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Eric Wright
Full Series List in Order
Inspector Charlie Salter Mystery
1 - The Night the Gods Smiled (Oct-1983)2 - Smoke Detector (Dec-1984)
3 - Death in the Old Country (Jul-1985)
4 - The Man Who Changed His Name (Aug-1986)
5 - A Body Surrounded by Water (Dec-1987)
6 - A Question of Murder (Oct-1988)
7 - A Sensitive Case (Mar-1990)
8 - Final Cut (Apr-1991)
9 - A Fine Italian Hand (Oct-1992)
10 - Death by Degrees (Oct-1993)
11 - Death on the Rocks (Jun-1999)
12 - The Last Hand (Jan-2001)
A Joe Barley Mystery
1 - The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn (Oct-2000)2 - The Hemingway Caper (Jun-2003)
Lucy Trimble Brenner
1 - Death of a Sunday Writer (Jun-1996)Mel Pickett
1 - Buried in Stone (Mar-1996)2 - Death of a Hired Man (Mar-2001)
Book List in Order: 29 titles
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The Night the Gods Smiled
- Oct-1983
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It is a particularly puzzling murder case that Inspector Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police is assigned to solve: Professor David Summers has been found dead in his Montreal hotel room while attending a conference. The only tangible cl...
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Smoke Detector
- Dec-1984
- / Law Enforcement
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No one cared that Cyril Drecker was dead. Except Inspector Charlie Salter... because murder was his business. Salter already knew someone deliberately set the smoky fire that killed this owner of a second-hand store. He soon found out that Drecker's ...
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The Man Who Changed His Name
- Aug-1986
- / Law Enforcement
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One nosy ex-wife. One dead lady who advertised for murder. Both were giving Inspector Charlie Salter the pre-Christmas blues. The rape/strangulation case of Nancy Crowell had reached a dead end months ago. And nobody was pushing to open a new avenue ...
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A Body Surrounded by Water
- Dec-1987
- / Law Enforcement
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Although still the charming maritime province depicted in the Anne of Green Gables books, Prince Edward Island was no longer as tranquil. Greed, jealousy and rage had made it a setting for crime. Robbed were a dozen vacationers' cottages. Missing was...
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A Question of Murder
- Oct-1988
- / Law Enforcement
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Inspector Charlie Salter of the Toronto Police Department returns in his sixth adventure, a solid, well-crafted mystery that will delight his fans. Most of the force is preparing for the arrival of a British princess. Salter, who is assigned to the S...
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A Sensitive Case
- Mar-1990
- / Law Enforcement
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The murder of masseuse Linda Thomas was a sticky situation - her clients included big people in high places. It was a case for Special Affairs Inspector Charlie Salter and his chief investigator, Sergeant Mel Pickett. Once on the job, they delicately...
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A Fine Italian Hand
- Oct-1992
- / Law Enforcement
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CHECKOUT Murder at the seedy Days 'R Done motel is no surprise. But the killing of actor Alec Hunter poses some questions for Toronto police Inspector Charlie Salter. Namely, what was a nice guy like Alec doing in a place like that? His death ...
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Death by Degrees
- Oct-1993
- / Law Enforcement
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LITERALLY--AND FIGURATIVELY--DEAD The politics and infighting to elect a new dean at Toronto's Bathurst College turns to murder when the winner is discovered dead. Though the case appears open-and-shut--an interrupted burglary and a suspect nea...
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Buried in Stone
- Mar-1996
- / Law Enforcement
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BELOW THE SURFACE Though his crime-scene days are behind him, retired Toronto police detective Mel Pickett is intrigued by the body discovered near his weekend cabin in the woods, and becomes an unofficial advisor to the one-man police force. T...
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Death of a Sunday Writer
- Jun-1996
- / Private Investigator
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Recently separated from her domineering husband, Lucy Trimble is eager to start a life of her own. When a relative wills her his private detective agency, Lucy - who up to this point has worked as a librarian - thinks she's found her calling. The pro...
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Death on the Rocks
- Jun-1999
- / Law Enforcement
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When private detective Lucy Trimble is retained by Greta Golden to find the identity of the ominous lurking stranger who Greta is certain is following her, it doesn't appear to be too challenging a mystery. Lucy has no trouble learning who her client...
