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Presents two novels by Rex Stout featuring detective Nero Wolfe, including "Fer-de-Lance", in which Nero crosses paths with a vengeful killer while investigating the deaths of an immigrant and a college president, and "The League of Frightened Men", a story about Nero's attempts to help a frightened man who is being stalked by a vicious killer.
Author
Series
Fritz Malone thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When two women linked with charismatic late-night TV personality Marshall Fox are found brutally slain in Central Park, Fox becomes the prime suspect and is charged with the murders.
65) Known to evil
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Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind- the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can't fix--and he's come to Leonid McGill for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down.
66) Black Alley
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Series
Mike Hammer mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Aging PI Mike Hammer, now having to rely on brains rather than brawn, goes after some killers and their money. Just before dying, a friend shot by the mob told him of a stash worth $80 billion which he hid from them. The mob know this and they in turn are after Hammer.
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor Paddy Reilly, private investigator Molly Murphy is following philandering husbands, tracking down runaway debutantes and working in a sweatshop to discover who is purloining dress designs. Then a woman's body is fished out of the East River and Molly fears it is the missing society girl everyone is talking about. Then Molly's sometimes beau, police captain Daniel Sullivan, reveals that another corpse...
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Matt Scudder is an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder agrees to help a heroin trafficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime, nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets...
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Burke novels volume 17
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
�2007
Language
English
Description
Claude Dremdell, a white supremacist whose sole hope against his terminal illness is a pricy experimental Swiss treatment, ropes Burke into a plot to extort money from three wealthy men who years earlier committed a brutal murder (loosely based on the real-life Martha Moxley case), but were never suspected. Armed with only fragmentary evidence in the form of two checks, Burke turns for help to an Israeli intelligence operation working covertly in...
72) Inherit the Dead
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English
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Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past -- a former cop who lost his badge and his family in a corruption scandal. When a wealthy Upper East Side matron summons him one cold February night, Perry grabs what seems to be a straightforward case. In this classic noir tale set on New York's mean streets and along Hamptons' back roads, twenty authors bring distinctive voices to each chapter as the tension builds to a shocking, explosive finale.