Bøker av Anthony Celano

Sarah Ince was a misguided young woman who considered herself a criminal mastermind. Impressed by underworld characters, Sarah assembled an assortment of minions who supported her criminal activity. Having an axe to grind with the criminal court judge who sentenced her to prison, she sought revenge upon her release. Sarah later becomes intimate with the judge's husband, an attorney with a penchant for gambling. Seeing an opportunity, Sarah recruits an accomplice to assist her in perpetrating a street robbery of the judge and her husband. Things go bad when the judge unexpectedly resists, resulting in the judge being shot to death. The subsequent political uproar connected to the homicide of a criminal court judge results in Sergeant Al Markie and Detective Oliver Von Hess ordered to assist in the investigation. Their assistance is unwanted by the precinct detective squad commander, whose detectives are responsible for solving the case. This results in a competition to solve the case. The squad commander, who is thoroughly unethical, involves members of organized crime to assist him in identifying the culprits before Markie and Von Hess can. With the involvement of the mob, a series of homicides follow, which ultimately lead to Sarah being targeted for death by several interested parties. Sarah, now a hunted woman, is harbored by former detective Fishnet Milligan, who uses Sarah to further his own unholy agenda. The reader is sure to enjoy navigating through the twists and turns of the investigation along with Markie and Von Hess as they come to grips with those involved in The Case Of The Hunted Woman.

Henry Harrison Blount, AKA: the Professor, is a bigamist and a murderer who owns a used bookshop in Manhattan. After acquiring wealth beyond his wildest dreams thanks to a winning lottery ticket, he expands his business and acquires a second bookshop in Philadelphia, where he subsequently meets a woman and marries for a second time. Successfully juggling two marriages in two states, things are going well enough for him to consider opening a third bookshop in Arizona, where he has a potential third wife lined up. Things take a turn for the worse when the Professor finds himself on a desolate Manhattan subway platform late one evening being extorted by an off duty Philadelphia police officer. The officer is the lover of his second wife. In answer to being shook down the Professor murders the off- duty Philadelphia policeman in the presence of a visually challenged woman on her way home from work. The notoriety of this homicide is cause for Detective Sergeant Al Markie and Detective Oliver Von Hess to be assigned to help investigate the murder. In the course of their investigation they are destined to cross paths with Markie's old nemesis, the retired detective Fishnet Milligan. When Fishnet's new wife, a Broadway stage star, and her agent turn up dead in a Pennsylvania quarry, Markie suspects the ex-detective of foul play. Adding to complicate Markie's life is a murderous stalker known as Little Creepy, who has designs on the sergeant's girlfriend Alley. This offering is a story comprised of bigamous relationships, murders, betrayals and greed. Join Markie and Von Hess as they chase down leads in their journey to unravel their latest adventure in this fourth novel in the Sergeant Markie Mystery series. This tale is sure not to disappoint Markie fans.

The Sergeant Markie saga continues. In the early 1970's Jasper and Chris, twin brothers, enter the National Guard to avoid the draft and the perils of Vietnam. Upon their return from active duty the brothers, both organized crime associates, resume their lawbreaking ways. During an obligatory weekend drill they find themselves at odds with an abusive sergeant at the armory. The brothers remedy this conflict by murdering the sergeant. They hide the body behind a deteriorating bricked up passageway within the confines of the Deep Six, a spooky, rarely visited, sub basement in the Park Slope armory. The victim's sudden disappearance causes people to assume that he ran off to escape an unhappy home life. Interest in the missing person case is resurrected over thirty years later when an informant provides information that suggests foul play. By now the mob associates are wildly prosperous thanks to a number of business ventures, one of which involves cocaine trafficking with their mentor, a notorious organized crime figure. As a way to solve the case Markie puts into motion an undercover initiative that leads to the infiltration of a drug enterprise that operates in New York and Las Vegas. Markie comes to learn the significance behind an unusual wolf-head ring as he begins to unravel the armory mystery. Aside from his investigative challenges, Markie finds himself conflicted in his personal relationships with the women in his life. Further complicating matters is the roguish Fishnet Milligan, a recovering former detective who is in the process of plotting shady dealings of his own. The Case of the One Eared Wolf involves a series of twists and turns that often blurs the distinction between the good guys and the bad guys. Buckle up and go along for the ride with Detective Sergeant Al Markie and Detective Oliver Von Hess on their latest adventure in the Sergeant Markie Mystery series.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics had a profound influence on generations of later philosophers, not only in the ancient era but also in the medieval period and beyond. Anthony Celano's study explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle's Ethics according to their own moral ideals.