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  • Handle With Fear
    Thomas B. Dewey
    When a terrified stranger checks into the Preston Hotel, Joe Spinder and Singer Batts are pulled into a labyrinthine mystery stretching from a small town to Chicago’s seedy underworld. With gangsters, corrupt cops, and powerful figures all hiding something, the death of a mobster’s girl leads to a desperate race to find the truth-and save a kid too honest for his own good. ...
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    14,42 €

  • Hue and Cry
    Thomas B. Dewey
    A late-night disturbance at a sleepy Midwestern hotel spirals into chaos when a beloved schoolteacher is found murdered in her room. With the local police bungling the investigation and suspicion falling on the wrong man, hotel manager Joe Spinder teams up with the eccentric owner, Singer Batts, to navigate a tangled web of small-town secrets. As gossip swirls and tensions rise...
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  • As Good As Dead
    Thomas B. Dewey
    The reappearance of the long-vanished Linda Graves in her family’s decaying estate sparks suspicion and scandal in a gossipy Midwestern town. But when the woman claiming to be Linda is found strangled, it’s clear that someone is hiding more than just the past. With the local authorities baffled, hotel manager Joe Spinder and erudite recluse Singer Batts must uncover the dead wo...
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  • Mourning After
    Thomas B. Dewey
    When Dolly Spangler stumbles into a hotel, frightened and drunk, her death the next day sets off a dangerous investigation that leads far beyond her quiet Midwestern town. Singer Batts and Joe Spinder soon find themselves navigating a tangled web of political corruption, gangsters, and secrets reaching into the state capital. As bodies drop and the stakes rise, they must uncove...
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  • Kiss Me Hard
    Thomas B. Dewey / Thomas BDewey / Tom Brandt
    They hopped a boxcar and made a run for it. He was a wanted man -- she was a woman who thought she's found her man. It was an outlawed passion, and it was doomed from the start...for crime always has a cost, and a life on the run is no life at all -- unless you're willing to risk everything! ...
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  • Hunter at Large
    Thomas B. Dewey
    They had killed his Kathy. The two men knocked on the door, asked for Mickey Phillips, then sapped him. When he woke up, they had him tied up, forced to watch as they brutally murdered her in front of him. Straining at the ropes, he finally dislocated both his arms and passed out from the pain ... but just to make sure there weren’t any witnesses, they shot him, left him for de...
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    8,42 €

  • Portrait of a Dead Heiress
    Thomas B. Dewey / Thomas BDewey
    A shut-and-opened case?The beautiful heiress had done a foolproof job on herself. After a large dose of sleeping pills, she’d slashed her wrists, then climbed into the tub and drowned.Only her fiance said suicide was impossible and begged Mac to help, at any price. And when Mac started to investigate, he found that even the police weren’t so sure of suicide-if the cop on his ta...
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  • The King Killers
    Thomas B. Dewey / Thomas BDewey
    When Mac tries to help a friend collect an unpaid bill, he gets more than he bargained for...including a corpse!#17 in the Mac detective series!'Mac is one of our best private eyes.' -- San Francisco Chronicle'Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction’s severely underrated writers!' -- Bill Pronzini'Mac has been called one of the most believable and humane PI’s in crime ficti...
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  • Deadline
    Thomas B. Dewey / Thomas BDewey
    Deadline sends Mac to a small town on a tight deadline to save a boy from execution for a brutal murder. Mac makes a beautiful job of it despite the townsfolk’s violent hostility.#13 in the Mac detective series!'Mac is one of our best private eyes.' -- San Francisco Chronicle'Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction’s severely underrated writers!' -- Bill Pronzini'Mac has be...
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  • The Taurus Trap
    Thomas B. Dewey / Thomas BDewey
    Chicago detective Mac is asked by a former silent film star to find out what the problem is facing a fellow actor who shares her home. Disappearing corpses, movie producers, and hoodlums are only some of the problems facing our hero!#17 in the Mac detective series!'Mac is one of our best private eyes.' -- San Francisco Chronicle'Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction’s sev...
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  • A Sad Song Singing
    Thomas B. Dewey
    The girl had lost her guitar-playing boyfriend, but he had left her the most deadly legacy of all -- fear. And now it was up to me to protect her from the gun-carrying thugs who were relentlessly tracking her down. Hoodlums, hootenannies, and homicide!#10 in the Mac detective series! 3 ...
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    16,50 €

  • You’ve Got Him Cold
    Thomas B. Dewey
    Nobody knew the trouble she'd been in—until it caught up with her. And then it was murder!'Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!' —Bill Pronzini'Mac has been called one of the most believable and humane PI's in crime fiction. He is reluctant to use either his gun or his fists, but will do so when the situation demands it, or in s...
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    17,73 €

  • The Case of the Chased and the Chaste
    Thomas B. Dewey
    Mac didn't like bodyguard jobs. But he disliked kidnappers even more. So when Julian Porter, big shot movie producer, said, 'Come to Hollywood, take care of my kid,' Mac left Chicago and went to Hollywood.Julie'd had a threatening letter about his daughter, Linda, age five. The note said, 'We're going to grab her unless...' and then there was the usual talk of big m...
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    17,77 €

  • The Girl Who Wasn’t There
    Thomas B. Dewey
    The trail Mac found himself trying to follow was very cold. Another private detective -- his friend Barry Henley -- had been killed a year earlier in a fall from a tenth-story window, and the cops had written it off as accidental. But when Hensley's widow told Mac that several people had tried to get into her apartment under various pretexts; when Mac found she was being fo...
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  • The Mean Streets
    Thomas B. Dewey / Thomas BDewey
    'Gripping, realistic, and compelling.' -- Chicago TribuneIt started with murder and ended with murder. Along the way there were muggings and dope and stolen cars and other assorted violences that might have been committed by juveniles. But this wasn’t kid stuff. It became apparent that someone very ruthless was behind it all. That’s when they decided to hire Mac.'Thomas B. Dewe...
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  • A Season for Violence
    Thomas B. Dewey / Thomas BDewey
    His enemies said Dick Kramer had River County in his pocket, and in the game Kramer was playing there were no holds barred. But Kramer couldn’t do anything about the steamy, sweltering summer that was rapidly breeding the seeds of explosive violence. It was going to be open season on just about everything. It started with a simple rape -- and the cover-up for the rich kid who’d...
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    15,41 €

  • Can a Mermaid Kill?
    Thomas B. Dewey
    So unmoving was the girl sitting on the wet rocks that, at first, she seemed a permanent feature of the rugged seascape. She was wearing an expensive evening dress and high-heel slippers. She seemed to be in a deep trance, her gaze fixed on the sea, motionless except for the tossing of her delicate blond hair in the morning breeze. And as his steps brought him closer, he though...
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    13,32 €