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A con man always has a bag of tricks, ready to fool the unsuspecting, and almost everyone is unsuspecting until they get taken. When that happens, they turn to Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, to recover their money and what's left of their dignity, and perhaps even to save their lives.When one such case leaves Sabina Carpenter the only witness to a murder, the family of the culprit vows to stop at nothing to keep her silent....
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In the 20th Sharon McCone mystery, the San Francisco-based PI leaves her usual haunts for Hawaii. McCone's downstairs office neighbor, Glenna Stanleigh, is a documentary filmmaker with a project on the island of Kauai. Glenna and her partner, Peter Wellbright, are making a film about Hawaiian legends and myths, based on the writings of Peter's father, Elson Wellbright, a descendant of early missionaries to the islands. There have been a series of...
48) Menaced assassin
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In San Francisco a policeman hunts a killer stalking a college professor who knows too much. As the professor lectures on violence and evolution, the novel becomes a study of violence, theory and practice. By the author of Dead Man.
49) Dynamite road
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While trying to rein in ruthless operative Jim Bishop, ex-cop-turned-P.I. Scott Weiss becomes involved in the investigation into a series of linked killings that seem to be the work of his old nemesis Shadowman.
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PI Sharon McCone of San Francisco is hired by a hippie drug dealer from her college days. Now a "turnaround man" who fixes corporations in trouble, he has many enemies and needs protection. No sooner does Sharon take the case, than the man's wife is murdered and he disappears. By the author of Wolf in the Shadows.
53) Spade & Archer
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1921: Spade sets up his own agency in San Francisco and clients quickly start coming through the door.
56) Locked in
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Shot in the head by an unknown assailant, San Francisco Private Eye Sharon McCone finds herself trapped by locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but an alert, conscious mind. Since the late-night attack occurred at her agency's offices, the natural conclusion was that it was connected to one of the firm's cases. As Sharon lies in her hospital bed, furiously trying to break out of her body's prison and discover her attacker's identity, all the...
57) The heir hunter
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Nick Merchant and Alex Moreno are heir hunters. Their task: track down the next of kin and collect a sizable chunk of the estate for themselves. Now the globetrotting race to find an heir is getting more dangeros by the minute, with the promise of the payoff of a lifetime -- if they survive.
58) City of dragons
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Set in San Francisco in 1940, Stanley's stunning first in a new series introduces a gutsy, independent heroine who isn't always likable. As the city celebrates the Chinese New Year with the Rice Bowl Party, a three-day carnival to raise money for China's war relief, PI Miranda Corbie sees Eddie Takahashi, a young Japanese numbers runner, shot dead in front of her on a crowded, fireworks-filled Chinatown street. When the police tell her to forget about...