Joseph Valentinetti

• Aug-2011
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"Why here, why tonight?" he demanded, putting a fresh unfiltered cigarette between his full lips. He tapped the face of his watch. "I got ten minutes."He caught a glint off the knife blade from the bright coal of his cigarette. The hair on his neck s...

• Aug-2011
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Tyler Palewhite: Soft Boiled Detective.Tyler Palewhite is a salesman who dreams of being a novelist. In fact he's written a P.I. novel. He's not having much luck getting it published until he hits on the idea of pretending to be a Private Investigato...

• Apr-2011
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The story is a fiction based on fact. My protagonist, Jack York, is an ex-sailor. He suffers from Fugue, a distinctive dissociative disorder characterized by geographical displacement and amnesia for the episodes. The misunderstanding of his conditio...

• Apr-2011
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Pauly Macy came to California, with Jilly, to buy a house and settled down. But settling down didn't work for Jilly. Jilly was gone and here he was, in a California backwater, among piles of dung, ladies auxiliaries, ministers, priests and Dutch dair...

• Jun-1995
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KIRKUS REVIEWS: The object that drops Denver car salesman Quitman O'Neil into a world of trouble is a 1964-D Peace dollar. Never heard of it? Right, that's the point: The whole issue was destroyed except for a single survivor that Quitman finds -- an...