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To help her class win the school contest, Dawn Bosco will have to find the person who is trying to ruin their play, Little Red Riding Hood Ms. Rooney's second-grade class is determined to win the school contest by putting on a surprise play. Dawn Bosco will play Little Red Riding Hood, and Jason Bazyk will be the Big Bad Wolf. But someone is trying to ruin everything. First, Dawn hears a scary voice backstage. Then, the wolf suit goes missing....
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Dawn Bosco races to find a treasure at Camp Wild-in-the-Woods She is a terrific detective, but Dawn Bosco doesn't want anyone at Camp Wild-in-the-Woods to find out that she is secretly afraid of horses. Even Jill Simon isn't afraid of horses, and she cries all the time. Then Miss Perry, the counselor, announces that there will be a treasure hunt! Dawn knows she can beat Lizzie Lee, the Cool Cat Detective, to the prize. But she might have to...
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Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world's loveliest women. Acting as a twenty-first privateer, Randolph broke the political strangle-hold on space exploration, and became one of the world's richest men in the bargain.
Now an ecological crisis threatens Earth--and the same politicians that Randolph outwitted the first time...
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 7
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An operating room with dead nurses, doctors, and patient draws serious questions, but something doesn't smell quite right. The daughter of the patient, whose body odor was believed to be the source of the deadly fumes, brings the case to Mike along with some suspicious questions about the nature of the hospital's treatment plan for her father. Something's just not right, and Hammer is determined to find out what.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 9
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A successful stock broker on Wall Street is murdered in cold blood, and Andy the janitor is the first one to find his body. But when the simple man gets blood on his hands and accidentally incriminates himself, he turns to Mike Hammer to help him clear his good name. Hammer sees that Andy is innocent, but his attempt to find the real culprit is nearly foiled by a series of traps and pitfalls that evade the private eye's keen intuitions and continue...
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 2
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Mike Hammer is hired to investigate a toxic chemical dump in the Hudson River by Patrick Dean, the man accused of the crime. Hammer is no fan of tabloids, but his sleuthing uncovers new headlines of his own. While looking to clear his name, the journalist who broke the story and incriminated Patrick is found dead. Now, Hammer starts to suspect that his client might not be as clean as he claimed to be.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 1
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Mike Hammer is on the beat after the untimely death of former policeman Chic Farrell's death. After Mike finds Chic's son dead in a heroin house, the former cop is burning for revenge. Chic's own murder leaves Mike Hammer alone to find the killers, and the only witness is a strung out hooker who's on the run. The Russians and their steady supply of heroin to the city put them high up on Hammer's list of suspects.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 4
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Mayron Hughes may be one of the most sought after basketball players in the country, but the mysterious death of his former agents could threaten everything. The star athlete hires New York's most valuable private eye in order to prove his own innocence. The case becomes increasingly complicated, and the Hammer must look at an entire roster of suspects in order to find the real killer. From Mayron father to his new agent to Mayron himself, anyone...
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 6
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It's Devil's Night in New York, and this year's Halloween festivities prove especially deadly. Before their date, Mike Hammer's love interest is murdered in her own apartment. With his heart broken and his own life on the line, Hammer must track down the heinous murderer. With Hammer's friends being targeted, he discovers a pattern that points to a cultist killer that he had locked up before. Mike must solve the case quickly, or he could be next.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 5
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A Hollywood actress with hometown ties to Hammer becomes the primary suspect in the gruesome murder of her own producer and boyfriend. In order to clear her name, she asks Mike to finds the real killer. The East Coast's best private eye must head West to get to the truth behind the lies. But as Hammer conducts his investigation, the situation in Malibu turns sticky, and he discovers that nothing is as it seems.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 3
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The virtual world has real consequences in Mike Hammer's latest case. Mike Hammer is offered a case by the worried grandmother of a missing young woman. Tamara had been working as a model for a racy website before her disappearance, and when Hammer's team discovers a snuff film posted online, he worries that she may have been victimized by something much more serious. Mike Hammer is on the case to either find Tamara, or bring her murderers to justice....
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 8
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After a prostitute is murdered, Father Dressler is worried about the women who work nights in his neighborhood. The holy man asks Mike Hammer, a former parishioner, for help protecting the local ladies of the night but the rules of the confessional forbid him from giving Hammer too many details. When Dressler ends up dead, Mike Hammer is on the case, and he takes a position that is not so forgiving.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 5
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After being released from his time in prison, Mike Hammer's old friend Herman Simpson joins him for dinner. The discussion turns techie when Simpson brings up the computer revolution that is underway. However, a bank robbery involving this same technology-- and a suspiciously similar criminal --takes place the same evening. Simpson becomes the prime suspect, and Hammer is his only hope at staying free.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 12
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Lila B. has earned Mike Hammer's attention for a number of reasons, not least of which is her intoxicating voice. But the beautiful jazz singer also has a dangerous side, keeping company with mobsters. When her beaux arrested, he's forced rat on his partners. The plot thickens when one of Lila's gentlemen called is killed and she becomes a suspect. With both the police and the mob on her heels, Hammer is determined to keep the songstress safe.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 16
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After failing to save a tobacco company scientist scheduled to testify in court, Mike Hammer decides to quit smoking. However, a clean lifestyle becomes harder than he thought when he follows up on his client's murder. The dead scientist leaves behind questions about the killer's motives, his work at the company, and the tobacco industry at large. Of course, the nicotine withdrawals don't seem to help.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 1
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While on a stakeout, Mike steps in to save a cop and arrest a mobster. Lingering doubts about the scenario trouble Hammer, and he searches for a connection. A surprise birthday party interrupts his train of thought, but a threatening phone call puts the private investigator right back in the thick of things. When the caller tell Mike Hammer that he has 24 hours to live, he must uncover the truth at the bottom of the mystery.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 4
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Hammer's on-again off-again flame is a Broadway star named Linda Fortunato, but her latest role is as primary suspect in the murder investigation of her ex-husband and co-star. The whole city is convinced of her guilt after the spatting couple was seen fighting during rehearsals, but Mike Hammer is determined to clear her name. Drama and mystery unfold while Hammer investigates a whole cast of suspects.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 17
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Mike Hammer becomes increasingly involved with the tobacco company and the family that owns it after he takes a job as their poster boy. The head of the company wishes to get to know Mike better and invited him to stay at their mansion. Some of the other family members hope that Mike's new status will prevent him from asking any more questions. But the death of Loolie leads to an investigation that Hammer just can't quit.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 6
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Mike's journalist friend, Pete, misses their scheduled meeting. But the apparent suicide raises questions that lead Mike to follow up on Pete's latest investigative assignment, an exposé on surveillance. Hammer finds out that Pete was writing about the shadows and powers behind modern surveillance, an entity known as Big Brother. Now Hammer must track down the killer that's always watching everybody.
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