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41) Natural Causes
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Detective Harry Stoner has seen too much of the seamy side of life not to notice the tarnish on Los Angeles' glitter or the gritty reality behind the never-never land of television's biggest daytime soaps. A detergent manufacturer, already begrimed by scandal and rumor, doesn't want his image further muddied by the mysterious death of the head writer on the daytime series he sponsors. So it's up to Stoner to find out what really happened that sunny...
42) Eye of the Storm
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Appleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta. Its story includes hints of tragedy, fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards. Now Patsy McCone, her new lover, and a group of investors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast. Summoned by her eccentric younger sister, San Francisco's number one PI Sharon McCone arrives in the teeth...
43) Castang's City
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A French detective looks into a public figure's murder-and discovers some private secrets-in a mystery by an author who is "a joy to read" (TheTimes Literary Supplement).
When a local official is gunned down in the street, it looks like a cold-blooded political assassination. But as Inspector Henri Castang investigates-and questions the victim's colleagues and family-it seems the motive might have been closer to home.
The mystery only becomes...
44) False Start
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Nick Ramey, a gangster money handler, finds himself at the wrong end of a bellhop's gun, when he's robbed of a case full of money. But Nick may have the last laugh after all!
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Creator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone since 1977. In the process, McCone has gained a host of associates and formed her own detective agency. Some seven years ago, Marcia Muller decided to show readers different views of her sleuth by relating cases through the eyes of McCone's colleagues. McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well...
46) Lake Isle
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In France, a police detective hunts for an elusive killer in this novel by an award-winning author who "writes like no one else" (Los Angeles Times).
In the tiny French town of Soulay, Inspector Henri Castang is dealing with a brutal robbery, a drugged teenager, and the sad delusions of a nervous old lady. But when a violent death suggests a mysterious connection to recent events in Paris Castang must untangle a mix of spiteful small-town gossip...
47) Size
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This hard-boiled tale from A. W. Gray takes its title from its hero, con artist and poker player Sizemore Brandon, a gentle if criminal giant and sidekick to Pecos Jimmy, a Dallas racketeer majoring in gambling. When Size is called to testify against his boss, Jimmy decides the time has come to dispense with his services permanently.
The stakes are high, and Size will have to play his cards right if he is to come out on top in the seamy underbelly...
48) Second Chance
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Clients never tell the whole story. Harry Stoner had taken a snowy drive to Cincinnati psychiatrist Phil Pearson's mansion to hear the tale of daughter Kirsten-emotionally disturbed and missing. But the doctor left out the parts about his first wife's suicide and his second wife's bedroom eyes that were already chasing the winter cold from Stoner's blood. That's why Stoner suspected the search for Kirsten could take a kinky turn. He'd seen teens driven...
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Ein Fall für den Norden
Kriminalroman von Alfred Bekker
Kommissar Ubbo Norden ermittelt.
Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 120 Taschenbuchseiten.
Kommissar Ubbo Norden ermittelt mit seinem Kollegen Jan Slieter in einem Fall von illegaler Giftmüllentsorgung. Ein Schiff, dass den Emder Hafen verlässt, wird aufgebracht. Aber an Bord befinden sich nicht nur Fässer mit Giftmüll, sondern auch die sterblichen Überreste einer seit langem vermissten...
50) The Harker File
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Chasing a scoop on the CIA, a reporter finds his own name on the hit list. In Madison, Wisconsin, a dairy farmer drops dead of a heart attack. A few days later, a small-town citizen in Iowa is killed in a three-car pile-up. Few men know the connection between these deaths, and only one is willing to talk to Harker, an investigative reporter with sources on the inside of every agency in Washington. His source at the CIA is named Trotman, and he knows...
51) Ace Boon Coon
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From award-winning author Danny Gardner comes ACE BOON COON, the second in the Tales of Elliot Caprice historical crime fiction series about a disgraced police officer caught between worlds, black and white, good and bad.
It's 1950s Illinois and Elliot Caprice has, returned to his rural Southville homestead to help his uncle save the family farm, which is struggling through a drought. As racial tensions between agricultural workers rise, a murder...
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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...
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Being a private eye means helping the little guy and that is what Benny Cahill does for a living. The problem is: this kind of work can be bad for your health. After helping a jockey put a bet on a fixed race, Benny loses the money ands finds his client dead. With the cops eyeing him for the hot seat, Benny Cahill must bring the real killers to justice. All because a jockey had never heard of the phrase: "Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth".
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¡LOGAN ES LA PRIMER PERSONA A QUIEN RECURRIRÁ PARA UNA VERDADERA ACCIÓN DETECTIVESCA!
Y tres veces Logan, significa tres veces la aventura.
El Hollywood de 1930 no solo eran estrellas de cine y escenarios. También era una placa de Petri donde el crimen crecía. El poder generando corrupción, los robos para alcanzar una vida de riqueza, y asesinatos por venganza no eran parte de alguna gran película. En estas tres historias, el Investigador...
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Brisbane, 1943. A provincial Australian city has turned almost overnight into the main Allied staging post for the war in the Pacific. The social, sexual, and racial tensions stirred up by the arrival of tens of thousands of US troops provoke all kinds of mayhem, and Brisbane's once quiet streets are suddenly looking pretty mean. Enter P.I. Jack Munro, a World War I veteran and ex-cop with a nose for trouble and a stubborn dedication to exposing the...
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Hace cerca de un año que el cabo Holmes investiga sin éxito el triste caso del asesinato de un joven aristócrata local, que ha conmocionado a la bonita localidad de Corcubión, en la Costa de la Muerte gallega. La llegada de su amigo Julio César Santos, el millonario e irónico detective madrileño estimula el amor propio del guardia civil y lo fuerzan a replantearse la investigación.Entre ambos descubrirán que hasta las mejores familias ocultan...
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In this satirical and somewhat insane lament about the fall of traditional journalism into an abyss of news without facts, Special Investigative Reporter Jock Stewart specializes in tracking down Junction City's inept and corrupt movers and shakers for his newspaper The Star-Gazer. Since Stewart is not a team player, he doesn't trust anyone, especially colleagues and news sources. Stewart, who became a reporter back in the days when real newsmen were...
58) Fiddle City
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Duffy's latest clients: The thieves of Heathrow Airport Down-and-out Duffy takes a stranger home from the pub for a one-night stand to take his mind off his scuffling private security business. But his bedmate surprises him with a job offer the next morning. Turns out Mr. Right Now is chummy with the freight thieves of Heathrow. The airport's crooks pride themselves on their restraint, but someone has been pilfering much more than his share. The Heathrow...
59) Dark Peony
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Death is lurking amongst the equivocal high society of a rich Venetian town, where life is suddenly disturbed by the actions of a merciless assassin who uses strange rituals in killing his victims leaving no trace. An ordinary employee, a detective inspector, an international mercenary searching for an identity. A spine-chilling novel with all the flavour of a classic crime story but with dark undertones, as disturbing and rapid as the hand of the...
60) Gun Control
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In the 40th Cliff Hardy book, Hardy plays a cool hand as a decades-old crime resurfaces and old scores are settled. Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son. Soon Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops-former members of the Gun Control Unit-outlaw bikers, and honest police trying to quietly...
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