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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. 338 pages. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". In addition to his well-known thrillers, Peter Abrahams has also written a series of young adult mysteries. He won the 2005 Agatha Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for Down the Rabbit Hole. The follow-up to that novel, Behind the Curtain, was nominated for an Agatha. Jacket design by Jackie Meyer Merri.
The Fan
Abrahams, Peter
New York: Warner Books, 1995.
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Signed by author on title page. The fifteenth book in the Carl Wilcox series. A local minister asks Carl Wilcox to find the man responsible for the rape and murder of his teen-age niece. While investigating the crime, suspicion falls on the husband of the school librarian. A side benefit of his task is a romance with the librarian herself. No Badge, No Gun was nominated for the 1999 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel. Another Carl Wilcox novel, The Man Who Was Taller than God, won the 1993 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel. 203 pp. 8 1/2: X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski.
No Badge, No Gun: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
Adams, Harold
New York: Walker & Company, 1998.
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The fourteenth book in the Carl Wilcox series. Lilybell Fox came to Corden, South Dakota, to work on the genealogy of Corden's Cutter family. Unexpectedly, this researcher of dead people turns up dead herself, in the Wilcox family hotel. In order to find her killer, Carl takes up her research, and finds that the Cutter family history is rife with motives for Lillybell's murder. Another Carl Wilcox novel, The Man Who Was Taller than God, wond the 1993 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel. 181 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/4". Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski.
The Ice Pick Artist: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
Adams, Harold
New York: Walker & Company, 1997.
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Signed by author on title page. New York police detective Neil 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 a serial killer is targeting gay men. Hockaday can't stay away, so investigates on his own. 322 pp. 8 3/4" X 6". Jacket design by Tom McKeveny
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. 254 pp. 7" X 5".
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, Oklahoma? Inscribed by the author on title page: "To Marshall. Thanks for the support. Letha Albright." 303 pp. 7 1/4" X 5 1/4".
Bad Luck Woman
Albright, Letha
New York: Memento Mori Mysteries, 2005.
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Early, Michigan's, pride and joy is Pride Park. Except several members of city government want to turn it into a commercial center with businesses that pay taxes. It's not a popular view, and some residents are dead against it. Literally. After two city officials are murdered, retired detective Brady Kincaid is called in to help the town's over-worked detectives solve the crime. 185 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2".
Early's Pride
Allen, Bobby Jane
Southfield, MI: Accolade Books, 2002.
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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. 373 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
Afraid of the Dark
Anders, Donna
New York: Pocket Books, 2004.
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Preceded by a limited trade edition by Dennis McMillan. Officer Hanson is a Viet Nam vet turned cop in Portland, Oregon. The streets of Portland aren't so different from what he experienced in Viet Nam. His past comes back to haunt him when the only other survivor of his Special Forces unit appear in Portland, and someone on the police force sets out to use his past against him. 416 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Tom Tafuri.
Night Dogs
Anderson, Kent
New York: Bantam Books, 1998.
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For thousands of years, man has searched for the secret of eternal lfe. Dr. David Kennessy thought he had found it--microscopic biomachines that can cure disease. Unfortunately, Dr, Kennessy's invention seems to have become not an agent of life, but an agent of death, destroying his patients from within. Muldur and Scully race to find the truth despite oppostion from from enemies, even within their own agency. Anderson has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, the Nebula Award, and the SFX reader's choice award. In addition to his X Files novels, he has also written numerous books in the Star Wars, Dune, and Saga of Seven Suns series.
Antibodies
Anderson, Kevin J.
New York: Harper Prism, 1997.
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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. 295 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Jacket Illustration by James Lebbad.
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. 285 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Thomas Tafuri.
A Murder of Honor
Andrews, Robert
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.
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Lori Shepherd has known Aunt Dimity only as a long-time friend and correspondent of her mother. The two had met when Lori's mother worked in London during World War II. After her mother's death, Lori learns that Aunt Dimity has bequeathed her Cotswold cottage to Lori, along with a mysterious journal and a pink flannel bunny. Aunt Dimity Goes West is the twelfth book in the series, and finds Lori, her husband Bill, and their five-year-old twins vacationing in the mountains of Colorado. Lori, who was hoping to find peace and quiet in the mountains, soon finds the vacation spot is not so quiet, and certainly not peaceful. 228 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Tamaye Parry.
Aunt Dimity Goes West
Atherton, Nancy
New York: Viking Press, 2007.
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Author Baden is a former New York City medical examiner, and forensic pathologist for the State of New York. This is his first novel. Attorney "Manny" Manfreda is hired to represent the family of a body found on a construction site. Chief medical examiner Jake Rosen investigates. Together, Manny and Jake work together on the crime, and find themselves drawn to each other in the process. 232 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/4". Jacket design by Carole Devine Carson.
Remains Silent
Baden, Michael and Linda Kenney
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
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Signed by the author on title page. Sixth book in the Louis Searing and Margaret McMillan series. While crossing Lake Michigan on the ferry S.S. Badger, Michigan State University professor Peg Lott admits to fellow passenger that she is part of a group of ecoterrorists that has been burning down wealthy peoples' houses. When a woman is found murdered in Peg's stateroom on the ferry, Lou Searing investigates. 233 pp. 8 1/2" X 5/12".
A Final Crossing: Murder on the S.S. Badger. A Louis Searing and Margaret McMillan Mystery
Baldwin, Richard L.
Haslett, MI: Buttonwood Press, 2004.
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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. 245 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Cover design by Deirdre Wait.
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. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Ray Santora.
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. 320 pp. 9 1/4' X 6 1/2". Jacket illustration by Rob Wood.
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. 340 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". Jacket illustration by Rob Wood.
Deep South
Barr, Nevada
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2000.
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