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1) Heartsick
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
496 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
2) Sweetheart
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Portland detective Archie Sheridan's investigation into the murder of a young woman is compromised by his continuing obsession with serial murderer Gretchen Lowell, the so-called Beauty Killer, who has escaped from prison.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
473 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after moving into Dublin from his childhood home on the outskirts, PI Ed Loy is approached by Anne Fogarty, a woman whose father was killed fifteen years ago. She thinks the police nabbed the wrong person, and now she wants Loy to find the truth. Topping the list of suspects are three men Anne's father, a revenue inspector, was preparing claims against for criminal activity. One of them is George Halligan, Loy's underworld nemesis.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Charles Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepentant book thief who has stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of rare books from book fairs, stores, and libraries around the country. Ken Sanders is the self-appointed "bibliodick" (book dealer with a penchant for detective work) driven to catch him. Journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett befriended both eccentric characters and found herself caught in the middle of efforts to recover hidden treasure....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
699 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Empire of Sin is the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-year war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early 20th-century battle centers on Tom Anderson, the czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts on all sides. Prostitutes, reformers, jazzmen, Mafiosi, politicians,...