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Thirteen Steps to Velda
Here is a baker's dozen of some of detective Velda Bellinghausen's greatest cases. From murdered magicians to killer clowns, from Margate, New Jersey to Hollywood, California, the slinky sleuth faces endless danger, adventure and thrills...to say nothing of an occasional fee. Be sure to visit Velda's personal website at http://www.black-cat-studios.com/velda
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Warrior Poet
WARNING:
Shortly after reading "Warrior Poet":
(i) An American friend of mine started having dreams in which a computer screensaver displayed the words "Danger: rough roads ahead". He was then thrown out of his apartment, went homeless and destitute on the streets of Shanghai, and had to return to Los Angeles to live with his parents, where he remains today. This sequence of events closely parallels the experiences of the main character in the novel.
(ii) A Japanese friend of mine started hearing voices in her head. She had to return to Japan to spend several weeks in a mental institution.
(iii) Another friend of mine became addicted to crack cocaine. She was involuntarily checked in to a mental hospital by her parents but was released because she suddenly developed a particularly painful case of kidney stones. She is now in drug rehabilitation. I AM NOT JOKING.
See below for a plot summary, but READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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Velda
Velda Bellinghausen, showgirl turned private eye, must clear a tormented teenage girl of a charge of murder---when even her client confesses to having committed the brutal crime. From the seedy alleys of Greenwich Village to the glamorous penthouse studios of famous pinup artists to the fetid swamps of the Florida Keys, Velda pursues what only she believes is the truth...a pursuit that proves to be deadlier than even she ever thought possible...
"Velda is the kind of detective I like!" Richard S. Prather, creator of the Shell Scott series.
"Pure cheese...but who cares!" Kevin Burton Smith, Thrilling Detective Website.
Be sure to visit Velda's personal website! http:/www.veldapi.com
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Altered Life
"I wish I could say that the first time I met Rory Brand I knew he was a dead man
walking.
But I can’t... "
Private Investigator Sam Dyke is hired by Rory Brand to find out what's happening to his business. He knows that someone is trying to steal
it from him. He thinks it's someone close to
him. Very close.
Sam won't get involved because no crime has been committed. But that
changes when Brand is found dead in his office, with a taunting clue left on his
computer screen.
Now Sam is determined to find out who killed Brand, and makes a discovery that takes him back twenty years into his own past. And into a secret
that had been kept from him by the prime suspect for
Brand's murder ...
In the first of a series of books featuring Sam Dyke, Altered Life transplants the
attitude and pace of the American private eye story into a contemporary English
setting.
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My Enemies' Enemies
Who are the Moslem Alliance? Why would Iraq and Iran back terrorist groups? Where would France fit into the picture? What would bring Russia, the USA, the UK, Norway, Israel and Canada together as an active military alliance? Where does organised crime fit in? Could OC and state backed terrorists bring down the US and Russia? How would they do it? Can Canada's JTF-2 stop them?
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Daydreams & Nightmares
An interesting collection of introspective poetry that covers love and romance, politics and war, loneliness and depression and dark, short stories with twists and turns with characters that come to life in your mind. This is the first published work by James E. F. Riley, Sr.
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105 Writing Prompts
Try some or all of these prompts to get your creative juices flowing.
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Watson's Sampler: The Lost Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
The lost cases of Sherlock Holmes have been found at last. They were hidden away where no one would suspect; in America of all places. Discover them for yourself, and also discover how they got across the pond, through the stories that reside within, "Watson's Sampler: The Lost Casebook of Sherlock Holmes!"
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The Dead Man Adventures: A Series of Village Mysteries
Four complete mystery novels set in a small town in Wisconsin.
A front-page story in the Jefferson County Daily Union said: "Jim Rohrer, a part-time resident of Fort Atkinson and the author of three recently published mystery novels, draws his inspiration from everyday life ... even from this newspaper. In the headlines, the police reports and the community meeting listings, Rohrer has found sparks that set off "what-if" scenarios in his mind that eventually became the "Dead Man" mystery series." The reporter also wrote: "The books have a true sense of place, reflecting the issues, the culture and the language of a lot of small-town people from this area. An amusing combination of down-to-earth and ridiculous, they're full of funny regional observations, while still touching on real issues from more than one perspective."
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Los ahorcados
Un detective busca la relación entre dos casos de ahorcamiento? ¿La encontrará?
