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In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. Then she gets a second note. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high-school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he's drawn into a case that's terrifyingly personal.
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The stakes are life and death when Bela Lugosi is threatened in this “affectionate parody of the hard-boiled private-eye” genre (The New York Times).
1942: In the basement of a crumbling Los Angeles movie palace, five vampires crowd around Bela Lugosi. They should not frighten the fading horror icon, who found worldwide fame as Dracula, for these are only wannabes—diehard fans who get their kicks...
1942: In the basement of a crumbling Los Angeles movie palace, five vampires crowd around Bela Lugosi. They should not frighten the fading horror icon, who found worldwide fame as Dracula, for these are only wannabes—diehard fans who get their kicks...
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When the dead body of a TV producer's son is found in a dumpster behind her mother's mansion, Nikki Harper, the daughter of Holywood screen legend Victoria Bordeaux, becomes immersed in a world of celebrity drug-dealing, cults, illegal aliens, and backstabbing as she tries to solve the crime.
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 19
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In 1940s Hollywood, PI Toby Peters is hired by Fred Astaire to serve as a dancing partner for a gangster's moll learning to dance. A strenuous assignment as Peters is no dancer, but before you know it the moll is killed and Peters is once again in his element. By the author of Tomorrow Is Another Day.
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 3
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It's Chicago. It's February 1941. And Toby Peters, Private Eye, has a cold. Louis B. Mayer has hired him to help the Marx Brothers out of $120,000 worth of trouble - with the mob. For his trouble, Peters gets a ride with Ian Fleming, a fruit salad from Richard Daley, a sidesplitting session with Groucho's Dr. Hackenbush 'and a strange interview with Al Capone'--provided by fantastic fiction.
7) Star flight
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The lush, secluded mountains of North Carolina's Lake Lure had drawn Lauren Castle into their spell. It was here, in 1938, that Hollywood's glamour girl, Victoria Frazer, drowned during a scandalous affair with actor Roger Brandt. Few knew about the baby spirited into the night. That baby was Lauren's mother. Just two years ago, Lauren's husband, returned to Lake Lure to film a documentary on Brandt, had himself died. Now Lauren has received a warning...
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"On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. A quiet, peaceful existence. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him....
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Squeaky clean Charlotte LaRue mysteries volume 8
Charlotte LaRue mystery volume 08
Charlotte La Rue mystery volume 08
Charlotte LaRue mystery volume 08
Charlotte La Rue mystery volume 08
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2010.
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In Colley's featherweight eighth mystery to feature New Orleans maid Charlotte LaRue (after 2008's Wash and Die), Charlotte must keep tidy a Garden District mansion being used as a set for a movie starring legendary actor Hunter Lansky and hot rising actress Angel Martinique. Filming's barely underway when Charlotte discovers Angel's two-timing boyfriend stabbed to death with a letter opener, which turns out to be covered with Angel's fingerprints....
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Charlotte Graham volume 04
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Hollywood legend Charlotte Graham visits China to sample Buddhist sculpture, ancient art, and a thoroughly intellectual murder in this contemporary cozy mystery After four decades as a Hollywood and Broadway icon, Charlotte Graham is itching for a new adventure. So when a fortune-telling friend predicts that Charlotte is about to go on an exotic voyage-one which will challenge her as no trip ever has-and Charlotte's stepdaughter invites her on...
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 18
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It is 1943 and PI Toby Peters is hired by Clark Gable, the movie star, to catch a killer. The man is bumping off actors who were in the film, Gone with the Wind. He has sent a note saying Gable's turn will come. Peters suspects the killer is eliminating people who may have witnessed a murder disguised as an accident during the burning of Atlanta, a scene in the film.
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Crumley volume 03
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A terrified, aging actress draws a California writer into a search for the killer of several stars from Hollywood's heyday.
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"Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a star-studded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder... The chipped pink nail polish is a dead giveaway-- no pun intended. When a human thumb is discovered near a Hollywood nightclub, it doesn't take long for the police to identify its owner. Miss Penny Harp would recognize that pink anywhere: it belongs to her best friend, Rosemary. And so does...
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 17
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In a case involving Nazi spies, stumblebum character actors trying to be tough, and top-secret bomber plans, Hollywood private eye Toby Peters is hired to protect Bette Davis from a threatened kidnapping.
15) Into the night
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Gemma Woodstock novels volume 2
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"Troubled and brilliant, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock finds herself lost and alone after a recent move to Melbourne, brokenhearted by the decisions she's had to make. Her new workplace is a minefield and Detective Sergeant Nick Fleet, the partner she has been assigned, is uncommunicative and often hostile. When a homeless man is murdered and Gemma is put on the case, she can't help feeling a connection with the victim and his lonely, isolated...
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 21
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Toby hunts for the man who wants to kill a fallen star of silent film As Toby Peters crouches behind a tombstone, hiding from a crazed gunman, the private eye thinks of Charlie Chaplin. A few days earlier, the pioneer of film comedy sat in Toby's office, and told him of the hundreds of people who want him dead. Beloved when his public could not hear him speak, his political leanings have made him a pariah. Right-wing radicals, the Ku Klux Klan, and...
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"Karissa Glover is a movie producer who moves into a decrepit but functional old mansion in the West Adams Heights area of Los Angeles, where black celebrities of yesteryear--Hattie McDaniel, Louise Beavers, and others--once resided. The former owner was a white actress, Blair Kendrick, who often starred as the "bad girl"--a femme fatale--in films noir of the 1940s. However, Blair's career was cut short when she was tragically killed by the mob after...
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Ranjit Singh novels volume 2
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"NYC taxi driver Ranjit Singh has 10 days to prove his innocence... Bollywood film icon Shabana Shah has been murdered, her body found in the apartment where Ranjit ate dinner mere hours before. Ranjit's fingerprints are all over the murder weapon, a statue of the elephant god Ganesh used to grotesquely smash the actress' beautiful face. Caught on film leaving the apartment alone, Ranjit is accused by the NYPD as an accessory to murder. Ranjit's only...
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