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By Frank Lovejoy. 2019
Charlie owed Joe Sligo $3000 from his gambling and Sligo's motto was pay up or die. Charlie has a family…
and kids to think about and has been in debt for 6 months. Now he turns to Randy Stone for help. Randy Stone knows that the police are looking for Sligo and tells Charlie his only hope is to let the police know where Sligo isBy Frank Lovejoy. 2019
It was a busy Wednesday night. Barnes on the city desk asked me to lend a hand and I filled…
in for a couple of hours. I'd just finished taking notes over the headphones when the switchboard buzzed me with a personalBy Frank Lovejoy. 2019
Night is when the city comes alive full of promise. Randy stood on the corner watching the world go by…
cataloguing each and every person and happening when a car came by and clipped a guy holding a black case, knocking him over. Randy went to help him but he was ok and disappeared into the street into a bar called the Glamour Palace. Randy followed him realizing that he had the guy's hatBy Frank Lovejoy. 2019
It wasn't much of a story just an obituary, Mrs. Martha Orloff, age 62, scrub woman, death by natural causes,…
heart failure. But what's natural by killing yourself with a scrubbing brush. It would have only been a two-line obit if the other scrubwoman hadn't stopped him on his way out of the buildingBy Frank Lovejoy. 2019
Randy didn't have to go and look for his story tonight; it came in over the Teletype. Charles Keller died…
today in the state penitentiary after serving 14 years of a twenty-year sentence for armed robbery. His wife, Molly Keller, a quiet woman worked in the offices of the Chicago Star as a humble cleaner. Keller died still denying any knowledge of the $650,000 payroll robbery in the sensation of 14 years agoBy Russell Hughes. 2019
Alfred Wyman is a strange artist who wants to kill the wealthy Miss Gleason because she killed Vincent. Just when…
Randy has given up on a story for the night, he stumbles across an old man in a dispute with a taxi driver over the fare. The old man has no money so Randy pays the fare but is surprised when the gentle looking old man, Alfred Wyman, says he has to go to kill Miss GleesonBy Larry Marcus. 2019
Harlan Matthews, a stamp dealer with memories of a murder he committed long ago, attempts murder, suicide and more! An…
alienist and Randy Stone try to help. The system cue has been deleted. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star. Stories begin in many different ways. This one began and ended with a confession ... a confession to the crime of murderBy Larry Marcus. 2019
A story of young love and old death. A girl from Kansas named Linda Johnson has been arrested for grand…
theft. She's bailed out by someone she doesn't even know. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star searching through the city for strange stories waiting for him in the darkness. This one began with young love and ended with old deathBy Frank Lovejoy. 2019
By Frank Lovejoy. 2019
By Jack Webb. 2019
The Police receive information that an escaped criminal, called Alfred Garvey, is hiding out in the City. While searching for…
him at a hotel Garvey shoots an off-duty cop, and friend of Friday and Romero, John Maxwell. He was about to go on vacation but decided to visit Friday and Romero first. Soon a Police manhunt is launched to find GarveyBy Gene Levitt. 2020
Philip Marlowe was a fictional private eye created by author Raymond Chandler. He was first seen as portrayed by Humphrey…
Bogart in the 1939 classic feature "The Big Sleep". The fictional detective was introduced to the radio in 1947 and, by 1949, was the most popular radio detectiveBy Joel Lee. 2014
The year is 1989, and the Cedar Mountain Six have just pulled off the impossible--a mass Death Row prison escape.…
Now they are on the run, and Officer Jack Spencer is the first responder. Stuck in a dead-end life and contemplating suicide, the Six's escape is exactly what Jack needs--a real chance to finally be the hero he always--thought he would become. Some strong languageBy Alan Hruska. 2015
Young lawyer Alec Brno gets the opportunity to try a huge fraud case. But he risks it all when he…
falls for a young woman whose estranged husband is the criminal mastermind behind Alec's case. Violence and strong languageBy Lesléa Newman, Leslea Newman. 2012
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay…
college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. Violence and strong language. Award winnerBy Gary McKinney, Kearney Street Books. 2011
Sheriff Pruitt, Deadhead, is at it again, keeping Elkhorn safe from meth makers and murderers while he tries to contend…
with the psychic maelstrom of his impending father- and grandfatherhood and stay strong for his pregnant wife, pregnant daughter, and his daughter's unsteady boyfriend. McKinney unfolds this murder mystery like a tie-dye shirt preserved in a dime bag recovered from a time warp, the mysteries of who killed Wilma Gillespie woven together with this mystery: when did we all get so old that we started burying the icons of our youth? And what is left for us? Some strong languageBy Martha Grimes, Jeanette Winterson. 1996
Twelve-year-old Emma narrates this mystery and coming-of-age novel as she searches for the truth about the death of another young…
girl forty years earlier. The setting--a dilapidated ninety-eight-room hotel on the edge of a woods near an Appalachian lake--and several eccentric inhabitants of the area add to the atmosphere of intrigueBy Austin Davis. 2003
When burned-out Houston tax attorney Clay Parker chucks it all for a job, sight-unseen, working for a tiny firm in…
dusty, small-town East Texas, he's searching for his lost integrity and a simpler life. Instead, he lands in the middle of a bungled fraud case, defending the disreputable and downright nasty Bevo Rasnussen, who's accused of torching the stables housing his over-insured thoroughbred. Immediately confronted with corrupt officials, crazed survivalists, an incompetent hit man, an emu, and a naked county clerk, along with an assortment of vengeful wives and great barbecue, Clay discovers that nothing and no one is quite what they seem to be. Contains explicit descriptions of sexBy Jennifer Allison. 2010
When Gilda lands a summer internship at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., she finds herself caught up in…
both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a spy's "dead drop" of classified information. As she tries to decode the cryptic message, Gilda realizes her case is not only a matter of investigating the supernatural; she's involved in an urgent matter of national security and faces her most serious challenge yet. For junior and senior high readers