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1) The snatch
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
A San Francisco private detective becomes involved in a kidnapping case when a young boy's abductor demands that a third party deliver the ransom.
3) Twospot
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
Nameless and Lieutenant Frank Hastings combine their investigations of a harrowing case of murder and bizarre conspiracy surrounding an old California wine-making family.
4) Labyrinth
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
"Nameless" is summoned to an early morning meeting at the San Francisco Police Department to explain the presence of his business card in the purse by an unidentified female body. Later, hired as a bodyguard for the ne'er-do-well brother of a Sea Cliff woman, "Nameless" finds himself on the scene of a new homicide with the man whose life he was protecting holding a smoking pistol.
7) Scattershot
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Nameless faces a very busy week when he is called upon to handle three seemingly impossible crime cases.
8) Bindlestiff
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just getting back into action the "Nameless Detective" lands a case involving two double-dealing sisters, who require him to track down their father, a hobo riding the rails.
9) Double
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
The "Nameless Detective" and Sharon McCone join forces at a San Diego private detective convention to investigate a case involving multiple murder, a crime ring dealing in smuggled fugitives, and bizarre, kinky lifestyles.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
A weekend fling turns into a week-long manhunt as the Nameless Detective's last solo case involves him in a cat and mouse chase through San Francisco's Japantown that ends in a confusion of murder, rape, and suicide.
12) Bones
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Thirty-five years after Harmon Crane's suicide in a locked room, the Nameless Detective attempts to uncover the reasons behind the kingpin of pulp detective fiction's death, and by so doing, he enters into a deadly game.
13) Deadfall
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
The Nameless Detective, hired to prove the connection between the shooting of San Francisco lawyer Leonard Purcell and the apparently accidental fall of his brother, Kenneth, from a cliff six months earlier becomes involved in a labyrinth of surprise and danger.
14) Shackles
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A ruthless and amoral man feels fury and a desire for revenge upon "Nameless," the man he believes is responsible for ruining his life. One night he abducts "Nameless," and leaves him to die a horrible death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco's "Nameless" detective and his partner Eberhardt are trying to prove that their client Thomas Lujack did not mow down his business partner with his car. Although he suspects his client's guilt early on, the 58-year-old gumshoe spends three weeks looking for flaws in the testimony of the hit-and-run's sole witness. Then Lujack is found murdered, the witness disappears, and the detective, instead of being asked to step up his investigation,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
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Series
Language
English
Description
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
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Northern California woman learns she is an adopted child and hires the "Nameless Detective" to find her real parents. As he probes, Nameless makes a frightening discovery: the woman is the product of a rape and her father is still raping and murdering.
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