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When a notorious gambler pays the ultimate price, a PI is called in to investigate, in this Golden Age mystery by the author of The Iron Spiders.
At Miami's Sunset Bridge Club, Edward Fowler has quite the reputation for playing fast and loose with money-and women-until he's found seated at the poker table with an unusual knife in his back. Even more peculiar is the playing card discovered on the table: an eleven of diamonds.
Miles Standish Rice has...
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What seems like an unfortunate fall turns out to be far more disturbing, as a blind detective discovers, in this mystery from the author of The Last Express.
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex—intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City...
Wealthy businessman Dryden Winslow spent over twenty years self-exiled in Australia,...
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A blind PI's latest case involves two impostors, one uranium mine, and murder in this mystery by the author of Reservations for Death.
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex—intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City ...
The man following Captain Maclain home from the Marshall Chess Club is only the beginning of the detective's...
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A blind detective rises to the occasion following the suspicious death of a blind financier in this mystery by the author of Odor of Violets.
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex—intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City ...
The Miners Title and Trust is typically dead quiet, having gone bankrupt. Then, late one evening,...
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A PI and his sidekick tackle a case of murder and mayhem at a Florida lumber mill in this Golden Age mystery by the author of The Iron Spiders.
Arnold Drenner had been warned not to take his boat through Florida's coastal waterways at night-especially alone. However, the businessman was never any good at heeding advice, and the trait appears to have brought about his demise. When an employee of Drenner's lumber mill discovers his boss's boat run aground,...
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A blind detective helps authorities nab a killer no one's ever seen in this explosive mystery by the author of Blind Allies.
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex-intelligence officer Capt. Duncan MacLain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City...
Captain MacLain is playing a card game when he receives a phone call from Los Angeles. It's his old army buddy Belden...
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When a party is spoiled by murder, a blind detective must sniff out a killer, in this mystery by the author of The Aluminum Turtle.
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex—intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City...
There's a swinging cocktail party at the Upper West Side apartment of brothers Herb and Andy Bolin. The two...
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A bizarre death on an isolated Florida island requires a unique detective in this Golden Age mystery by the author of the Duncan Maclain series.
Young electrical engineer Donald Buchanan is excited to be working again-and to spend his winter in Florida instead of New York. Instead of waiting tables, he'll be running a small power plant on Broken Heart Key, a private island owned by eccentric billionaire Aaron Tuckerton. Never mind his boss's strange...
9) Death Knell
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A blind detective separates fact from fiction to save an innocent writer in this mystery by the author of Blind Man's Bluff.
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex–intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City . . .
Acclaimed novelist Larmar Jordan and his wife, Lucia, are throwing a cocktail party in their luxury Fifth Avenue...
10) Blind Allies
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A blind detective may be walking into a trap-but he's not the one who should be scared-in this mystery by the author of You Die Today!
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex—intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City ...
A party in celebration of Maclain's seventh wedding anniversary is in full swing at his Manhattan penthouse...
11) The Last Express
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A puzzling murder has a blind detective investigating the New York City subway in this Golden Age mystery series opener.
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex-intelligence officer Capt. Duncan MacLain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in the Big Apple. Kind and sympathetic, he's eager to help anyone who visits his office.
Evelyn Zarinka's at the end of her rope, and at her...
12) You Die Today!
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A shooting outside a Manhattan bar leads a blind detective to a health spa with a dark secret in this mystery by the author of Make Mine MacLain.
Late one summer night, Tubby Severn is enjoying a drink at the bar of the Broadway Palace Hotel when a bullet sails past his head-only six inches away. Lots of people might want Tubby dead, but he's not sure why the cops have arrested his best friend, Ted Yates, a blind army veteran. It seems the gun involved...
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A blind detective deals with murder, drugs, and buried treasure in sunny Florida in this mystery by the author of Clear and Present Danger.
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex—intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City ...
Maclain used to visit his godson, Ronald Dayland Sr., and his family in Tampa every winter-until...
14) Out of Control
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Murder disrupts a blind PI's honeymoon in this mix of detective novel and psychological thriller from the author of Death Knell.
The wife of a wealthy Tennessee mining tycoon, Marcia Fillmore has worked hard to get to where she is in life. She's also a woman with a dark past, one she's put behind her . . . until a man walks into the Black Pigeon in Gatlinburg and takes a seat beside her at the bar. Marcia doesn't take kindly to him threatening her...
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Three mystery novelettes featuring a blind detective and his two trusty German Shepherds by the author of Out of Control.
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex-intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City. These are some of his adventures ...
In "The Silent Whistle," the captain heads west to California with his seeing eye dog...
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