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Charles Bukowski · 192 pages
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on M
Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth
Malcolm Pryce · 288 pages
"It's Christmas in Aberystwyth.The tourists have gone home.The latest movie starring Clip the Sheepdog is on at the cinema. And a man wearing a red-and-white robe is found brutally murdered in a Chinatown alley. A single word is scrawled in his blood on the pavement; 'Hoffmann'. But who is Hoffmann? Thus begins the latest hilarious adventure in the Louie Knight series." "This time Aberystwyth's ce
The Time Machine Did It
John Swartzwelder · 140 pages
Casual Rex
Eric Garcia · 337 pages
A beautiful and beguiling Velociraptor is leading a movement to allow dinosaurs to shed their latex disguises and go about as they really are, but Vincent and Ernie investigate when a member of this cult dies mysteriously.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams · 276 pages
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163714W). It was followed by the [Salmon of Doubt](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163715W), an incomplete Dirk Gently novel included in a p
Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Gary K. Wolf · 218 pages
The gritty, original version of the classic WB-Disney crossover film. Explore the origins of the Roger Rabbit story through the eyes of Roger's hired Private Investigator, the alcoholic Mr. Eddie Valiant. Live in a world of real people and real street walking cartoon classics. This is a detective novel which stands the test of time. Written in classic detective style of fast pace and hard boiled s
All the Wrong Questions: A Complete Mystery Gift Set
Lemony Snicket · 1,200 pages
Takedown Twenty
Janet Evanovich · 337 pages
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in -- not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even
The Plutonium Blonde
John Zakour, Lawrence Ganem · 342 pages
Death Warmed Over
Kevin J. Anderson · 302 pages
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.
Noir
Robert Coover · 208 pages
A mysterious young widow hires Philip M. Noir to find her husband's killer--if he was killed. She suddenly is killed and her body disappears. At once wry, absurd, and desolate--most people will think what's happening is pretty funny.
Farewell, My Deuce
Renee Pawlish · 208 pages
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami · 299 pages
It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum
The Little Sleep
Paul Tremblay · 271 pages
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
Charcoal Joe
Walter Mosley · 320 pages
"Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Charcoal Joe has asked Easy to help clear Joe's son, who was found standing over a white man's dead body in his cabin home"--
The Hexologists
Josiah Bancroft · 318 pages
A Drop of the Hard Stuff
Lawrence Block · 319 pages
After a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery--and get him killed in the process.
Stolen Away
Max Allan Collins · 561 pages
The Big Splash
Jack D. Ferraiolo · 304 pages
Matt Stevens, an average middle schooler with a glib tongue and a knack for solving crimes, uncovers a mystery while working with "the organization," a mafia-like syndicate run by seventh-grader Vincent "Mr. Biggs" Biggio, specializing in forged hall passes, test-copying rings, black market candy selling, and taking out hits with water guns.