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21) The breakers
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 33
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On a foggy summer morning, private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbors, the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter Chelle hasn't been answering their calls for weeks. Would Sharon check on her? Sharon arranges to visit the building Chelle had been living in and rehabbing in southwest San Francisco. Once it was a nightclub and bar, she learns, and a favorite destination for the city's elite during Prohibition....
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
The Globe Apartments, six stories of decaying brick and concrete, rises above San Francisco's volatile Tenderloin district. The seedy former hotel, once a haven for the city's down and out, now houses Vietnamese families striving to improve their lives. But private eye Sharon McCone believes that someone from the Tenderloins shadowy underworld is determined to drive the newcomers out. The suspects range from the colorful to the dangerous: a poetry-loving...
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 17
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
24) Beyond the grave
Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon novels volume 2
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
©1986
Language
English
25) Point deception
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
New York Times bestselling author, Marcia Muller, brings you another thrilling mystery with her famous private investigator, Sharon McCone.
The body of an woman washes up near Point Deception, California—a day after she was spotted near her broken-down car on the highway. Deputy Sheriff Rhoda Swift worries the woman's brutal rape and murder will resurrect fears from the unsolved massacre of two families 13 years before. When...
The body of an woman washes up near Point Deception, California—a day after she was spotted near her broken-down car on the highway. Deputy Sheriff Rhoda Swift worries the woman's brutal rape and murder will resurrect fears from the unsolved massacre of two families 13 years before. When...
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 30
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When new clients Jay and Camilla Givens come to Sharon McCone with Camilla's stories of devil worshippers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco, the detective is skeptical, to say the least. However, when she discovers that Jay is involved with the treasure hunting group The Night Searchers, she starts looking into what exactly he and the other participants are up to after dark. As she digs deeper into the Searchers, Sharon joins their ranks...
27) City of whispers
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Private eye Sharon McCone receives an e-mail asking for help from her emotionally disturbed half-brother, Darcy Blackhawk, but he fails to reply to her response. As her search widens, Sharon uncovers a connection to an unsolved murder of a young woman who was heiress to a multi-million dollar fortune
Author
Series
Elena Oliverez mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1996, c1985
Language
English
Author
Series
Elena Oliverez mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 31
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Finally settled into their new home after losing their house in a fire, and fully established in their new shared offices, private investigator Sharon McCone and her business partner husband Hy are starting to feel comfortable. That calm is shattered when Hy's former colleague Gage Renshaw--a shady troublemaker who they had presumed dead reappears, and it's unclear what he wants from his prosperous former associate. Meanwhile, Sharon has a new client...
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Someone is bent on getting revenge on Ricky Savage, Sharon McCone's brother-in-law and a two-time Grammy Award-winning country singer. The danger escalates as Sharon realizes that more than one person has been playing underhanded games--and that the music industry is truly a broken promise land.
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amid the shifting world of San Francisco flea markets, shady vendors sell junk, precious antiques, and stolen goods side by side. Somewhere in the mix, a priceless collection of sacred Torah scrolls is gathering dust—and attracting a group of fanatical killers. When private investigator Sharon McCone helps one flea market kingpin fend off a stalker, she's drawn into the netherworld of deal-making and thievery, a dangerous milieu seldom seen
...33) Eye of the storm
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Appleby Island, once the magnificent home of a tycoon and planter, is a place of history and mystery in the Sacramento delta. Its story includes hints of tragedy, fueling rumors that ghosts still walk its derelict orchards. Now Patsy McCone, her new lover, and a group of investors are turning the old mansion into an elegant bed and breakfast. Summoned by her eccentric younger sister, San Francisco's number one PI Sharon McCone arrives in the teeth...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Lis Benedict served jail time after being convicted of a brutal murder. When she's released, she goes to All Souls Legal Cooperative in an attempt to clear her name. Sharon McCone, while loving the challenge, has little liking for this cold woman. Then Lis is found dead, and Sharon is being threatened. Sharon follows the trail back to a rowdy debutante, a prominent think tank, and 1950s powerful politics, all to find a killer who has created a deathly...
Author
Series
Sharon McCone mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sabina Carpenter and John Quinncannon are no stranger to mysteries. In the five years since they opened Carpenter and Quinncannon, Professional Detective Services, they have solved dozens, but one mystery has eluded even them: Sherlock Holmes or, rather, the madman claiming his identity, who keeps showing up with a frustrating (though admittedly useful) knack for solving difficult cases. Roland W. Fairchild, recently arrived from Chicago, claims...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what appear to be two unrelated investigations. While Sabina hunts for a ruthless lady pickpocket, Quincannon is after a slippery housebreaker who targets wealthy homes. The cases connect in a surprising fashion, but not before two murders and other assorted felonies complicate matters. And not before the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative.When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention.The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel...
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