Cal Claxton mysteries
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Cal Claxton mysteries volume 1
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English
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"The clever plot takes second place to the ebullience of the writing and spot-on inventiveness of the satire."-The Times
St. Martha's College, Cambridge, had been staggering along on a shoestring for decades. Then alumna Alice Toon leaves her old school a huge fortune. The dons immediately fall to fighting over the spoils. The Virgins, led by Dame Maud Theodosia Buckbarrow, believe the bequests should be spent on scholarships. The Dykes-fewer in...
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Dead float: a Cal Claxton mystery , Cal Claxton mysteries volume 2
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Cal Claxton mysteries volume 3
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2019 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada
As the mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, shakes off a long hard winter, famous photographer Rudolph Steiner arrives to do a feature on mountain tourism. Steiner is accompanied by his assistant and his sexy young wife, but he has another reason for the visit: to re-connect with the woman who left him 25 years ago to marry another man. That woman was a young,...
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Not dead enough , Cal Claxton mysteries volume 4
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Cal's neighbor, Jim Kavanaugh, the owner and gifted vintner of an up-and-coming winery, is accused of murdering his wife, his freedom--and the grape harvest--is suddenly in jeopardy along with his reputation, and his business begins to slide. No gentleman farmer, this puts the rugged winemaker's property, his only financial asset, in play. When a blackmail plot is hatched against the owner of adjacent land, it begins to look like a brutal game...
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Cal Claxton mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Claxton has no idea that his new client will turn his life upside down. As he begins to investigate, he starts finding links between his cases and the possibility of a lucrative riverfront project and a foreign assassin. And in a separate battle, he recruits neighbors to stop the reboot of a quarry operation that threatens his farmhouse home in rural Dundee.
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Cal Claxton mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The third English language case for Mexico City independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne, No Happy Ending, is Paco Ignacio Taibo II at his subversive, darkly comic best. First, Hector discovers the body of a dead actor, dressed like a Roman in full breastplate and regalia, propped up on the toilet in his office. Shortly thereafter, he receives a threatening letter and a snapshot of another murdered corpse. As Hector investigates the killings,...
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No witness , Cal Claxton mysteries volume 8
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