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Collin Wilcox
Full Series List in Order
Alan Bernhardt
1 - Bernhardt's Edge (Jun-1988)2 - Silent Witness (Nov-1990)
3 - Except for the Bones (Nov-1991)
4 - Find Her a Grave (Oct-1993)
A Lt. Hastings Mystery
1 - The Lonely Hunter (1969)2 - The Disappearance (1970)
3 - Dead Aim (1971)
4 - Hiding Place (1973)
5 - Long Way Down (1974)
6 - Aftershock (1975)
7 - Doctor, Lawyer... (1976)
8 - The Third Victim (1976)
9 - Twospot (1978)
10 - Power Plays (1979)
11 - Mankiller (Jan-1980)
12 - Stalking Horse (Feb-1982)
13 - Victims (Jan-1985)
14 - Night Games (Sep-1986)
15 - The Pariah (Apr-1988)
16 - A Death Before Dying (Mar-1990)
17 - Hire a Hangman (Mar-1991)
18 - Dead Center (Apr-1992)
19 - Switchback (Aug-1993)
20 - Calculated Risk (Sep-1995)
McCloud
1 - McCloud (1973)2 - The New Mexico Connection (1974)
Stephen Drake
1 - The Black Door (1967)2 - The Third Figure (1967)
Book List in Order: 32 titles
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The Black Door
- 1967
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Behind the black door there has been a double murder. Sometime during the night a 20 year old gird and a 37 year old man had been killed brutally and for no apparent reason. Using the known clues and at times a strange extrasensory perception, he dis...
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The Third Figure
- 1967
- / Suspense
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A mob boss is dead, and his widow wants Drake to help him rest in peaceDominic Vennezio is found on the floor of his beachside love nest, murdered on a Sunday night. It looks like an ordinary mob hit, part of a routine power struggle with the East Co...
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The Lonely Hunter
- 1969
- / Law Enforcement
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In the underworld of San Francisco, a broken cop searches for his daughterSeven years ago, Frank Hastings quit on his family. After a half-baked pro football career, he had fallen in love with the bottle and needed to go west. In San Francisco, he go...
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The Disappearance
- 1970
- / Police Procedural
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Searching for a missing society matron, Hastings finds danger amid the upper crustIn a glamorous part of San Francisco, a maid has been strangled to death. Frank Hastings stands over the body, knowing it will be a long day. But before finishing with ...
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Hiding Place
- 1973
- / Police Procedural
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The body of a girl is found in Golden Gate Park. As Lt. Frank Hastings and his team investigate, their impression is the girl was different personas to different people. With a second murder, the pressure is on to find the killer....
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Long Way Down
- 1974
- / Police Procedural
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At first, the case seems routine. A well-dressed, unidentified Caucasian male is found murdered in the apartment of Dianne Farley, a nude model with a suspended morals charge against her. The weapon is a switchblade knife; the motive is apparently ro...
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The New Mexico Connection
- 1974
- / Suspense
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An organization called The Balducci Couture developed control of the textile industry used to support the global fashion industry. One of their sources of the fabric comes from Peru and Bolivia â€" from llamas and alpacas. Many in the fashion industr...
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Aftershock
- 1975
- / Police Procedural
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Lt. Frank Hastings has problems. His newest case is the murder of a wealthy 70-year-old woman. Found bludgeoned in the garage of her San Francisco, Sea Cliff district home, it appears greed is the motive. But who is the killer? In his personal life, ...
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Doctor, Lawyer...
- 1976
- / Police Procedural
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Hastings chases a serial killer whose deranged letters hold a city for ransomThe doctor comes through his front door as he always does, a bundle of mail in hand. He’s about to walk up the stairs when the bullet passes through his back, puncturing h...
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The Third Victim
- 1976
- / Law Enforcement
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Stalked by a nighttime killer, a woman does whatever it takes to surviveHe calls himself Tarot. His first victim was a mother, killed while her daughter slept in the next room. His second was a truck-stop waitress, murdered -- like the first woman --...
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Power Plays
- 1979
- / Police Procedural
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After an ice pick is used for murder in San Francisco, the Washington elite comes down on HastingsIt starts as an everyday fender bender: Two cars collide in heavy evening traffic. But when the police arrive to take statements, the occupants of one c...
