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Chicago detective Mac is asked by a former silent film star to find out what the problem is facing a fellow actor who shares her home. Disappearing corpses, movie producers, and hoodlums are only some of the problems facing our hero!
#17 in the Mac detective series!
"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
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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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#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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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...
5) Kiss Me Hard
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They hopped a boxcar and made a run for it. He was a wanted man -- she was a woman who thought she's found her man. It was an outlawed passion, and it was doomed from the start...for crime always has a cost, and a life on the run is no life at all -- unless you're willing to risk everything!
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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...
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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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#2 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!
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A slightly shady congressman... His sulky 18-year-old daughter... A dead bodyguard... And blackmail!
It's all in a day's work for Mac, the Chicago detective. Another classic entry in the detective series that could have been ripped from today's headlines - but written in 1964. #11 in the classic series.
11) Deadline
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Deadline sends Mac to a small town on a tight deadline to save a boy from execution for a brutal murder. Mac makes a beautiful job of it despite the townsfolk's violent hostility.
#13 in the Mac detective series!
12) The Big Job
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Sam Brokaw was a crook and a heel. He had a big job planned as soon as he got out of jail. But he didn't count on his jilted girlfriend, who wanted him put away for life - or Mac.
This short story is counted as #18 in the Mac detective series.
13) Hue and Cry
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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!
14) Mourning After
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#3 in the Singer Batts 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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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...
16) Only on Tuesdays
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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...
17) 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...
18) Nude in Nevada
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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...
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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...
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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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