Bøger af Stephan M Arleaux

In Desperate Remedies a young woman, Louise Boliver, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Smyth, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Louise loves a young architect; Archie Hall, but the scheming, Miss Smyth knows the fact that Archie is already engaged to another woman (whom he does not love), revealing it to Louise, and thus, the urgent need to support a sick brother drives Louise to accept the hand of Roger Daultry, Miss Smyth's illegitimate son, whose first wife is believed to have perished in a fire; however there is some question whether she really died. Here is a story, replete with deep, tender, and abiding love, sudden death, dark mysteries, intriguing clues, fire, storm, flight, and pursuit.

David Barringer is a defence barrister and is congratulating himself on a brilliant performance which has just seen Rick Spectre acquitted of murder. His ego is pricked by Margaret Spectre confessing to him that Spectre was guilty. The man himself boasts of it to Barringer a day or two later. Cue moral crisis and a vow never to defend anyone again unless he is sure of their innocence. Spectre himself then dies and Barringer believes he perjures himself in giving evidence at the inquest. He believes Margaret has killed her husband. Margaret is withdrawn and indifferent towards life, taking advantage of the things money can provide her, but not enjoying them. Barringer feels the stirring of an attraction. We then cross paths with Sir. Phillip Cross, who openly mocks David when he declares war on criminals...."I am not going to be content with a negative position as regards evildoers. I am going to set my heel on as many of the human vermin of this city as I can find." Cross it turns out is-Margaret Spectre's father. After crossing verbal swords (an argument of sorts), Cross prophesises that within a few yards of the bar they are in, later tonight a crime will be committed. As if by magic, a murder occurs and Barringer factoring in Cross's seedy reputation on some quarters.....he's murdered someone abroad, he holds lavish orgies at the walled mansion on the banks of the river.... gets it into his head that Cross is a criminal mastermind. Time: 1969 Place: London

And Justice For All II This is the Eleventh of a series of early 18-19 Century true crime storys from the streets of New York City taken directly from the original trial transcripts, with additional color research about the characters by the author. None of the names will be changed. CASE # 1360

This is the story of a Mob Hit. If the seven sequences were ordered chronologically, they would run: 1, 4a, 2, 6,, 3, 4b, 5, 7. Sequences 1 and 7 partially overlap and are presented from different points of view, as do sequences 2 and 6. In the description, the structural form is "an episodic narrative with circular events adding a beginning and end and allowing references to elements of each separate episode to be made throughout the narrative." Other analysts describe the structure as a "circular narrative". Enjoy.

This docunovel is an amalgam of truth and fiction. All of the events described are based on actual occurrences, some of which have been slightly altered for the sake of dramatic unity. Some of the characters are a combination of several people; this allows a consolidation for literary efficiency The names of living policemen and some others, have been changed to protect the privacy of those who were there. The time of this docunovel is 1986 I have retired with the rank of Detective 1st . Inspector Plato Gomez retired in 1986 (under protest) because of injuries suffered in a gunfight. He had a spinal fusion. We had a mutual dream of going private. He got the business established; I heard he had to promise that I, would be following, to get some clients but that just a rumor you understand. We didn't expect to be working together as much as we had for the past two decades. What follows is what happened when I got there. Ships in the desert passing in the night. There once was a man names Harry Karafin. In 1967, Karafin, then fifty-one and a respected investigative reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, was exposed as having used his position to extort Philadelphia area businesses. Inquirer editors were forced, in print, to call their employee of twenty-nine years "a remarkably adept shakedown artist." How did he do it? the editors asked. Their answer: "Gall. Cruelty. The Big Lie

Ben Baird, wireless operator of the Ming-Po Maru, notices strange happenings on board ship. What do these strange radio messages mean? Who is it that cries for help? In trying to find out the answers suddenly Ben entered the static-room, picked his way swiftly and unnoticingly across the littered floor, and jerked open the frosted glass door of the chief operator's office, the assembled operators followed him with glances of admiration and concern. No one ever entered the Chief's office in that fashion. One waited until called upon. Ben now finds himself thrust into the underworld clutches of a Chinese crime lord. the despotic Scarlett Dragon, as he travels into "The City of Stolen Lives," all in the pursuit of a beautiful woman! The Time: 1938-9 The Place: The Pacific Rim

