Bill Pronzini
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English
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Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective! Zigzag is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. Grapplin, which first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, deals with the kind of missing person case that can end in only one of two ways, closure or heartbreak. In the second short,...
2) Endgame
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English
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The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years, and this is one for the books. Or rather, two cases that will test his agency's resources. Love is in the air... more to the point, love gone awry. One case involves a woman whose husband died accidentally in a remote cabin in the Sierras. The wife isn't buying that her husband was alone, and is determined to find out his secret and get closure, in spite of any potential heartbreak. The other...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 34
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English
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Nameless wasn't supposed to come into the office on Mondays; or even answer the phone. On this Monday, he did both. The call was from Barney Rivera - once a friend, now despised - at Great Western Insurance. Against his better judgment, Nameless agreed to meet with him. The investigation was relatively simple: a multimillionaire rare books collector had reported the theft of eight valuable volumes. From a locked library to which he has the only key....
4) The violated
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2017.
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English
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In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that has...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The latest Carpenter & Quincannon mystery: "Attractive characters, a finely tuned plot, and fascinating snippets of California history. Who could ask for more?"--Publishers Weekly on The Stolen Gold Affair Quincannon's pursuit of two con men who have absconded to Hawaii with a considerable sum of his employer's assets dovetails nicely with Sabina's vision of a second honeymoon. But neither is wont to stay out of trouble, and Sabina inadvertently...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Despite the fact that his wedding is right around the corner, John Quincannon takes on what may be his riskiest assignment: going undercover into a gold mine to ferret out a gang hijacking high-grade ore before it reaches the surface ... John discovers the clever methods by which the scheme is being worked and exposes the conspirators ... following him leads to an unexpected rendezvous with Sabina, who has uncovered vital information about the thief's...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 26
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Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Series
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Forge
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"We're told that there are seven deadly sins; not on the list is the deadliest of them all: Betrayal. For each of the detectives at the agency, a betrayal-- personal, against a child, against the elderly-- becomes not only the driving force behind an investigation, but the source of the kind of resolve that cannot be derailed by threats of any kind. Tamara's case began as something personal but explodes as her investigation of her former lover Lucas...
9) Camouflage
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Forge
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex-wife, and they know where she is. Deliver some papers to her and it is is all done. But she refuses the papers, sends a message to Virden to never contact her again, and slams the door. His colleague, Tamara, tells Nameless that Virden threatens to sue, stops payment on his checks, and claims that the woman they located is not his wife. Then he disappears and his fiancee...
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Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 22
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
12) Vixen
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Series
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Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter. Kenneth has fled San Francisco in a drug-induced panic to avoid trial on a charge of stealing a valuable necklace from the alcoholic wife of the man for whom he works, wealthy yachtsman Andrew Vorhees. When agency operative Jake Runyon locates and questions the frightened young man, Cory...
13) Hellbox
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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When his wife goes missing from their Sierra foothills cabin after spotting a suspicious man, the Nameless Detective and his associate, Jake Runyon, launch a search and rescue mission that stretches legal boundaries.
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Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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The Unnamed Detective has been in business for many years, but the only femme fatales he's known were in fiction or the movies. That is, until his bail bondsman friend Abe Melikian introduces him to Cory Beckett. Nameless has spent more time as a detective than Cory has breathed-- but she's brought some new and terrible angles to the concept of evil...
16) Hoodwink
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Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Speaking Volumes, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
Description
Former pulp writer and current hack Russell Dancer invites Nameless to the first annual Western Pulp Convention in San Francisco. He wants Nameless to help him locate the person who is trying to blackmail Dancer for a purported plagiarism of a story called "Hoodwink." Arriving at the convention, Nameless discovers that a group of former friends (and now uncomfortable colleagues) who wrote for the pulps called the "Pulpeteers" have all received blackmail...
17) Labyrinth
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Publisher
Speaking Volumes, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Nameless is called in by his friend, police lieutenant Eberhardt, when a dead woman's purse contains Nameless's business card. Nameless has never met her, and cannot make a connection. Next, Nameless is hired to track and protect a disturbed man, Martin Talbot, who may be harmed by the husband of a woman who died when Talbot's car collided with theirs after Talbot fell asleep at the wheel. "Pronzini makes people and events so real that you're living...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 38
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A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Series
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Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
Carpenter and Quincannon Professional Detective Services is a fixture in San Francisco at the dawn of a new century. Sabina and John will protect their clients, doing what is necessary to run the dregs of society into the arms of the law. Sometimes that involves brute force. Other times, a more subtle touch is needed. Professor A. Vargas, medium extraordinaire, and his partner, Annabelle, don't use picks to open locked doors, and most certainly don't...
20) Twospot
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Publisher
Speaking Volumes, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Nameless and Lieutenant Frank Hastings combine their investigations of a harrowing case of murder and bizarre conspiracy surrounding an old California wine-making family.
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