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The Big Moe
PAPERBACK VERSION: Classic two-fisted crime novel from the early 1950's. Jimmy Andrews was a small-time crook, and he liked it that way. He could make a living off his bookmaking racket, support his family, keep himself alive and stay out of jail. But when Big Moe McCluskey moved in on his turf and forced Jimmy to take over every gambling operation in all of Lakeside, he was in for a world of hurt. And Jimmy couldn't even go to the police...because Big Moe McCluskey was the most powerful cop in town!
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The Devil's Leaf
PAPERBACK VERSION: Classic noir/adventure novel from 1952. Ray Brook plays jazz guitar in a San Francisco club. He’s just looking to make a buck and indulge his obsession with music. The last things on his mind are foreign intrigues and the machinations of an international criminal cartel. But that’s what he finds himself involved in when the owner of the club, the mysterious Anton Wolff, requests that Ray go to Bolivia on a dangerous mission. Ray feels compelled to go by forces unknown to him, and soon he encounters enough shifty characters to fill a mug shot book, including the beautiful Mrs. Huffington and the glamorous Honey Caine. Everything comes to a head once Ray reaches Bolivia, with love, murder, revenge, revolution and a certain addictive leaf all in the mix. Can Ray make sense of the game and the players before time runs out for him?
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NO GOOD DEED ...
Mickey Cullion is a little ex-con who runs a storefront church in San Francisco called The Breastplate of Faith and Love. But his efforts at redemption falter when a long-kept secret is revealed, prompting a fresh round of blackmail … and murder.
Our boy’s criminal past is intertwined with a pair of socialite sisters – Helena Swann and Angela Styles. And if they weren’t trouble enough, a new catalyst for mayhem walks into Mickey’s place in the Mission District. His name is Jake Snider, another graduate of San Quentin.
Watch a new scandal unfold in the City by the Bay as it pulls in Mickey, the gals, and a police detective named Al Bowers, who learn that –
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished at the Breastplate of Faith and Love.
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Shadows of the Past
Waking in the hospital she knows she is alive. She has no memory of the past, and no knowledge of who she is. She is unable to see or move. Whatever happened, she is sure, it almost cost her her life. Rob comes to visit and seems to know more about her and her condition but will only tell her her name. There is something familiar about his voice, but Jan is not willing to trust anyone yet. Later, she receives another visitor. A visitor that hides amongst the shadows. Jan waits to see what this stranger will do. He seems to be more concerned and familiar within Jan. It is this stranger that helps Jan to discover that she was an agent within an secretive government agency. Even though she is drawn to him something doesn't fit yet. Soon she has to decide who to trust as her life is put on the line.
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The Resort #1
Welcome to...The Resort...!
Fresh from their recent high school graduation, six teens travel to the lush, high-tech tropical paradise that is The Resort. They think they've found paradise, instead, they've found hell. Trapped on a tropical island in the Caribbean Sea without any outside communication they are being hunted and killed...one by one.
This is the first issue of an exciting 4-issue mini-series series written by Christopher J. O'Bryant, with stunning art by Nando, and Andrés Bretones. Colors by Berny Julianto of Petjel Studio and Sergio Martín Monlleó. Published by Iconic Comics. http://iconiccomics.tripod.com
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Midland Murders
Eight stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine plus one from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Includes the complete Hal Blinn-Grady Driscoll series and the highly acclaimed "A Debt to Be Paid."
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Volume 1 Jack Eddy Stories
Eight stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Jack Eddy, a man driven to succeed, is an assistant manager of the Akron branch of Wellington's National Detective Agency, circa 1938. This collection was granted a Thrillie Award from Thrilling Detective as best of 2006.
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Thunderstorm
This is the last installment of the Delta Stevens Mystery series by Linda Kay Silva. The first six books can be found at www.lindakaysilva.com.
In Thunderstorm, Delta and company face their darkest hour.
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The Truth, It Lies
A lawyer on the brink of ruin, a paranoid director, a dead movie star, and a picture no one will ever see…
It is 1952 and show business lawyer Robert Harvey is on the brink of financial ruin. The Hollywood witch-hunt is putting him out of business. That is, until, he receives a call from movie director Michael Bloom. The big shot has misplaced the film reels of his latest motion picture, the star of which has recently died. Harvey thinks it’s a job for the police but the director is adamant he doesn’t want his employer, Mayor Studios, to know their investment is lost. Desperate for the money Harvey agrees, but when he delves into a side of the movie industry he’s never seen before his priorities have to change.
