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True Crime Volume 2 – Tales of Murder & Mayhem
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True Crime Volume 2 – Tales of Murder & MayhemTrue Crime Volume 2 – Tales of Murder & Mayhem

For more than 90 years, Reader’s Digest has been telling the amazing true stories of real-life thrillers, unsolved mysteries, and tales of cold-blooded murder–and of the regular folks caught up in these harrowing situations. Now we’ve pulled together a collection of more than two dozen of these gripping narratives,
 
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Tags: Crime, these, Murder, Mayhem, Volume
Murder and Mayhem - A Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery Writers
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Murder and Mayhem - A Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery WritersMurder and Mayhem - A Doctor Answers Medical and Forensic Questions for Mystery Writers

This is an enormously entertaining collection of the best of Lyle's columns for the Mystery Writers of America newsletter, in which the doctor provides detailed and informative answers to questions regarding various aspects of medicine and forensics. Aspiring and experienced mystery writers will achieve verisimilitude, as well as the suspended disbelief of their audiences, by applying Lyle's insights, which he divides into three helpful sections: "Doctors, Hospitals, Illnesses, and Injuries"; "Methods of Murder and Mayhem"; and "Tracking the Perp."
 
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Tags: Murder, Mayhem, which, Writers, Mystery
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
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The Tiger Who Came To TeaThe Tiger Who Came To Tea

This book has enduring charm and young children will delight in the preposterous notion of a tiger creating mayhem in the house.
 
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Tags: creating, tiger, mayhem, house, Tiger
Magic, Mayhem and Mensa
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Magic, Mayhem and MensaMagic, Mayhem and Mensa

It should have been a cushy job: Vern, the dragon detective, and his partner, the mage Sister Grace, are given an all-expense paid trip to Florida to chaperone a group of Magicals at a Mensa convention. Then the pixies start pranking, the Valkyrie starts vamping and a dwarf goes to Billy Beaver's Fantasyland hoping to be "discovered." Environmentalists protest Vern's "disrupting the ecosystem," while clueless tourists think he's animatronic. When the elves get high on artificial flavorings and declare war on Florida, it turns into the toughest case they aren't getting paid for.
 
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Tags: Florida, Mensa, clueless, while, tourists, Mensa, Magic, Florida, Mayhem, disrupting
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
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The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson BraunThe Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

A stabbing in an art gallery, vandalised paintings, a fatal fall - this is not what Jim Qwilleran expects when he turns his reportorial talents to art. But with his partner, Koko the Siamese cat, he sniffs out clues and confounds criminals intent on mayhem and murder.
 
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Tags: intent, mayhem, criminals, confounds, clues, Could, Jackson, Braun, Backwards, Lilian