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On Secret Service

Taft, William Nelson
"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

Tapply, William G.
Lawyer Brady Coyne investigates the murder of his sometime private investigator.

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1/2000

Client Priviledge

Tapply, William G.
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

Tapply, William G.
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."

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2/1999

Cutter's Run

Tapply, William G.
Lawyer Brady Coyne visits his girlfiend in Maine.

QUOTE:

"The trick to gourmet cooking," I said, "is to be sure everybody's really hungry."

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1/2000

Hell Bent

Tapply, William G.
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

Tapply, William G.
Brady Coyne finds out who really killed his client's wife.

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3/2001

One-Way Ticket

Tapply, William G.
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

Tapply, William G.
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

Tapply, William G.
Brady Coyne searches for the estranged daughter of a client who is dying.

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3/2001

Scar Tissue

Tappy, William G.
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

Tappyly, William G. and Philip R. Craig
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

Taylor, Jodi
Max gets a new job at a peculiar institute of research.

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8/2019

Mississippi Bridge

Taylor, Mildred D.
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

Taylor, Peter
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

Taylor, Travis
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

Taylord, Patrick
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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2/2016

Quote:

"Jesus, Willy, there's a hole in my glass. It's empty" -- pg. 389

Service Model

Tchaikovsky, Adrian
A household robot murders its owner, then goes on a quest to find a job.
I did not find this a "delightfully humorous" tale. Mildly amusing a few times, at best.

Quote:

You are mocking me, Uncharles noted.
Of course I am. It's what I do. Because otherwise I would fucking weep.

Words I Had To Look Up:

human faces grinned and gurned down at them. -- To make a grotesque face.

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1/2026

The Doom Machine

Teague, Mark
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

Telsep, Peter
Novelization of the movie. First manned expedition to Mars crashes, everything goes to s***. Some pretty funny stuff in between and during the action.

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4/2001
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