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The Devereaux File
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Author : Ross H. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: South Yarmouth, MA : Curley Pub.
Release Date : 1990
The Devereaux File written by Ross H. Spencer and has been published by South Yarmouth, MA : Curley Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Large print books categories.
The Devereaux File
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Author : Ross H. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2015-03-15
The Devereaux File written by Ross H. Spencer and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-15 with Fiction categories.
Wisecracking Chicago PI Lacey Lockington gets caught in a dangerous game of international espionage in this gritty, “truly hilarious” mystery (Kirkus Reviews). Former Chicago police detective Lacey Lockington isn’t much for small talk. But when he hears ex-CIA agent Rufe Devereaux is coming to town, he looks forward to arguing baseball with his old drinking buddy. Unfortunately, Rufe is involved in a more sinister kind of game—one that gets him killed shortly after his arrival. And as Lacey is about to find out, the other players aren’t playing around. The moment Lacey start investigating, he finds himself chased by the Mafia, the CIA, and a homicidal politician-turned-evangelist. And “help” arrives in the sultry form of a KGB agent named Natasha. He knows he’s in over his head. Because what starts as a search for the truth quickly becomes a desperate race for survival taking him from the gritty bars of Chicago to Miami’s cocaine-filled underbelly and culminating in “a slam-bang ending” (Publishers Weekly). “Spencer keeps the plot racing with amusing dialogue.” —Publishers Weekly
The Devereaux File
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Author : Ross H. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Release Date : 1990
The Devereaux File written by Ross H. Spencer and has been published by Dutton Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
Ex-police detective Lacy Lockington returns in this gritty follow-up to Spencers The Fifth Script. Now the resilient Chicago native travels to Youngstown and to Miami to track down an old friend who allegedly has become mixed up in dealings with the Mafiacutting into the profits from their lucrative cocaine trade, it is said. Rufe Devereaux is a veteran CIA agent and walking baseball encyclopedia, but he is already in over his head by the time he calls Lockington for help. Hes also dead by the time Lockington and his paramour Edna arrive in Youngstown, where more than just a pride of mobsters and a corpse await them... they stumble into an international espionage morass complete with a mysterious agent namedwhat else?Natasha. Chased by the mob, hunted by the CIA and foreign counterparts, enticed and intrigued by Natasha, Lockington instinctively knows that things are not as they seem. And if so, is missing cocaine money only the flotsam in Natashas seductive wake? Earthy humor, gritty suspense, and breathless chase are Spencers trademarks, which achieve high-water marks in his latest and best, The Devereaux File.
The Fedorovich File
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Author : Ross H. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2015-03-15
The Fedorovich File written by Ross H. Spencer and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-15 with Fiction categories.
The Chicago PI is out to find a Russian defector with dangerous Soviet secrets in this hardboiled mystery from the author of Death Wore Gloves. When business gets too hot in the Windy City, private detective Lacey Lockington hangs out his shingle in refreshingly boring Youngstown, Ohio. Of course, it’s not all boring thanks to Natasha, the former KGB agent who saved his life, stole his heart, and currently shares his bed. But their brief idyll ends when Lacey is offered big bucks to find a man who may well be hiding out in Youngstown. Alexi Fedorovich was one of Russia’s greatest military minds before he defected to the States—and then disappeared entirely. Before going underground, he published a book exposing the end of the Cold War as a Russian hoax. Now Lacey’s out to find a man who doesn’t want to be found, up against Russian spies, federal agents, and leads that keep dying on him. With a little help from Natasha, he might just get to the bottom of it all before Fedorovich finds himself on the wrong end of a firing squad. “Ross is wild, shrewd, mad, and unexpectedly funny.” —The New York Times
The Fifth Script
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Author : Ross H. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2015-04-12
The Fifth Script written by Ross H. Spencer and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-12 with Fiction categories.
In this “pugnacious, feisty” mystery series debut from the author of Death Wore Gloves, a devious killer has it in for a poison penned beauty (Kirkus Reviews). Chicago Detective Lacey Lockington has never been squeamish about taking out a few low lives in the pursuit of justice. But when tabloid columnist Stella Starbright calls him a “kill-crazy cop,” he suddenly needs to find a new line of work. Taking a job as a private investigator is a step down, for sure, but his first few cases certainly pique his interest: former “Stella Starbrights” are turning up dead on the streets of Chicago, and the current one—the very same Stella who ruined his reputation—is coming to him for protection. Going against his gut, Lacey agrees to keep Stella from sharing the grisly fate of her former namesakes. In the midst of all the madness, Lacey hunts the real killer, someone looking to silence gossip columnists for good. But can Lacey crack the case before another victim gets a headline in the obituaries? “Ross Spencer is wild, shrewd, mad, and unexpectedly funny.” —The New York Times
Death Wore Gloves
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Author : Ross H. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2015-03-15
Death Wore Gloves written by Ross H. Spencer and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-15 with Fiction categories.
