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61) Double dynamite
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"He may be an underpaid bank clerk but his voice is worth a million bucks. $42.50-a-week teller Johnny Dalton comes across big money, and big trouble when he rescues a bookie from a beating and receives a betting tip in appreciation. The appreciation appreciates into thousands. But there's a catch: the bank is short $75,000 and cash-flush Johnny is Suspect #1"--Container.
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"An epic novel of crime and conspiracy told in four books, [beginning] with a man on the run and [ending] with a burned body. [Moves] across continents, characters, and genres and with the intelligence of John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and the scope of Roberto Bolaño's 2666"--
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"From the author of the Murdoch Mysteries books. July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. Two events set the book's plot in motion: an anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, who up to now has not acknowledged his religion, and Hilliard Taylor, a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering...
64) The web
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"Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a secret bodyguard. Sure enough, Kroner turns up in Colby's room with a gun, and Regan kills him. Then Regan, who sticks around to romance Colby's secretary Noel, begins to suspect he's been used"--Container.
65) Sorority boys
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A trio of frat boys are accused of embezzlement by their frat brothers and kicked out. They quickly find themselves with only one option if they wish to remain on campus rent-free and nab the real culprits: the sorority Delta Omicron Gamma (D.O.G.). Undergoing physical transformations, the boys are soon passing themselves off as Daisy, Adina, and Roberta. Dave (a.k.a. "Daisy") falls in love with Leah, the head of the sorority, forcing him to confess...
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When Carly Wheeler's mother is arrested for embezzling, Carly's perfect life begins to fall apart as friends at her prestigious private school stop talking to her, her beloved stepfather starts worrying about finances, and her image of herself and her family changes.
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An honest man goes off the deep end when he discovers that his employer has been cooking the books to support a mistress. When he learns his boss is going to escape to Brussels with the money, the man steals the money to prevent his boss from taking it. After a bizarre series of events, he finds himself entangled with the woman who was his boss' mistress!
69) Two evil eyes
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"The facts in the case of Mr. Valdemar": A conniving wife and her lover use a hypnotic trance to embezzle a fortune from her dying husband. "The black cat": A deranged crime scene photographer is driven to brutal acts of madness and murder by his girlfriend's new pet.
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After catching his shady son-in-law, Jack Hardisty, in the act of embezzling, wealthy banker Vincente Blane plans to hang him out to dry. Then murder turns Blane's restful mountain retreat into Hardisty's final resting place.When the evidence points to wronged wife Millicent, her father makes a point of calling in Perry Mason. And it's up to the legendary legal eagle to unravel the case's most baffling mystery: a buried clock at the murder scene....
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Just when everybody thinks the ailing show Pucks! has been put out of its misery, the network un-cancels it. For Matt, the hits keep coming as an embezzlement scam drains his finances, forcing him to scramble for cash. Meanwhile, Pucks! creators Sean and Beverly are back on top with a hot new script, but Hollywood politics tear them right back down.
74) The answer man
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Technician Ken Parker of Atlanta is offered $50,000 to teach an embezzler to beat a lie detector. The suspect gets off, only to be murdered. Now Parker's only hope of being paid is to find the $12 million the man embezzled.
75) Easy love
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Boudreaux volume 1
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Eli Boudreaux's family has built ships and boats in Louisiana for generations. He comes from a hard working, wealthy family and his empire is growing by leaps and bounds. At thirty, he is the youngest CEO to ever head Bayou Enterprises, co-chairing with his eldest brother. His head for business and his no-nonsense work ethic is also quickly making him the best the company has seen in generations. His staff admires him, women adore him and Eli's family...
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Six films made before the Production Code. In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free rein to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex.
The cheat: Tallulah Bankhead plays a...
78) MAD librarian
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Head Librarian Serenity Hammer of the Maddington Public Library, the MAD, loses her library's budget battle and embezzles from a neglected city fund to keep her library alive. But the politicians who have been ripping off their citizens aren't happy about losing their money and they plan to do anything to get the money back.
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"Ryan Hathaway isn't about to let his friend marry the wrong guy--not when the right guy is him. But getting out of Jessie Acosta's friend zone could destroy his plans to become Black Crescent's CEO. He can't afford to give in to the overwhelming temptation of wanting her. But with another man looming in Jessie's life, Ryan can't afford not to..."-- Page [4] of cover.
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