Harry One Sigh
Harry One Sigh

Author: Gar Mallinson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-10-20

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1491746661

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Harry Touchstone is nothing but a small-town detective who works mostly on insurance cases for local companies. Then, his friend dies, and Harry's life turns upside-down. His murdered pal was a graduate student writing her thesis on corruption in the building industry. Her researcher is found dead, too, and Harry makes it his business to solve the case. The case leads him from Harbour City to Vancouver, from arson to more murders. Unbeknownst to him, Harry has gone from hunter to hunted. He makes a string of odd allies as he fights to stay alive, including a transvestite, a hacker, and the matriarch of Chinatown. He also makes a lot of enemies, but he can't nail down their identities. Back home, Harry's secretary is raped, and one of his good friends is shot. The bad guys aren't just after Harry anymore-they're systematically attacking the people he loves most. Caught between the Hell's Angels, unethical politicians, and a psychopath named Indian, Harry is on the run. The only way to solve this case is to expose about a million lies ... and stay alive.

One-Shot Harry
One-Shot Harry

Author: Gary Phillips

Publisher: Soho Press

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 164129292X

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Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting mystery about an African American crime scene photographer seeking justice for a friend—perfect for fans of Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, and George Pelecanos. LOS ANGELES, 1963: Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King’s Freedom Rally, Ingram risks becoming a victim at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears about a deadly automobile accident on his police scanner, he recognizes the vehicle described as belonging to his good friend and old army buddy, a white jazz trumpeter. The LAPD declares the car crash an accident, but when Ingram develops his photos, he sees signs of foul play. Ingram feels compelled to play detective, even if it means putting his own life on the line. Armed with his wits, his camera, and occasionally his Colt .45, “One-Shot” Harry plunges headfirst into the seamy underbelly of LA society, tangling with racists, leftists, gangsters, zealots, and lovers as he attempts to solve the mystery. Master storyteller and crime fiction legend Gary Phillips has filled the pages of One-Shot Harry with fascinating historical cameos, wise-cracks, tenderness, and an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride of a plot with consequences far beyond one dead body.

Bloodlust
Bloodlust

Author: Gar Mallinson

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2017-12-28

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1525507532

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Private investigator Harry Hargreaves and his partner, Sabina Harris, along with the RCMP are investigating the disappearance of a young woman. Unable to find either leads or suspects, the pressure builds. When a young girl from Singapore also goes missing, the investigation turns international and political. Now the matriarch of Chinatown joins the chase, and the media has a field day. When two disemboweled bodies covered in strange markings are discovered in the bush around Harbour City and a third girl disappears, everybody gets caught up in a tsunami of events that sweeps them deeper and deeper into the dark, murderous world of a psychopathic killer.

An Embarrassment of Corpses
An Embarrassment of Corpses

Author: Alan Beechey

Publisher: Sourcebooks + ORM

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1615954821

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Scotland Yard is hunting the worst kind of serial killer—one with a sense of humor. When children's book author Oliver Swithin, reluctant creator of the notorious "Finsbury the Ferret," finds an old friend's body floating in a Trafalgar Square fountain, he can't convince the police to treat the death as a murder. But then more corpses turn up daily—on a tube station platform, in a botanical gardens hothouse, even in the middle of Piccadilly Circus—each murdered in an increasingly bizarre manner. It seems that a serial killer is at play, using London's landscape as his game board. Oliver joins his uncle, Detective Superintendent Tim Mallard, in a race to uncover the pattern behind the growing number of deaths. But even if they solve the murderer's puzzle, will it help them identify the next victim before the killer strikes again? And will Oliver ever reveal his secret passion for Mallard's assistant, the forbidding Detective Sergeant Effie Strongitharm? And what does any of this have to do with a battery-operated ferret, the works of Lewis Carroll, the great London Scorpion Scare, the episode of the nude Macbeth, and Underwood Tooth, the world's leading expert on being ignored?