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'G' Is For Gumshoe
Sue Grafton
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Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her thirty-third birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty's hit list. It's the last that convinces Kinsey even she can't handle whoever's been hired to whack her, and she gets herself a bodyguard: Robert Dietz, a Porsche-driving P.I. who takes guarding Kinsey's body very seriously. With Dietz watching her for the merest sign of her usual recklessness, Kinsey plunges into her case. And before it's over, she'll unearth the gruesome truth about a long-buried betrayal and, in the process, come fact-to-face with her own mortality. . . .
"Wit is the most versatile weapon in Sue Grafton's well-stocked arsenal, and she uses it with disarming precision. . . . Grafton excels in this milieu."
--Newsweek
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Going, Going, Gone
Eliza G.C. Collins
1986
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- The thrill of an antiques auction was in the blood of Boston gallery owner Helen Green. And this time the chance to buy back a painting she was forced to sell long ago had her on a razor's edge of anticipation. A gorgeous landscape by Albert Ryder was going on the block that afternoon, and Helen would do anything to outbid the cut-throat competition to possess it. But murder? She wouldn't, of course, but somebody did...for a grisly corpse among the objects d'art soon made Helen the prime suspect in a rival dealer's death. Now the price of her freedom depended on her talent for investigation...and her expert appraisal of the crafty criminal who made a real killing in antiques...
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The Great Merlini: Twelve Short Stories
Rawson, Clayton
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- The Great Merlini is a magician turned detective created by Clayton Rawson, the founder of the Mystery Writers of America. Rawson was also editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and these short stories first appeared in that publication.
CAIRO REVIEW: The Great Merlini: Twelve Short Stories review by Edogawa Ranpo.
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