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Last ditch
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G. M. Ford |
Seattle p.i. Leo Waterman knows the city like no one else. And he knows how to stretch the limits of the law, when necessary, to accomplish what needs to be done--a very useful talent Leo acquired fr… |
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Rum Punch
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Elmore Leonard |
Ordell "Whitebread" Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie Burke couriers Ordell's profits from Freeport to Miami. But the feds are on to Jackie … |
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The Mike Hammer collection
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Mickey Spillane |
"There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate." -The New York Times
Apparently. With his trend-setting Mike Hammer detective novels, Mickey Spillane shot to super… |
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Wan ti chiu shih hsin tʻiao
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Wang, Shuo |
A writer in Beijing, who is a prime suspect in a murder, interrogates his friends regarding the night in question. Did he actually kill someone? The writer, Fang Yan, was so drunk he cannot remember |
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Bodies in a Bookshop
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Ruthven Campbell Todd |
> Botanist Max Boyle visits "a curious little shop in a side-street off the Tottenham Court Road" in London and is delighted with the bibliophilic treasures he finds. He also stumbles across somethin… |
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The Criminal
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Jim Thompson |
A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, ever… |
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King Blood
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Jim Thompson |
Blood’s thicker than water and that’s doubly true for the King family who has built its considerable fortune through decades of the most ruthless violence and bloodshed that Oklahoma has ever seen. I… |
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The Alcoholics
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Jim Thompson |
Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, add an orderly who doubles as … |
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Recoil
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Jim Thompson |
Pat Cosgrove was a convict in the state's vilest prison, and Doc Luther gave him his freedom. Cosgrove had never been loved, and Luther gave him two mistresses -- one of them the beautiful Mrs. Luthe… |
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A Catskill eagle
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Robert B. Parker |
Spenser loves just one woman, even though she's the one he's just lost. So when her desperate letter arrives, he doesn't think twice. He has to free his best friend from a life sentence, and get Susa… |
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A savage place
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Robert B. Parker |
Spenser is in Hollywood to protect television reporter Candy Sloan, and together they search for a murderer. |
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Wolf in the shadows
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Marcia Muller |
Muller's popular heroine, San Francisco sleuth Sharon McCone, faces her greatest challenge when her boyfriend disappears while delivering a $2 million ransom for a kidnapped researcher. Each of Mulle… |
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Till the butchers cut him down
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Marcia Muller |
P.I. Sharon McCone has struck out on her own and needs all the clients she can get - even a shady character from her Berkeley days. From the moment T.J. "Suitcase" Gordon whisks her off in his privat… |
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The second angel
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Philip Kerr |
It is July, 2069, and the new millennium is not working out well. Plagues have destroyed our major food supplies, climatic changes have brought constant winter to the once-industrialized West, and a … |
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The Hunter (aka Point Blank and Payback)
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Donald E. Westlake |
You probably haven't ever noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits,… |
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Sunset limited
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James Lee Burke |
In a land soaked with sin, Dave Robicheaux is dueling with killers, ghosts, and a woman's revenge....
The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn't crucify Megan Flynn's father. They just didn'… |
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McNally's luck
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Lawrence Sanders |
A case which starts out with a missing cat suddenly turns much more serious and deadly when a woman is found brutally murdered. |
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Betrayed
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Don Pendleton |
On the verge of creating a breakthrough peace initiative in the Middle East, Dr. Sharif Mahoud is on the run, hunted by purveyors of terror who see the true threat of a powerful visionary bringing bi… |
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Simple justice
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John Morgan Wilson |
**From Goodreads:**
***Benjamin Justice #1***
Following the death of his lover and a scandal involving his Pulitzer Prize-winning article, crime reporter Benjamin Justice has fallen into a hazy… |
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The wrong case
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James Crumley |
Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of Meriwether, in the pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He'… |
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