Russ Hall
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Blue-eyed Indian mysteries volume 1
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English
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Look down some dark midnight street, into the black recesses of a smoky dive where the scarred barroom floor is carpeted by broken teeth and dreams, and you will find him there. He is the private detective who turns over the rock of city life, doing the kind of work not likely to boost the sale of fedora hats. Listen to the husky saxophone's wail, lifting and dropping in sad echoes off hard buildings. The click of heels on the harsh noir sidewalk...
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Blue-eyed Indian mysteries volume 2
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English
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A murder at the Kerrville Folk Festival is no way to celebrate life with music, especially when it puts Travis, known by Austin papers as the Blue-Eyed Indian, in the crosshairs of the kind of back country paramilitary enthusiasm that means stringing up "Injun" P.I.s like piñatas. Even the company of Cassie Winnick, a blond deputy who seems out to shake Travis' image as the detective who never gets the girl, doesn't keep this from being one of the...
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Blue-eyed Indian mysteries volume 3
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English
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Blood-drained bodies with two holes in their necks begin to show up on Austin's night streets and the police seek to keep the murders quiet, because don't you just know what the media is going to scream. When Devil's Due nightclub own Owen Peasey hires Travis to see what's bothering singer/songwriter Lola Pilloccherosi neither expect her to turn up as one of the victims within the week. A trail that winds through the "live music capital of America"...
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"Hie-eeee." The shout came from above him on the hill. Clay turned just his head, kept the bow pointed down the hill. Behind him, higher up on the hill were three Comanche warriors with guns, the barrels of two of them pointed toward him. In the middle was a white-haired Indian on a paint pony. Four more ponies appeared over the crest of the hill until two more gun barrels and two drawn bows also pointed at him. The older Comanche looked down at him,...
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Esbeth Walters is 72, a retired teacher, and shouldn't be messing around with murder, but when Texas Hill Country winemaster Win Castle pits his sons against each other over the inheritence of a 21,000 acre spread, including the winery where Esbeth works part-time, the result is murder, and Esbeth is in the middle of it. Texas Ranger Tillis Macrory and Sheriff Watkins think she knows more than she's telling.
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Trouble big as all hell.
Retired sheriff's detective Al Quinn hasn't spoken to his brother, Maury, in twenty years. When Maury lands in the hospital under suspicious circumstances, though, Al reluctantly abandons his quiet country seclusion to look into the matter. A second attempt to take Maury out drives the brothers back to Al's lakeside home, where Al knows the territory, but they're not alone for long. ICE agents demand that Maury rat on his...