Nameless Detective mysteries
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The snatch , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 1
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4) Blowback
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 4
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Random House
Pub. Date
c1977
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English
5) Twospot
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 5
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c1978
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English
6) Labyrinth
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 6
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1980
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English
7) Hoodwink
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 7
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©1981
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English
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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
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1982
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English
9) Dragonfire
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 9
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1982
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English
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 10
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1983
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English
11) Double
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 11
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English
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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
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
15) Deadfall
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 15
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1986
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English
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Shackles , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 16
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 17
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1990
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English
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Breakdown , Nameless Detective mysteries volume 18
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 19
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English
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Old Man Hass is concerned by the near-catatonic behavior of his daughter, Grady. The young woman showed up at his doorstep a few days earlier, refused to admit that anything was wrong, and has been wandering around the farm, not talking and barely eating. The Nameless Detective thinks the old farmer would have been better off calling a psychiatrist-but he's at least willing to ask a few questions. As Nameless begins to investigate, he discovers that...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 20
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English
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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 a dark...
21) Demons
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 21
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English
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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 with...
22) Hardcase
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 22
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English
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Fresh from his recent marriage, the Nameless Detective returns to what appears to be a routine investigation, an adoption case. While searching through the effects of her recently deceased mother, twenty-three year old Melanie Ann Aldrich discovers some papers which show she was adopted. With her father dead as well, it seems unlikely she will ever find out why she was never told. So she hires Nameless to find her true parents.In the course of his...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 23
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Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 24
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Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 25
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English
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A vacation in the mountains by the Nameless Detective of San Francisco is spoilt when a bomber appears, seeking revenge on the host's family. Nameless is staying with the family of a district attorney who sent the bomber to jail.
26) Crazybone
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English
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"Deception turns deadly in the twenty-sixth case featuring Bill Pronzini's 'Nameless Detective.' Beyond the wrought-iron gates and behind the stuccoed facades of the Spanish-style houses in the affluent California community of Greenwood, a murderous maze of deceit, adultery, fraud, and betrayal awaits the private eye hailed by the Chicago Sun-Times as 'the thinking man's detective' in this ingeniously contrived mystery novel by two-time Shamus award-winner...
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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 28
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English
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Shaken after a hair's-breadth escape from death, Nameless has made changes in his professional life, but he's not put himself out to pasture. Again he enters San Francisco's shadowy underworld, this time in a search for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who has been found dead in an alley doorway. Clues are few, but Pronzini, working at the top of his form, takes his seasoned private-eye hero to a new phase of a still-evolving...
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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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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 31
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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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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 32
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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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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 33
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English
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Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before-propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher-and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce.
A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging...
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 34
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English
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A locked room mystery that goes from stolen books to stolen lives and the hunt for a phantom stalker with a penchant for pouring acid to make his point give Nameless and his partner Jake more than enough work to earn their fees--as long as neither turns his back at the wrong moment.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 35
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English
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An investigation of a former lover leads Tamara to a charity-targeting scam, while Nameless's assistance of an elderly woman reveals ugly family agendas and Runyon's search for a bail jumper leads him to make a wrenching choice.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 36
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English
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Private investigator Nameless, having tracked down the ex-wife of David Virden to give her papers which she denied, is told by his client that he had the wrong woman right before he goes missing and Nameless must figure out what is going on and what his place is in the mess, while agency operative Alex Chavez tries to find out if his girlfriend's son is being abused by his father.
37) Hellbox
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 37
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English
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When his wife goes missing from their Sierra foothills cabin after spotting a suspicious man, the Nameless Detective and his associate, Jake Runyon, launch a search and rescue mission that stretches legal boundaries.
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 38
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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.
39) Strangers
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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...
41) Endgame
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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 other...
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Double
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Spadework: a collection of 'nameless detective' stories
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Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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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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Kinsmen: a Nameless Detective novella
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Author
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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,...