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Stephen Dobyns
Full Series List in Order
A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery
1 - Saratoga Longshot (1976)2 - Saratoga Swimmer (Sep-1981)
3 - Saratoga Headhunter (Apr-1985)
4 - Saratoga Snapper (Sep-1986)
5 - Saratoga Bestiary (Nov-1988)
6 - Saratoga Hexameter (Aug-1990)
7 - Saratoga Haunting (Jul-1993)
8 - Saratoga Backtalk (Jul-1994)
9 - Saratoga Fleshpot (Jul-1995)
10 - Saratoga Strongbox (Jul-1998)
11 - Saratoga Payback (Mar-2017)
Book List in Order: 24 titles
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Saratoga Longshot
- 1976
- / Private Investigator
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Charlie Bradshaw is spending his 41st birthday in New York, trying to track down Sam, the son of his great high school love. Sam has gotten himself involved in a big-time drug deal, and everyone - from Sam to the New York cop on the case - wishes Cha...
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Heat Death
- May-1980
- / Suspense
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The Earth becomes a pawn in a deadly serious game between self-replicating machines and alien life forms. At stake is the fate of the universe. Will it continue on its path of freezing out symmetry as broken physics? Temperature will drop to zero and...
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Saratoga Swimmer
- Sep-1981
- / Private Investigator
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Charlie Bradshaw is a regular, down-to-earth guy -- middle-aged, divorced, an ex-cop working as a security guard at a Saratoga stable. Then his boss gets killed. It shows Charlie what's behind those powerful and prestigious stable owners. But Charlie...
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Saratoga Headhunter
- Apr-1985
- / Private Investigator
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The decapitation of a former jockey hiding out in his house is just the beginning of Charlie Bradshaw's troubles. An old man dies in a fire, murder finds a stable owner, Charlie's Volkswagen is blown to bits. And while tracking down the vicious kille...
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Cold Dog Soup
- Dec-1985
- / General Fiction
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Michael Latchmer, instructed to bury the corpse of a date's pet dog, finds himself on a Dantesque adventure with a Haitian cab driver who claims that he can get money for the dog's body. ''This is a ludicrous, occasionally amusing romp,'' said PW , a...
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Saratoga Snapper
- Sep-1986
- / Private Investigator
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With his detective agency facing hard times, Charlie Bradshaw moonlights as night manager at a Saratoga Springs hotel. Victor, his partner, snaps pictures of the happy tourists. But not all the tourists are happy with this self-styled Saratoga Snappe...
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A Boat off the Coast
- Nov-1987
- / General Fiction
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In high school Brian had always thought Tucker a hero a little wild, great at football, always fun. Fifteen years later Brian is married, a supervisor at a chicken factory, and a daily lobster fisherman off the coast of Maine. Tucker, back from Vietn...
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The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini
- Jun-1988
- / General Fiction
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In a war-torn Latin American capital, a group of old friends gather at the home of Dr. Daniel Pacheco for their semiannual reunion. Kept prisoners by an emergency curfew, they wander into revelations of brutality and deception. The evening's centerpi...
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Saratoga Bestiary
- Nov-1988
- / Private Investigator
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A priceless painting of Man o' War has been stolen from the Racing Hall of Fame...A gambling party hosted by Charlie's friend Victor is held up at gunpoint...Small-time grocer - and big-time bookie - Pellegrino is found dead at his cash register. And...
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Saratoga Hexameter
- Aug-1990
- / Private Investigator
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The life of Charlie Bradshaw takes a literary turn when the private detective gets embroiled in three cases involving poetry. A colleague's death leads Charlie to a nursing home where a poem in iambic hexameter provides a clue to a series of mysterio...
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Saratoga Haunting
- Jul-1993
- / Private Investigator
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When the skull of Grace Mulholland, an office manager who disappeared 18 years ago with $233,000 from the insurance company she worked for, turns up buried under Jacko's Pool Hall, private eye Charlie Bradshaw, tormented by the way he handled the cas...
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The Wrestler's Cruel Study
- Aug-1993
- / General Fiction
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As Michael Marmaduke searches for his missing fiancee, he progresses from confused innocence to darker self-knowledge and grapples with the issues of kidnapping, the struggle between good and evil, and the meaning of heroism....
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Saratoga Backtalk
- Jul-1994
- / Private Investigator
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Bernard Logan, racehorse owner, offers Vic a larger than usual fee to find out if his wife and her lover are planning to kill him. Vic and Charlie, who's free on the following Saturday morning, arrive at Battlefield Farms to find Logan dead, apparent...
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Saratoga Fleshpot
- Jul-1995
- / Private Investigator
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Featuring Charlie Bradshaw, the local cop turned private eye, and his politically incorrect pal Victor Plotz, the action centers on the drama of the horse auctions, replete with julep-drinking gentry, high-money buyers, and fast-talking auctioneers. ...
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The Church of Dead Girls
- Jun-1997
- / Suspense
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For decades, the faded, rural upstate New York village has lain dormant - until it is startlingly stirred to life when, one by one, three young girls vanish... Nightmares are turned into horrifying reality when their corpses are found, brutally mu...
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Saratoga Strongbox
- Jul-1998
- / Private Investigator
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I have always been the pal of easy money. What some people call temptation, I call opportunity." 5o begin the musings of Victor Plotz without whom, says the New York Times Book Review, "the world would be a much stuffier place." The shameless sidekic...
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Boy in the Water
- Jun-1999
- / Suspense
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Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But this year the start of school has been less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff find far from w...
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Eating Naked: Stories
- Jul-2001
- / General Fiction
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In his first collection of stories, Stephen Dobyns, one of our most accomplished writers, examines the lives of men and women challenged by their own uncontrollable, illogical natures: poets with free floating guilt, spouses with unacceptable sexual ...
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The Burn Palace
- Feb-2013
- / Suspense
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The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town. It’s a place where most of the population will likely die blocks from where they were born; where gossip spreads like wildfire, and the big entertainment on...
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Is Fat Bob Dead Yet?
- Sep-2015
- / Thriller
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In the seaport town of New London, Connecticut, newcomer Connor Raposo has just witnessed a gruesome motorcycle accident on Bank Street. At least he thinks it was an accident. A man sliced in half by a reversing dump truck could only be an acciden...
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Saratoga Payback
- Mar-2017
- / Private Investigator
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The latest installment in Stephen Dobyns's Charlie Bradshaw mysteries, Saratoga Payback follows the latest exploits of Saratoga Springs' most unusual and sardonic detective. Ever since the cops revoked his private investigator's license, Charlie ...
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