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21. No Murder Before Its Time (Esbeth
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22. Five Star First Edition Mystery
 
23. The Russ
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24. Places to Know: Childcraft #10:
 
25. The Secret Guide to Computers,
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26. Goodbye, She Lied (Five Star Mystery
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27. Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
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28. Game Misconduct: Alan Eagleson
 
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21. No Murder Before Its Time (Esbeth Walters Mysteries)
by Russ Hall
Paperback: 224 Pages (2004-10)
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Asin: 141040207X
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Esbeth Walters is 72 and shouldn't be messing around with murder, but when Texas Hill Country winemaster Win Castle pits his sons against each other over the inheritance of a 21,000-acre spread including the winery where Esbeth works part-time, the result is murder, and Esbeth is in the middle of it. Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory and Sheriff Watkins think she knows more than she's telling. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars paperbook edition out
Believe it or not, this is now out in paperback through Worldwide Mystery.If you are not familiar with this publisher, it is because it is through Harlequin romance.You can only get it through their website.It is a great book and not so easy to find.

4-0 out of 5 stars Terrifically Texan
Win Castle has pitted his sons against each other to determine who will take over management of the family's Texas wine business and ranch. Whether it's hunting boar with only a knife or catching sharks, Win pushs them to go further, to take risks. But when his trials are over and he's decided on his successor, he never expects that the winner will be murdered. Nobody much regrets the death of Chaz Castle--the man was a menace to himself and everyone around him. But that only means more suspects for the Texas Rangers and for spunky retired school teacher, winery tour guide, and amateur detective Esbeth Walters. Making things tougher, Win does his best to confuse the case.

Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory has the best conviction record in the Rangers, but he's not too proud to take help where he can get it--and he suspects that Esbeth can help him if she wants. She knows the Castle family, the dynamics within the winery, and the romances that spring up among the Castles and the employees. Even if Esbeth does insist on treating him like a student rather than a law enforcement professional, Tillis sticks it out. Because Esbeth's insights just might be the only thing that will let him cut through the smokescreen that Win is laying and discover the truth.

Author Russ Hall has a terrific ear for the language and manerisms of rural Texas. Expressions like 'meaner than turkey turd beer,' and loonier than the Saturday morning cartoons' are sure to bring a smile--and a nod of recognition. Another nod of recognition goes to Esbeth herself--a carefully drawn character who would be at home anywhere in Texas, sorting things out, protecting her pride, and knowing just a bit more than anyone else. Wine buffs will also enjoy the detailed look at Texas winemaking--and the antics involved in winery tours.

Most of the first half of the novel set the stage for the first murder--but events happen quickly after the Castle family returns from a wedding trip to Belize--with the succession decided and tempers hot. NO MURDER BEFORE ITS TIME is an enjoyable read.

4-0 out of 5 stars interesting thriller
In The Texas Hill Country ruthless rancher Win Castle feels his mortality after suffering a heart attack.He worries about his legacy as he feels both of his sons are wimps.He decides to host a contest between Chaz and Kyle.Though the siblings are in their thirties, they react differently.Chaz welcomes with glee the chance to inherit the estate while Kyle believes this is stupid.

Chaz wins the competition risking his life with the boar and bringing in the shark.When they land on a deserted isle, Kyle saves the lives of the trio.In Texas, Win informs Chaz and Kyle that they will replace long time loyal managers.However, not long afterward someone murders Chaz followed by his mother.Sheriff Watkins and Ranger Macrory gain the help of septuagenarian Esbeth Walters as they struggle to solve the homicides.

NO MURDER BEFORE ITS TIME is an interesting thriller in which the better person loses the competition because he lacks the zealousness of his sibling.Ironically when they are in trouble Kyle steps to the plate and delivers.The tale ultimately spins into an interesting police procedural amateur sleuth story line that is cleverly designed.Although quite good, that subplot is not quite at the quality level of the Castle championship competition.

Harriet Klausner

5-0 out of 5 stars What Wonderful Characters!
Wow, what great characters!That pure country Boose and, of course, Esbeth, the reluctant detective, are alive in my head yet.I felt I was on the grounds of a vineyard.I toast this ripping yarn with a glass of the best red wine.

