Alpine Pursuit, The

As her myriad of fans can attest, USA Today bestselling author Mary Daheim creates wonderful mysteries peopled with marvelous characters as quirky as they are endearing. The Seattle Times says Daheim is “one of the brightest stars in our city’s literary constellation”—and the popularity of her irresistible Pacific Northwest crime series has swept across the nation. Now the unfaltering Emma Lord is back in her highly anticipated hardcover debut.

For a small town newspaper like The Alpine Advocate, a new play at the local community college is big news. Editor and publisher Emma Lord is duty-bound to attend opening night, but expects the amateur enterprise will serve only as a cure for insomnia. The play is dubbed “a black comedy,” but the only laughs Emma gets are from the bad acting and the wretched script. And while the turgid production makes Wagner’s Ring cycle seem like a vignette, the real drama begins just before the final curtain.

Hans Berenger, dean of students, wasn’t well known or well liked around Alpine, but the audience found his death scene genuinely convincing—until they realized he wasn’t acting. No one can say how or when the blanks in the prop gun were replaced with the real bullets that killed Berenger, but the list of suspects reads like a playbill of the cast and crew. They all had opportunity, access, and their own axes to grind with the thespically challenged dean.

Seeking the assistance of Vida Runkel, the Advocate’s redoubtable House and Home editor, Emma Lord vows to unravel a mystery that spirals out into unexpected places. As Emma sets the stage for the most likely suspect, she finds herself in a two-character scene whose next cue could make the resolute editor take a final—and permanent—bow.

From the same series: An Emma Lord Mystery

The Alpine Scandal Best price $7.00

The Alpine Recluse Best price $7.00

The Alpine Quilt: An Emma Lord Mystery Best price $6.13

The Alpine Menace Best price $6.13

The Alpine Legacy Best price $6.13

Alpine Gamble Best price $6.13

Alpine Icon Best price $6.13

Alpine Journey Best price $6.13

The Alpine Kindred Best price $7.00

The Alpine Nemesis Best price $6.13

The Alpine Traitor Best price $7.00

Share your thoughts on the Alpine Pursuit, The ebook with other internet viewers!

Title of ebook: Alpine Pursuit, The
ISBN: 9780345472243
parent-ISBN: 9780345467157
Publisher: Ballantine
Internet download file size: 271 kb
Published: 03-2004
Released online for download: 03-30-2004
Author of eBook: Daheim, Mary
Series: More eBooks from the An Emma Lord Mystery series

Format

Encrypted

Sku

ISBN

File size

Security

Printing

Copying

Read aloud

Devices

eReader

Yes

5551292274

9780345472243

271 KB

n/a

Not allowed

Sys Requirments

Download reader

The Alpine Pursuit

Chapter One

My brother, Ben, and I had flown into Rome on a dark October morning. A heavy rain fell all the way into the city from Da Vinci Airport, making it almost impossible to see through the train windows. It was eight-thirty in the morning when we got a taxi at the stazione to head for the Hotel Bramante near the Vatican. The buildings in the oldest part of the Eternal City showed their age, with bright colors dulled, wavery glass, worn wrought iron, and cracked stucco exteriors. Rome seemed as gloomy as Alpine, where it had rained for a week before I left. If this trip was my brother's effort to raise my spirits after Tom's death, I was afraid Ben had made a big mistake.

* * *

An Alpine winter is even gloomier than most autumns, but I'm used to it. Changes in the weather pattern during the past century have raised temperatures, however. No longer is the mountain town snowed in from October to April. The current fall had accumulated to over four feet, but it was the third week of February and that was ordinary at the three-thousand-foot level of the Cascades. Seventy years ago Alpine was completely isolated except by train ... read full excerpt from Alpine Pursuit, The ebook

Other Daheim, Mary ebooks:

receive alert on new Daheim, Mary ebooks

The Alpine Uproar

Mary Daheim is a Seattle native who started spinning stories before she could spell. Daheim has been a journalist, an ...

Best price: $23.62

The Alpine Nemesis

DeAD NeWS DAY Two months after an unlucky snowboarder vanished on the slopes above Alpine, his disappearance is old c ...

Best price: $6.13

The Alpine Menace

For once, emma Lord, editor-publisher of The Alpine Advocate, isn't thrilled by having an inside track. The Seattle st ...

Best price: $6.13

The Alpine Kindred

MURDeR IS ReLATIVe
The brutal stabbing of local philanthropist einar Rasmussen Jr. outrages folk in the old log ...

Best price: $7.00

Alpine Icon

ALL THe MURDeR FIT TO PRINT & ...

Best price: $6.13

Alpine Journey

A JOURNeY OF TeRROR
Murder is news--even when editor-publisher emma Lord is away from The Alpine Advocate. A pi ...

Best price: $6.13

Alpine Gamble

THe ALPINe ADVOCATe IS ON A ROLL.The big story is the five million dollar luxury spa that Los Angeles real estate deve ...