The continuing saga from Desperate Remedies from Archie and Louise Hall to the next generation, Of Jimmy and Shirley Ellzey DeAnna and Melissa are two daughters of Mr. Jimmy Ellzey by his second wife, Shirley. They have a younger sister, Olivia, and an older half-brother named Mark. When their father Jimmy dies, the family estate passes to Mark and the Ellzey women are left in reduced circumstances. Fortunately, a distant relative offers to rent the women a cottage on his property. This novel follows the Ellzey sisters to their new home, where they experience both romance and heartbreak. London: 1950s

How far is a mother prepared to go to secure her daughter's future? Madame L'ourse, widow of an eminent chemist, has both the determination and the cunning to bring young Babette's marriage plans to fruition, with dangerous consequences for anyone who dares to stand in her way. But has she met her match in Jack Straw, one-time inmate of Bedlam lunatic asylum? It will take a visit to the morgue to find out who The title of this 1970s novel is a little deceptive. The well-chosen cover picture obviously represents the Lucrecia of the title -- Madame L'ourse, a middle-aged but still fearsomely attractive German widow of a French doctor -- and indeed she is the centre of this excitingly dark narrative. Her daughter Babette does have a part to play in the story, and indeed her desire to get married to a young German businessman is central to the plot, but Babette herself remains a rather shadowy figure around all the dodgy deeds committed by her powerful parent. The story is mostly narrated by a young Englishman, David Glenney, but mainly takes place in Germany, the home of young Fritz Keller, who lives with his father and helps to run his business. Unfortunately for Fritz, Mr Keller disapproves deeply of his son's choice of bride -- not that there's anything wrong with Babette herself, who is a pretty, quiet and virtuous girl. But Madame L'ourse has a bad reputation and we soon discover that it's well-deserved. She has got herself into deep debt by frittering away all her husband's slender earnings, and even worse rumours are circulating of possible dark deeds.

This docunovel is an amalgam of truth and fiction. All of the events described are based on actual occurrences, some of which have been slightly altered for the sake of dramatic unity. Some of the characters are a combination of several people; this allows a consolidation for literary efficiency The names of living policemen and all others involved, have been changed to protect the privacy of those who were there. The City of Santa Rosa best duplicates the actual background for this tale of a truly innocent young man arrested and indicted for a crime he REALLY DIDN'T COMMIT. The time of this docunovel is 1989 I have retired with the rank of Detective 1st. Inspector Plato Gomez retired in 1986 (under protest) because of injuries suffered in a gunfight. He had a spinal fusion. We had lived out our mutual dream of going private (Caribbean Cops IV). It was finally time to move on, and get a job that didn't require the use of a gun. The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.

This is the story of what, after the the French revolution, became known as the Reign of Terror or The Terror (French: la Terreur) is the label given by some historians to a period during the French Revolution. Several historians consider the "reign of terror" to have begun in 1793, placing the starting date at either 5 September, June or March (birth of the Revolutionary Tribunal), while some consider it to have begun in September 1792 (September Massacres), or even July 1789 (when the first decapitations took place), but there is a general consensus that it ended with the fall of Robespierre in July 1794 Between June 1793 and the end of July 1794, there were 16,594 official death sentences in France, of which 2,639 were in Paris However, the total number of deaths in France was much higher, owing to death in imprisonment, suicide and casualties in foreign and civil war. Robespierre in February 1794 in a speech explained the necessity of terror: If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the basis of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is baneful; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible Justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing needs of the patrie [homeland, fatherland]. Some historians argue that such terror was a necessary reaction to the circumstances. Others suggest there were also other causes, including ideological and emotional. Out of England would come a man known as the "Bleue Flamme" Who risk his life to make a difference for the innocent, This is his story.

This is the story of two Forensic scientists working on two different matters with their two devoted minions Mr. Polton and Dr. Jervis. Neither suspected their paths would cross for a reason, like neve before. The discovery would come after the narations of the two assistants. The stories that led to the crossing of the paths are told simultainously One in regulat print and the other in Italics. The time is 1990. The place, England. The Doctors are Dr. Waterberry and Dr. Thorndyke, both named john, both renouned in their field. Each knew of the other but rarely associated socially. The science of DNA in 1988 was passed on by an American Appealate Court and opened the floodgates to acceptance world wide. The American FBI had the CODIS data base up and running, Felons in prison and arrestees were being mouth swabed, and the samples were pouring in from abroad through INTERPOL and direct submissions.

