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Lethal Legacy [MultiFormat]
by Louise Hendricksen
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 Dr. Amy Prescott has transformed the science of forensics into an art with her intuitive sense for danger and an eye for detail. When Mai Nguyen is found sprawled out on her kitchen floor in a pool of blood and shattered glass, Sheriff Boyce is confident that Amy's colleague, the victim's husband, Dr. Cam Nguyen, is the murderer. Amy combs the scene, determined to uncover the truth, while Cam remains helpless in jail unable to prove his innocence. Amy's involvement in the case becomes too person... more info>> (Published: 1995)
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Motion to Dismiss [MultiFormat]
by Jonnie Jacobs
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Scrupulous San Francisco defense attorney Kali O'Brien knows how to play the odds in a system where reality can be shaded. Despite apassion for justice that doesn't allow for compromise, her newest case is casting doubt on the one principle she cherished most: the absolute dead certainty that her client is telling the truth. Grady Barrett, a wealthy computer magnate married to Kali's best friend, has been arraigned in the rape of Deirdre Nicholas. Even if the sex was consensual, that doesn't acq... more info>> (Published: 1999)
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Murder Crossed [MultiFormat]
by Eleanor Boylan
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It's been a long time since Clara Gamadge's school days, but forever young at heart she still has close ties to the old gang and her alma mater, Woolcott Academy. Springtime on campus is usually a time of winding down and wrapping up until suddenly murder and suspense are the only subjects on anyone's mind. Usually when Clara receives a note from Louise Littleton, Wolcott's youthful and sprightly beautiful headmistress, it's just to keep in touch, but this time it concerns mysterious circumstanc... more info>> (Published: 1996)
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Permed To Death [Bad Hair Day Mystery 1] [MultiFormat]
by Nancy J. Cohen
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Meet Marla Shore, a Florida beauty salon owner with a knack for creating dazzling 'dos--and solving mysteries? Marlas was already having a bad day, but when one of her clients dies while getting a perm in her salon, her day just can't get any worse--until the smugly competent Detective Vail accuses her of poisoning the wealthy widow's coffee creamer! Granted, Bertha Kravitz was hardly her favorite customer, but Marla could never have murdered the ornery woman. Now it's up to the savvy stylist to... more info>> (Published: 1999)
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South of Heaven [MultiFormat]
by Jim Thompson
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Thompson's classic novel describes the underworld of desperate men that inhabited the part of Texas known as "South of Heaven" in the 1920's. Laying a gas pipeline with a motley work crew of hoboes, alcoholics, jail-birds, and petty criminals, Tommy Burwell knows that he isn't doing himself any favors. But he cannot extricate himself from the cycle of violence and ruthlessness that ties him to the six-hundred other transients whose fate he shares. (Published: 1967)
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The Coroner's Lunch [MultiFormat]
by Colin Cotterill
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Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent 72-year-old has an outstanding qualification for it: curiosity. And he doesn't mind incurring the wrath of the Party hierarchy as he unravels mysterious murders, because the spirits of the dead are on his side. With the help of his newly-appointed secretary, the ambitious and shrewd Dtui, and Mr. Geung, the Down-Syndrome-a... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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The Shell Scott Sampler [MultiFormat]
by Richard Prather
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Shell Scott finds himself pressed up against seductive women in deadly situations like no other hard-boiled L.A. sleuth. This collection of five adventures delivers all the action and excitement Shell Scott readers know to anticipate. Follow him through entanglements with Hollywood killers, murderous thieves, and more gorgeous women than his pistol can handle at the same time! (Published: 1997)
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With Deadly Intent [MultiFormat]
by Louise Hendricksen
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There was no body when Dr. Amy Prescott arrived at her cousin's apartment after an early morning call. But there was chaos and a missing fiancé. Oren Prescott was innocent, Amy believed, although he was nowhere to be found. Working for the Seattle State Crime Lab, where her father is the local Medical Examiner, Amy is surrounded by trouble. This time as reporter Simon Kittredge teams up with Dr. Amy Prescott, they find clues leading them from Montana to an abandoned waterfront pier. Lurking behi... more info>> (Published: 1993)
Words: 80538 - Reading Time: 230-322 min.
