sophistication"" to the series. Delaware's friend Milo Sturgis, adds to the portrayal of the post-modern detective. As Gibson explains: ""[The] other important male role is Milo, a career policeman, a big shambling bear of a man, but, in a stunning role reversal, he is gay."" Milo, Gibson points out, ""the gay cop all too often functions as the cavalry. Delaware as amateur Knight Errant often gets into horrendous nightmare difficulties."" In the ""American Psychology Association"" Patrick McGuire writes"
"detection as he hides in the stalls. Detective John Book is assigned to the case, and he and his partner, Sergeant Elton Carter, question Samuel. It turns out the victim was an undercover police officer. Samuel is unable to identify the perpetrator from mug shots or a lineup. However, at the police station, Samuel sees a newspaper clipping of narcotics officer James McFee and points him out to John. John remembers that McFee was previously responsible for a seizure of expensive chemicals used to make black-market amphetamines, but the evidence had disappeared; John surmises that McFee sold the chemicals himself"
"a conspiracy. ""For a full description of the main characters, who all recur throughout the series, see The Railway Detective"". The Detective Department of the Metropolitan Police Force (the Met) was founded in 1842 and so was only ten years old in 1852, when the story is set. The Railway Viaduct The Railway Viaduct is the third title in the ""Railway Detective"" series of detective mystery novels written by Keith Miles under the pseudonym Edward Marston. Set in 1852, it is about a murder on a train which is investigated and ultimately solved by two Scotland Yard detectives, Inspector Robert"
"Three Act Tragedy Three Act Tragedy is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1934 under the title Murder in Three Acts and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1935 under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The book features Hercule Poirot, supported by his friend Mr Satterthwaite, and is the one book in which Satterthwaite collaborates with Poirot. Satterthwaite previously appeared in the stories featuring Harley Quin,"
"Inspector Arthur Walls in Eastbourne during a burglary attempt), Edith Thompson, Robert Hoolhouse, Neville Heath, Charles Jenkins (hanged in 1947 together with Christopher Geraghty for fatally shooting Alec de Antiquis following a botched London jewel robbery), and James Hanratty. (N.B. This is not the same as the similarly titled 1961 book ""Hanged in Error"" by Leslie Hale, which contains a different set of case histories.) In academic circles, he is especially well known for his studies of the criminal underworld of London from Victorian times, through World War II to the Kray twins. He has written seven biographies and a"