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Direct Action
NOW AVAILABLE IN W.H.SMITH, WATERSTONES & leading BOOKSTORES! A BRUTAL, CALLOUS CRIME; AN OBSCURE LEGAL DEFENSE; A CITY UNDER SIEGE FROM ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR - SOMEONE IS FIGHTING BACK - WITH VENGEANCE! Direct Action is a gripping thriller. Secret societies, jurisprudence, philosophy and a superabundance of human nature (sex and violence). This fast-moving, erudite, Polemic is set in the Scottish city of Aberdeen near the famous high mountains of Royal Deeside and the stunning Scottish coastline.
CLICK ON THE COVER OPPOSITE FOR MORE INFO!
A PERFECT GIFT!
As featured in The Press and Journal and the Evening Express.
(select STANDARD shipping for lowest price and scroll down and use the currency convertor on the left to change to UK pounds sterling).
WWW.LANCE-BLACK.COM. Get the LATEST VERSION ONLINE: "Aberdeen's Union Street is now the 'crime-capital' of Scotland. It's like a war zone!" The Sunday Times, 18 March 2007.
Direct Action a.k.a. "DORIC ACTION"
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Mysterious Wayz
Wendy Santana is your normal girl with a
normal life. Until a tragic accident claims the life of her
father, as well as her vision. She now has to learn how to live
in a world through the eyes of one man named Jason Michael. He is
her support and her guide in this differcult time. Every since
the accident, weird things begin to happen to her body. Join
Jason and Wendy on an incredible journey to see how the world
works in Mysterious Wayz.
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Deadly Real
Meet Tom and Sara Carter.
A recently married, mixed race couple.
Sara a Native American and Tomass a Mexican American.
Tom soon learns Saras' tribal elders harbor strong negative feelings regarding this union. They feel this marriage will upset some of the spirits, especially the 'SMILE-CARVER'.
The curse of the SMILE-CARVER becomes active and
his revenge changes the once quite lives of Tom and Sara.
Sara's family tries several rituals to rid them of the SMILE-CARVERS' curse.
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The Wishmonger
When Roger is forced to return to his father's home town of Wishful, danger awaits. In a town where wishing has been outlawed, will he be able to untangle a web of family screts in time to stop the mysterious, blind man in black from devouring them all? Join Roger and his friends as they battle the forces of evil, unearth a buried treasure and learn the true meaning of forgiveness and redemption.From their escape from the basement of the spooky Victorian library to Roger's death defying encounter with the man in black himself, this heart pumping tale is sure to fire the imaginations of readers of all ages. Ideally suited for audiences 10 and up.
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Book 2: Tiger Balm Garden Twilight
Jack. Violet, Olive, and Judith are staying at the plantation of Peachy Wu north of Hongkong above Kowloon in the New Territories. The city of Hongkong (Fragrant Harbor) holds a mystery reaching far beyond the quiet of the up-country plantation of the good and wise Peachy Wu. The quartette soon finds themselves in the beautiful Floating City controlled by an evil mandarin, Master Ch’ing. He is engaged in the sale of the treasures of China. This ruthless enterprise, however, is only one side of Master Ch’ing. He rules wickedly over his walled village maintaining a beautiful, exiled life in the inner world of the Floating City. In this book we learn about the loyalty of the Chinese people to the Middle Kingdom (China). At times in their history, the Chinese have left their beloved country but never left the Middle Kingdom of their hearts and souls.
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Book 1 Olive and Violet Bright: Daughters of Rosewood Heath
Jack, Olive, Violet, and Judith are youngsters in their first novel set in the fictional countryside of northwest England. It’s summer and Olive and Violet are now in residence in the family manorhouse, Rosewood Heath. Their best friend, Jack Pems, who lives not far from them at Blackwheat, has just come north to begin his summer. They’re soon joined by Judith Pinckney, Jack’s cousin. Not soon after the quartette of good friends have arrived north they meet a mysterious Burmese. They soon discover that this exotic gentleman is conspiring with the town librarian to steal a plant growing wildly on one of the great old estates of the Holly District. The plant is renowned for its alchemic abilities. If it were to fall into the wrong hands, it could have dire consequences for both the Burmese and the English people.
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The Grand Organ Mysteries: The Notre Dame Concert (Opus I)
The two majestic Grand pipe organs of the Cathedrale de Notre Dame have been silent for several years. After a multi-million renovation to return "The Voice of Our Lady" to the French faithful, a re-dedication concert is planned.
With the renovations coming in several years early, and well under-budget, Dr. Melvin Blair begins to have feelings of great concern for the health of the two magnificent instruments.
Someone very much wants this particular "voice" to remain silent. Are they are willing to commit murder to make sure things stay just the way they are?
