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Dolores Hitchens
Full Series List in Order
A Rachel Murdock Mystery
1 - The Cat Saw Murder (Jun-2021)2 - The Alarm of the Black Cat (Jun-2021)
Book List in Order: 27 titles
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Strip For Murder
- Oct-1958
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When a Hollywood flesh peddler suddenly decides to close up shop because he doesn't like all those pretty, mostly naked girls around, you've got to guess there's something wrong somewhere. When the girls start dying off, you know there is ? Dolores H...
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Foot-Steps in the Night
- Jan-1962
- / General Fiction
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The dark specter of murder stalks the streets of Dellwood and all the clues point to the FOOT-STEPS IN THE NIGHT Sheriff Ferguson found plenty of skeletons in the closet in the new Dellwood houses -- Who was prim Miss Silvester’s midnight visito...
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Fools' Gold
- Sep-2015
- / Thriller
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Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold (1958) -- and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Go...
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Nets to Catch the Wind
- Dec-2015
- / Suspense
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"It had been timed and planned perfectly.” A convicted killer and the detective escorting him to prison aboard a Pullman train are the victims of a mysterious double assassination. When the detective is posthumously accused of corruption and crimin...
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Sleep with Slander
- Dec-2015
- / Suspense
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Private eye Jim Sader returns in a hard-hitting hunt for a missing child through the dark corners of sunny southern California"You're playing with a child's life": The search for a kidnapped boy leads private detective (and ex-alcoholic) Jim Sader th...
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The Watcher
- Dec-2015
- / Suspense
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“The fact is that during the last year I have killed three young people”: A pleasant waterfront community in California is subjected to a series of seemingly random killings, the victims all children. Dolores Hitchens’ intricately plotted novel...
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End of the Line
- Nov-2018
- / Mystery
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END OF THE LINEFarrel and Saunders, two railway cops, couldn’t be more different. Farrel, the older bull, remembers the Lobo Tunnel wreck all too well. Saunders, young and inexperienced, figures that there is nothing left to learn about the six-yea...
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Stairway to an Empty Room // Terror Lurks in Darkness
- Nov-2019
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STAIRWAY TO AN EMPTY ROOMMonica Marshall’s sister Biddy has been murdered by her husband. Biddy has a daughter, Winifred, and with the husband on death row, Monica agrees to take charge of her. Winifred is anxious to leave the house where she has b...
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A Collection of Strangers
- Jun-2021
- / Thriller
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A family torn apart by tragedy becomes the victim of a merciless killer in this gripping thriller from the twentieth-century author of The Baxter Letters. Bad things have happened in the Stoddard household, but nothing as grim as what’s to c...
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The Alarm of the Black Cat
- Jun-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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This classic mystery features a family feud, feline intervention, and the spirited septuagenarian sleuth from The Cat Saw Murder. A strange encounter with a little girl named Claudia and a dead toad sparks Rachel Murdock’s obsessive curiosit...
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Bring the Bride a Shroud
- Jun-2021
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The beloved author of the Rachel Murdock Mysteries introduces an amateur sleuth who knows murder is never academic -- especially when it comes to love. Professor Pennyfeather is on his way to the desert town of Superstition to help a former st...
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The Cat Saw Murder
- Jun-2021
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An elderly woman drugged, a young woman killed, and the cat’s the sole witness…When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Lilly, in Breakers Beach, CA, they quickly hop a train from Los Angeles ...
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The Cat Wears a Mask
- Jun-2021
- / Cozy Mystery
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Native American lore infuses a southwestern mystery featuring the indomitable Rachel Murdock and her cat, Samantha. The notes -- short and sharp -- seem to strike at the heart of each recipient’s insecurities and darkest secrets. Signed “K...
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The Cat and Capricorn
- Jan-2022
- / Thriller
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A newlywed might be newly dead in this feline-flavored mystery featuring a septuagenarian sleuth who’s “an appealing Jessica Fletcher antecedent” (Publishers Weekly). Priscilla Beckett has left a trail of suspicious exes in her wake -- t...
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Death Walks on Cat Feet
- Jan-2022
- / Cozy Mystery
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The senior super-sleuth is the odds-on favorite to discover if a killer stalks the Hollywood Hills in the final Rachel Murdock mystery. Though not a professional private eye, Miss Rachel Murdock has gained notoriety in certain Los Angeles circ...
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Catspaw for Murder
- Oct-2022
- / Cozy Mystery
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A spry seventy-year-old sleuth and her feline companion sniff out clues to a crime: “The observant Rachel is an appealing Jessica Fletcher antecedent.” -- Publishers WeeklyA letter has arrived at the home shared by the elderly Murdock sisters an...
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The Cat Wears a Noose
- Dec-2022
- / Cozy Mystery
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A drunken man is shot dead on his doorstep in this classic mystery starring the “observant [and] appealing” seventy-year-old sleuth (Publishers Weekly). Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Height...
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The Clue in the Clay
- May-2023
- / Mystery
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A San Francisco police detective becomes obsessed with a sculptress’s apparent suicide -- and hounds his new wife into helping him solve the case . . . When Officer Charles confronts a man acting erratically early in the morni...
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Something About Midnight
- May-2023
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A sleuthing English professor looks into the sordid secret life of a student who’s gone missing . . . When a young woman comes to Professor Pennyfeather and confides that her cousin Ernestine -- one of his English students -- ...
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The Cat Walk
- Nov-2024
- / Police Procedural
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A family inheritance draws an elderly sleuth into a deadly battle of wills in this delightful whodunit: “Miss Rachel [is] a treasure.” ―Kirkus Reviews Donwyn Shore’s rather quirky aunt left a complex set of instructions upon her death:...
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Cat's Claw
- Mar-2025
- / General Fiction
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Elderly sleuth Rachel Murdock and her inquisitive pet cat head up into the mountains for another adventure in this beloved series. Unable to stop herself from investigating another murder, Rachel Murdock gets plenty of help from Samantha, the cat who...
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The Bank With the Bamboo Door
Everyone has a secret, something he’d just as soon the neighbors didn’t know about his past…Seldom are secrets so dreadful, the consequences so dire, as those assembled here by Miss Hitchens who…could rival Agatha Christie and Mary Roberts Ri...
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The Baxter Letters
Terror places its stamp on a woman unwittingly caught up in a dangerous game in this gripping thriller from the author of A Collection of Strangers. Jennifer Burch is just a small-town midwestern girl trying to stay afloat in New York City wit...
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In a House Unknown
Three women are caught in the grip of the past in this Southern gothic mystery from the beloved twentieth-century American author. There’s nothing to stop Pock Myles, single and unattached, from traveling to Louisiana to comfort her recently...
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Man Who Cried All the Way Home
A love triangle shapes this intricate murder mystery from the popular twentieth-century author of the Rachel Murdock series. When a policeman shows up at her door one morning, Doris Chenoweth is sure her husband, Sargent, is home -- but she’...
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Sleep With Strangers
Rediscover one of America’s pioneering women crime writers with this classic noir starring a Long Beach private investigator reminiscent of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe“Are you trying to tell me you don't want the job, Mr. Sader?” I...