Lansdale, Joe R.
Summary: Roughneck buddies Hap Collins and Leonard Pine befriend a hapless fellow whose younger, weaker brother has fallen in with extremely bad company--he's just joined a gang of bank robbers whose leader is used to increasing his own share of the loot by killing the other gang members. Also includes "The Boy Who Became Invisible," a story Hap tells about something he witnessed years before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2011
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Summary: "Hap Collins and Leonard Pine return in a red-hot, mayhem-fueled thriller to face a vampire cult, the Dixie Mafia, and the deadliest assassin they've ever encountered--Devil Red. When their friend Marvin asks Hap and Leonard to look into a cold-case double murder, they're more than happy to play private investigators: they like trouble, and they especially like getting paid to find it. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2011
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Summary: Mismatched private detectives Hap and Leonard investigate the murder of a young black man who was conducting his own civilian investigation into the white cop who was stalking his sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lansdale 2017Lansdale, Joe R.
Summary: In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine--best friends, freelance troublemakers, and tough guys with good intentions--find themselves in the crosshairs of the Dixie Mafia and the lethal Vanilla Ride after an old friend asks Leonard to rescue his daughter from an abusive, no-good drug dealer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANLansdale, Joe R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1997
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Summary: "It's 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2010
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Summary: "Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she's running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as 'The Saucer People'; a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2022
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Summary: "Daniel Russell was only thirteen years old when his father tried to kill them both by driving their car into Moon Lake. Miraculously surviving the crash and growing into adulthood, Daniel returns to the site of this traumatic incident in the hopes of recovering his father's car and bones. As he attempts to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, he discovers something...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Gryphon Press 2003
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Summary: Since a mysterious childhood illness, Harry Wilkes has experienced horrific visions. Gruesome scenes emerge to replay themselves before his eyes. Triggered by simple sounds, these visions occur anywhere a tragic event has happened. Now in college, Harry feels haunted and turns to alcohol to dull his visionary senses. One night, he sees a fellow drunk easily best three muggers. In this man,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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Summary: "Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom from Joe Lansdale, "a true American original" (Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box). Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2013
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Summary: Trying to escape her worthless life leads to unexpected and disastrous consequences when Sue Ellen steals money and a raft and embarks on a journey to dig up her best friend's body, burn it, and sprinkle the ashes in Hollywood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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Summary: Unlikely partners Hap and Leonard save a woman from a mob hit, only to find themselves confronted by an adversary who challenges their friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2003
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Summary: Only Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads. The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough black, gay Vietnam vet and Republican with an addiction to Dr. Pepper, are working a freelance surveillance job in East Texas. The uneventful stakeout is coming to an end when the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair-Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough-as-nails black gay Vietnam vet and Republican-but they're the closest friend either of them has in the world. Hap is celebrating his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, Brett (who is also Hap and Leonard's boss), when their backyard barbecue is interrupted by a couple of Pentecostal white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: Two men move into a house, one is black and homosexual, the other white and straight. While doing repairs they find skeletons of young boys. Who did it, the crack dealers next door? On the contrary, their investigation leads them to the local church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1994
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Summary: On the run after an infamous landowner murders his father, Willie becomes an expert marksman before turning Buffalo Soldier, befriending Wild Bill Hickok and earning the nickname "Deadwood Dick."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: H. G. Wells and Ned the Seal assist two shipwreck survivors, save a famous apeman, and set out on a quest for magic Golden Fleece --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2019
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Summary: Full of savage humor, heart-stopping suspense, and a cast of characters so tough they could chew the bumper off a pickup truck, The Two Bear Mambo is classic country noir. In this rollicking, rollercoaster ride of a novel, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take a break from their day jobs to search for Florida Grange, Leonard?s drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap?s former lover, who has vanished in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC LANSummary: In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things that go bump in the night have something to fear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOWContents: The war at home, part one / story, Joe R. Lansdale ; art, Eduardo Barreto -- People person / story, Steve Niles ; art, Daniel LaFrance -- Spring 2061 / story, Kim Krizan ; art, Jon Reed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boom! Studios 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LANSummary: After killing a home invader in self defense, an East Texas man finds his family's life in danger when the dead man's father, a ruthless ex-con, rolls into town seeking revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014