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Instrument of Repentance
The second instalment in the series about The Colonel and his ruffians. The action moves from an elite restaurant in Ottawa to English country estates to the jungles of South America and the concrete jungle of the eastern sea-board of the US. What is the relationship between the vicious Canadian biker gang, the Hells Crew, Sendero Luminoso, a Chinese Triad and several major governments? What business does an English Lord carry out in the Peruvian jungle? What life time experiences would connect a Peruvian Professor of Archaeology with the US DEA? What would drag the Chinese Government into a tangled web of international intrigue surrounded by paedophilia, white slavery, drug running and the illegal arms trade? Who are the Watch Dogs of democracy? When law is law, how do the weak get justice?
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Ask Me Who the Devil Is
The Vegas Strip at night … A beachfront resort in Puerto Vallarta … South Beach in summer … San Francisco’s Mission District … A Newport mansion in misty moonlight …
Pick your town and take a darkside vacation. Or settle in for a bumpy night with the whole twisted travelog Paul McGoran has prepared for you in ASK ME WHO THE DEVIL IS, a collection of his short noir fiction.
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The Good Guys Don't Always Wear White
The old west hasn't seen anything now that Arliss Black has arrived, just don't ask him where he's from(No matter what he tells you, it's Baltimore). In his debut Western, The Good Guys Don't Always Wear White, Arliss and his gang are up for the bounty hunt of a lifetime!
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Trompe l' Oeil
Trompe l' oiel is a design technique employed to trick the eye, but in this case it's murder! When police investigator James Knight encounters mystery woman, Salome Apostolos, waiting inside of his flat, he's wearing no more than a linen bath towel. She offers the wet and barely dressed detective an awkwardly attractive two-hundred pound propositition. Her intentions are unspoken, but her money speaks volumes. Once he is lured to her towering manor, he finds his troubles are just beginning, enter his former fiance, Lady Chamberlain. At first he was reluctant to accept his former flame's assistance, but he'll soon regret the choice, especially when the body count begins to rise. Along with disappearing paintings and a suspicious staff, Detective knight and Lady Chamberlain must decide if the deaths surrounding them are part of a sinister plot, or just another trick of the eye, before another one bites the dust?
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A Vision of Murder
Could this be true, did Lady Chamberlain actually kill her husband? It's rumored she stabbed him twenty times, no seven or even fifty, who will you believe, but don't even think of asking Lady Chamberlain herself; she's nowhere to be found?
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The Sleepwalker
In James Knight's first mystery when returning to Westerbury and encounters a flurry of firsts upon his return. For those who weren't too keen on Lady Chamberlain I hope you do like Inspector Winborne as well. It's with the Winborne's assistance he must discover if this man who is accused of killing his mother-in-law actually committed the crime. His explaination he was sleepwalking, and now Detective Knight must prove it, and you won't believe who the actual killer is?
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Hidden Promises
Jan and Ward have been hiding from the government they once worked for. When a friend calls for help, they have to choose between doing nothing or standing in the face of danger once again.
In order to bring down a human trafficking ring, Jan gets smuggled in as one of the women they plan to sell. Facing the grueling trek across the border of Mexico to the United States, she then must help discover a way to bring down the entire operation.
Ward calls his friend Eddy to help with the operation from the purchasing side; a side not so far from Eddy’s past.
If they aren’t careful, all of them could die, or worse.
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Murder by Dewey Decimal
An assistant librarian and a roving reporter make unlikely pair as they attempt to solve a chain of murders connected to the town library in this humorous mystery set in a small town in Oklahoma.
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Amateurs Need Not Apply
An epic burlesque-detective-dramedy. Joseph Benjamin Gunn, an “old-fashioned” gumshoe, is immersed in a web of deceit and confusion when he takes on a simple-looking jewel robbery. He soon finds himself pummeled by a crooked police captain, and used as a pawn by a calculating criminal. We find his private life no less hectic, as he learns he is about to become a father, and, to his dismay... and bewilderment (for he is ever so in love with the mother of his child), finds himself in love with another most... unique lady.
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The Rough Old Stuff
Sixteen of Dick Stodghill's stories published in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine from 1979 thru 1985. Includes stories featuring protagonists ranging from private eyes and hardened criminals to a naughty little girl, an invalid flat on his back in bed and a dog named Blackie.
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Cannington Inquires
Richmond Cannington PhD, is hardly the sort typical type of man that Britain is so used to now. After a diverse career, he’s decided to opt for early retirement in the Home Counties. But little does he know that his retirement is about to be anything but quiet.
