Edward Mathis, Author Scribner Book Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19039-6
Moral frailties and the dark side of human nature are explored in this intriguing mystery featuring Texas-based private investigator, Dan Roman. In his fifth outing, the 42-year-old ex-cop and his wife, Susie, an ambitious TV reporter 16 years his...
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Edward Mathis, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-684-19038-9
Mathis's sixth Dan Roman ( The Burned Woman , etc.) story blends some classic hardboiled elements, notably a tangled family-sprung plot, with its hero's new-style male sensitivity. Texas-based private eye Roman is hired by rich, middle-aged Phillip...
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Edward Mathis, Author Scribner Book Company $13.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-684-18492-0
While visiting his small hometown in Texas, private eye Dan Roman is asked to investigate the recent death of the mild-mannered assistant librarian. His findings connect that death to the also-recent suicide of one of the town's richest citizens,...
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Edward Mathis, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (226p) ISBN 978-0-684-18852-2
Mathis stars Texas private eye Dan Roman in a third boffo mystery, packed with as many tense and twisty scenes as the previous Dark Streaks and Empty Places. Hired by Naomi Kincade to locate and bring home from California her out-of-work and...
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Edward Mathis, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (230p) ISBN 978-0-684-18935-2
Texas private eye Dan Roman (From a High Place, et al.) is called to a small East Texas town by police chief Ward Bannion, an old buddy from Vietnam. Ward's 19-year-old nephew and the nephew's girlfriend have been murdered. The situation is...
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Edward Mathis, Author Scribner Book Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19262-8
Although Mathis ( The Burned Woman ) takes only partial advantage of colorful Texas vernacular--allowing the dialogue to verge on insipidity--PI Dan Roman still does a stand-up job of solving his seventh mystery. Roman never stopped loving his...
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Edward Mathis, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19386-1
Texas PI Dan Roman, last seen in September Song , is only human--tough as whipcord but weak when it comes to tequila, cigarettes, poker and his young ``very nearly voluptuous'' ex-wife Susie, who is now ready to take him back. But before they can...
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