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No job for a woman No job for a woman Sandra Mara vi, 336 p. : 21 cm OL10995W
The "Canary" Murder Case The "Canary" Murder Case S. S. Van Dine *The Canary Murder Case* is a classic whodunit mystery novel which deals with the murder of a sexy nightclub singer, with Philo Vance as an investigator. The beautiful Margaret Odell, famous Broadway… OL11158827W
The Narrows The Narrows Michael Connelly,Michael Connelly FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous… OL111753W
Blood Work Blood Work Michael Connelly When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement. He's recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful. Bu… OL111754W
Affair Affair Jayne Ann Krentz Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex.Yet nothing could ha… OL112327W
The Mike Hammer collection The Mike Hammer collection 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… OL11374216W
The third deadly sin The third deadly sin Lawrence Sanders Edward X. "Iron Balls" Delaney is called out of retirement by the NYPD to hunt out a random killer at large in midtown New York. OL115515W
Fear Itself Fear Itself Walter Mosley Paris Minton is a man who would just as soon walk away from trouble as stand up to it. But in 1950s Los Angeles, sometimes trouble just comes and gets you. "Fearless Jones shows up at Paris Minton's … OL115532W
The Chicago way The Chicago way Michael T. Harvey Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to … OL11783263W
Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca? Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca? G. M. Ford When an old gangster friend of Leo's father makes a request he "can't refuse," Leo and his band of drunks, delve into the world of environmental politics in search of Caroline Nobel, a spoiled brat, … OL12460302W
Sweet danger Sweet danger Margery Allingham Way back during the crusades Richard I presented the Huntingforest family with the tiny Balkan principality of Averna but since then the kingdom has been forgotten, until circumstances in Europe sudd… OL12690629W
The devil's company The devil's company David Liss From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, Davi… OL13246W
Who is Teddy Villanova? Who is Teddy Villanova? Thomas Berger Who is Teddy Villanova? His corpse keeps turning up in various locations and Wren is under suspicion. He clears himself and races off to track down the ubiquitous but invisible Villanova. OL137292W
Five of a Kind Five of a Kind Rex Stout Includes the novels "The Rubber Band," "In The Best Families," and Three Doors to Death (short story collection: "Man Alive," "Omit Flowers," and "Door to Death"). OL137462W
Triple Jeopardy Triple Jeopardy Rex Stout Home To Roost – a young man with public and pronounced left-wing leanings is murdered. Was he a Communist, a double agent, or neither? The FBI and the NYPD are not happy when his family hires Nero … OL137470W
Gambit Gambit Rex Stout From the audio case: "In this confounding whodunit, Wolfe breaks almost all of his rules. First, he overcomes his aversion to females and agrees to help young Sally Blount clear her father of murde… OL137499W
Champagne for One Champagne for One Rex Stout Archie Goodwin sits in for a friend at a charity dinner dance for unwed mothers, and one of the guests drops dead on the dance floor. The young woman was depressed and known to carry poison - but Arc… OL137511W
Father's Day Father's Day Keith Gilman Louis Kline P.I., ex-cop, gets a job from a woman who wants him to find her missing daughter. The case leads to Philadelphia, where he finds himself in the middle of a Chinese drug operation. OL13763475W
Detectives don't wear seat belts Detectives don't wear seat belts Cici McNair Growing up in Mississippi, Cici McNair was always more the tomboy her mother supported than the Southern belle her father demanded. She escaped her suffocating upbringing the first chance she had to … OL13768223W
All the flowers are dying All the flowers are dying Lawrence Block In his sixteenth Matthew Scudder novel, All the Flowers Are Dying, New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block takes the award-winning series to a new level of suspense and a new depth of charac… OL13786373W
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