Download or read book Gumshoe in the Dark written by Rob Leininger and published by Oceanview Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today Best-Selling Author Blackmail, murder, and a pretty girl on the run Nevada's attorney general is missing. At dusk on a deserted Nevada highway in a thunderstorm, ex-IRS agent and PI-in-training Mortimer Angel comes across a pretty, scantily-clad girl—Harper Leland. She's cold and alone, thirty miles from the nearest town. When Mort offers her a ride, she orders him out of his truck at gunpoint. She tries to take off, but he cuts the valve stem on the rear tire. Realizing she's in trouble, he wants to help—but with no spare tire, he devises a creative way to get them out of the hills—slowly, precariously balanced on three tires. On their way down, a rough-looking man stops and asks Mort if he has "seen anyone up in the hills." Mort realizes the guy is after Harper, who is hiding in the truck. Thus begins a cat-and-mouse chase in northeast Nevada that continues even after Mort finds the attorney general—Harper's mother—dead in the trunk of a car. In time, Mort's wife, Lucy, is also pulled into the case, which becomes the deadliest of Mort's career. The perfect mix of John Sanford, Randy Wayne White, and Carl Hiaasen While all of the novels in the Mortimer Angel Gumshoe Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: Gumshoe Gumshoe for Two Gumshoe on the Loose Gumshoe Rock Gumshoe in the Dark

Download or read book The Gumshoe Collection written by Rob Leininger and published by Oceanview Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 1802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These five novels in the Gumshoe Collection bring back the style of Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler. Each one with a rock-solid core delivered with an explosive punch and snappy dialogue that sometimes may be risqué , but is always humorous. When ex-IRS Agent Mortimer— call me “ Mort” — Angel launches his new gumshoe career, he immediately becomes Reno' s infamous finder of bodies and/or body parts. In Gumshoe, it' s the mayor' s missing head; in Gumshoe for Two, it' s the hand of a U.S. Senator; in Gumshoe on the Loose, it' s the hanging body of a missing rapper; in Gumshoe Rock, it' s a skull, stripped clean and white; in Gumshoe in the Dark, it' s the dead body of his female companion' s mother. PI-in-training-Mort definitely has a special knack, as does Rob Leininger, in delivering gritty crime novels sprinkled with spicy humor. All five books in the Gumshoe Collection are perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich, Carl Hiaasen, and Tim Dorsey

Download or read book Gumshoe written by D.E. Gray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year LAPD sergeant, Walter Sunderland was about to cross off another item on his personal bucket list. He would soon be transferring out of uniform patrol and head downtown to the elite Robbery Homicide Division as an LAPD detective. Working RHD was his dream job and like most things in his life, whatever he set his mind to, he usually succeeded. Married to a beautiful woman who made twice the money he did selling million-dollar homes in the trendy upscale neighborhood of Porter Ranch in the northwest San Fernando Valley, where they now lived themselves, was just the frosting on the cake. It would only take one act of pure stupidity to rear its ugly head, that would bring his world crashing down around him. Now, fired from the police department, divorced from his wife, and after serving a short prison sentence, he was just a heartbeat away from becoming a down and out homeless street person himself. Living in a cheap downtown hotel that overlooked skid row, he was now working menial part-time jobs trying to keep his head above water to survive. It would be the very woman who accused him of rape under the color of authority that got him fired from the force and sent him to jail, who was now pleading for his help. She herself was now the number one suspect in the murder of her former husband and with limited funds, she had nowhere to turn. The two unlikely pair would join forces to spar with her former dead husband’s new wife along with the LAPD detectives investigating his murder and at the same time, deal with their own ongoing mistrust for one another. Without the use of any of the LAPD’s resources provided to regular sworn detectives on the job, Sunderland was now being measured by everyone around him as nothing more than a washed-up Gumshoe, a term he hated with contempt. Even so, he now would have to rely on his own wit and expertise as he follows up on his instincts, leads and scenarios to come up with answers he so desperately needed. Those answers wouldn’t come easy after hitting one roadblock after another as he tried to piece together the realities and assumptions that no one else was willing to tackle. Together, Walt Sunderland and Gretchen Quinn’s journey would take them to an unpredictable and shocking conclusion.

Download or read book Gumshoe for Two written by Rob Leininger and published by Mortimer Angel Mystery. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gumshoe for Two is smart, sexy, and un-put-downable. Mortimer Angel is my new favorite private eye." --John Lescroart In the style of Dashiell Hammett--ex-IRS agent, PI-in-training--Mortimer Angel agrees to help a beautiful college engineering student--masquerading as a hooker--find her missing sister. Then Mort receives a mysterious package that links the case to a missing US senator--with catastrophic consequences.

