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1701) The Last Altruist
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Ardmore Theberge returns to Portland, Maine, to start his own business making hand-drawn maps after he gets himself dishonorably discharged from the Army for assaulting a superior officer-who deserved it, by the way, but we'll get to that. He befriends a stationary store owner and her mentally challenged son, Robbie. Ardmore learns the store owner is under increasing pressure to sell her three buildings. When a real estate developer is killed in the...
1702) The Trap
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On a cold and rainy night, Billy Jo McCabe receives a troubling phone call about a child in trouble. But when she shows up alone, things quickly go sideways, and she realizes her mistake.
In her role as a social worker, Billy Jo rarely expects to walk into trouble, and the last thing she ever wants to do is call for backup from arrogant redheaded detective Mark Friessen, whom she's beginning to depend on in the kinds of ways she shouldn't. When she...
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The Footsteps That Stopped, first published in 1926, is a classic British 'golden-age' murder mystery. The book, authored by A. E. Fielding (whose real identity remains itself somewhat of a mystery), features Scotland Yard's Chief Inspector Pointer who is called in to investigate the death of Mrs. Tangye on her estate. The woman was discovered sitting beside her tea-table, with a bullet wound to her heart caused by her World War I service revolver...
1704) The Dirt-Brown Derby
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PI Frank Johnson is hired by Mary Taliaferro, a wealthy aristocrat owning a horse estate near Middleburg, Virginia. Mary's teen-age daughter Emily has died in a riding tragedy. The local law enforcement says it's an accident. Mary thinks it's murder. Frank is broke and the money Mary offers is too good to pass up, but his case quickly becomes more complicated when the stable manager is murdered one day after Frank begins his investigation. Frank soon...
1705) The Westminster Mystery
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The Westminster Mystery, first published in 1931, is the first in a series of golden age mysteries featuring Detective Inspector Reynolds of Scotland Yard. When a popular actress returns home to her London flat after a party only to find a body, Detective Inspector Reynolds of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. He quickly discovers that everyone involved in the case appears to be hiding something, including the actress. Will the inspector...
1706) Third Base
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Out of left field, Cub's pitcher winds up dead!
The Lovable Losers are hosting the World Series for a once in a lifetime chance to win the World Series. Then their star pitcher (James Ensor) ends up dead by third base.
He's the highest paid player on the Chicago Cubs team and that brings envy and enemies. There's bad blood between Ensor and his teammates, not to mention infidelity, gambling and mismanagement.
Rumor has it that the Cubs are on the...
1707) Entry E
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Entry E, first published in 1958, is a noir thriller set on a fictional Ivy League campus in the 1950s. Set in residence hall "Entry E," the novel follows Ed Bogard, an average student who becomes aware of an unsavory plan: A group of men in his hall are preparing to drug a visiting college girl over the weekend with grain alcohol and Benzedrine, a date-rape mix allowing the men to take advantage of the defenseless young woman. Bogard agonizes over...
1708) Cnut - The Sin Debt
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Cnut is at a low ebb – low enough to think of suicide. His wife has disappeared at sea and may or may not be dead; he's at loggerheads with his new boss, Arvadsson, whose criminal past makes them sworn enemies; he is suffering from severe alcoholism and has doubts and guilt about his casual relationship with Ilse Karnweg.
Cases come and go, and he deals with them satisfactorily; his experience getting him through each day, but he is on autopilot...
1709) After the Horses
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Shortlisted for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery. Dan Sharp scours Toronto's seamy underbelly after the murder of a notorious nightspot owner, and finds his own life on the line. When Yuri Malevski, owner of notorious country-and-western bar The Saddle and Bridle, is found dead in his Parkdale mansion, missing-persons investigator Dan Sharp is reluctant to interfere in what he sees as police business. At first, Malevski's sleazy lifestyle...
1710) Stranger at the Door
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Stranger at the Door, first published in 1948, is a noir thriller centered on a young drifter who arrives in Tucson looking for work. The man, Joe, gets involved with a small-time underground ring of criminals and with a young girl with secrets in her past. Joe goes on to defraud, terrorize, and kill the people in his immediate sphere, sometimes for a little money, more often as revenge for imagined insults and to bolster his own ego. The Tucson weather...
