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Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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When Josh Barkley ties up his horse in front of the sheriff's office in Junction Flats, he gets more than he bargained for. He soon becomes entangled with a local rancher's headstrong daughter, who tells him that not only is she going to marry him, but she will help him carry out his sheriff's duties. Unfortunately, this includes accidentally knocking him unconcious while he is fighting with a hold-up man. And as if this weren't enough trouble, Josh...
Author
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Joe Bratt has had to claw and scratch through a life of hard knocks and daily struggles. Fortunately, these trials have taught him three things: fight when you must, never sit down to a fixed game of chance, and never, ever, get involved with a good woman. Joe holds true to his three rules until he meets up with Raylene Stanfield, a judge's well-educated daughter from the East. Joe has never met a more headstrong woman in his life, but he owes the...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons-a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted...
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Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
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