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1) Armadale
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Allan Armadale makes a startling deathbed confession to be shared with his young son once he reaches adulthood-he murdered another man named Allan Armadale. It's a dark secret that inevitably looms over the child of the perpetrator and his victim.
Before dying, Allan Armadale reveals that he previously killed a man also named Allan Armadale. It's a revelation meant for his young son who discovers the information as an adult.
At this point, he's...
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2020
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A “gritty and glamorous” debut historical mystery set in post-war Paris and London—for fans of Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope series and Kate Quinn’s The Alice Network (Julia Kelly, author of The Light Over London)
In the wake of World War II, former Resistance spy Livy Nash is called back to the high-stakes world of espionage and intrigue—by none other than James Bond...
In the wake of World War II, former Resistance spy Livy Nash is called back to the high-stakes world of espionage and intrigue—by none other than James Bond...
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2013
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Prohibition takes the battle, along with the party, to the streets.
Jack McCloskey returned to Windsor, Ontario, from the Great War shell-shocked and battling inner demons. Channeling his energy into amateur fights, he's noticed by a gangster sidelining as a boxing promoter. After a brief professional stint, Jack is invited to join the crew. It's the early days of Prohibition along the Detroit River. Feeling trapped, Jack often tries to
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In the thick of the Cold War, McCain investigates death threats against an alleged red
The citizens of Black River Falls are polite, understanding, and respectful—except when it comes to communism. Joe McCarthy has been dead for two years, but men like Richard Conners are still fighting to clear themselves of his accusations. A liberal who served faithfully under Roosevelt and Truman, only to be slandered as a red during McCarthy’s...
The citizens of Black River Falls are polite, understanding, and respectful—except when it comes to communism. Joe McCarthy has been dead for two years, but men like Richard Conners are still fighting to clear themselves of his accusations. A liberal who served faithfully under Roosevelt and Truman, only to be slandered as a red during McCarthy’s...
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McCoy’s classic, slyly funny novel about a pair of young actors trying to make it in a pitiless Hollywood
For aspiring actor Ralph Carston, all roads lead to Hollywood—but none seem to be direct or easy. The handsome Georgia native immediately finds that his Southern accent is one strike against him, though he manages to eke out a living as an extra alongside his pretty roommate Mona Matthews. But the big break for these two...
For aspiring actor Ralph Carston, all roads lead to Hollywood—but none seem to be direct or easy. The handsome Georgia native immediately finds that his Southern accent is one strike against him, though he manages to eke out a living as an extra alongside his pretty roommate Mona Matthews. But the big break for these two...
6) False Start
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Nick Ramey, a gangster money handler, finds himself at the wrong end of a bellhop's gun, when he's robbed of a case full of money. But Nick may have the last laugh after all!
7) Dead Weight
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Everyone was threatening Johnny Liddell - even his girl, and the cops - until Johnny came up with a new twist to trap a killer. It was so good he fooled everyone - even himself!
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Hollywood, 1934. Prohibition is finally over, but there is still plenty of crime for an ambitious young private eye to investigate. Though he has a slightly checkered past, Riley Fitzhugh is well connected in the film industry and is hired by a major producer-whose lovely girlfriend has disappeared. He also is hired to recover a stolen Monet, a crime that results in two murders initially, with more to come. Along the way Riley investigates the gambling...
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Prohibition means two things in the Border city of Windsor, Ontario: big business, and big trouble. Riverside Drive Jack McCloskey returned to Windsor, Ontario, from the Great War lost in a battle with his inner demons. When he channels his energy into amateur fights, he's noticed by a gangster moonlighting as a boxing promoter. After a brief professional stint, Jack is invited to join the crew in the early days of Prohibition along the Detroit River....
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West meets East as bootleggers and cops tangle with opium smugglers and corrupt officials in a new kind of gang warfare. Prospect Avenue is nothing more than a dirt road ending in bulrushes behind a roadhouse. It's a popular rendezvous point along the Detroit River for bootleggers like Jack McCloskey. But there's more than just rum-running going on these days; there's a growing trade in opium and people, as McCloskey finds out when he rescues the...
