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Gumshoes

Author : Mitzi M. Brunsdale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313040887

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Gumshoes by Mitzi M. Brunsdale Pdf

The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. This dictionary of fictional detectives helps readers learn about the series in which their favorite detectives are featured. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 150 fictional detectives, which provide information about the works in which the detective appears, the locales in which the detective operates, the detective's investigative methods, and other important information. Helpful bibliographical citations direct the reader to other interesting works. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography; various appendices; and an extensive index. The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. Many of the most popular mystery books appear in series, and these series feature carefully developed detectives.

Gumshoes

Author : Russell Nohelty
Publisher : Wannabe Press, LLC
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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GUMSHOES is about a detective agency run by two middle school kids who are top tier detectives and genius level scientists. It's basically CSI for kids! In the first book of the series, the Gumshoes join forces with one of their classmates to unravel the mystery of her father's kidnapping. Through a combination of good investigating, hard science, and blind dumb luck, the trio inch their way closer and closer to the truth. But will it be enough to track down her father before something happens to him?

Brown Gumshoes

Author : Ralph E. Rodriguez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292774551

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Popular fiction, with its capacity for diversion, can mask important cultural observations within a framework that is often overlooked in the academic world. Works thought to be merely "escapist" can often be more seriously mined for revelations regarding the worlds they portray, especially those of the disenfranchised. As detective fiction has slowly earned critical respect, more authors from minority groups have chosen it as their medium. Chicana/o authors, previously reluctant to write in an underestimated genre that might further marginalize them, have only entered the world of detective fiction in the past two decades. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Chicano/a detective fiction, Ralph E. Rodriguez examines the recent contributions to the genre by writers such as Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa, Michael Nava, and Manuel Ramos. Their works reveal the struggles of Chicanas/os with feminism, homosexuality, familia, masculinity, mysticism, the nationalist subject, and U.S.-Mexico border relations. He maintains that their novels register crucial new discourses of identity, politics, and cultural citizenship that cannot be understood apart from the historical instability following the demise of the nationalist politics of the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In contrast to that time, when Chicanas/os sought a unified Chicano identity in order to effect social change, the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s have seen a disengagement from these nationalist politics and a new trend toward a heterogeneous sense of self. The detective novel and its traditional focus on questions of knowledge and identity turned out to be the perfect medium in which to examine this new self.

The Truman Gumshoes

Author : J.K. Van Dover
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476688022

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The Truman Gumshoes by J.K. Van Dover Pdf

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.

More Groovy Gumshoes

Author : Michael Bracken
Publisher : Down & Out Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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More Groovy Gumshoes by Michael Bracken Pdf

The Sixties were a time of great cultural upheaval, when long-established social norms were challenged and everything changed: from music to fashion to social mores. And the Leave It to Beaver households in Middle America didn’t know what to make of it all. In the midst of this, private eyes tried to understand and bridge the generational divide while providing their clients with legal and extra-legal detecting services. From old-school private eyes with their flat-tops, off-the-rack suits, and well-worn brogues to the new breed of private eyes with their shoulder-length hair, bell-bottoms, and hemp sandals, the shamuses in More Groovy Gumshoes—a follow-up to the far-out original Groovy Gumshoes—take readers on another rollicking romp through the Sixties. Contributors include: Michael Chandos, Wil A. Emerson, Jeff Esterholm, John M. Floyd, Nils Gilbertson, Wendy Harrison, Dave H. Hendrickson, gay toltl kinman, Lynn Maples, Jarrett Mazza, John McFetridge, Robert Petyo, Graham Powell, Bev Vincent, Joseph S. Walker, and Stacy Woodson.

Groovy Gumshoes

Author : Jack Bates,C.W. Blackwell,N.M. Cedeño,Hugh Lessig,Steve Liskow,Adam Meyer,Tom Milani,Neil S. Plakcy,Stephen D. Rogers,Mark Thielman,Grant Tracey,Mark Troy,Andrew Welsh-Huggins,Robb White
Publisher : Down & Out Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Groovy Gumshoes by Jack Bates,C.W. Blackwell,N.M. Cedeño,Hugh Lessig,Steve Liskow,Adam Meyer,Tom Milani,Neil S. Plakcy,Stephen D. Rogers,Mark Thielman,Grant Tracey,Mark Troy,Andrew Welsh-Huggins,Robb White Pdf

The Sixties were a time of great cultural upheaval, when long-established social norms were challenged and everything changed: from music to fashion to social mores. And the Leave It to Beaver households in Middle America didn’t know what to make of it all. In the midst of this, private eyes tried to understand and bridge the generational divide while providing their clients with legal and extra-legal detecting services. From old-school private eyes with their flat-tops, off-the-rack suits, and well-worn brogues to the new breed of private eyes with their shoulder-length hair, bell-bottoms, and hemp sandals, the shamuses in Groovy Gumshoes take readers on a rollicking romp through the Sixties. With stories by Jack Bates, C.W. Blackwell, Michael Bracken, N.M. Cedeño, Hugh Lessig, Steve Liskow, Adam Meyer, Tom Milani, Neil S. Plakcy, Stephen D. Rogers, Mark Thielman, Grant Tracey, Mark Troy, Andrew Welsh-Huggins, and Robb White.

