Nameless Detective mysteries
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The snatch , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 1
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The vanished , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 2
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Undercurrent , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 3
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Blowback , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 4
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Twospot , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 5
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Labyrinth , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 6
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Hoodwink , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 7
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Scattershot , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 8
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Dragonfire , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 9
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Bindlestiff , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 10
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Double , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 11
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 12
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St. Martin's Press
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[1984]
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English
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Quicksilver , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 13
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Bones , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 14
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15) Deadfall
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 15
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St. Martin's Press
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[1986]
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English
16) Shackles
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 16
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St. Martin's Press
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[1988]
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English
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Jackpot , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 17
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Breakdown , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 18
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Quarry , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 19
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 20
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English
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So what if Nameless can't get his girlfriend, Kerry, to marry him? So what if he can't talk his partner, Eberhardt, out of his bitter funk? Skies are sunny, and the Nameless Detective wants them to stay that way. So he decides to do an old man a favor and find his missing granddaughter, Gianna. But no one said it would be easy. It seems Gianna's roommate is turning tricks, and Nameless' search quickly leads him to a pimp, a murder, and into a dark...
21) Demons
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 21
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For the Nameless Detective, investigations involving matters of the heart are to be avoided at all costs. When an old poker buddy asks him to help frazzled and distraught Kay Runyon, whose husband, Victor, is having a clandestine affair with a mystery woman named Nedra, Nameless unwillingly relents, but he soon discovers there is much more at stake than a simple affair. Nedra is a modern-day Circe who attracts men who become dangerously obsessed with...
22) Hardcase
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 22
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Fresh from his recent marriage, the Nameless Detective returns to what appears to be a routine investigation, an adoption case. While searching through the effects of her recently deceased mother, twenty-three year old Melanie Ann Aldrich discovers some papers which show she was adopted. With her father dead as well, it seems unlikely she will ever find out why she was never told. So she hires Nameless to find her true parents.In the course of his...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 23
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Carroll & Graf Publishers
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1996.
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English
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Illusions: a 'Nameless Detective' novel , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 24
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 25
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Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc
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[1998]
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English
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 26
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Carroll & Graf
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2000.
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English
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Why would anyone refuse to claim fifty thousand dollars due to her in life insurance? The answer lies several murders, many miles, ten years and one baffling word clue -- crazybone -- away.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 27
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A simple case of blackmail gets lethally complicated when "Nameless" exposes a nasty scam that involves junior accounts executive Jay Cohalan, his unhappy wife, and a mistress with a serious drug problem. It's the kind of case Nameless likes, because bleeders-the blackmailers, extortionists, small-time grifters, and other opportunists who prey on the weak and gullible-sit near the top of his most-worthless-human-beings list. But soon Nameless finds...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 28
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English
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Shaken after a hair's-breadth escape from death, Nameless has made changes in his professional life, but he's not put himself out to pasture. Again he enters San Francisco's shadowy underworld, this time in a search for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who has been found dead in an alley doorway. Clues are few, but Pronzini, working at the top of his form, takes his seasoned private-eye hero to a new phase of a still-evolving...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 29
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English
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A collection of fourteen stories featuring the Nameless Detective includes "It's a Lousy World," "Dead Man's Slough," and "Souls Burning."
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 30
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Bill Pronzini's "Nameless" detective has become one of the longest-lived, and consistently highly praised, private investigators in the annals of American crime fiction and the award-winning author proves, once again, that his skills are unmatched.
