William Morrow and Company
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Joanna Brady ; 2
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English
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In Arizona, Joanna Brady runs for sheriff, an office held by her late husband who was killed by a drug dealer. It's not a walkover, in addition to looking after an overbearing mother and a fatherless son, Joanna has to combat sexism in the police department.
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In Seattle, police detective, J.P. Baumont, investigates the gruesome murder--toes and fingers chopped--of a fishing boat captain. It turns out the man's father was a guard in a World War II concentration camp and may have stolen a fortune in gold from the prisoners.
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Six years after her husband killed himself after being accused of murdering an Indian girl, Diana Ladd relies on a Native American wise woman and a local police detective to protect her and her son from her late husband's partner, recently released from prison.
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When confidence man Beano X. Bates is caught cheating at cards, New Jersey Mafia boss Joe "Dancer" Rina beats him so badly that he nearly dies. Then Beano's cousin Carol is brutally murdered just before she was to testify against Rina. In revenge Beano teams up with a woman prosecutor -- she is also out to get Joe -- and together they play a con game that will set other gangsters against Rina and put him away. The unlikely pair trek from Atlantic...
8) Paul Bunyan
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William Morrow & Company
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1984.
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English
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"Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures." --
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A widow in distress, her attentive, very wealthy swain, and his overly-protective nieces and nephews provide Perry Mason with one of the most challenging cases of his brilliant legal career. It al lbean when the attractive Mrs. Anson came to Perry Mason for advice on how to handle a shadow--a real, live shadow, that is. Mason figured that where there was a shadow of any description, there was substance. The point was how much substance, and what kind?...
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Waitress Katherine Ellis was young, orphaned, beautiful-- and desperately worried. When Perry Mason heard about her eccentric Aunt Sophia he saw she was in even more trouble than she realized... "When you get off at 9 o'clock, go home. Pack up your things... Get out of that house... It's dangerous..." was his urgent advice.
15) Little Red Cap
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William Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
1983.
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English
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A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her sick grandmother.
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The client was young blond and beautiful and she wanted to disappear. The trouble was she wouldn't say why, and she wouldn't give her name. So Perry Mason agreed to a code of identification based on her measurements: 36-24-36. But according to Della Street, the figures were padded, and as it turned out, so was everything the client said. Certainly the bag full of cash she carries isn't shopping money. All the mystery-woman asks is that Perry Mason...
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William Morrow & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1967.
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"McCorkle and Padillo are back -- McCorkle with a saloon, Padillo with trouble -- this time in Washington, D.C. Padillo, who had dropped out of sight over a year before in Germany, suddenly turns up in Washington, stabbed but alive. Mac, tending to Padillo, discovers that his own wife has been kidnapped and is secretly being held by officials of a South American nation who want Padillo to assassinate their prime minister." --
