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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 28
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English
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Shaken after a hair's-breadth escape from death, Nameless has made changes in his professional life, but he's not put himself out to pasture. Again he enters San Francisco's shadowy underworld, this time in a search for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who has been found dead in an alley doorway. Clues are few, but Pronzini, working at the top of his form, takes his seasoned private-eye hero to a new phase of a still-evolving...
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Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective! Zigzag is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. Grapplin, which first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, deals with the kind of missing person case that can end in only one of two ways, closure or heartbreak. In the second short,...
25) Boobytrap
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English
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"A vacation in the mountains by the Nameless Detective of San Francisco is spoilt when a bomber appears, seeking revenge on the host's family. Nameless is staying with the family of a district attorney who sent the bomber to jail."--from NoveList.
37) Shackles
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A ruthless and amoral man feels fury and a desire for revenge upon "Nameless," the man he believes is responsible for ruining his life. One night he abducts "Nameless," and leaves him to die a horrible death.
39) Femme
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2012.
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English
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The Nameless Detective is enlisted to help Cory Beckett track down her younger brother who has jumped bail after being arrested for stealing a valuable diamond necklace belonging to the wife of a powerful San Francisco union leader.
40) The vanished
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Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 2
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English
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His name was Roy Sands, and he had everything to look forward to. He was getting out of the service and coming home to marry his beautiful fiancee. He had his debts paid, money in the bank, and a happy new life ahead of him. Then he disappeared.
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