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The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn
- Oct-2000
- / Mystery
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From the Halls of Academe To the Waterfront of Toronto Rosie Dawn, who’s working her way through college as an exotic dancer and mistress of a fast-food entrepreneur, has disappeared. Joe Barley, an English teacher and sometime private eye, looks...
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The Last Hand
- Jan-2001
- / Police Procedural
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Feeling old and expendable as the soon-to-be-retired head of the Toronto PD Special Affairs Unit, Charlie Salter is handed a cold murder case that requires a certain seasoned finesse. The victim is one of the city's prominent attorneys, stabbed to de...
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Death of a Hired Man
- Mar-2001
- / Police Procedural
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Newly retired Toronto policeman Mel Pickett arrives at his remote Larch River cabin to find a body. The victim is Norbert Thompson, the man Mel hired to take care of the place during his absences, bludgeoned by what appears to be a piece of oak from ...
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The Hemingway Caper
- Jun-2003
- / Mystery
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Joe Barley, full-time English professor and part-time private detective, is given a simple case: to track Jason Tyler and find proof of his adultery. But as he's investigating, Barley stumbles across the story of a missing manuscript containing writi...
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Killing Climate
- Sep-2003
- / Mystery
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COLD KILLINGS!!! Eric Wright, the creator of Superintendent Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police, is one of Canada’s most honored mystery writers. The Crime Writers of Canada have recognized his work with four Arthur Ellis Awards â€" t...
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A Charlie Salter Omnibus
- Oct-2003
- / Police Procedural
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Eric Wright's popular detective, Charlie Salter, is introduced in this collection of the first three books in the well-loved mystery series: The Night the Gods Smiled, Smoke Detector, and Death in the Old Country. Self-righteous and outspoken, Salter...
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Licensed Guide
- May-2008
- / General Fiction
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International bestselling author Peter Robinson turns his razor-sharp instinct for crime writing to this unique anthology featuring the cream of crime fiction. With a selection of 15 stories featuring established bestsellers and new voices, The Pengu...
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A Likely Story
- Apr-2010
- / Suspense
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As if Joe Barley doesn’t have enough on his mind. His job as a part-time instructor at Hambleton College is likely to be eliminated, and his partner, Carole, is expecting their first child. He’s also been assigned to find the identity of a mol...
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The Lightning File
- Aug-2011
- / Mystery
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Terrorist target America from Canadian soil in this Word Guild award-winning suspense novel. In the Lightning File, a reporter investigating drug busts east of Toronto discovers a terrorist cell group targeting US interests from Canadian soil. The id...
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Captives of Minara
- Nov-2012
- / Thriller
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In Captives of Minara; -A 4500-year-old lost city is excavated, -A journalist reluctantly returns to the scene of a childhood trauma, -A criminal mastermind kidnaps women and children consigning them to a life of slavery. Josh Radley ...
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Dempsey's Lodge
- Oct-2013
- / General Fiction
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Dempsey's Lodge is the perfect getaway for families and young couples: the fishing is good, the air is fresh, the scenery is breathtaking. But beyond its pristine beauty and simple pleasures seethes the complexity of life: prejudice, love, lust, and ...
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The Adventures of Buford T. Bullfrog
- Apr-2014
- / Christian
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This book follows Buford T. Bullfrog on his many adventures to help his friends face problems that are happening in their lives. Buford is a very imaginative little frog who uses that imagination to help him solve problems....
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The Fight for Our Lives
- Nov-2021
- / General Fiction
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The Fight For Our LivesBy: Eric WrightThe author, Eric Wright, has created an action packed suspense novel based on the polarizing topic of gun control. This fictional book is loosely based on real gun massacres that occurred in the United States. Th...
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The War at Home
- Nov-2022
- / General Fiction
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Police officer Bobby Benton turns from a law-abiding gun advocate to an assault weapon opponent. Guided by an unlikely co-conspirator, he initiates violent and deadly attacks on assault weapon promoters. From illegal gun shows all the way up to the h...
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Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man
Eric Wright is well known for his award-winning crime fiction. In this memoir he writes engagingly and with great charm about growing up poor in an English working-class family during the Depression. He paints a vivid picture of his childhood and ado...
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