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A Cry For Self-Help [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this eighth mystery in the series. ("A cultural anthropologist of the laughing gas variety."--Don Herron, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN.) In A CRY FOR SELF-HELP, Kate Jasper and her sweetie take the plunge and join a Wedding Ritual Class, hoping to find inspiration for their own possible nuptials. On a field trip to observe a scuba-diving marriage ceremony, Sam Skyler, the man who has become a living legend as... more info>> (Published: 1997)
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A Gross Carriage of Justice [MultiFormat]
by Robert Fish
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Another installment into the Murder League, this time ex-detectives Carruthers, Simpson, and Briggs fall prey to inept kidnappers Clarence Alexander and Harold Nishbagel. Of course, the situation is quickly overturned and the captives bring the kidnappers to their knees. It's time for a new brand of justice as these three older Britons take the law into their own hands. (Published: 1979)
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A Sensitive Kind of Murder [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this twelfth mystery in the series. ("Smart, compassionate and intuitive, Kate has her own place among amateur sleuths."--FT. LAUDERDALE SUN-SENTINEL.) Kate Jasper has sworn off groups, tired of her role as the Typhoid Mary of Murder. In A SENSITIVE KIND OF MURDER, it's her sweetheart, and now husband, who attends the Heartlink Men's Group. Kate is on her way to meet him afterward when a familiar car roars ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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A Stiff Critique [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this sixth mystery in the series. ("Kate Jasper is a delightful sleuth."--Margaret Lucke, author of A RELATIVE STRANGER.) Kate is considering writing something besides jokes on the sides of coffee mugs for her gag gift company, Jest Gifts. To her own embarrassment, the stuff she's writing is poetry. In A STIFF CRITIQUE, she joins a writers' critique group with her friend Carrie, hoping for sensitive support... more info>> (Published: 1995)
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Acid Bath [MultiFormat]
by Nancy Herndon
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Elena Jarvis is an officer committed to her duty at the Los Santos, Texas, Department of Crimes Against Persons. Not that anyone is helping her there, not when her ex-husband is in the next room, her boss treats her like a little girl and her partner thinks women shouldn't leave the kitchen. Elena always knew there would be obstacles in her job; she just figured they would come from the criminals. When an erotic poet accuses his ex-wife, Sarah, of trying to murder him with an exploding escargot,... more info>> (Published: 1995)
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Adjusted To Death [MultiFormat]
by Jaqueline Girdner
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Meet Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth. ("She's smart, funny, vulnerable, and unpretentious."--Marilyn Wallace, editor of the SISTERS IN CRIME series.) In this first Kate Jasper mystery, Kate visits her chiropractor for a simple spinal adjustment, but instead finds a dead man on one of the tables...dead of a broken neck. And it seems everyone in the chiropractor's office knew the victim, Scott Younger, in one way or another, except for Kate herself. M... more info>> (Published: 1991)
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Always Leave 'Em Dying [MultiFormat]
by Richard Prather
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Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and sex and violence on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office, he can't help but take the job, even when the case is a killer. Shell thinks he has seen it all--until he sees the cult. It sacrifices the best for the worst, and when he discovers who's leading it, it almost killed him. Uniformed in black right down to the gun aime... more info>> (Published: 1982)
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Bodies In Bedlam [MultiFormat]
by Richard Prather
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Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office, he can't help but take the job, even when the case is a killer. Constanza Carmocha is like a cat in heat; she innocently purrs while scratching your eyes out with her razor-sharp claws. She is a dame skilled in the age-old act of bending men to her will, using no other weapon... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Body Wave [Bad Hair Day Mystery 4] [MultiFormat]
by Nancy J. Cohen
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Salon owner Marla Shore is pretty hard to shock, but she's truly stunned to learn that her hateful ex-husband, Stanley Kaufman, has been arrested for the murder of his third wife, Kimberly--and wants Marla to find the "real" killer. Stan's plenty of things, but he's no murderer. So who could have stabbed the beautiful young heiress and left her body lying at the foot of her stairs? Marla soon finds herself going undercover at the exclusive compound of one of South Florida's most wealthy families... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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C.O.P. Out [MultiFormat]
