"Perfect reading for a lazy Sunday. You can almost smell the bayou in Robert Coburn's St. Julian Parrish Mysteries. Reminds me of my youth in Louisiana." — Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist Post Raquelle Harbor hosts its second annual Pirates Festival and this time it was going to be done right. Or so everyone thought until the gruesome discovery of a body. Sheriff JT Wainscot investigates and DEA Agent Dennis Palmer drops by with an odd request. The waters quickly become muddied when a second body turns up. Chief of Police Diana Brennan is running for office and the ongoing election hinders progress in the case. Politics abound. Love interests develop only to fade. Deceit, vanity and blackmail are constant companions in yet another death. A clue in the mysterious death of a Russian businessman in New York finds its way to St. Julian Parrish in a dangerous and surprising ending.

First Published in 1993. In the 1970s, a book collecting research about the mass media and their role in disasters would have been unimaginable. This book, then, is an attempt to compile a somewhat eclectic view of research on mass communication and catastrophe. The editors have attempted to provide a sampling of the most recent empirical work on the mass media and disasters, including everything from content analysis of media reports to studies of audience response to those events.

The search for a Christmastime serial killer leads Det. Supt. Henry Christie into the crossfire of warring Lancashire crime families. Lancashire’s Chief Constable lures Det. Superintendent Henry Christie away from his much-needed Christmas vacation with the possibility of catching a serial killer. Though he has a new fiancée to celebrate with and an ailing mother to care for, Henry can’t refuse the chance to bring a murderer to book. In his thirty years with the Lancashire constabulary, Henry’s never dealt with a case like this. Multiple victims disappeared on Christmas Eve, only to turn up gruesomely murdered on New Year’s Day. But as he follows the leads to the likely next target—who happens to be the mentally deranged son of a Lancashire crime family—Henry finds himself stepping into a blood-soaked turf war. “Oldham shows just how exciting a proper police investigation can be in this top-notch procedural.” —Publishers Weekly

From 1891 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.

It has been 50 years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and yet, mysteries still remain. Contrast to what history leads us to believe, Lee Harvey Oswald was only a patsy in a multi-layered plan. So what do Charles Nicoletti, James Earl Files, and the infamous mobster, John Gotti, have to do with this dastardly plot? As a 13-year-old boy recollects witnessing the assassination of President Kennedy, he paints a clearer picture of what actually unfolded that fateful day in Dallas.