Benjamin M. Schutz

A Leo Haggerty Mystery

1 - Embrace the Wolf (Mar-1985)
2 - All the Old Bargains (Nov-1985)
3 - A Tax in Blood (Aug-1987)
4 - The Things We Do for Love (Jan-1989)
5 - A Fistful of Empty (Jan-1991)
6 - Mexico Is Forever (Apr-1994)

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  Embrace the Wolf
  

  • Mar-1985
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  A Leo Haggerty Mystery - 1
  

  The lovely little twin girls have been missing for five years, and the cops have long since dropped the case. But their father, Herb Saunders, is obsessed with finding the wolf who stole his lambs. A phone call taunts Herb with his daughters' voices,...

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  All the Old Bargains
  

  • Nov-1985
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Leo Haggerty Mystery - 2
  

  Leo Haggerty is hired to find Miranda Benson, a missing teenager. Haggerty finds her with Tony, a pimp who has gotten her into drugs and porno movies. What Haggerty discovers is that Miranda's father had sexually abused her for years and that she lef...

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  A Tax in Blood
  

  • Aug-1987
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  A Leo Haggerty Mystery - 3
  

  Malcolm Donnelly's new widow is in mourning - for the $200,000 in life insurance that his suicide kept from her. But was it a suicide? She hires Leo Haggerty to investigate - just as a bomb kills nineteen people at the black wall of the Vietnam Veter...

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  The Things We Do for Love
  

  • Jan-1989
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Leo Haggerty Mystery - 4
  

  Private eye Leo Haggerty takes him from Washington, D.C., to a lush if lethal tropic isle. Leo has hired rock promoter Nick Ballantine to guard singer/lyricist Jane "Doe," nee Summers, the target of an unknown murderer. Checking on members of Jane's ...

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  A Fistful of Empty
  

  • Jan-1991
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Leo Haggerty Mystery - 5
  

  Despite the plea of girlfriend Samantha, who is anxious to talk with him about something, Haggerty works late to help out bounty-hunter Arnie Kendall. But the fugitive they apprehend hides a key in Kendall's car, leading to a break-in and to Samantha...

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  Mexico Is Forever
  

  • Apr-1994
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Leo Haggerty Mystery - 6
  

  D.C. investigator Leo Haggerty will be fascinated to watch the savvy PI wield "the most dangerous tool in the world, the telephone." Starting with a few meager facts about beautiful, elusive Sarabeth Timmons--who may or may not be heir to a sizable s...

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  The Mongol Reply
  

  • Oct-2004
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  Serena Tully's troubled marriage has gone over the dam. Her husband, Tom, is a volatile pro-football coach and former player with a hair-trigger temper (he was responsible for a death on the field and has no regrets). Tom's attorney, Albert Garfield,...

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  Mary, Mary, Shut the Door and Other Stories
  

  • Nov-2005
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  Mary, Mary, Shut the Door and Other Stories collects all of Benjamin M. Schutz's short fiction. It includes the title story, winner of both the Shamus and Edgar Allan Poe awards, and his other Leo Haggerty stories, "What Goes Around" and "Lost and Fo...

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Award-Winning Books by Benjamin M. Schutz

A Tax in Blood
1987 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel