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Hey Meathead,Yah, I'm talkin' to you. I'm from Omaha. I had a warehouse that I used to smuggle drugs and guns. The warehouse was full and I was planning on making a final big sell before I could retire and live a simple life. It was all set in a few days when one of my workers ratted me out. The cops surrounded my place and I was cornered. I thought about putting up a fight but there was only one of me and more cops than I cared to count. I...
4302) Brisk Money
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Raymond Chandler famously hated science fiction, saying "They pay brisk money for this crap?" However, it has recently come to light that Chandler secretly wrote a series of stories and novels starring a robot detective. He then burnt all the manuscripts and went on writing his noir masterpieces. Unknown to Chandler, his housekeeper had managed to save some of these discarded manuscripts from the grate in his study, preserving the tales for future...
4303) The Landers Mystique
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On a weekend break in the Mojave, psychic investigator Mason stumbles across the story of a bygone journalist, Geraldine, who expired in the desert on her way to one of the early flying saucer meet-ups. Unable to shake the pointlessness of the tragic tale, Mason trades a favor with his psychic-world mentor, Hanh, who sends him to the East Coast to attend a wedding where he doesn't know anyone. Wracked with guilt about his role in disrupting the event,...
4304) The Doomsday Brunette
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In the deco-inspired, pop-culture-obsessed future, Zachary Nixon Johnson has made a name for himself as the last private eye on Earth. Now the wise-cracking PI and his supercomputer sidekick, HARV, are hired by Ona Thompson, one of four genetically-engineered super women known collectively as the Thompson Quads. Ona's sister has been murdered, and she needs Zach to locate the killer.
The list of suspects is long-including a butler, security experts,...
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It's the twenty-first century and the ugliness of war no longer exists, except on a very personal level. Nowadays, people like Marcello Polletti, seller of Roman sunsets, and Caroline Meredith, lithe, beautiful, blond, and backed by corporate sponsors and the Roy Bell Dancers, hunt, chase, and kill one another for sport and for the entertainment of the masses-until something oddly like personal human feelings pops up to confuse the players and up...
4306) Serpents Rising
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A private investigator and a journalist take on a ruthless gang in Calgary to rescue a runaway and find justice for themselves. In 2005, journalist Adam Cullen's wife, Donna, is killed by an arsonist. In desperation after police, fire department, and insurance investigators all give up trying to find the culprit, Cullen hires private detective Mike Cobb, but he, too, is stymied. Seven years later, Cobb re-enters Cullen's life. A search for a crack-addicted...
4307) Early Adopter
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"But what if she doesn't want to be found?"Aided by their cybernetic eyes, private investigator Ryn Casler makes a living busting cheating spouses. While they'll occasionally dabble in fraud and other typical cases, they don't deal with the missing.Until the persistent Shae Winters, a police detective, approaches them about the disappearance of a young Black woman.Friction flies between detective and PI, as Shae insists on tagging along during the...
4308) Old Scores
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It is a headline-making story: the discovery of a previously unknown Rembrandt. René Vachey, the iconoclastic art dealer who claims to have uncovered it, wants to make a gift of it to the Seattle Art Museum, but curator Chris Norgren is wary. Vachey is notorious in art circles for perpetrating scandalous shams; not for profit but for the sheer fun of embarrassing the elite and snobbish "experts" of the art establishment. And thanks to the web of...
4309) Sale temps sur Penvénan
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Une noyade accidentelle ?
Un inconnu a été retrouvé noyé dans un étang de Penvénan. Malgré l'enquête judiciaire qui a conclu à un décès accidentel, la rumeur prétend que le dossier a été bâclé et que les choses ne sont pas aussi limpides que l'on veut bien le dire. Bernie Andrew, auteur de romans policiers et détective amateur à ses heures, décide de mener sa propre enquête et, pour rester discret, prétend n'être qu'un simple...
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The one that got away...Every detective has a case that got away, and for Phobe Swan, it's the kidnap, ransom and ultimately murder of Lette Walker.A decade later, now working as a Private Investigator, tracked down by the still grieving parents, she's back on the case.Wanting to give them the answers they crave.Needing to discover the truth behind the crime.Whatever the consequences.