Things were quiet in the San Francisco-based agency Nameless founded and his partners, Jake and Vanessa were itching to get back to work. A deadbeat father needed to be found, and Vanessa needed to do...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 31
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English
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"Nameless" had seen enough death in his years; spending his time watching someone drive to several funerals a day, funerals for people he didn't know, was more than he could take. And, he had a non-professional problem of his own: his relationship with his wife, Kerry, had hit a wall and nothing he did got him over it and to the other side. There was one possibility, one thing he'd done (or not done), but knowing that didn't seem to help...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 32
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The police said it was an accident, the dead woman's sister said it was murder... and that she knew who did it. Nameless isn't certain, but the more he learns about Nancy Mathias's life, the more inclined he is to accept the likelihood of murder-especially as the players still alive become more and more distasteful. Combine that with the situation Jake Runyon, one of the agency's partners, is facing as he searches for a young man who is either a murderer...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 33
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Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before-propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher-and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce.
A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 34
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A locked room mystery that goes from stolen books to stolen lives and the hunt for a phantom stalker with a penchant for pouring acid to make his point give Nameless and his partner Jake more than enough work to earn their fees--as long as neither turns his back at the wrong moment.
35) Betrayers
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 35
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"We're told that there are seven deadly sins; not on the list is the deadliest of them all: Betrayal. For each of the detectives at the agency, a betrayal-- personal, against a child, against the elderly-- becomes not only the driving force behind an investigation, but the source of the kind of resolve that cannot be derailed by threats of any kind. Tamara's case began as something personal but explodes as her investigation of her former lover Lucas...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 36
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Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex-wife, and they know where she is. Deliver some papers to her and it is is all done. But she refuses the papers, sends a message to Virden to never contact her again, and slams the door. His colleague, Tamara, tells Nameless that Virden threatens to sue, stops payment on his checks, and claims that the woman they located is not his wife. Then he disappears and his fiancee...
37) Hellbox
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When his wife goes missing from their Sierra foothills cabin after spotting a suspicious man, the Nameless Detective and his associate, Jake Runyon, launch a search and rescue mission that stretches legal boundaries.
38) Nemesis
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 38
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Agreeing to investigate threats by a mysterious extortionist against a newly rich young woman, Jake Runyon makes a series of surprise discoveries that cause him to be wrongfully accused of a crime and his employers to be subjected to a vicious legal vendetta.
39) Strangers
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 39
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"Cody Hatcher is the kind of teenager you don't want your kids hanging with. That's the book on him and it's why the citizens of Mineral Springs have no problem at all believing that he's guilty of three rapes. His mother, Cheryl, an old lover of Nameless's, is also being harassed by vindictive townspeople. It's against such odds that he must work to prove Cody innocent. There are few to help him and plenty to get in his way. It's a classic situation...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 40
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"When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter. Kenneth has fled San Francisco in a drug-induced panic to avoid trial on a charge of stealing a valuable necklace from the alcoholic wife of the man for whom he works, wealthy yachtsman Andrew Vorhees. When agency operative Jake Runyon locates and questions the frightened young man, Cory...
41) Endgame
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 41
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Nameless handles two investigations that challenge his agency's resources, including a woman who yearns to learn more about her late husband's potential secret love life and the case of an agoraphobic who has gone missing.
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Case file
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Graveyard plots: the best short stories of Bill Pronzini
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Small felonies
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Double
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Spadework: a collection of 'nameless detective' stories
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47) Femme
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Cemetery Dance Publications
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2012.
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The Nameless Detective is enlisted to help Cory Beckett track down her younger brother who has jumped bail after being arrested for stealing a valuable diamond necklace belonging to the wife of a powerful San Francisco union leader.
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Cemetery Dance Publications
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2012.
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"Allison Shay was traveling home from the University of Oregon with her new boyfriend, Rob Compton, when their car broke down near the tiny rural town of Creekside, California. Soon after, Allison and Rob went missing without a trace. Whatever happened, it felt like something bad to the Nameless Detective. Five days without a whisper of contact with the outside world. Long past the inconsiderate-kids stage; long past the silly and the harmless. Kinsmen...
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Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini's iconic Nameless Detective! Zigzag is an original novella, in which a safe and simple accident investigation becomes the unraveling of a twisted murder scheme. Grapplin, which first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, deals with the kind of missing person case that can end in only one of two ways, closure or heartbreak. In the second short,...