W. Glenn Duncan

Rafferty

1 - Rafferty's Rules (Aug-1987)
2 - Last Seen Alive (Nov-1987)
3 - Poor Dead Cricket (May-1988)
4 - Wrong Place, Wrong Time (Jun-1989)
5 - Cannon's Mouth (May-1990)
6 - Fatal Sisters (Oct-1990)
7 - False Gods (Jul-2018)
8 - Wright & Wrong (Mar-2020)

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  Rafferty's Rules
  

  • Aug-1987
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  Rafferty - 1
  

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  Rafferty's Rule 23: You show me a man who always fights fair and I'll show you a man who loses too often.

  Fifteen years ago, Rafferty saved Vivian Mollison from a crazed junkie who tried to blow her head off.

  A lot has changed since t...

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  Last Seen Alive
  

  • Nov-1987
  • / Private Investigator
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  Rafferty - 2
  

  Rafferty. Tough. Clever. Cynical. An ex-cop, a deadly shot, a man who plays by his own rules. As comfortable in big-bucks Dallas as he is on the violent prairies five minutes out of town. Steady date: sexy antique dealer Hilda Gardner. Good buddy: Co...

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  Poor Dead Cricket
  

  • May-1988
  • / Private Investigator
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  Rafferty - 3
  

  Rafferty's Rule 39: Smiting the wicked sounds biblical, but mostly it's just good clean fun. Cricket Dawes is dead, and an explosive corporate dossier is in the wind. It's not the first time Rafferty's had a case wit...

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  Wrong Place, Wrong Time
  

  • Jun-1989
  • / Private Investigator
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  Rafferty - 4
  

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  Rafferty's Rule 19: When you can't tell the bad guys from the good guys, it's time to get the hell out.

  It hurts to admit it, but Toby Wells played Rafferty like a bar-room fiddle, and Luis Ortega is dead. And while the cops know Rafferty d...

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  Cannon's Mouth
  

  • May-1990
  • / Private Investigator
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  Rafferty - 5
  

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  Rafferty's Rule 20: Any hunch so strong that it hurts just has to be right.

  It's not a typical day when Rafferty gets mistaken for a hitman. Always the altruist, Rafferty tries to warn the intended victim, only to find someone has beaten hi...

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  Fatal Sisters
  

  • Oct-1990
  • / Private Investigator
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  Rafferty - 6
  

  Naive housewife Patty Akister believes he missing husband is a 'secret agent' on a 'mission.' Jaded P.I. Rafferty believes otherwise, but he?s not about to burst the lady's bubble. The way Rafferty sees it, what Patty Akister doesn't know won't hurt ...

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  False Gods
  

  • Jul-2018
  • / Private Investigator
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  Rafferty - 7
  

  Teenager Kimberly has run away from home.Rafferty can do this one with his eyes closed; he’ll have her back by dinner-time.Hiding somewhere in the Texas desert is a twisted cult leader with a very different idea …Teenaged student Kimberly Troupe ...

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  Wright & Wrong
  

  • Mar-2020
  • / Private Investigator
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  Rafferty - 8
  

  He was told to focus on school.No-one thought he'd do it through a rifle scope...Bradley Wright and two other high-schoolers opened fire on their classmates.Rafferty watched from his office window as the horror unfolded.Too close to turn away. Too fa...

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  Down The Barrel
  

  • Feb-2022
  • / Thriller
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  Steady now. Focus.Look down the barrel. Breathe out. Relax.When I count to three: Start shooting. One... Two... London Baines has it all.His 'real-life' TV show. All the money he'll ever need-thanks to his wealthy father, Herbert.And someone hidi...

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Award-Winning Books by W. Glenn Duncan

Fatal Sisters
1990 Shamus Award -- Paperback Original P.I. Novel