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Playboy sleuth Archy McNally is hired by wealthy widow Edythe Westmore's adult children to discourage their mother from purchasing a Faberge Imperial egg, but his investigation into the jewel's authenticity leads him into a web of greed, passion, and murder.
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In his more than three dozen books, Elmore Leonard has captured the imagination of millions of readers as few writers can. A literary icon praised by The New York Times Book Review as "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever," he has influenced many contemporary writers and is known for both the quality and the accessibility of his writing. In this collection of new and recently published short fiction, Leonard demonstrates the superb...
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A "gripping-collection of crime stories from the author of the acclaimed 87th Precinct novels (People). Ed McBain's 87th Precinct is "perhaps the finest police procedural series of all time-(Publishers Weekly). But before he turned to novels, McBain wrote short crime fiction under various names, for pulp magazines including Manhunt and Argosy. Collected in this anthology are twenty-five of these early stories, organized under headings such as "Women...
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[2009]
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In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy Evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Keller -- and years before his first Edgar Award -- a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled "You Can't Lose" to Manhunt magazine. It was published, and the rest is history. One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes...
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