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"The Undertaker: The Unauthorized Real Life Story of The WWE's Deadman" is a fascinating, first of its kind, and completely unauthorized inside look at the man behind the WWE legend known as The Undertaker. Detailed and distinct among contemporary pro wrestling biographies, this insightful look at the life, career, and incomparable legacy of Mark Calaway is bound to forever change the way wrestling fans look at "The Phenom." A must-read for WWE fans, this hotly anticipated Kindle exclusive from national bestselling author Michael Essany covers: - The origins of Mark Calaway's wrestling ...

Unmasking the Kremlin's Secrets: A High-Stakes Game in London Chauncey Brightspeed isn't your average London cabbie. Beneath the veneer of a nocturnal driver lies "The Undertaker," a CIA spy catcher on loan to MI5 from the CIA.. Fluent in Russian and armed with a photographic memory, Chauncey buries secrets and threats to national security. His current mission? Unearthing a deeply embedded Russian spy ring in the heart of London. In the thrilling opening chapter of The Undertaker: Kremlin's Spy Ring in London, Chauncey navigates the rain-slicked streets, chauffeuring suspected double agents...

Nicole Glover delivers the second book in her exciting Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post-Civil War Philadelphia.

The rural town of Old Hickory. Tennessee was a quiet, picturesque community...until the O'Sheas came to town. Becoming the new proprietors of the town's only funeral parlor, with the help of their charming patriarch, Square McManus, the Irish family was wholeheartedly accepted by the local town folk. The thing began to happen. Strange things...horrible, unspeakable things...in the dead of night. The sighting of wolfish beasts congregating around an open grave in the town cemetery.

"The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies - and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer's shortcomings.

Deadwood, late 1876. A rowdy and reckless undertaker’s delight. What better place for a killer to blend in? Enter undertaker Clementine Johanssen, tall and deadly with a hot temper and short fuse, hired to clean up Deadwood’s dead...and the “other” problem. She’s hell-bent on poking, sticking, or stabbing anyone who steps out of line. But when a couple Santa Fe sidewinders ride into town searching for their missing uncle, they land neck deep in lethal gunplay, nasty cutthroats, and endless stinkin’ snow.

If we are to believe many modern commentators, science has squeezed God into a corner, killed and then buried him with its all-embracing explanations. Atheism, we are told, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede the progress of science. In this audiobook, John Lennox invites us to consider such claims very carefully. Is it really true, he asks, that everything in science points towards atheism? Has science buried God? God's Undertaker is an invaluable contribution to the debate about science's relationship to religion.

Nothing covers up a big secret faster than a fresh grave. Someone with a scalpel and embalming table is planting bodies under other people’s names. Pete Talbott, a harried Boston computer wonk, is still grieving over the death of his wife, when he finds himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from the morning newspaper. Talbott figures it’s all a big mistake, until Parini shows him his wife’s obituary too; and that’s a mystery that Pete Talbott can’t leave well-enough alone.

Over twenty years later, Dee was still in love with her charming Southern gentleman when he passed away suddenly in 2007. Determined to carry on Johnnie’s work, Dee earned her mortuary science degree, only to find herself no longer needed in the family business. So Dee crossed the racial divide in the most segregated industry in America and joined the staff of an African-American funeral home as a single white woman. In The Undertaker’s Wife, Oliver draws from her experience to provide candid advice on dying well and surviving the loss of those who have gone before.

Step into the untold, gritty world of wrestling’s most enigmatic icon with Locker Room General: The Unauthorized True Story of The Undertaker's Real Life WWE Relationships and Rivalries by pro wrestling insider and historian James Michael Ross. This first-of-its-kind, unauthorized biography delivers a raw, unfiltered dive into Mark Calaway’s real-life controversies, backstage rivalries, and his unmatched role as WWE’s most respected locker room leader—revealing why The Undertaker was loved by many and why some now turn against him. Unmask the Real Undertaker: Backstage Feuds: ...

From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell - and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door.

“A forensic manual on why companies fail.”— Kirkus Reviews "A savage peek behind the corporate curtain. The power of Aversa's storytelling is undeniable. Corporate Undertaker truly is a gripping read." — Self-Publishing Review Filled with more than fifty business lessons and dozens of stories of companies in a fight for their lives, Corporate Undertaker takes readers on a hero’s journey through the eyes of an entrepreneur. It is both a compelling memoir of life at the extremes and a hard-hitting survival handbook for business. If you are looking for answers in today’s tumultuous...

Mr. Saltz—known only as The Undertaker—runs a funeral parlor with secrets hidden beneath every floorboard. Emotionless, tasteless, and cold by nature, Saltz disposes of bodies for the city's most powerful crime boss, Manford Van Johnson. But when a relentless detective begins to connect the dots, and rival families move in to clean house, the quiet shadows start to stir.

The Cleaves family gather in a small country churchyard for their son's funeral. But they don't recognize the dead man in the coffin. Detective Inspector Ravenscroft is alarmed by the behavior of the Upton Undertakers. What are they hiding? And who killed this man? Then another member of the Cleaves family is found dead. Ravenscroft begins to suspect something grisly is afoot—could someone be involved in body snatching?

Already widowed by the age of 40, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father - who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago - has died. And he's left her something in his will: his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin. Clinging to this last shred of communication from the father she hasn't heard from since childhood, Ilka makes an uncharacteristically rash decision and jumps on a plane to Wisconsin.

Judge Richard Quinn is young, idealistic, and honest to a fault. That's why he's handed the most sensational homicide case in Oregon history. Locked in a race for the U.S. Senate, Ellen Crease gunned down the intruder who murdered her wealthy husband. In a single, brutal instant she became a widow, a victim, and a hero. Yet disturbing questions remain. What secrets did the man who started his fortune running mortuaries keep that might have cost him his life?

In 1955 a black Funeral Director in a small southern town was brutally murdered – a white policeman is suspected of committing the crime. However, despite a confession and lots of simple clues…nothing happens. A book was written and a movie made about the murder, using fiction to dress the truth. Now you can finally read the actual story and facts surrounding the murder of an undertaker – a real Murder in Humboldt.

In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.

Il n'y a rien de plus rapide pour dissimuler un grand secret qu'une tombe fraîche. Quelqu'un avec un scalpel et une table d'embaumement est en train de planter des corps sous le nom d'autres personnes. ¡4.3 estrellas en 824 reseñas de US Amazon y Goodreads ! Très bonne lecture ! Une meilleure nouvelle traduction ! Pete Talbott, un informaticien de Boston, pleure encore la mort de sa femme lorsqu'il se retrouve à l'extrémité du .45 de Gino Parini en train de lire sa propre notice nécrologique tirée du journal du matin. Talbott pense qu'il s'agit d'une grosse erreur, jusqu'à ce que ...

Nada encubre más rápido un gran secreto que una tumba fresca. Alguien con un bisturí y una mesa de embalsamar está colocando cadáveres a nombre de otras personas. ¡4.4 Estrellas en 844 Comentarios de US Amazon Kindle! Pete Talbott, un ajetreado informático de Boston, aún está de luto por la muerte de su esposa, cuando se encuentra en el extremo equivocado de la 45 de Gino Parini leyendo su propia esquela arrancada del periódico de la mañana. Talbott cree que se trata de un gran error, hasta que Parini le enseña también la esquela de su mujer, y ése es un misterio que Pete ...