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Pursuit and Persuasion: A Ben Reese Mystery (Ben Reese Mysteries (Ballantine))
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ACADEMIC SLEUTH BEN REESE RETURNS TO SCOTLAND, ENTANGLED IN A CASE OF MURDER AMONG FRIENDS. The sudden death of rich, generous Scottish professor Georgina Fletcher seems like a tragic accident. Indeed, American archivist Ben Reese can scarcely believe that it was not. But Georgina had foreseen her death, and had laid down a secret trail of evidence pointing to a hard-hearted murder committed by someone with much to gain if she died--or to lose if she lived. Was it the brilliant sculptor Georgina had educated and supported? The beautiful student who is also her heir? Her late husband's business associates? Or a jealous colleague in her own department? It appears that someone very close to her not only killed with fiendish cleverness but wants to ensnare Ben like a blind rat in a live trap--from which he'll never escape. . . .
If you feared that you were going to be killed and had a good idea who it might be, would you leave a cryptic note asking a friend to investigate even the most natural-appearing death if it happened--and not name your suspect? That's the premise of this pleasant third entry in Sally Wright's Ben Reese series ( Publish and Perish, Pride and Predator) and unlikely as it may be, she makes do with it more than adequately. Georgina Fletcher is a Scottish academic, a sensible woman troubled in the weeks before her seemingly natural death by knowledge of some unpleasantness in her family's history and a strong desire to make amends for the misdeeds of her forbears. When a former student of American archivist Ben Reese inherits Georgina's estate, she asks him to help her solve the professor's mystery so that she can carry out Georgina's wishes. Ben's investigation turns up several likely suspects in Georgina's demise, and the secret of how she was killed. Along the way, the reader is treated to descriptions and explanations of matters as far-ranging as falconry, stone-sculpting, microbiology, and rare book collecting. A relatively bloodless cozy with pacing as slow as a country stroll, Pursuit and Persuasion presents the petty rivalries of academia nicely. Ben Reese, whose background as a World War II scout provides enough of a provenance to put him in the detecting business, is an interesting protagonist who warrants a fuller portrayal. --Jane Adams
Watches of the Night (Ben Reese Mysteries)
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A Ben Reese Mystery - Ben Reese, university archivist and part-time investigator, is alarmed when his old friend Kate Lindsay receives a disturbing package. It contains her husbands eyeball, retrieved from the front line and posted arriving twenty years later. Kate needs some answers so decides to visit veteran Ross MacNab, but when MacNab commits suicide hours before she arrives, Kate fears foul play. Bens suspicions, meanwhile, rest on another war comrade, but army records show he died years before . . .
Publish and Perish (Ben Reese Mystery)
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Millions of mystery novels are purchased every year, and only the Bible has outsold the number of copies purchased of Agatha Christie's titles. Now, author Sally Wright introduces to the Christian marketplace an intriguing new mystery series which follows the adventures of archivist Ben Reese, an expert in rare books, coins, paintings, ancient texts and documents. A former intelligence agent and commando in WWII, Reese - who is also a Christian - repeatedly must extricate himself from dangerous situations, both at home and abroad, in each of the stories novel in this mystery series. In the first title, Ben is called away from a sabbatical in Oxford, England, to investigate the death of an eccentric, conservative professor who dies of a heart attack in Ohio moments after reporting that he has uncovered a terrible act of treachery. Now Ben's own life is on the line as he investigates the professional jealousy and unchecked pride that led to murder in Publish and Perish.
The Ivory Tower of academia may look serene from the outside, but inside it's a snakepit. At least according to Sally S. Wright in her wickedly pointed campus mystery, Publish or Perish. The victim here is Richard West, head of the English Department at a tony private college in Ohio and keeper of an academic ethic that belonged to an earlier age. The sleuth is Professor Ben Reese, a smart historian with a nose for crime. After reading Publish or Perish readers may see beneath the staid surface of university life, suspecting page-turning stories hidden from the untutored eye.
