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41) Zigzag
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective! Zigzag is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. Grapplin, which first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, deals with the kind of missing person case that can end in only one of two ways, closure or heartbreak. In the second short,...
44) The hidden
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When the Coastline Killer, a vigilante who's been targeting random victims because they don't respect the environment, claims another victim, the local police consider Jay Macklin--a tourist staying at a remote northern California cottage with his paramedic wife--a suspect.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: A conman always has a bag of tricks, ready to fool the unsuspecting, and almost everyone is unsuspecting until they get taken. When that happens, they turn to Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, to recover their money and what's left of their dignity, and perhaps even to save their lives. When one such case leaves Sabina Carpenter the only witness to a murder, the family of the culprit vows to stop at nothing...
47) Starvation camp
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After months of a harsh Yukon winter, a man's hunger can drive him to desperation, delusion, even murder.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen short stories of the West with a variety of characters from the familiar figures of lawmen and gunfighters to some seldom featured characters such as a traveling apothecary, a coffin trimmer, and a prison warden with some unexpected twists"--
54) The stalker
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
Eleven years after their supposedly-perfect robbery three ex-servicemen discover that they are being pursued by a deadly agent.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
At a stage coach station where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers merge, an impending storm forces the stage to stop so that its passengers can take shelter. On board are a cowboy and the wife of a wealthy rancher who are on the run, a Pinkerton detective, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares who sees their dilemma as a way to make some quick money. The unanticipated stop goes on without a hitch until Luke Kraft arrives...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Body Snatchers Affair: The latest in the Carpenter and Quincannon historical mystery series from Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's opium dens. For John Quincannon, this is a first: searching a Chinatown opium den for his client's husband, missing in the middle of a brewing tong war set to ignite...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what appear to be two unrelated investigations. While Sabina hunts for a ruthless lady pickpocket, Quincannon is after a slippery housebreaker who targets wealthy homes. The cases connect in a surprising fashion, but not before two murders and other assorted felonies complicate matters. And not before the...