Lessons

Author : John Moncrief
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625168962

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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.

The Gumshoe Collection

Author : Rob Leininger
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 1802 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608096114

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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

Gertrude, Gumshoe: Slam Is Murder

Author : R.E. Merrill
Publisher : New Creation Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gertrude, Gumshoe: Slam Is Murder by R.E. Merrill Pdf

There just isn't enough crime in Mattawooptock, so Gertrude has to convince Calvin to go to the big city—Portland, where she will go undercover as the newest slam poet on the scene. But have any actual crimes been committed, or is this just Gertrude's wild imagination at work?

"G" is for Gumshoe

Author : Sue Grafton
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429910866

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"G" is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton Pdf

For #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton's PI Kinsey Millhone, danger comes with the job—but she never expects to find herself at the top of a hit man's list... G IS FOR GAME... When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn't heard from in six months, it's not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girl's gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy money—or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened. G IS FOR GUN... Kinsey doesn't know what to make of Agnes's vague fears and bizarre ramblings, but she's got her own worries. It seems Tyrone Patty, a criminal she helped put behind bars, is looking to make a hit. First, Kinsey's car is run off the road, and then days later, she's almost gunned down, setting in motion a harrowing cat and mouse game... G IS FOR GUMSHOE So Kinsey decides to hire a bodyguard. With PI Robert Dietz watching her 24/7, Kinsey is feeling on edge...especially with their growing sexual tension. Then, Agnes dies of an apparent homicide, Kinsey realizes the old lady wasn't so senile after all—and maybe she was trying to tell her something? Now Kinsey's determined to learn the truth...even if it kills her. "A" Is for Alibi "B" Is for Burglar "C" Is for Corpse "D" Is for Deadbeat "E" Is for Evidence "F" Is for Fugitive "G" Is for Gumshoe "H" Is for Homicide "I" Is for Innocent "J" Is for Judgment "K" Is for Killer "L" is for Lawless "M" Is for Malice "N" Is for Noose "O" Is for Outlaw "P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry "R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass "U" Is for Undertow "V" Is for Vengeance "W" Is for Wasted "X"

Gumshoe in the Dark

Author : Rob Leininger
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608094349

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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

Gumshoe

Author : Rob Leininger
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608091638

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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.

Gumshoe on the Loose

Author : Rob Leininger
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608092758

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Gumshoe on the Loose by Rob Leininger Pdf

USA Today best-selling author Mortimer Angel, ex-IRS agent, PI-in-training has a reputation—he specializes in body parts IRS agent-turned-PI Mortimer Angel is relaxing in a hole-in-the-wall bar in a Reno casino when an attractive young girl hires him to find out who left her a cryptic message demanding a million dollars. At the girl's house, Mort finds the body of missing rapper Jonnie Xenon—Jo-X to his legions of fans—hanging from the rafters with two bullet holes in him. Mort is shocked when he learns the identity of the girl's father—and even more shocked when he is hired to investigate the murder. Mort, being Mort, accumulates a few felonies as he follows the clues to Las Vegas. And along the way, he picks up an alluring young assistant who changes his life—in every conceivable way. The perfect mix of John Sanford 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 (coming June 2021)

Gumshoe Rock

Author : Rob Leininger
Publisher : Oceanview Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608093311

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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

Gertrude, Gumshoe Cozy Mystery Box Set

Author : R.E. Merrill
Publisher : New Creation Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Gertrude, Gumshoe Cozy Mystery Box Set by R.E. Merrill Pdf

The complete bestselling cozy mystery series in one box set! You know that eccentric great-aunt no one wants to sit beside at family functions? Or that neighbor who's just a little too strange to get to know? Or the pushy woman at the thrift store? Maybe you know Gertrude. She's a smidge snarky. She's frightfully frugal. And she's fearless. She'll find a body in a house of balls. She'll tick off the local police. She'll go undercover at Goodwill. And she might even manage to get herself kidnapped while yardsaling. All in the name of justice. "FUN, FUN read!" "Laugh out loud funny!" "What a hoot!" "Cozy fans who enjoy ample servings of tongue-in-cheek humor may find Merrill's series debut to their taste. ... Gertrude's inept doggedness will entertain readers who don't take their mysteries too seriously." --Publishers Weekly "Merrill's second comic mystery featuring a curmudgeonly sleuth is even funnier than her first ... Readers who enjoy tongue-in-cheek whodunits will find themselves grinning frequently." --Publishers Weekly (mysteries with senior detective, mysteries with retired detective, funny cozy mysteries, senior characters, retired characters, senior protagonist, retired protagonist, complete cozy mystery series)