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Books by Les Standiford
  | | Last Train to Paradise Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean by Les Standiford, Henry Morrison Flagler Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2003 by Broadway Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4947-9, ISBN: 1-4000-4947-4 "Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford’s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler’s dream fulfilled, the Key West Railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than tw ..." |
 | | The Man Who Invented Christmas How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by Broadway Books Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-40579-1, ISBN: 0-307-40579-6 "As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might b ..." |
 | | Water to the Angels(Reprint) William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles by Les Standiford Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2016 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-225145-9, ISBN: 0-06-225145-7 "The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles ..." |
 | | Miami Noir(1st Edition) (Akashic Noir) by Les Standiford, Paul Levine, Lynne Barrett, David Beaty, John Bond, Tom Corcoran, John Dufresne, Christine Kling, Barbara Parker, George Tucker, Kevin Allen, Vicki Hendricks, Jeffrey Wehr, Preston L. Allen, Anthony Dale Gagliano, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, James W. Hall Paperback, 355 Pages, Published 2006 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933354-13-2, ISBN: 1-933354-13-5 ""For different reasons these stories cultivate a little something special, a radiance, a humanity, even a grace, In the midst of the noir gloom, and thereby set themselves apart. Variety, familiarity, mood and tone, and the occasional gem of a story make "Miami Noir" a collection to savor."--"Miami Herald" "For such a sun-stoked place. Miami sure is shady. Shadowy, too. Even at highest noon. Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's the humidity. ..." |
 | | Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu by Les Standiford Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2849-2, ISBN: 0-8021-2849-1 "Looking at the island of Palm Beach today, with its unmatched mansions, tony shops, and pristine beaches, one is hard pressed to visualize the dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves that it was when visionary entrepreneur and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler first arrived there in April 1893. Trusting his remarkable instincts, within less than a year he had built the Royal Poinciana Hotel, and two years later what was to become the l ..." |
 | | Bringing Adam Home(Reprint) The Abduction That Changed America by Les Standiford, Joe Matthews Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-198391-7, ISBN: 0-06-198391-8 ""Les Standiford's account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I've ever read. A triumph in every way."--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River"The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh's....A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice."--Scott Turow, author of Presumed InnocentThe abduct ..." |
 | | Bone Key (John Deal Series) by Les Standiford Paperback, 283 Pages, Published 2012 by Poisoned Pen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-345-6, ISBN: 1-59058-345-0 "Its tough being a small-time hustler in Key West, FL. When this hustler is being beaten by a cop, John Deal steps in to stop it, but it is only a temporary rescue: the hustler turns up dead only two days later. The cops are claiming ignorance and the locals arent saying a word. Could the dead man be somehow connected to a seventy-year-old tale of piracy, murder, and greed? No one knows what really happened on that storm-swept night. But ..." |
 | | Bringing Adam Home(1st Edition) The Abduction That Changed America by Les Standiford, Joe Matthews Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by Ecco ISBN-13: 978-0-06-198390-0, ISBN: 0-06-198390-X "There are two periods of history that pertain to missing and endangered children in the United States: before Adam Walsh and after Adam Walsh. In the aftermath of that six-year old's abduction and slaying in 1981, everything about the nation's regard and response to missing children changed. The shock of the crime and the inability of law enforcement to find Adam's killer put an end to innocence and altered our very perception of childh ..." |
 | | Washington Burning(1st Edition) How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army by Les Standiford Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2008 by Crown Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-34644-5, ISBN: 0-307-34644-7 "The Riveting Story of the Federal City and the Men Who Built ItIn 1814, British troops invaded Washington, consuming President Madison’s hastily abandoned dinner before setting his home and the rest of the city ablaze. The White House still bears scorch and soot marks on its foundation stones. It was only after this British lesson in “hard war,” designed to terrorize, that Americans overcame their resistance to the idea of Washington as ..." |
 | | Presidential Deal(Reprint) (John Deal Series) by Les Standiford Paperback, 245 Pages, Published 2004 by Poisoned Pen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-107-0, ISBN: 1-59058-107-5 "In the fifth installment of the series, Deal is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Valor, and as a campaign gimmick, the presentation ceremony is held in Miami. During the ceremony, terrorists interrupt with machine gun fire, and Deal and the First Lady are taken captive." |