5-0 out of 5 stars Another Fine Mystery From Russ Hall
I have read all of Russ Hall's books. They are all fabulous, and this one is just as good as the others. In all of his books, Mr. Hall is able not only to deliver a plot that entertains and keeps you turning the page--certainly a must in this genre!--but also unique and quirky characters rendered with the skill and care of a mainstream novelist. Mr. Hall's sense of place is spectacular as well. If you love the beauty of the Texas Hill country, you will smell the mesquite coming off the pages of this book. Esbeth Walters, the 72 year old sleuth of this novel and other Russ Hall novels, is one of the joys of this genre. Look, there are more famous mystery novelists that you can read, but Mr. Hall is as good as any of them. Try this novel, or another of his, and get an unexpected treat. ... Read more


22. Five Star First Edition Mystery - Black Like Blood: An Esbeth Walters Mystery (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
by Russ Hall
Hardcover: 333 Pages (2005-08-05)
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Asin: 1594143544
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Esbeth Walters, a retired high school math teacher in her youthful 70s, tells herself that she's never too old to learn something new the hard way when she takes a job as part-time dispatcher at the Sheriff's Department - just a week after the mayor of a small town in the county has been murdered. New to the area, she soon learns that somewhere under the crust of her newly adopted rural Texas county there is a history of feuds, corruption, betrayal, and violence. Wild talk of a lost diamond mine helps to peel back the scab and she begins to wonder if even Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory isn't as tainted as the rest of them. He is overly friendly to attractive deputy Gala and has sat at the card table of gambler Morgan Lane. Esbeth tells him, "I think there's something about this one you needed, something that rattles you to your deeps." Tillis isn't helped when the murdered mayor's son Donnie and his girlfriend, Karyn, find another body - Denny's brother Hugh, who's been missing for forty years. Donnie and Karyn, daughter of Tillis' game warden friend, Logan Rainey, can't seem to leave the mess alone, and their relentless digging unearths a side to the story no one, not even Esbeth, could have expected.

Russ Hall resides in rustic splendor on a lake in the Hill Country of central Texas. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars A Grump to Love
Esbeth Walters is one of the most memorable characters to spring to action on the pages of a mystery, and what a hum-dinger this one is.For someone in her seventies she navigates the speed bumps and hurdles of this case in heroic fashion.She does not brook fools gently, but it is the determined and Machiavellan minds out to thwart her efforts with whom she must contend and do mental combat.A small Texas town with plenty to hide, greed and pride, and not so hidden motives combine for a complex case that is beyond the powers of the local law to unravel.There are plenty of fascinating characters up to no darn good in this compelling yarn, and there's one grump to love.

4-0 out of 5 stars Fascinating with plenty of twists
When he spots a boat heading out in a storm, Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory calls his friend (and suspicious father) and the two head out to check. A couple of teenage divers discover the long-dead body of another diver--a diver held in a bear-trap under water. All of a sudden, all of Hoel's Dam, Texas's dark secrets begin to emerge. How can this really be a city without a history. What happened to the diver? What happened to the recently deceased mayor? Is there really a diamond mine on Hoel property? What caused the feuds between the Hoel, Granite, and Spurlock families?

Ranger Macrory doesn't feel like he's getting much active help from the sheriff. Instead, the new dispatcher, aging Esbeth Walters, and mysteriously capable Sheriff Deputy Gala, along with the two kids, seem to be the only help Macrory can get. Even his boss is jerking on the reins, trying to make sure Macrory doesn't rock political boats.

Macrory and Esbeth discover that there really were diamonds--but was it a hoax? If so, for what possible purpose? Then there's Old Man Hoel, with his huge ranch and his refusal to see anyone. The Granite family isn't as rich as the Hoels, but it was definitely involved in feuding--and is interested in finding the rumored chest of diamonds. And a mysterious gambler has moved into town and is making arrangements that have to have a meaning. Because a big-time gambler like Morgan Lane wouldn't move into a small-time town like Hoel's Dam just for a weekly poker game with the sheriff.

Author Russ Hall maintains multiple parallel investigative tracks as the kids, Macrory, and Esbeth each tug on the clues to uncover the truth that has already killed so many. Hall's writing is vivid, sometimes almost poetical with Macrory a particularly intriguing character. I was somewhat confused by Hall's reference to Macrory and his friend, game warden Logan, fighting in Korea. As BLACK LIKE BLOOD is set in the present day, this would make Macrory in his seventies--and I was shocked when he described himself as 43. This continuity issue did distract me from the story, which is a shame, because the story is interesting, complicated, and ready to offer one more twist just when you think you've figured everything out.

