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Chicago detective Mac is asked by a former silent film star to find out what the problem is facing a fellow actor who shares her home. Disappearing corpses, movie producers, and hoodlums are only some of the problems facing our hero! #17 in the Mac detective series! "Mac is one of our best private eyes." -San Francisco Chronicle "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -Bill Pronzini "Mac has been called one of...
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LOVED TO DEATH!
Actually, she hadn't been worth getting involved with.
Yet, the fact remained that a lot of men had. And one of them had been more involved than anyone could know.
A cozy, one-bedroom apartment and an engraved anniversary present put George Harmon Coxe's celebrated private detective, Sam Crombie, onto the trail of four men. All had loved the same woman. All had eventually left her. One had left her dead...
3) Dead Weight
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Everyone was threatening Johnny Liddell - even his girl, and the cops - until Johnny came up with a new twist to trap a killer. It was so good he fooled everyone - even himself!
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Leslie Adams doesn't often get angry, upset, or worried. So when Molly, his sister, first disappeared, Les kept calm and used his head. When he was nearly killed in a house explosion while searching for his sister, well, that rattled him a bit, but still Les kept his wits about him. Now the police are blaming him for the explosion, as well as a botched robbery in which a woman was killed. His schizophrenia is becoming a problem, he's being stalked...
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In a wild, bleak corner of the Kent Coast, a derelict harbour rots beneath the tides. Here the "Doll," a film-struck waif, and her lover, ex-movie star Tod Hafferty, play out their final, tragic, ill-fated, real-life roles. Sudden death strikes the players more than once, ultimately involving a member of the local police force. Then, as Dr. Morelle finds himself enmeshed in a network of sex and murder, Miss Frayle's anticipated quiet weekend results...
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Even by Hollywood standards, Nora Frost is the stage mother from Hell. Her futile drive to turn her talentless twin sons into child superstars has left figurative bodies strewn throughout Los Angeles. But after Nora hires hapless young private detective Dave Beauchamp to investigate a letter threatening the brothers, the body count begins to mount. It's up to Dave (a recovering lawyer and serious movie buff) to discover why people connected to Nora's...
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Pretty Phyllis Kirk was an interviewer for the Kinkaid Morals Report - the shocker that out-Kinseyed Kinsey. In her possession were secrets about the intimate lives of some very important people. Phyllis didn't live very long...
Jason Chase was a private-eye by accident. When Phyllis was discovered beaten to death, he found himself tangling with:
WOMPLER, king of the cheesecake racket (with a little blackmail thrown in free) ...
JULIA, the drunken...
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Carla Bowman is a young and beautiful society girl with wild blood coursing through her veins. She becomes the honey of King Logan, a gangster operating the protection racket on New York's East Side, and is caught up in a maelstrom of violence and bloodshed. When Sylvester Shapirro cuts in on King, Carla decides to double-cross the gang-leader and join Shapirro, a decision she regrets when she faces him in his fantastic house at Montauk Point. Here...
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Mike Lantry, the tough, hard-bitten chief of World Wide Investigations, is on his way back to New York after a restful vacation when he gives a ride to a lone girl on an Indiana highway. Lantry's up to his neck in from that moment on, coming into contact with gun-wielding hoodlums and crooked cops and the head of the Mafia in the Midwestern United States. When he joins forces with plucky Joanne Kilvert to pull down a crook's empire, he embarks on...
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She was the kind of woman a man always noticed, mostly because of her eyes: deep and dark, they'd held a warmth that could easily kindle a fire in one's soul. Now they were staring sightlessly up from the sidewalk. It was a killing without a motive, just the first of a string of murders that led Johnny Merak, private investigator, from the teeming underworlds of Chicago and Los Angeles to the edge of the New Mexican desert, trailing a killer who left...
11) Death of a Ghost
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Albert Campion mysteries volume 6
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An artist's legacy lives on-through murder in this Albert Campion mystery masterpiece from "one of the finest Golden-Age crime novelists" (The Sunday Telegraph).
To vex his rival from the grave, a famous artist has left twelve paintings to be sold after his death. Each year, one painting is revealed to kick off London's art season. But this release party-bringing family, friends, critics, and collectors together-devolves into scandal. A power...
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The Second Mystery Novel MEGAPACK® presents four more classic mysteries (published between 1941 and 1959) by top mystery writers of the era...more than 650 pages of classic whodunits. Dig in and enjoy! Included are:
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
THE MERCHANT OF MURDER, by Spencer Dean
THE FIFTH KEY, by George Harmon Coxe
BONES DON'T LIE, by Curtiss T. Gardner
If you enjoy this volume of classic mysteries, don't forget to search...
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Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic - though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine...and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel.
When Pete drops by his friend Frank Crowley's house one evening, neither...
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The murder of Carlos Galecci, a kingpin of organized crime, was not unexpected. Only three days earlier, fearing for his life, he'd hired Los Angeles private eye Johnny Merak to discover who was threatening him. Then he's found seated in his private vault with a knife in his back--a vault whose combination only he knows, a vault no one else has entered in the interim. Summoned to the scene, Merak is hired by Gloria, Galecci's statuesque blonde wife,...
15) Dead Sure
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When two fast-thinking copy shoot it out with Harry Derby and bring him in for the murder of a grandmother, they aren't taking any chances. They "add" a little evidence to help make the charges stick. After all, they both know Harry is guilty. They did a good job. So good that Harry is sure to get the electric chair...even if he's innocent!
Herbert Brean (1907-1973) was an American journalist and crime fiction writer, best known for his recurring...
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Lyn McConchie again carries the reader back to the Victorian London of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, this time with two Beastly Mysteries.
When Lord Temberton opens an Anglo-Saxon barrow and finds a securely locked Elizabethan chest seven mummified penguins placed around it in a circle, it is to Sherlock Holmes that he turns for answers. Is this sabotage? A practical joke? Or something more sinister? Holmes, together with Watson, must unravel the...
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