 | | Miami Noir The Classics (Akashic Noir) by Les Standiford, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Elmore Leonard, Lester Dent, Zora Neale Hurston, Brett Halliday, Damon Runyon, Edna Buchanan, James Carlos Blake, Douglas Fairbairn, Charles Willeford, T.J. Macgregor, Lynne Barrett, Preston L. Allen, John Dufresne, Vicki Hendricks, Christine Kling, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, David Beaty Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2020 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-806-5, ISBN: 1-61775-806-X "Critical praise for the original Miami Noir:"For different reasons these stories cultivate a little something special, a radiance, a humanity, even a grace, in the midst of the noir gloom, and thereby set themselves apart. Variety, familiarity, mood and tone, and the occasional gem of a story make Miami Noir a collection to savor."--Miami Herald"For such a sun-stoked place, Miami sure is shady. Shadowy, too. Even at highest noon. Maybe ..." |
 | | Done Deal A John Deal Mystery (John Deal Series) by Les Standiford Paperback, 299 Pages, Published 2012 by Poisoned Pen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-002-8, ISBN: 1-59058-002-8 "Done Deal is the first in the series featuring reluctant sleuth John Deal, a South Florida building contractor who has a penchant for stepping into the path of the wrong people. Here, Deal is struggling to rebuild the once formidable DealCo, a development company once headed by his flamboyant father Barton Deal - but little does he know that the piece of land upon which he plans to build a small apartment complex is coveted by a ruthles ..." |
 | | Black Mountain(Reprint) by Les Standiford Libro De Bolsillo, 283 Pages, Published 2001 by Berkley Pub Group (Mm) ISBN-13: 978-0-425-17853-9, ISBN: 0-425-17853-6 "Those boys'd go up and down this piece of rock like it was the staircase in your house." Corrigan stared at the nearly vertical surface, wondering what Donnelly was talking about. What he saw was a sheer surface that a fly would have a hard ..." |
 | | Deal on Ice(1st Edition) A Novel by Les Standiford Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1997 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-017620-4, ISBN: 0-06-017620-2 "John Deal's old friend Arch Dolan, owner of Miami's premier independent bookstore, is assassinated just days after the announcement that bookselling conglomerate Haskell & Monroe will open its biggest superstore yet across the street from Arch's shop. Clutched in the dead man's fist is a tract from the Reverend James Ray Willis, the suave, arch-conservative, multimillionaire preacher. Determined to bring his friend's murderer to justice ..." |
 | | Spill(Updated) by Les Standiford Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1995 by Pan Books ISBN-13: 978-0-330-32840-1, ISBN: 0-330-32840-9 |
 | | The Man Who Invented Christmas (Movie Tie-In): Includes Charles Dickens's Classic A Christmas Carol: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Broadway Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-6246-9, ISBN: 1-5247-6246-6 "As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world. Soon to be a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be t ..." |
 | | THE LAST TRAIN TO PARADISE Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Changed an Ocean by Les Standiford, Petra Masonp, Inc. Motherland International, John Blades Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2011 by Henry Morrison Flagler Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-9839378-0-7, ISBN: 0-9839378-0-X "Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D. Rockefeller and the true mastermind behind Stan ..." |
 | | Bringing Adam Home(Large Print) The Abduction That Changed America (Hardcover) by Les Standiford, Contributor-Joe Matthews Hardcover, 446 Pages, Published 2011 by Center Point Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-61173-098-2, ISBN: 1-61173-098-8 "Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, no federal databases of crimes against children, no pedophile registry. His 1981 abduction and murder -- unsolved for over a quarter of a century -- changed America. One July day in 1981, Reve Walsh allowed her six-year-old son Adam to try out a video game near a store's entrance while she shopped for lamps. Whe ..." |
 | | Meet You in Hell(1st Edition) Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America by Les Standiford, Henry Morrison Flagler Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2005 by Crown ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4767-3, ISBN: 1-4000-4767-6 "Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry—Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick—and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end, when the dying Carnegie proposes a final meeting after two decades of separation, probably to ease his conscience. Frick’s reply: “Tell him that I’l ..." |
 | | Coral Gables The City Beautiful Story by Les Standiford Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1998 by Coral Gables Chamb. Commerce ISBN-13: 978-1-883987-04-6, ISBN: 1-883987-04-0 "A complete and well illustrated book detailing the story of Coral Gables. Archival photographs provide excellent historical detail about the City Beautiful." |
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