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The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome...
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Jack Liffey mysteries volume 10
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2008
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318 p. ; 25 cm.
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Toby Peters mysteries volume 23
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Toby tries to clear a dentist accused of a medieval murder Though an otherwise unremarkable woman, Mildred Minck has the distinction of being the first citizen of Los Angeles to be murdered by crossbow. The police find her dentist husband, Sheldon, standing over the body with the weapon, swearing that only Joan Crawford can identify the real killer. An insanity defense seems a natural fit, but Sheldon wants his neighbor, private investigator Toby...
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Haley Randolph mysteries volume 1
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When someone's passion for designer purses leads to murder, Haley goes shopping for a killer to clear her name.
7) The sentry
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Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighborhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he offers his own brand of protection. But neither Dru nor her uncle want his help--and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching their store.
9) Taken
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When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers...
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Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 10
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2005
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342 p. ; 25 cm.
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Private investigator Elvis Cole learns that the body of a stranger who claimed to be his father has been discovered, a situation that prompts him to team up with partner Joe Pike to unveil dark secrets surrounding Cole's past.
11) The first rule
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Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 13
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Frank Meyer had the American dream--until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own--an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminals.
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Regan Reilly mysteries volume 8
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Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
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viii, 385 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
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Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 11
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Working as a bodyguard for a spoiled federal witness, Joe Pike hatches a desperate plan to disappear with the woman in the underworld of Los Angeles and turn on her would-be killers, an effort in which he enlists the help of private investigator Elvis Cole.
16) Short change
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New American Library
Pub. Date
c2007
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295 p. ; 24 cm.
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Struggling to get her L.A.-based consulting business off the ground, Tucker Sinclair has her hands full, especially after her clients' businesses--and their lives--are threatened.
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Library of America volume 80
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Library of America
Pub. Date
1995.
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1076 p. ; 21 cm.
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Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2013
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324 p. ; 20 cm.
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Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is summoned by a formidable nonagenarian mob boss to exact justice for a once-famous starlet whose career was derailed by an unknown adversary's compromising photos seventy years earlier.
20) Poodle Springs
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Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 8
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c1989
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268 p. ; 24 cm.
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Philip Marlowe marries a rich, beautiful society lady who wants him to settle down. But old habits die hard, and Marlowe soon is back in business, enmeshed in a case involving pornography, bigamy, and murder.
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