LIBROS DEL AUTOR: steve levi

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  • A Rat’s Nest of Rails
    Steve Levi
    That the Alaska Railroad was ever built is astonishing. It was constructed over the most treacherous terrain in the world during the most violent political era in US history. The workforce included anarchists, Bolsheviks, socialists, syndicalists, and labor union organizers against the backdrops of the First World War, Spanish Influenza, the Russian Revolution, American troops ...
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    20,00 €

  • The Matter of the Hijacked Artifacts
    Steve Levi
    Why would anyone steal something that has no value? And then stick the insurance company for a ten-million-dollar loss? That’s what insurance investigator Bernice Whitcomb is facing-she needs all the help she can get! Fortunately, Detective Heinz Noonan is in Anchorage, Alaska, to help her. Follow the clues as Whitcomb and Noonan try to determine why anyone would steal an entir...
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    19,76 €

  • The Matter of the Departed Diamonds
    Steve Levi
    How can $2 million in diamonds vanish? First, the diamonds were assessed to make sure they were authentic. Then, in front of witnesses, they were placed in a locked cabinet. Under guard, the cabinet with the diamonds was loaded into an armored car and transported to a jewelry assessor. When the cabinet arrived at the secure room of the jewelry assessor in Kansas City, Missouri,...
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  • Bonfire Saloon
    Steve Levi
    The Alaska Gold Rush is the least studied era of United States history. If you pull up Alaska Gold Rush on Wikipedia, you will get the Klondike Gold Rush. The Klondike Gold Rush was centered around Dawson in Canada’s Yukon Territory and lasted 14 months. The Alaska Gold Rush lasted 40 years, from 1880 to the end of the First World War, and covered an area one-fifth that of the ...
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    14,24 €

  • The Matter of the Bandersnatch Burglar
    Steve Levi
    How can a man drown in a hot air balloon? Can a boxcar disappear off a moving train, and is it possible for flying horses on a merry-go-round to fly away? These are just some of the impossible crimes Detective Heinz Noonan, the Bearded Holmes, is called upon to solve. Every story has all the clues necessary to see if you can solve the impossible crime as fast as the detective! ...
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    14,33 €

  • The Matter of the Runaway Bullion Flatcar
    Steve Levi
    What are 12 Special Education students worth? The answer: 800 pounds of gold bullion. To be delivered on a flatcar out of an abandoned warehouse in Turtle, North Carolina. Heinz Noonan, the 'Bearded Holmes' of the Sandersonville Police Department is called upon to stop the transfer of the gold bullion and save the children. But can he move fast enough to save the children and m...
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    19,59 €

  • The Matter of the Misdirecting Mastermind
    Steve Levi
    Impossible Crime Detective Heinz Noonan, the 'Bearded Holmes,' is ordered to East St. Louis, where a criminal mastermind has made a train with 70 passengers and crew disappear. As the search is on for the hostage, the mastermind loads a railway boxcar with a massive explosive device and abandons it on the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri and Ea...
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    19,60 €

  • Archie Ferguson
    Steve Levi
    Archie Ferguson is the last of the original fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Alaska bush pilots to be the subject of a biography. Dubbed 'Alaska’s Clown Prince,' he added many hilarious chapters to Alaska’s history. He is also the originator of the 'Arctic Bump,' current practice of airline pilots who give a blast of power as they fly over the Arctic Circle to provide gullible tou...
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    19,76 €

  • The Human Face of the Alaska Gold Rush
    Steve Levi
    It is the land of the Alaska Gold Rush, where nuggets were said to be the size of goose eggs, where men froze to death in search of the elusive yellow metal, and dancehall girls lured overnight millionaire sourdoughs into marriage. Honky-tonk pianos punctuated the howl of the north wind in towns that were half-tent and half-ramshackle collections of driftwood, whalebone, and pa...
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    21,77 €

  • The Contract
    Steve Levi
    The Contract is a narrative poem of exactly what our grandmothers did a century ago to make men’s and women’s rights equal. The poem is a conversation between a college-age girl and her mother about the opportunities in life for women. The daughter laments that the boys 'have it made' and women are simply second-class citizens. The mother replies that this is not true; everyone...
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    11,15 €

  • The Matter of the Phantom Purloiners
    Steve Levi
    Captain Heinz Noonan, Master of the Impossible Crime, is in Wyoming to solve an odd murder. A transient is under arrest, accused of murdering himself with a weapon that cannot be found at a time no one could pinpoint for an unknown motive. And how is this murder linked with three odd robberies in three different Wyoming towns in adjacent counties and what does all of this have ...
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    19,72 €

  • Beating Banks At Their Own Game
    Steve Levi
    As you are reading this, banks are giving away millions of your dollars in gift mortgages. The banks are borrowing money from the federal government for mortgages, claiming the loans have ’gone bad’ and then giving the title of the property to ’deserving individuals.’ There is no federal check on these ’bad loans’ so the mortgages are free and clear-and tax-free. A Writ of Mand...
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    19,76 €

  • The Matter of the Dematerializing Armored Car
    Steve Levi
    In The Matter of the Dematerializing Armored Car, Chief of Detectives Heinz Noonan is asked to solve the disappearance of an empty armored car and its two drivers from a tunnel with guards on both ends. Why would anyone want to steal an empty armored car and is it linked the $12 million in cash in the armored car vault under the control of the United States Department of Treasu...
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    19,73 €

  • The Matter of the Deserted Airliner
    Steve Levi
    Unicorn Airlines Flight 739 with no pilot, no crew, and no passengers lands at Anchorage International Airport. As the authorities are wondering what happened, a ransom demand is made for the passengers: $25 million in diamonds. Chief of Detectives for the Sandersonville, North Carolina, Police Department, Captain Heinz Noonan, is visiting his in-laws in Anchorage when he is ca...
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    19,60 €

  • The Matter of the Vanishing Greyhound
    Steve Levi
    How can a Greyhound Bus with four bank robbers, $10 million in cash, the contents of all of the safety deposit boxes and 12 hostages being followed by the San Francisco Police vanish off the Golden Gate Bridge? The police are stumped so a specialist in impossible crimes, Captain Heinz Noonan, the Bearded Holmes, is sent to San Francisco to solve the crime. With the clock ticki...
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    19,73 €

  • Walrus With A Gold Tooth
    Steve Levi
    In the two decades between the Second World War and the Great Alaska Earthquake, Anchorage grew by a factor of 10. Money was, quite literally, washing down the street. The economic boom was so great that all you needed to make a million dollars was a cash register. At the same time Anchorage was one of the few cities in America where organized crime never got a firm foothold. U...
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    19,82 €

  • Cowboys of the Sky
    Steve Levi
    For more than 80 years, bush pilots have carried supplies, delivered mail, and transported emergency personnel over Alaska’s rugged terrain. They’ve flown with felons handcuffed to the seat, with corpses strapped to the wing, and with drugged polar bears sleeping in the cargo compartment. Ever since aviation came to Alaska planes have been far more important than cars or truck ...
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    14,36 €