Frank Kane: 24 books

Frank Kane's hands-on Spark training course, based on his bestselling Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python video, now available in a book. Understand and analyze large data sets using Spark on a single system or on a cluster. About This Book Understand how Spark can be distributed across...

This book covers the fundamentals of machine learning with Python in a concise and dynamic manner. It covers data mining and large-scale machine learning using Apache Spark. About This Book Take your first steps in the world of data science by understanding the tools and techniques of data analysis Train...

Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision. In desperation, he agreed to smuggle cocaine out of Venezuela. Almost inevitably, he and his girlfriend, Sam, were caught. The price they paid was a ten-year sentence in the hell of the...

When Private Eye Johnny Liddell moves his base of operations to Hollywood, he uncovers more dirt than a gossip columnist on a party line. First there’s a movie mogul’s adopted son, with plenty of money, but living in constant fear of death. Then there’s a bevy of beauties, all...

Shakedown - Another Johnny Liddell Mystery Crime ThrillerFollow private investigator, Johnny Liddell, as he picks up the pieces of deceit, extortion and murder in mid-20th century New York City.  See how he uses evidence, logic and intuition to break a major crime ring bubbling beneath the surface...

ONE- The redheaded secretary lay crumpled on the office floor, her blouse ripped to the waist. Blood trickled from her mouth. TWO- The redheaded divorcee sprawled across the bed, the black silk sheet baring her lovely body - and her gaping throat. THREE- The black-haired B-girl lay broken...

A case of corpses. They piled up so fast that private eye Johnny Liddell figured he was ahead if he found them while they were still warm. It started when he was hired as a baby-sitter to a wildcat. She was blonde and beautiful, and stacked better than a deck of marked cards. And she had a...

He stood in the doorway to the kitchen, his arms above his head, his long, bony fingers curled like claws. His teeth were bared in a horrible fixed grin, his eyes stared unblinkingly. Two thin wires suspended each of his thumbs to a corner of the door frame … mute evidence that his death had neither been quick or merciful.

A gorgeous gal with an insatiable appetite for love . . . A gossip columnist who scooped the world with his own obituary . . . An innocent young girl forced into a degrading racket . . . Plus other assorted chacters involved in mayhem and murder, in a collection of sizzling stories...

Johnny Liddell was looking forward to his 2:30 a.m. date with Eve Wylie. Eve had thick red hair that fell down over her shoulders like a molten copper cascade, and Eve had a sullen soft-looking mouth that held more than a casual promise for Johnny Liddell. So when he got to her apartment, and...

It wasn't his case . . . his girl . . . or his problem . . . but Johnny Liddell had a personal interest in this little caper. He didn’t ask to be the Feds' ''receiver'' on a pass of inside info on the smuggling racket, but he was. He didn’t ask to have a couple of hoods beat the living...

Trouble is a redhead Lydia had a problem, and she dumped it right in Johnny Liddell's lap, along with her own million dollar body. She was very luscious - but somebody had something on her that was very ugly, and even more expensive. Johnny told her not to pay off the blackmailers. Dollars...

"Kiely of the Dispatch, Liddell. A reporter of mine, Larry Jansen, had been murdered. I want you to find the killer." "Okay," Liddell sighed into the phone, replacing the receiver. He stared into the slanted green eyes of the girl, patter her on the knee, and sighed again, "Don’t go away....

She called herself Denny Lyons ... and she was everything men dreamed of on long, lonely nights ... She had it all, from the white-gold hair that framed her expensive face to the graceful, slender ankles—and all those pleasant extras in-between ... She had everything - including big...