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Wade Miller
Full Series List in Order
A Max Thursday Mystery
1 - Guilty Bystander (1947)2 - Fatal Step (1948)
3 - Uneasy Street (1948)
4 - Calamity Fair (1950)
5 - Murder Charge (1950)
6 - Shoot to Kill (1951)
Book List in Order: 12 titles
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Guilty Bystander
- 1947
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A kidnapped boy!A terrified blonde!A fortune in stolen pearls!Hardboiled Max Thursday, on-time private eye, had given up being a detective. But when the kidnapped boy turned out to be his own son and the frightened blonde his beautiful ex-wife, Max w...
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Fatal Step
- 1948
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Dave Lee was shot dead as he rode the Joyland ferris wheel. As hard-boiled private investigator Max Thursday stalked Dave’s killer, he encountered … a high-powered sob sister, the sadistic king of a gambling syndicate, and a delicate, sphinx-like...
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Uneasy Street
- 1948
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When a phony count, a weird artist, and a dazzling blond beauty relentlessly dog his footsteps, hard-hitting private investigator Max Thursday knows his charming personality isn’t the attraction. And as soon as he opens the box he is guarding and f...
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Calamity Fair
- 1950
- / Mystery
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When private investigator Max Thursday is asked to recover some gambling IOUs for a mysterious woman, he stumbles into a vicious blackmail ring. The Frame-up involves compromising photographs used as weapons against prominent men and women who are wi...
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Murder Charge
- 1950
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When vice merchant Henry Blue rolls into town, there’s a warm reception waiting -- hot bullets from some overzealous competitors. While the punctured gangster is indisposed, private investigator Max Thursday steps into his identity. Counting on the...
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Shoot to Kill
- 1951
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San Diego’s Chief of Homicide warns Max Thursday to keep out of the investigation of the murder of a beautiful redheaded divorcée. But Merle, the reporter girlfriend of the hard-fisted private investigator, begs Max to tackle the case, confessing ...
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The Killer
- Dec-2004
- / Thriller
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Jake Farrow, safari-guide to big game hunters, was brought all the way from Africa to kill a killer. He came to track down a man, pit his jungle-sense, his cold cunning, his deadly gun against a ruthless murderer. He had to weave his way not only thr...
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Branded Woman
- Jul-2005
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International jewelry smuggling may be a man's business, but beautiful Cay Morgan can hold her own with the best. Until the day a shadowy rival known only as The Trader has her abducted and scarred for life as a warning to stay out of his way. Now Ca...
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The Killer & Devil on Two Sticks
- Jun-2008
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THE KILLER Jake Farrow has spent his life hunting big game he's one of the best. Still, he is a bit surprised when his old friend Walter Stennis has him brought over from Africa for a special hunt. Stennis wants him to track down and kill the armed r...
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Deadly Weapon
- Feb-2012
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Her name was Shasta Lynn -- a names as phony as the color of her golden hair. She was big and beautiful, and she knew how to tease when she stripped. She was so sensational no one noticed that an admirer in the last row wore a knife sticking in his h...
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ZERO A. D.
- May-2018
- / Fantasy
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WAS ALL HISTORY FAKE – AND THE EARTH REALLY ONLY 20 YEARS OLD?Wade Miller is a Winner of the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe Award, the Private Eye Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award, and the American Crime Writers League...
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Devil May Care // Sinner Take All
- Sep-2020
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DEVIL MAY CAREBiggo Venn doesn't want to admit it but he's getting too old for the mercenary soldier routine. Still, when an old friend comes to him with a small job down in Mexico that's got an easy $20,000 payoff, he agrees to make the contact. See...