1711) To Kiss, Or Kill
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To Kiss, or Kill, first published in 1951, is a classic noir murder mystery by Day Keene (1904-1969). Just out of the mental asylum, no one could blame heavyweight boxer, Barney Mandell, a little overindulgence at a tavern. And when a hot little number wanted to sleep with him, well it had been two years since he was a free man. But Barney remembered his wife, Gale, and thinks he told the cheap floozy that he'd have to pass. But Barney's mind hadn't...
1712) The Double Take
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The Double Take, first published in 1946, is a classic piece of hard-boiled mystery/detective fiction, having all the elements needed to keep the reader's interest from the first page. Witty, often humorous dialogue, a cast of interesting characters, and detective Stuart Bailey, who would later star in author Roy Huggins' popular TV drama, "77 Sunset Strip." The plot begins with Bailey being hired by an influential politician who is being blackmailed...
1713) Angels In Mourning
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Child Abductions, Murder, the Mob, Broadway, and a Mystery: Can a Hard-Boiled P.I. survive in today's world? Can a dead man tell a tale?
-How does a child-abduction, decades earlier, tie into a murder? That's what Gabe Storm has to discover.
-Summoned early one morning by the NYPD, Gabriel Storm learns his best friend, Broadway producer Scotty Granger, was murdered in a botched burglary attempt. Ignoring the NYPD's warning to stay out of it, Storm...
1714) Deadly Sins: Greed
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It was just another day for mob boss Giovanni Luciana until he went for a drive.
On a calm summer evening, Giovanni takes his young son Luca for drive. A car pulls alongside, and when the window comes down, the driver is holding a gun. He aims, showering Daniela's car with gunfire. Who is this man? Why has he taken Giovanni? And will Luca survive?
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WILL THE GRAVE SINS FROM YOUR PAST HAUNT YOU TO DEATH?Can you ever really bury the past?On a cold November evening back in 1982, real estate lawyer, Marty Finnegan and socialite, Tracy Reynolds, argued bitterly outside the dining room of the Wolforts Roost Country Club. Unbeknownst to them, three drunken teenage boys who attend the same prep school were witnessing their bitter exchange under the cover of darkness. When the boys decide to head out...
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The Case of the Malverne Diamonds, first published in 1937, is a British 'golden-age' mystery featuring Inspector Anthony Slade of Scotland Yard. From the dustjacket: "In this unusual mystery tale, Mr. Gribble, one of the most successful writers in this field in England, tells the story of the theft at Steyning Towers of Lady Malverne's famous diamond necklace known as 'Tears of Death.' Before the case is solved by the ingenious Inspector Anthony...
1717) The Clandestine Coroner
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A secret society. A missing body. A town torn in two. This story takes place between the events of The Accused Coroner (Book Seven of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries) and The Offside Coroner (Book Eight). When a member of a secret society is found dead in the local temple, Coroner Fenway Stevenson finds herself embroiled in an underground world where no one plays by the rules. The society leader turns hostile, the dead body goes missing, and an embezzlement...
1718) Murder in Wax
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MURDER IN WAX
A fearful face, living, yet it has the look of the dead! Only the jaw moves and its movements summon murder! Though it cost life after life the grim countenance must be faced. A piece of paper upon which the destiny of an empire depends must be kept from its baleful eyes ... John Richmond, King's messenger, is cut down. His daughter is abducted. A famous banker is done to death. Another man of rank joins the company of corpses. And...
1719) A Taste for Violence
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In a mining town, Mike Shayne finds that buried secrets can be deadly The miners are striking in Centerville, Kentucky, and the town is about to explode. Three men have been killed in the past week, and Charles Roche fears he will be next. Heir to the Roche mining fortune, he sees death in every shadow, and the only man who can save his life is in Miami. Roche writes to world-famous detective Mike Shayne, offering a $5,000 retainer to come to Centerville...
1720) Lifetime Hallmark Scheme
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Linda has the perfect job working at the hospital switchboard, but when Christmas in July starts, she finds herself having to make an impossible choice. With no legitimate excuse to take a week away from work, she is left with no other option than to use her disabled son to take bereavement leave. But when she finds out that her scheme could end up killing someone, she must choose between her job and her family. Lifetime Hallmark Scheme is a humorous...
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