Best price: $6.13

Vi Agra Falls

Tucked away in a cozy cul-de-sac on Heraldsgate Hill, Judith McMonigle Flynn hopes for smooth sailing in her longtime ...

Best price: $11.99

The Alpine Traitor

Praise for Mary Daheim and her emma Lord mysteries
“If you like the Cat Who mysteries by Lilian Ja ...

Best price: $7.00

See full listing:

Other Mystery & Detective eBooks Categories

Mystery Detective General (2051)

Hard-Boiled (144)

Mystery Cat Sleuths (39)

Mystery Traditional British (87)

Mystery-Det Historical (90)

Mystery-Det Series (256)

Mystery-Det Short Stories (28)

Police Procedural (286)

Sherlock Holmes (37)

Women Sleuths (623)

Mystery & Detective Bundles (34)

Top eBooks in Mystery Detective General & Other

An Ice Cold Grave
by Harris, Charlaine

Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there-only to discover that the boy was only one of...more

Best price: $7.99

Blood Ties
by Armstrong, Lori G

Julie Collins is stuck in a dead-end secretarial job with the Bear Butte County Sheriff's office, and still grieving over the unsolved murder of her Lakota half...more

Best price: $7.71

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
by Lindsay, Jeff

Jeff Lindsay lives in South Florida with his wife and three daughters. Dearly Devoted Dexter, the second novel featuring Dexter Morgan, will be published...more

Best price: $12.29

Blue Moon
by Lonergan, Tom

BLUe MOON explores the fall of a soul into darkness as the result of the most painful of life's tragedies. Obsessed with avenging the unexplained ...more

Best price: $5.42

All the Wrong Moves
by Lovelace, Merline

USAF Lieutenant Samantha Spade and her techies try out the latest gizmos for the military. On a test run with the ergonomic exoskeletal extension (eeeK), Sam ...more

Best price: $6.99

Deja Dead
by Reichs, Kathy

It's June in Montreal, and Tempe, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of director of forensic ...more

Best price: $7.55

An Ice Cold Grave

Customer review:
This book takes you on a really wonderful melancholy intermingled with joyous emotional journey in the continuing bittersweet life of Harper Connelly. Leaps and strides happening ...more

Best price: $7.99

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Customer review:
I came to this first Dexter novel as a vet of 3 seasons of the TV show, meaning I already knew the major plot twist, and had fully formed character images in my head. While this is...more

Best price: $12.29

A Deadly Deception

Customer review:
I previously enjoyed all of J.P. Bowie's "A Portrait of..." series of gay mystery novels, and this is an equally well-written and captivating work as those. I enjoy catching up ...more

Best price: $5.42

Palm/eReader Information:

Palm/eReader eBooks can be read on your Palm, Pocket PC, Windows or Mac computer. The Palm/eReader can display styled text (italicized, underlined, etc.) and formatting as well as perform functions not found on other Palm OS eBook readers.

What are the requirements for Palm/eReader?

You'll need a Palm OS or PocketPC/Windows CE Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or a Windows or Macintosh desktop (or laptop) PC.

Palm OS Hardware:

PDAs including: Palm III series, V series, VII series, m100 series, m125 series, m500 series; Handspring Visor series; TRG Pro; Sony CLIE; IBM WorkPad.

134KB of free memory for the Palm Reader application, plus sufficient free memory for each book (varies from 200KB to 2MB, depending upon the length of the book).

Palm Personal will not work with the Palm Reader. It doesn't have enough memory to handle all of our eBooks and there are some important technical differences in the Palm Personal's operating system that make it a less suitable platform for the Palm Reader.

Palm OS Software:

Palm OS 3.0 or greater.

Synchronization software for downloading the Palm Reader and eBooks to your Palm device (e.g., the Palm Desktop software)

PocketPC/Windows CE Hardware:

PocketPC series handhelds

167-260K of free memory for the Palm Reader application, plus sufficient free memory for each book (varies from 200KB to 2MB, depending upon the length of the book)

256KB free program space

PocketPC/Windows CE Software:

PocketPC or PocketPC 2002

Synchronization software for downloading the Palm Reader and eBooks to your PocketPC device (e.g., the ActiveSync 3.1 software).

Windows:

Windows 98 / ME / NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP

Macintosh:

Mac OS 8.6 or later, using CarbonLib 1.5 or later/Mac OS X 10.1 or later

Is it true I can the Palm/eReader is not limited to one format?

The Palm Reader can read doc files. A doc file is a type of PDA file that ends in either .pdb or .prc. These text files have been specifically packaged for use on a PDA. Doc format is pretty much a standard for PDA documents, and the latest version of the Palm Reader can view them.

Can I use the Palm/eReader with the new Pocket PC's?

Yes, the Palm Reader is compatible with the following PocketPCs:

Hewlett-Packard Jornada
420, 430, 430se, 540, 545, 547, 548, 680, 690, 720, and 820

Compaq
iPAQ H3600 series, iPAQ H3100 series and Aero 1500 series

Casio
Cassiopeia E115, E-125 and EM-500 series.