A Gabe Wager Mystery — by Rex Burns

• 1975
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Detective Gabriel Wager of the Denver Police Department is very interested in the Rare Things Import Shop. He's working on a tip that 500 to 1000 pounds of marijuana is coming into Denver each week, using the shop as a front. Its' owner, a little o...

• 1977
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"Just say no" just won't do when Detective Gabe Wager has to go undercover as a junkie to trap a powerful drug dealer. To bring in a man named Farnsworth, a dealer who thinks he's so big that no one can touch him, Wager disguises himself as Gabriel V...

• Jun-1979
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The Denver detective is confronted with a severed head carefully placed in the city's Botanic Gardens, and not much else by way of clues....

• Jul-1979
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Assigned to investigate the ganglandstyle murder of young Frank Corvino, Gabriel Wager, a tough Chicano police detective, probes into mob affairs even though Corvino had no apparent link with organized crime...

• Mar-1983
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Homicide Detective Gabe Wager is faced with a murder that leads him from Denver to southwest Colorado and into the tangled and secretive relationships of polygamist cults. This novel was the basis of the Charles Bronson movie, "Messenger of Death."...

• Apr-1984
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The strip was never the safest place to work--and then the murders began The grisly slayings of two exotic dancers were shocking even on Denver's strip, where topless bars, all-night diners, and furtive street life were the norm. Detective Gabe Wa...

• Jun-1986
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Asked by an old rodeo rider to look into the activities of his sons, Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager and his girl friend Jo Fabrizio take a vacation in Western Colorado. The resulting investigation leads them to discover modern crimes lurking in...

• May-1988
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Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager is confronted with the murder of a Black city councilman. When he learns that the victim has been stepping out with a white lady, Wager is under pressure to solve the delicate case before riot erupts....

• Apr-1993
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Denver homicide detective Gabe Wager follows a murder/arson into the world of ecoterrorists and finds himself caught up in a plot to destroy the Denver metropolitan area....

• Jul-1995
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Like many major cities, Denver, Colorado, is beset by gang violence: gunfights to decide who will have the right to sell drugs in a neighborhood, drive-by shootings for slights real or imagined, murders because someone is wearing the wrong color ... ...

• Jul-1997
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Jurisdictional disputes, competing agents - the F.B.I., the Bureau of Land Management, and Indian police - and the usual distrust of the citizens of small towns when it comes to dealing with folks from the "big city" combine to make Denver police det...