Bøger af Ross H. Spencer

From the author of The Dada Caper: Even an anti-American conspiracy can't keep Chicago PI Chance Purdue from falling prey to his personal femme fatale. Private Investigator Chance Purdue and Brandy Alexander work in tandem on a case that finds them traveling to the Illinois town of Radish River. The CIA continues to need help putting a stop to the DADA (Destroy America, Destroy America) Conspiracy, a terrorist organization whose latest plot is completely under wraps, except that it promises immense destruction. Things prove difficult for Chance and Brandy as they do what they can to remain focused on the task at hand. But it's hard when distractions from football-playing gorillas, chariot races, copious boozeand especially each otherweave in and out of their lives and keep this case on the back burner. Praise for Ross H. Spencer's The Dada Caper ';Parodies of the privateeye novel come and go. Here is The Dada Caper by Ross H. Spencer. It has every cliche down pat, including rat-tat-tat writing in which paragraphs are seldom more than one sentence. ... The hero is a private eye who is always tailing the wrong people and hitting the wrong guys. The Dada Caper is wild, shrewd, mad and unexpectedly funny.' The New York Times

From the author of The Dada Caper: Chicago private detective Chance Purdue learns that nothing good comes from working for the mobexcept cold hard cash. A quick and easy buck sounds good to PI Chance Purdue. But the paycheck seems to be a bit harder to earn when the job entails more than just looking into a minor league baseball team in southern Illinois. His new client, the gangster Cool Lips Chericola, is definitely leaving out details. Enter Brandy Alexander, whose unexpected appearance in Stranger City, Illinois, complicates things. Then throw in the Bobby Crackers Blitzkrieg for Christ religious crusade, and you've got a super-charged powder keg of a caper, with Chance holding both the match and the barrel. Praise for Ross H.Spencer's The Dada Caper ';Parodies of the privateeye novel come and go. Here is The Dada Caper by Ross H.Spencer. It has every cliche down pat, including rat-tat-tat writing in which paragraphs are seldom more than one sentence.... The hero is a private eye who is always tailing the wrong people and hitting the wrong guys. The Dada Caper is wild, shrewd, mad and unexpectedly funny.' The New York Times

The Chicago PI is out to find a Russian defector with dangerous Soviet secrets in this hardboiled mystery from the author of Death Wore Gloves. When business gets too hot in the Windy City, private detective Lacey Lockington hangs out his shingle in refreshingly boring Youngstown, Ohio. Of course, it's not all boring thanks to Natasha, the former KGB agent who saved his life, stole his heart, and currently shares his bed. But their brief idyll ends when Lacey is offered big bucks to find a man who may well be hiding out in Youngstown. Alexi Fedorovich was one of Russia's greatest military minds before he defected to the Statesand then disappeared entirely. Before going underground, he published a book exposing the end of the Cold War as a Russian hoax. Now Lacey's out to find a man who doesn't want to be found, up against Russian spies, federal agents, and leads that keep dying on him. With a little help from Natasha, he might just get to the bottom of it all before Fedorovich finds himself on the wrong end of a firing squad. ';Ross is wild, shrewd, mad, and unexpectedly funny.' The New York Times

Wisecracking Chicago PI Lacey Lockington gets caught in a dangerous game of international espionage in this gritty, ';truly hilarious' mystery (Kirkus Reviews). Former Chicago police detective Lacey Lockington isn't much for small talk. But when he hears ex-CIA agent Rufe Devereaux is coming to town, he looks forward to arguing baseball with his old drinking buddy. Unfortunately, Rufe is involved in a more sinister kind of gameone that gets him killed shortly after his arrival. And as Lacey is about to find out, the other players aren't playing around. The moment Lacey start investigating, he finds himself chased by the Mafia, the CIA, and a homicidal politician-turned-evangelist. And ';help' arrives in the sultry form of a KGB agent named Natasha. He knows he's in over his head. Because what starts as a search for the truth quickly becomes a desperate race for survival taking him from the gritty bars of Chicago to Miami's cocaine-filled underbelly and culminating in ';a slam-bang ending' (Publishers Weekly). ';Spencer keeps the plot racing with amusing dialogue.' Publishers Weekly

In this ';pugnacious, feisty' mystery series debut from the author of Death Wore Gloves, a devious killer has it in for a poison penned beauty (Kirkus Reviews). Chicago Detective Lacey Lockington has never been squeamish about taking out a few low lives in the pursuit of justice. But when tabloid columnist Stella Starbright calls him a ';kill-crazy cop,' he suddenly needs to find a new line of work. Taking a job as a private investigator is a step down, for sure, but his first few cases certainly pique his interest: former ';Stella Starbrights' are turning up dead on the streets of Chicago, and the current onethe very same Stella who ruined his reputationis coming to him for protection. Going against his gut, Lacey agrees to keep Stella from sharing the grisly fate of her former namesakes. In the midst of all the madness, Lacey hunts the real killer, someone looking to silence gossip columnists for good. But can Lacey crack the case before another victim gets a headline in the obituaries? ';Ross Spencer is wild, shrewd, mad, and unexpectedly funny.' The New York Times