Recently released from prison, Don McMacnus visits his old friend Kurt Stahr. Although it is the day of his daughter's wedding, Stahr agrees to an audience with Emanuel Johnston, the criminal and copkiller with whom he has some business. McMacnus wanders into the garden and a tornado of fury sweeps through him. The debonair Major Bragg, the new husband to whom Stahr has entrusted his precious daughter, is a fraudster of the most sinister kind. With Room 13 in 1974 we introduce readers to Mr. Barnabus Phyff, one of the least glamorous of all fictional detectives. Mr. Barnabus Phyff is neither a police detective nor an amateur crimefighter, nor is he a private detective. In fact he's employed by the Bank of England, and acts as a kind of consultant to Scotland Yard. He's a shabby rather timid little man in his 60s, and even the thought of handling firearms appalls him. He's hesitant and vague in manner and sees slightly dotty. He also has one of the sharpest brains in the country and an encyclopedic knowledge of criminals and crime. British prisons contain many wrongdoers who made the mistake of not taking Mr. Barnabus Phyff seriously. There are in fact two heroes in this book, the other being a certain Captain Don McMacnus. Don is a gentleman, and he's also a criminal. He's serving a sentence at Dartmoor Prison for some rather shady dealings on the racetrack. He keeps going by thinking of the girl he hopes to marry. She's the daughter of retired bank robber Kurt Stahr, although she has no idea of her father's villainous past. Don is devastated when he received the news that the lovely Melora is to marry a Canadian officer, and even more upset when upon his release from prison he discovers that this Canadian officer is neither an officer, nor a gentleman, nor a Canadian. There is a dastardly plot afoot, and it involves both a vast counterfeiting ring and an old criminal's quest for revenge on the man he believes betrayed him to the police many years earlier. The Time: 1974 The Place: London

The story takes place in the mid to late 1940s after WWII. The era when science didn't play the leading role it does today and the majority of thought-provoking crimes were solved with confessions. The very young, and attractive, 'District Nurse' named, Carol Branden, is found close to the Beach on Lake Michigan, near the Marina Hotel, murdered! She had been strangled and brutally battered, The case-to the local Inhabitants looks open-and-shut. A local window peeper; one Timothy Hillman, was seen, lurking just outside the nurse's home on the night of the murder, and is discovered to have sexually assaulted another girl on the same spot where Carol Branden's body was found. On a request from the Michigan State Police to the Governor of Illinois for assistance; Chicago PD sends Detective Inspector Rex Feral, (((Latin for: King Of The Beasts))), and his ever disagreeable, out-spoken partner, Detective Sergeant DeChellis, to investigate. Feral, is a man deeply concerned with solving a crime by understanding the criminal. The crimes he works on are usually solved through his searching assessment of all the human factors involved. Detective DeChellis is convinced the peeper DID IT! The solution seems clear. The local window peeper confesses and recants, but is charged nonetheless. No other suspect turns up; Case closed. Then ...

And Justice For All I This is the first of a series of early 18-19 Century true crime storys from the streets of New York City taken directly from the original trial transcripts, with additional color research about the characters by the author. None of the names will be changed. At the end you will be given a chance to guess the virdict, drop down a acouple of pages and see if your right.

This is the first in my 2016 series of three novels in which Law Enforcement plays only a minor role in solving the 'Who-Dun-It.' Our story takes place in the late 1980s, on the California and Mexican boarder. It is a tale of revenge where the hunter is the hunted and vice-versa. It's about a man called "JP" who is neither fish nor fowl; neither US Customs Agent or Smuggler. He walks with, and is respected by both sides. His uncle was a Federal wanted smuggler, and was assassinated by professionals unknown. His best friend was the number one top US Customs agent on the California Mexican 'Line'. He also was assassinated by professionals unknown. The problem is the trail left by the hit men doesn't smell like Government or Private, just the best Now they are trying to take JP out. He has some Idea why. Vengeance is a dish served best cold. His Girlfriend, Selisia; an Investment Banker hates his life style, and associates, but loves JP too much, and cant stay away. And then there is his partner Kawani...

