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Cowabunga, schweetheart! A book in the manner of Surfing Samurai Robots! In a Los Angeles that is something like ours--but in which magic has become an integral part of society--P.I. Turner Cronyn doesn't know why he's being threatened by a supernatural being. Does it have anything to do with the fact that zombies looking like him are turning up all over town? And who killed Misty Morning, the beautiful mage he was supposed to be protecting? But on...
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Anthony Carrick Hardboiled Murder Mysteries: Box Set (Books 4 - 6)
Now you can grab the 4th, 5th and 6th Anthony Carrick murder mysteries in one Box Set!
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In the midst of Hollywood elite, Anthony Carrick has to uncover the killer or killers of not one, not two but three murders. Could they all be related?
Fifth Estate:
Anthony Carrick's not looking for a case. But when his good buddy, John Roberts asks a favor of him he can't refuse. Two...
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This volume collects two stories featuring Dan Turner, hardboiled Hollywood detective. In "Death Ends the Scene," a washed-up movie-director is going to knock himself off in order to give his no-good bride a double-indemnity payoff-and Dan Turner, trying to do a couple of good deeds, finds himself facing a murder rap with some very hard gunsels making it tough! In "Phony Shakedown," Dan thinks the girl shot at him, and it didn't make him any the less...
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And the bloodied Oscar goes to… the dead producer!
A top Hollywood producer is found dead in his own den. A bloodied Oscar left as evidence. Is this a film critic or something more sinister?
Some actors will sleep for a role, others will kill. The murderer will go to any length to keep the secrets and lies hidden.
Join tough talking, wise cracking, Anthony Carrick as he juggles gay counterculture, the vegan hippy lifestyle, and...
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Could it be the end for Sharman?
For seven years, ex-cop Nick Sharman has lived in 'exile' on a Caribbean island with no UK extradition treaty - his life of luxury funded by the proceeds of a bank robbery where he was the last man standing. Then a phone call out of the blue from London changes everything. The voice from the past belongs to the only woman that he loves, his daughter Judith. Like father, like daughter, she's a police officer, but the...
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It's the oldest story in the world: Boy meets Girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. But when the boy is Nick Sharman, and the girl has a violent ex-jailbird as an old boyfriend, who promises extreme retribution on anyone who gets involved with her, it's never going to be that simple... and both Sharman and the girl are looking at a lot of trouble.
With a bent brief planning an audacious multi-million pound robbery with a bunch of heavy duty thugs in...
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WILL THE GRAVE SINS FROM YOUR PAST HAUNT YOU TO DEATH?Can you ever really bury the past?On a cold November evening back in 1982, real estate lawyer, Marty Finnegan and socialite, Tracy Reynolds, argued bitterly outside the dining room of the Wolforts Roost Country Club. Unbeknownst to them, three drunken teenage boys who attend the same prep school were witnessing their bitter exchange under the cover of darkness. When the boys decide to head out...
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Tokyo, ferne Gegenwart: Zwischen Wirklichkeit und virtueller Realität. Datendiebstahl ist an der Tagesordnung: Einem genialen greisen Wissenschaftler ist es gelungen, bei einer Gruppe professioneller Datenfälscher eine Gehirnwäsche durchzuführen. Er entnimmt ihnen Informationen, die er in Gehirne von unwissenden Versuchspersonen einspeist. Der 35-jährige Held und Ich-Erzähler ist der Einzige, der die Prozedur überlebt. Fortan versucht er, die...
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Steadfast in fighting crime, but operating outside the police force-and sometimes even the law-is the private detective. Driven by his own moral code, he is a shadowy figure in a trench coat standing on a street corner, his face most likely obscured by a tilted fedora, a lit cigarette dangling from his hand. The hard-boiled detective is known by his dark past, private pain, and powers of deduction. He only asks questions-never answers them. In his...
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The Hardboiled Mystery MEGAPACK™ presents 4 classic crime novels from the era when hardboiled detectives ruled the American newsstands. Included are:
The Hollow Man, by John Roeburt (1954)
Model for Murder, by Stephen Marlowe (1955)
Blonde Bait, by Ed Lacy (1959)
Beauty Can Kill, by Michael McCretton (1962)
If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 200+ other entries in the series, covering...
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"More than 100 funny new poems from Jack Prelutsky, the nation's first children's poet laureate, in a wide array of poetic forms, from haiku to concrete poems and everything in between, and hilariously illustrated in black-and-white on every page"--
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Joe Maynard runs a legit place, good food, good service, and at night, good music. It's true, if you want to place a friendly side wager, Joe will take your bet. He's a community leader, a player in the local politics of Capital City on Beta Prime.
But nobody really knows Joe Maynard, where he came from and what his past is.
Don't ask Joe about it either, he won't tell you.
If you're like most people, your curious. You want to know what mysterious...
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When things go bump in the night, the corporate world calls a "physics consultant," to fix those problems that don't follow Newton's laws. Taking a political client on a referral, Mister Lewis discovers that not every Asgardian is deceased. A discovery that leaves him with a dead client and an unpaid bill.What does an occult detective do when a mad god owes him money? Follow the trail into a world of student loans paid off by blood sacrifice, of industrial...
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Nick Sharman's daughter Judith has returned to Scotland and nothing will tempt him back into the business again... unless it's Ray Miller. Miller, a Lottery rollover double-jackpot winner, wants to find the wife who left him. This should be a simple task for Sharman, giving him easy money and evidence for Judith that he's trying to get his life together.
When Miller's wife, Sharon, turns out to be a whore addicted to heroin supplied by her pimp, Sharman's...
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Life as a private detective has proved too much for Nick Sharman, and when a chance run-in with a couple of young thugs secures him a job as a part-time barman, it looks as if he's found a promising new occupation.
Unfortunately the drug squad has other plans. With two coppers slaughtered in as many weeks, Sharman finds himself being coerced into helping track down the killers.
All too soon he is working alongside a pony-tailed Detective Sergeant...
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When a police officer's daughter was found raped and murdered, Sailor Grant, the local nonce, was sent down. Sharman always had his doubts, but that part of his life is over.
Now, Sailor is out of prison and keeps phoning Sharman to help him get justice, but Nick wants to be left alone. When Sailor is found dead and Sharman is half beaten to death by the local coppers, Nick realises that he must find the truth about the events from his past before...
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