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Fletch
by Gregory Mcdonald
Fletch, investigative reporter extraordinaire, can't be bothered with deadlines or expense-account budgets when it comes to getting his story. Working undercover at the beach to dig up a drug-trafficking scheme for his next blockbuster piece, Fletch is invited into a much deeper narrative.
Year: 1974
Genre: Comic Mystery, Drug Dealing, Investigative Reporter
Confess, Fletch
by Gregory Mcdonald
Fletch, now newly engaged and happily living out his days in Italy, finds himself embroiled in yet another scandal. His soon-to-be father-in-law has been kidnapped and is now presumed dead, and the priceless collection of rare art that belongs to his fiancée's family has been stolen
Year: 1976
Genre: Comic Mystery, Painting
Who is Teddy Villanova?
by Thomas Berger
Thomas Berger displays his genre bending prowess once more in this mystery turned comedy, featuring unforgettable dialogue and an extremely fun cast of characters.
Year: 1977
Genre: Comic Mystery
Fletch's Fortune
by Gregory Mcdonald
Fletch, as unbridled as ever and still living the good life in Italy on his ill-gotten fortune, gets a surprising visit from two surly FBI agents. The pair offers him a deal: either he attend the American Journalism Alliance convention and work as an undercover spy for them, or be shipped back to headquarters and face jail time for tax evasion.
Year: 1978
Genre: CIA, Comic Mystery, Extortion, FBI, Investigative Reporter, Murder Mystery
Fletch Won
by Gregory Mcdonald
The attorney is shot dead in the newspaper's parking lot, no witnesses in sight. Determined to dig up the dirt on both stories, Fletch collects a cast of engaging characters and strings together the scandalous clues that lead to an eventful and unexpected conclusion.
Year: 1985
Genre: Comic Mystery, Family Secrets, Murder Mystery
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
by Lawrence Block
By chance, or so it seems, Bernie discovers a West Side apartment whose occupants are in Europe, slips inside with his usual finesse, lifts a large sum of untraceable cash with his usual aplomb, and spots a naked dead man in the bathtub. Now, across town another burglary has taken place - at Stoppelgard's brother-in-law's apartment - and what's missing is a million-dollar baseball card collection. Somehow Bernie's been blamed (read: framed) for that crime.
Year: 1994
Genre: Comic Mystery, Crime Fiction
The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart
by Lawrence Block
Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr's in love--with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He's in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festival--until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary.
Year: 1995
Genre: Comic Mystery, Crime Fiction
The Burglar in the Library
by Lawrence Block
As a bookseller, Bernie's always in search of a valuable edition, and this time he believes he's found it. And it's somewhere in Cuttleford House's largely ignored library. During his nightly prowl, Bernie finds unexpected company in the way of a corpse. The next morning everyone else find the body, too.
Year: 1997
Genre: Comic Mystery, Crime Fiction
Groucho Marx, Master Detective
by Ron Goulart
In this inventive mystery set in Hollywood's golden era, Ron Goulart revives America's favorite cigar-wielding comic--Groucho Marx. Needing a project to occupy him between movie stints, Groucho agrees to act in a radio serial. But when a beautiful starlet is found dead before production even begins, Groucho is determined to find out who killed her.
Year: 1998
Genre: Comic Mystery
Elementary, My Dear Groucho
by Ron Goulart
When a body is found in Holmes's 221B Baker Street lodgings on the set at Mammoth Studios during the shooting of The Valley of Fear, Groucho Marx and his sidekick Frank Denby begin investigating, in Ron Goulart's hilarious mystery Elementary, My Dear Groucho.
Year: 1999
Genre: Comic Mystery
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