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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Description
PI Jack Liffey is hired to find Ty Bird, a popular African-American actor. Bird is a schizophrenic and disappears from the set. He is off pursuing one of his hallucinations, looking for the father he never met. Jack's home life is falling apart. His daughter is at college and his partner, Gloria, is spending less time at home. Jack is feeling lonely. As Jack is searching for Bird, he discovers someone is coming to seek revenge.
104) Kiss kiss bang bang
Pub. Date
p2006, c2005
Description
While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition. He does so well he gets to go to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and ends up geting caught up in twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies.
105) The Big Sleep
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues and the spoiled rich.
106) Bye-bye, black sheep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Their fledgling detective agency has spread its wings--and now partners Juliet Applebaum and Al Hockey, once in the hole, are finally flying high. A Hollywood lawyer uses them regularly to clean up after some of his less-than-discreet celeb clients. They see people come through the doors of their garage-turned-office, seeking defense investigation. They also see insurance investigation cases. But Juliet and Al are about to find out, they ain't seen...
107) The Big Sleep
Description
In this hard boiled detective story, private eye Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a twisted tale of blackmail and murder.
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in which an ambitious starlet, a blackmailer, and a seemingly...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Steve Ford is an L.A., based private investigator whose professional and personal worlds collide after his pet, Buddy, is stolen by a gang. Due to bizarre circumstances, Steve does the gang's bidding while being chased by two vengeful Samoan brothers, a loan shark's goons and a few other shady characters. Steve shows how far a man will go to be reunited with his best friend.
111) The long goodbye
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Private eye Philip Marlowe faces the most bizarre case of his life, when a friend's apparent suicide turns into a double murder involving a sexy blonde, a disturbed gangster, and a suitcase of drug money. But as Marlowe stumbles toward the truth, he soon finds himself lost in a maze of sex and deceit--only to discover that in L.A., if love is dangerous-- friendship is murder.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1135
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Voodoo River: L.A private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television start Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption. Sunset express: Elvis Dole finds himself embroiled in a controversial L.A. murder case. A walthy entrepreneur appears to have murdered his wife. A hot-shot defencse attroney takes the case and hires. Elvis Cole to find proof that a detective fooled around with the evidence....
Series
Select editions large type volume 189
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: For years twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille, a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. When Camille is killed by a truck, CeeCee's previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell, whisks CeeCee away to Savannah, a world seemingly run entirely by women. These exotic women keep CeeCee enthralled for an entire summer.
The sentry: When...
Pub. Date
[c2013]
Description
Somebody up there likes me, is the inspiring tale about Rocky Graziano's rise from poverty and rage to the middleweight title.
Cool hand Luke has prison loner Luke Jackson wining the respect of his fellow inmates when he refuses to cower before the chain gang boss.
In Harper, hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
In The Mackintosh man, Joseph Rearden is British Intelligence's man on the inside. It's...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Jim Rockford, an ex-con pardoned for an armed robbery he didn't commit, is a private investigator specializing in closed cases. The wisecracking private-eye's approach to crime is cooler than his sleek Pontiac Firebird and more casual than his mobile home in Malibu. Filled with wry humor, chilling suspense and engaging mysteries.
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