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On Secret Service
"Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents". Good stories, a small amount of "negro" dialog that I found...embarrassing. Except for that tiny bit I enjoyed reading this old-timey book a lot. I read the Project Gutenberg e-book version.
Quote:
"A slip of oiled paper," he muttered. "By the Lord Harry! here it is!" and he produced a pencil which his trained fingers told him was lighter than it should be.-- A hollow pencil!!
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8/2022
A Void In Hearts
Lawyer Brady Coyne investigates the murder of his sometime private investigator.
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1/2000
Client Priviledge
Attorney Brady Coyne finds out who killed the judges black- mailer. Second time I read it!
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1/2000
Close To The Bone
Lawyer Brady Coyne figures out what happened to his fishing buddy Paul Cizek. Has a bicycling drunk in the story, and everybody gets pretty much what they deserve! Pretty good!
QUOTE:
"You got lipstick all over you. It's not mine." "It was this guy's wife. She attacked me." ... "I don't blame her."Read:
2/1999
Cutter's Run
Lawyer Brady Coyne visits his girlfiend in Maine.
QUOTE:
"The trick to gourmet cooking," I said, "is to be sure everybody's really hungry."Read:
1/2000
Hell Bent
Brady Coyne's client apparently commits suicide, but Alex (his sister) doesn't believe it.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Wouldn't've (pg. 116) -- I said that, but I have never seen it in print before.
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12/2008
Muscle Memory
Brady Coyne finds out who really killed his client's wife.
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3/2001
One-Way Ticket
Brady Coyne helps a friend who got beat up by some mob guys for no reason, as far he knows.
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5/2008
Seventh Enemy
Brady Coyne tries to find out who shot his friend, a prominent outdoorsman who has earned the emnity of the gun lobby by coming out as anti-assault weapons.
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6/2000
Tight Lines
Brady Coyne searches for the estranged daughter of a client who is dying.
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3/2001
Scar Tissue
Brady Coyle looks into the death of his friends sons girlfriend, and the disappearance of the son.
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11/2001
First Light
Brady goes fishing with his buddy J.W. Jackson on Martha's Vineyard. J.W. is looking for a lost wife, Brady is there to nogociate the sale of an estate for a dying woman.
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3/2002
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Max gets a new job at a peculiar institute of research.
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8/2019
Mississippi Bridge
A bus careens off a bridge into a raging torrent after black people are made to get off to make room for white people.
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5/2009
A Summons To Memphis
Pulizer prize-winning story of a man who keeps go back to Memphis because his psychotic sisters want to keep their father from getting married or anything. Didn't do much for me.
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12/2000
One Day On Mars
During a revolution. A good portion of the book describes a space battle. Pretty boring. I found myself skipping three-quarters of each paragraph. The only character I liked was BIL the garbage bot.
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9/2012
An Irish Country Village
Life in an early 60s village in Northern Ireland for a newly-minted doctor. Third in a series, I think. Not a bad read, but I kept thinking that I am not the demographic this book is aimed at. WHOOPS! I mispelled the author's last name!
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2/2016Quote:
"Jesus, Willy, there's a hole in my glass. It's empty" -- pg. 389
The Doom Machine
Jack and Isadora get kidnapped by the Skreep, giant spiders from another world who are bent on invading Earth. I liked it!
Quote:
In the distance he could hear the stuttering of Mr. Vandestar's Hudson...Jack knew the car's problem was in the master cylinder; he could tell by listening to it. (pg. 5) -- Which cylinder is the master cylinder? Are all the rest slave cylinders?
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11/2009
Red Planet
Novelization of the movie. First manned expedition to Mars crashes, everything goes to s***. Some pretty funny stuff in between and during the action.
Read:
4/2001
The Margarets
Margaret, a lonely girl on Phobos, creates six (seven?) imaginary playmates. Sort of. It's kinda confusing in parts. Pretty good stuff, though. Now I know where cats come from! Page numbers are so small and faint, I have no idea how many pages there are. Four pages listing characters and other data, plus a chart of the Margarets and their planets.
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8/2007
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[Taft - Tepper] [Tesh - Turner] [Turtledove - Twain]