Herschel Bernardi
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Two of Hollywood's all-time favorite stars heat up the steamy streets of Manhattan in this tough and tender romance. Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen star as a charming, footloose musician and the innocent Macy's salesgirl who is carrying his child. Natalie Wood received an **Academy Award** nomination for her touching and memorable performance. Nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Natalie Wood), Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written...
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Peter Gunn volume 15
Language
English
Description
A hard-case who Peter Gunn helped send to prison for five years is paroled.He immediately calls Gunn and lets him know he's "on his way and you have very little time to live".Ignoring Lt. Jacoby's suggestion to leave town,Gunn has a scheme to fight it out on his own turf-but ends up in the cemetery.
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Peter Gunn volume 37
Language
English
Description
An insurance company hires Peter Gunn to determine the ownership of $500,000 worth of jewels, which may have been stolen. They were discovered by the police in the apartment of a murdered man who's wife now has laid claim to them. Oddly, a bookie who cannot be found could figure in the solution of the case.
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Peter Gunn volume 30
Language
English
Description
Gunn "gives a little back" and goes to Acapulco, Mexico to look for a woman spotted down there recently by his friend. The woman is supposed to be dead and her husband is currently in the news-he has used up his last appeal and is very shortly to be executed for her murder.
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Peter Gunn volume 4
Language
English
Description
Danny Holland, a paranoid stand-up comedian (played by Shelley Berman) is convinced that his wife of six years is trying to kill him. He hires Peter Gunn to investigate, but Gunn gets a completely opposite view of the marriage from the wife when he confronts her with her husband's fears.
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Peter Gunn volume 9
Language
English
Description
A convicted man being escorted to prison via the train is freed by a confederate.The man's wife contacts Gunn-to hire him to recapture her husband.Due to him believing she tipped the police and caused his arrest,she fears her husband will kill her.
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Peter Gunn volume 27
Language
English
Description
A racketeer is beaten to death and a woman hires Gunn to find out if her old flame, a Korean War hero,was responsible. Lt. Jacob knows the man,who has been an out-patient for being manic-depressive for years. Meanwhile, a fellow mobster is worried he may be blamed for the kill and wants to force Gunn to clear his name.
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Peter Gunn volume 26
Language
English
Description
A ballet dancer hires Gunn to find her old dancing partner who has recently broken out of a sanitarium. He holds a grudge against her and before being committed he had threatened her life. The girl's new beau, a gangster, vows he will kill the "sick boy" if he finds him before Gunn or the police do.
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Peter Gunn volume 11
Language
English
Description
The sole survivor of an armored car hold-up sends for Peter Gunn from his Death Row cell. The convict tells Pete how to find the $700,000 booty after Pete agrees to turn over the reward to his estranged daughter without telling her where it came from.
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Peter Gunn volume 14
Language
English
Description
Gunn is hired by the wife of a prominent lawyer who is convinced that her husband and his mistress are plotting to kill her. Complicating matters is the mistress's connection to a local mobster.
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Peter Gunn volume 28
Language
English
Description
The biggest Racket Man in town is out on bail and "blows up". Or did he? In order to get back the $100,000 he put up as security, the hoods' Bail Bondsman hires Gunn to find out one way or the other. A derelict who disappeared with a $90,000 winning Irish Sweepstakes ticket may figure in the case.
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Peter Gunn volume 12
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English
Description
Gunn is hired by a woman to follow her "husband," but it turns out that this man is actually her partner in crime. Gunn's investigation leads to the local tax commissioner who is worried about the "lies" contained in a missing suitcase which will implicate him in scandal. This episode is a wacky mixture of suspense and comedy, including a scene where the woman ends up in Gunn's apartment dressed in his pajamas, just as Edie comes knocking at the door!...
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Peter Gunn volume 23
Language
English
Description
At his posh soirée, a publisher sneaks off into the garden to conspire with a sleazy PI. Hiding in the bushes, a man in gloves plugs the publisher, tosses the revolver, then splits. The PI picks it up, just in time for the party-goers to spot him holding the gat, which turns out to be his. The PI hires Peter Gunn to clear him, but is too afraid to level with Gunn.
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Peter Gunn volume 8
Language
English
Description
A popular young boxer on his way up, Tony Triano, is shotgunned to death on a dark city street by professional hit men. His family is devastated - who would want the generous Tony dead ? Especially hard-hit is Tony's mediocre stablemate Gino, who Tony helped get fights. Tony's family hires Peter Gunn to find who killed Tony. When the drunken Gino comes to Mother's nightclub to meet with Gunn, he's waylaid and beaten by the hit men.
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Peter Gunn volume 32
Language
English
Description
About to leave Acapulco, Gunn surprises an intruder in his hotel room and despite the man escaping shoots him. Local police determine the man is a Mob hitman from Gunn's hometown. Later, Jacoby upon hearing the man's name rushes to Acapulco. The hitman is known to be on the trail of a key witness against a top U.S. Mobster.
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Peter Gunn volume 4
Language
English
Description
A dying millionaire hires Gunn to deliver a large donation to an oddball candidate for governor. The candidate can't hold onto the donations he already has-Gunn and Jacoby help him when his campaign manager is assassinated.
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Peter Gunn volume 14
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English
Description
After one of three bank robbers in a $200,000 heist is captured, Lt. Jacoby and the station police are distracted by a visiting dignitary and the prisoner escapes. Gunn is asked to use his "friends" to find a lead to the missing man. When found, the plan is to follow him to his two associates-and the money.
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Peter Gunn volume 18
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic hires Gunn to keep him off the sauce for 12 hours so he can sober up and put on a good appearance for his daughter, who is arriving on a plane the next day.
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Series
Peter Gunn volume 1
Language
English
Description
Thugs are terrorizing business people with their protection racket. When they drop in to Mother's, Mother tells them to take a hike. After the thugs return and trash her place, Peter Gunn tracks down the boss of the protection racket with the help of an old friend nicknamed "The Owl."