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Two Friends
Two French fishermen friends are shot by Prussians when they won't reveal the password to cross the French lines. Oh, Spoiler Alert!
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5/2010
Chat
Joe Gunther investigates the appearance of two dead guys, and his mother and brother's car accident.
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12/2009
A Boy At War
A very good story of a boy who experiences the Pearl Harbor attack.
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11/2002
Doll
87th precinct investigates the murder of a model.
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9/2000
Driving Lessons
Short book about a student driver, her instructor, and the lady they hit.
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7/2001
Fat Ollie's Book
Fat Ollie of the 88th taps the regulars of the 87th to find the killer of a politician AND who stole the only manuscript of Fat Ollie's book. Very enjoyable!
QUOTE:
"Yes, but I have to watch my weight," Patricia said. "Oh, me, too," Ollie agreed. "I try not to have more than five meals a day. The Rule of Five. Otherwise it can get out of hand." --pg. 108Read:
6/2003
Mary, Mary
Matthew Hope defends a woman who everbody saw burying one of the victims in her garden!
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10/2000
Mischief
The Deaf Man starts a riot at a rap concert in the park to cover a crime, meanwhile someone is knocking off graffeti "artists".
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9/2000
Money, Money Money
Fat Ollie saves Carella's life twice. Pretty good. Still like the second time I read it!
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6/2004Read:
11/2007
Nocturne
87th precinct investigates the murder of an old lady and her cat, who used to be a famous concert pianist. The old lady, that is.
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9/2000
Romance
The 87th precinct investigates the attempted murder of an actress who is in a play about the murder of an actress in a play...
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9/2000
The Big Bad City
87th Precinct series. Who would want to murder a nun?
QUOTE:
And the other nun says, "It must be the cobblestones." BONUS QUOTE:
"He sometimes watched old ladies plodding heavily across city streets where buses threatened, and knew for certain that inside those shrunken bodies were the shining faces of fourteen-year-olds."Read:
7/1999
The Frumious Bandersnatch
A budding pop star is kidnapped.
Smoking Quote:
"She doesnt know I still smoke," he explained, letting out a self-satisfied poisonous cloud. "Her brother had his larynx removed last month, she thinks everybody in the worlds gonna get throat cancer now. Ive been smoking since I was sixteen, I dont even cough."Read:
12/2005
The Last Best Hope
Matthew Hope finds a missing husband who's trying to steal Socrates hemlock bottle.
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12/1999
Transgressions
Ten novellas by authors such as Westlake, McCrumb, King, Block, John Farris, and others.
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5/2005
Catacombs
Second (and probably last) volume of the space cats series, which apparently relates to the cats in "The Tower And The Hive" series.
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7/2017
Catalyst
Co-authored by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. This book is about cats in space. It is OK, funny at times, perhaps even "slyly" funny. I will read the next book. But after that, I am not making any promises.
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7/2017
In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies
Another in the series of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency stories, the second one I've read now. A very nice story, with interesting insights into life in Botswana.
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4/2016
The Kalahari Typing School For Men
I think that I am starting to get into this series, now that I've read maybe three!
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2/2019
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
A lady in Botswana start a detective agency to help people with their problems. Very nice.
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5/2004
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