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Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The stylish tale of a dead poet, a rediscovered pulp novel, and a lovely lady with a story to sell from the author of the Charles Resnick Mysteries. Ex--Metropolitan Police Officer Jack Kiley spent his career discerning fact from fiction. Now a private detective, Kiley has agreed to investigate the provenance of a newly discovered manuscript. Lost for decades, Dead Dames Don't Sing is typical pulp fodder: "Hard, fast, and deadly," according to Daniel...
62) The Three Fears
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Hugh Westlake and his daughter, Dawn, help a diva in danger, by the Edgar Award winning author who wrote the Peter Duluth Mysteries as Patrick Quentin. Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace...
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Language
English
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An American spy dives into the Tokyo underworld to catch a defector Fred Wilkinson waits in a Tokyo alley, wishing he were James Bond. Paunchy, in his 50s, and oh-so-tired, Wilkinson has nothing in common with that world-famous man of mystery-except that they are both spies. He's already near the end of his career when he goes to Japan to meet with the Soviet defector Krylov, and some of his colleagues back in Washington think he's getting soft. They're...
64) Shoot the Scene
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Language
English
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An on-set Hollywood romance marks a screenwriter for death Casey Blake is the only modest man in Hollywood, which is lucky, because an ego is something screenwriters can't afford. Blake makes his living churning out B movies for Joe Maddox, an actor turned producer who somehow got the strange idea that a well-written script is something worth paying for. Blake's latest is Ill Wind, a taut thriller that could bring in an Oscar-if Maddox can keep his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Indianapolis PI Albert Samson takes on a hospital, a pharmaceutical company, and the FBI. After his slowest summer ever, struggling and desperate private eye Albert Samson places an ad in the local paper, offering his services at a bargain price. Instead of new business, he gets an eviction notice. But his luck seems to change when Dorothea Thomas calls with an unusual tale of woe. Her brother, John, a chemist and pharmaceutical salesman, has been...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Indianapolis private eye Albert Samson must prove the innocence of an unstable war veteran on the hook for murder. Martha Jerome chose struggling PI Albert Samson because he's the cheapest detective in Indianapolis. She wants Samson to find evidence that will exonerate her son-in-law, Ralph Tomanek, who has been charged with manslaughter. A troubled Vietnam veteran who's been in and out of mental hospitals, Tomanek fired his shotgun and killed a man...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An Edgar Award Finalist: A teenager's search for her birth father sends Indianapolis PI Albert Samson on a quest that rattles the skeletons in an old-money family's closet It's a slow afternoon for Indianapolis private detective Albert Samson. He's just awoken from an office doze when a new client walks in. Sixteen-year-old Eloise Crystal recently discovered that her blood type doesn't match either of her parents', and she wants Samson to find her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Business is picking up for Indianapolis PI Albert Samson - until three intersecting cases land him on the city's Most Wanted list. Unusually, Albert Samson, Indy's least successful PI, is working three cases at once: An ecoterrorist group threatens to bomb the city, an obnoxious poet wants help murdering his wife, and a mysterious package needs a courier. Thankfully, the Scum Front has only blown up fallow cornfields so far. But the poet is not, in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
PI Albert Samson takes on a new and deceptively dangerous case in the dead of an Indianapolis winter. After a Florida vacation spent at the horse races - turning a measly profit of eighty-two cents before expenses - private detective Albert Samson is back in slushy, freezing Indy, where, thankfully, it's a short walk from his living room to his office door. On this night, he opens it to find a hesitant stranger in an overcoat standing there. With...
70) Missing Woman
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Indianapolis's least employed PI, Albert Samson, heads to southern Indiana in search of a missing woman. Facing insolvency and imminent eviction, private detective Albert Samson finally catches a break. Elizabeth Staedtler hires him to find her missing friend, Priscilla. But is Priscilla really missing or has she simply run away from her husband? Conducting an investigation in an unfamiliar city lands Samson a stint in lockup, two murderers on his...
71) Out of Season
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a fake birth certificate leads Indianapolis PI Albert Samson to ask why a woman would abandon her only child. A short television spot about the life of the average private eye gives Albert Samson hope that his economic blues are about to disappear. Better yet, his newest case looks promising too. He's just been paid a hefty retainer by Paula Belter, who has discovered that her birth certificate is a fake. There's no record of her existence....
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English
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The 1-eyed detective Tim Corrigan tears New York apart in search of an assassin Tim Corrigan was the toughest detective in the NYPD before he joined the army, and fighting in Korea didn't make him any softer. He returned with an eye patch and a sidekick: a tough-as-nails GI named Chuck Baer, who picked up a private investigator's license in order to keep an eye on his old foxhole buddy. In a fair fight, these 2 veterans could take down any hoodlum...
73) The killing kind
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
74) The boyfriend
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Series
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English
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Jack Till must delve into the shadowy world of the online escort business to find a serial killer who hops from city to city.
75) The Tragedy of Y
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Drury Lane investigates a suspicious suicide and a family of mad Hatters A ramshackle trawler, the Lavinia D rumbles into New York harbor with empty nets. When its crew spies something floating in the water, they drag it in, hoping for a profitable catch. Their prize flops on the deck, limp, cold, and bloody: the corpse of a man. His name was York Hatter, and he had disappeared from his house on the fashionable Washington Square several days before....
76) The Tragedy of X
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Retired Shakespearean actor Drury Lane solves a mystery from afar Born during intermission in a seedy New Orleans playhouse, Drury Lane has spent the better part of his life in the theater. A majestic old-fashioned ham, he made his name in London, where his record-breaking run as Hamlet defined the role for a generation. When hearing loss forces him to retire, he turns his attention to human drama--specifically crime. Using his powers of disguise,...
77) The Devil's Cook
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A killer stalks a college campus, sending the co-eds scurrying Terry Miles goes across the hallway expecting an orgy. When her neighbor opens his door, she finds that the promised erotic party is nothing more than a few brainy academics balancing beers on their bellies and arguing about philosophy. She's disappointed, but not surprised. Nothing ever happens at Handclasp, the most wholesome university in the most commonplace city in the United States....
78) The Copper Frame
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Series
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English
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A small-town police chief is framed for a heinous crime Andy Saxon has run the Iroquois police force for as long as anyone can remember. At 62, he's as strong as an oak and hasn't even given a thought to retirement. When a national crime syndicate wants to turn his small village into a haven for gamblers, Chief Saxon is the only thing standing in their way. And so, on a country road outside of town, a car full of hit men pulls alongside the chief's...
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Series
Publisher
ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ex-Special Forces Operative, Ex-Cop, and Newly Minted Private Investigator Carlos McCrary, Tackles Assasins, Organized Crime and Damsels in Distress -- Three Full-Length Murder Mystery Thriller Novels in One Book 1:Six Murders Too Many It looks like a simple paternity case, but nothing is simple when 400 million dollars is at stake. Things quickly spiral out of control when a paid assassin and a cast of disreputable characters enter the scene to...
80) Bones to pick
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English
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Wickedly witty and full of more dirt than a debutante's diary, the mysteries of Carolyn Haines bring the southern Delta to roaring, rollicking life. . .
Intrepid P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney has been known to single-handedly save her family's Mississippi plantation, converse with Dahlia House's ghost, and capture a killer or two. But when a local girl is found dead in a cotton field, it's enough to make a lady toss back a Bloody Mary before noon on...
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