In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man’s grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father’s name. Van Dorn...
Private investigators
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Author:Clive CusslerSummary: -
Author:Lutz, LisaSummary:Isabel "Izzy" Spellman is a 28-year-old private eye working for her eccentric family's investigation firm. Looking to get out of the family business, she agrees to take one more job--a 15-year-old missing persons case....
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Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:Edgar Roy--an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like federal supermax facility--is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
Presents an Inspector William Monk mystery set in Victorian England.
- Author:Davis, LindseySummary:
When Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer, encounters the young and beautiful Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses that something is amiss. He offers to help her and, in doing so, gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot involving...
- Author:Galbraith, RobertSummary:
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and...
- Author:Rickstad, EricSummary:
Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective's badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an '89 Monte Carlo...
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Author:McEvoy, JohnSummary:Seven lifelong friends and racing fans from their student days at the University of Wisconsin strike it lucky at Saratoga Race Track when they combine to win a plus million dollar Pick Six. They subsequently use some of those profits to...
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
The unflappable Stone Barrington comes face to face with two men whose lives are wrapped in shadows and lies-and who both still feel the sting of betrayal they can never forget. Between a Rock and a Hard Place Hired by an odd client...
- Author:Deaver, JefferySummary:
For years Frederick Lowell has quietly managed the estate of the revered novelist Edward Goodwin. Though the author of only one novel, that book has gone on to sell hundreds of millions of copies, keeping Lowell comfortable as well as...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley, two unemployed school chums, bump into each other in London and agree to become the "Young Adventurers," who will go anywhere and do anything, according to their ad. Soon they are involved...
- Author:Melander, JakobSummary:
The mayor of Copenhagen is found murdered in his luxury apartment. Detective Lars Winkler is put on this sensitive case, which is further complicated by the fact that the victim’s mother is the leader of the country’s most radical...
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Author:Osborne, StephenSummary:Sequel to Animal Instinct A Duncan Andrews Thriller, Book Three Duncan Andrews, a private detective who specializes in paranormal cases, is back, along with his usual gang. Robbie Church, his boyfriend, is a ghost. Gina, a centuries old...
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Author:De Castrique, MarkSummary:A simple assignment for private investigator Sam Blackman and his partner Nakayla Robertson: follow Professor Janice Wainwright, who’s suing a surgeon for malpractice, and catch her in activities that undercut her claim. When Wainwright...
- Author:Mason, Paul NicholasSummary:
Andrew and his fiancée, Hannah, are on board a whale-watching boat in the Bay of Fundy when the vessel is hit by a rogue wave. Thirty-eight people are rescued by the coast guard, but Hannah is not one of them, and she is subsequently...
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Author:HILL, ReginaldSummary:A sweltering summer spells bad news for the private detective business. Villains take the month off and the only swingers in town are on the 19th hole of the Royal Hoo Golf Course. The reputation of the Hoo is in trouble, however....
- Author:Leroy, MargaretSummary:
Middle-aged mother of two Ginnie Holmes embarks on an affair with a married man, taking to an abandoned river house for their Thursday trysts. But when she thinks she sees a murderer by the river, she must decide whether to risk...
- Author:Chandler, RaymondSummary:
- Author:Cussler, CliveSummary:
The year is 1910, and wealthy newspaper magnate Preston Whiteway has put up $50,000 for the first aviator to cross America in fewer than 50 days. Josephine Frost takes up the challenge and has more than enough moxie to claim the prize....
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
First published in a 1844 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1845, The Purloined Letter is the third and final story that features Poe's detective, C. Auguste Dupin. In it, Dupin is approached by the...
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