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Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Drawn together by themes of strife, violence and humanity, this searing collection of four stories introduces characters who defy the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil as they grapple with consequence, random chance andthe many paths a life can take.
Author
Series
L. A. quartet volume 2
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Warner Books ed.
Language
English
Description
Set in Los Angeles in the 1950s as the Red scare blazes, three men--an unheeded deputy, an opportunist D.A.'s assistant, and a high-rolling pimp--become immersed in a nightmarish reality.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Alphabet series comes a collection of stories that “combines glimpses of her series detective, Kinsey Millhone, with a revealing self-portrait” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced Kinsey Millhone and created an iconic female detective. Here, in a story collection divided into two parts, Sue Grafton provides a glimpse of her own early...
In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced Kinsey Millhone and created an iconic female detective. Here, in a story collection divided into two parts, Sue Grafton provides a glimpse of her own early...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 22
Language
English
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
Publisher
Mysterious Press, an imprint of Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2021-
Edition
First Mysterious Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume"--Amazon.
10) Gideon's sword
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 1
Language
English
Description
"At age 12, Gideon Crew witnessed the brutal murder of his father. More than 20 years later, Gideon gets his revenge. But then a mysterious witness steps forward to confront Gideon with his crime--and offer him the chance of a lifetime"--Provided by publisher.
11) Mobbed
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, hop from one Jersey shore resort town to the next in hopes of solving a tough case, one which is complicated when Regan bumps into an old friend she hardly recognizes.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 295
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ross Macdonald sums up the themes that haunted him: the guilty secrets passed on within families, and the violence that can arise when those secrets refuse to remain buried. He extends his portrait of Southern California as a land of seeming abundance racked by hidden obsessions and simmering discontents.
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Private Investigations, twenty fan-favorite mystery writers share their first-person stories of grappling with mysteries they've personally encountered, at home and in the world. Caroline Leavitt regales us with a medical mystery, a time when she losther voice and doctors couldn't find a cure; Martin Limon travels back to his military stint in Korea to grapple with the chaos of war; Anne Perry ponders the magical powers of stories conjured from...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties, and emerged as beloved by girls today as by their grandmothers. Rehak tells the behind-the-scenes history of Nancy and her groundbreaking creators. Both Nancy and her "author," Carolyn Keene, were invented by Edward Stratemeyer, who also created the...
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