11) Maiden Lane
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It's the winter of 1923 and the border towns are under a deep freeze, with ferries ice-bound in the Detroit River, snow burying the streets, and power interruptions. Prohibition is still the backdrop to daily life, but opium smuggling and human trafficking are a pair of disturbing additions to the mix. 2015 DEWEY DIVA PICK In a failed attempt at transporting whisky across the Detroit River, a grim find is brought to the surface. When one of Detective...
12) Willie the Actor
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Glancing quickly over the bar, he saw the bartender lying face down in a pool of blood, senselessly gunned down simply because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. New York City in the prohibition era, and Bill Sutton's wife thinks he earns an honest crust as a rent collector. Instead, he leads an extraordinary double-life as 'Willie the Actor', a notorious bank robber. Based on a true story, the novel's protagonist is a gentle gunman who...
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Prohibition means two things in the Border city of Windsor, Ontario: big business, and big trouble. Riverside Drive - Jack McCloskey returned to Windsor, Ontario, from the Great War lost in a battle with his inner demons. When he channels his energy into amateur fights, he's noticed by a gangster moonlighting as a boxing promoter. After a brief professional stint, Jack is invited to join the crew in the early days of Prohibition along the Detroit...
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Oklahoma City, 1935. Lou Nayland is a former Minor League Baseball player who now earns a living as a private investigator who only works when his cash runs out. He prefers to spend his days at Holland Field watching the Indians play ball. When a woman brings Lou a case of blackmail and murder, Lou is forced from the ballpark into the explosive world of jazz in Deep Deuce.
15) Widowmaker
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DELAMAR, NEVADA, 1907
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR IS OVER, BUT A NEW CONFLICT IS RAGING across the western United States. Wealthy mine owners and their political allies in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and Butte, Montana, have paid for state and private armies to brutally, suppress striking miners, so when a series of extraordinary gold and silver discoveries pull Nevada out of a punishing, 25-year depression, the Silver State's isolated mining camps are...
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This volume collects two stories featuring Dan Turner, hardboiled Hollywood detective. In "Death Ends the Scene," a washed-up movie-director is going to knock himself off in order to give his no-good bride a double-indemnity payoff-and Dan Turner, trying to do a couple of good deeds, finds himself facing a murder rap with some very hard gunsels making it tough! In "Phony Shakedown," Dan thinks the girl shot at him, and it didn't make him any the less...
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1940's Detroit: the war effort is in full swing and racial tensions are running high. When a vivacious white heiress is murdered in the black part of town, the city threatens to erupt into mob violence, bringing the factories to a grinding halt and imperiling Allied forces around the world.
Newly minted Detective Pete Caudill is charged with covering up the crime in the interests of civic peace and finding some kind of justice for the dead girl....
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One step forward and two steps back.
That's what it feels like to the District Detectives, Olivia-Olli-Wainwright and Dallas Stowe. Between their constant shadow in the Buick trailing them wherever they go, dead ends wherever they turn, and strange phone calls always turning them onto terrible crime scenes, it seems they may never get through this case.
They finally catch a break when one of the strange phone calls tips them off that there's a shipment...
19) Slash and Grab
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In this gripping thriller, Howard University is shaken to its core when four vibrant coeds are brutally murdered in what looks like ritualistic fashion.Amidst all of the chaos, an unexpected clue emerges when a rare and valuable Babe Ruth baseball card appears to be missing, and in its place lies only a note that reads: A Babe for my Babe...As the question marks start popping up around every corner turned, seasoned Metropolitan Police Department Detective,...
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The French Mesmerist Madame Davignon claims to unite the bereaved with the spirits of their loved ones. A simple enough swindle.
To start.
But when the game mounts first to blackmail, then murder, Detective Inspector Nat Frayne poses as a client, hoping to entrap the medium.
Instead, the hunter becomes the hunted when she unites him with the spirit of his lost wife.
Illusion. It must be illusion.
Yet he cannot tear himself away.
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