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Detective Book Club
3 stories in one book
Jimmy the Kid by Donald E. Westlake
A Dortmunder Novel (Book Three)
The Brownstone House by Rae Foley
Rae Foley has been around a while and so have her readers (one generation later than Mignon Eberhart's) and this is about three girls, the best of friends, until Hope who is the richest marries the art teacher to whom they're all susceptible. Still, courtesy of her father (was he crooked rich?) she lets them live in the brownstone where she will be murdered because. . . . If you're there for the hidden tape in the icetray, you'll be told that that's a sneakily feminine place to put it -- which is after all what this audience likes.
The Olmec Head by David Westheimer
Sam Bell, accompanied by four trucks, eight drivers, the boss's assistant, and a beautiful woman, is attempting to smuggle a massive piece of pre-Columbian sculpture out of Mexico. Waiting for him along the way are breakdowns, shootouts, hijackings, accidents, treachery--and the Mexican Police.