Nameless Detective mysteries
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The snatch , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 1
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2) The vanished
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 2
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Random House
Pub. Date
[1973]
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English
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Undercurrent , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 3
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4) Blowback
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1977
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English
Description
Beset by his own fears and uncertainties, a detective answers an old service buddy's call for help and finds himself in an isolated fishing camp in the Mother Lode country of Northern California, where theft, sexual intrigue, and murder add to his troubles.
5) Twospot
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1978
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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.
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Labyrinth , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 6
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7) Hoodwink
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 7
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
The anonymous Nameless Detective encounters a blackmail plot and murder mystery at a conference of slightly disreputable old "pulp" writers.
8) Scattershot
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 8
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.
9) Dragonfire
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 9
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©1982
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English
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©1983
Language
English
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.
11) Double
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 11
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.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 12
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1984
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English
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 13
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.
14) Bones
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 14
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
15) Deadfall
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 15
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.
16) Shackles
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 16
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English
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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," takes him to a mountain cabin, chains him to a wall, and leaves him to die a horrible death. In the icy whiteness of dead winter, "Nameless" has nothing to do but search his memory. Who is his captor? When did their paths cross? And what could he have done to warrant such revenge?
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
When the distraught blonde hires "Nameless" to investigate the suicide of her kid brother who had just won $200,000 at the Reno slot machines, he is pulled into the dangerous, questionable world of high-stakes gambling in mob-dominated casinos.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1991.
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English
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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,...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 20
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English
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"The bitterest of woes is to remember old happy days." At least that's what old man Pietro Lombardi thinks. He's got la miseria and can't even play a peaceful round of Sunday bocce with his friends at Aquatic Park. That is, until he sees the "Nameless Detective" at an opposite bench -- another romantic taking in what's left of the Italian-American essence of the neighborhood. A shared burden being a lesser load, Pietro enlists his paesan's help with...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
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"Nameless" investigates the disappearance of a young couple in the small, northern California town of Creekside.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 24
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
The "Nameless Detective," shaken by the news of his former partner's suicide, feels compelled to continue his investigation of a missing persons case after his efforts lead to tragedy, and what he learns causes him to reevaluate his life and career.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 27
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English
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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
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 29
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Contains fourteen crime fiction stories by Bill Pronzini, in which a nameless detective investigates murders throughout San Francisco.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 30
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English
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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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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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English
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Investigating the death of a woman that has been ruled accidental by the police but that her sister insists was a murder by a known perpetrator, a reluctant Nameless begins to suspect that the victim's sister is telling the truth when he learns unsettling facts about her life.
33) Fever
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English
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Nameless works to find a woman who doesn't want to be found for a man who doesn't seem to care very much about her fate-- except to prove that he didn't murder her.
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English
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Nameless wasn't supposed to come into the office on Mondays; or even answer the phone. On this Monday, he did both. The call was from Barney Rivera - once a friend, now despised - at Great Western Insurance. Against his better judgment, Nameless agreed to meet with him. The investigation was relatively simple: a multimillionaire rare books collector had reported the theft of eight valuable volumes. From a locked library to which he has the only key....
35) Betrayers
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English
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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...
36) Camouflage
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English
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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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English
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Bill, the "Nameless Detective," and his wife Kerry were in the Sierra foothills, just outside of Six Pines, falling in love with a cabin. It was all perfect, until Kerry went missing. They'd seen Balfour at breakfast at the diner and Kerry remembered his name . . . PR people are like that. Which was unfortunate, because when she ran into him along the trail on that sunny afternoon and called him by name, he panicked. And that's when Bill's nightmare...
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English
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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--Publisher.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 39
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English
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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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"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...
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English
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The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years, and this is one for the books. Or rather, two cases that will test his agency's resources. Love is in the air ... more to the point, love gone awry. One case involves a woman whose husband died accidentally in a remote cabin in the Sierras. The wife isn't buying that her husband was alone, and is determined to find out his secret and get closure, in spite of any potential heartbreak. The...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Twenty-three tales of psychological suspense, "impossible" crime, detection, fantasy, horror, satire, even what might be termed a Western. Three of the stories feature the "Nameless Detective," including one story written especially for this collection.
45) Double
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume Related works
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1995, c1984
Language
English
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Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Unnamed Detective has been in business for many years, but the only femme fatales he's known were in fiction or the movies. That is, until his bail bondsman friend Abe Melikian introduces him to Cory Beckett. Nameless has spent more time as a detective than Cory has breathed-- but she's brought some new and terrible angles to the concept of evil...
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Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2012, ©1993
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English
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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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English
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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,...