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Sandford, John

Summary: When a spring thaw disinters the body of a young woman who's been missing for over a year, Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport doesn't have much to go on except the victim's rumored connection with an unnamed man, who may be an artist and also, perhaps, a priest. But then the deserted property where her body was discovered turns out to be a killing field full of other young blondes last seen...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAN

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Sandford, John

Summary: Det. Lucas Davenport has battled some real demons over the past 15 Prey novels and drifted in and out of lust and love with a host of women. But now he's happily married to the lovely Weather; has a nine month old son, Sam; and takes care of his 12-year old ward, Letty West.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAN

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Mosley, Walter

Summary: After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOS

Mosley, Walter

Summary: After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOS

Hambly, Barbara

Summary: "Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad -- the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom. When the chief 'conductor' of the 'station' is found murdered, Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the whole Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of the crime. Since Cain can't...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers LTD 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2016

Hambly, Barbara

Summary: "When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal, Benjamin turns him down immediately. As a free man of colour in New Orleans in the sweltering July of 1839, he knows this is not something he should get mixed up in. But when clues to the dead man's identity link...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers, Ltd. 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2017

Hambly, Barbara

Summary: "April, 1840. Benjamin January knows no black person in their right mind would willingly go to the Republic of Texas but when his former pupil Selina Bellinger is kidnapped and enslaved, he has no choice. Once there he is saved from being hanged by Valentina Taggart, wife of the wealthy landowner of Rancho Perdition. After Valentina is accused of the murder of her husband, she in turn calls on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hambly 2019

Summary: Cool, no-nonsense private detective Joe Mannix is a tough-talking loner within the large detective agency Intertect. He has street smarts and class, but he constantly fights with his boss, Lew Wickersham, over how to conduct their investigations. Lew relies on the company's computers, but Mannix has to go with his gut-- and that's just what he does every time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAN

Hammett, Dashiell

Summary: The thin man: Nick and Nora Charles, New York's coolest crime-solving couple, are caught in a complicated web of confused identities and cold-blooded murder when a pretty blonde asks for help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick's client.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAM

Macdonald, Ross

Summary: From his vantage point in Southern California—and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer—Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mix of sexual exploitation, intergenerational conflict, racial animosities, and ecological disaster. In Black Money, Archer is hired to find a wealthy...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017

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Ward, Nathan

Summary: "An epic account of the Old West and a vivid portrait of the outsized life of cowboy, detective, and chronicler Charlie Siringo. No figure in the Old West lived or influenced its legacy more fully than Charlie Siringo. Born in Matagorda, Texas, in 1855, Charlie went on his first cattle drive at age 11 and spent two decades living his boyhood dream as a cowboy. As the dangerous, lucrative...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023

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Summary: One of the wackiest and zaniest comedians of all time takes center stage in three of his best films ever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STE

Summary: An ordinary married couple gets caught up in international intrigue and discovers that they have a knack for crime solving in this charming detective series.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGA

Summary: Private investigator Joe Mannix is back with his assistant Peggy as he helps find justice for his clients in Los Angeles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAN

Summary: Hard-boiled and gritty private detective Joe Mannix dishes out justice, outside the law, for his clients in Los Angeles. At his side is his faithful assistant Peggy Fair.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAN

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Summary: Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the adventures of Frankie Drake and her partner Trudy Clarke at Drake Private Detectives, the city's only all-female detective agency, as they find themselves fighting crime in the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRA

Summary: Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MAL

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Summary: In Toronto during the 1920s, four female detectives continue to rebel against gender norms by taking on the cases not even the police want to touch. From the wilderness to the world of high society, an underground cabaret to a candy factory, the women navigate their personal and private lives together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FRA

Summary: Harry Dresden is a private detective who also happens to be a real wizard. Although he tries to be a regular guy, Harry finds himself helping the Chicago police solve inexplicable crimes and battle dark forces that lurk around the city streets. Harry deals in all matters of supernatural threats.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DRE

Christie, Agatha

Summary: Hercule Poirot's vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her heart failure was a natural event, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist is a clear sign of the fatal injection that really killed her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHR

Summary: Relive the sharp and sassy repartee of TV's sexiest private detectives in the complete fourth season of Moonlighting.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MOO

Summary: Kindhearted, but confused activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of eccentric 'existential detectives' to help him find the meaning of life. All the while, a sexy, French author is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I

Summary: After suddenly being kicked out of his job as a government contract spy, Michael Weston returns to his home town of Miami to figure out who is behind the firing while offering his services to those in need.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BUR

Summary: Vast dangers lurking in the fantasy realm navigate a path to Earth, becoming a threat in reality, and it's up to Dirk and the gang to stop them in their tracks. But first, they need to find each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC America 2018

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DIR

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