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Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A double shot of iconic Miami PI Mike Shayne--"one of the best of the tough sleuths" (The New York Times). Dead Man's Diary : Florida private investigator Mike Shayne's in New Orleans at the behest of a distraught wife whose war-hero husband, Jasper Groat, has gone missing--along with his diary, a harrowing soon-to-be-published daily account of being set adrift in a lifeboat with two shipmates. Rumor has it it's also an incriminating confessional....
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When an author finds his friend murdered, he calls on hardboiled cop Jerry Burke to track down the killer In a lonely canyon high above El Paso, a ruthless millionaire and a hardline socialist live side by side. Raymond Dwight makes money mercilessly and Leslie Young hates the rich with a passion, but the men have coexisted peacefully-so far. But when Western novelist Asa Baker escapes to Young's cabin for a weekend of writing, he can sense tension in...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An author and a cop chase a cunning serial murderer across El Paso Asa Baker stares at his typewriter, cursing the empty page. His publishers are clamoring for another Western novel, but Baker is fed up with cowboys. He needs a new kind of hero-and one is about to fall in his lap. His friend Jerry Burke is one of the top cops in El Paso, and he's about to drag Baker into a plot more outrageous-and more dangerous-than anything the Old West has to offer....
4) Charlie Dell
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Helplessly drawn to his wife's much younger sister, an engineer goes to terrible lengths for passion Charlie Dell isn't pleased when his wife, Irma, tells him that her sister is coming to live with them. But Irma is a stern woman who runs her husband's life with an iron fist-and what she says goes. At first, Dell is angry that she's forcing her seventeen-year-old sister on him, but his heart skips a beat the moment he sees Lois. She's a far cry from...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl and her wicked stepmother battle to the death for a hefty inheritance April Haddon has spent years waiting to hate her stepmother. Ever since her father wrote to tell her that he had married a woman named Florence, April has stockpiled her loathing in preparation for the day when they would finally meet. And when they do, she is not disappointed. April's father is dead, and she has returned to Midhampton to claim her inheritance....
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a strange town, Mike Shayne meets a deadly damsel in distress Mike Shayne is 3 hours from Miami when the sun dips below the horizon and he decides to make a pit stop. For Shayne, that means cognac, and the only bar in town is a lonely little dive whose inhabitants don't look friendly. Shayne doesn't care. The barkeep pulls a dusty bottle down from the top shelf, and Shayne is settling into his drink when a blonde walks through the door. As the...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A disappearing corpse draws Mike Shayne into political guerilla warfare A year after marrying the toughest PI in Miami, Phyllis Shayne longs for a few weeks alone with her husband. She and Mike are about to board a train to New York when a client shows up at the door. Her face gray and her voice slurred, the mysterious woman passes out before she's able to get through her story. Mike carries the stranger to his spare bedroom and, trying to save his...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In a mining town, Mike Shayne finds that buried secrets can be deadly The miners are striking in Centerville, Kentucky, and the town is about to explode. Three men have been killed in the past week, and Charles Roche fears he will be next. Heir to the Roche mining fortune, he sees death in every shadow, and the only man who can save his life is in Miami. Roche writes to world-famous detective Mike Shayne, offering a $5,000 retainer to come to Centerville...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A search for a missing girl takes grief-stricken Mike Shayne to New Orleans It was a knife that brought Mike and Phyllis Shayne together--the murder weapon that Mike had to prove Phyllis did not bury in her mother's back. But years after they met, fell in love, and got married, Phyllis is dead, and the knife is just another blade. Grieving the loss of his wife, Mike decides he has had enough of Miami, where he and his beloved made a life together,...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The honeymoon is over--and it's time for Mike Shayne to prepare for Miami's killing season For years, Mike Shayne has tangled with the toughest crooks the country has to offer, outsmarting some and outpunching the rest. He was good at his job, but he had no one to come home to--until he met Phyllis. After rescuing his damsel in distress more than once, the hard-boiled PI found himself falling in love, and before he knew it, they were married and...