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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter. Kenneth has fled San Francisco in a drug-induced panic to avoid trial on a charge of stealing a valuable necklace from the alcoholic wife of the man for whom he works, wealthy yachtsman Andrew Vorhees. When agency operative Jake Runyon locates and questions the frightened young man, Cory...
5) Bones
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©1985
Language
English
Description
Thirty-five years after Harmon Crane's suicide in a locked room, the Nameless Detective attempts to uncover the reasons behind the kingpin of pulp detective fiction's death, and by so doing, he enters into a deadly game.
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English
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A haunted woman's suicide pulls a California man into the poisonous secrets of a bleak Nevada desert town in Bill Pronzini's masterful work of noir fiction. There is something about the sad woman eating alone night after night at the Harmony Café that intrigues San Francisco CPA Jim Messenger. Unfulfilled himself, Jim feels a kinship with her - and later, when she commits suicide, he resolves to find out why. His search leads him to Beulah, a middle-of-nowhere...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective! Zigzag is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. Grapplin, which first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, deals with the kind of missing person case that can end in only one of two ways, closure or heartbreak. In the second short,...
8) Hoodwink
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©1981
Language
English
Description
The anonymous Nameless Detective encounters a blackmail plot and murder mystery at a conference of slightly disreputable old "pulp" writers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Description
Shaken after a hair's-breadth escape from death, Nameless has made changes in his professional life, but he's not put himself out to pasture. Again he enters San Francisco's shadowy underworld, this time in a search for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who has been found dead in an alley doorway. Clues are few, but Pronzini, working at the top of his form, takes his seasoned private-eye hero to a new phase of a still-evolving...
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English
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Description
A simple case of blackmail gets lethally complicated when "Nameless" exposes a nasty scam that involves junior accounts executive Jay Cohalan, his unhappy wife, and a mistress with a serious drug problem. It's the kind of case Nameless likes, because bleeders-the blackmailers, extortionists, small-time grifters, and other opportunists who prey on the weak and gullible-sit near the top of his most-worthless-human-beings list. But soon Nameless finds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Despite the fact that his wedding is right around the corner, John Quincannon takes on what may be his riskiest assignment: going undercover into a gold mine to ferret out a gang hijacking high-grade ore before it reaches the surface ... John discovers the clever methods by which the scheme is being worked and exposes the conspirators ... following him leads to an unexpected rendezvous with Sabina, who has uncovered vital information about the thief's...
Author
Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
16) Nemesis
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Agreeing to investigate threats by a mysterious extortionist against a newly rich young woman, Jake Runyon makes a series of surprise discoveries that cause him to be wrongfully accused of a crime and his employers to be subjected to a vicious legal vendetta--Publisher
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Quincannon's pursuit of two con men who have absconded to Hawaii with a considerable sum of his employer's assets dovetails nicely with Sabina's vision of a second honeymoon. But neither is wont to stay out of trouble, and Sabina inadvertently becomes involved in a locked room/dying message murder in Honolulu."--Publisher.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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1914. Nothing much happens in Peaceful Valley, Montana... and that's just how Sheriff Lucas Monk likes it. He hasn't had to resort to his fists or sidearm in years. Then the theft of a wooden cigar store Indian sets off a crime wave like nothing Lucas has ever seen. Teenager Charity Axthelm goes missing, and Reba Purvis's housekeeper is poisoned with cyanide Reba is sure was meant for her. It's not long before the first corpse shows up, and it's up...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"The Flimflam Affair is the latest charming historical mystery in Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini's detective series. Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services is a fixture in San Francisco at the dawn of a new century. While the future is unclear, Sabina and John know one thing for certain; they will protect their clients from flimflammers, thieves, and murderers, and do whatever it takes to run these dregs of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Nameless Detective has been in business for many years, but the only femme fatales he's known were in fiction or the movies. That is, until his bail bondsman friend Abe Melikian introduces him to Cory Beckett. Nameless has spent more time as a detective than Cory has breathed-- but she's brought some new and terrible angles to the concept of evil.
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