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Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon novels volume 3
Publisher
Crippen & Landru
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of General Guy Sternwood, his daughter Vivian sends her psychotic sister, Carmen, to a sanatorium. Carmen's sudden disappearance from the hospital leads Vivian to turn in desperation to Eddie Mars, a shady underworld club owner.
"A Philip Marlowe novel." --on spine.
404) The big blowdown
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A novel on two immigrant boys growing up in 1940s Washington--their friendship, their loves and their crimes. One Greek, the other Italian, they are involved in collection work for loan sharks who prey on immigrants. By the author of Nick's Trip.
405) Called by a panther
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Private eye Albert Samson looks for a man with a bomb in Indianapolis
Author
Series
Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"J.W. Jackson has much to be thankful for this particular August: the early arrival of bluefish, certainly, but also beautiful wife Zee and an addition to their family, three-month-old Joshua, who screams loudly and looks like a cross between Edward G. Robinson and Winston Churchill."--BOOK JACKET. "Life is good, except for the intrusion of several outsiders from "America." Perhaps it's just as well that a distraction arrives in the person of one...
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 25
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Pub., Inc
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
410) Backhand
Author
Series
Anna Lee mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
415) Jack of spades
Author
Series
Publisher
August Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In Lee Child's twenty-third Jack Reacher novel, Past Tense, Reacher found his roots and a heap of trouble in Laconia, New Hampshire. A young Canadian couple took the spoils at the end of the war. Now, the real owner will stop at nothing to get back what belongs to him. Reacher wasn't there to protect his only brother, Joe, who was killed in the line of duty years ago. Will he show up to protect his brother's son? Agent Otto bets on Reacher and puts...