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Thomas B Dewey
They had killed his Kathy. The two men knocked on the door, asked for Mickey Phillips, then sapped him. When he woke up, they had him tied up, forced to…
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PORTRAIT OF A PRIVATE COP…Call me Mac… I’m just a guy. I go around and get in jams and then try to figure a way out of them. I…
The naked lady was very beautiful and very dead. The police found that she had circled Mac’s name in her phone book – yet Mac couldn’t remember her! What’s a…
Gripping, realistic, and compelling. – Chicago Tribune It started with murder and ended with murder. Along the way there were muggings and dope and stolen cars and other assorted violences…
The girl had lost her guitar-playing boyfriend, but he had left her the most deadly legacy of all – fear. And now it was up to me to protect her…
Chicago detective Mac is asked by a former silent film star to find out what the problem is facing a fellow actor who shares her home. Disappearing corpses, movie producers…
So unmoving was the girl sitting on the wet rocks that, at first, she seemed a permanent feature of the rugged seascape. She was wearing an expensive evening dress and…
His enemies said Dick Kramer had River County in his pocket, and in the game Kramer was playing there were no holds barred. But Kramer couldn’t do anything about the…
Dewey’s story twists are fresh and the violence is realistic rather than sensational. Mac is one of our best private eyes and this adventure is honest and exciting. – San…
Nobody knew the trouble she’d been in–until it caught up with her. And then it was murder!
Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction’s severely underrated writers! –Bill Pronzini
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Mac didn’t like bodyguard jobs. But he disliked kidnappers even more. So when Julian Porter, big shot movie producer, said, Come to Hollywood, take care of my kid, Mac left…
The trail Mac found himself trying to follow was very cold. Another private detective – his friend Barry Henley – had been killed a year earlier in a fall from…
Deadline sends Mac to a small town on a tight deadline to save a boy from execution for a brutal murder. Mac makes a beautiful job of it despite the…
When Mac tries to help a friend collect an unpaid bill, he gets more than he bargained for…including a corpse! #17 in the Mac detective series!
Mac is one of…
A shut-and-opened case? The beautiful heiress had done a foolproof job on herself. After a large dose of sleeping pills, she’d slashed her wrists, then climbed into the tub and…
Thomas B Dewey,Tom Brandt
They hopped a boxcar and made a run for it. He was a wanted man – she was a woman who thought she’s found her man. It was an outlawed…
