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Forensics by Ricciuti, Edward R.(CARDINAL)137895; Smithsonian Institution.(CARDINAL)141176;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-207) and index.

Subjects: Chemistry, Forensic.; Criminal investigation.; Forensic sciences.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Golden age locked room mysteries / by Penzler, Otto,editor.(CARDINAL)351801; Container of (work):Brown, Fredric,1906-1972.Whistler's murder.; Container of (work):Carr, John Dickson,1906-1977.Third bullet.; Container of (work):Commings, Joseph,1913-1992.Fingerprint ghost.; Container of (work):Eberhart, Mignon G.(Mignon Good),1899-1996.Calico dog.; Container of (work):Gardner, Erle Stanley,1889-1970.Exact oposite.; Container of (work):Kantor, MacKinlay,1904-1977.Light at three o'clock.; Container of (work):King, C. Daly,1895-1963.Episode of the nail and the requiem.; Container of (work):Palmer, Stuart,1905-1968.Riddle of the yellow canary.; Container of (work):Queen, Ellery,1916-2013.House of haunts.; Container of (work):Rawson, Clayton,1906-1971.Off the face of the Earth.; Container of (work):Rice, Craig,1908-1957.His heart could break.; Container of (work):Wellman, Manly Wade,1903-1986.Murder among the magicians.; Container of (work):Woolrich, Cornell,1903-1968.Murder at the automat.;

"Fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the form. For devotees of the Golden Age mystery, the impossible crime story represents the period's purest form: it presents the reader with a baffling scenario (a corpse discovered in a windowless room locked from the inside, perhaps), lays out a set of increasingly confounding clues, and swiftly delivers an ingenious and satisfying solution. During the years between the two world wars, the best writers in the genre strove to outdo one another with unfathomable crime scenes and brilliant explanations, and the puzzling and clever tales they produced in those brief decades remain unmatched to this day. Among the Americans, some of these authors are still household names, inextricably linked to the locked room mysteries they devised: John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Clayton Rawson, Stuart Palmer. Others, associated with different styles of crime fiction, also produced great works--authors including Fredric Brown, MacKinlay Kantor, Craig Rice, and Cornell Woolrich. All of these and more can be found in Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries, selected by Edgar Award-winning mystery expert and anthologist Otto Penzler. Featuring a delightful mix of well-known writers and unjustly-forgotten masters, the fourteen tales included herein highlight the best of the American impossible crime story, promising hours of entertainment for armchair sleuths young and old"--

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Short stories.; Detective and mystery stories, American.;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6

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Rim of the pit / by Talbot, Hake,1900-1986,author.(CARDINAL)879339; Holmes, Rupert,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)755339;

"I came here to make a dead man change his mind." So begins a creepy and unusual mystery celebrated to this day as one of the greatest "impossible crime" novels of all time. When a family's promise to protect the beloved pine grove of their dead father creates a financial strain, a seance is suggested to summon the ghost of the late logger and ask its permission. A mixed group of skeptics and believers convene at a snow-bound lodge to call the spirit with a group that includes a gambler, a businessman, a clairvoyant, a professor, and a refugee, among others. With so many diverse interests at the table, the tensions run high -- but when one of the participants ends up dead, there is reason to suspect that a nefarious spirit is to blame. The body is discovered in a locked room, impenetrable from the outside -- just one of many bizarre and inexplicable circumstances surrounding the scene of the crime. There is also the trail of footprints in the snow, beginning and ending amid a field of untouched powder; another on the roof, with the tracks leading for a short distance before vanishing into nothingness; and, there are fingerprints on a gun suspended at an unreachable height...Supernatural undertones and eerie atmosphere clear away in the third act to present a logical conclusion to the case, teasing out the clues and murder methods that unscrupulous readers may have missed. With its off-beat exposition, puzzling plot and exceptional prose, Rim of the Pit is a cult classic of the Golden Age era deserving of a wide audience today.."--

Subjects: Ghost stories.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Seances; Murder;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Whodunit? : detective stories / by Pullman, Philip,1946-(CARDINAL)347461;

The speckled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The little mystery / E.C. Bentley -- The adventure of the Egyptian tomb / Agatha Christie -- Emil and the detectives (an extract) / Erich Kästner -- The inspiration of Mr. Budd / Dorothy L. Sayers -- From the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- Murder at St. Oswald's / Michael Underwood -- The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov -- The Newdick helicopter / Leslie Charteris -- Cold money / Ellery Queen -- More from the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan -- The one-handed murderer / Italo Calvino (an Italian folktale) -- Fingerprinting a ghost / Tony Fletcher (from Memories of Murder) -- It's a hard world / Andrew Vachss -- Maddened by mystery / Stephen Leacock -- Inspector Craig's solutions.Offers a collection of classic detective stories by such mystery writers as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Ellery Queen.

