Jon L. Breen, Author . Five Star $25.95 (273p) ISBN 978-1-59414-734-0
Santa Claus goes on trial for shooting his brother in this zany legal thriller from Edgar-winner Breen (Eye of God
). Of course, he's not really Santa, he's Charlie Baines, a big (unnamed) city philanthropist viewed as its official Santa...
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Jon L. Breen, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $17 (182p) ISBN 978-1-932009-19-4
Fans of Jon L. Breen's baseball mysteries will welcome the Edgar-winning author's Kill the Umpire: The Calls of Ed Gorgon, which includes 16 cases featuring the major league umpire known as the ""horsehide sleuth,"" one of them original to this...
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Jon L. Breen, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $42 (182p) ISBN 978-1-932009-18-7
Fans of Jon L. Breen's baseball mysteries will welcome the Edgar-winning author's Kill the Umpire: The Calls of Ed Gorgon, which includes 16 cases featuring the major league umpire known as the ""horsehide sleuth,"" one of them original to this...
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Jon L. Breen, Author Perseverance Press $13.95 (209p) ISBN 978-1-880284-89-6
In Edgar-winner Breen's disappointing new mystery, PI Al Hasp is appalled to discover that his longtime business partner, Norm Carpenter, wants to leave the company, having found the Lord and been born again. However, because a nationally-known TV...
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Jon L. Breen, Author Walker & Company $16.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5704-3
Bookstore-owner Rachel Hennings is understandably intrigued when she learns that Wilbur DeMarco, a leading crime writer in the '30s, wants to sell his collection of books published in 1937. She finds DeMarco's entire house, in Idyllwild outside L.A.,
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Jon L. Breen, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (235p) ISBN 978-0-671-68104-3
Fans of Dick Francis and aficionados of the racetrack will enjoy this perky mystery, Breen's third featuring Jerry Brogan ( Listen for the Click ). Brogan, track announcer at the Surfside Meadows training center, plays amateur sleuth when unpopular...
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Jon L. Breen, Author, Bill Adler, Jr., Author, Ray Russell, Author William Morrow & Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06684-0
The shades of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald would be disturbed that their names, in Thomas Chastain's introduction to this collection, are taken in vain. Macdonald's is even misspelled, a foretaste of the eight stories that lack bite,...
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