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Spellbinder
- Sep-1981
- / Suspense
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The most famous televangelist in America declares “total war” on the sinners of the earthAustin Holloway came to Los Angeles in the 1930s with nothing but a briefcase, a few hundred dollars, and a letter of introduction to a local radio s...
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Stalking Horse
- Feb-1982
- / Police Procedural
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A senator’s life is in danger -- and anyone in San Francisco could be a killerSenate majority leader Donald Ryan is a kingmaker, with the power to make or break presidencies, and the ability to reshape the country with a flick of his pen. He is als...
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Night Games
- Sep-1986
- / Law Enforcement
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Hastings investigates a murder among a set of wealthy adulterersBy the time Haney and the woman get to her apartment, they are so drunk they can hardly get through the door. They undress and begin to fool around, but before they make it to the bedroo...
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The Pariah
- Apr-1988
- / Police Procedural
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Austin Holloway is a TV evangelist with a crystal cathedral, a huge national following and major political ambitions. His family, appearing weekly on The Hour, includes an alcoholic wife and Elton, their psychotic son. In San Francisco, Holloway's pl...
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Bernhardt's Edge
- Jun-1988
- / Private Investigator
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Meet Alan Bernhardt -- actor, director, playwright, and part-time PI. Gumshoeing for Herbert Dancer, Ltd. isn't the day job you'd expect for a San Francisco theatrical pro, but it pays the bills--and an actor's skills can come in handy in the routi...
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A Death Before Dying
- Mar-1990
- / Police Procedural
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Meredith Powell seemed to have it all: voluptuous blond beauty, a silver Mercedes, a posh condo in the Heights of San Francisco. The only thing she never had was a fair chance. All her life she'd been controlled, used, and abused by men. First her fa...
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Silent Witness
- Nov-1990
- / Private Investigator
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Millionaire artist Janice Hale hires actor-director-private eye Alan Bernhardt to investigate the death of her sister, Connie, supposedly killed by an intruder at her home in the California wine country. Janice is convinced that Connie was murdered b...
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Hire a Hangman
- Mar-1991
- / Police Procedural
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It is 10:16 P.M. when Dr. Brice Hanchett approaches his car, about to return home to his wife's bed from his mistress's. At 10:17 he is dead, shot twice in the chest. By 1:20 A.M., as the coroner's van pulls away, It. frank Hastings is almost certain...
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Except for the Bones
- Nov-1991
- / Private Investigator
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New York real estate tycoon Preston Daniels, first encountered on Cape Cod at the scene of his mistress's accidental death. College freshman Diane Cutler and her boyfriend see Daniels, her despised stepfather, carrying a body to the local landfill. A...
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Dead Center
- Apr-1992
- / Law Enforcement
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As millionaire playboy Tony Frazer reluctantly leaves the sanctuary of his restaurant to join his wife at home, he is pained at the distasteful sight of a street person, unkempt and shuffling toward him. But when Frazer tries to sidestep the man, he ...
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Switchback
- Aug-1993
- / Law Enforcement
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In the shadows of the Golden Gate Bridge, Hastings investigates a glamorous murderThe killer is long gone from the crime scene when he realizes his mistake. It went perfectly, right until the end. He lured Lisa to the oceanfront park, entered her car...
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Find Her a Grave
- Oct-1993
- / Private Investigator
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Capo Carlo Venezzio dies of a heart attack while in prison, but not before he's ordered right-hand man Tony Bacardo to see that a million dollars' worth of diamonds has been salted away for his illegitimate daughter, Louise, and her daughter, Angela....
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Full Circle
- Nov-1994
- / Suspense
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Raymond DuBois is a billionaire with a penchant for great art. Over the years, he's bought a number of old masters through the black market, most of them stolen. But now he's dying, and he wants to return the works to their rightful owners. To do it,...
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Calculated Risk
- Sep-1995
- / Police Procedural
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In this chilling mystery, the terrifying specter of AIDS combines with blackmail and murder to overshadow the surreal world of California politics - and the secrets long buried in a senatorial candidate's past. As the young, vital, and self-centered ...
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The Watcher
- Nov-2013
- / Police Procedural
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On a fishing trip with his estranged son, Hastings comes under attack Lieutenant Frank Hastings checks his gun at airport security so he can meet his son the moment the boy gets off the plane in San Francisco. After a year apart, he finds Darrell ...
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