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Neil Albert, Author Walker & Company $18.95 (195p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3206-4
This exceptional first mystery is driven by a baffling plot and comes to a surprise ending that passes the Holmesian test: after the impossible is eliminated, that which remains, however improbable, is the truth. Seven years before the story opens,...
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Neil Albert, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-93719-7
The fourth calendar adventure (coming after Burning March) for Philadelphia PI Dave Garrett is a page-turner throughout. Echoing the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, the tale leads the appealing, tender-hearted Garrett, a disbarred lawyer, through...
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Neil Albert, Author Walker & Company $19.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1244-8
Like its series predecessor, The January Corpse , this mystery features ambitious plotting, two-dimensional characters and an earnestly overwritten detective. Disbarred lawyer turned PI Dave Garrett, a Vietnam veteran who suffers from flashbacks,...
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Neil Albert, Author Walker & Company $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3279-8
PI Dave Garrett made an impressive debut in The January Corpse in 1991. His fifth calendar appearance is marked by the same strong characterization and plotting and offers a well-disguised twist. A disbarred lawyer now operating Garrett...
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Neil Albert, Author Walker & Company $20.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3305-4
While many PIs find that cases often prod them into investigations of their own character, Philadelphia's David Garrett (The January Corpse; Appointment in May) is propelled by his assistant, Lisa Wilson, into an overt investigation of his own...
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Neil Albert, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-93718-0
Disbarred lawyer now private detective Dave Garrett, last seen in The February Trouble , works in Philadelphia, where his his ex-wife was involved in his losing his license. The office manager of his former firm, Emily Voss, makes an appointment to...
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