A Chicago PI faces a deadly world of femme fatales and not-so-saintly nuns in this crime novel from a “wild, shrewd, mad, and unexpectedly funny” author (The New York Times). When Sister Rosetta’s niece goes missing, the nun (whose favorite poison is anything bottle-bound and boozy) hires shifty PI Tut Willow to find dear Gladys. But as Tut pulls back the curtain on Gladys’ checkered past—which includes a few racy pictures that’d make a sailor blush—he also discovers that someone doesn’t want her found. And soon bodies start piling up. Is Sister Rosetta behind the deaths of those out to harm her niece . . . or are Tut and Gladys just pawns in a much darker game? Full of laugh-out-loud comedy and the darkest of intrigue, Death Wore Gloves is “a lively story, both in and out of bed” from an author with “a keen sense of humor and a sharp writing style . . . Top of the line, this one is” (The New York Times). “This book could have played well at Minsky’s.” —Publishers Weekly “There is something of Donald E. Westlake in Mr. Spencer’s makeup. Like Mr. Westlake, he revels in absurdities that perhaps turn out to be not so absurd after all.” —The New York Times
The Stranger City Caper
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Author : Ross H. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
Release Date : 2015-03-17
The Stranger City Caper written by Ross H. Spencer and has been published by Diversion Publishing Corp. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with Fiction categories.
From the author of The Dada Caper: Chicago private detective Chance Purdue learns that nothing good comes from working for the mob—except cold hard cash. A quick and easy buck sounds good to PI Chance Purdue. But the paycheck seems to be a bit harder to earn when the job entails more than just looking into a minor league baseball team in southern Illinois. His new client, the gangster Cool Lips Chericola, is definitely leaving out details. Enter Brandy Alexander, whose unexpected appearance in Stranger City, Illinois, complicates things. Then throw in the Bobby Crackers Blitzkrieg for Christ religious crusade, and you’ve got a super-charged powder keg of a caper, with Chance holding both the match and the barrel. Praise for Ross H. Spencer’s The Dada Caper “Parodies of the private‐eye novel come and go. Here is The Dada Caper by Ross H. Spencer. It has every cliché down pat, including rat-tat-tat writing in which paragraphs are seldom more than one sentence. . . . The hero is a private eye who is always tailing the wrong people and hitting the wrong guys. The Dada Caper is wild, shrewd, mad and unexpectedly funny.” —The New York Times
Kirby S Last Circus
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Author : Ross H. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
Release Date : 2015-03-17
Kirby S Last Circus written by Ross H. Spencer and has been published by Diversion Publishing Corp. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with Fiction categories.
The author of the Chance Purdue series introduces a Chicago detective who goes under the big top to take down the ringmaster of a Russian conspiracy. When the CIA chooses Birch Kirby, a mediocre detective with a personal life even less thrilling than his professional one, no one is more surprised by the selection than Birch himself. But the agency needs someone for a secret mission, and Birch may be just the clown for the job. Going undercover as a circus performer, he travels to Grizzly Gulch to investigate the source of daily, un-decodable secret messages that are being transmitted to the KGB. Birch interacts with wildly colorful characters while stumbling through performances as well as his assignment. With the clock ticking, Birch must hurry to take a right step toward bringing the curtain down on this very important case. Praise for Ross H. Spencer’s The Dada Caper “Parodies of the private‐eye novel come and go. Here is The Dada Caper by Ross H. Spencer. It has every cliché down pat, including rat-tat-tat writing in which paragraphs are seldom more than one sentence. . . . The hero is a private eye who is always tailing the wrong people and hitting the wrong guys. The Dada Caper is wild, shrewd, mad and unexpectedly funny.” —The New York Times
American Mystery And Detective Novels
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Author : Larry Landrum
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1999-05-30
American Mystery And Detective Novels written by Larry Landrum and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.
The Dada Caper
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Author : Ross H. Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
Release Date : 2015-03-17
The Dada Caper written by Ross H. Spencer and has been published by Diversion Publishing Corp. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with Fiction categories.
“The hero is a private eye who is always tailing the wrong people and hitting the wrong guys. The Dada Caper is wild, shrewd, mad and unexpectedly funny” (The New York Times). Chance Purdue may be better at a lot of things than he is at detecting, but he’s the only man for the job when the FBI comes looking for someone to take on the Soviet-inspired DADA (Destroy America, Destroy America) conspiracy. Plus, he needs a paycheck. Chance gets off to a rough start as he’s led on a merry chase through Chicago’s underbelly and drawn into a case of deception that can only be solved with the help of a mysterious femme fatale who’s as beautiful as she is cunning.