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Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 31
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Nameless" had seen enough death in his years; spending his time watching someone drive to several funerals a day, funerals for people he didn't know, was more than he could take. And, he had a non-professional problem of his own: his relationship with his wife, Kerry, had hit a wall and nothing he did got him over it and to the other side. There was one possibility, one thing he'd done (or not done), but knowing that didn't seem to help...
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Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 30
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Bill Pronzini's "Nameless" detective has become one of the longest-lived, and consistently highly praised, private investigators in the annals of American crime fiction and the award-winning author proves, once again, that his skills are unmatched.
Things were quiet in the San Francisco-based agency Nameless founded and his partners, Jake and Vanessa were itching to get back to work. A deadbeat father needed to be found, and Vanessa needed to do...
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 32
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The police said it was an accident, the dead woman's sister said it was murder... and that she knew who did it. Nameless isn't certain, but the more he learns about Nancy Mathias's life, the more inclined he is to accept the likelihood of murder-especially as the players still alive become more and more distasteful. Combine that with the situation Jake Runyon, one of the agency's partners, is facing as he searches for a young man who is either a murderer...
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 33
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before-propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher-and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce.
A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging...
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 28
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Shaken after a hair's-breadth escape from death, Nameless has made changes in his professional life, but he's not put himself out to pasture. Again he enters San Francisco's shadowy underworld, this time in a search for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who has been found dead in an alley doorway. Clues are few, but Pronzini, working at the top of his form, takes his seasoned private-eye hero to a new phase of a still-evolving...
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 34
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A locked room mystery that goes from stolen books to stolen lives and the hunt for a phantom stalker with a penchant for pouring acid to make his point give Nameless and his partner Jake more than enough work to earn their fees--as long as neither turns his back at the wrong moment.
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
So what if Nameless can't get his girlfriend, Kerry, to marry him? So what if he can't talk his partner, Eberhardt, out of his bitter funk? Skies are sunny, and the Nameless Detective wants them to stay that way. So he decides to do an old man a favor and find his missing granddaughter, Gianna. But no one said it would be easy. It seems Gianna's roommate is turning tricks, and Nameless' search quickly leads him to a pimp, a murder, and into a dark...
8) Betrayers
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 35
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"We're told that there are seven deadly sins; not on the list is the deadliest of them all: Betrayal. For each of the detectives at the agency, a betrayal-- personal, against a child, against the elderly-- becomes not only the driving force behind an investigation, but the source of the kind of resolve that cannot be derailed by threats of any kind. Tamara's case began as something personal but explodes as her investigation of her former lover Lucas...
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 36
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex-wife, and they know where she is. Deliver some papers to her and it is is all done. But she refuses the papers, sends a message to Virden to never contact her again, and slams the door. His colleague, Tamara, tells Nameless that Virden threatens to sue, stops payment on his checks, and claims that the woman they located is not his wife. Then he disappears and his fiancee...
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of fourteen stories featuring the Nameless Detective includes "It's a Lousy World," "Dead Man's Slough," and "Souls Burning."
Author
Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
14) Femme
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Nameless Detective is enlisted to help Cory Beckett track down her younger brother who has jumped bail after being arrested for stealing a valuable diamond necklace belonging to the wife of a powerful San Francisco union leader.
15) Twospot
Author
Publisher
Speaking Volumes, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nameless and Lieutenant Frank Hastings combine their investigations of a harrowing case of murder and bizarre conspiracy surrounding an old California wine-making family.
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