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A Mets fan with a phony name and a millionaire client arrive just in time to provide a case for Nero Wolfe to pay the rent. The bizarre visitors are in a frenzy about a death trap explosion in the discreet whiskey drawer of a top TV executive. To crack this case of bombs and bourbon, the indolent genius and his energetic assistant must pick their way though corporate chicanery, vile ambition, and a healthy swig of murder.
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Series
Burke novels volume 18
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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When the two-year-old son of a Saudi prince is kidnapped, Burke, the ultimate man-for-hire, is forced into a journey that will change the lives of the urban survivalist and his outlaw family forever.
89) Concourse
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
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English
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Hired to investigate the brutal killing of a security guard at the Bronx Home for the Aged, Bill Smith, with the help of investigator Lydia Chen, uncovers corruption and deception in the retirement home.
90) Stone quarry
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Language
English
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PI Bill Smith is hired by a lady farmer in upstate New York to recover paintings, the theft of which she does not want to report to police. The probe leads Smith to a murder. By the author of A Bitter Feast.
91) Mandarin Plaid
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Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Language
English
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The world of fashion is the setting for this mystery starring Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American PI in New York, hired to ransom some stolen designer sketches. When she arrives at the rendezvous she is shot at and robbed. The hunt for her attacker takes her from sweatshops to fashionable drawing rooms.
92) No colder place
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Language
English
Description
"No Colder Place" tells the story of a Manhattan construction site that has been plagued by an escalating number of crimes. Brought in to investigate, Bill Smith goes undercover as a bricklayer to try and unravel the mysterious events. With the help of his sometime partner Lydia Chin, Smith finds himself in the middle of a case that only becomes more and more dangerous, and which may reach further into the underworld than he once imagined.
93) Only child
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Series
Burke novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Returning to New York after years on the run, Burke is forced to step out of the shadows to investigate the murder of his own teenage daughter, and heads for Long Island, where he comes face to face with a depraved killer.
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Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Rozan returns to her award-winning, critically acclaimed series featuring Lydia Chin and Bill Smith. Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Smith, Chinese-American private investigator Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that crosses continents, cultures, and decades.
95) Hope to die
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Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2001]
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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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Frank Quinn novels volume 5
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
Description
He mutilates his victims. Slices their throats. And carves an X into their flesh. Five years ago, he claimed the lives of six women. Then the killings abruptly stopped, no one knows why. Ex-homicide detective Frank Quinn remembers. Which is why he's shocked to see one of the dead women in his office. Actually, she's the identical twin of the last victim, and she wants Quinn to find her sister's murderer. But when the cold case heats up, it attracts...
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2015.
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English
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The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered, an old cop who once worked with Velda on the NYPD Vice Squad. What's more, Mike's pal Captain Pat Chambers has discovered that Velda is in Florida, the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn. Hammer hits the road...
98) Too many cooks
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Pub. Date
p2000
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English
Description
Not much will stir Nero Wolfe from his comfortable brownstone, but when the gourmand is invited by the greatest chefs in the world to a gathering of Les Quinze Maitres, he will brave anything to dine at their table. Yet Wolfe finds himself embroiled in something sinister when a chef is fatally stabbed during a taste-testing contest. The plot thickens as the detective goes after a taste of vengeance -- and a ticket out of town.
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