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Murder by the numbers: an Eliot Ness novel
Par Max Collins. 1993
Cleveland, Ohio, 1938. Five years ago, black cop Toussaint Johnson watched as numbers king Rufus Murphy, for whom he was…
doing some "unofficial" work, was shot to death. Eliot Ness, director of public safety, has a reputation for putting bad guys in jail, and he is counting on Johnson's help in shutting down the numbers racket. But he doesn't know that Johnson was once "on the pad." Strong language and some violenceToo many clients: a Nero Wolfe mystery
Par Rex Stout. 1960
The body in the cornflakes
Par K. K Beck. 1992
Just before the grand reopening of his Galaxy Foods supermarket, old Karl Krogstad announces his engagement to the store's television…
model--Ginger of the enhanced bustline. When Ginger's body is found in the cornflakes display, assistant manager Ted Constantino suspects everyone: Karl's daughter-in-law, who thinks Ginger slept with her husband, Junior; Junior himself; and their spoiled son Lance, who wants the store. Some strong languagePrisoner's base
Par Rex Stout. 1952
A young woman has come knocking on Nero Wolfe's door asking for a place to stay for a week--until June…
30. She will not give her name or explain why she wishes to stay. Shortly thereafter Perry Helmar, guardian of Priscilla Eads, the heiress to cotton-towel millions, arrives and asks for Wolfe's help in finding Priscilla. The next morning Priscilla and her maid are found strangled. Wolfe reluctantly agrees to investigateTrouble in triplicate: a Nero Wolfe mystery
Par Rex Stout. 1993
Three previously published short novels about the orchid-growing gourmet detective Nero Wolfe. In Before I Die, a gangster wants Wolfe…
to handle a blackmailer. Help Wanted, Male involves a client who waits too long to look for help. In Instead of Evidence, a man predicts his own murder and tells Wolfe who the murderer will beThe grub-and-stakers house a haunt
Par Alisa Craig. 1993
Widow Zilla Trott is in her kitchen making a cup of camomile tea for herself and her cat when the…
ghost of Hiram Jellyby suddenly appears. He was murdered some years ago, and he wants Zilla to find his bones and bury them decently so he can rest in peace. Hiram also wants her to look for a wooden box of gold that he buried. When Zilla and her friends begin digging, they uncover more than bones and goldDead man's island
Par Carolyn Hart. 1993
Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins (Henrie O.) is surprised to be summoned by her long-ago lover, powerful Chase Prescott.…
Chase has also invited all of his close associates and family to the island he owns to determine with Henrie O. which of them tried to murder him. This task is made more difficult when a repeat of the hurricane that gave Dead Man's Island its name occurs. Strong language and violenceFer-de-Lance
Par Rex Stout. 1934
Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin make their debut in this first of many tales about the corpulent master sleuth who…
operates out of a New York brownstone office. When Wolfe receives the gift of a deadly snake, his assistant suspects that they are onto the clever person who murdered an Italian immigrant and a college president, although he cannot imagine what connection there may beDancing on glass
Par Susan Chehak. 1993
Adolescent Wolfgang Von Vechten, angry that his mother had to marry his late father's business partner, kills the man and…
hangs himself. Years later, his nephew Bader marries the partner's great-granddaughter Katherine. But Bader becomes involved with a neighbor's teenaged son, and when Katherine crashes to her death while dancing on a skylight, history repeats itself. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexStrawgirl
Par Abigail Padgett. 1994
Bo Bradley is a San Diego child-abuse investigator who is struggling with manic depression. She is assigned the case of…
Samantha, a three-year-old who dies after hemorrhaging. The police suspect the mother's live-in anthropologist boyfriend, Paul, who has taken Samantha's sister and fled. Although Paul is a member of an unusual group, Bo is uneasy with the cult motive and searches for another suspect. Strong language and some violenceA question of guilt: a novel
Par Frances Fyfield. 1988
The latest object of widowed, unloved Eileen Cartwright's adoration is her married solicitor. When she convinces financially desperate part-time P.I.…
Stanislaus Jaskowski to kill the solicitor's wife, Jaskowski is quickly caught and tells all. As prosecutor Helen West and Detective Geoffrey Bailey build their case against her, Cartwright calmly concocts a plan of revenge against her new opponents. Strong language and violenceThe silent speaker: a Nero Wolfe mystery
Par Rex Stout. 1946
Bleeding Kansas
Par Jon Sharpe. 1990
Some suspicious deaths have occurred in the battle over the slavery issue in the small town of Buckeye Springs, Kansas.…
Concerned, President Buchanan dispatches justice agent Canyon O'Grady to sort it out. After seducing one woman on the train to Kansas, O'Grady becomes involved with the daughter of a murder victim, leaving him precious little time to investigate. Strong language, some violence, and explicit descriptions of sexMurder on the Potomac
Par Margaret Truman. 1994
When the body of Pauline Juris, secretary to Wendell Tierney, is found alongside the Potomac River, Tierney seeks the advice…
of law professor Mac Smith. Incriminating evidence in the form of love letters turns up in Pauline's apartment. It seems that more than one of the Tierneys is suspect. Meanwhile they all take part in a playacting group that re-creates old Washington murders. Some strong language. BestsellerDeath among the dons
Par Janet Neel. 1994
Francesca Wilson McLeish, wife of police superintendent John McLeish, is at home on maternity leave. But the baby cries all…
the time, and Francesca is miserable. When Dr. Judith Symonds, warden of Gladstone College, is murdered, the college hires Francesca as bursar to straighten out suspect accounts. Then someone else dies, and Francesca almost becomes a victim herselfThe bold thing
Par Mark Daniel. 1990
Micky Brennan was a horseman before he was sent to Her Majesty's prison for running someone down while drunk and…
drugged. Now free, Micky, shunned by old acquaintances, reluctantly agrees to go back home to Ireland to run a disabled American woman's horse farm. But Micky's troubles are not over: the woman is being pressured to pay extortion for being a "guest of Ireland." Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexDeath of a glutton
Par M. C Beaton. 1993
Excitement comes to the Scottish village of Lochdubh when a singles club visits. Run by efficient Maria Worth, the club…
attempts to find spouses for the wealthy. Maria's hopes for this group are dashed, however, when her obnoxious business partner, obese Peta Gore, decides to join the club and disgusts everyone with her over-eating and bad personality. When Peta is found murdered, policeman Hamish Macbeth is not short of suspects. Some strong languageThe mountain cat murders
Par Rex Stout. 1939
In Cody, Wyoming, young Delia Brand has a mission: to find and kill the man who murdered her father. Delia's…
mother has just committed suicide after spending the family money trying to do the same thing. But after Delia buys cartridges for her father's gun and more or less admits her plan, she can't find the gun. Then her father's business associate is shot, and things look bad for Delia. Some strong languageOver my dead body
Par Rex Stout. 1939
Wise-cracking Archie Goodwin is surprised when his overweight employer, detective Nero Wolfe, refuses to help Carla Lovchen's friend, a young…
Balkan. Carla then convinces Wolfe to help by proving that her friend (who is accused of stealing from her fencing student) is Wolfe's long-lost adopted daughter. Archie is sent to investigate the robbery that quickly evolves into murder. Strong language and violenceStark's justice
Par James Reasoner. 1994
When stagecoach guard Earl Stark listens in on a murder trial, he realizes a man is going to be hanged…
illegally. Compelled to step in and straighten things out, Stark displays a knowledge of the law that earns him a quick entrance into the bar. But when Stark's lady friend is shot down, he forgets his new profession. As far as he's concerned, her killers are already tried and convicted. Strong language and violence