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The girl had lost her guitar-playing boyfriend, but he had left her the most deadly legacy of all - fear. And now it was up to me to protect her from the gun-carrying thugs who were relentlessly tracking her down. Hoodlums, hootenannies, and homicide!
#10 in the Mac detective series!
2) Kiss Me Hard
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They hopped a boxcar and made a run for it. He was a wanted man -- she was a woman who thought she's found her man. It was an outlawed passion, and it was doomed from the start...for crime always has a cost, and a life on the run is no life at all -- unless you're willing to risk everything!
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So unmoving was the girl sitting on the wet rocks that, at first, she seemed a permanent feature of the rugged seascape. She was wearing an expensive evening dress and high-heel slippers. She seemed to be in a deep trance, her gaze fixed on the sea, motionless except for the tossing of her delicate blond hair in the morning breeze. And as his steps brought him closer, he thought he had never seen anything so strange, so lovely, so vulnerable...until...
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When Mac, renowned Chicago private eye, took on his newest case, it looked like he was going to earn an easy ten grand fee. His assignment was to deliver one million dollars in cool cash to the daughter of his client, notorious ex-gangster Marco Paul, upon the man's eventual death.
However, Mac's client was a cold corpse before he had a chance to tell Mac where the money was stashed.
From then on, his life wasn't worth two cents. Someone thought...
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#4 in the Singer Batts mystery series, by Thomas B. Dewey.
Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!
And they're all a lot of fun.
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A slightly shady congressman... His sulky 18-year-old daughter... A dead bodyguard... And blackmail!
It's all in a day's work for Mac, the Chicago detective. Another classic entry in the detective series that could have been ripped from today's headlines - but written in 1964. #11 in the classic series.
8) Deadline
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Deadline sends Mac to a small town on a tight deadline to save a boy from execution for a brutal murder. Mac makes a beautiful job of it despite the townsfolk's violent hostility.
#13 in the Mac detective series!
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The Crime and Corruption Novel MEGAPACK® presents 4 great books by two different authors: Thomas B. Dewey and Burt Arthur. Included are:
A Season for Violence, by Thomas B. Dewey
Run, Brother, Run! by Thomas B. Dewey
Empty Saddles, by Burt Arthur.
Kiss Me Hard is copyright © 1953 by Thomas B. Dewey.
10) Hue and Cry
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Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!
11) The Big Job
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Sam Brokaw was a crook and a heel. He had a big job planned as soon as he got out of jail. But he didn't count on his jilted girlfriend, who wanted him put away for life - or Mac.
This short story is counted as #18 in the Mac detective series.
12) Mourning After
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#3 in the Singer Batts series, by Thomas B. Dewey.
Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!
And they're all a lot of fun.
13) As Good As Dead
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#2 in the Singer Batts mystery series, by Thomas B. Dewey.
Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!
14) The Taurus Trap
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Chicago detective Mac is asked by a former silent film star to find out what the problem is facing a fellow actor who shares her home. Disappearing corpses, movie producers, and hoodlums are only some of the problems facing our hero! #17 in the Mac detective series! "Mac is one of our best private eyes." -San Francisco Chronicle "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -Bill Pronzini "Mac has been called one of...
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Doll Baby just sat there, blinking her long black lashes and drawing on her long white cigarette. "You've got to help me, Petey Boy," she said. "They're after me. Two of 'em."If someone had to be tailed, Doll Baby sure made a likely target. But something else about this case didn't stack up. And it wasn't Doll Baby. She was doing just fine...
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Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!
The Boston Herald called the first book "well paced and lively," and The Saturday Review called it, "lively, lurid, and outspoken." Author Dorothy Hughes said: "It's murder and mayhem and hold onto your hats. Amusing and amazing."
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18) Go, Honeylou
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Pete thought he had it made. A cool half-grand, plus expenses, just to deliver Uncle Pierce Bonwell's bright-eyed and burstin' niece, Honeylou, to her Aunt Cindy -- in one piece. But Pete learned the hard way that Uncle Pierce wasn't giving money away. The cost of kidnapping and murder runs pretty high!
19) Nude in Nevada
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Her name was Shaara, and she was built like a technicolor dream. From tip to toe...from back to front...the lady was intricately tattooed. The designs intrigued Pete Schofield, and so did the background...until he saw that thinking along her lines could get him killed. Because someone had designs on her - and not all the reasons were obvious!
Someone had designs on her...and not all the reasons were obvious! It's up to Pete Schofield to keep her...