18 books like Shooting Crows At Dawn
Cleek, the man of the forty faces
Meet Hamilton Cleek – man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do.
Cleek’s exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but the book is enormous fun. The goodies are good and the baddies are very bad indeed, but beware – things are not always what they seem. Suspend your disbelief and enjoy a rattling good yarn!
Cleek is the central figure in dozens of short stories that began…
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Compound Murder A Dan Rhodes Mystery
"In Compound Murder, award-winning Bill Crider invites mystery fans on a new adventure with Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. Before classes start one morning, the body of English instructor Earl Wellington is found outside the building of the community college campus in Clearview. Wellington was clearly involved in a struggle with someone and has died as a result. Sheriff Dan Rhodes pursues and arrests…
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DEVILLIERS COUNTY BLUES
Following the tragic death of his girlfriend, the protagonist returns from North Africa heartbroken and restless. He takes to the road but outside of Wheeling, West Virginia is knocked unconscious and kidnapped, awakening days later to find himself in a Texas insane asylum, charged with murder of a police officer.
DeVilliers County Blues is the story of four very different young people, all…
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The Great Hotel Robbery
At 4:04 A.M., Friday, May 29, 1981, three tuxedo-clad men and a uniformed chauffeur emerge from a limousine at the side entrance of New York's famed Hotel Champs-Elysees, carry expensive luggage into the lobby, and calmly pull off the biggest hotel robbery in American history.
Over the next two hours and thirty-three minutes, they handcuff, gag, and blindfold twenty-three employees,…
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The cask
A strange container is found on the London docks, and its contents point to murder
The cask from Paris is bigger than the rest, its sides reinforced to hold the extraordinary weight within. As the longshoremen are bringing it onto the London docks, the cask slips, cracks, and spills some of its treasure: a wealth of gold sovereigns. As the workmen cram the spilled gold into their pockets, an…
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The King of Diamonds
David Swain has spent two years of his life sentence for murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend, Katya Osman. On the night he escapes from prison, Katya is found murdered in her uncle's home. Inspector Trave heads the manhunt for David, but his personal life becomes entangled in case because his ex-wife his having an affair with Katya's uncle.
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Murder on the Mediterranean
Even on a well-deserved Mediterranean cruise, murder follows Commissair Capucine Le Tellier.
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Dangerous behavior
SOME COUPLES
Just one look, and it's clear they're perfect together. It's in the way they touch, talk, and kiss. They share the same interests. The same twisted passions. They do everything together. Even kill…
ARE TOO GOOD
Julia St. James Ford has washed up on a beach near her home in Seaside, Oregon, with no memory of how she got there or how her husband, Joe, died. The police rule the case an…
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The Body in the Truck
Based on a true incident, this book takes us through the minds of the good guys and bad guys, from cops to teens to a three-year-old; even a dog chips in to help solve the strange murder.
Some violence, but nothing a sophisticated middle-schooler couldn't handle, with language at the same level, but the story is not watered down -- adults will be intrigued.
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Find The Lady
When gangster Mike Spagliotti is found shot through the head inside his locked New York hotel suite, it is a perplexing problem for Detective-Inspector Flannel. And when newspaper reporter Anita Curzon begins to interfere, Flannel's temper does not improve ... In THE EGYPTIAN TOMB Tony Gilmour and his friends Ron and Alan travel to Egypt to investigate the suspicious death of Ron's father - but…
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
First discovered and then painstakingly edited and annotated by Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution related the astounding and previously unknown collaboration of Sigmund Freud with Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by Holmes's friend and chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson. In addition to its breathtaking account of their collaboration on a case of diabolic conspiracy in which the lives of…
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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee Mysteries)
Travis McGee #13
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Cimarron rose
Former Texas Ranger Billy Holland, now a lawyer, is hired to defend a teenage boy accused of killing his girlfriend. It is a family affair of sorts, the man who hired Holland being the boy's stepfather. The real father is Holland.
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No Plan B
Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts.
One witness sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus - clearly suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what really happened - a man in grey hoodie and jeans, swift and silent as a shadow, pushed the victim to her death, before grabbing her bag and sauntering away.
Reacher follows the killer…
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The Sentinel
The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2021 - his 25th adventure. No one's bigger than Jack Reacher.
Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along.
Not going to happen.
The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is…
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Better Off Dead
Reacher never backs down from a problem.
And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted road in Arizona, where a car has crashed into the only tree for miles around.
Minutes later, Reacher is heading into town. To introduce himself to the shadowy crew who made it happen.
Their boss has a terrifying reputation and the stakes are high. Just to get in and meet him, Reacher is going to have to…
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Los mares del Sur
"Stuart Pedrell, un importante empresario, aparece muerto a navajazos en un barrio extremo de la ciudad cuando desde hacía un año se le suponía en un viaje por Polinesia. Carvalho averigua lo que hizo en el curso de ese año y va desenredando un embrollo que tiene como fondo un sentimiento de frustración general. Desde la alta sociedad al inframundo de los suburbios, la novela traza un intenso…
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She's Leaving Home
London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio.
The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an…
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