Alistair Boyle, Author Allen A. Knoll Publishers $19.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-9627297-3-7
Boyle's rookie novel is inventive, quirky and utterly implausible from start to finish. Humble L.A. realtor Malvin Stark reinvents himself one day as ace sleuth Gil Yates. Soon he's looking for an arms dealer's missing daughter, who holds a large...
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Alistair Boyle, Author Knoll Publishers $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-9627297-9-9
Too many puns and too few cons make a groaner out of the second Gil Yates caper (after The Missing Link). Most of the time, Yates is Malvin Stark, underachiever and dweeb. By day, he works for his blustery father-in-law; by night, he fantasizes...
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Alistair Boyle, Author Allen A. Knoll Publishers $20 (0p) ISBN 978-1-888310-77-1
Boyle's third Gil Yates mystery (following The Con) is another lighthearted and amusing romp. Yates, a California PI, is the Walter Mitty-like alter ego of mild-mannered property manager Malvin Stark. Hen-pecked Malvin is married to Dorcas ""Tyranny
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Alistair Boyle, Author Allen A. Knoll Publishers $22 (0p) ISBN 978-1-888310-85-6
In What Now, King Lear?: A Gil Yates Private Investigator Novel, the sixth installment by Alistair Boyle (Ship Shapely), Yates sleuths and wisecracks his way through a privileged world of breathtaking inheritances, intra-family lawsuits, people who "
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Alistair Boyle, Author Allen A. Knoll Publishers $23 (227p) ISBN 978-1-888310-58-0
California PI Gil Yates looks into the mysterious death of heavyweight boxer Buddy Bensen-more than 30 years after the fact-in Alistair Boyle's hard-boiled They Fall Hard: A Gil Yates Private Investigator Novel. Buddy's dying illegitimate son also...
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Alistair Boyle. Allen A. Knoll, $23 (336p) ISBN 978-1-888310-08-5
In Boyle’s amusing ninth adventure featuring PI Gil Yates (after 2011’s What Now, King Lear?), egotistical surgeon Chester Kulp recruits Yates to determine whether his amiable son-in-law Sandy Straus’s fatal fall was suicide. At $10,000 a day, Gil...
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Alistair Boyle, Author, Allstair Boyle, Author Allen A. Knoll Publishers $20 (0p) ISBN 978-1-888310-45-0
Once again, the nebbishy Malvin Stark gets to step into his alter ego, PI Gil Yates, and escape the doldrums of his Southern California life and marriage to Dorcas (aka Tyranny Rex) into some breezy shenanigans among the rich and venal. Hired by...
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