by Nancy Herndon
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Elena Jarvis, a police officer from Los Santos, Texas, has succeeded against all odds. Now she confronts possibly the biggest, most politically charged mystery ever. When a volunteer with the Citizens on Patrol (C.O.P.) program, last seen patrolling with a rookie officer, is found murdered, Elena must work fast to find the true murderer or take the heat with the rest of her department. Elena is not comforted by the fact that the victim was the wife of one of the mayoral candidates--who is of cou... more info>> (Published: 1998)
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Casanova Crimes [MultiFormat]
by Nancy Herndon
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In this Elena Jarvis mystery, a student at Herbert Hobart University has been murdered. Unfortunately for investigators, Graham Fullerton had made a lot of enemies in his short life--mostly female ones. Graham's love-them-and-leave-them attitude made him the most hated man on campus--and it's up to Dr. Jarvis to sort out the scores of jilted lovers. But nothing is ever that simple for Elena Jarvis: someone is after her too? (Published: 2004)
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Client [Stanley Hastings Series Book 5] [MultiFormat]
by Parnell Hall
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What's wrong with me? is the thought that crosses Stanley Hastings's mind when he gets his first paying client. Stanley has absolutely no interest in being a P.I., but hey, he needs to pay the bills. The novice P.I.'s first victim … um … client is Marvin Nickleson, an ex-husband on the rampage. Stanley's first job seems easy--just get a picture of Nickleson's ex-wife with another man--until … well … he finds her DEAD AS A DOORNAIL. The murder weapon? In Stanley's car, of course. Stanley's second... more info>> (Published: 1990)
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Corkscrew [MultiFormat]
by Ted Wood
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Reid Bennett and his dog Sam serve as the police force for not-so-quaint Murphy's Harbor, Ontario. They have yet another perilous but important task. There are some pretty nasty bikers disrupting the façade of serenity of Murphy's Harbor, and Reid must find a way to make them take a hike without "disrespecting their civil rights." Reid really just wants to kill them, but he knows that he must act with discretion to keep a secret from his past hidden. Then, to complicate matters, a young boy name... more info>> (Published: 1987)
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Crossover [MultiFormat]
by Judith Eubank
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Beauty, romance, suspense: Judith Eubank handles a timeless mystery with a light, sure touch. CROSSOVER evokes the brooding atmospheres of Daphne du Maurier with the wit, intelligence, and sensibility of Dorothy Sayers. As she adapts to British university life, Meredith Blake, a young American scholar, discovers that Edwards Hall is not the same for her as it is for the others. For her, it is full of riddles and reminders of the Victorian family that had once lived there and the tragedy that ove... more info>> (Published: 1992)
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Crystal Skull [MultiFormat]
by Rob MacGregor
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The crystal skull has a power of attraction that has led many to seek its beauty at a local South Florida museum. So much so that a wealthy art patron has decided to bankroll the search for the skull's missing twin, an artifact of ancient history and rumor. Legend has it that the person in possession of the pair will live forever. For Florida PI Nicholas Pierce the case has all the earmarks of a paid vacation, albeit an unusual one. But when the museum director turns up dead and the museum's ori... more info>> (Published: 1991)
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Dagger of Flesh [MultiFormat]
by Richard Prather
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Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office, he can't help but take the job, even when the case is a killer. Shell's gotten himself into a heap of trouble this time. Jay's gotten himself killed, and his corpse is pointing a stiff finger directly at our tenderhearted private dick. Is it possible that he has been hypnotiz... more info>> (Published: 1956)
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Dance With The Dead [MultiFormat]
by Richard Prather
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This case couldn't have been more up Shell Scott's alley. Twelve naked, luscious beauties, one for each month of the year, were Scott's next assignment. They were called the "Wow" pinup girls and, man, were they wow! Scott's mission: find four freckles. Four freckles located on one of these tomatoes' tushies. That was the only clue Scott had to help him solve this murder. But not to worry, it's the perfect mixture of business and pleasure for Shell Scott, P.I. (Published: 1960)
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