Mystery Books
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All Through the Night (Holiday Classics)Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, celebrates the season with this Christmas classic featuring two of her most beloved cha
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Pawing Through the Past (Mrs. Murphy Mysteries)"You'll never get old." Each member of the class of 1980 has received the letter. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, who is on
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The Associate: A NovelKyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-looking and affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secret t
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Drop Shot: A Myron Bolitar NovelValerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who's now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her age
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The Cat Who Knew ShakespeareThere's something rotten in the small town of Pickax--at least to the sensitive noses of newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his S
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The TestamentHeart of darkness...In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just
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Over the Edge: An Alex Delaware NovelWhen the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit
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Mystery Movies
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Inception (Two-Disc Edition) [Blu-ray]Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in this sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into
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The Bone CollectorDenzel Washington, Angelina Jolie. A paralyzed forensics expert and a rookie policewoman team up to nab a serial killer. 1999/colo
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Mystic RiverThree friends who grew up in working-class Boston drift apart after a terrible tragedy. Years later, brutal events reconnect them.
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Event Horizon (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)The year is 2047. Years earlier, the pioneering research vessel Event Horizon vanished without a trace. Now a signal from it has
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Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)"'Fight Club' pulls you in, challenges your prejudices, rocks your world and leaves you laughing" (Rolling Stone). Brad Pitt ("12
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Mystery Authors
Bill Pronzini biography
Bill Pronzini
(1943 - )
Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories.
He published his first novel, The Stalker, in 1971. However, his best known works are the Nameless Detective series, which he began in 1971. As of April, 2009, there are more than 35 books in the series, as well as a number of short stories. Over the life of the series, Nameless has gracefully grown and matured as an “everyman” character, aging along with his creator and audience. While the stories involve the usual range of crimes typical to mysteries, they depict relatively little violence. Pronzini’s style is more character driven than plot driven, giving his stories insights, depth, and durability atypical for the mystery field. Because Nameless develops over the run of the series, it's most effective to read them in sequence.
His books have been translated into nearly twenty languages, and have been published in more than thirty countries. William John Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California. He has been married three times. The first marriage was to Laura Patricia Adolphson, (1965 to 1967; divorce); the second was to Brunhilde Schier, July 28, 1972 (separated December 1985; divorce a couple years later). He married mystery writer Marcia Muller in 1992. They have collaborated on three novels: Beyond the Grave (1986), The Lighthouse, (1987); and Double (1984), a Nameless Detective novel, as well as on numerous anthologies.
In 1987 he won The Eye, the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by The Private Eye Writers of America. It is a more exclusive version of their Shamus Award. He has been nominated three times by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award, and received their Grand Master designation in May 2008.
Information source: wikipedia