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2741) Crows Can't Count
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Publisher
Hauraki Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
EMERALDS ARE FOR EVIL Shirley was sultry, sexy, smashing-a sweet young thing to make a sugar daddy's mouth water. This luscious lass loved pretty baubles, so no wonder men showered her with jewels. But when a deluge of emeralds turned into a reign of terror, Shirley needed someone to bail her out. That brought Bertha Cool and Donald Lam into the act, as the indomitable detective duo discovered that emeralds could be a girl's worst enemy when they...
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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...
2743) Destruction of Justice
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English
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An out of practice wizard-turned-investigator must protect another life in this urban fantasy mystery for fans of Jim Butcher and Benedict Jacka. Janzen Robinson is no longer a man torn between two worlds, having decided to come off the bench and dive head first into Cleveland's magical underworld. With his new partner and perpetually exhausted friend Grove, he's just starting to get a handle on all the supernatural happenings when disaster shows...
2744) Night Cover
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Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Lt. Leroy Powder, Indianapolis PD, investigates a series of gruesome murders and the disappearance of a teenage girl. Six burglaries, two assaults, one armed robbery, and a bomb scare all come in at the tail end of Lt. Leroy Powder's swing shift in the night cover room of the Indianapolis PD - a shift he's been working for nineteen years. About to wrap up, he gets a call from low-level criminal Johnny Uncle, who claims to have found a body. The cause...
2745) Hard Line
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly heading up the Indianapolis PD's Missing Persons Bureau, Lt. Leroy Powder investigates a series of unusual cases while training a female sergeant. Indianapolis police lieutenant Leroy Powder's new job in Missing Persons calls for tact, sensitivity, and diplomacy: three traits no one would use to describe the lieutenant. He also has to break in a new sergeant, Carollee Fleetwood. Taking a bullet for her partner in the line of duty made...
2746) Cats prowl at night
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Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Dealing with debtors turns deadly for a prickly PI in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Bats Fly at Dusk.
A hot-headed widow and a glass-jawed ex-lawyer, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam seem like an unlikely duo of private detectives. Even so, they've managed to solve the most difficult of mysteries-when they're together. With Donald now on a European vacation, Bertha is hesitant to accept any new business-but money...
2747) Murder Mystery 10th Anniversary Book Collection: False Cargo, Hurricane, Mouthpiece and The Slickers
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English
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A master of thrilling detective stories, L. Ron Hubbard's stories of mystery, detection and investigative procedure were exceedingly well wrought. Written from firsthand experience with systematic research and the fascinating realities of forensic medicine, Ron crafted stories with accurate and factual detail which injected authenticity into his popular detective fiction. Here are ten stories, in four volumes, fashioned with fast, spare, vivid style...
2748) Loups-Garous à Locronan
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Français
Description
Locronan. Un matin d'automne, le jeune curé de la paroisse est découvert inconscient au presbytère, les vêtements lacérés et couverts de sang. Un sang qui n'est pas le sien, mais celui d'un marginal que l'on retrouve égorgé dans la petite chapelle sur la montagne. Aussitt, la vieille légende du loup-garou ressurgit… Le major Tavers suspendu, l'adjudante Diane Madec, nouvelle venue dans l'équipe, doit enquêter sur ce mystère et sonder...
2749) The Method
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English
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A down-and-out LA actor with a knack for impersonations finds his circumstances completely reversed by a chance meeting with a look-alike stranger. After a night of drinking with his new friend discussing the possibilities made possible by their similar appearance, the stranger offers the actor a ride home. On the way there is an accident and one of them is killed. The survivor finds himself in the hospital with amnesia and everyone assuming he's...
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English
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A chilling short story taking us back to DI Sean Corrigan's days as a detective from Luke Delaney, ex-Met detective and author of COLD KILLING. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride. INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM THE TOY TAKER. DI Sean Corrigan is not like other detectives. The terrible abuse he suffered as a child has left him with an uncanny ability to identify darkness in others. Early in his career as a Detective,...
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English
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Detective Terry Lane is a standout homicide cop who thought he'd seen it all . . . until now. As tough as Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness of The Untouchables-and just as incorruptible-Lane has seen the darkest side of human behavior. But he's never seen a murder spree like this, targeting the wealthy, the powerful and the privileged. For the evidence is clear: the killers have not emerged from the seamy underside of the city . . . but from six feet...
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English
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On her way to a new job in America, Maria Puente accidentally discovers a human trafficking ring. Fearing exposure, the American company that manages the operation-with the help of their Mexican partners-kidnaps Maria.
Maria's disappearance triggers a desperate search, by her family and local law enforcement, to find her before the kidnappers can permanently dispose of her. As the investigation unfolds, long-time Hogg County high sheriff Will Moser...
2753) Double or quits
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Series
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The search for stolen jewels and a missing woman yields deadly trouble for an LA detective duo in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason.
Side by side, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam make quite the odd couple of private investigators. She's a fifty-something-year-old widow, built like a bulldog, with the personality to match. He's a wiry, ex-lawyer in his thirties with a lightning-quick wit that always helps him out of a jam, including...
2754) 813
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English
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Gentleman thief Arsène Lupin finds himself wrongfully accused of murder, and must find the real killer to clear his name. This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was born on 11th November 1864 in Rouen, Normandy, France. He was a novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman...
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English
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Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle puts her life and the lives of her friends in danger when she sets out to discover who killed Valentine Phipps, an elderly eccentric for whom Carlotta had done a security consultation only twenty-four hours earlier.
2756) Murder Keeps a Secret
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Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When his godson is pushed out of a window, Reuben Frost looks for a killer who's trying to rewrite history Reuben Frost waits patiently for his turn to purchase the tickets that will allow him to get his hands on a weak martini. Though wary of his fellow guests at the annual charity dinner, the brilliant lawyer, recently put out to pasture by his white-shoe firm, will endure his watered-down drink for the sake of his godson. David Rowan is a rising...
2757) Murder Saves Face
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Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
To save his old firm, Reuben Frost must find a killer in the heart of Hell's Kitchen It's the last business day of the year and Tom Henderson is alone in the library of prominent Wall Street law firm Chase & Ward. He'll be out the door as soon as he grabs one last volume of case law from the sleek compact shelving system recently installed in the firm's new Clinton Plaza building. But when the shelves slide open, they reveal the mangled body of a...
2758) Murder Times Two
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Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The murder of an eccentric millionaire presents a deadly puzzle for Reuben Frost When Tobias Vandermeer, heir to one of New York's great real estate fortunes, required a quiet divorce, there was no lawyer more equipped than Reuben Frost. A cheerful drunk with a knack for jazz piano, Vandermeer and Frost remained friends-right up until the day the former drops dead in the midst of a reading club dinner. The poison found in his bloodstream makes...
2759) Murders & Acquisitions
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Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
During a weekend in the country, Reuben Frost investigates the murder of a frozen-food king who got himself into hot water Reuben Frost misses a lot of things about life as a corporate lawyer, but working for Andersen Foods Corporation is not one of them. A vast international enterprise, AFC has made millions pumping out cheap, inoffensive food. But Reuben Frost, a titan of Wall Street, is simply not the TV-dinner type. Unfortunately, even after...
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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...
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