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Summary: Investigator Lew Fonesca tackles a pair of linked cases involving an elderly woman who swears against all evidence that she has witnessed a murder in her retirement home and a hit-and-run accident that has killed a fourteen-year-old boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1978
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Summary: Lovable everyman Lew Fonesca, the man who makes things work in Sarasota, takes on the cases of seventeen-year-old Ronnie Graeill accused of bludgeoning to death a local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding and a semi-retired and much beloved singer of children's songs who is being blackmailed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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Summary: "Lew Fonesca is a man who does things for people. He makes small problems go away and tries to keep the larger ones from landing his clients in jail. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up-and-up." "Now Lew is faced with one case that will try his patience ... and another that may break his heart." "The first involves an elderly woman who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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Summary: Abandoning his old life after the death of his wife, Lew Fonesca takes a series of odd jobs in Sarasota, Florida, and is enlisted to help locate some missing people, a situation that is complicated by a string of suspicious deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press/Warner Books 2001
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Summary: While trying to deliver a package for film superstar Cary Grant, private detective Toby Peters stumbles upon a corpse and joins forces with the movie star to follow a trail of clues that leads them to a gang of Nazi sympathizers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: In Chicago, with its ethnic mix, aging policeman Abe Lieberman is kept busy day and night. Vandals have defaced his synagogue, stealing the torah, Arab militants and white skinheads are creating trouble, and a Korean gang is objecting to Abe's presence in a park. By the author of Lieberman's Day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 1996
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Summary: Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union, and his team search for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 victims while protecting a visiting British journalist who is working on a story about a Moscow prostitution ring that produces leads to a high-level source seemingly beyond Rostnikov's reach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2010
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Summary: A local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding is brutally killed. A recent graduate of a public high school for the gifted is arrested for the crime and turns to Lew for help. A semi-retired and much beloved singer of children's songs is being anonymously pushed to leave Sarasota, threatened with exposure as a sexual predator. It is up to Lew to uncover the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 1998
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Summary: Police Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, investigating a rash of murders in Moscow, soon realizes that his cases are tied to a probe being conducted by his colleagues into the newly popular craze for staged, and illegal, dogfights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1993
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Summary: The Hollywood detective, Toby Peters, is hired by the 1940s comedian, W.C. Fields, to help catch a swindler. The swindler has found a way to gain access to Fields' bank accounts in various parts of the country and is emptying them one by one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMSummary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015