Jonathan Latimer

• Dec-1988
• / Suspense
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A vanished corpse leads a hard-drinking PI on a madcap chaseMore than forty corpses fill the cold Chicago basement, but no crime has been committed here. After all, there are supposed to be bodies in the city morgue. Tonight, one is attracting partic...

• Jan-1989
• / Suspense
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Banned from publication in the U.S. due to its mature subject matter, Solomon's Vineyard is a tense, hard-boiled work starring Karl Craven, a non-nonsense guy who predates detectives like Lew Archer and Mike Hammer. Craven is out to rescue a wealthy ...

• Nov-1989
• / Suspense
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To catch a thief, a detective has himself committed to a high-class asylumThe orderlies do not need a straitjacket for Bill Crane. He is not violent, although he does have a bad habit of making embarrassing deductions about the doctors. This sarcasti...

• Nov-1989
• / Mystery
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• Jul-1990
• / Suspense
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Just days from meeting the reaper, a convicted murderer hires Chicago’s most hard-boiled PI to save his neck—before the executioner can claim it.Robert Westland’s date with the executioner is just around the corner when he finally d...

• Jul-1991
• / Suspense
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In sun-soaked Florida, Crane pursues a kidnapper in between drinks It does not take much to lure Bill Crane to Florida in the wintertime. The weather would be temptation enough, but the fact that there is money to be made and gin to be drunk makes ...

• Sep-1991
• / Suspense
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• Feb-1996
• / Suspense
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In an eerie country house, a cruel old man is decapitatedWhen Peter Coffin’s mysterious great-uncle Tobias summons the family to his manor in the wilds of Michigan, his aunt warns him to stay away. Peter goes anyway, arriving at the edge of the spr...

• Dec-2005
• / Mystery
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TWO CLASSIC PULP NOVELS, COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED - THE FIFTH GRAVE - Karl Craven is a private eye who likes playing it the hard way-but before he can rescue Penelope Grayson from a cult running the vice-ridden temple of Solomon, he has to tangle with...

• Apr-2014
• / Mystery
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On a mad mission in the African jungle, a photographer loses his way Lew Cable is an impulsive man, lazy and violent, especially when he has been drinking. He is a rotten choice to lead a scientific expedition, but his wife’s money convinces the...

• Apr-2014
• / Mystery
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A reporter becomes his own story when he wakes up next to a corpse Sam Clay wakes with a dry mouth, a hammering headache, and only the faintest memory of what he did the night before. He remembers dancing, jazz, taxi rides, and a brandy-fueled rid...

• Aug-2014
• / Mystery
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The job was supposed to be simple, but in this shady midwestern town, nothing is as it seems Hard-living private detective Karl Craven didn’t ask for trouble when he arrived in Paulton, Missouri -- but trouble found him anyway. First it was his par...

• / General Fiction
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In Hollywood, a screenwriter gets involved in an impossible murder In a steamy tropical jungle, a sinister American woman pushes the natives too far and gets exactly what she deserves: a rusty knife buried deep in her back. At least, that is the wa...