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Kisor, Henry Du Bois was born on August 17, 1940 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States. Son of Manown and Judith (Du Bois) Kisor.
(A journalist recounts his experiences and the people he m...)
A journalist recounts his experiences and the people he met on a trip aboard Amtrak's California Zephyr as it traveled across America's most storied transcontinental rail route. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.
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LARGE PRINT EDITION. Porcupine County, a peaceful little place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, suddenly becomes the unlikely backdrop for a grisly and high-tech treasure hunt when amorous teen-agers stumble upon a headless corpse. When a second cadaver turns up, Deputy Steve Martinez realizes the bodies are someone’s twisted idea of a game. Worse, the election for county sheriff is fast approaching. And Steve’s relationship with the beautiful Ginny Fitzgerald becomes strained as he searches for a way to connect with her foster son. CACHE OF CORPSES becomes Steve’s toughest investigation yet.
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Henry Kisor didn’t realize what he was getting himself into when a friend invited him aboard his small plane one afternoon, but as the engine revved and the craft took flight, he found himself exhilarated as never before. Fifty-three years old, Kisor had looked into a mirror and saw staring back ”a man who was short, fat, bald, bespectacled, and deaf.” He needed to reclaim his zest for life, and he found the answer in learning how to fly.Kisor’s dream begins to take shape when he learns that radio communications are not required in most of America’s airspace, and that ”visual flight rules” are the same for hearing and deaf pilots alike. With the eagerness of newfound youth, he throws himself into his lessons and plans a suitable maiden voyage: a reenactment of Cal Rodgers’s 1911 journey from New York to Los Angeles, the first coast-to-coast flight. Along the way, Kisor learns that Rodgers himself suffered from severe hearing loss, which adds an unexpected personal connection to the enterprise.Soon after getting his license, Kisor falls in love with a thirty-six-year-old beauty: a classic Cessna two-seater that he buys and renames Ginn Fizz, in honor of Rodgers’s Vin Fiz (which was itself named after a popular soft drink of the day). He then plans out his trip and invites the reader into the cockpit as he takes to the air, dodging storms and greasing landings on a journey across America that recalls the derring-do of the early days of aviation. Landing sixty-five times along a route that takes him from New York to Chicago to Texas to California, Kisor introduces us to the men and women who make up the ”brotherhood of aviation”—those who staff the airports, repair the planes, teach student pilots, ferry skydivers (and sometimes jump themselves), and perform aerobatic stunts —and who open a window onto a rich and charming side of American life and lore, but Flight of the Gin Fizz is an internal journey, too, as Kisor slowly shakes off the midlife blues that had led him to the Cessna’s left seat in the first place. As he proceeds west toward his goal, Kisor learns how to push the envelope of his own capacities, reaching new levels of proficiency and self-reliance, and stretching the limits of his familiar landbound life. For pilots, passengers, and armchair travelers of all stripes, Kisor offers an unforgettable voyage of self discovery and high adventure—and a new appreciation of life’s possibilities.
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LARGE PRINT VERSION. Henry Kisor’s second mystery featuring Deputy Steve Martinez, A VENTURE INTO MURDER, returns to Porcupine County, where gossip never can be stifled for long. But one secret has been kept quiet for years . . . and those who try to uncover it sometimes wind up dead. Steve had fallen in love with the place after running away from a secret of his own, and had made peace with his past. But the body of a mob hit man is discovered and one of Steve’s fellow deputies falls over the long-buried corpse of a man last seen a century before. The two deaths are seemingly unrelated. As Steve probes deeper, he’s confronted with problems that could jeopardize everything: his career and his relationship with a widow who has secrets of her own. Steve is willing to do whatever it takes to keep the peace, but he may find that even in the quietest of towns some things are better left buried.
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Kisor, Henry Du Bois was born on August 17, 1940 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States. Son of Manown and Judith (Du Bois) Kisor.
Bachelor, Trinity College, 1962. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Trinity College, 1991. Master of Science in Journalism, Northwestern University, 1964.
Copy editor, Wilmington News-Journal (Delaware), 1964-1965; copy editor, Chicago Daily News, 1965-1973; book editor, Chicago Daily News, 1973-1978; book editor, Chicago Sun-Times, since 1978. Adjunct Professor Medill School Journalism Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1979-1982.
( Henry Kisor didn’t realize what he was getting himself ...)
(A journalist recounts his experiences and the people he m...)
(A journalist recounts his experiences and the people he m...)
(LARGE PRINT EDITION. Porcupine County, a peaceful little ...)
(LARGE PRINT VERSION. Henry Kisor’s second mystery featuri...)
Board directors Chicago Hearing Society, 1975-1976. Member of Deaf Pilots Association.
Married Deborah L. Abbott, June 24, 1967. Children: Colin, Conan.