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Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dark Harvest
Pub. Date
[1992], ©1976
Language
English
Description
A private detective who was a cop for fifteen years, investigates the savage murder of a Greenwich Village hooker supposedly killed by her homosexual roommate.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
A New York killer who signs himself as Will of the People is murdering criminals who have escaped punishment through technicalities of the law. PI Matt Scudder goes after him. By the author of A Long Line of Dead Men.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
While investigating the murder of a yuppie lawyer, Scudder is forced to take an unsparing look at his own dark side.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Dark Harvest
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
When "the Spinner" turns up dead in the East River, Matt Scudder goes into action because the Spinner had paid Scudder in advance to find his killer.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
©1986
Language
English
Description
Already at work on two dangerous cases, Matthew Scudder, the down-and-out, hard-drinking ex-cop, becomes personally involved when the wife of a friend is brutally murdered.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
©1981
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic ex-cop and private investigator takes a murder case and then is ordered off it by his client, but pursues the case anyway to relieve his own melancholy.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
When ex-cop and longtime investigator Matt Scudder agrees to investigate the suspicious online lover of an acquaintance, he finds that a vicious killer is at work and that he may be the next target.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 12
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
In New York, members of a private diner's club begin to be murdered one by one and there is nothing to go on, no obvious motive and nothing the victims had in common. PI Matthew Scudder is hired to find the killer. By the author of The Devil Knows You're Dead.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 5
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Tormented by the slaying of the hooker who turned to him for help just before her death, cop-turned-private eye Matthew Scudder begins an investigation into the woman's past that reveals secrets that could be deadly for him.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery--and get him killed in the process.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Bookseller and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr travels to New England to spend a weekend in a mansion where he hopes to steal a rare book. But his scheme is sidetracked by the murder of one of the guests and the burglar turns sleuth.
12) Hit list
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperLargePrint
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Block introduced Keller, assassin for hire in Hit Man. As he pursues a new list of targets, Keller's instincts tell him that something is not right. And indeed someone has put out a contract on him!
13) Hit parade
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 3
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. The inconvenient wife, the aging sports star, the business partner--he's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently. Keller's got a code of honor, though he'd never call it that. And he keeps the job strictly business--"What happens is you wind up thinking of each subject not as a person to be killed but as a problem to be solved." But while Keller...
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
The daytime bookseller and nighttime burglar, Bernie Rhodenbarr of New York is hired to steal a packet of letters someone wants destroyed. Instead, he finds a dead man and now he must clear his name.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1995
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.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
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.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1994
Language
English
Description
In Greenwich Village, Bernie Rhodenbarr, the rare book dealer who moonlights as a burglar, is arrested for murder in connection with the robbery of a valuable collection of baseball cards. Only he didn't do it. By the author of Burglars Can't Be Choosers.
18) Small town
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
The lives of a cast of disparate New Yorkers are touched by a series of killings carried out by a man bereaved by the loss of his wife and children in the Twin Towers who sets out to wreak what he thinks of as a sacrificial vengeance on New York by becoming a terrorist himself.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Burglar Bernie Rodenbarr and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser break into houses, apartments and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless portrait, a remarkable array of buttons -- and a murder that needs to be solved.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1997], ©1980
Language
English
Description
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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