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Children's stories.; Detective and mystery stories; Short stories;

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 3

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I am pilgrim [large print] : a thriller / by Hayes, Terry,1951-(CARDINAL)540078;

This astonishing debut espionage thriller depicts the collision course between two geniuses, one a tortured hero and one a determined terrorist, in a breakneck story reminiscent of John le Carré and Robert Ludlum at their finest. PILGRIM is the code name for a world class and legendary secret agent. His adversary is a man known only to the reader as the Saracen. As a young boy, the Saracen barely sees his dissident father beheaded in a Saudi Arabian public square. But the event marks him for life and creates a burning desire to destroy the special relationship between the US and the Kingdom. Everything in the Saracen s life from this moment forward will be in service to jihad. At the novel s opening, we find ourselves in a seedy hotel near Ground Zero. A woman lies face down in a pool of acid, features melted off her face, teeth missing, fingerprints gone. The room has been sprayed down with DNA-eradicating antiseptic spray. All the techniques are pulled directly from Pilgrim's book, a cult classic of forensic science written under a pen name. In offering the NYPD some casual assistance with the case, Pilgrim gets pulled back into the intelligence underground. What follows is a thriller that jockeys between astonishingly detailed character study and breakneck globetrotting. The author shifts effortlessly from Pilgrim s hidden life of leisure in Paris to the Saracen s squalid warrior life in Afghanistan, from the hallways of an exclusive Swiss bank to the laboratories of a nefarious biotech facility in Syria. The inevitable encounter between Pilgrim and the Saracen will come in Turkey, around the murder of a wealthy American, in a thrilling, twisting, beautifully orchestrated finale.

Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Intelligence officers; Terrorism;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7

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Rise up! : Indigenous music in North America / by Harris, Craig,1953 December 20-author.(CARDINAL)359266; Butler, Stephen(Sound recording producer),writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)883669;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword /"Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and wooden flutes, Indigenous music intersects with rock, blues, jazz, folk music, reggae, hip-hop, classical music, and more. Combining deep research with personal stories by nearly four dozen award-winning Indigenous musicians, Harris offers an eye-opening look at the growth of Indigenous music. Among a host of North America's most vital Indigenous musicians, the biographical narratives include new and well-established figures such as Mildred Bailey, Louis W. Ballard, Cody Blackbird, Donna Coane (Spirit of Thunderheart), Theresa "Bear" Fox, Robbie Robertson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joanne Shenandoah, DJ Shub (Dan General), Maria Tallchief, John Trudell, and Fawn Wood"--

Subjects: Interviews.; Indians of North America; Indian musicians;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Genetic engineering : manipulating the mechanisms of life / by Hodge, Russ,1961-(CARDINAL)358066;

Includes bibliographical references and index.From breeding to a science of heredity -- The origins of domestic plants and animals -- The rise of agriculture and domestication -- Early ideas of inheritance -- The girl who gave birth to rabbits -- Heredity and the theory of evolution -- Gregor mendel discovers the laws of heredity -- Classical genetics (1900-1950) -- Cell theory and the discovery of chromosomes -- The rediscovery of mendel's work -- The debate over natural selection -- Chromosomes and heredity -- Sex and the X-Y chromosomes -- Fruit flies and the birth of the modern laboratory -- Gene maps -- Chromosome puzzles -- Maize and "jumping genes" -- "One gene makes one enzyme" -- Molecular genetics: what genes are and how they work (1950-1970) -- Physics stimulates new ways of thinking about genes -- Genes are made of DNA -- The double helix -- RNA is the messenger -- The architecture of genes -- On-off switches for genes -- The flow of information from gene to protein in complex organisms -- The rise of genetic engineering (1970-1990) -- Recombinant DNA -- "Natural" genetic engineering -- Molecular cloning and using bacteria as drug factories -- DNA sequencing -- The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -- Making and marketing genetically modified plants and animals for food -- Knock outs, knock ins, and other methods to study gene functions -- Beatrice Mintz: a pioneer of mouse genetics -- Transgenic animals and models of human disease -- DNA fingerprinting -- Genetic engineering in the age of genomes -- The complexity of genomes -- Introns and alternative splicing -- Non-coding RNAs -- Quality control: how cells detect defective genes -- RNA knock outs -- Molecular machines -- Conditional mutagenesis -- Other methods of controlling the output of genes -- Molecular medicine and gene therapies -- Personalized medicine in the genome age -- DNA vaccines and t cell therapies -- Ethics and genetic engineering -- Reproductive cloning -- Therapeutic cloning and experiments with human cells -- Genetic testing and concerns about eugenics -- GM foods and the rise of environmental movements -- Owning genes, genomes, and living beings -- A look farther ahead.

Subjects: Genetic engineering;

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