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  • Full House
    David Housewright
    Ten remarkably diverse short stories filled with scheming characters, unexpected twists, and writing that’ll sneak up on you from the Edgar Award-winning crime novelist. 'A good short story is like a punch from a prize fighter-it comes at you fast, delivers an impact, and leaves you stunned. There’s no one in our business who does this better than David Housewright. In great st...
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    14,16 €

  • Finders Keepers
    David Housewright
    Thirteen-year-old James Richard McNulty has problems. His mother has just divorced his father. His grades are plummeting. Bullies are menacing him on the school bus. The coach is threatening to kick him off the basketball team. And his smart and lovely 'girlfriend' thinks he’s gone insane. Then he finds a suitcase filled with cash-and thinks all his problems are over. ...
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    13,35 €

  • The Devil and the Diva
    David Housewright / Renee Valois
    When pop diva Sheila Lews dies under puzzling circumstances, Clarisse Dufresne is approached by agents of a shadowy international crime syndicate with a proposition-'What if, after a period of time, say five years-yeah, make it five years-it was discovered that Sheila had left behind some unmixed tracks, songs she had been working on before she died but didn’t release? What do ...
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    17,21 €

  • Darkness, Sing Me a Song
    David Housewright
    Holland Taylor returns in the fourth book David Housewright’s Edgar Award-winning series with a case of murder resulting from tragic, twisted drama in an extremely wealthy family in Darkness, Sing Me a Song.Holland Taylor is a PI who does simple background checks and other mostly unchallenging cases. Still wounded by the long-ago death of his wife and daughter, and newly mourni...
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    17,25 €

  • First Kill the Lawyers
    David Housewright
    P.I. Holland Taylor returns in the fifth book in David Housewright’s Edgar Award-winning series,First Kill the Lawyers.Five prominent Minnesota attorneys have had their computer systems hacked and very sensitive case files stolen. Those attorneys are then contacted by an association of local whistleblowers known as NIMN and are quietly alerted that they have received those docu...
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    17,25 €

  • Girl in a Dumpster
    David Housewright
    Holland Taylor returns in Girl in a Dumpster, the sixth book in David Housewright’s Edgar Award-winning hardboiled detective series. Party girl Henrietta Weller wakes up one morning in a dumpster behind a bar in Minneapolis’ notorious north side with no memory of how she got there. She hires Taylor and his partner Sidney Poitier Fredericks to get answers. And revenge. 'So there...
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    17,21 €

  • What Doesn’t Kill Us
    David Housewright
    In David Housewright’s 18th novel featuring the beloved Rushmore McKenzie What Doesn’t Kill Us―McKenzie has been shot and lies in a coma while the police and his friends desperately try to find out what he was doing and who tried to kill him. Rushmore McKenzie, former St. Paul police detective and unexpected millionaire, does the occasional, unofficial private detective work―mo...
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    17,17 €

  • Something Wicked
    David Housewright
    In David Housewright’s 19th hard-boiled mystery Something Wicked, Rushmore McKenzie, who promised to retire after his last nearly-fatal case, gets talked into doing an old friend a favor involving a castle, a family fighting over an inheritance, and at least one mysterious death. Rushmore McKenzie was a detective with the St. Paul, Minnesota PD until unlikely events made him fi...
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    17,17 €

  • Stealing the Countess
    David Housewright
    Since becoming an unlikely millionaire and quitting the St. Paul Police Department, Rushmore McKenzie has been working as an unlicensed private investigator, basically doing favors for friends and people in need. But even for him, this latest job is unusual. He’s been asked to find a stolen Stradivarius, known as the Countess Borromeo, that only the violinist seems to want him ...
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    17,27 €

  • What the Dead Leave Behind
    David Housewright
    Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become not only an unlikely millionaire, but an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends and people in need. When his stepdaughter Erica asks him for just such a favor, McKenzie doesn’t have it in him to refuse. Even though it sounds like a very bad idea right from the start. The f...
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    17,22 €

  • Like To Die
    David Housewright
    Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. The favor, this time, is for a friend of a friend-Erin Peterson, a local business person and owner of a growing food company called Salsa Girl. Someone seems to have a beef with her: the outside locks o...
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    17,22 €

  • Dead Man’s Mistress
    David Housewright
    Louise Wykoff is arguably the most recognizable woman living in Minnesota, known for her presence in over one hundred paintings by the late and brilliant Randolph McInnis. Louise, known better as 'That Wykoff Woman,' was just a young apprentice when her intimate representation and the fact of the McInnis’s marriage caused rumors to fly-and Louise to hide away for decades. All o...
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    17,22 €

  • From the Grave
    David Housewright
    Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. But this time, he finds himself in dire need of working on his own behalf. His dear friend and first love Shelby Dunston attends a public reading by a psychic medium with the hope of connecting with her gra...
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    17,30 €

