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Books by publisher "Crippen Landru"
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1.
By
Marcia Muller
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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At last! The McCone Files gathers all of Sharon McCone's short cases covering her entire career as staff investigator at All Souls Legal Cooperative in San Francisco. Each tale, including two written especially for this volume, is a miniature masterpiece of plotting, realistic characters and vivid settings. From the death... more
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By
Marcia Muller
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Creator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone for decades. Now McCone's colleagues get a chance to offer their viewpoints on some cases. McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well as two stories... more
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Peter Lovesey
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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Collection of short, horrific and gripping crime stories. Peter Lovesey's short stories have won him international acclaim, many awards and a wide readership. This new collection again demonstrates his exceptional talent in crafting bite-sized who- how- and whydunnits of great satisfaction. As he says to the reader in his foreword,... more
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By
Terence Faherty
[Paperback 2005]
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Hadcover signed edition. 200 copies OWEN KEANE RETURNS The Confessions of Owen Keane is the first short fiction collection by the Edgar-nominated and Shamus-winning author Terence Faherty. It brings together six short stories and a novella from the casebook of failed seminarian turned investigator Owen Keane. Called a metaphysical detective... more
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By
Gerald Kersh ,
Paul Duncan
[Paperback 2003]
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THIEF EXTRAORDINAIRE ? Gerald Kersh (19121957) wrote amazing novels and hundreds of short stories about the weird and wonderful people he met during his lifetime. The most intriguing was Karmesin, a master thief and selfconfessed genius. His robberies, cons and doublecrosses involve splitsecond timing, almost supernatural foresight, and spine-tingling nerve.... more
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By
Amy Myers
[Paperback 2006]
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MURDER MOST ORRIBLE! Question: what do a French chef, a Victorian chimney sweep and Aphrodite, goddess of love, have in common? Answer: they are all busy solving murder cases in Murder, 'Orrible Murder! Auguste Didier, a master chef in Victorian London, flits from Queen Victoria's jubilee to the home of... more
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Peter Robinson
[Paperback 1998]
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This collection comprises all of Peter Robinson's short crime tales, including four stories featuring Inspector Banks, a private-eye story set in Florida, and a romantic mystery set in Paris. The modern classic, 'Innocence', won the Crime Writer of Canada's Best Short Story Award. This collection also includes two historical stories.... more
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By
Gladys Mitchell ,
Nicholas Fuller ,
Gail Cross
[Paperback 2005]
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9.
By
Max Allan Collins
[Paperback 2001]
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NATHAN HELLER, PRIVATE EYE!!! The private eye is as American as mom, apple pie — and gangsters and bootlegging. A child of the Roaring Twenties and the Depression Thirties, he is a genuine American hero with his poetic slang and his attempt to make things right as he goes down... more
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By
Bill Pronzini
[Paperback 1998]
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1890's detection in the Old West! When you are faced with puzzles involving fraudulent rainmakers, nefarious spiritualists, coney games,a one-eyed lady gambler, a crook who disappears from a train, the stolen body of a Chinese Tong leader, and similar mysteries -- you hire the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional... more
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By
Susan Dunlap
[Paperback 2001]
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The Celestial Buffet is the first collection of short mystery stories by the Anthony-Award winning author of the Jill Smith and Kiernan O'Shaughnessy detective tales. Among the 18 stories are five cases for cop Jill Smith and one for private-eye O'Shaughnessy, as well as two of the most imaginative detective... more
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12.
By
Michael Collins
[Hardcover 2001]
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The world of one-armed private investigator Dan Fortune is filled with danger, deceit and striking contrasts. The 14 stories in Fortune's World range from the mean streets of New York City's Chelsea district, to the bleak winter world of Syracuse, New York, to sunny and sometimes violent South America, to... more
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13.
By
Loren D Estleman
[Paperback 2011]
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By
Hugh B Cave
[Hardcover 2000]
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A LEGENDARY AUTHOR A LEGENDARY MAGAZINE Hugh B. Cave was one of the most popular and prolific writers during the Golden Age of the Pulp Magazines between the late 1920's and the early 1940's. His name on the cover of Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, Weird Tales, Short Stories, Clues,... more
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By
Patricia Moyes
[Paperback 1996]
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The complete short mystery stories by one of the greatest modern crime writers, with settings ranging from english villages to Caribban vacation hideaways, and concluding with a marvelous Chrisstmas novella, "The Holly Wreath." Warmth. urbane charm. Clever plotting. Slyly wicked sense of humor. All these words describe the novels and... more
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16.
By
Michael Gilbert
[Hardcover 2002]
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17.
By
Craig Rice ,
Jeffrey Marks
[Paperback 2002]
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18.
By
John Dickson Carr ,
Val Gielgud
[Hardbound 2008]
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19.
By
Richard Lupoff
[Hardcover 2008]
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By
Ross Mac Donald ,
Tom Nolan
[Hardcover 2001]
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His detective, Lew Archer, is symbolic of the human struggle to make things right, to make sense of who we are.... more
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