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Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 38
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
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,...
4) Hellbox
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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.
6) Endgame
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
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...
7) Twospot
Author
Publisher
Speaking Volumes, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nameless and Lieutenant Frank Hastings combine their investigations of a harrowing case of murder and bizarre conspiracy surrounding an old California wine-making family.
8) Bindlestiff
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Nameless is hired by Miss Arlene Bradford to find her father, Charles Bradford. He has disappeared for good. Nameless has to act fast, as bodies start piling up.
9) The vanished
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 2
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
His name was Roy Sands, and he had everything to look forward to. He was getting out of the service and coming home to marry his beautiful Fiancee. He had his debts paid, money in the bank, and a happy new life ahead of him. Then he disappeared.
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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...
11) Labyrinth
Author
Publisher
Speaking Volumes, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
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...
12) Strangers
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Cody Hatcher is the kind of teenager you don't want your kids hanging with. That's why the citizens of Mineral Springs have no problem believing that he's guilty of three rapes. His mother, Cheryl, an old lover of the Nameless Detective, is being harassed by vindictive townspeople. With few to help him and plenty to get in his way, Nameless must work to prove Cody innocent. It's a classic situation for an iconic private investigator.
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
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....
14) Vixen
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...
15) Hoodwink
Author
Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Speaking Volumes, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
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...
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