Thorndike Press, Manufactured by, Harold Adams, Author Five Star (ME) $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7862-3000-6
Shamus Award winner Harold Adams brings back his series character Kyle Champion, introduced in When Rich Men Die (1987), for more fun and murderous mischief in The Fourth of July Wake. When the young widow of family patriarch P.J. Krueger decides
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Ansel Adams, Author, Harold Adams, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-250-1
Adams's sixth mystery is expertly plotted, set with its predecessors in the small town of Corden, S.D., during the 1930s. Rugged ex-convict and amateur investigator Carl Wilcox finds widower Arthur Foote hanging from a barbed-wire noose. Living at...
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Ansel Adams, Author, Harold Adams, Author Mysterious Press $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-252-5
Wry wit, intriguing characters and skillfully spare writing add up to another winner for Adams, in his eighth Depression-era mystery. Carl Wilcox, reformed drunk and leading misfit of Corden, S.D., and his teenage nephew, Hank, are left in charge of
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Ansel Adams, Author, Harold Adams, Author Mysterious Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-251-8
While driving along a South Dakota country road, Carl Wilcox (Barbed Wire Noose) comes upon an auto accident with three dead and two survivors, one of them a little girl. He takes the child, Alma, to the nearest town, and finds that one of the...
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Harold Adams, Author Doubleday Books $16.95 (236p) ISBN 978-0-385-24005-5
Author of several award-winners about the Depression-era sleuth Carl Wilcox (The Fourth Window, etc.), Adams launches a modern series starring another smart and witty hero-narrator, Kyle Champion. When he loses his post as a TV news anchor to a...
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Harold Adams, Author Walker & Company $18.95 (156p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1239-4
For more than a decade, Carl Wilcox, Adams's Depression-era hero (last seen in The Naked Liar ) has solved cases involving murders and other misdeeds in small South Dakota towns. Having progressed from usual suspect (because of his convict...
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Harold Adams, Author Walker & Company $18.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3237-8
Still painting signs in Depression-era South Dakota, Carl Wilcox, introduced in The Man Who Was Taller Than God , finds himself in Podunkville where eggs are 11? a dozen and rooms are let at 50? a day. He rents one of the latter from the Widow Bower,
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Harold Adams, Author Walker & Company $18.95 (142p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3190-6
In a voice rich with the nuances of the post-Prohibition rural Midwest, Adams's ( A Perfectly Proper Murder ) Carl Wilcox relates his investigation of the death of Aaron Feist. Found on Darlene Singer's stairs ``in a puddle of gore,'' Feist had been
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Harold Adams, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (157p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3263-7
He's perhaps the last word in laconic lonerdom; he's drifter Carl Wilcox (A Way with Widows), traversing Depression-era small-town America, taking on odd jobs and solving mysteries. Here, he finds himself in Greenhill, S.D., where, four years...
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Harold Adams, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3286-6
While Depression-era South Dakota may seem an unlikely setting for a mystery series, Adams has done well there, earning the 1993 Shamus Award for The Man Who Was Taller Than God. His lightning rod for trouble is Carl Wilcox who, in his fifth...
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Harold Adams, Author Walker & Company $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3310-8
Depression-era South Dakota is the undisputed territory of itinerant painter Carl Wilcox (Hatchet Job, 1996), knight-errant of the Plains whose laconic ways are perfectly rooted in his time and place. Carl's at his family's home in Corden, helping...
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Harold Adams, Author Walker & Company $22.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3321-4
Carl Wilcox, a peripatetic middle-aged sign painter, crisscrosses the small towns of Depression-era South Dakota, attracting women and trouble in almost equal proportions in this consistently entertaining series (The Ice-Pick Artist, 1997, etc.)....
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Harold Adams, Author Walker & Company $22.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3336-8
""Changes on the St. Croix, when you're paddling with a slow current, are so gradual you seem at times to be motionless."" So proclaims Carl Wilcox, protagonist of this deceptively simple new novel by Adams (winner of a Shamus for The Man Who Was...
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