This books contains two stories in the series. The first sees Cannington solve the murder of his nephew’s school friend; the second has Cannington competing with the local policeman to crack the Hamilton case.
It's been hailed as a cross between Poirot, Morse and Midsomer Murders. William Hanson writes superbly about gentleman detective Dr. Richmond Cannington.
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Elevator
PAPERBACK VERSION: Dack Willman plays the detective game in Los Angeles in the 1940’s. Hard to scratch out a living when you’re competing for customers with Philip Marlowe and Mike Hammer, but he puts his sweat, blood and guts into it. Too bad a citywide power outage during the hottest summer in years hits him where it hurts: he finds himself trapped in an elevator with seven other passengers, including his close friend and “researcher” Palmer Patterson.
The power goes out. The elevator stops. The lights go black. When they come back on, Palmer is dead. Who did it, and why? Or even how?
Dack has to summon up the most potent powers of observation and deduction in his possession to solve this one. Can Dack dissect the identities of the passengers and their hidden motivations? And can he escape this claustrophobic trap before the murderer strikes again?
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email from freak: the transcripts as compiled by Halberd James Poel
email from freak: the transcripts as compiled by Halberd James Poel is the story of a strange e-relationship as told by the participants. It begins with a woman receiving a mysterious email detailing violence and murder. The recipient knows nothing of this 'freak'; nothing of his life or the crimes he claims to have committed. As she attempts to discover the truth, she becomes both captivated and disgusted by the inner workings of his torment. All does not end well for either of them. Halberd James Poel investigates to find the real truth in this sordid affair by presenting her notes, freak's email, and the investigation that followed.
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The Klimt Connection
Frank teams up with Robbie Quick to track down the people who have used a computer program to steal millions of dollars from the Federal Government. When another client’s home is burgled and an old painting turns out to be a Klimt, the cases become entangled in an old mystery – the disappearance of Daddy Vic and the Lois Lake Gold mine. Computers, the Hells Angels, a gold mine and a Klimt painting finally lead Frank to Vienna where he makes the Klimt connection.
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The Van Gogh Connection
In this fourth novel in the series,forensic accountant Frank Pilger investigates the posssible theft of the new Light Burst Fire Cannon. The investigation leads to a Broken Arrow - a missing Russian bomber - and no one, not the Russians, Americans or Canadians will admit there may be a 'Borken Arrow' somewhere in Northern Ontario.
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The Jade Hook
Blackmail leads to murder among a group of hikers on the Milford Track in a New Zealand rainforest. Matt Kelly, professor of criminal psychology, struggles to discover the murderer as well as who attacked one of the guides.
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Melody for Murder
Melody Sharpe has tripped on a body at sleepy little Blackville's only disco and before you can say whodunit she's both suspect and victim of attempted murder herself! Get on board for a fun ride as Melody and her pals try to find the real killer before Melody Sharpe becomes Melody flat six feet under!
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The Morcos Connection
Frank Pilger, forensic accountant, works with CSIS to apprehend the people who ran a stockmarket swindle. With his new CSIS partner, Robbie Quick, they follow a lead involving a Maher Morcos painting to La Jolla, CA.
This is the second in the series of Frank Pilger novels.
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The Dali Connection
The Dali Connection is the first novel in this series of crime stories. Frank Pilger, forensic accountant investigates his wife's murder and a fake Dali painting.
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The Woman in the Painting
Twenty-Four year old Jordan James had thought she had left her past and her home in Savannah behind her. When forced to return for the funeral of her great aunt Mollie Jordan had no idea just how difficult it would become for her to ever leave again.
Bound by both obligation and affection for her surviving Aunt Allison, Jordan remains to help Allison keep her ancestral estate out of the hands of her greedy nephew Richard Worthington. While there Jordan stumbles upon a mystery that will change all of thier lives forever.
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Thoroughbred Solution
Alex Gates is a former Buffalo Police Department forensic detective. He has processed the most terrible crimes anyone can imagine and has seen human cruelty at its worst. Unable to cope with the suffering, he leaves his wife and daughter and takes a job looking after a rich family's summer home and small thoroughbred horse stable in upstate New York.
A terrifying explosion and fire in the middle of a winter night destroys the horse barn, killing three valuable horses and catapaulting Gates back into the forensic world he left behind.
Were the deaths of the horses, murder or just an accident? Join Gates and his teenage daughter Dorothy as they work to solve the mystery of the Thoroughbred Solution.
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