Best Selling Books by Robert Goldsborough

A reporter''s routine assignment turns deadly when a serial killer stalks the Chicago Railroad Fair in this historical noir thriller. It''s the summer of 1949, and Chicago Tribune reporter Steve "Snap" Malek has been assigned to cover the Chicago Railroad Fair. For three months this sprawling and lavish event will draw visitors to the showcase on the city''s beautiful lakefront. Malek, used to covering the gritty police headquarters, sees this assignment as the first step in being put out to pasture. But violence has a way of finding the intrepid Snap Malek, even in this least likely of locales. A killer with a grudge against the railroad industry is striking at random, threatening to shut down the national expo with a series of bizarre murders. Before this reign of terror ends, famed filmmaker Walt Disney enters the scene with a theory about the killer, and Malek himself, bloodied and wounded, becomes a target of the madman''s wrath.

Chicago Tribune police reporter Steve "Snap" Malek is one of the newspaper''s best feature writers, and now it looks like one of his well-crafted feature stories might come back to bite him. Malek had, at one time, turned out a laudatory piece about the heroics of a black man in the highly segregated Chicago of the mid-20th century. But now his erstwhile hero, Willson Forrest, stands accused of the near-fatal beating of his wife, who lingers in a coma. Malek, however, doubts Forrest''s guilt, and begins a rougue investigation despite the police department''s strong belief that they got the right man. The intrepid reporter digs in and uses all of his instincts and resourcefulness to figure out just what happened in the apartment building that left a bludgeoned woman fighting for her life and her husband fighting against prison - or the electric chair. Stairway to Nowhere is ony one of Snap''s dramatic encounters. This bonus companion book to the Snap Malek Mysteries offers several more of his unique experiences.

Goldsborough, a member of the Continental Congress, discusses the alteration of [Minshall''s?] deed with Ridley, a merchant in Baltimore (possibly the manager of the Maryland branch of the London mercantile firm of Stewart and Campbell). States that he has been unable to collect money from various persons who owing for the transaction. Apologizes for not being able to gather the money, stating that his failure was due to family illness and business in the courts. Hopes to collect the money in the course of the following week, and promises to send messengers by ship regarding the transaction. Promises to discuss the present politics in a following letter. Reports that a vessel recently arrived in Philadelphia carrying officers, and the Philadelphians have been so uncivil as to make prisoners of them- Death, Desertion, and a general Dissatisfaction, amounting at most to Mutiny among them, is, I suppose no news to you ...

"Il giardiniere si prende cura delle orchidee... ma chi si prende cura del giardiniere? La Seconda Guerra Mondiale è finita da una manciata di anni, e la vita nella vecchia casa di arenaria sulla Trentacinquesima Strada Ovest di Manhattan procede tranquilla. Il geniale Nero Wolfe se ne sta rintanato nel suo nido circondato dalla sua strana famiglia: Archie Goodwin, tirapiedi e tuttofare, e lo chef Fritz Brenner, i cui deliziosi manicaretti sono sicuramente uno dei motivi per cui il padrone di casa pesa più di un quitale. Theodore Horstmann, il fidato giardiniere incaricato di coccolare le diecimila orchidee nella serra sul tetto della casa, si è di recente trasferito in un appartamento tutto suo, continuando tuttavia a svolgere le sue mansioni per quattro ore al giorno. Ma una sera di giugno, mentre gli abitanti della casa banchettano con una cena a base di cotolette d’agnello, la loro quiete viene interrotta dal trillo insistente del campanello. Alla porta c’è il giardiniere, barcollante e coperto di sangue. Qualcuno lo ha assalito per strada, pestandolo senza nessun motivo apparente. Prima di crollare a terra, Theodore fa in tempo a sussurrare: “Erano in due.” Dopo aver fatto portare il poveretto in ospedale, Nero Wolfe rimane profondamente turbato. Non solo la sua cena è stata interrotta – fatto già di per sé inconcepibile – ma è stato addirittura l’intero suo piccolo, confortevole mondo a subire uno scossone inaudito. Theodore aveva un caratteraccio, e loro due litigavano spesso su come curare una particolare orchidea... ma certo non meritava di finire in coma. L’indagine sul tentato omicidio conduce presto in un ritrovo per scaricatori di porto, non lontano dai moli sul fiume Hudson, dove il giardiniere era solito giocare a carte. Archie si introduce sotto mentite spoglie nella cerchia degli avventori per indagare sui loro giri loschi, ma né lui né il suo geniale padrone immaginano ancora quale torbidume si sia annidato nei bassifondi della città..."--

Legal indenture for title to a tract of land.

Le philharmonique de New York est devenu silencieux. Son chef d''orchestre a été assassiné froidement par un de ses proches. Et pourtant, les regrets sont loin d''être éternels... Peu appréciaient le caractère despotique de cet homme, peu soucieux de froisser la susceptibilité de ses collaborateurs. Malheureusement pour le meurtrier, la victime était une connaissance de Nero Wolfe, le plus grand détective de New York. Qui plus est, Wolfe lui devait la vie. Maintenant que la mort les a séparés, " l''homme aux orchidées " ne peut faire moins que de confondre le coupable. Et le lecteur de découvrir que la haine et la rancœur, même au sein d''un prestigieux philharmonique, peuvent donner naissance à des pulsions inavouables. Peuvent pousser quelqu''un au meurtre. Et s''il ne le savait pas encore, " L''homme aux orchidées " découvrira que le passé ne meurt jamais, et que la vengeance se moque bien des rides.