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Guernica Editions
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English
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"The “Starlight Hotel-Casino” is the story of a troubled family business doomed to fail and the stressful dynamics among its members and key employees during the collapse. It describes the inner workings of the casino business and the demise of Reno as a major player in the industry; unable, as it was, to meet the triple threat of Las Vegas, Indian gaming, and the legalization of gambling throughout the United States and abroad."--
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Evelyn Hall arrives in Reno wanting only to be left alone while she waits six weeks for a painful divorce from her husband. Once there she meets Ann Child - 15 years her junior, who is both a free spirit and a lesbian. Soon Ann refuses to let the controlled but vulnerable Evelyn ignore the powerful emotions that begin to unleash inside her... Immortalized for a whole new generation by the film Desert Hearts, Jane Rule's classic DESERT OF THE HEART...
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Mags and Baxter mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Nevada newcomer Mags and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, team up with German shepherd, King, and police officer Pete to confront an ambitious politician and a corrupt power company on behalf of a homeless community.
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Mortimer Angel mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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For nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing--vanished without a trace. Did they fly somewhere together? Take off with a big pile of money? Were they murdered? Their disappearances have finally made the national news. Mortimer Angel, a private-eye-in-training, is on the case....
10) The dying time
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Baobab Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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The Dying Time, the final book in the Jack Ross Series, finds ex-detective Jack Ross old and alone, a product of his own tendencies. When he begrudgingly takes on a routine investigation for his ex-wife the events quickly become personal. Jack, unable to escape nefarious past deeds, his own and those of others, must forge ahead in the only ways he knows how. If he still can.
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Longarm volume 423
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"When Longarm heads to Reno in pursuit of a marshal's kidnapped daughter, Delia is right by his side to get the story firsthand. As a twisted tale of murder, thievery, opium addiction, sex slavery, and greed unfurls, Longarm just hopes he can deliver a happy ending..."--P. [4] of cover.
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G.G. Gum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Reno, Nevada is the divorce capital of the country in the 30's. It rollicks with speakeasies, open gambling, and 'vice men' who harbor infamous gangsters. Out of this mix, like a thorny sagebrush ball snatching up waste on a windy desert, emerges a history-making federal case ensnaring the prominent, the proper, the notorious and the courageous. Lou Hoffman, the case's second star witness, and wife Kathaleen prove Shakespeare correct--that "courage...
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Hank Faro mystery volume 1
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Reno in 1949 was a hot town, legal gambling, quickie divorces, and legal prostitution just up the road. Gangsters there were, but keeping a low profile, until, from the past, from Detroit, come some guys to stir up the pot. It takes all Hank Faro's resources as a small town P.I. to unravel the unholy mess created as the pot boils over in murder."
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Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"IRS agent-turned-PI Mortimer Angel is relaxing in a hole-in-the-wall bar in a Reno casino when an attractive young girl hires him to find out who left her a cryptic message demanding a million dollars. At the girl's house, Mort finds the body of missing rapper Jonnie Xenon--Jo-X to his legions of fans--hanging from the rafters with two bullet holes in him. Mort is shocked when he learns the identity of the girl's father--and even more shocked when...
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Mortimer Angel mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Ex-IRS agent turned gumshoe-in-training, Mortimer Angel, is approached by a beautiful hooker, Holiday, in a casino bar in Reno. Mort first met Holiday two months ago, but now learns that she's not really a hooker. She's a college engineering student, searching for her younger sister, Allie, who disappeared three months ago. Having seen Mort in the news, Holiday knows he's a PI who finds missing persons. While in the bar with Mort, Holiday gets an...
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Lucky Bat Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"When Beth Dolinsky's military husband returns from deployment with post-traumatic stress and gambles all their money away, this mousy, church-going housewife and mother of twin boys has to take matters into her own hands. Against the advice of friends and family, 40-year-old Beth applies to become a deputy sheriff and embarks on the toughest journey of her life. Now, Recruit Dolinsky finds herself out of place in her new world, even though she no...
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Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Nevada's attorney general is missing. At dusk on a deserted Nevada highway in a thunderstorm, ex-IRS agent and PI-in-training Mortimer Angel comes across a pretty, scantily-clad girl - Harper Leland. She's cold and alone, thirty miles from the nearest town. When Mort offers her a ride, she orders him out of his truck at gunpoint. She tries to take off, but he cuts the valve stem on the rear tire. Realizing she's in trouble, he wants to help - but...
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English
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"The long anticipated second novel from the bestselling author of Be Frank With Me, set in 1930s Reno, in which two very different women seeking divorces meet and form an unlikely friendship that is complicated by the handsome young ranch hand who befriends both--and who finds his life unexpectedly upturned by one"--
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