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious woman draws Mike Shayne into a twisted murder plot The call comes just as Mike Shayne is pouring a much-needed cognac. A gangster's voice warns, "Stay away from Wanda Weatherby." Simple enough--except that Shayne has never heard of any woman by that name. A few minutes later, he receives another call, from a woman desperately worried about Wanda Weatherby. A third call then comes in from the woman herself: Wanda Weatherby begs Mike Shayne...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Shayne is accused of homicide after a dying man stumbles into his office When an old friend calls begging to see him immediately, Mike Shayne is surprised to say the least. He hasn't set eyes on Jim Lacy in ten years, and time has not been kind. Jim's face is deeply wrinkled, and his eyes are glazed. His skin is gray--and there is blood seeping through his shirt. Jim mutters a few last words as he collapses on Shayne's office floor. His stomach...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
To save a judge's daughter, Mike Shayne must invade the red-light district For twenty years, Judge Nigel Lansdowne has been one of Washington's greatest progressives. The red-baiters in Congress would do anything to destroy his reputation, and they may have found the perfect weapon. Her name is Julia, but when she dances she goes by Dorinda. The judge's daughter came to Miami in search of a new life, and she found it dancing nude in the city's...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"At a Colorado theatre festival, Mike Shayne investigates a miner's murder Private inspector Mike Shayne and his young bride, Phyllis, have escaped Miami for a badly needed vacation, taking in a theatre festival in the picturesque mountains of Colorado. Once a year, this cozy little town is overrun by actors, playwrights, directors, and aficionados, all of whom are as interested in cocktail parties as they are in what happens onstage. After a tiring...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Shayne investigates an impossible murder in the Big Easy It's not often that Mike Shayne runs with an honorable crowd, but there is a lieutenant in his office mourning the fiancee who killed herself the day before. Honest and heartbroken, he begs this hardened private investigator for help answering one simple, impossible question: Why? It's a question Shayne has been asking ever since his wife was murdered in Miami and he moved to New Orleans...
16) Counterfeit Wife
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A chance encounter at the airport leads Mike Shayne into a ring of counterfeiters Mike Shayne has been trying to leave Miami for weeks, but something keeps stopping him from returning to New Orleans. He's about to board the midnight flight to Louisiana when his secretary calls and tells him not to bother. His stalling has cost them another client, and she's fed up. She quits, and Shayne realizes that she was the only thing tying him to New Orleans....
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Shayne receives a tip off from a desperate drunk concerning corruption at the racetrack Marriage hasn't stopped Mike Shayne's phone from ringing. Every night it seems there's some troubled dame calling up with a problem that only Miami's toughest PI can solve. Thankfully, Phyllis Shane isn't the jealous type. She simply passes along the messages and lets her husband get himself into trouble. Tonight the call comes from the notorious Red Rose...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Shayne investigates a murder committed by an amnesiac Arthur Devlin wakes up so hungover that for a moment, he thinks the ship is sinking. As he gets his bearings, he realizes the only storm is inside his own head--and he isn't on a ship at all. The last thing he remembers is being handed another drink at his going-away party. That was twelve days ago. Devlin has awoken in a sleazy hotel room, dressed in a stranger's ratty clothes, with a bump...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"For the sake of his friends, Mike Shayne tangles with blackmailers--and a murderer The day he met Phyllis Brighton, Mike Shayne saved her from jumping out a window-- and he has been rescuing her ever since. First he helped her beat a murder wrap; now he's trying to pry her away from the sleaziest lawyer in Dade County: Harry Grange. A mouthpiece for every crook in Miami, Grange is running a blackmail racket when Shayne sees him with Phyllis on his...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A girl begs Mike Shayne to help keep her from killing her own mother Mike Shayne has just poured himself a drink when Phyllis Brighton tries to throw herself out the window of his downtown apartment. Luckily, he blocks her just before she can launch herself over the sill. She tried to warn him she was crazy, but he didn't listen. Her doctor and her new stepfather, on the other hand, both believe Phyllis is suffering from a kind of Electra complex--...
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