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Rob Kantner
Full Series List in Order
A Ben Perkins Mystery
1 - The Back-Door Man (1986)2 - The Harder They Hit (Apr-1987)
3 - Dirty Work (Nov-1988)
4 - Hell's Only Half Full (Sep-1989)
5 - Made in Detroit (May-1990)
6 - The Thousand Yard Stare (Jul-1991)
7 - The Quick and the Dead (Nov-1992)
8 - The Red White and Blues (Oct-1993)
9 - Concrete Hero (Jul-1994)
9.25 - Trouble Is What I Do (Sep-2005)
9.75 - Down Home Blues (Oct-2009)
10 - Final Fling (Nov-2007)
Book List in Order: 12 titles
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The Back-Door Man
- 1986
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Detroit private detective Ben Perkins takes on the case of a wealthy widow swindled out of a fortune, but his investigation is complicated by the death of the embezzler, lethal competitors, and murder...
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Dirty Work
- Nov-1988
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The evidence points toward soft-spoken Detroit DJ Alex Farr as the culprit in a series of brutal murders, but hard-boiled private eye Ben Perkins attempts to prove the murderer is someone else entirely...
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The Thousand Yard Stare
- Jul-1991
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Cigar-smoking Detroit PI Ben Perkins investigates a death ruled a suicide a quarter-century earlier in this engaging but unlikely crime story. While helping his high school sweetheart Janet Vento and lusted-after homecoming queen Stacie Hallthorn loc...
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Concrete Hero
- Jul-1994
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As Ben Perkins uncovers the truth behind the violent death of a computer whiz who used his electronic genius to enter a world of perverse thrills and twisted tastes, Perkins realizes that the victim saw--quite literally--something to die for. Origina...
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Trouble Is What I Do
- Sep-2005
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'Ben Perkins is back! It feels so good to say that. Twenty-three years ago, when Rob Kantner introduced his Detroit PI in the short story 'C Is for Cookie,' he probably had no idea he was heralding in a new era of mystery fiction. Before Rob, the pri...
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Final Fling
- Nov-2007
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In the tenth novel of the Shamus-winning Ben Perkins series, the Detroit private detective hunts a knife-wielding killer who is exacting a very special brand of vengeance. Perkins novels are "polished, tough, and fun to read" - Detroit Free Press....
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Down Home Blues
- Oct-2009
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Best-selling novelist Jeffery Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the past year. Featuring "gritty tales told with panache," this is a "must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories" (Booklist)....
Award-Winning Books by Rob Kantner
1986 Shamus Award -- Paperback Original P.I. Novel
Dirty Work
1988 Shamus Award -- Paperback Original P.I. Novel
Hell's Only Half Full
1989 Shamus Award -- Paperback Original P.I. Novel