Download or read book Sirgrus Blackmane Demihuman Gumshoe The Dark Elf written by William Schlichter and published by BHC Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bacardi and Coke. Neat. Not the usual drink of choice for a mountain dwarf. Then again, Detective Sirgrus Blackmane is no ordinary dwarf—at least not since the Great War. Being a gumshoe during Prohibition might appear glamorous, with secret speakeasies, all-night cocktail parties, and scantily clad women displaying their knees, but crime and conspiracy lurk beneath the city’s shining illusion. When the human half of the Mason and Blackmane Detective Agency is found dead at the scene of a rum-running bust, Sirgrus vows to find the killer. But this quest for justice leads him straight into a tangled web of underhanded deals with demihuman mobsters who are fighting for control of the rum supply. And when two more corpses turn up, Sirgrus must work double-time if he wants to find the killer—and avoid turning up dead at the next crime scene.

Download or read book Gumshoe written by Rob Leininger and published by Oceanview Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing. Vanished without a trace. Their vehicles were found parked side-by-side at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Did they fly somewhere together? They aren’t on any flight manifest. Did the two of them take off with a big pile of the city’s money? If so, the city accountants can’t find it. Were they murdered? There’s no sign of foul play. Their disappearances have finally made national news. Enter Mortimer Angel, who’d just quit a thankless job as an IRS agent. Mort is Reno’s newest gumshoe, a private-eye-in-training at his nephew’s detective agency. Just four hours into his new career, Mort finds the mayor―make that, the mayor’s head―in the trunk of Mort’s ex-wife’s Mercedes. The news-hungry media speculates: Did Mort kill the mayor? Did Mort’s ex? As events begin to spin out of control, Mort realizes things have been out of control since the night before he started his new career, the night he found the unknown naked blonde in his bed.

Download or read book Gumshoe on the Loose written by Rob Leininger and published by Mortimer Angel. This book was released on 2018 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for hardcore, hard-boiled PI fans. The Gumshoe series is classic--and original. Newly minted PI Mortimer Angel is hired to find out who left a cryptic message in his client's mailbox. But when he finds the body of a missing rapper in her garage, Mort is dropped into an investigation that takes him to Sin City. On the way, he picks up an alluring young assistant who changes his life--in every conceivable way.

Download or read book Gumshoe Rock written by Rob Leininger and published by Oceanview Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today best-selling author "Mortimer Angel is my favorite private eye." —John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling author Embezzlement case turns murderous Early in July, northern Nevada's senior Internal Revenue Service agent, Ronald Soranden—disliked by every agent in the Reno IRS office—vanished without a trace. In September, he makes a dramatic reappearance, of sorts. His skull—stripped clean and white—is dropped through the slashed top of a Mustang convertible. The vehicle belongs to Lucy Landry, PI Mortimer Angel's gorgeous young assistant now working with him on a seemingly unrelated embezzlement case. But Mort is a former IRS field agent in Reno. He'd done his time during the tyrannical reign of Soranden, quitting, he says, "when I discovered I have a soul." Now that his former boss's head has appeared, he and Lucy find them themselves under the annoying surveillance of a pair of IRS enforcement agents. When the FBI are brought in to investigate the murder, Mort and Lucy realize shocking details about their own case—primarily Soranden's involvement. It becomes evident that events and suspects of the embezzlement case and Soranden's murder are heavily entangled with those enmeshed in an ugly case of blackmail. Mort and Lucy are roped tighter and tighter into the Soranden investigation while they grapple with the deadliest situation of their PI careers. Mortimer Angel has been in harrowing, lethal situations before and has suffered incalculable losses, but none more horrifying than the trap embedded in Gumshoe Rock. The perfect mix of John Sanford and Carl Hiaasen

Download or read book Shot In The Dark written by Brian L. Porter and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three crime fiction series starter novels by Brian L. Porter, Doug Lamoreux & Stuart Field, now available in one volume! A Mersey Killing: In 1961 Liverpool, a group of aspiring musicians chase their dreams amidst the burgeoning Swinging Sixties. Meanwhile in 1999, skeletal remains discovered in the docklands ignite an investigation that spans generations. Detective Inspector Andy Ross and Sergeant Izzie Drake navigate a journey through time, delving into the early days of the influential Mersey Beat scene. But can they unravel the mystery of the long-lost woman and the bones hidden beneath the River Mersey for over three decades? Corpses Say The Darndest Things: The death of a beloved Chicago televangelist’s wife is only the beginning; someone is homiciding their way through the Temple of Majesty Church. And private eye Nod Blake has been dumped in the middle of it all, on his head. The resulting injuries seem to have opened a door to the hereafter: Blake believes dead people are talking to him. But are the victims really begging the gumshoe for help from the other side of the grave? When his nemesis, Detective Lieutenant Wenders, finds evidence that Blake is the murderer, the private dick's life becomes a great big soup sandwich. Steel And Shadows: After losing his family, former British Special Forces agent John Steel arrives in New York determined to locate the person captured in a photograph. NYPD detective Samantha McCall is investigating a triple homicide when Steel offers his assistance in tracking down the perpetrator. What initially seems like the work of a serial killer soon turns into a sinister labyrinth of deception. With ruthless mercenaries, enigmatic informants, and haunting echoes from their pasts, the unlikely duo must navigate a treacherous web of betrayal in order to bring the perpetrator to justice.