5-0 out of 5 stars deep Texas police procedural
While diving in a storm at night, teenage lovers Donnie Spurlock and Karyn Rainey find a corpse at the bottom of the lake.The townsfolk of Kiowa County are already shaken with the recent unsolved murder of Donnie's father, the mayor of Hoel's Dam, Dennie.The corpse found in the lake is Dennie's older brother Hugh, a WW II veteran missing for forty years whose father also went missing.

Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory investigates the homicides linked by blood, but rumors also include lost diamonds.As the two youngsters refuse to back off and continue digging for the truth, new sheriff's dispatcher septuagenarian retired schoolteacher Esbeth Walters mistrusts all law enforcement officials although she thinks Tillis is the cleanest except when he thinks with the wrong head involving the new deputy Gala.

Esbeth, the star of NO MURDER BEFORE ITS TIME, actually gets involved about halfway into this enjoyable police procedural.Three teams of investigations compete.Tillis assisted by his long time friend and Karyn's father game warden Logan make up the most professional inquiries; the sheriff's office is officially in charge; finally the teen lovers provide an amateur sleuth look.Russ hall brings these divergent competing investigations with Esbeth the retired teacher looking down from her big "desk" with a moral light as she trusts none of the players to learn the truth though her reasoning varies.BLACK LIKE BLOOD is a deep Texas who-done-it with a strong cast.

Harriet Klausner
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23. The Russ
by San Diego High School Students
 Paperback: Pages (1904)

Asin: B000ZFJ9RK
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10" x 6 3/4". gold lettering on black w/ woman and man in front of door. Pictures and advertising inside. 208 pages. ... Read more


24. Places to Know: Childcraft #10: The How and Why Library (Volume 10)
by Childcraft International
Hardcover: 368 Pages (1974)
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Asin: 1073815021
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25. The Secret Guide to Computers, 25th Edition
by Russell M. Walter
 Paperback: 639 Pages (1998-12)
list price: US$15.00
Isbn: 0939151251
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26. Goodbye, She Lied (Five Star Mystery Series) (Five Star Mystery Series)
by Russ Hall
Hardcover: 241 Pages (2007-11-14)
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Asin: 1594146020
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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4-0 out of 5 stars fun senior citizenry amateur sleuth
In Fearing, Texas Boose Hargate asks septuagenarian Esbeth Walters to uncover the identity of the con artists who bilked his elderly momma; she was tossed out of the posh retirement home due to a lack of funds.

Adele Kilgore does not need the insurance money nor cares about it, but has a need to know who killed her husband Vance.The police said it was suicide, but he was obviously bound and tortured before driving himself to his death.She turns to Esbeth to uncover the truth.Esbeth receives help from retired forensic pathologist Gardner Burke even as two hitmen search for the same con artists that Esbeth seeks.As everyone converges at Boose's booby trapped isolated cabin, law enforcement remains several steps behind Esbeth and her adversaries.

Although everything ties together too perfectly like a mathematical equation, fans will enjoy the senior citizenry amateur sleuth as Gardner the retired pro assists former math teacher Esbeth on her investigations.Her work on both cases is fun to follow as she finds the sum of the parts (her two cases, a tie in serial killing, and a previous con) equals the whole mystery.

Harriet Klausner
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27. Anesthesia and Perioperative Care of the Combat Casualty (Textbooks of Military Medicine)
Hardcover: 931 Pages (2000-04-07)
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Asin: 0160591376
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Textbook of Military Medicine,
Pt. 4, Surgical Combat Casualty Care.
Specialty editors: Russ Zajtchuk and Christopher M. Grand. Describes combat casualty care for the military anesthesia provider.
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28. Game Misconduct: Alan Eagleson and the Corruption of Hockey
by Russ Conway
Paperback: 324 Pages (1997-01-01)
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Asin: 1551990180
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Russ Conway has worked at the Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, Massachusetts, since 1967. For more than five years, he pursued the details of this fascinating story, an investigation that focused increasingly on the activities of Canada’s Alan Eagleson, once regarded as the most powerful figure in professional hockey. Conway’s series for the Eagle Tribune, “Cracking Ice,” from which this book was developed has been at the heart of the FBI and US Justice Department investigations that led to the 1994 indictment of Alan Eagleson.

Among other things, Conway’s sensational exposé documents the following:

Eagleson’s defrauding of injured players seeking career-ending disability insurance.

