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Get Shorty (Chili Palmer #1)
By: Elmore Leonard
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Publisher: Delacorte
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Series: Chili Palmer (#1)
Summary: Mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind—plus his “friends” have a bad habit of dying there. So when he chases a deadbeat client out to Hollywood, Chili figures he might like to stay. This town, with its dream-makers, glitter, hucksters, and liars—plus gorgeous, partially clad would-be starlets everywhere you look—seems ideal for an enterprising criminal with a taste for the cinematic. Besides, Chili’s got an idea for a killer movie, though it could very possibly kill him to get it made.

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Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple #1)
By: Carola Dunn
Release Date: September 1, 2006 (First published January 1, 1994)
Publisher: Leisure Books
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Series: Daisy Dalrymple (#1)
Summary: This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment, and promptly stumbles across a corpse.

No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground in having scandalously traded silver spoon for pen and camera to cover a story for Town and Country magazine. But her planned interviews with the inhabitants of Wentwater Court give way to interrogation after suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a dire fate on the tranquil skating pond.

Armed with evidence that his fate was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard to examine an esteemed collection of suspects and to see that the unlikely culprit doesn't slip through their fingers just as the unfortunate Astwick slipped through the ice.

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The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
By: James Ellroy
Release Date: January 1, 2006 (First published September 1, 1987)
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Series: L.A. Quartet (#1)
Summary: On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia—and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia—driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches—into a region of total madness.

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The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple, #1))
By: Agatha Christie
Release Date: November 1, 1968 (First published June 1, 1932)
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
Series: Miss Marple (#1)
Summary: One Tuesday evening, a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes…

The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the deathbed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death…

Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’.

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Entries tagged with g: crime

Get Shorty (Chili Palmer #1)

Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple #1)

The Black Dahlia

The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple, #1)

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