  • Curse of the Jade Lily
    David Housewright
    Daring thieves steal the 200-year-old Jade Lily from a Minneapolis art museum and then offer to sell it back for one-third of its insured value-$1,300,000. But there’s a catch. They demand that unlicensed P. I. Rushmore McKenzie act as go-between. McKenzie reluctantly agrees partly out of curiosity-why did the thieves pick him to deliver the ransom?-and partly because he feels ...
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    17,27 €

  • The Last Kind Word
    David Housewright
    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, along with his FBI pal Harry, make McKenzie an offer he can’t refuse-no matter how hard he tries: take on the identity of a wanted fugitive, escape to the upper reaches of Minnesota and infiltrate a crew of armed robbers known as 'The Iron Range Bandits.' His mission-help retrieve a cache of stolen weapons before they’re ...
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    17,30 €

  • The Devil May Care
    David Housewright
    Riley Brodin is the granddaughter of Walter Muehlenhaus-a man as rich, powerful, and connected as anyone since the days of J. P. Morgan. Despite her family’s connections, it’s McKenzie she reaches out to when her relatively new boyfriend goes missing. Despite his reservations about getting involved with the Muehlenhaus family-again-McKenzie agrees to look for one Juan Carlos Na...
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    17,36 €

  • Unidentified Woman #15
    David Housewright
    During one of the first heavy snows of the winter, on the interstate outside the Twin Cities, Rushmore McKenzie is trapped behind an erratically-driven truck. Then a figure appears on the truck bed and a body is rolled out onto the road, right in front of McKenzie’s car. McKenzie avoids hitting the body, a bound woman who is barely alive, but his sudden braking in the middle of...
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    17,30 €

  • Jelly’s Gold
    David Housewright
    Frank 'Jelly' Nash was dead. And since the notorious bank robber was shot in the head in 1933 during a daring escape attempt, he was deader than most. So why was he sending letters and emails to Rushmore McKenzie, asking the retired cop, unexpected millionaire, and unlicensed P.I. for help? To answer the question, McKenzie joins forces with Ivy, a beautiful woman from his past-...
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    17,30 €

  • The Taking of Libbie, SD
    David Housewright
    Rushmore McKenzie is a retired cop, an unexpected millionaire and, occasionally, an unlicensed private investigator. So, it isn’t the biggest surprise in the world when he’s attacked and kidnapped from his home-McKenzie has more than a few enemies out there with a grudge against him. But it is a surprise when it turns out his kidnapping is a case of mistaken identity. Bounty hu...
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    17,27 €

  • Highway 61
    David Housewright
    Rushmore McKenzie is a former cop, current millionaire, and an occasional unlicensed P.I. who does favors for friends. Yet he has reservations when the daughter of his girlfriend Nina Truhler asks him to help her father, Nina’s ex-husband Jason Truhler, a man in serious trouble. En route to a Canadian blues festival on Highway 61, he met a girl, blacked out, and awoke hours lat...
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    17,31 €

  • Madman on a Drum
    David Housewright
    Homicide cop Bobby Dunston’s daughter has been kidnapped, taken in broad daylight on a city street in the middle of September. The kidnappers demand a million dollars and force Dunston to get the ransom from his friend Rushmore McKenzie. It soon becomes apparent to both of them that one of the kidnappers is childhood pal Scottie, a once aspiring drummer now gone astray, and tha...
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    17,35 €

  • Pretty Girl Gone
    David Housewright
    McKenzie has a lot of old girlfriends. But only one went on to marry the current governor of the state of Minnesota. And only one is calling him with a desperate request to meet in secret. The First Lady is carrying an email that contains a nasty rumor about her husband, and the truth is buried decades deep in a small town’s history. Of course McKenzie always has plenty of time...
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    17,34 €

  • Tin City
    David Housewright
    Mac McKenzie is rich. So rich that he’s left his job as a Twin Cities police officer and spends his time doing favors large and small for friends. So when an old Marine buddy of his father’s calls with a request Mac takes the time to help him out. And it is one of the stranger favors he’s ever been asked: the elderly Mr. Mosley, a beekeeper, wants Mac to find out why his bees a...
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    17,37 €

  • Dead Boyfriends
    David Housewright
    Right up until they put him in jail, McKenzie thought the cops were kidding. After all, he did them a favor by stopping a rookie cop from roughing up a distraught woman at a murder scene. But the next thing he knows, he’s in jail, missing an important date with his girlfriend, and reliving nightmares he thought he had left far behind him-and vowing payback for all of it. If tha...
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    17,35 €

  • A Hard Ticket Home
    David Housewright
    Ex-St. Paul cop Rushmore McKenzie has more time and more money than he knows what to do with. In fact, when he’s willing to admit it to himself (and usually he isn’t), McKenzie is downright bored. Until he decides to do a favor for a friend facing a family tragedy: nine-year-old Stacy Carlson has been diagnosed with leukemia, and the only one with the matching bone marrow that ...
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    17,39 €