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David Handler
Books in Order: 34 titles
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The Man Who Led a Dream Life
Stewart Hoag and his new bride dive into married life with the discovery of a murdered millionaire in this mystery from early in the crime-solving career of the author-sleuth.January 1983: Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is getting married to the love of his li...
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The Man Who Swore He'd Never Go Home
Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag always swore that he would never return to Oakmont, Connecticut, the small mill town where his family lived for generations. He certainly has no desire to interrupt his high life as the newest great American novelist to revisit t...
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The Woman Who Lowered the Boom
Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is walking on cloud nine after a meeting with his editor, Norma Fives, where she predicts his new book is sure to establish him as the next great American author. It has been years since he has even dreamed of such success after ...
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The Girl Who Took What She Wanted
In this new installment of the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series, the ghostwriting sleuth investigates a trail of murder amidst Hollywood's rich and famous.Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag hasn't written any fiction since his debut novel rocked the...
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The Lady in the Silver Cloud
"This is confection in the guise of a mystery novel; it goes down easy as a milkshake." -- Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book ReviewA 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud is a fantastically expensive car, especially in the pristine condition of the one ...
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The Man Who Wasn't All There
The latest installment of David Handler's Edgar Award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series, set in 1990s' New York, sees the ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful basset hound Lulu inadvertently make a dangerous enemy. After six glorious weeks of ha...
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The Girl Who Did Say No
Ex-bestselling author Stewart Hoag is after a tell-all Hollywood diary in this short mystery from the Edgar Award -- winning author. Once upon a time, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was a celebrity author married to a famous actress. But after ...
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The Man in the White Linen Suit
The next clever, witty, and touching installment in the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series finds the beloved ghostwriter-sleuth and his faithful neurotic basset hound, Lulu, back in 1990's New York City, investigating a bestselling autho...
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The Man Who Couldn't Miss
In the next novel in David Handler's Edgar award-winning series, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his beloved basset hound, Lulu, investigate a murder in a fabled Connecticut summer playhouse. Hollywood ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has chronicled the ...
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The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes
Fans of JANET EVANOVICH and CARL HIAASEN, get ready. If you haven't yet discovered wisecracking sleuth Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his faithful basset hound Lulu, you're in for a sharp, hilarious treat. Once upon a time, Hoagy had it all: a hugely su...
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Lavender Lane Lothario
Every year, the Gant family performs an annual ritual desecrating the tomb of Aurora Bing. The Gants have held a grudge against the legendary silent film star for almost eighty years, but for Sherm Gant and his son, things have become personal. Auror...
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Phantom Angel
A wickedly funny private eye novel set in the dark underbelly of New York City, where the worlds of Broadway and organized crime meet When it comes to tracking down teen runaways, there is no private investigator in New York City better than stree...
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The Coal Black Asphalt Tomb
The historic New England village of Dorset has actually elected a living, breathing woman as its First Selectman. And now she's about to undertake the Historic District's biggest public works project in a generation -- the widening and re-grading of ...
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Runaway Man
Benji Golden works in his family's struggling mom-and-pop business above a twenty-four-hour diner on Broadway and West 103rd Street. Golden Legal Services, a private detective agency, was started by Benji's hero-cop father. The business is now run by...
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The Snow White Christmas Cookie
The newest adventure featuring the mismatched romantic crime-fighting duo of New York City film critic Mitch Berger and Connecticut State Resident Trooper Desiree Mitry presents Des with her first taste of Christmas in the historic New England villag...
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The Blood Red Indian Summer
This newest mystery featuring Mitch Berger and Connecticut State Trooper Des Mitry presents Des with her first genuine racially charged case in the historic New England village of Dorset, the gem of Connecticut's Gold Coast. Tyrone "Da Beast" Gran...
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The Shimmering Blond Sister
Police officer Desiree Mitry is under a huge amount of pressure to catch the Dorset Flasher, who has been terrorizing the wealthy dowagers of the Dorset Historic District every weekend. She becomes convinced that her man is Augie Donatelli. After the...
