Nameless Detective mysteries
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The snatch , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 1
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The vanished , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 2
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Undercurrent , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 3
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Blowback , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 4
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Labyrinth , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 6
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Hoodwink , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 7
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Scattershot , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 8
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Dragonfire , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 9
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Bindlestiff , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 10
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Double , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 11
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Quicksilver , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 13
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Bones , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 14
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Deadfall , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 15
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Shackles , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 16
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Jackpot , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 17
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 19
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[1992]
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Old Man Hess is concerned by the near-catatonic behavior of his daughter, Grady. The young woman showed up at his doorstep a few days earlier, refusing to admit anything was wrong, and has been wandering around the farm, not talking, barely eating. The "Nameless Detective" thinks the old farmer would be better off calling a psychiatrist--but he's at least willing to ask a few questions. As he begins to investigate, he discovers Grady's affliction...
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Epitaphs , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 20
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Demons , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 21
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Hardcase , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 22
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24) Illusions
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"In his 24th and most intriguing appearance, the "Nameless Detective" finds himself involved in two intricate and emotional investigations. The first is intensely personal: the unexpected death of his estranged friend and former partner, Eberhardt. Although there seems to be no question that Eberhardt committed suicide, "Nameless" becomes obsessed with the reasons behind the act." "Meanwhile, he is hired by a Santa Fe businessman to find his ex-wife,...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 27
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2002
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A simple case of blackmail gets lethally complicated when "Nameless" exposes a nasty scam that involves junior accounts executive Jay Cohalan, his unhappy wife, and a mistress with a serious drug problem. It's the kind of case Nameless likes, because bleeders-the blackmailers, extortionists, small-time grifters, and other opportunists who prey on the weak and gullible-sit near the top of his most-worthless-human-beings list. But soon Nameless finds...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 28
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c2003
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Shaken after a hair's-breadth escape from death, Nameless has made changes in his professional life, but he's not put himself out to pasture. Again he enters San Francisco's shadowy underworld, this time in a search for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who has been found dead in an alley doorway. Clues are few, but Pronzini, working at the top of his form, takes his seasoned private-eye hero to a new phase of a still-evolving...
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Scenarios: a 'Nameless Detective' casebook , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 29
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 30
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[2005]
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Things were quiet in Nameless's San Francisco agency, and his partner, Tamara, was itching to get back to work. A deadbeat father needed to be found, and Tamara needed to do some fieldwork, so she took off for his last known address. When Tamara goes missing, Nameless feels a sinking in his gut: a few years ago he'd been kidnapped and left to die in a cabin in the woods, and something about Tamara's disappearance echoes too loudly. When he discovers...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 31
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[2006]
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"Nameless" has seen enough death in his years; spending his time watching someone drive to several funerals a day, funerals for people he didn't know, was more than he could take. And he had a nonprofessional problem of his own; his relationship with his wife, Kerry, had hit a wall and nothing he'd done had gotten him over it and to the other side. There was one possibility, one thing he'd done (or not done) but knowing that didn't seem to help......
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 32
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[2007]
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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.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 33
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[2008]
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Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before-propelled by a gambling fever that rose ever higher-and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce. A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging...
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Schemers: a nameless detective novel , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 34
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35) Betrayers
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 35
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We're told that there are seven deadly sins; not on the list is the deadliest of them all: Betrayal. For each of the detectives at the agency, a betrayal-personal, against a child, against the elderly-becomes not only the driving force behind an investigation, but the source of the kind of resolve that cannot be derailed by threats of any kind.
Tamara's case began as something personal but explodes as her investigation of her former lover Lucas Zeller...
36) Camouflage
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 36
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[2011]
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Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex-wife, and they know where she is. Deliver some papers to her and it is is all done. But she refuses the papers, sends a message to Virden to never contact her again, and slams the door. His colleague, Tamara, tells Nameless that Virden threatens to sue, stops payment on his checks, and claims that the woman they located is not his wife. Then he disappears and his fiancee...
37) Hellbox
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 37
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2012
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"Bill, the "Nameless Detective", and his wife Kerry were in the Sierra foothills, just outside of Six Pines, falling in love with a cabin. It was all perfect, until Kerry went missing. They'd seen Balfour at breakfast at the diner and Kerry remembered his name...PR people are like that. Which was unfortunate, because when she ran into him along the trail on that sunny afternoon and called him by name, he panicked. And that's when Bill's nightmare...
38) Nemesis
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 38
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[2013]
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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.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 39
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2014.
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Cheryl seeks assistance from Nameless when her son, Cody Hatcher, is accused of three rapes in Mineral Springs.
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Vixen , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 40
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41) Endgame
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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 case is a missing person . . . but the person missing was agoraphobic and never left...
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Case file
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Graveyard plots: the best short stories of Bill Pronzini
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Small felonies
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45) Double
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume Related works
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1995, c1984
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Sharon McCone has come home to her warm, troubled family, to San Diego and a convention of private detectives in a posh seaside hotel. For Sharon it's a chance to catch up with old friends--all except for the one who fell four stories from one of the hotel spires. Now, Sharon is determined to find out why her friend died.
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Spadework: a collection of 'nameless detective' stories
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Femme: a Nameless Detective novella
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Kinsmen: a Nameless Detective novella
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