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Life is not easy in Philistia for a woman and child alone. When beautiful, wounded Delilah finds herself begging for food to survive, she resolves that she will find a way to defeat all the men who have taken advantage of her. When she meets a legendary man called Samson, she senses that in him lies the means for her victory. By winning, seducing, and betraying the hero of the Hebrews, she will attain a position of national prominence. After all,...
2) Berlin game
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Bernard Samson must safely deliver from behind the Iron Curtain the agent known as Brahms Four, who rescued him nearly twenty years earlier.
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Business is picking up for Indianapolis PI Albert Samson - until three intersecting cases land him on the city's Most Wanted list. Unusually, Albert Samson, Indy's least successful PI, is working three cases at once: An ecoterrorist group threatens to bomb the city, an obnoxious poet wants help murdering his wife, and a mysterious package needs a courier. Thankfully, the Scum Front has only blown up fallow cornfields so far. But the poet is not, in...
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Indianapolis's least employed PI, Albert Samson, heads to southern Indiana in search of a missing woman. Facing insolvency and imminent eviction, private detective Albert Samson finally catches a break. Elizabeth Staedtler hires him to find her missing friend, Priscilla. But is Priscilla really missing or has she simply run away from her husband? Conducting an investigation in an unfamiliar city lands Samson a stint in lockup, two murderers on his...
5) London match
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Bernard Samson novels volume 3
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The espionage game reaches a new level of urgency and excitement when it becomes apparent that treason is epidemic in London Central.
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Albert Samson mysteries volume 6
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Albert Samson, a private detective, works to solve two murders, one of them 50 years old.
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Indianapolis private eye Albert Samson must prove the innocence of an unstable war veteran on the hook for murder. Martha Jerome chose struggling PI Albert Samson because he's the cheapest detective in Indianapolis. She wants Samson to find evidence that will exonerate her son-in-law, Ralph Tomanek, who has been charged with manslaughter. A troubled Vietnam veteran who's been in and out of mental hospitals, Tomanek fired his shotgun and killed a man...
8) Mexico set
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Bernard Samson novels volume 2
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When British Intelligence assigns agent Bernard Samson to coax KGB major named Stinnes into defecting, swiftly shifting events lead to London Central to believe that Samson himself has traded loyalties.
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Albert Samson mysteries volume 3
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PI Albert Samson takes on a new and deceptively dangerous case in the dead of an Indianapolis winter. After a Florida vacation spent at the horse races - turning a measly profit of eighty-two cents before expenses - private detective Albert Samson is back in slushy, freezing Indy, where, thankfully, it's a short walk from his living room to his office door. On this night, he opens it to find a hesitant stranger in an overcoat standing there. With...
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Albert Samson mysteries volume 4
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Indianapolis PI Albert Samson takes on a hospital, a pharmaceutical company, and the FBI. After his slowest summer ever, struggling and desperate private eye Albert Samson places an ad in the local paper, offering his services at a bargain price. Instead of new business, he gets an eviction notice. But his luck seems to change when Dorothea Thomas calls with an unusual tale of woe. Her brother, John, a chemist and pharmaceutical salesman, has been...
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Indianapolis social worker Adele Buffington's caseload is unusually heavy: Solve a murder, find a missing mother and her young daughters, stay alive. Adele Buffington is working late when she's startled by an intruder. The next day a man is found murdered. The note pinned to his jacket reads, "Hands off, social workers!" Then, a woman and her two young daughters go missing. When Adele decides to launch her own investigation, with the help - or hindrance...
13) Charity
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Bernard Samson novels volume 10
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A British spy in 1980s Berlin investigates the death of his sister-in-law. She may have been murdered by his own service to save the life of his wife, also a spy. A tale of double agents and sacrificial lambs by the author of Hope.
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"One spring day, a baby magpie falls out of its nest and into Charlie Gilmour's hands. Magpies, he soon discovers, are as clever and mischievous as monkeys. They are also notorious thieves, and this one quickly steals his heart. By the time the creature develops shiny black feathers that inspire the name Benzene, Charlie and the bird have forged an unbreakable bond. While caring for Benzene, Charlie comes across a poem written by his biological father,...
15) Eye opener
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Albert Samson mysteries volume 8
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Indianapolis PI Albert Samson gets his license back just in time to take on a high-profile, big-bucks case. After a falling out with a cop cost him his PI license, Albert Samson is thrilled to be reinstated. Within hours, he has two new clients. But the real payday arrives when he is co-opted onto the defense team for a man accused of a series of extremely ugly crimes. Of all the private eyes in town, why have the lawyers handpicked Samson for the...
16) Delilah: a novel
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A glorious and inventive retelling of an ancient story, Delilah is a soaring tale of political turmoil, searing betrayal, passionate friendship, and forbidden love,
17) Underdog
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Ross Macdonald called Michael Z. Lewin a "writer with style and sensibility and wit...He has a fine poetic sense of detail which lights up every page." In this remarkable novel Lewin breaks new ground in the realm of crime with the character of Jan Moro. Moro is different from most crime fiction protagonists. He's smaller. He smells worse. He eats behind restaurants. Jan Moro is homeless - by choice, by circumstance, and by the madness that gnaws...
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Milton, an English poet and political writer, has a thorough knowledge of classical Greek and Latin authors and was greatly influenced by them. Through his poetry, Milton wanted to do for England "what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old" did for their countries "with this over and above of being a Christian." He wrote Paradise Lost to "justify the ways of God to man." Samson Agonistes tells the...
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