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Howard Engel
Full Series List in Order
A Benny Cooperman Mystery
1 - The Suicide Murders (Sep-1980)2 - The Ransom Game (Jan-1981)
3 - Murder on Location (Sep-1982)
4 - Murder Sees the Light (1984)
5 - A City Called July (Dec-1986)
6 - A Victim Must Be Found (Oct-1988)
7 - Dead and Buried (1990)
8 - There Was an Old Woman (1993)
9 - Getting Away With Murder (1995)
10 - The Cooperman Variations (Aug-2002)
11 - Memory Book (Mar-2005)
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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The Suicide Murders
- Sep-1980
- / Private Investigator
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She was cool, attractive - a real society lady - and she was in trouble. Benny Cooperman, a private eye with a hard head and a tender heart, was ready to help her in any way he could. But when her husband commits suicide the day Benny begins his inve...
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The Ransom Game
- Jan-1981
- / Private Investigator
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Nobody plays fair in the ransom game. Benny Cooperman is slowly going crazy. It's winter in Grantham, Ontario, and he has nothing better to do than watch the frost creeping under his door. Nothing, that is, until stunning Muriel Falkirk, girlfriend o...
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Murder on Location
- Sep-1982
- / Private Investigator
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Benny Cooperman, an offbeat Jewish private detective, becomes involved in a search for a missing person that takes him to Niagara Falls, the backdrop for a Hollywood thriller film, and the murder of an unknown young actor....
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Murder Sees the Light
- 1984
- / Private Investigator
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Benny's a private investigator, and his idea of untamed nature is a dandelion growing through a crack in the sidewalk. So, what is he doing in a rowboat in Algonqun Part? Could have something to do with Norbert Patten, the well known TV evangelist? O...
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A City Called July
- Dec-1986
- / Private Investigator
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When a rabbi needs help tracking down a thief, it’s time to call on “one of the most enjoyable private eyes in crime fiction” (The Toronto Star). Saul Tepperman of Ontario’s B’nai Shalom synagogue has known Benny Cooperman since his ...
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A Victim Must Be Found
- Oct-1988
- / Private Investigator
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In his sixth important case, Grantham's own Benny Cooperman finds himself mixed up in the art world. More out of water a fish can't get. After all, Benny only heard of Picasso last year and now he's hot on the trail of some missing paintings by Walla...
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Dead and Buried
- 1990
- / Private Investigator
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In his latest case, Benny Cooperman is sure that toxic waste isn't something you should spend too much time thinking about-it just isn't good for your mental health. But when Jack Dowden's widow appeals to Benny to investigate the death of her truck-...
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There Was an Old Woman
- 1993
- / Private Investigator
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It all starts with a noisy toilet. Benny's janitor, Kogan, is preoccupied with the death of his sometime girlfriend, Lizzy Oldridge, who appears to have starved to death. Benny agrees to attend the inquest if Kogan will look into the plumbing. Liz...
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Getting Away With Murder
- 1995
- / Private Investigator
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Benny Cooperman is a detective with flair-a witty, egg salad-loving, gentlemanly Jewish detective with a pronounced squeamishness when things get violent. In his most baffling case yet, Benny Cooperman is snug in his bed in quiet Grantham, a town nea...
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Murder in Montparnasse
- Jun-1999
- / Suspense
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It's autumn 1925, and a killer uncannily like England's Jack the Ripper is stalking the city streets of Paris and preying on young women. Michael Ward is a journalist newly arrived to the Left Bank. When he falls in with Jason Waddington, an expatria...
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The Cooperman Variations
- Aug-2002
- / Private Investigator
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Benny Cooperman is a detective with flair, known and loved the world over as a witty, egg salad-loving, Jewish gentleman sleuth. This kinder, gentler detective-funny, smart, and squeamish about violence-is the creation of master of the genre Howard E...
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Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell
- Jul-2003
- / Historical Mystery
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A dead opera star, a brilliant anatomy professor with Sherlockian powers of deduction and a moody Victorian backdrop-it all adds up to a thrillingly entertaining historical mystery Howard Engel is the award winning writer whose Benny Cooperman myster...
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Memory Book
- Mar-2005
- / Private Investigator
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Private detective Benny Cooperman becomes his own client in a most puzzling investigation. Benny awakes in the hospital recovering from a serious blow to the head, with a condition called alexia sine agraphia; in layman’s terms, he can write but he...
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The Whole Megillah
- Aug-2012
- / Mystery
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Benny Cooperman was expecting his time in Toronto to be spent watering plants, feeding gerbils and sampling the local sandwich shops, but a house-sitting gig for his brother soon leads to another case for the endearing private detective. A dealer in ...
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City of Fallen Angels
- May-2014
- / Mystery
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It’s 1940. Canadian journalist Mike Ward, fresh off assignments in Paris, London, Moscow, and Berlin, thinks he’s seen it all: the rise of charismatic dictators, the fall of governments, political intrigues too bizarre to believe.
Yet d...
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Crimes of Passion
- Mar-2016
- / Suspense
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Thirty real-life accounts of passion gone lethally wrong Celebrated mystery writer Howard Engel traces the history of the crime of passion through France, England, Canada, and the United States in his first nonfiction book. The story of Ruth Ellis, t...
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Lord High Executioner
- Mar-2016
- / Suspense
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A grisly tour of hangings, electrocutions, beheadings -- and other state-sanctioned deaths that are part of the long history of the death penalty. In Lord High Executioner, award-winning writer Howard Engel traces the traditions of capital punishment...
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Man Who Forgot How to Read
One morning, prolific and bestselling crime novelist Howard Engel awoke to discover he had lost the ability to read. He had experienced a stroke that left him with the rare condition known as alexia sine agraphia -- he could write, but as soon as ...