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Peter Gunn volume 30
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Gunn "gives a little back" and goes to Acapulco, Mexico to look for a woman spotted down there recently by his friend. The woman is supposed to be dead and her husband is currently in the news-he has used up his last appeal and is very shortly to be executed for her murder.
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Peter Gunn volume 29
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A Mystery Woman is an admirer of Peter Gunn-and she kills to prove it.The first kill is when a hood who swore revenge against Gunn is released from prison.Then the hood's brother turns up dead.Gunn must prove he's not the killer and try to find out who is-before the gangster father of the brood comes after him.
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Peter Gunn volume 11
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Two inmates break out of prison. First item on their agenda: Kill Peter Gunn.
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Peter Gunn volume 25
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A Mexican immigrant's son is accused of killing a drug dealer. Lt. Jacoby feels the young man had a motive and the opportunity to have committed the crime. Gunn, an old friend of the father,looks into the case. The family business plays a part in the truth of what happened.
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Peter Gunn volume 32
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Gunn is tipped; the soon-to-be visiting Governor will be assassinated. When the rumor is shared with Lt. Jacoby,there is a doubt as to the validity of this information since it comes from Gunn's "coterie of misguided souls". Further investigation is even more puzzling-a gun is found but no sniper.
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Peter Gunn volume 19
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Cliffie Thomas hires Pete to protect him from recently convicted and even more recently escaped Al Brenners. Cliffie was blinded 10 years ago by Brenners and Vic Stringer. The police think Brenners left town, but Cliffie knows otherwise because he knows Stringer has visited his newsstand a couple times. Cliffie figures Brenners and Stringer will kill him because wherever Stringer is, Brenners can't be far away. Peter Gunn is Cliffie's key to remaining...
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Peter Gunn volume 38
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A perplexed Gunn has a baby dumped on his doorstep. He finds the father is scheduled to testify against a crime czar who is hiding out until all witnesses are killed. Gunn sets himself up as a target to draw the mobster out into the open.
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Peter Gunn volume 37
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An insurance company hires Peter Gunn to determine the ownership of $500,000 worth of jewels, which may have been stolen. They were discovered by the police in the apartment of a murdered man who's wife now has laid claim to them. Oddly, a bookie who cannot be found could figure in the solution of the case.
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Peter Gunn volume 5
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A man takes out a contract on himself, so his family can collect on his life insurance policy, but when his money troubles suddenly disappear, he hires Peter Gunn to find and stop the hitman before he makes the hit.
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Peter Gunn volume 15
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A hard-case who Peter Gunn helped send to prison for five years is paroled.He immediately calls Gunn and lets him know he's "on his way and you have very little time to live".Ignoring Lt. Jacoby's suggestion to leave town,Gunn has a scheme to fight it out on his own turf-but ends up in the cemetery.
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Peter Gunn volume 4
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Danny Holland, a paranoid stand-up comedian (played by Shelley Berman) is convinced that his wife of six years is trying to kill him. He hires Peter Gunn to investigate, but Gunn gets a completely opposite view of the marriage from the wife when he confronts her with her husband's fears.
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Peter Gunn volume 2
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A bank manager robs his own bank after disabling everyone with knockout gas. When the manager's co-conspirator escapes to Italy with the money, Gunn is hired to track the man down.
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Peter Gunn volume 9
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A convicted man being escorted to prison via the train is freed by a confederate.The man's wife contacts Gunn-to hire him to recapture her husband.Due to him believing she tipped the police and caused his arrest,she fears her husband will kill her.
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Peter Gunn volume 17
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Gunn is called in by Lt. Jacoby to deal with a psychotic bomber who has escaped from a mental institution and is threatening to cause major damage unless the mayor kills himself.
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Peter Gunn volume 27
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A racketeer is beaten to death and a woman hires Gunn to find out if her old flame, a Korean War hero,was responsible. Lt. Jacob knows the man,who has been an out-patient for being manic-depressive for years. Meanwhile, a fellow mobster is worried he may be blamed for the kill and wants to force Gunn to clear his name.
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Peter Gunn volume 25
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A man is paid to take the blame for the murder of his boss' wife and as part of the plan he hires Gunn to look into the death.Gunn finds evidence linking the man to the crime but it seems too pat-especially to Jacoby.
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Peter Gunn volume 23
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A boxer on the comeback trail has an assassination attempt made on his life. Gunn becomes involved when a pickpocket friend of his "finds" a clue to the plot. As Gunn noses around he finds that the boxers' ex-wife, Manager and owner among others may have been involved in the incident.
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Peter Gunn volume 5
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A prisoner brought to court for sentencing somehow has gotten a gun and kills the judge before being killed himself.Lt. Jacoby is assigned to investigate the case and his interested friend Peter Gunn helps by using his network of informants.
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Peter Gunn volume 17
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A newspaper gossip column item leads to a noted author hiring Gunn to look into the possibility that his wife is having an affair. Before he can get started on the case, the author is murdered and Gunn decides to find the killer. He begins by investigating the wife - who has more than one man in her life.
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Peter Gunn volume 36
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A man is killed by a sniper with a crossbow. Gunn has a client with a criminal record, an upper-crust clientele sensitive to scandal, and a collection of weapons that used to include a crossbow. It was stolen and the client, Copeland (Henry Daniell), wants Gunn to find the killer before the police find Copeland. There are three more killings, including one at the house of a judge whose groundskeeper Karl (George Kennedy) controls a large unfriendly...
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