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A real estate deal turns deadly. The land owner, Charlie Taylor, is killed, and Matt Doran, the developer is missing. Now Kramer Construction is pushing for control of the land. Billie Ross, of Ross InvestigationServices, is hired by the missing man's sister. As Billie digs deeper into the mystery her own safety is at stake.Is the missing real estate developer a murderer, or a victim? The police suspect Charlie's death is the reason Matt is missing,...
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It's 1956, and Lee Plunkett has taken over the family business as a private investigator despite his reluctance to follow in his father's footsteps. When murder intrudes on a group of ghost seekers, Lee is asked to solve the case by a cop on the verge of retirement. At the urging of his perpetual fiancée Audrey, Lee enlists the help of Mr. O'Nelligan, a scholarly Irishman with a keen eye for solving mysteries. The duo is drawn into a murder investigation...
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Justice for Elizabeth is K. L. Dempsey's newest thriller, which once again points out his unique talent for creating and defining his characters. The novel illuminates the dark corners faced by a smalltown lawyer Luke Black, whose modest goals in life are defined by his annual three resolutions:
That he will continue his long-term effort to destroy the popular belief that all lawyers are necessarily dishonest.
That his net worth will reach his...
44) Lady Afraid
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Desperate to recover her son, a yacht designer turns to a hard-bitten captain for help Sarah Lineyack's in-laws hated her the moment she married their son. They hated her when she was pregnant, and they hated her even more after the car crash that killed their darling boy but spared Sarah and her child. While Sarah recovered, the Lineyacks stole her baby, claiming she was an unfit mother and tricking her into believing there was nothing she could...
45) Wax Apple
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At a mental institution, Mitch Tobin searches for a patient with a violent sense of humor Mitch Tobin is about to be committed. Since his abrupt dismissal from the NYPD, Tobin's nerves have been frayed, and if it wasn't for his work as a private detective, he might well be in need of actual psychiatric care. But during his stay at the Midway, a halfway house for those recovering from mental illness, he'll only be impersonating a patient while trying...
46) Bang Stick
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It is New Year's Eve in nineteen sixty-nine and Southern California's normally placid climate is experiencing a bitter winter cold snap. It is certainly not the weather for murder. The strange unknown weapon constitutes the perfect crime. Bodies are stacking up faster than chips in a winning hand of high stakes poker. The only thing piling up faster is the ever growing list of suspects. Incompetent San Diego Police Detective Jake Smith is in charge...
47) Green Triangles
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Private investigator Paul Finley is hired by an academic for the overtly simple task of returning films shot by an associate of his client in Paris more than 30 years earlier. But the contacts he is given for returning the films begin dying in various ways, including homicide and cancer. Then the client himself commits suicide. Even worse for Finley, Homeland Security agents move in to get their hands on the films.
48) Hoodoo Murders
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When the small town of Rosemont, Louisiana wakes up to find a bank vice-president murdered, bank funds stolen, and his little stepdaughter, Darla, missing the police and the FBI rush to the scene. However, the parents and grandparents of the missing child wants a more personal touch. They hire Ladonna of the Rose Detective Agency.As Ladonna searches for Darla she runs into family deceit, hoodoo spells, and the answers to mysteries in her own past....
49) Angel's Cove
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Harry is enjoying a state of semi-retirement and a moment of serenity as the owner of the tropical beachside pub the Sand Bar when a frantic phone call from his regular day bartender, Carla, interrupts his reverie.
Carla's father's unexpected death has led her back to the small coastal town of Angel's Cove. There she discovers that the time of his death doesn't correspond with when she last spoke to him. Then a threat in the form of a dead kitten...
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On a dark and gloomy night, a glamorous lady catches a cab in the big city and after a tough ride through the blizzard the car stops at the destination. The driver finds out that the lady has gone and that there is a suitcase and a dead body of a man left on the back seat. Police department is confused, and they decide to pull the atypical move and call private investigator David Carroll to help them solve the mystery.
