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3561) Make Mine Maclain
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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...
3562) Criminal Performance
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A Dire Performance. A Mysterious Theft. A Treacherous Secret.People steal everything.Private Eye Bettie English watches a performance. She hears a tragic theft occurred. Bettie investigates.More than Bettie realises depends on her.If you enjoy addictive gripping mystery short stories so unputdownable you'll read late into the night, you NEED this story!
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The acclaimed Matt Jacob series by Zachary Klein - now together in an eBook box set for the first time ever. This box set includes all four books in the Matt Jacob series, including: • STILL AMONG THE LIVING - In this New York Times Notable Book, Boston P. I. Matt Jacob has a cloudy past and a P. I. license gathering dust. And what begins as two simple favors soon turns into a fight for his life when the unrelated cases combine to snare Matt into...
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This is the first of several 'Free 4 All' collections that were supposed to be themeless. However, with the number of submissions that came in, it seems that this could be called an Angels & Devils collection, mixing PI & Police alongside tales from the bad guys. Mind you, that's not to say that all the PIs & Police are Good Guys - though hopefully this collection is not too NOIR for some.
Followers of the somewhat bent and twisted Crimeucopia path...
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What do a necrophile, a missing boy, and an unsavoury P.I. have in common? Private detective Michael Drayton is about to find out.... Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Drayton runs a private investigation agency in Vancouver that specializes in missing persons - only, as Mike has discovered, some missing people stay with you. Still haunted by the unsolved disappearance of a young girl, Mike is hired to find the vanished son of a local junk merchant. However,...
3566) [Nothing happens here]
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"I'm looking for a private investigator. I have lost something."Not someone?"My speciality is people and I've been known to find the occasional lost dog." "How about garden ornaments?""Pardon?" I could feel a frown puckering the skin on my forehead and worked hard to dislodge it."I've lost some garden ornaments.""That's not something I've ever been asked to find before. What type of ornaments?""Gnomes," he said with a straight face."Gnomes? Are you...
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Two Leopold Blake Novels Book One - Panic: A Leopold Blake Thriller Swift. Silent. Deadly. Leopold Blake, expert criminology consultant for the FBI, had his weekend all planned out - and it didn't involve dealing with a murdered senator, a high-profile kidnapping, and at least three near-death experiences. Three politicians have been murdered in as many weeks, all expertly dispatched, and only Leopold can get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately, as...
3568) The Tired Canary
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Don't mess with the hothead-or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for...
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Murder and skullduggery on the oldest course in golf. St. Andrews might never be the same again. Private investigator John Royle takes on a routine missing person case in search of his client's brother. When the body turns up in a bunker on the Old Course at St. Andrews and John is framed for the murder, the very future of St. Andrews itself is at stake. John has to get himself out of the frame and ensure the town's place in history remains safe.
3570) Saint George's Children
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His quest for the truth reveals a deadly secret
When Edward Weldon, a prominent local businessman, is found murdered at the bottom of a cliff, ugly rumors about why he was killed quickly begin circulating. His widow hires Anthony Alpo, a down-on-his-luck detective to uncover the truth. Before he gets to the truth, Alpo finds himself in over his head following the trail of Weldon's missing love child in the most dangerous and bizarre case of his career....
3571) Susan and the Gangster
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The calm before the storm...Tasked to document every move criminal mastermind Nick Liang makes, Private Investigartor Susan Murray chooses to draw.Part life drawing, part Method of loci memory palace, part plain old excuse.It's like watching a live action Asian drama until she finds herself pulled into the case.Cover blown. In deep water. Barely coping.Can she rescue herself and the case?
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This volume contains the collected stories of the Baker Street Irregulars, a group of London street urchins who are hired by the great detective Sherlock Holmes to help him with his investigations. Famed for being able to hear all the street has to tell and described by Holmes as "The Baker Street division of the detective police force", the boys are led by their leader, Wiggins to collect vital information from the Victorian underbelly of London....
3573) Police at the Funeral
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From the Golden Age mystery author comes "a richly detailed and entertaining romp, with a fascinating resolution and an unconventional and winning sleuth" (Chicago Tribune).
Albert Campion heads to Cambridge as a favor to a friend, whose fiancée is employed by the elderly Faraday family, to investigate the disappearance of her uncle Andrew. What the self-proclaimed "Deputy-Adventurer" finds is foul play of the most heinous kind: murder.
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3574) The Saucer-Heads
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Don't mess with the hothead—or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap.
Hired to track down Finley, the missing boyfriend of tech worker Truax, Slater soon discovers that the job isn't really what he was asked to do. The search for Finley leads him to an arcane book and the flying-saucer subculture,...
3575) The Spoil of Beasts
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A jailhouse slaughter. A relentless killer. And way too much jackassing around.When word comes that two key witnesses in an investigation are dead, North and Shaw are surprised-and pleased-to learn that their friend, John-Henry Somerset, is interested in hiring them as freelance contractors for the Wahredua police department. The department is stretched thin, and the investigation into the Cottonmouth Club (and the criminal organization operating...
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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...
3577) 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...
3578) 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...
3579) A Glancing Light
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Mild-mannered and law-abiding, Chris Norgren, curator of Renaissance and Baroque art at the Seattle Art Museum, is an unlikely undercover investigator, but when a priceless Rubens portrait is discovered in a shipment of "authentic reproductions" in a local warehouse, Chris is pressed into service to find out how it got there. The quest leads him to the medieval city of Bologna, one of his favorite places, but all too soon what might have been a welcome...
3580) Trail of the Blue Agave
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Don't mess with the hothead-or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for...
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