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Toby Peters mysteries volume 10
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Detective Toby Peters hunts the men who killed his ex-wife's new husband Heavyweight champ Joe Louis did not want to find a dead body today. After passing the afternoon with a woman who is not his wife, he's jogging on the beach when he sees two men standing over a corpse. He raises his fists, and they run. Toby Peters is even more sorry to see the body than Louis, for in a way, the dead man is family. Toby's ex-wife called him that morning, begging...
2) Run to Death
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Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot...
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Eine Serie ermordeter Frauen erschüttert die Küstengemeinde St. Peter-Ording
Anfang Oktober erscheint Heike Niemeyer nicht an ihrem Arbeitsplatz in der Ferienanlage Weiße Düne. Greta Petersen ist beunruhigt. Hat die neue Kollegin das lange Wochenende wie geplant in Hamburg verbracht oder ist sie bereits vorher verschwunden?
Um die Frage zu klären, ob überhaupt ein Verbrechen vorliegt, verfolgen die Kommissare mehrere Spuren aus dem privaten...