{"id":742,"date":"2012-12-11T16:06:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2012-12-11T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:06:51","slug":"book-signing-kathleen-kaska-with-murder-at-the-galvez-the-man-who-saved-the-whooping-crane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"Book Signing: Kathleen Kaska with Murder at the Galvez &#038; The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane, December 15, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?attachment_id=740\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-740\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-740\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Murder at the Galvez by Kathleen Kaska\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wpbeta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/murder-at-the-Galvez250w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, December 15th<br \/>\n2:00 to 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Kaska&#8217;s new murder mystery is the third in her &#8216;Texas Hotel&#8217; themed Sydney Lockhart series. <em>Murder at the Galvez <\/em>has Sydney scrambling to solve yet another murder, this time in Galveston&#8217;s historic Galvez Hotel. Previous entries in this series are <em>Murder at the Arlington<\/em>, and <em>Murder at the Luther<\/em>. All will be available for purchase and autographs.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Kaska&#8217;s\u00a0 three mystery trivia and quiz books will also be available. Test your knowledge of story details and plot points from the books of Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, and Sherlock Holmes.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Agatha Christie Triviography and Quiz Book<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Alfred Hitchcock Triviography and Quiz Book<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Sherlock Holmes Triviography and Quiz Book<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?attachment_id=741\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-741\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-741\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane by Kathleen Kaska\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wpbeta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/whooping250w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For area birding enthusiasts we also have Ms Kaska&#8217;s brand new biography of Robert Porter Allen, the Audubon Society ornithologist who saved the whooping crane from certain extinction by locating the last remaining nesting site and seeing to its protection. Allen is considered a father to the modern conservation tradition whose efforts lead to the passing of the Endangered Species Act.<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane: The Robert Porter Allen Story<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?attachment_id=752\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-752\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-752\" title=\"Kathleen Kaska with Gus at the book signing, 12\/15\/2012\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wpbeta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/kaska-with-gus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Kaska at the book signing event, with Gus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, December 15th 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Kathleen Kaska&#8217;s new murder mystery is the third in her &#8216;Texas Hotel&#8217; themed Sydney Lockhart series. Murder at the Galvez has Sydney scrambling to solve yet another murder, this time in Galveston&#8217;s historic &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=742\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Signing: Kathleen Kaska with Murder at the Galvez &#038; The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane, December 15, 2012<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}