Eagleson’s use of National Hockey League Players’ Association money for questionable and unauthorized loans to friends and associates, one of whom was also his partner in business ventures.

Eagleson’s exploitation of his position as head of the NHLPA and driving force behind the Canada Cup to obtain everything from free clothing to free air travel to France.

Eagleson’s outright theft of Canada Cup money via a scheme that saw Irving Ungerman’s company, All Canada Sports, retain control of end-board advertising during Team Canada games.

Conway’s discovery, while investigating the conduct of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into Eagleson that Timothy Lemay, a lawyer on loan from the federal Department of Justice, was working out of the same office in Newmarket, Ontario, as the RCMP, which was collaborating with US authorities. Lemay worked for Eagleson’s law firm; Eagleson had Lemay do work for Hockey Canada; Lemay is Eagleson’s son’s brother-in-law.

Game Misconduct is much more than a sports story: it embraces business, politics, and true crime; indeed, some have called it the biggest scandal in professional sports since the 1919 Chicago White Sox threw the World Series. It is unquestionably among the most impressive and explosive examples of determined, investigative journalism in recent years.


From the Hardcover edition. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Best book on hockey, ever
Those who want to learn about hockey - and not just what Alan Eagleson did to it - should run, not walk, to buy this book.
Conway's book is superb, and his work on Eagleson made him a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
It's a must-read for any sports writer, too. It's like having an "Investigative Journalism 101" class taught to you, and for a fraction of the money you'd pay at a university.

5-0 out of 5 stars Spectacular Book
This is the most interesting book I have ever read.I studied it to do an oral presentation for Grade 9 English class a few years ago and was so intrigured by the Alan Eagleson story that, now in my first year of University, I am pursuing a career very similar to that of Alan Eagleson...one in which I would essentially deal with the business side of the NHL where I would love to make some sort of a positive influence, as Eagleson did.However, Alan Eagleson's corruption, which is described in this book, is an excellent example of how one person can cause a negative influence on many people's lives through illegitimacy and how public opinion of that person can change almost instantly as a result.Russ Conway did an excellent job of investigating Alan Eagleson, and his book is a wonderful summary of his work.I would recommend this book to anybody, whether they are a hockey fan or not.

5-0 out of 5 stars A Gut Wrenching Account of
This is one of the most important sports books ever written.Through his exhaustive work, Russ Conway exposes the greed, corruption and financial swindling that plagued the NHL throughout Alan Eagelson's reign of terrorand the financial and emotional price that so many players faced. Mostimportantly, Conway's work served as the catalyst for Mr. Eagleson'sdownfall and proving many player's assertions of corruption.Put simply,this is an important piece of journalism that every fan of sports shouldread, whether you are a hockey fan or not.

4-0 out of 5 stars Wonderful investigative piece
Russ Conway has written a wonderful investigative piece about a man who is truly a disgraceful figure in the history of Canadian hockey.Russ brings forth, with his own agressive style, the wicked ways of a man who calling acrook is an understatement. First, he never backed down to get his answersand his writing is first-rate.Anyone who follows hockey should read abouta man who almost destroyed it.

5-0 out of 5 stars A must-read book
All hockey fans owe Russ Conway a debt of gratitude for helping rid hockey of the parasite Alan Eagleson. He documents Eagleson's criminal and disgusting behaviour in great detail, helping fans to better understand what hockey players faced in the past, the necessary background information for many of the issues facing pro hockey today. I haven't read such a gripping book since "Net Worth". Eagleson will be back in the courts again before long, no doubt willing to lie about the charges being brought forward by a number of retired hockey players. Read this book and you'll see that the players have justice on their team. ... Read more


29. GAME MISCONDUCT: ALAN EAGLESON AND THE CORRUPTION OF HOCKEY
by RUSS CONWAY
 Hardcover: Pages (1995)

Asin: B000GKXE2K
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30. Conventional Warfare Ballistic, Blast, And Burn Injuries Textbook of Military Medicine **Volume 5, Part I**
by Ronald F. (Russ Zajtchuk), Editors Bellamy
 Hardcover: Pages (1991)

Asin: B000NPLZ7O
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31. The Secret Guide To COmputers Part 3: Languages
 Paperback: 97 Pages (1977)

Asin: B000HZYQG2
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32. The Secret Guide To Computers Part 4: Systems
 Paperback: 66 Pages (1978)

Asin: B000HZTQ4O
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