grave robbing

For a competitive price, Donnie and Frank Burgers? Funeral Home will help bury your loved ones. For the right price, Frank Burgers will dig them back up. clayThis scheme brings in extra money for the home but lands Frank in a morbid mess. Picking up where The Burgers Brothers? Family Funeral Home left off, Frank discovers an anonymous package left at his front door. Inside is damning evidence of his lucrative grave robbing.

Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help--in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West--at the marina, in the cemetery, even right outside his own door. And now they want more than his silence--they want a lookout. He'll have to dive deep into their shady dealings to figure out a way to escape this tangled net. . . ..

When fifteen-year-old Valdez Jones VIII, a.k.a. Wrecker, unwittingly becomes entangled with a group of smugglers and grave robbers, he must deep dive into their shady dealings in order to escape their twisted net.

Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt's lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans.

An account of how counterfeiter Benjamin Boyd's gang stole the body of Abraham Lincoln and demanded Boyd's release from jail and two hundred thousand dollars as ransom and the efforts of the Secret Service to recover the remains.

Armed with shovels and crowbars, thieves throughout history have unearthed graves out of greed, hunger, and curiosity, recounts little-known stories of body snatchers and crooks of the crypt, from Jamestown, Virginia, to Sipan, Peru.

"In ancient Egypt, Nakht records his experiences as his family moves from the small town of Esna to the big, exciting city of Memphis, where he studies to be a scribe like his father and helps discover who has been robbing graves. Includes information on ancient Egyptian society and religious practices"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at grave robbing and body snatching throughout history.

"A Louisiana teen tries to make tuition money working for a sinister organization but finds that leaving comes at a terrible cost. Oliver is saving to attend his dream college in the fall and leave behind his family's New Orleans antique shop for good. And if his job just happens to involve robbing graves for a group calling themselves the Bone Artists, well, money is money, and it's only for now. But Oliver soon learns that the Bone Artists don't take kindly to deserters. And there are some debts that can never be repaid"--Provided by publisher.

Teens Tianyi, his best friend Kai, and Julie, a wealthy American, join with Professor Chen and local guide Asat Amat seek the lost city of Jinjue, hindered by lethal creatures and an evil force.