Nick Spencer, Author, Ross H. Spencer, Author Mysterious Press $15.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-233-4
Chicago private eye Luke Lassiter gets a chance at big bucks when he is commissioned to write the ""final'' thriller of missing (and presumed dead) bestselling author Carl Garvey. Long a fan and a would-be writer, Lassiter successfully apes Garvey's
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Ross H. Spencer, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (249p) ISBN 978-1-55611-249-2
Lacey Lockington, the ex-Chicago cop last seen in The Devereaux File is now (1988) a private eye in Youngstown, Ohio, continuing his torrid affair with Natasha Gorky, ex-KGB. A military biographer hires Lacey to find Alexei Fedorovich, American-born
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Ross H. Spencer, Author, Ross H. Spencer, Other Dutton Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55611-031-3
Admired for Echoes of Zero and other mysteries, Spencer capitalizes on the outre in his ninth novel, with caricatures too broad even for farce. Playing the lead is Chicago private detective Birch Kirby, whose remarkable fumbling attracts...
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Ross H. Spencer, Author, Ross H. Spencer, Other Dutton Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55611-056-6
Full of lascivious, compliant women, ribald comedy, high spirits and a tendency to push vulgarity to its limits, this book could have played well at Minsky's. A raid on the author's mind might uncover an intention to burlesque the mystery form...
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Ross H. Spencer, Author, Ross H. Spencer, Other Dutton Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55611-132-7
Spencer's latest is lumpy, burdened by supposedly funny gibes at fat ladies, and interminable. The central figure, Lacy Lockington, is a cop suspended from the force in Chicago when columnist ``Stella Starbright'' dubs him a kill-crazy officer, more
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Ross H. Spencer, Author, Ross H. Spencer, Other Dutton Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55611-212-6
PI Lacy Lockington returns to solve the mystery of a drinking buddy's death in this entertaining but slightly flawed mystery. Before he was murdered, ex-CIA agent Rufe Devereaux sought a get-together with his old friend Lacy, a former Chicago cop....
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