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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...
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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...
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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...
8) 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...
9) 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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