Pride and Predator (Ben Reese Mysteries (Ballantine))
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ACADEMIC SLEUTH BEN REESE IS BACK-- SMOKING OUT A KILLER IN SCOTLAND. Parson Jonathan MacLean is too healthy and widely loved to die so young. Yet suddenly and mysteriously he's dead. Archivist Ben Reese, in Scotland to appraise the treasures of Balnagard Castle for his old friend Lord Alexander Chisholm, suspects cold-blooded murder. And he is absolutely certain it was one of Jonathan's kith and kin who slipped into his picnic hamper the bees that triggered his fatal allergy. What Ben doesn't suspect is that the same venomous killer is now arranging a most creative death for Ben himself. . . .
Code of Silence (Ben Reese Mysteries (Severn House))
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A Ben Reese Mystery - 1947. A female linguist at a high-security US decoding and decrypting facility is murdered while trying to relay vital information. Ten years later, Ben Reese is asked for his assistance in tracking a murderer guilty of breaching US security. Bens efforts to find the killer are difficult but he knows it is essential once he learns of the Venona Code, a Soviet code partially decrypted by the US and Britain . . .
Out Of The Ruins (Ben Reese mysteries)
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Of all the aristocratic dynasties that once reigned over Georgia’s Cumberland Island - where wild stallions still run free - only the Hill family survives. Now they too are threatened. Charlotte, the family matriarch, has died suddenly and mysteriously, leaving her sister-in-law, Hannah, to protect the unspoiled paradise from the younger generation’s weakness for development dollars and Federal Park pressure. But Hannah Hill is bedridden. And even the island folk, some as venomous as Cumberland’s diamondbacks, cast covetous eyes on her white pillared mansion. When Hannah passes away suddenly, shortly after telling archivist and family friend Ben Reese of a mysterious nighttime intruder, he knows, as an ex-WWII scout, that murder can seem reasonable and right when it satisfies your obsession. Bumping up against questions of human suffering and euthanasia versus the sanctity of human life, Ben fights his way through a tangle of motives, concealed histories, and the legal complexities of eminent domain, to track the unexpected killer raised-up in the rivalry between two great island families.
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Zimmerman vs. Markakis, Straight Up - Washington Post
Washington Post, United States - May 22, 2009
Zimmerman vs. Markakis, Straight UpHe and his alter ego Sally Jenkins also like to post their "opinions" about the Redskins and football. Again, Dr. Einstein, what are their qualifications? How many major league games did they play? How many years did they play professional baseball?
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Tough opposition for 'pocket rocket' - Lismore Northern Star
Lismore Northern Star, Australia - May 25, 2009
Tough opposition for 'pocket rocket'While much of the attention will be focused on the open and junior pro divisions, which helped launch the careers of two-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore and World Tour surfer Sally Fitzgibbons, there will be plenty of quality surfers in other
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'Celebration of the Arts' honors eight - Montgomery Advertiser
Montgomery Advertiser, AL - May 24, 2009
'Celebration of the Arts' honors eightAlso joining the group were Marilyn Laufer, director of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University; her husband Tom Butler, director of The Columbus Museum in Columbus, Ga., and Sally Gates of Columbus, Ga.
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Talking About a Smart Grid
BusinessWeek - May 20, 2009
A smarter grid, I was told yesterday by Sally Benson at Stanford University 's Global Climate & Energy Project, would monitor and regulate supply as well. But that's far, far down the road.). The CSIS session came a day after the Department of Energy
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Contemporary artist to join NGA board - The Australian
The Australian, Australia - May 24, 2009
Contemporary artist to join NGA boardThey include Lionel Lindsay, William Dobell, John Olsen and present board member Imants Tillers (Art Gallery of New South Wales), Max Meldrum, John Longstaff, Lenton Parr, Jan Senbergs and Sally Smart (NGV), Judy Watson and Judith Wright (Queensland
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