From mystery maven Carolyn Wells, the author of The Clue, comes another classic cozy locked-room whodunit. The set-up is vintage Wells: Guests gather at Maxwell Chimneys, the stately home of Alexander Maxwell, for a weekend of picnics and charades. During a dance party, Alexander's nephew Philip Maxwell is murdered. The murder weapon is quickly located in the hand of an unconscious woman lying next to the corpse, who has been shot in the shoulder. A local detective is hired and is aided in his investigation by one of the guests. Everyone is a suspect and the clues shift to implicate one guest and then another. Ultimately, the amateur sleuths call in the famous detective Fleming Stone to solve the pieces of the puzzle. The Maxwell Mystery marks the debut of Detective Fleming Stone.
From mystery maven Carolyn Wells, the author of The Clue, comes another classic cozy locked-room whodunit. The set-up is vintage Wells: Guests gather at Maxwell Chimneys, the stately home of Alexander Maxwell, for a weekend of picnics and charades. During a dance party, Alexander's nephew Philip Maxwell is murdered. The murder weapon is quickly located in the hand of an unconscious woman lying next to the corpse, who has been shot in the shoulder. A local detective is hired and is aided in his investigation by one of the guests. Everyone is a suspect and the clues shift to implicate one guest and then another. Ultimately, the amateur sleuths call in the famous detective Fleming Stone to solve the pieces of the puzzle. The Maxwell Mystery marks the debut of Detective Fleming Stone.
Amy Maxwell still hasn't caught up on laundry, her daughter Allie is still acting like a rebellious teen (and schooling her younger sister in that art), the two boys are still causing her to rip her hair out by the roots with their antics, and her husband Roger is STILL sitting in his arm chair uselessly engrossed in a reality show marathon. To add to her already mounting stress, Amy has decided to go back to school to get a degree Yeah, yeah...she's GLUTTON for punishment. And so Amy's new quest for a career in law enforcement, coupled with the Seven Deadly sins, puts Amy in a position she's never been before...the back of a trunk, bound and gagged. That's right...Wrath, Greed, Lust, Sloth, Envy, Pride, and Gluttony are the reason she's in her current predicament. And what's more, they're not all her sins, but the sins of everyone else around her including her oh so perfect sister, Beth. Find out how the Seven Deadly Sins lead Amy into a tangled web of mistakes and missteps (and the trunk of a Chevy) in this hilarious sequel to "The 8 Mistakes of Amy Maxwell".
I just knew something would go wrong if the whole family went on vacation-I had a sixth sense about it. A week of fun in the sun at an all-inclusive resort on the beach should be a relaxing time for the whole family, right? Not for the Maxwell family.Because prepping for a family vacation as a mom is akin to Chinese Water Torture, I find myself dreaming of a solo vacation before the wheels of the plane even touch down on the runway. The kids are begging to upgrade our WiFi package, I've discovered that I can't seem to get away from Jason Collins, and Roger's acting suspicious. To top it all off, I've been noticing there are unsavory characters at the resort that immediately set off my Mom radar.Unable to stop myself from snooping, I stumble upon another mystery, one that involves a half-naked man with a palm leaf covering his nether regions, and Roger and I in serious danger of being filleted with his spear.
Pops Maxwell is a lazy, cynical, burned out tabloid reporter. When given three wishes by a genie, he asks for powers that would make his job a breeze. He then goes on to scoop the competition with little effort. He is assigned to the Metro Phantom seral murders and missing teen girls. For a man who believes that other peoples tragedy is just good story, he is haunted by this one. He feels teen girls terror as they a murdered, and the sorrow of their parents as they await word of their daughter's fate. Pops knows who the Metro Phantom is, where he lives, and where the bodies are buried. What is holding him back from writing the biggest scoop of his career?
