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Bob Garland
Full Series List in Order
A Humboldt Prior Mystery
1 - Slaying the Red Slayer (Apr-2001)2 - Derfflinger (Dec-2001)
3 - R.I.P. 37E (Oct-2000)
Book List in Order: 12 titles
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R.I.P. 37E
- Oct-2000
- / Mystery
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Humboldt Prior, computer manufacturing executive, returns to his Midwestern hometown and finds himself dangerously enmeshed in a decades-old turmoil of murder, arson, and political malfeasance involving members of one of the City's most prominent fam...
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Slaying the Red Slayer
- Apr-2001
- / Espionage
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An elegant, intricate mystery, which is seldom what it seems to be. During the 1960's, the young Humboldt S. Prior, nominally a computer specialist, but actually an involuntary agent of a little-known US intelligence service, is projected into Latin ...
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Derfflinger
- Dec-2001
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The second Humboldt Prior mystery, in which sunken warships, super computers, archaic weapons, and stolen treasure encompass Prior, now a corporate executive, in a web of ancient treachery, in which help may not be help, friends may not be friends, a...
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The Elephant Mask
- Jan-2004
- / General Fiction
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The Elephant Mask is the fourth Humboldt Prior Mystery. Now an aging executive of a troubled computer company, Prior is given responsibility for a promising new project that applies computer science to Latin American archeology. From the ruins of the...
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The Hoisted Petard
- Jun-2009
- / Mystery
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The Hoisted Petard is an "explosive" story of murder, corruption, sex, and a local political campaign. In his sixties, Humboldt Prior, now a university lecturer in information technology, is enmeshed in a decades-long series of crimes which he solves...
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Woodhouse Avenue Follies
- Oct-2010
- / General Fiction
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With Woodhouse Avenue Follies, again following the traditions of several English writers, Bob Garland begins a new series of novels, again set in City-by-the-River, a fictitious Upper Midwest city, and centered on a strange, hitherto unheard-of stree...
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The Case Method Murders
- Oct-2011
- / Mystery
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In the hitherto missing Sixth Mystery, Humboldt Prior, now well-established as a third-career university lecturer at the College of Information Technology, finds himself “on loan” to the prestigious Harger Business School, serving on a task force...
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Antics on Woodhouse Avenue
- Oct-2012
- / General Fiction
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In the first sequel to Bob Garland?s Woodhouse Avenue Follies, we again find Humboldt Prior still residing diffidently in his old row-house on Woodhouse Avenue; still be-deviled by the schemes of his fellow executives at the moldering Prior & Cousins...
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Nonsense on Woodhouse Avenue
- Dec-2013
- / General Fiction
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In Nonsense on Woodhouse Avenue, we again join our intrepid friends, the diffident, sexagenarian bookkeeper Humboldt Prior and the stylish, hard-charging TV news anchorwoman Penelope Rote, as they battle to thwart a series of nonsensical political ca...
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Buffoonery on Woodhouse Avenue
- Mar-2015
- / General Fiction
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In Buffoonery on Woodhouse Avenue, the elderly (and sometimes slightly mysterious) bookkeeper Humboldt Prior again joins forces with the stylish, hard-charging TV news anchorwoman Penelope Rote to thwart a buffoonish political fund raising plot invol...
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High Winter Murders
- Apr-2017
- / Mystery
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High Winter Murders finds the aging Humboldt Prior still a university computer science lecturer, many months after his previous “extra-duty” mystery-detective successes, and three decades past his days as a secret intelligence agent. Now faced by...