Download or read book A Collection of Tales written by Corky Weimern and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lessons written by John Moncrief and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Hubbard will be going to jail for not paying alimony and his children will be heading for a foster home, unless he can get his sons away from their mentally ill and suicidal mother by taking custody of them. But to do that, he needs a woman! Where can he find a wife and stepmother who can teach his boys proper values? His only choice is someone he heartily dislikes. He really has no choice, so wedding bells ring for Alex and Shaina. She is thrilled with the challenge of making the ill-mannered boys into gentlemen, but how will she deal with being a wife to Alex? This being the 1950s, Alex?s two sons wanted someone like the mother on ?Leave It to Beaver,? but they get Shaina instead, a woman with proper grammar and manners who loves a challenge. She sets out to either break the boys or turn them into gentlemen. Shaina doesn?t do it with love, but with a haughty self-righteousness that repels the men in the Hubbard family.Lessons ends up teaching everyone a thing or two, and also reflects on the serious issues that can arise between children and their stepparents.

Download or read book The Truman Gumshoes written by J.K. Van Dover and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directions. This book examines the work of the four most important writers of this second generation of hard-boiled fiction. It offers the first substantial literary analysis of the Max Thursday novels of Wade Miller and the Carney Wilde novels of Bart Spicer, and it develops new perspectives on the well-known Mike Hammer novels of Mickey Spillane and the Lew Archer novels of Ross Macdonald. A particular focus is upon the theme of the detective's status as a loner who succeeds in discovering truth and achieving justice because he works outside organized social structures.

Download or read book The Essential Mystery Lists written by Roger M Sobin and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.

Download or read book Adam written by william conn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soul survivor of an archaeological expedition- Doctor Ethan Lamont; a Scotsman, goes on the run having witnessed the slaughter of his colleagues and friends in the desert. Chased by a sect of sinister humans, it is not long before he is captured. His young son and his friends flee their home in a bloodbath in search of his dad and end up catapulted into their very own adventure.Follow Adam on his journey as he faces his first great test in the battle against evil...

Download or read book The Warlord s Last Stand written by Gary T Brideau and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cruise ship crash lands on the mad planet of Kylee, but the captain's plea for help goes unnoticed because no one but no one will rescue them because of fear of the planet. Thor then lists the help of The Cave Jumpers, a team of five women willing to go to the surface and rescue the crew. However, when they get there is no crew, and it's a trap because a sleeper cell from the warlord is looking for a chance to attack the Planetary Alliance.

Download or read book Gertrude Gumshoe and the Clearwater Curse written by R.E. Merrill and published by New Creation Publishing. This book was released on with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago a teenager drowned in Clearwater Lake. Now her ghost is haunting its shores. Gertrude knows there's no such thing as ghosts, and she's going to prove it—even if it means spending some time in the water herself. (mysteries with ghosts; cozy mysteries; senior characters; senior protagonists; mysteries with senior detective; mysteries with retired detective; retired characters)

Download or read book The Stiletto Gumshoe written by C. J. Thomas and published by CJT Books. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHICAGO, 1959: Meet Sharon Gardner (Real name? Sasha Garodnowicz, not that she'd ever tell you), more at home atop a cocktail lounge barstool than an office's steno chair. Still, what she really needs is a job. Any job. So, when she lands behind the reception desk at a one-man private detective firm, for double the money she's used to and working for a handsome charmer straight out of the lurid crime magazines she devours on the sly, it almost seems too good to be true. Because, of course, it is. Soon enough, vicious thugs with badges have her on the run in the south-side's dark alleys and bungalow rows, where Sharon's suddenly swept up in a deadly extortion scheme and widespread civic corruption. People have been murdered, and she just might be next. But it's tough to chase crooks and killers when you're running in heels. The Stiletto Gumshoe gives a nod to 1950's/1960's private eye series, swapping that era's many iconic hard-drinking, hard-fighting, hard-loving, hard-boiled P.I.'s for a memorable, streetwise twenty-two year old just struggling to get by in a mid-twentieth century man's world that may be right on the cusp of big social changes, but definitely isn't there yet!