This volume collects for the first time the work of one of America's most important, vital and original young voices. Turning the American family drama firmly on its head, "Maxwell strips more layers of explanation from the Freudian family romance, shining light on the humiliation and fury usually reasoned out of sight by psychologizing playwrights. Few characters in contemporary drama are as exposed as Maxwell's."--Marc Robinson, Village Voice"Imagine if you took a giant hatpin and stuck it into Sylvester Stallone's Rocky. Once all the hot air had leaked out of that melodrama about a working-class underdog who wins fame, fortune and love in the boxing ring, you might find something very much like Richard Maxwell's Boxing 2000. By taking a conventional formula and draining it of all its humid sentimentality and synthetic adrenaline, Mr. Maxwell discovers something new and unexpected. Boxing 2000 is a real knockout: a play that not only challenges theatrical clich s, but your ideas about theatre itself."--Wall Street Journal""It's a sensation that's felt all too rarely these days. Watching Mr. Maxwell's work makes you think of what it must have been like to stumble upon the baffling but seductive creations of a young Sam Shepard in the early 1960's in the East Village."--, New York TimesThis first volume collects nine of Maxwell's early works: Boxing 2000, Caveman, House (1999 OBIE Award winner), Showy Lady Slipper and others.Richard Maxwell is a writer, director and songwriter. He began his acting career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, where he helped found the Cook County Theater Department, which challenged the principles of traditional acting training. He is artistic director of New York City Players. His plays have been performed in the U.S. at Soho Rep, The Kitchen, P.S. 122, HERE, the Williamstown Theater Festival, Walker Arts Center and the Wexner Center for the Arts; and in Paris, Berlin, Dublin, Brussels, Amsterdam and Vienna.
"This series is a small treasure." —BOOKLIST Chicago private eye Paul Whelan is hired by an elderly jazz musician to find a missing street hustler named Sam Burwell. As Whelan delves into Burwell's past, the world of street vendors and corner musicians, he uncovers old enmities and love affairs, but his search for Burwell comes up empty. That is, until Burwell is found murdered. Soon Whelan is swept up into a whirlwind of old feuds, dark pasts, unlikely romances...and a killer hiding in plain sight.
Shiv Prasad Tripathy's book is a monumental achievement of conciseness as he flies us through the amazing universe of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory............With this book at hand, your questions will be answered in short order. from book Foreword by James C. Rautio, Founder & Board Chair, Sonnet Software]***"Demystifying Maxwell's Equations from Shiv Prasad Tripathy provides a holistic treatment to a complex subject, maintaining a narrative that sustains reader interest while providing requisite scholastic and applied knowledge. The book will be very useful to practicing engineers. Finally, one can pick a book on electromagnetics without getting intimidated."Vikram Kumar, Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi & ex-Director, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (India)***"Shiv Prasad Tripathy has written Demystifying Maxwell's Equations for those who want to pursue physics knowledge for engineering applications. Written with the same fervor as his earlier book RF & μWave Measurements, it is yet another timeless desktop reference from the author."Vishal Gupta, Segment Manager and Solutions Architect, Keysight Technologies***Demystifying Maxwell's Equations covers concepts and principles that illustrate and expound electromagnetics with direct relevance to engineering applications. It presents electromagnetics with a holistic overview as it navigates through the electromagnetic space comprising spatial, temporal and material effects.Demystifying Maxwell's Equations motivates the readers to develop interest beyond physics into engineering applications and will be of interest to anyone who wants to decode electromagnetics beyond the traditional theoretical construct. The book is organized as follows: Chapter 1 OverviewChapter 2 Maxwell's EquationsChapter 3 Static FieldsChapter 4 Quasistatic FieldsChapter 5 Properties of MaterialsChapter 6 Unrestricted Dynamic FieldsChapter 7 Boundary ConditionsChapter 8 Confined Dynamic Fields - IChapter 9 Confined Dynamic Fields - IIChapter 10 Maxwell in ActionChapter 11 Electromagnetic MeasurementsAppendix - The Wave EquationFurther ReadingTopics of increased complexity get introduced across the chapters and ensure seamless flow of knowledge as the mystery of the equations gets unraveled in space, time and medium. The book illuminates the reader on the practical side of electromagnetics, covering electromagnetic measurement parameters and introducing instrumentation systems. Demystifying Maxwell's Equations offers a balanced coverage on the breadth and depth of core topics while maintaining a portable size. The knowledge source encourages the reader to transcend electromagnetics theory towards engineering applications.Shiv Prasad Tripathy is a hands-on engineering practitioner, and provides consulting & knowledge services to people in academics and industry. His prior work experience has been with companies like HCL Ltd., Agilent Technologies (now Keysight), Hewlett Packard and others. Information about his other books is on the author's page.
