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Draw the Curtain Close Thomas B. Dewey
PORTRAIT OF A PRIVATE COP…
“Call me Mac… I’m just a guy. I go around and get in jams and then try to figure a way out of them. I don’t make very much money and most people insult me one way or … More
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Captain Hugh North 01: Seeds of Murder Van Wyck Mason
When Mr. Wallace was found neatly suspended from a hook in the bathroom ceiling, with a slender chain around his neck and the wastebasket on which he had stood carefully kicked away, there seemed little doubt of it. Especially… More
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Captain Hugh North 03: The Fort Terror Murders Van Wyck Mason
Captain Hugh North, D.C.I., arrived at Fort Espato (in English, “Fort Terror”) with no thought of treasure or tragedy — but both awaited him there. An American army port superseded the old ruin now,… More
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Stone Angel Marvin Albert
Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic–though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on … More
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Captain Hugh North 02: The Vesper Service Murders Van Wyck Mason
“Third machine gun gangster dies!” came the newsboy’s cry through the window of Judge Mackaye’s stately residence in Deptford. A group of men were gathered there — powers in the life… More
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Captain Hugh North 04: The Yellow Arrow Murders Van Wyck Mason
In the bay of Cienfuegos, a little Cuban town, the naked body of a D.C.I. officer was found floating one night. And the next, Captain North of the Army Intelligence was on his way there — with orders to find the facts.… More
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The Corpse in the Cactus: A Maggie Reardon Mystery Lonni Lees
Detective Maggie Reardon is back, in the sizzling sequel to The Mosaic Murder!
The murder that Detective Maggie Reardon just solved at a local Tucson art gallery has already created repercussions, complicating her… More
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Trouble in Abundance Arlette Lees
When Sterling Seabright is found strangled in the woods outside the small farming community of Abundance, Wisconsin, even her closest friends are shocked to learn of her secret life. When a second body is found murdered… More
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The Mystery of the False Fingertips James Holding
Two high school boys are exposed to danger when they set out to solve the theft from a local museum of five ceremonial Egyptian fingertips.
This book is one of two original Young Adult novels written by James Holding (the… More
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Mac Detective Series 05: The Brave, Bad Girls Thomas B. Dewey
“Dewey’s story twists are fresh and the violence is realistic rather than sensational. Mac is one of our best private eyes and this adventure is honest and exciting.” — San Francisco Chronicle… More
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Mac Detective Series 06: You’ve Got Him Cold Thomas B. Dewey
Nobody knew the trouble she’d been in — until it caught up with her. And then it was murder!
“Mac is one of our best private eyes.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“Thomas B. Dewey is one… More
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Mac Detective Series 07: The Case of the Chased and the Unchaste Thomas B. Dewey
Mac didn’t like bodyguard jobs. But he disliked kidnappers even more. So when Julian Porter, big shot movie producer, said, “Come to Hollywood, take care of my kid,” Mac left Chicago and went to Hollywood.… More
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Mac Detective Series 08: The Girl Who Wasn’t There Thomas B. Dewey
The trail Mac found himself trying to follow was very cold. Another private detective — his friend Barry Henley — had been killed a year earlier in a fall from a tenth-story window, and the cops had written… More
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Nude in Nevada: A Pete Schofield Caper Thomas B. Dewey
Her name was Shaara, and she was built like a technicolor dream. From tip to toe … from back to front … the lady was intricately tattooed. The designs intrigued Pete Schofield, and so did the background …… More
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Only on Tuesdays: A Pete Schofield Caper Thomas B. Dewey
Carol Ann was very photogenic. Especially in certain pictures… But it was more than just a case of over-exposure. There was also a small matter of murder. For Pete Schofield, it was all in a day’s — … More
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The Girl in the Punchbowl: A Pete Schofield Caper Thomas B. Dewey
“Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction’s severely underrated writers!” — Bill Pronzini
Pete Schofield had been to art-colony parties before. Usually they were all the same, but this… More