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Literary agent Anthea Landau, legendary resident of the Paddington Hotel, is auctioning off her personal correspondence from enigmatic writer Gulliver Fairborn. Her famous ex-client, who guards his private life so jealously that he has never been photographed or interviewed, is reportedly outraged by Landau's betrayal - yet can't afford to outbid the collectors who are fighting to get their hands on his letters. Bernie Rhodenbarr is at the Paddington...
2) Drawing Dead
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Joe Crow novels volume 1
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2013
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After losing a poker hand to a sleazy stockbroker, an ex-cop must work to pay off his debt
Before cocaine, Joe Crow had a wife and a job with the Big River Police Department. Now he has neither—and he’s left behind coke, too. Sober, quiet, and reflective, his only vice is poker. One night he gets into trouble, and winds up in debt to the drug-addled slimeball Dickie Wicky. As repayment, Crow agrees to do Dickie a favor. Dickie...
Before cocaine, Joe Crow had a wife and a job with the Big River Police Department. Now he has neither—and he’s left behind coke, too. Sober, quiet, and reflective, his only vice is poker. One night he gets into trouble, and winds up in debt to the drug-addled slimeball Dickie Wicky. As repayment, Crow agrees to do Dickie a favor. Dickie...
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Silicon Valley scion Captain Don Donogue is dead under mysterious circumstances. Signs point to murder. Just ask Captain Don himself. He's been sending messages about his suspicious death from beyond the grave. Yep, he's been tweeting from the afterlife. Could life after death be Silicon Valley's latest innovation?
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R. Doubting Thomas Perdue, tough Aussie former P.I. and jailbird, is in trouble, and it can only get worse. Tom's *Feng shui* consultancy implodes when some bastard drives a Mack truck through his heritage office. Fatal things keep happening to his phones. And who's been blabbing about his racehorse-doping past? The love of his life has made a ten-year vow of celibacy to the Virgin Mary. Tom's Goth daughter's girlfriend's obese sister has vanished,...
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They say you can't cheat death... well, that doesn't stop these guys from trying... James DeRossa is a natural born rebel. Just released from Jackson County Jail, he turns his back on the family funeral business in Detroit and heads out to Tinseltown to set up a heist and settle an old score. Who better to hire than a group of unscrupulous undertakers. Only this time they aren t burying anyone, they're out to disinter $25 million in missing cash and...
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"I hate hockey!" is the first and last sentence in this novel that offers a great take on our love-hate relationship with hockey. Narrator Antoine Vachon blames the game for killing his marriage with his beautiful ex-wife (well, that and the power outage that brought her home unexpectedly to find him in bed with her intern). But hockey is a pretext for unlikely adventure in this sardonic roman noir that at times flirts with the outrageous.
Antoine...
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It's supposed to be a quiet honeymoon getaway for celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and Biff Brannigan, ex-comic and ex-Casanova of the Burly Q circuit, settled as they are in a cozy trailer built for two. If you don't count Gypsy's overbearing mother, a monkey act, and Gee Gee, a.k.a. the Platinum Panic. Not to mention the best man found shot to death in the bathtub. Strippers are used to ballyhoo, but this time it's murder. Leave it to Gypsy and...
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In Lucifer's Weekend, Digger cannot convince a crazy widow to take a million dollar settlement for accidental death, and ends up uncovering a complicated murder plot involving a baby with a surprising father, a rogue cop, and a scheming millionaire with a sexy younger wife.
9) Dead Letter
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In Dead Letter, Digger's boss's daughter is the next name on a college chain letter that has led to a string of murders-and her daddy is afraid she will be next.
10) Fool's Flight
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In Fool's Flight, Digger investigates a plane crash that leaves forty pilgrims dead, each of whom has an insurance policy payable to the reverend whose religious retreat they were traveling to attend.
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Roman policier noir à la française.
L'enfance des tueurs est un polar à l'humour décapant qui renoue avec le genre des grands maîtres qui l'ont précédé. On y trouve tous les ingrédients du roman policier noir à la française, avec la touche irrésistible et bien de chez nous d'une plume trempée dans l'acide.
C'est la rencontre improbable et burlesque de trois tueurs et d'un flic; le destin croisé de personnages égarés dans une histoire...
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Más conocido en tiempos de paz por ser un detective privado de torpes maneras, Dick DeWitt se encuentra enrolado en el ejército de los EE. UU. durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Sin embargo, el ejército lo envía a la costa oeste para descubrir espías, quintos columnistas y saboteadores.
Lo que el pobre DeWitt no sabe es que mientras él está buscando al enemigo, el enemigo lo está buscando a él.
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The cold war is over, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and other than terrorism, SAR's, global warming, weapons of mass destruction, street gangs, a volatile stock market, ethnic cleansing, and those 3 punk kids down at the food court that keep hassling everybody, the world has enjoyed decades of peace.
But now a new peril has emerged that threatens to shake the safety of the planet to its very foundation. From behind the tattered remnants of the Iron...
14) Murder Boy
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Dominick Prince is out of options. He's lived in Detroit long enough to use his experiences of crime and poverty to fuel his writing, but he's ready to move on to bigger and better things. Dominick's thesis advisor, the elitist Parker Farmington, refuses to let Dominick pass his class, thinking the genre of potboilers beneath him. Which means rather than becoming the next literary sensation, Dominick will spend his life asking customers if they'd...
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A murder investigation at a high-priced hotel reveals a deadly plot reaching the highest seats of power They call the pool at the Beverly Glen Hotel "the naked hooker." To the frustration of the Beverly Hills police department, the women there are so high class that it's impossible to distinguish guests and girlfriends from professionals. Women flock to the lavish hotel because it teems with film stars, businessmen-and America's richest criminals....
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Un crime sanglant dans une résidence paisible, une joyeuse bande de retraités à la gouaille ravageuse, des jeux sexuels dangereux, les prémices d'une épidémie mondiale sur fond de rites satanistes et de délires amnésiques. Et des mouches. Beaucoup de mouches. Partout. Tout le temps.
Bienvenue à la Résidence des Ormes d'Oullins, théâtre morbide du meurtre d'Hervé Chaliez. Crime crapuleux ou crime passionnel? Qui pouvait en vouloir au...
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Who killed Eric Davenport? A senior mathematics professor at Underhill College has been found dead in his office, the victim of murder. At Underhill, a small liberal arts college with a pricy tuition and a pampered student body, all of the students are close to their professors. But at least one loved Eric Davenport in a deeply inappropriate fashion. Some hated him. And then there is the faculty at war with itself. And the idiotic administration....
18) Nina
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Nina West hasn't quite crossed the line into adulthood yet, but that's the only line she hasn't crossed.
Left to her own devices after the untimely death of her parents, Nina is a young girl coming of age with no apologies or conscience. Too cool for school, too hot for television, and too scandalous to be believed, Nina is the twisted and surreal tale of an object of desire that gives as good as she gets, wreaking havoc from her quiet hometown...
19) Sibling Rivalry
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Max the cat was living a life of luxury and contentment...until Kerry was murdered. With Kerry's last will and testament, Max inherits a lot of money and a caretaker, and suddenly the target of a murderer. Max soon finds himself embroiled in a dangerous and humorous cat-and-mouse game with a killer determined to claim what is rightfully theirs. If you enjoyed the suspense and comedy of Donald Westlake, you'll love Sibling Rivalry. Buy it now! Bonus...
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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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