4311) Dead Men's Hearts
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An ancient skeleton tossed in a garbage dump is the first conundrum to rattle Gideon Oliver when he arrives in Egypt. There to appear in a documentary film, he expects an undemanding week of movie star treatment and a luxurious cruise up the Nile with his wife, Julie. But when Gideon discovers a tantalizing secret in the discarded bones-and violence claims a famous Egyptologist's life-he is thrust into a spotlight of a different kind. Plying his calipers...
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This complete collection of the original Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories is a treasure trove of Arthur Conan Doyle's intricate detective fiction.
Experience the full scope of Sherlock Holmes's detective abilities in this comprehensive, unabridged collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's works. Featuring all four of the original novels alongside the 56 short stories, this volume encompasses the remarkable legacy of literature's favourite sleuth....
4313) Sois zen et tue-le
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Retour vers le passé...
Nonchalant et séducteur malgré lui, Cicéron Angledroit est détective privé en banlieue parisienne. En manque d'argent, il accepte l'étonnante offre de Madame Costa: enquêter sur la mort de son mari enterré depuis dix ans. Ses aventures rocambolesques ne font que commencer...
Mais qu'est-ce qu'il lui prend, à la mère Costa, de me demander d'enquêter sur la mort de son mari enterré depuis dix ans? Si j'accepte,...
4314) Corrupt Driving
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A Pregnant Private Eye. A Nephew Upset. A Corrupt Driving Experience.Crimes happen in the least likely of places.Private Eye Bettie English waits for her nephew Sean at the heart of Canterbury. Scents of coffee surround Bettie. She enjoys being pregnant.What Sean says shocks her to the core.This gripping, unputdownable mystery short story adds a rich dimension to the growing best-selling series readers love.
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Une énigme à plusieurs inconnues.
Se savoir « né de père inconnu », comme on dit, et retrouver, quelque quarante ans plus tard, cet inconnu fracassé sur sa table de cuisine, c'est tout Cicéron, ça ! Découvrir que René a une maîtresse, ça décoiffe aussi pas mal. Quant à ces honnêtes commerçants en articles de souvenirs pieux « made in China », que viennent-ils faire dans cette embrouille?
Vous mourrez d'envie d'en savoir plus?...
4316) Affair of the Doctors
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A Private Investigator. An Eccentric Doctor. A Complex Affair.
People investigate all sorts of crimes.
When Private Investigator Amelia Pinkie meets an eccentric woman, she learns of a strange plot. She knows the woman needs urgent help. Amelia investigates puzzling affair.
Amelia quickly learns she's way out of her depth.
A riveting, unputdownable, intoxicating suspenseful mystery story.
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Julia Castello, addicte au jeu, criblée de dettes, se trouve harcelée par des créanciers sans scrupules. Au casino de La Baule, elle tente une dernière fois sa chance et perd. Un mystérieux individu, Nicolas Slavko, témoin de sa défaite, se propose alors de la renflouer. À une condition : qu'elle séduise Vincent Céserac, propriétaire d'un magasin de fournitures maritimes à La Trinité-sur-Mer. Acculée, financièrement au bord du gouffre,...
4318) Last One Alive
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Louisa's eyes narrowed, trying to get a clearer look at the person standing before her. Their expression was cold. Mercilessly cold. Louisa crawled back against the wall and screamed... When Detective Kjeld Nygaard is called to the discovery of a body in the burnt-out shell of a house, his heart sinks. He never wanted to see this house again. The house of a notorious serial killer. The house where he rescued Louisa Karlsson from being murdered. But...
4320) An Empty Hell
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"Dynamite... the characters, the situations, the pacing, the structure, and the writing are so good." Publishers WeeklyA year after the devastating events of Not Even Past, Jackson Donne has gone into hiding in the forest of Vermont. Under the guise of Joe Tennant, Donne has been recovering and even enjoying his life up north. Until one of the few friends he's made goes missing. Meanwhile, back in New Jersey, someone is killing ex-cops the ones who...
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