Shills Can't Cash Chips
Shills Can't Cash Chips

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Publisher: Titan Books

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1785656376

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Has Donald Lam gone to the dark side?!? From the world-famous creator of Perry Mason, Erle Stanley Gardner – at his death the best-selling American writer of all time – comes another baffling case for the Cool & Lam detective agency: SHILLS CAN'T CASH CHIPS. Return to the 1960s as a simple insurance investigation into a car accident puts Bertha Cool and Donald Lam on the trail of murder. It's Gardner's twistiest caper ever.

Shills Can't Cash Chips
Shills Can't Cash Chips

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2014-12-14

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1471909131

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Money in the bank had always been a persuasive factor in Bertha Cool's life - and Lamont Hawley represented a lot of it. He also represented an insurance company that smelled a rat about a traffic-accident claim. The trouble was the claimant had drifted away - a beautiful blonde who had been co-operative and level-headed. In fact, too level-headed ... she sounded almost professional. Donald Lam didn't like it. Why should a large insurance company need an outside investigator? But Bertha's eyes see $$$ so Donald gets cracking, and within no time he is the prime suspect. For what on earth is a body doing in the trunk of Donald's car?

The Knife Slipped
The Knife Slipped

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)

Published: 2016-12-06

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1783299428

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Lost for more than 75 years, The Knife Slipped was meant to be the second book in the series, but shelved when Gardner’s publisher objected to (among other things) Bertha Cool’s tendency to “talk tough, swear, smoke cigarettes, and try to gyp people.” But this tale of adultery and corruption, of double-crosses and triple identities—however shocking for 1939—shines today as a glorious present from the past, a return to the heyday of private eyes and shady dames, of powerful criminals, crooked cops, blazing dialogue, and delicious plot twists. Donald Lam has never been cooler—not even when played by Frank Sinatra on the U.S. Steel Hour of Mystery in 1946. Bertha Cool has never been tougher. And Erle Stanley Gardner has never been better.

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.

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.

Heat Seeker: A Gun Honey Series
Heat Seeker: A Gun Honey Series

Author: Charles Ardai

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2024-02-27

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1787741818

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Award-winning writer and co-founder of Hard Case Crime, Charles Ardai, returns to the Gun Honey universe in this action-packed spin-off featuring the sultry and explosive work of Ace Continuado! Dahlia Racers is a fiery redhead who, when someone’s gunning for you, will take the heat on herself – for a price. As a master of disguise and deception, she uses every trick to dupe those who want you captured or dead. But will a new job taking Gun Honey Joanna Tan’s place in the crosshairs turn out to be too hot to handle? With a killer on her trail, leaving bodies strewn from New York to Las Vegas to Tijuana, Mexico, will Dahlia be next…?

Ms. Tree Volume 6: Fallen Tree
Ms. Tree Volume 6: Fallen Tree

Author: Max Allan Collins

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2024-11-12

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1787746526

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Whether it’s a funeral, dinner party, or cruise ship, a barrage of bullets are either being fired at or by Ms. Tree. With a sharp mind and a steady aim, the detective undertakes cases that are a cocktail of violence, mystery and passion, and even does so with a cocktail in her hand at times. Renowned writer Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Quarry, Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer) and acclaimed artist Terry Beatty (Return to Perdition, The Phantom, Batman: Gotham Adventures) deliver an epic final adventure in this action packed conclusion to the collection of classic Ms. Tree stories. This emotional rollercoaster, the beginning of the end, includes a foreword from the author. “A ‘must-read’ for mystery graphic novel connoisseurs.” – Midwest Book Review

Ms. Tree Volume 5
Ms. Tree Volume 5

Author: Max Allan Collins

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2023-10-24

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1787741761

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Ms. Tree is back with this new anthology of classic detective stories. Join the 6ft, 9mm wielding private detective as she shoots and solves her way through her thrilling adventures. No case is too small, no violence too extreme, and no mystery too touch for this sharp sleuth. From acclaimed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) and award-winning illustrator Terry Beatty (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) comes the fifth volume of classis Ms. Tree stories, collected for the first time. Fans of hard boiled and crime fiction will get a thrill from these terrific tales! “Ms. Tree hits the bullseye and blows it to pieces.” – Mystery Scene Magazine

The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery
The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery

Author: B. Murphy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-12-09

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0230107354

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Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.

Top of the Heap
Top of the Heap

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)

Published: 2025-05-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1835411800

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From Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner - during his life, the best-selling American author of all time - comes a lost classic of detective fiction featuring private eyes Donald Lam (once played by Frank Sinatra!) and Bertha Cool. SHE PLAYED THE ODDS – AND LOST! When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, the last man to be seen with her needs an alibi – and fast. Enter Donald Lam of the Cool & Lam detective agency. Donald tracks down the two women with whom his client claims to have spent the night and the client declares the case closed. But it’s not. Something about his client’s story doesn’t add up, and Donald can’t resist the temptation to keep digging. Before he knows it, he’s dug up connections to a mining scam, an illegal casino, and a double homicide – plus an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune, if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in on it!