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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 16
Language
English
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In this sixteenth book-length adventure, Matthew Scudder, Block's acclaimed unlicensed private investigator, pursues his most personal case to date. Scudder has just agreed to investigate the ostensibly suspicious online lover of an acquaintance. It seems simple enough. At first. But when people start dying and the victims are increasingly close to home, it becomes clear that a vicious killer is at work. And the final targets may be Matt and Elaine
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Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
You've got a dream job, running your own cozy secondhand bookstore, complete with Raffles, your caudally challenged cat. And you've got another way to make a buck: every once in a while you put your conscience on the shelf and let yourself into someone else's residence, and you leave with more than you came with. You're a burglar, and you know it's wrong, but you love it-until the 21st Century pulls the rug out from under you. All of a sudden the...
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Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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Bernie Rhodenbarr is surprised to discover that the brownstone he is burglarizing has already been robbed that night, and is even more surprised when a dead body is found there the next day. When the police become interested in the stolen goods that Bernie tries to pawn, and another murder occurs close to home, Bernie is forced to investigate the crimes in order to clear himself of the murder charge.
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Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
Kenan Khoury's wife went out grocery shopping and never came home alive. But because Kenan Khoury buys and sells drugs for a living he can't go to the police for help. He goes to Matthew Scudder instead, an alcoholic ex-cop and unlicensed private eye who will stop at nothing to bring the brutal killers to justice before another innocent woman falls beneath their knives.
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Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr volume 7
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
While robbing an apartment, Bernie Rhodenbarr, the New York bookseller and burglar, stumbles on the trail of a treasure belonging to the deposed monarch of an Eastern European country. Problem is, others are after it too. By the author of The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams.
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Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Hired by his dentist to steal back some valuable diamonds from his ex-wife, Bernie Rhodenbarr is nearly discoved in the closet, only to become the witness to the woman's murder.
12) Hope to die
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When Byrne and Susan Hollander are killed in a brutal home invasion, the whole city catches its collective breath. A few days later the killers turn up dead behind a locked door in Brooklyn. One has killed his partner, then himself. The city sighs with relief. The cops close the case.Matt and Elaine Scudder were in the same room with the Hollanders hours before their deaths. In spite of himself, Scudder is drawn to the Hollander case. The closer he...
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