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81) True detective
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Nate Heller is a cop trying to stay straight in one of the most corrupt places imaginable: Prohibition-era Chicago. When he won't sell out, he's forced to quit the force and become a private investigator. His first client is Al Capone. His best friend is Elliot Ness. His most important order of business is staying alive.
83) True crime
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"1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded meanness as private detective Nate Heller combs Chicago's North Side looking for John Dillinger. But things take a turn for the strange when self-aggrandizing G-Man Melvin Purvis shoots down a Dillinger double in front of the Biograph Theater."--Page 4 of cover.
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The Harry Potter of its time, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the forty or so other books in the Oz series have become perennial sellers. There are Oz festivals, Oz fan clubs, Oz newsletters, and, of course, Oz Web sites and chat rooms. And now there's "Hard Road, " a Cat Marsala mystery in which author Barbara D'Amato shares her own love of Oz. D'Amato's father knew Oz author L. Frank Baum and as a child played with Baum's children. Five generations...
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"Being a hero is definitely not on Dugan's to-do list when he goes to Wancho's Towing Service at one a.m. to retrieve his towed car. But when he stumbles across a crime in progress, his instincts kick in and he rescues the beautiful young Isobel Cho from an armed abductor . . . only to discover that she isn't at all happy to be saved. Soon Isobel goes missing, and it's up to Kirsten and Dugan to find out what's happened."--P. [2] of jacket.
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Suffering through 25 years of an indifferent marriage, Samantha Lisowski realizes that getting involved in murder might just be the best thing that ever happened to her. Retired Chicago school teacher, she now hosts a monthly community TV program while pursuing a writing career. At a writing seminar in Chicago, she stumbles onto a dead body and when the killer believes that Samantha can identify him, her own life is suddenly in danger. To worsen...
98) Sound proof
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Chicago private eye Frank Dragovic is working undercover at Midwest Music Madness, a folk festival targeted by a thief and soon the theft of musical instruments crescendos to murder. Surrounded by musicians, can he find the thief?
100) Liar's poker
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Harry Garnish and Sister Bridget O'Toole discover secrets while looking into a case involving a religious guru.
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