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Crip and Henrietta [An Astounding Adventure of Crip and Henrietta] [MultiFormat]
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 Tom Bateman, a paraplegic PI, and his green-haired, pierced and tattooed sidekick Henrietta try to find a missing friend, David Bernstein. He has been kidnapped by a radical party. The two discover that David is to speak at a public meeting. The party controls David by threatening his former lover, Ann. Crip and Henrietta must find a way to protect Ann so they can liberate David. 2001
Words: 8307 - Reading Time: 23-33 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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The Farmer [An Astounding Adventure of Crip and Henrietta] [MultiFormat]
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Green-haired Henrietta hires Tom Bateman, a paraplegic PI, to help her feed two dogs, Ralph and Patsy. Sounds simple enough. However, Tom soon discovers the dogs are Presa Canarios with a taste for human blood and they guard a warehouse marijuana plantation. 2002
Words: 3337 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
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A Cry In The Night [MultiFormat]
by Tim Wohlforth
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You walk down a dark wind-swept street in Brooklyn, A sentry, holding a rifle, peers down from the fourth-floor window of an all-too-familiar brownstone. A child's cry rends the air. Your child. You must return to the group and rescue him. Once you enter that door, will they ever let you out again? 2004
Words: 5669 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
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Jesus Christ Is Dead [An Astounding Adventure of Crip and Henrietta] [MultiFormat]
by Tim Wohlforth
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"Jesus Christ is dead!" green-haired Henrietta screams into the phone. Paraplegic PI Tom Bateman wheels over to her apartment to find his dysfunctional sometime partner standing on her porch, dripping in blood, surrounded by cops, with the body of a street preacher at her feet. Henrietta is capable of almost anything, but murder is a bit over the top. He seeks the real killer following a trail that leads him to the Blood of the Lamb Tabernacle and then back to his early days as an antiwar Vietna... more info>> 2004 Best American Mysteries Distinguished Award Winner
Words: 6407 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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Lobster Bisque [A Private Eye Jim Wolf Story] [MultiFormat]
by Tim Wohlforth
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Jim Wolf, a private eye, meets Laura Simmons. The cops suspect her of killing Carol Smythe, her boss. Fabulous chef, but a hellion to work for. Someone had stuffed Smythe's arrogant head in a boiling pot of lobster bisque. Wolf takes the case and enters the world of the four-star restaurant kitchen, a war zone of conflicting prima donnas. 2003
Words: 3872 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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Skulduggery [An Astounding Adventure of Crip and Henrietta] [MultiFormat]
by Tim Wohlforth
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Green-haired stared at paraplegic PI Tom Bateman's computer monitor. "You better read this, wise ass," she said. A simple enough message in large type covered the screen: "Help! Someone is trying to kill me." The pair become embroiled with killers searching for an ancient human skull, worth millions. 2003
Words: 5131 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
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The Last Revolutionary [MultiFormat]
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A sixty-year-old woman sits alone in her Mexico City apartment, surrounded by memorabilia gathered from her many adventures. She opens a drawer, lifts out a revolver she had gotten in Nicaragua, and presses it against her temple. She had lost the love of her life, an Uruguayan revolutionary, shot down in the Chilean countryside. Yet she rebounded. She can deal with sorrow. She just can't handle emptiness. [This story received a Certificate of Excellence from the Dana Literary Society.] 2003
Words: 2986 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
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The Ranters [A Private Eye Jim Wolf Story] [MultiFormat]
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Private Eye Jim Wolf meets Walter Johnson, one of the world's greatest jazz musicians. "I need you to find thirty people," Walter tells him. His daughter, Charlene, a student at Cal, has disappeared along with 29 other young women, all members of a strange suicide cult, the Ranters. Soon Wolf is tracking down a "levitated" school bus and a demented guru. 2001
Words: 5354 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
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Sophie [MultiFormat]
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Our protagonist finds himself lost in a rundown neighborhood. He stops short, almost running over a small emaciated dachshund. The dog's tag contains only her name, "Sophie," and a phone number. Not finding the neighborhood inviting for knocking on doors, he takes the dog home and calls the number. Regrettably the dog's owner turns up. Our protagonist must try to rescue Sophie from the clutches of an unscrupulous puppy mill. 2003 Pushcart Prize Nominee
Words: 3359 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
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The Black Cat [A Private Eye Jim Wolf Story] [MultiFormat]
by Tim Wohlforth
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She left Jim Wolf holding the bag. Inside the bag was Edward, a scraggly, cross-eyed, flea-infest tomcat with a bad attitude and the key to a killer. 2003
Words: 3481 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
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No Time To Mourn [A Private Eye Jim Wolf Story] [MultiFormat]
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Wolf meets Susan Henry. She is being stalked by a professional killer she calls Red. Red succeeds in murdering her and then seeks to take out his only witness, Wolf. Wolf, in turn, must discover Red's boss. Wolf's hunt leads him to tangle with a lesbian motorcycle gang and battle a helicopter in the desert. He discovers the truth at an old mission in California's Central Valley. 2004
Words: 60840 - Reading Time: 173-243 min.
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Eagle Down [A Victoria Renard Thriller] [MultiFormat]
by Tim Wohlforth
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Victoria Renard, a beautiful TV crime reporter, is about to get the story of her career. After her meeting with the spokesperson for the California Indian casinos she'll scoop the other networks and she couldn't be more pleased. A moment too late she arrives on the nearly deserted Oakland Street and finds her would-be informant dead and a Black Mercedes fleeing the scene. Not one to let an opportunity pass, she sets her cameraman to work gathering footage while she makes the call to 911. But the... more info>> 2004
Words: 6612 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
Category: Suspense/Thriller
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Ho! Ho! Ho! [A Victoria Renard Thriller] [MultiFormat]
by Tim Wohlforth
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Victoria Renard, news reporter on the rise, can't believe her luck. The Christmas season has brought her the best possible present. A serial killer with a twisted sense of holiday spirit. Three crime scenes, no obvious connection, and her on the brink of a story that could send her star shooting straight into the big leagues. The only problem is, finding herself at the mercy of a desperate man, the over-zealous Ms. Renard may not live long enough to see it all happen. 2004
Words: 6087 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
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