Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, detectives, true
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-03-24
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0345495144
ISBN-13: 9780345495143

In Jonathan Kellerman’s gripping novels, the city of Los Angeles is as much a living, breathing character as the heroes and villains who roam its labyrinthine streets. Sunny on the surface but shadowy beneath, this world of privilege and pleasure has a dark core and a dangerous edge. In True Detectives, Kellerman skillfully brings his renowned gifts for breathless suspense and sharp psychological insight to a tale that resonates on every level and satisfies at every turn.Bound by blood but divided by troubles as old as Cain and Abel, Moses Reed and Aaron Fox were first introduced in Kell

Author: Erich Kästner
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Keywords: detectives, emil
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1585675865
ISBN-13: 9781585675869

Originally published in 1929, Erich Kastner’s engaging tale has delighted readers young and old, for generations. It’s Emil’s first train ride alone and he’s excited, and a little nervous.On the train, his fellow passengers are impressed with how polite and grown-up Emil is, and the man in the bowler hat offers him some chocolate—but Emil keeps checking his coat pocket, where he’s pinned the money that he is taking to his grandmother. Soon, though, Emil finds himself getting sleepy . . . and the next thing he knows, the man in the bowler hat is gone— and so is the money!

Author: Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, detectives, savage
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312427484
ISBN-13: 9780312427481

National Bestseller In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe: our own. The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age. Roberto Bolaño was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953. He grew up in Chile and Me

Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: novel, detectives, true
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0345495187
ISBN-13: 9780345495181

Moses Reed and Aaron Fox have the same mother; their respective fathers were cops, friends, and partners. And despite their shared calling, their turbulent family history has set them at odds. Moses is a no-frills LAPD detective; Aaron is a smooth-talking private eye. Usually they go their separate ways, but the disappearance of straight-A student Caitlin Frostig isn’t usual. Reluctantly tag-teaming to crack a cold case that won’t die, Moses and Aaron descend into the sinister underside of the City of Angels. Surrounded by twisted millionaire moguls, tarnished trophy wives, and famous face

Author: Henry Winterfeld
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: togas, detectives
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0152162801
ISBN-13: 9780152162801

In these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure.Yes, Rufus wrote CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL on his tablet at school, but no, he did not break into the schoolroom, did not tie up his teacher, and certainly did not paint his slur about Caius on the Temple of Minerva (even if it is in Rufus’s own handwriting). Rufus is doomed unless his six classmates can find out who is really responsible. Every hour seems to bring a new, confusing clue . . . unt

Author: Roberto Bolano
Publisher: Picador USA
Keywords: detectives, savage
Number of Pages: 591
Published: 2009-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0330509527
ISBN-13: 9780330509527

New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their mission: to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert - and obscurity - decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, and their search for the past will end in violence, flight, and permanent exile. In this dazzling novel, Roberto Bolano tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes on a twenty-year, multi-continent, tragicomic quest through a darkening universe. ’A unique

Author: Michael R. Pitts
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: detectives, movie, famous
Number of Pages: 357
Published: 1991-04-01
List price: $71.50
ISBN-10: 0810823454
ISBN-13: 9780810823457

Pitts looks at the celluloid careers of more than three dozen sleuths, including Arsene Lupin, Hercule Poirot, Mike Hammer, Miss Jane Marple, Perry Mason, Philip Marlowe, The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes, and The Whistler, and a number of screen gumshoes with brief movie careers and TV detectives. Each chapter highlights a different detective, covering the character’s films, the performers who played him or her, the character’s image in other media (stage, radio, television, recordings, etc.), plus a detailed filmography and a bibliography of the fictional works about each detective. Wi