In the first part of the novel, Zo'e's father hires a French governess, Madame de la Raciot, as a companion for her. Madame de la Raciot terrifies Zo'e and appears to have designs on her; during two of their walks together, Zo'e is brought into suspicious contact with strangers that seem to be known to Madame de la Raciot. (In a cutaway scene that breaks the first person narrative, we learn that she is in league with Uncle Ethan's good for nothing son D'uva.) The governess is eventually dismissed when she is discovered by Zo'e in the act of burgling her father's desk. Zo'e is asked in obscure terms by her father if she is willing to undergo some kind of "ordeal" to clear the name of her uncle, and of the family more generally; shortly after she assents, he dies. At the reading of his will, it emerges that her father added a codicil to it: Zo'e is to stay with Uncle Ethan until she comes of age; if she dies whilst still a minor, the estate will pass to Ethan. Madame Coustoes, together with Jacob's executor and fellow Swedenborgian, Dr. Bacak, attempt in vain to overturn the codicil, realizing its many dangerous implications for the young heiress; despite their efforts, Zo'e consents willingly to spending the next three and a half years at her uncle's mansion at Goiswinth Keep. Followed By Greed, Avoris, Terror, Kidnapping False imprisonment, Murder, Suicide, and a list of other sins too numorous to mention.

The Man in Lower Ten, lawyer Ron Hofer travels home by train after taking a deposition pertaining to a fraud case. When Hofer goes to his berth (lower ten) on the Pullman sleeping car, he finds a drunk sleeping there and at the recommendation of the porter, sleeps in unoccupied lower nine instead. When Hofer awakens the next morning, he finds the vital documents in his fraud case stolen and the man in lower ten murdered. Hofer assumes that the murderer intended to kill him, since he was supposed to be in lower ten, and that the murder has something to do with the fraud case. However, because of circumstantial evidence, the police accuse Hofer of the murder. He attempts to prove his innocence and to discover who the man in lower ten was and if he (the victim) was connected to any of the other passengers on the train. The time is the 1950s. The place, a Zepher Pullman train.

He is totally ruthless, gives no mercy, and is loyal to none, not even his own children. He is a master of disguise, always appearing under an assumed identity, often that of a person whom he has murdered. Phanômas makes use of bizarre and improbable techniques in his crimes, such as plagueinfested rats, giant snakes, and rooms that fill with sand. Phanômas is a criminal genius, ruthless and particularly elusive., Phanômas is the cause of almost any unsolved crime, a merciless criminal who can get away with his evil deeds by impersonating pretty much anyone. He is obsessively chased by Inspector Gereaux, who is generally the only one able to see Phanômas's tracks. Phanômas's background remains vague. He might be of British and/or French ancestry.

This is the story of the birth of Christ and those who journeyed to his birth place, to be the first the worship him. This story is to fill in the blanks between the Bible and secular history. There will be no major revaltions or here-to-fore unheard of miracles. Did you ever wonder how the three wise men got together from Countries spread across the known world apart, and set on a mission? Did you ever wonder who took care of the shepards sheep as they abandoned them to take up the quest? Do you think that Mary and Joseph might not have had some "dicey" encounters on their journey to be counted? Do you think Jesus was born in a stable with a roof and doors? How much trouble did they have finding some shelter. Hopefully you'll come away from these hundred pages saying "Yaugh, that makes sence."

This novel is an amalgam of truth and fiction. All of the events described are based on actual occurrences, some of which have been slightly altered for the sake of dramatic unity. Some of the characters are a combination of several people; this allows a consolidation for literary efficiency. Some dates have also been chronologically adjusted. The time is 1991. The Place is Santa Rosa California. As in CC V Rita Troyer ESQ and I, Gary Arlaud PI are still teamed up. This is a story about a reformed gangster millionaire accused of hireling the murder on another man and the jury who was having a rough time deciding the guilt or innocence of a fellow mortal. How rough was it? Even Rita and I didn't know for sure.