Jerome Doolittle

A Tom Bethany Mystery

1 - Body Scissors (Oct-1990)
2 - Strangle Hold (1991)
3 - Bear Hug (Dec-1992)
4 - Head Lock (Dec-1993)
5 - Half Nelson (Nov-1994)
6 - Kill Story (Dec-1995)

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  Body Scissors
  

  • Oct-1990
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  A Tom Bethany Mystery - 1
  

  Presidential hopeful Dan Markham hires Tom Bethany to check out J. Alden Kellicott, the man he wants for Secretary of State. Bethany, a self-styled 'security consultant,' is an insider with his own jaundiced view of the corridors of power. Turning Ke...

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  Strangle Hold
  

  • 1991
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Tom Bethany Mystery - 2
  

  A lost rich kid hungry to belong, Morton Limbach II sponsored the Poor Attitudes, and improvisational theater group, and invited them to live and work in the rundown Cambridge mansion he'd inherited. When he's found dead of autoerotic asphyxia, the p...

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  Bear Hug
  

  • Dec-1992
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Tom Bethany Mystery - 3
  

  In a purer world, Dr. Denton Somerville would have been a responsible fiduciary trustee. But when both he and his Sunbanc Savings and Loan bite the dust, a group of Boston Irish retirees find themselves three hundred thousand dollars the poorer. Ente...

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  Head Lock
  

  • Dec-1993
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Tom Bethany Mystery - 4
  

  The Reverend Howard Orrin is on a pilgrimage, and he's just a few steps shy of his mecca. It would seem a long way from his family-oriented Virginia theme park, Lordland, to a seat in the Senate, but The Reverend has been riding the high-speed rai...

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  Half Nelson
  

  • Nov-1994
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Tom Bethany Mystery - 5
  

  It's the greening of America that's got Tom Bethany seeing red these days. More accurately, it's the storm trooper tactics being used against charismatic ecologist Robert Rackleff by the Brotherbund, a skinhead goon squad that favors the exterminatio...

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  Kill Story
  

  • Dec-1995
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Tom Bethany Mystery - 6
  

  Tom Bethany, Jerome Doolittle's sardonic Boston sleuth, has been hailed as "the funniest thing to come down the Massachusetts Turnpike since Spenser" (Carl Hiaasen). Instinctively antiauthority, he's a powerhouse always ready to go a few rounds for a...

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  The Bombing Officer
  

  • Dec-2000
  • / Espionage
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  A young American diplomat turns against the war when he is assigned to approve bombing targets in Laos in The Bombing Officer....

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