Michael Paulson

• Oct-2016
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Ex-cop Deacon Bishop gets his first case when a beautiful woman claims she's in need of a bodyguard. Bishop wants to guard the body all right, but it will take all of his detecting skills to keep even himself alive. Author Michael Paulson has created...

• Apr-2016
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Even detectives need to pay the rent, which is why Deacon Bishop found himself spending nights taking pictures of an unfaithful wife and her lover. Considering the wife's lifestyle, it wasn't a complete surprise when she turned up missing but Bishop ...

• May-2014
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Fresh out of prison, Mike Zeeman and Tio Manetti get caught up in a scheme to steal a million in smuggled diamonds. Zeeman doesn't expect much from Meri Darling... she is the woman who turned on them and got them sent to prison. Still, he doesn't exp...

• Apr-2013
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When Harry Bronstein, a young American tourist, is mistaken for a CIA agent, he finds himself embroiled in a three-way conflict between Chechen terrorists, Russian counter-spies, and a Chinese crimelord. Staying alive will be almost impossible. Natur...

• Oct-2012
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Private Detective Deacon Bishop doesn't especially like the missing person case he's assigned. For one thing, he's afraid his client will kill the man if he finds him. For another, something just doesn't feel right. But Bishop's qualms about this cas...

• Dec-2011
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When his beautiful assistant is found murdered, a vain attorney becomes a suspect. It seems that every time Winslow learns about a witness, that witness ends up dead. Could the cops be right and Winslow really be a killer? Or is there something even ...

• Dec-2010
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Stuart S. Stuart his come to Paris to find artistic inspiration. Instead, he falls for a Mafioso's wife, becomes a murder suspect, gets beat up by criminals searching for millions worth of diamonds, and learns that some of his student works have been...

• Mar-2010
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Lawyer Chambers Elliot is suspicious of the supposed priest in his office. But the priest's story of an old murder rings true and Elliot finds himself sucked into a case that pits him against a gang of con-men and Texas's crime boss, Salvator Portell...

• Jun-2009
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Deacon Bishop is an ex-cop and trained detective. How hard could it be to trail a woman from the airport and see where she goes? What Bishop learns, though, is that he's not the only one after the woman--and that he's about to get stung. Hardboiled a...

• May-2009
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Chapter 1 Wednesday, August 5th, 1936. 11:15 am. Eggie's Café, East 56th street, NYC. Philo Vance was toying with a cheese and green-pepper omelet when District Attorney John F.-X. Markham sat down at his table. "I stopped at your apartment when I h...

• Sep-2008
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If he hadn't turned into the rest stop, Deacon Bishop wouldn't have heard about the hundred million dollars--or gotten involved with his favorite Mafia family. But he stopped--and gave a woman a lift. A few miles later, Bishop is injured, his car exp...

• Oct-2007
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Private Detective Deacon Bishop doesn't especially like the missing person case he's assigned. For one thing, he's afraid his client will kill the man if he finds him. For another, something just doesn't feel right. But Bishop's qualms about this cas...

• Jan-2007
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Private detective Deacon Bishop is feeling his age when he's awakened in the middle of the night by a low-rent hoodlum. But the criminal, Davey Kenyon, has something Bishop wants so bad he can smell it--evidence against the Portello crime family. Bef...

• Dec-2006
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The invitation from Edgar Pelican arrived at Dr. Clayton Niles' office, by courier. It was ivory-colored, gilt-edged, watermarked, scented with chicory and embossed with the Pelican family crest: two eagles devouring a duck. A certified check accompa...

• May-2006
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Any job that starts with a murdered client is bad news. But Private Eye Deacon Bishop decides to stick around the South Texas town and find out what's going on--and why an innocent man is so quick to proclaim his guilt. What he finds is drugs, money,...

• Apr-2006
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“Are these chicken eggs, Rita?” Dr. Clayton Niles and his wife, Rita, were having breakfast in the kitchen of their oceanfront home; just outside of Galveston, Texas. Clayton, with his stoic middle-aged determination, sat at the table studying hi...