Richard J. Cass

An Elder Darrow Mystery

1 - Solo Act (Oct-2015)
2 - In Solo Time (Jul-2017)
3 - Burton's Solo (Oct-2018)
4 - Last Call at the Esposito (Sep-2019)

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  Solo Act
  

  • Oct-2015
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  An Elder Darrow Mystery - 1
  

  An alcoholic walks into a bar . . . and buys it. In this amateur sleuth mystery, Elder Darrow uses the last of the money from the trust fund his mother left him to buy the Esposito, a bucket-of-blood bar in Boston, hoping to turn it into a jazz night...

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  In Solo Time
  

  • Jul-2017
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  An Elder Darrow Mystery - 2
  

  An alcoholic walks into a bar . . . and buys it. At the urging of his sometimes lover and sometimes drinking partner Jacquie Robillard, Elder Darrow uses the last of the money from the trust fund his mother left him to buy the Esposito, a bucket-o...

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  Burton's Solo
  

  • Oct-2018
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  An Elder Darrow Mystery - 3
  

  When Dan Burton beats up Antoine Bousquet, the clothing designer suspect in the murder of two Chinese seamstresses, he jeopardizes his job as a homicide detective and his life. Bousquet is released without bail because of Burton’s mistake. When...

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  The Pie Sisters
  

  in Malice Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible

  • May-2019
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  The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- 36 original tales with a culinary bent! Included are: A Cup of Tea, by Parnell Hall Brown Recluse, by Marcia Adair A Slice of Heaven,, by La...

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  Elder Darrow Mysteries: In Solo Time, Solo Act, and Burton's Solo
  

  • Sep-2019
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  A collection of three ebooks in the Elder Darrow Mystery series -- In Solo Time, Solo Act, and Burton’s Solo -- featuring Boston’s favorite bar owner and sleuth. In Solo Time  Elder Darrow uses the last of his trust fund money to buy the Esp...

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  Last Call at the Esposito
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  An Elder Darrow Mystery - 4
  

  The Olympic Games are coming to Boston! Or are they? When a burial detail to the paupers' grave on Boston's Rinker Island comes up with one extra coffin, Dan Burton is called in to take the case. The murdered man is one Constantine Boustaloudis, a ne...

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  Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow
  

  • Oct-2020
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  Rasmussen Carter is grooming Lily Miller, a young jazz singer, to be a star. She's singing at the Greenwood-the new incarnation of the Esposito-now owned and managed by Baron Loftus, the nephew of Sweetie Bogan, an aging jazz diva. The night Lily deb...

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  Mickey's Mayhem
  

  • Nov-2021
  • / Thriller
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  An intimate member of the Esposito family becomes the victim of murder by heroin overdose. Suspicion is cast on the gangster kingpin from Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow, Frank Vinson, but Mickey Barksdale, Boston's equivalent in the criminal world, might bea...

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  The Last Altruist
  

  • Sep-2022
  • / Cozy Mystery
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  Ardmore Theberge returns to Portland, Maine, to start his own business making hand-drawn maps after he gets himself dishonorably discharged from the Army for assaulting a superior officer-who deserved it, by the way, but we'll get to that. He befrien...

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  Closing Time
  

  • Oct-2024
  • / Thriller
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  When Elder Darrow's friend Dan Burton, a Boston Homicide cop, dies trying to stop the robbery of a liquor store, Elder is bereft. But what appears to have been a random tragedy may have, in fact, been a contract murder. Mickey Barksdale, Boston's chi...

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