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Murder on the Yellow Brick Road

Stuart M. Kaminsky · 192 pages

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Blast from the Past

Kinky Friedman · 244 pages

A blow on the head sends PI Kinky Friedman back in time to his early days as a private eye. One of his first cases involved his girlfriend, Judy, claiming to have seen her old lover, Tom, alive. Officially, he was killed during the Vietnam War and was buried with full military honors.

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Scandal Takes a Holiday

Lindsey Davis · 368 pages

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A Witness Above

Andy Straka · 272 pages

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The Mummy Case

J.R. Rain

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Wicked Bronze Ambition

Glen Cook · 485 pages

Garrett is a human detective in the fantastical city of TunFaire. Rumors are spreading that someone is organizing a Tournament of Swords, a brutal contest that magically compels the children of sorcerers to battle until only one is left alive. The winner will absorb the power from those he has killed and thus become a demigod.

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Death Warmed Over

Kevin J. Anderson · 302 pages

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Champagne for One

Rex Stout · 194 pages

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 Archie is sure that this was murder.

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Motor City Blue

Loren D. Estleman · 219 pages

Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager who happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar­a semi-retired mobster. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eye Amos Walker. Unfortunately, the only clue to Marla's whereabouts is a pornographic photograph that clearly proves that she's become part of a world that disgusts even her criminal guardian. The photo l

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Death Trick

Richard Stevenson · 212 pages

Gay activist and ... accused murderer? Billy Blount's missing, but Albany PI Donald Strachey doubts Billy's guilt. The 1981 book that launched Richard Stevenson's pioneering series is a cracking mystery and a fascinating trip into bygone gay culture-- before HIV, in the bad old days of bath houses and gay disco, police corruption and tacit policies of harassment.

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No Colder Place

S.J. Rozan · 304 pages

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The Rainy City

Earl Emerson · 288 pages

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The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler · 324 pages

In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

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Fade Away

Harlan Coben · 368 pages

For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories--of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present

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McNally's Secret

Lawrence Sanders · 341 pages

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When the Thrill Is Gone

Walter Mosley · 365 pages

A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill's office with a stack of cash. She's an artist, she tells Leonid, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?

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Soul Patch

Reed Farrel Coleman · 233 pages

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The Unquiet Heart

Gordon Ferris · 269 pages

"Danny McRae, private detective scraping a living in ration-card London. Eve Copeland, crime reporter, looking for new angles to save her career. It's an alliance made in heaven." "Until Eve disappears, a contact dies violently and an old adversary presents Danny with some unpalatable truths." "His desperate search for his lover draws him into a web of black marketeers, double agents and assassins

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Wizard by Trade

Jim Butcher

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Dumb Witness

Agatha Christie · 261 pages

Emily Arundel changed her will only days before her death, and Hercule Poirot must "determine which of the victim's disgruntled relatives did not have a motive for murder."--Cover.

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The Widower's Two-Step

Rick Riordan · 408 pages

Tres Navarre has just hours of apprenticeship time to serve before he can go for his P.I. license. Staking out a musician suspected of stealing a demo tape should be a piece of pan dulce. But his attention wanders just long enough for fiddle player Julie Kearnes to be gunned down before his eyes. He should just back away and let the cops investigate, but backing away has never been Tres's strong p

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Tahoe Blue Fire

Todd Borg · 351 pages

"The woman seemed paranoid. When Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna gets a call from a woman who's afraid for her life, it sounds like she is excessively paranoid. But the killer was dead serious. McKenna investigates and discovers that two other people have already died. He believes the killer is after something worth millions, a precious artifact that dates back to Renaissance Italy. The next potentia

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Pastime

Robert B. Parker · 352 pages

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Death on Deadline

Robert Goldsborough · 185 pages

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