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Penny loves to shop, not so Jim Richards. He usually tags along to please his wife, but finally, Penny lets Jim off the hook and goes to the mall by herself. While there she comes across a grisly murder. A body is embalmed in a store mannequin and she discovers it. Las Vegas PD needs to get to the bottom of the crime and since Penny is now a licensed P. I., she wants to work with them. Jim enjoys seeing Penny all fired up over a murder case, since...
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This book is a novella. Gus Mackie's police detective friend, Bernie Longmire, comes to Gus with an offer of a special case. It has to be handled quietly since a country's fate is at stake. The country has a king and his daughter is missing. Bernie is tasked with finding her before the King and Queen go back home from the United State for an important celebration. But if they don't have the daughter with them, the king's rule may be in jeopardy. Has...
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Jim Richards has retired from being a P. I. but he can't seem to stay out of trouble. After sending his wife, Penny, and the female staff of his investigating firm on an ocean cruise, and the men are turned loose in Vegas, Jim is relaxing until she shows up. Once again murder rears its ugly head. This is the thirty-sixth in a series of books about Jim Richards and his friends.
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If you enjoy Jim Richards, Arthur Doyle, and Gus Mackie, each from their own books, then this is the crossover book for you. A convention of private investigators draws Jim and his Vegas team of investigators back to Detroit, Michigan where they meet Art Doyle and Gus Mackie. The three men end up investigating two murders in the Detroit MGM Grand Hotel where the convention is being held. Detroit Police Detective Bernie Longmire, Gus' friend, is in...
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Jim Richards' daughter, Carol, comes to Jim with a problem. A friend and co-worker are missing and Carol asks Jim to find her. Along with his wife, Penny, Jim goes to the missing woman's apartment where they run into Detective Greg Warren. Greg tells them that the girl was found dead. Jim makes it his goal to find the killer and now working with Will Trapper and Deacon DeAngelo, the three sort through clues and investigate the crime. While waiting...
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This book is a novella. Gus Mackie is not a Hollywood type private investigator, he not good looking, muscle bound or full of knowledge. He's rough around the edges and is imperfect. His cases are few and far between but he gets free rent by living in his office. His closest friend is a Native-American Police Detective who acts as his conscience and covers his ass from getting in trouble. Gus has been hired by a man to find out if his secretary is...
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This book is a novella. It was time for Gus to move to a better office and out of a slum area in Detroit. Police homicide detective, Bernie Longmire, and Angela, Gus' daughter, agree to help him move into his new office. Going back to the old office to get ready to move, they find a woman crying at Gus' door. She has a problem, she doesn't know where her husband is at. Did he run off with another woman or is he dead in a shallow grave. They were able...
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Halloween is a time for children to go door-to-door Trick or Treating. For Doyle and his girlfriend, Poppy, it's a time to catch a ghost. Poppy is investigating an insurance claim of a woman who says she was pushed down a flight of stairs by a ghost in a posh, but very old, hotel in Detroit. She enlists Doyle to help and they try to get to the bottom of the claim. The hotel manager is frantic to disclaim the woman, since it's now a lawsuit and the...
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In this third of the Doyle, P.I. books, Doyle is hired by the curator of a Detroit Art Gallery. It seems nine valuable Egyptian statues were stolen from the gallery. They were replaced with fakes and the gallery doesn't want the Egyptians to know their artifacts are missing. So Doyle and his partner Oscar Drew go on a hunt for the missing objects. Were they taken by a group of terrorist bent on using the money from the sale of the statues to buy a...
10) Prom Night
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Stoney was visited in her office by the concerned parents of a teenage girl who was going to Las Vegas to celebrate her school prom. They wanted to be sure she was all right on the trip but they didn't want the daughter to know they had sent Stoney to watch her. Stoney agreed and enlisted the aid of Avery, her dark angel to go along to help. In order to create a cover story as to why she was going along with the senior class to Vegas, she made arrangements...
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Gus Mackie was relaxing in his new office in a better part of Detroit when he saw the young girl in front of his building. She was reading the sign in the window telling the world that a private investigator worked there. Gus could see she was homeless and went to open the door as she stood looking apprehensive. She finally came in and told Gus about how she wanted to find her mother who gave her up for adoption when she was a child. The girl lived...
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Who could possibly hate a famous female rock star? That's what Gus is hired to find out. The rock star's manager requests that Gus locate the person responsible for numerous threatening letters, so Gus takes the case. With help from his friend and police homicide detective, Bernie Longmire, Gus starts his investigation by going to the recording studio where Tracy Jean has started a new album. While there someone takes a shot at the woman and it now...
13) Doyle's Paradise
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Doyle decides to take a huge windfall of money from recovering Egyptian artifacts and take a vacation. His first in years from when he was a detective for the Detroit PD. Now a private investigator, he can set his own work schedule. He decides to close the business and go to Paradise. Hawaii. His new girlfriend, Poppy Drake has decided to go along, and Doyle's secretary, Marge is invited. Doyle's partner Oscar Drew decides to go visit relatives and...
14) Stoney Hawk
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She was named after a Barbra Streisand song and grew up in an area of Detroit where one would have to fight to survive the streets. Stoney trained to be tough, and then became a private eye. She stood up for abused women and then one called her with a problem, she answered. The woman was being terrorized by an ex-boyfriend and asked if Stoney could help get rid of the man. Stoney agreed and with the help of her friend, Avery, a big, black, former...
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A sudden death in the family takes Jim and Penny back to their roots in Michigan. Jim invites Trapper, Earl, and Buck to go along to visit with their families. Jim and Penny prepare for the funeral and while they are there, Jim finds an old acquaintance from his early days working as a private investigator. Barry Becker, now a police detective and he's in Jim's town to investigate a murder. Seems someone wanted to reveal damaging evidence about corrupt...
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Jim and Penny are still relaxing on their vacation trip across the U.S. heading back to Michigan to visit where they started together. Penny gets a call from Lacey back in Las Vegas saying a P.I. came looking for her and needs to meet. The P.I. is from Michigan and came back to reveal that Penny has relatives in the area and one is giving Penny all her properties amounting to millions of dollars. Jim and Penny finally meet the long-lost aunt and then...