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In 1985, teen-nerd Ted challenges a high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren. His concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary to choose Ted as her senior prom date, but the date never happens. 13 years later Ted hires Pat to locate Mary, and the private investigator finds her in Miami. Pat claims to be a Harvard-educated architect and Mary falls in love with him. Meanwhile, Ted learns the truth but continues to encounter offbeat...
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Summoned by their boss, the angels are given their latest assignment. A pair of rings have been stolen and need to be recovered. The rings have been coded with special information that can be used to access a list of every person in the FBI's Witness Protection Program. While searching for the culprits, they encounter Madison Lee, one of Charlie's former agents who decided that the wrong side of the law pays better, and Seamus, who once dated Dylan...
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After celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary, Audrey is stunned when her husband tells her he wants a divorce and is in love with another woman. As if things couldn't get worse, Audrey awakens one night to discover her husband's dead body and becomes the number one suspect in a murder investigation. With no one else to turn to, Audrey enlists herself as her own private investigator with a single mission, to solve the crime and clear her name.
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When items beginning with the letter 'R' start vanishing, Detective Alfie Betts is on the case with a little help from Elmo and Abby Who could the culprit be? Then Elmo and Telly investigate what's making things disappear by following clues and testing their hypotheses. Did the wind do it?
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Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a baby photographer who fantasizes being a private eye. A baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks for help locating her missing husband. This is followed by sinister doings in a gloomy mansion & sanatorium, with Peter Lorre & Lon Chaney Jr. Hope's character ends up framed for murder with every plot twist & parody of thriller cliches imaginable.
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Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 2
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Librarian Aurora Teagarden is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane unexpectedly dies and leaves Aurora everything in her will, she also leaves a troubling murder mystery. It is up to Aurora to piece together the clues and solve the murder before she becomes the next victim.
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For librarian Aurora Teagarden, who is known around her small town as a master sleuth, nothing beats a good mystery. When mayhem and murder jump off the page and into her small town, she must solve each crime clue by clue before it is too late. Includes: Last Scene Alive; Reap What You Sew; The Disappearing Game
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"When Earth is threatened by a dangerous force from an alternate reality, it's up to Gently, his sidekick Todd Brotzman and the rest of the gang to defend the planet against danger. But first, they need to find each other. In Gently's world everything and everyone is connected but will Dirk and his ragtag group unite in time to save Earth from pending interdimensional doom?"--Container.
14) Small town crime
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Mike Kendall (John Hawkes), a disgraced cop is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of the road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.
15) Veronica Mars
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On the eve of graduating law school, Veronica Mars has put Neptune and her amateur sleuthing days behind her. While interviewing at high-end New York law firms, Veronica Mars gets a call from her ex-boyfriend Logan who has been accused of murder. Veronica heads back to Neptune just to help Logan find an attorney, but when things don't seem right with how Logan's case is perceived and handled, Veronica finds herself being pulled back into a life she...
16) The big sleep
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L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case, and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich, and more.
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Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
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"In 1920s Toronto, the world is undergoing massive changes. Jazz is on the turntables as communism and prohibition are being hotly debated over hard drinks in speakeasies. Society will never be the same -- and crime has never had it better. A new age calls for a new kind of detective, and the women of Drake Private Detectives fit the bill"--Container.
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"Literature professor Harriet 'Harry' Wild is struggling to adjust to her recent retirement when she's mugged. While recuperating at the home of her son, Charlie, a senior detective in the Dublin police, Harry reads his case files and notices that his current murder inquiry bears striking similarities to an obscure Elizabethan play. After Charlie rebuffs her input, Harry decides to find the killer herself to prove she was right. Little does she realize...
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