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Click to Play
The Edgar Award -- winning author of the Stewart Hoag mysteries delivers a "fast-paced, frantic, and head spinning" crime thriller (Booklist). In the summer of 1972, the country was rocked by the Bagley Bunch murders -- a killing spre...
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The Sour Cherry Surprise
Something has gone very wrong on bucolic Sour Cherry Lane. A straight-arrow high school student has started throwing wild sex parties. The distinguished history professor across the lane has gone missing. His estranged wife, a popular author of child...
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The Sweet Golden Parachute
A storm is brewing in Dorset. Poochie Vickers, the local aristocrat, is becoming even more eccentric in her old age. She's taken up shoplifting and reckless driving but refuses to see a doctor. Her worrisome daughter, Claudia, is angling to take ...
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The Burnt Orange Sunrise
The legendary ninety-four-year-old Ada Geiger was one of the twentieth century's most illustrious, controversia,l and remarkable cultural figures--- the only person, living or dead, who had been a colleague of both Amelia Earhart and the Rolling Ston...
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The Bright Silver Star
A VIEW TO DIE FOR It's the peak of the tourist season on the beautiful Connecticut gold coast. But this is no ordinary July for the picture-perfect village of Dorset--or for transplanted New York film critic Mitch Berger and his alluring love, Res...
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The Hot Pink Farmhouse
IN A LOONY TOWN WHERE ANYTHING GOES So much for the peace and quiet New York film critic Mitch Berger expected to find in his antique carriage house overlooking Long Island Sound. Nothing can shelter him from the goings-on in nearby Dorset. A violen...
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The Cold Blue Blood
A SALT-AND-PEPPER CRIME-SOLVING DUO... New York film critic Mitch Berger has become a reclusive curmudgeon in his city apartment since his young wife's death. A cottage on Connecticut's Big Sister Island, an old-money WASP community, offers him ho...
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The Man Who Loved Women to Death
A serial killer is showing Hoagy his novel in progress--and every chapter is murder....
Once Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and the husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. Now, reunited with Merilee in pro... -
The Girl Who Ran Off With Daddy
The dandified ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag appears in his seventh mystery when his mentor and friend, a septuagenarian, becomes involved in a sensational affair with his stepdaughter that leads to murder. Reprint....
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The Man Who Cancelled Himself
Hired by fallen television star Lyle Hudnut, whose career was shattered by scandal, writer Stewart Hoag reluctantly begins penning the actor's memoirs and learns a deadly truth about a network's secret practices. Reprint....
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The Boy Who Never Grew Up
THIS PEN FOR HIRE Once Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. But fame and fortune left him as swiftly and surely as Merilee. Now Hoagy ekes out a living as a ghostwriter of...
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The Woman Who Fell from Grace
THIS PEN FOR HIRE. Once, Stewart "Hoagy Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. But fame and fortune left him as swiftly and surely as Merilee. Now Hoagy ekes out a living as a ghostwriter of ...
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The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald
THIS PEN FOR HIRE Once Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and the husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. But fame and fortune left him as swiftly and surely as Merilee. Now Hoagy ekes out a living as a ghostwrite...
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The Man Who Lived by Night
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Celebrity ghostwriter Stewart ""Hoagy"" Hoag is off to London to dig up the secrets of reclusive bad-boy superstar Tristam ''T. S.'' Scarr, formerly of the legendary British rock group Us. T.S. is ready to reveal all, in a book destined to become...
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The Man Who Died Laughing
THIS PEN FOR HIRE. Once, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. But fame and fortune left him as swiftly and surely as Merilee. Now Hoagy ekes out a living as a ghostwriter of...
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Boss
Kiddo is back and a decade older. At 23, he's not much wiser or thinner, but the family business needs him, and so does the woman of his dreams. It's time to grow up--whatever that means....
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Kiddo
"A witty and compassionate coming-of-age tale . . . a noble lesson in growing up." -- The Hartford Courant The story of the adventures of Danny Levine, Mousey Stern, and Newt Biddle growing up together in Southern California back in 1962, Kiddo ...