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Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!
The Boston Herald called the first book "well paced and lively," and The Saturday Review called it, "lively, lurid, and outspoken." Author Dorothy Hughes said: "It's murder and mayhem and hold onto your hats. Amusing and amazing."
And...
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Carol Ann was very photogenic. Especially in certain pictures... But it was more than just a case of over-exposure. There was also a small matter of murder. For Pete Schofield, it was all in a day's - and night's - work. And very enjoyable work at that. Because Carol Ann was a cooperative subject, both on and off camera...
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PORTRAIT OF A PRIVATE COP...
"Call me Mac... I'm just a guy. I go around and get in jams and then try to figure a way out of them. I don't make very much money and most people insult me one way or another... I'm a fairly good shot with small arms, show-thinking but thorough, and very dirty in a clinch."
Mac gets into a jam this time even when he turns a job down. And all because of a book, an ex-gangster's patrician wife, and a red-headed cabaret...
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Doll Baby just sat there, blinking her long black lashes and drawing on her long white cigarette. "You've got to help me, Petey Boy," she said. "They're after me. Two of 'em."If someone had to be tailed, Doll Baby sure made a likely target. But something else about this case didn't stack up. And it wasn't Doll Baby. She was doing just fine...
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Her name was Shaara, and she was built like a technicolor dream. From tip to toe...from back to front...the lady was intricately tattooed. The designs intrigued Pete Schofield, and so did the background...until he saw that thinking along her lines could get him killed. Because someone had designs on her - and not all the reasons were obvious!
Someone had designs on her...and not all the reasons were obvious! It's up to Pete Schofield to keep her...
8) Go, Honeylou
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Pete thought he had it made. A cool half-grand, plus expenses, just to deliver Uncle Pierce Bonwell's bright-eyed and burstin' niece, Honeylou, to her Aunt Cindy -- in one piece. But Pete learned the hard way that Uncle Pierce wasn't giving money away. The cost of kidnapping and murder runs pretty high!
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Mac didn't like bodyguard jobs. But he disliked kidnappers even more. So when Julian Porter, big shot movie producer, said, "Come to Hollywood, take care of my kid," Mac left Chicago and went to Hollywood. Julie'd had a threatening letter about his daughter, Linda, age five. The note said, "We're going to grab her unless..." and then there was the usual talk of big money. So Mac set up 24-hour protection. He made it his business to find out about...
10) The Mean Streets
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"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" - Bill Pronzini
"Gripping, realistic, and compelling." - Chicago Sunday Tribune
It started with murder and ended with murder. Along the way there were muggings and dope and stolen cars and other assorted violence's that might have been committed by juveniles. But this wasn't kid stuff. It became apparent that someone very ruthless was behind it all. That's when they decided...
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The trail Mac found himself trying to follow was very cold. Another private detective - his friend Barry Henley - had been killed a year earlier in a fall from a tenth-story window, and the cops had written it off as accidental. But when Hensley's widow told Mac that several people had tried to get into her apartment under various pretexts; when Mac found she was being followed; and when the mug shot she picked out of the police department files proved...
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"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" - Bill Pronzini
Pete Schofield had been to art-colony parties before. Usually they were all the same, but this one had an added kick. A giant punchbowl, filled to the rim with champagne, and spiked with the barest, most beautiful mermaid he'd ever seen. He was enjoying every inch of it. So was everyone else, until some joker decided to plunge into the act. That's when the...
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Nobody knew the trouble she'd been in -- until it caught up with her. And then it was murder!
"Mac is one of our best private eyes." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -- Bill Pronzini
"Mac has been called one of the most believable and humane PI's in crime fiction. He is reluctant to use either his gun or his fists, but will do so when the situation demands it, or in self-defense;...
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"Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" -- Bill Pronzini
The naked lady was very beautiful and very dead. The police found that she had circled Mac's name in her phone book -- yet Mac couldn't remember her! What's a poor investigator to do -- but investigate?
"A solidly satisfactory story -- fast, believable, well-characterized, a nice balance of restraint and overt violence." -- The New York Times
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The Crime and Corruption Novel MEGAPACK® presents 4 great books by two different authors: Thomas B. Dewey and Burt Arthur. Included are:
A Season for Violence, by Thomas B. Dewey
Run, Brother, Run! by Thomas B. Dewey
Empty Saddles, by Burt Arthur.
Kiss Me Hard is copyright © 1953 by Thomas B. Dewey.
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The girl had lost her guitar-playing boyfriend, but he had left her the most deadly legacy of all - fear. And now it was up to me to protect her from the gun-carrying thugs who were relentlessly tracking her down. Hoodlums, hootenannies, and homicide!
#10 in the Mac detective series!
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So unmoving was the girl sitting on the wet rocks that, at first, she seemed a permanent feature of the rugged seascape. She was wearing an expensive evening dress and high-heel slippers. She seemed to be in a deep trance, her gaze fixed on the sea, motionless except for the tossing of her delicate blond hair in the morning breeze. And as his steps brought him closer, he thought he had never seen anything so strange, so lovely, so vulnerable...until...
19) Death and Taxes
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When Mac, renowned Chicago private eye, took on his newest case, it looked like he was going to earn an easy ten grand fee. His assignment was to deliver one million dollars in cool cash to the daughter of his client, notorious ex-gangster Marco Paul, upon the man's eventual death.
However, Mac's client was a cold corpse before he had a chance to tell Mac where the money was stashed.
From then on, his life wasn't worth two cents. Someone thought...
20) Handle With Fear
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#4 in the Singer Batts mystery series, by Thomas B. Dewey.
Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!
And they're all a lot of fun.
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