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This four CD set includes 52 complete episodes of favorite television detective programs from the 1950s and 1960s, all in black and white. Among them are: The Adventures of Fu Manchu (2 episodes); The Adventures of Ellery Queen (2 episodes); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (2 episodes); Bulldog Drummond (1 episode); Burke's Law, starring Gene Barry (1 episode); The Cases of Eddie Drake (1 episode); Code 3 (4 episodes); The Court of Last Resort (4 episodes); Dick Tracy, starring Ralph Byrd (6 episodes); Dragnet, starring Jack Webb (13 episodes); Federal Men (6 episodes); Front Page Detective (3 episodes); The Lawless Years (6 episodes); and Man With a Camera, starring a very young Charles Bronson (2 episodes).
Best of TV Detectives
Golden Valley, MN: Mill Creek Entertainment, 2007.
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Bobbie Rayburn is a baseball player extraordinaire. Gil Renard is a fan who will do anything to support his team. Anything. This is the book on which the movie starring Robert de Niro and Wesley Snipes was based.
The Fan
Abrahams, Peter
New York: Warner Books, 1995.
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Signed by author on title page. New York police detective Niel Hockaday's drinking is out of control, and he is forced to temporarily take time off. While he's on leave, his wife's boss is murdered and and a serial killer is targeting gay men. Hockaday can't stay away, so investigates on his own.
Devil's Heaven
Adcock, Thomas
New York: Pocket Books, 1995.
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A Memento Mori Mystery. Luanne Fogarty is a diver who works for the sheriff's department. She's working on the case of a killer who has been dumping the bodies of his female victims in the freshwater springs of northern Florida. The search also takes her to a tacky carnival, complete with shady business and con men.
Cold Water Corpse
Alam, Glynn Marsh
Pearl River, NY: Avocet Press, 2003.
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Newspaper reporter Viv Powers is assigned to cover the conflict between Native American environmentalists and a company transporting nuclear waste. Then someone trashes her sister's house. Why are the IRS and FBI interested? What's going on in Cherokee County, Oklahma? Inscribed by the author on title page: "To Marshall. Thanks for the support. Letha Albright."
Bad Luck Woman
Albright, Letha
New York: Memento Mori Mysteries, 2005.
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Police woman Jessie Cline takes a job as assistant police chief in a small Washington State town. Her intent is to provide a safe environment where her son can grow up. But big cities don't have a monopoly on crime as Jessie soon finds out.
Afraid of the Dark
Anders, Donna
New York: Pocket Books, 2004.
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Andrews has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry Awards, among others for her humorous mysteries. In Click Here for Murder, humans Maude Graham and Tim Picoski assist Turing Hopper, an Artificial Intelligence Personality (also described as an "almost-sentient mainframe computer) find the murderer of a co-worker living under a stolen identity.
Click Here for Murder
Andrews, Donna
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2003.
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Father Robert O'Brien is killed in a drive-by shooting in Washington, DC. Detectives Frank Kearny and Jose Phelps are assigned to the case. Far from being a random, motiveless crime, Kearny and Phelps learn that Father O'Brien's death reaches to the highest levels of DC politics.
A Murder of Honor
Andrews, Robert
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.
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Signed by the author on the title page. Coffee house owner Maggy Thorsen returns and discovers another body--this one under a table at a trade conference for which Maggy's the conference coordinator. Is this a case of taking business competition too far? First world edition.
Grounds for Murder: A Maggy Thorsen Mystery
Balzo, Sandra
New York: Severn House, 2008.
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Introducing Maggy Thorsen, divorcee and proprietor of a gourmet coffee shop. Business isn't going very well when Maggy discovers Patricia Harper, one of the shop's co-owners, lying in a pool of spilt milk. But Patricia isn't crying, because she's very, very dead. 2005 nominee for the Macavity and Anthony Awards for Best First Novel.
Uncommon Grounds
Balzo, Sandra
Waterville, ME: Five Star Press, 2004.
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PI Carlotta Carlyle investigates a series of attacks on Boston cabbies.
Hardware
Barnes, Linda
New York: Delacorte Press, 1995.
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National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is studying bears at Glacier National Park. She and her team hike into the back country and camp out each night. One morning a member of the team is missing and a visitor to the park is found murdered and mutilated. Anna must find the missing boy and whoever is responsible for the death before anything else happens. Maps on endpapers. Bear tracks on front boards.
Blood Lure
Barr, Nevada
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.
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National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon heads to the Natchez Trace Parkway to assume her new position as district ranger. Things go wrong from the start, however, as she encounters resentment from her staff, Civil War re-enactors, and the body of a young girl. Illustrated endpapers. Deep South won the 2001 Barry award for Best Novel.
Deep South
Barr, Nevada
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000.
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Signed by the author on title page. National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is now at Mesa Verde National Park, battling grief for her husband and a penchant for alcohol in her personal life. Her job has its problems, too. A fellow ranger dies after the death of a child. Suicide or murder? Then the husband of another park employee dies in a car wreck that may not be an accident. Anna and FBI agent Fred Stanton work together to find out what's really going on.
Ill Wind
Barr, Nevada
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.
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First Carrol & Graf edition. Jim Gammon, a business consultant in Hawaii is murdered and beheaded, then his body abandoned in a remote location. Then the businessman whom he met "accidentally" drowns. Two such deaths are hard to ignore, and surely not a coincidence. Jim's brother Steve discovers a link between the dead men and a phalanthropic organization that is better at raising funds than distributing them.
Pursuit of Fear
Beechcroft, William
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1990.
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In Thief of Souls, acclaimed author Ann Benson brings us another novel of parallel tales--one in 15th century France, the other in 21st century Los Angeles. In each tale, a serial killer is targeting children. In the 15th century, Guillemette le Drappiere, companion to the Bishop of Nantes investigates; in 2002, L. A. detective Lany Dunbar, is being sought by the very suspect she is pursuing.
Thief of Souls
Benson, Ann
New York: Delacorte Press, 2002.
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A Church Choir Mystery. The county fair is coming soon, and the flower competition is one of the most anticipated events. All the hydrangeas have been stolen, however. Gracie sets off to solve the mystery. Illustrated with line drawings.
The Missing Hydrangeas
Berger, Eileen M.
Carmel, New York: Guideposts, 2000.
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The Year of the Monkey: A Bonnie Indermill Mystery
Berry, Carole
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
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Signed by author on title page. Transportation expert Owen Allison returns to West Virginia to assist his Aunt Lizzie, accused of shooting a trucker. She's confessed, but Owen isn't so sure. He also has to contend with hazardous waste dumping that threatens the family farm.
Dismal Mountain
Billheimer, John
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001.
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Winner of the 1991 Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year and the 1992 Mystery Writers of America's Edgar award for best first novel. Steven Baum is a New York City probation officer who tries his best to help his clients. Then enters Darryl King, an eighteen-year-old whose ultimate goal is to preside over his own crack organization in Harlem. Thus begins Baum's greatest professional challenge.
Slow Motion Riot
Blauner, Peter
New York: William Morrow, 1991.
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