Bill Pronzini
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Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective! Zigzag is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. Grapplin, which first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, deals with the kind of missing person case that can end in only one of two ways, closure or heartbreak. In the second short,...
3) Zigzag
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Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective! Zigzag is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. Grapplin' deals with the kind of missing person case that can end in only one of two ways, closure or heartbreak. In the second short, Nightscape, readers discover how, indeed, one thing just...
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"Two short western novels: 'Trouble at Temescal' tells the story of two entrepreneurial mustangers in Los Angeles after the Mexican-American War and 'King of the Defiances' involves a greedy rancher in Arizona who is trying to make a fortune in logging through devious means and the man determined to stop him" --Provided by publisher.
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"This collection contains many of Giff Cheshire's best stories, all bearing the distinctive stamp of authentic and colorfully portrayed background, vivid characters, and gripping drama. "The Bad Year" and "Man Breaker" are moving tales of the hardships faced by small back-country ranchers. "The Road to Jericho" is a variation on the theme of a wagon train plagued by Indians, and "Stagecoach Pass" is an elemental account of a driver's struggles to...
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"At the ferry crossing where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers merge, an impending storm forces travelers to stop and take shelter in the home of the ferry master and his wife and teen-aged daughter. Waiting out the storm are a man and woman who seem to be on the run from something, a self-described "fallen woman," an undercover Pinkerton detective, and a slick traveling salesman with mysterious wares who sees their predicament as a way to make...
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"Brand of the Bear Flag Mutineers" chronicles a bitter and bloody confrontation between U.S. soldiers and Secessionist troops in California's rugged San Bernardino Mountains during the Civil War. In "The Dark Border," a pair of adventurous cowmen wins a hardscrabble ranch in a dice game in the south Texas badlands. Their subsequent involvement with a man involved in the illegal running of cattle across the Mexican border leads to hard lessons learned...