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Two Friends

Maupassant, Guy de
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

Mayor, Archer
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

Mazer, Harry
A very good story of a boy who experiences the Pearl Harbor attack.

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11/2002

Stand By: The Story Of A Boy's Achievement In Radio

McAlister, Hugh
I enjoyed this story very much. Pretty exciting in parts. Lots of radio stuff, even some amateur radio. Story ended pretty abruptly, though.

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3/2023

Doll

McBain, Ed
87th precinct investigates the murder of a model.

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9/2000

Driving Lessons

McBain, Ed
Short book about a student driver, her instructor, and the lady they hit.

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7/2001

Fat Ollie's Book

McBain, Ed
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. 108

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6/2003

Mary, Mary

McBain, Ed
Matthew Hope defends a woman who everbody saw burying one of the victims in her garden!

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10/2000

Mischief

McBain, Ed
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

McBain, Ed
Fat Ollie saves Carella's life twice. Pretty good. Still like the second time I read it!

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6/2004

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11/2007

Nocturne

McBain, Ed
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

McBain, Ed
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

McBain, Ed
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."

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7/1999

The Frumious Bandersnatch

McBain, Ed
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."

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12/2005

The Last Best Hope

McBain, Ed
Matthew Hope finds a missing husband who's trying to steal Socrates hemlock bottle.

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12/1999

Transgressions

McBain, Ed, editor
Ten novellas by authors such as Westlake, McCrumb, King, Block, John Farris, and others.

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5/2005

Catacombs

McCaffrey, Anne
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

McCaffrey, Anne
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

McCall Smith, Alexander
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

McCall Smith, Alexander
I think that I am starting to get into this series, now that I've read maybe three!

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2/2019
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[Abadzis - Abrahams] [Adams - Albanov] [Albert - Anderson] [Anderson - Armstrong] [Arngrim - Authors, ] [Auxier - Baen Publishing Enterprises] [Baen Publishing Enterprises - Barker] [Barker - Barnard] [Barnard - Barr] [Barr - Bass] [Bauer - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beattie - Bingle] [Birdsall - Block] [Block - Block] [Block - Borchert] [Bosch - Bradbury] [Brashares - Bruchac] [Brucker - Bujold] [Bujold - Bujold] [Bujold - Bythell] [Cain - Card] [Card - Carey] [Carlson editor - Chambers] [Chambers - Choldenko] [Choldenko - Clarke] [Clarke - Cody] [Cody - Colfer] [Colfer - Collins] [Collins - Connelly] [Connelly - Constantine] [Constantine - Cooper] [Corbett - Cornwell] [Cornwell - Crais] [Crais - Crichton] [Crichton - Crusie] [Curry - Cussler] [Cussler - Davis] [Davis - Dilloway] [Dilloway - Dorsey] [Dorsey - Dorsey] [Dowd - Duane] [Duble - Elkins] [Elkins - Eszterhas] [Evanovich - Fairstein] [Fairstein - Fenner] [Ferber - Flanagan] [Flanagan - Flint] [Flint - Foster] [Foster - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Frank] [Franklin - Gailey] [Gailey - Garrigue] [Gash - Gladwell] [Gleason - Gores] [Gores - Granger] [Granger - Greenleaf] [Greenleaf - Grimes] [Grimes - Grisham] [Grisham - Haddix] [Haddix - Hall] [Hall - Hammett] [Hammett - Hautman] [Hautman - Heinlein] [Heinlein - Heller] [Heller - Henry] [Henry - Hess] [Hess - Hiaasen] [Hiaasen - Hillerman] [Hillerman - Hobbs] [Hochschild - Horowitz] [Horowitz - Hunter] [Hyland - Jemisin] [Jemisin - Jones] [Jones - Kaminsky] [Kaminsky - Kellog] [Kelly - King] [King - Kline] [Kline - Kowal] [Kowal - LaFleur] [Lahiri - Lasky] [latham - Leckie] [Leckie - Leitch] [Leitch - Lescroart] [Levine - Linville] [Lippman - Lovegrove] [Lovegrove - Lutz] [Lutz - Macleod] [Macleod - Marcinko] [Marcinko - Martini] [Martini - Matthews] [Maupassant - McCall Smith] [McCall Smith - McCrumb] [McCrumb - Meader] [Medwed - Miles] [Millard - Moon] [Moon - Morris] [Morrison - Myers] [Myers - Nimmo] [Nimmo - Norton] [Norton - O'Brian] [O'Brian - O'Connor] [O'Dell - Otto] [Owens - Paretsky] [Paretsky - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Patron] [Patterson - Paulsen] [Paulsen - Pelletier] [Pennac - Philbrick] [Pickard - Posey] [Powell - Poyer] [Poyer - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Preiss, Editor] [Prineas - Pullman] [Pullman - Quinn] [Quinn - Reedy] [Reeve - Richardson] [Richardson - Robinson] [Robinson - Rosenfelt] [Rosoff - Russell] [Russell - Sachar] [Sachar - Sanders] [Sanders - Scalzi] [Scalzi - Scieszka] [Scieszka - Scottoline] [Scottoline - Shea] [Sheinkin - Silverberg] [Silverberg - Smith] [Smith - Spinelli] [Spinelli - Stead] [Stead - Stewart] [Stockett - Stross] [Stross - Swanson] [Swee - Tchaikovsky] [Teague - Trevor] [Turner - Urrea] [Ursu - Vance] [Vande Velde - Walshots] [Walter - Weber] [Weber - Wells] [Wells - Westlake] [Westlake - Westlake] [Westlake - Willis] [Willis - Wodehouse] [Wodehouse - Yates] [Yelchin - Zusak] 

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