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Assassins Assassins Fiction Cole, Elvis (Fictitious character) Fiction Large type books Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Missing persons Fiction Pike, Joe (Fictitious character) Fiction Private investigators Private investigators California Los Angeles Fiction Private investigators FictionSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: "Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice--these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case--until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: The extraordinary new crime novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it-and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them. As the level of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group (USA), Inc. 2011
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Summary: "A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date. Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACrais, Robert
Summary: "It seemed like a simple case--before the bodies starting piling up. Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighborhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he offers his own brand of protection. But neither Dru nor her uncle want his help--and neither do the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRASummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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Summary: Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol Starkey's partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol. When a bomb call takes the life...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BDD Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRACrais, Robert.
Summary: Jeff Talley, a former LAPD SWAT team negotiator takes a job as a police chief in a small Southern California town after a hostage situation gone bad results in recurring nightmares for him. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town. Soon the deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken a man and his two children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACrais, Robert
Summary: "Adele Schumacher isn't a typical worried mom. When she hires Elvis to find her missing son, a controversial podcaster named Josh Shoe, she brings a bag filled with cash, bizarre tales of government conspiracies, and a squad of professional bodyguards. Finding Josh should be simple, but a deadly team of mysterious strangers are determined to find him first. With dangerous secrets lurking behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Adele Schumacher hires Elvis to find her missing son, controversial podcaster Josh Shoe. Finding Josh should be simple, but Elvis isn't alone in the hunt: a deadly team of mysterious strangers are determined to find Josh and his adult film star girlfriend first. He calls on his friend Joe Pike to uncover the truth about Josh, corrupt politicians, and the vicious business cartels rotting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACrais, Robert
Summary: During an ordinary trip to the bank, Joe Pike witnesses teller Isabel Roland being abducted by two men as she is leaving for a break. Joe chases them down, and the men are arrested. But the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy. After posting bail, the two abductors are murdered, and Izzy disappears. Pike calls on his friend Elvis Cole to investigate. Elvis uncovers a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Summary: Elvis was a hero when he cleared an innocent man of a murder charge. But when that innocent man is found dead three years later holding photos of the victim, Elvis is the one on trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRACrais, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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Summary: Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Max Kent is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Max in an effort to track down his late partner's killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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Summary: To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a wrong place wrong time encounter that quickly escalates and spins out of control.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007
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Summary: Working as a bodyguard for a spoiled federal witness, Joe Pike hatches a desperate plan to disappear with the woman in the underworld of Los Angeles and turn the tables on her would-be killers, an effort in which he enlists the help of private investigator Elvis Cole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2007
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRASummary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "This book is a friendly yet authoritative cookbook that simplifies the challenges of a gluten-free diet. It's a common-sense approach to the sensitive immune system of the reader"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5632 RYBSummary: The grave course of events set in motion by Thanos that wiped out half the universe and fractured their ranks compels the remaining to take one final stand in the grand conclusion to twenty-two films.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AVESummary: Dispatched on a rescue mission to the farthest reaches of space, the USS Enterprise is ambushed by Krall, a ruthless enemy sworn against the Federation. Crash-landing on an uncharted hostile world, Captain Kirk, Spock, and the crew are separated with no means of escape. Only Jaylah, a rebellious alien warrior, can help them reunite and find a way off the planet in a race against time to stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2016