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Crime On Their Hands (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1969
'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesWhen a con-man with many aliases is found shot dead in…
his car, there is only one clue - a single word that he had scrawled on a memo-pad as he was dying - and the suspects are many.Enter Lieutenant Mendoza and his team at the Los Angeles Police Department, who approach the case with their usual tenacity and a dash of flair . . .With a Vengeance (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1966
At first the murder of Nelson Jamison seemed fairly straightforward. He had been strangled, but next to his corpse lay…
a hand-printed card with the words The Vengeance is Just. Jamison, a rich ne'er-do-well, has a prison record for rape, and everything pointed towards a victim's revenge killing.But within hours Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and his team have an identical killing on their hands, and then a third. But is the killer about slip up and reveal their identity?'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesPractice to Deceive (Murder Room #443)
Par Dell Shannon. 1971
'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneSergeant Ivor Maddox of the Wilcox Street precinct has more crime on his…
hands than even he is accustomed to: murders, con-men, a dismembered corpse, runaway teenagers and a multiple rapist.To catch the rapist, whose victims are always attractive and respectable women, Maddox persuades his true love, policewoman Sue Carstairs, to bait the trap . . .Murder with Love (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1972
'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesAn earthquake shakes Southern California and the Los Angeles Police Department.…
With no air-conditioning and a temperature around 98 degrees the heat is turned up when there's a triple shooting of a highly respected Doctor, his wife and his nurse.Can Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and his team solve the case while chaos reigns around them?Chance to Kill (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1967
Two men involved in a heist are wanted for double homicide; the body of a young punk is found in…
an alley; the corpse of a girl lies in the dry riverbed. Everything is, in fact, more or less routine for Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and his colleagues in the Los Angeles Police Department. Then they get the news: the murdered girl was a police officer of fine standing - one of their very own.'Convincing, compelling reading' SunUnexpected Death (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1970
'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesA beautiful Hollywood blonde inexplicably vanishes from the restaurant she is…
dining in with her fiancé and is found with her neck broken and miles away from the scene of her disappearance.Who lured her away? How? And, the most puzzling question for Lieutenant Luis Mendoza of Los Angeles' Homicide Squad, is why?Whim to Kill (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1971
'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesThings begin to heat up in the Los Angeles Police Department…
when Lieutenant Luis Mendoza's stolid and good-natured colleague Sergeant Higgins is kidnapped by three dangerous escaped prisoners.A manhunt is launched but no one expects Higgins to be seen alive again. Can Mendoza's team ever recover, or is the officer's return just around the corner?The Ringer (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1971
'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesOne of Lieutenant Luis Mendoza's most respected colleagues, young detective Tom…
Landers is under suspicion in a stolen car racket.Internal affairs are investigating but Mendoza is not going to leave his man to the uncertain processes of departmental routine. Defying orders and protocol, he decides to do some investigating of his own...With Intent to Kill (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1972
'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesWhen a respectable young woman's naked body is found far from…
her home, the case proves baffling for Lieutenant Luis Mendoza of the Los Angeles Homicide squad.But Mendoza is struggling with more than the case. He's a man down too. Sergeant Higgins' first baby has arrived and he is far too preoccupied to put his mind to murder. But killers go on killing...Root of All Evil (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1964
Lieutenant Luis Mendoza likes nothing better than to wrap up his homicide cases neatly. The latest Jane Doe is identified…
as Valerie Ellis, a spoiled rich kid who was left penniless when her parents died four years ago. But, as Mendoza is about to find out, there are many layers to this complex case...'One of his best' Observer'Mendoza is back again and on form' SpectatorNo Holiday for Crime (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1973
'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesThere's no holiday from crime at the Los Angeles Police Department,…
