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The Cooperman variations: a Benny Cooperman mystery (Benny Cooperman Mystery Ser.)
By Howard Engel. 2001
Benny is unexpectedly visited by Vanessa Moss, a former high school beauty, now Head of Entertainment at a TV network.…
A friend was murdered while at her house, and Vanessa fears she was the target. She asks Benny to protect her, so he travels to Toronto, where he poses as her assistant. As he tries to help his client, assist the local cops, and avoid making enemies, he discovers that taking care of Vanessa is a seductive but risky business. 2001.Murder on location (A Benny Cooperman mystery. #Bk. 3)
By Howard Engel. 1982
A missing person search takes Cooperman to Niagara Falls where he soon finds himself involved with well-known people from the…
film world. Nominated for the 1984 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. c1982.Murder sees the light (A Benny Cooperman mystery #Bk. 4)
By Howard Engel. 1984
Memory book (A Benny Cooperman mystery)
By Howard Engel. 2005
Detective Benny Cooperman is in a Toronto hospital after a serious blow to the head, which has affected his memory…
and given him a condition called alexia - he can still write but can't read. When Benny learns that he was found unconscious beside a dead woman, he figures he must have been close to solving a case. With his girlfriend Anna working as a field agent and two Toronto cops reluctantly helping out, Benny tries to piece together the events that led to a murder - and his own injuries. 2005.Lord High Executioner: an unashamed look at hangmen, headsmen, and their kind
By Howard Engel. 1996
Mystery writer Howard Engel considers the agents of state-sanctioned death - executioners. Beginning with an examination of ancient forms of…
execution, Engel concentrates on English forms of execution, particularly hanging. He discusses individual hangmen and their contributions to make their craft more humane and efficient. Engel also includes chapters on the guillotine, hanging in Canada, and capital punishment in the United States. Descriptions of violence. c1996.Crimes of passion: an unblinking look at murderous love
By Howard Engel. 2001
From France and England to Canada and the United States, Engel explores more than twenty-five classic, infamous and still unresolved…
cases of passion and murder. As he discovers, le crime passionnel, a concept originating in France, has a special place in many legal codes around the world. Someone who has suddenly or unexpectedly been betrayed by a loved and trusted partner, even in an illicit relationship, is rarely treated as a common murderer. 2001.Getting away with murder (A Benny Cooperman mystery.)
By Howard Engel. 1995
Benny Cooperman is always glad to have paying work, but he does not want to touch the case presented to…
him by local crime boss Abram Wise. Until, that is, Wise expresses his concern about the safety of Benny's parents and girlfriend. So Benny investigates the two attempts on Wise's life, and the connections there might be among a retired deputy chief of police, an executed criminal, and Wise's two ex-wives and children. 1995.East of Suez: a Benny Cooperman mystery
By Howard Engel. 2008
Benny Cooperman is about to hang up his gumshoes after an earlier brutal attack left him with serious memory problems.…
Then an old school friend shows up and begs Benny to find her missing husband, Jack Grange. His search takes him to Murinam in the Malay Peninsula, where he meets a bon-vivant priest, an attractive marine biologist, and an eccentric Englishman looking for kosher food, while the bodies pile up and Benny doggedly uncovers layer upon layer of deceit and intrigue. 2008.Dead and buried (Benny Cooperman Mystery Ser. #Bk. 7)
By Howard Engel. 1990
Benny Cooperman's investigation into the year-old death of a truck driver quickly turns into an investigation of Kinross Disposals and…
its illegal dumping of toxic wastes. Some strong language. Bestseller 1990.A victim must be found (A Benny Cooperman mystery. #Bk. 6)
By Howard Engel. 1988
Private eye Benny Cooperman investigates a scam involving the art collection of a deceased gallery owner. Some valuable paintings are…
missing from the estate and the list which shows to whom they were loaned has mysteriously disappeared. 1988.A city called July (Benny Cooperman Mystery Ser. #Bk. 5)
By Howard Engel. 1986
Private investigator Benny Cooperman is asked by the Rabbi and the President of Grantham's synagogue to find a missing lawyer…
who has absconded the savings of half the Jewish community. Some strong language. 1986.There was an old woman (Benny Cooperman Mystery Ser.)
By Howard Engel. 1993
Despite her wealth, Lizzy Oldridge appears to have starved to death. When Benny Cooperman looks into the case, he discovers…
a link to another case that has him trailing a beautiful news anchorwoman. Some strong language. 1993.The suicide murders: a Benny Cooperman mystery
By Howard Engel. 1980
Engaging Jewish Private Eye Benny Cooperman takes on a routine investigation that ends in suicide -- or was it murder?…
The ensuing complex web of intrigue involves a number of shady episodes at city hall as well as a few more suicides -- or murders. 1980.The ransom game: a Benny Cooperman mystery
By Howard Engel. 1981
Benny Cooperman's second murder case revolves around the search for a missing half-million dollar ransom. He has to deal with…
the convicted kidnappers, recently released from prison, and the wealthy Warren family, who want their money back. 1981.The man who forgot how to read: a memoir
By Howard Engel. 2007
One midsummer morning, crime novelist Howard Engel picked up his newspaper and discovered that he could no longer read it.…
While he slept, Engel had experienced a stroke and now suffered from a rare condition called alexia sine agraphia, meaning that he could write, but not read. As well, his memory failed him, he had trouble remembering where things went, apples and grapefruit looked the same, and names and places eluded him. Engel began learning to read again, and even wrote a Benny Cooperman mystery based on his own experiences. 2007.The suicide murders
By Howard Engel. 1980
Benny Cooperman, a Jewish private eye based in a small, Ontario town, suspects that the suicide of a prominent contractor,…
Chester Yates, was a murder. Benny courts trouble by digging into the dead man's affairs. When the psychiatrist who treated Yates is murdered, the detective comes close to making himself another victim of the killer. Strong languageMystery midrash: an anthology of Jewish mystery and detective fiction
By Joel Siegel, Lawrence W. Raphael, Toni Brill, Howard Engel, Richard Fliegel, Michael Kahn, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Faye Kellerman, Ronald Levitsky, Ellen Rawlings, Shelley Singer, Bob Sloan, Janice Steinberg, James Yaffe, Batya Swift Yasgur. 1999