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Series
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English
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The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday.
Honey Deal, Walter's American wife, doesn't know that Walter is a member of a spy ring that sends U.S. war production data to Germany and gives shelter to escaped German prisoners of war. But she's tired of telling him jokes he doesn't understand-it's...
2) Mr. Paradise
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Language
English
Description
Elmore Leonard is the undisputed master, the 'King Daddy of crime writers' (Seattle Times), in the august company of the all-time greats of mystery/noir/crime fiction genre: John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al. The creator of such unforgettable classics as Stick, Out of Sight, and Get Shorty-not to mention the character of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, lately of TV's hit series Justified-Leonard is in fine form with Mr. Paradise....
3) The batboy
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Language
English
Description
Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
4) Middlesex
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Language
English
Description
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty...
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English
Description
On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rennie is in Uruguay when his cousins discover a secret cache at their dead grandfather's cottage. Thousands of dollars in foreign currencies. A mystifying notebook. Multiple passports, some obviously fake. A gun. A disguise. And a photo of some Nazis. Rennie's mission: to find out whether there was more to the old man than anyone knew. Was he a spy? If he was, what did he do? And for whom? Did he help a Nazi war criminal escape justice? Rennie's...
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Language
English
Description
On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie -- a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit's West Side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own. Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world,...
8) Motown
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the tense summer before Detroit's 1967 race riots, a former cop faces off against some of the city's most dangerous forces Rage simmers beneath the tranquil surface of 1960s Detroit. As the auto industry enjoys its last moments of prosperity, widespread discrimination infuriates the city's black middle class. One of the most destructive riots of the twentieth century is around the corner, and Rick Amery is going to be right in the middle. A...
9) Out of sight
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Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bank robber in Florida commandeers a car belonging to a woman U.S. marshall, climbs with her into the trunk, while an accomplice drives. So begins a novel about two people who really wish the ride had gone forever. As it is, she escapes to lead a manhunt for him.
10) Pagan babies
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pagan Babies is classic crime fiction from the master of suspense, New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt-wearing padre is back trying to hustle up a score to help the little orphans of Rwanda. But the fund-raising gets...
11) The switch
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dangerously eccentric characters, razor-sharp black humor, brilliant dialog, and suspense all rolled into one tight package-that's The Switch, Elmore Leonard's classic tale of a kidnapping gone wrong...or terribly right, depending on how you look at it. The Grand Master has written a wry and twisting tale that any of the other all-time greats-Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, John D. MacDonald, James M. Cain, Robert Parker...every noir author who...
12) Touch
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
©1987
Physical Desc
viii, 245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Here is a new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Glitz and Bandits.
13) Sinister Heights
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detroit PI Amos Walker steps into a lethal family feud when the beautiful widow of a powerful industrialist hires him to find her late husband's illegitimate children. Leland Stutch was building automobiles before Henry Ford ever dreamed up the Model T. He dominated Detroit for most of the 20th century as the auto industry soared and then began its long, slow descent. When Stutch's widow contacts Amos Walker, the private eye expects to meet a doddering...
14) Shooter
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
270 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
15) The judgment
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The death of innocence
In a rural area outside of Detroit, bodies are being found in the snow. One after another. Neatly washed, wrapped in plastic, methodically laid out like sleeping angels. And very, very young.
The birth of evil
Forty-miles away and at the other end of the world, an honest cop, the deputy chief of police, has been framed for a corruption charge. In a world of big-city politics, he wants ace lawyer Charley Sloan to get him off.
...
16) Intimate
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Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
498 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
A celebrated columnist, nightclub emcee, and fine arts philanthropist draws inspiration from the Catholic Saints Day books to reflect on his encounters with black artists in Detroit's legendary Black Bottom neighborhood, from the Great Depression through the post-World War II years.
18) Them
Author
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives of the Wendalls, a family on the steep edge of poverty in the windy, riotous Detroit slums.
19) Hit on the house
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Big Sid Sedlacek thought he could skim money from the mob, it was a fatally stupid mistake-one that was corrected by hit man Hal Good. And when Good is brought into the station as a possible witness to the very murder he just committed, he switches IDs with a drunk and makes his exit before Detective Sergeant Mulheisen can question him. But having a contract killer on the loose is just one of Mulheisen's problems. He's also contending with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detroit PI Amos Walker searches for a priceless medieval illuminated manuscript - and for evidence that can put his former partner's killer behind bars. Hired by a curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts to serve as his bodyguard during a transaction involving a stolen illuminated manuscript, Amos Walker enters a darkened skin-flick theater where the exchange is supposed to take place. When the deal goes south, he's lucky to leave with his life......
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