Hail Hibbler

Hail Hibbler

Author: Ron Goulart

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1453257187

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DIVJake and his wife grapple with a harebrained Nazi doctor/divDIV /divDIVJake Pace is battling a bistro’s worth of robotic mafia goons when the government comes to ask him a favor. The Department of Big Business has a particularly sensitive murder on its hands, and Jake, proprietor of Odd Jobs, Inc., is a sensitive detective. A week ago, Statz Kazee announced to a television audience of 140 million that his next scoop would blow the lid off the international business community. Hours later, he was found shot to death, and every federal policemen sent to investigate the murder has wound up dead. Now it’s Jake’s problem./divDIV /divDIVAfter battling malfunctioning skycars, sinking houses, and mysterious cowboys, Jake and his wife learn that Statz had information about the fearsome Adolph Hibbler, the nastiest sinner to ever come out of the Nazi scientific community. Seventy years after the end of the war, Hibbler is back, and he’ll burn America to the ground if Jake can’t handcuff him first./div


Future and Fantastic Worlds

Future and Fantastic Worlds

Author: Sheldon Jaffery

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1557420025

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Future and Fantastic Worlds embodies an unusual approach to the field of bibliographic research, including over 700 annotations of every DAW book published through mid-1987, with indexes by author, artist, and title, providing a massive guide to modern SF writers and their works, with much background data. Interspersed throughout the book are numerous wry, irreverent, and amusing observations offered by the late and highly respected researcher in this extremely valuable genre tool.


Mystery Women

Mystery Women

Author: Colleen A. Barnett

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 1459612329

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Mystery Women, Volume One (Revised)

Mystery Women, Volume One (Revised)

Author: Colleen Barnett

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2011-12-31

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 1615950087

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Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.


Private Eyes

Private Eyes

Author: Robert Allen Baker

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780879723309

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Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.


Mystery Women

Mystery Women

Author: Colleen Barnett

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 1458768368

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Edgar- and Agatha-nominated author Colleen Barnett here updates her essential reference for readers and writers of mystery, examining women who detect, women as sleuths, and the evolving roles of women in professions and in society.


Big Bang

Big Bang

Author: Ron Goulart

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1453257195

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DIVHis brain scrambled, Jake tries to clear himself of a murder charge/divDIV /divDIVJake Pace comes to on the floor of a dungeon, where a robot jailer is killing rats. The last twenty-four hours are a blank; he doesn’t remember anything since he stepped into his skycar, chasing a tip on the Big Bang murders. For weeks the killings have stumped every officer in the government—costing six of them their lives—but a soprano named Palsy Hatchbacker told Jake she knew something that could break open the case. Before he met Miss Hatchbacker, a carnation-wearing goon spritzed Jake with a memory-wiping spray. When the police found him, he was sleeping peacefully next to Palsy’s corpse, a laser pistol in his hand. /divDIV /divDIVWhile he rots in jail, the Big Bang killer continues his rampage. Only Jake can bring him to justice, but first he must break out of an inescapable jail./div


Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Author: Don D'Ammassa

Publisher: Infobase Learning

Published: 2015-04-22

Total Pages: 2098

ISBN-13: 1438140622

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Presents articles on the science fiction genre of literature, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.


Brainz, Inc.

Brainz, Inc.

Author: Ron Goulart

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1453257209

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DIVA dead woman hires Jake to investigate her murder/divDIV /divDIVJake Pace is halfway through mixing a batch of cookies when his lawyer arrives with a corpse. The body in the coffin is an android, built in the shape of recently deceased electronics heiress Sylvie Kirkyard and implanted with a chip that holds Sylvie’s memories. Although she was only twenty-seven, Sylvie had for a long time feared for her life, and took the precaution of insuring her consciousness with Kirktronics’ patented Brainz, Inc. method. Upon her death, the chip was implanted in this electronic body, and the body was brought to Jake. /divDIV /divDIVLuckily, as the planet’s smartest private detective, Jake is used to corpses—robotic and otherwise. When the dead girl awakes and asks him to find her killers, Jake doesn’t blink an eye. But fulfilling her last request will be perilous, and by the time it’s over Jake may wish he had a spare body of his own./div