not even at Christmas. Among a string of bizarre cases, there's the very mysterious killing of Lila Askell, the young devout Mormon who was on her way home for Christmas but is found strangled and thrown out of a car.As the Christmas trees are being decorated and the presents wrapped, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza has one of his toughest cases on his hands...Deuces Wild (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1975
Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is faced with a crime close to home when his four-year-old twins are kidnapped. Not even Mendoza's…
crystal ball can help him while his colleagues explore every possible theory and lead.Are the twins being held for ransom? Or is the kidnapping a form of revenge? Mendoza has never been more human as a husband and father and more severely taxed as a detective . . .'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesThe Death Bringers (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1965
The Death-bringers means tragedy for LAPD Homicide. One of Lieutenant Luis Mendoza's friends is killed while going into a bank.…
Now Mendoza and his team of detectives are dealing with the loss of a friend and a colleague - and trying to find his murderer among the criminals of Los Angeles...'Builds up to a superbly exciting mystery - with not one, but three climaxes' Manchester Evening NewsLook Back on Death (Jesse Falkenstein)
Par Dell Shannon. 1978
Dick Tredgold has spent seven years in jail for a murder he insists he did not commit. Now eligible for…
parole, he refuses to apply, because he feels that by doing so he would acknowledge his guilt. His family, at their wit's end, appeal to Jesse Falkenstein for help.Falkenstein realises the only way of getting Tredgold to leave prison is to identify the real murderer - no easy task in an eight-year-old investigation. And when Jesse re-examines the case he begins to discover that not all the witnesses were as reliable as they had seemed. . .'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneSpring of Violence (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1973
'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesQueer cases run in batches in Los Angeles and Lieutenant Luis…
Mendoza has a few of them on his books. There's the case of the man who is terrified of vampires and who comes to a violent end; there's the odd affair of the theft of tropical fish known as Regal Angels. Then, there's the sweet old lady who holds up banks.It's all in a day's work in this characteristic Dell Shannon thriller...A Serious Investigation (Murder Room #34)
Par Dell Shannon. 1968
As always, Jesse Falkenstein and Sergeant Clock have a score of cases on their hands, but Jesse is mainly interested…
in the murder of Margaret Brandon, a trance medium. He was her lawyer and liked her, and someone had gone to great efforts to make her death seem accidental.But with so many suspects - the egocentric writer, the young lout, the nephew in line for an inheritance - both Falkenstein and Clock are at their wit's end until their old acquaintance Mr Walker sends his comments from Hawaii - which might be just what they need to get a lead . . .'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneDeath by Inches (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1965
It's January in Los Angeles, and the city is experiencing a heatwave. Lieutenant Luis Mendoza's homicide squad is depleted by…
the murder of one its members, and the crime-rate is rising as high as the temperature . . .'Intelligent, humane, well written and continuously absorbing' Sunday TimesCrime File (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1974
'A Luis Mendoza story means superlative suspense' Los Angeles TimesLieutenant Luis Mendoza is beset by two insistent puzzlers: how does…
his team nail the pair who are staging hold-ups at the best restaurants in town? And who was responsible for the brutal murder of an elderly widow?Will Mendoza's famous hunches point him to the answers?The Blind Search (Jesse Falkenstein)
Par Dell Shannon. 1977
When Nonie Johnson kidnaps her daughter from the adoptive parents, Jesse Falkenstein is brought in. Something seemed wrong from the…
start - Nonie just wasn't the maternal type, and then she suddenly vanished from sight.The search for Nonie Johnson yielded nothing but a series of wild goose chases. Fortunately, Jesse had two aces up his sleeve: a brother-in-law in the police, and a number of unorthodox psychic acquaintances who had their own way of seeking clues.'My favourite American crime-writer' New York Herald TribuneCold Trail (A Lieutenant Luis Mendoza Mystery)
Par Dell Shannon. 1978
The body of a woman from respectable, conservative Glendale is found stashed under a ramshackle house in the middle of…
the inner city. Detective Luis Mendoza marks the rising heat by the crime and violence raging through the sun-baked streets of Los Angeles - and it's going to be a hot one . . .A thug is shot to death. A mysterious string of robberies continues unabated . . . all without a clue. But the family-man cop knows that where there's heat there's fire - and a cold trail to nowhere promises to turn into a red-hot path leading straight to the damned.'A Luis Mendoza mystery means superlative suspense' Los Angeles Times