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Alfred Bekker Kommisar X #8: Duell am East River
Kriminalroman
Alfred Bekker schrieb als Neal Chadwick
Jo Walker alias Kommissar X ist der beste Privatdetektiv von New York. Er knackt die härtesten Fälle und stellt sich dem Verbrechen. Da, wo die Polizei längst aufgegeben hat, nimmt Walker die Ermittlungen auf.
Alfred Bekker ist ein bekannter Autor von Fantasy-Romanen, Krimis und Jugendbüchern. Neben seinen großen Bucherfolgen schrieb er zahlreiche...
52) Blood Relative
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Weary of his work, Lomax reluctantly takes a case defending a man he believes is guilty of murder When Samuel Butler, a cruelly arrogant titan of industry, learns his wife is cheating again, he expresses his feelings with a punch to her face. She is bruised when he leaves the house, but still alive. After a few hours' drinking, he comes home to apologize, flowers in hand, and finds his wife bludgeoned to death on the floor. Or at least that's what...
53) Die Laughing
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L.A.'s oldest and most unconventional Jewish gumshoe is back and more relentless than ever in the highly anticipated fourth Amos Parisman Mystery!When a legend of late-night comedy is found brutally murdered in his Hollywood home, suspicions immediately fall on his former partner, Benny Wolfe. An unlikely killer, old and frail, Wolfe hasn't made a public appearance in years. But after an impromptu visit from the police takes an unexpected turn-focusing...
54) Gigolo
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"Try to make a fool out of me, will you?" Her red-painted upper lip curled in a sneer as she studied the young man before her. "I bought and paid for you. You'll always be mine. Certainly not hers." She gave a throaty chuckle. "Mine as long as you live." She took a deep breath. "Here's something you'll always remember. My last present to you, darling." She aimed the pistol and pulled the trigger.
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Paul Finley Mysteries Book Six
Private investigator Paul Finley receives a packet of old police reports from a former colleague. Most of the reports describe cases that have been squashed or sidetracked for power interests. One of them questions the accidental death of Finley's wife and daughter some years earlier. Before Finley can go back to the source of the reports, the man dies. What follows is a quagmire of a homicide dressed up as suicide,...
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Table of contents:
Sherlock Holmes
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow
The Field Bazaar
How Watson Learned the Trick
Professor Challenger
The Lost World
The Poison Belt
When the World Screamed
Brigadier Gerard
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
The Crime of the Brigadier
The Adventures of Gerard
Novels
Micah...
57) The Skelly Man
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Amiable, wisecracking Alex Rasmussen was first introduced-to great acclaim-in The Heaven Stone, which won the PWA/St. Martin's Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, and was also named one of the best mysteries of the year by the Providence Journal-Bulletin. Now ghosts from the past and a murderous Halloween haunt his second case.
A former cop gone private, Rasmussen makes a living in the decaying New England mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell...
58) Shepherd's Pie
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Detective Mike Shepherd chases sadistic Ferlin Husky Lewis, a self-proclaimed survivalist, who escaped from police. Shepherd ruins his only suit, misses an important dinner date, and loses Lewis.Ferlin, so incensed by Mike chasing him, decides to murder Mike and anyone who gets in the way.
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A troubled homicide cop chases a killer with an artistic sensibility. Marketing executive Peter Barrows spends his nights scouring Greenwich Village for wannabe models. He lures them back to his studio with promises of stardom, getting their hopes up just before he snaps their necks. Then his work begins, arranging their corpses to be photographed, giving them the grace and poise they never possessed in life. Peter Barrows is an artist - and death...
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A hobo turns up dead in a bin. Among the gawkers is Acey Albert Tapp, a jobless man facing the death of his mother. Acey finds employment with an aging PI. He takes on a case involving a local woman gone missing for five decades, and again crosses paths with the deceased drifter. Only this time the sighting is in an old photo showing the hobo and the missing woman as teenage sweethearts. Coached by his mentor and boss, and despite a series of seemingly...
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