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Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 4
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A collection of four mystery stories follow the adventures of private detectives Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon in the American West of the 1890s.
2) Hellbox
Author
Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 36
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When his wife goes missing from their Sierra foothills cabin after spotting a suspicious man, the Nameless Detective and his associate, Jake Runyon, launch a search and rescue mission that stretches legal boundaries.
3) Savages
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the death of a woman that has been ruled accidental by the police but that her sister insists was a murder by a known perpetrator, a reluctant Nameless begins to suspect that the victim's sister is telling the truth when he learns unsettling facts about her life.
4) Nemesis
Author
Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 37
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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.
5) Spook
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a near brush with death, the Nameless Detective searches for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who was brutally slain, a search that leads him to a small California town rife with murder and mayhem.
Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 8
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In response to a string of gold thefts in a Mother Lode mine, Quincannon goes undercover as a newly-hired miner to identify and capture the men responsible. Meanwhile, Sabina finds herself not only making plans for her and Quincannons wedding, but also investigating both an audacious real estate scam and an abusive young man's villainous secret.
7) Mourners
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a suspicious wife reports her husband's inexplicable attendance at the funerals of murdered strangers, the nameless detective and his companions, Tamara and Jake, find themselves compromised in the face of a stalled investigation.
8) Sentinels
Author
Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"Nameless" investigates the disappearance of a young couple in the small, northern California town of Creekside.
9) Hoodwink
Author
Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martins
Pub. Date
1981
Language
English
Description
Former pulp writer and current hack Russell Dancer invites Nameless to the first annual Western Pulp Convention in San Francisco. He wants Nameless to help him locate the person who is trying to blackmail Dancer for a purported plagiarism of a story called "Hoodwink." Arriving at the convention, Nameless discovers that a group of former friends (and now uncomfortable colleagues) who wrote for the pulps called the "Pulpeteers" have all received blackmail...
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Allison Shay was traveling home from the University of Oregon with her new boyfriend, Rob Compton, when their car broke down near the tiny rural town of Creekside, California. Soon after, Allison and Rob went missing without a trace. Whatever happened, it felt like something bad to the Nameless Detective. Five days without a whisper of contact with the outside world. Long past the inconsiderate-kids stage; long past the silly and the harmless. Kinsmen...
Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 9
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.
12) Betrayers
Author
Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 34
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An investigation of a former lover leads Tamara to a charity-targeting scam, while Nameless's assistance of an elderly woman reveals ugly family agendas and Runyon's search for a bail jumper leads him to make a wrenching choice.
Author
Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 40
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years, and this is one for the books. Or rather, two cases that will test his agency's resources. Love is in the air... more to the point, love gone awry. One case involves a woman whose husband died accidentally in a remote cabin in the Sierras. The wife isn't buying that her husband was alone, and is determined to find out his secret and get closure, in spite of any potential heartbreak. The other...
14) Strangers
Author
Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 41
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Cody Hatcher is the kind of teenager you don't want your kids hanging with. That's the book on him and it's why the citizens of Mineral Springs have no problem at all believing that he's guilty of three rapes. His mother, Cheryl, an old lover of Nameless's, is also being harassed by vindictive townspeople. It's against such odds that he must work to prove Cody innocent. There are few to help him and plenty to get in his way. It's a classic situation...
15) Schemers
Author
Series
"Nameless Detective" mysteries volume 33
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly agreeing to investigate the theft of a valuable rare book collection, Nameless finds the heist tied to a stalking case involving a pair of brothers who are being hounded by a twisted adversary who has decimated their father's grave.
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