The Sanibel Sunset Detective — by Ron Base

• Dec-2010
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Tree Callister is not much of a private detective.His first client just turned up at the door and he's twelve years old. What's more, the kid has the grand total of seven dollars with which to hire Tree to find his mother.Everyone on Sanibel Island i...

• Nov-2011
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Private detective Tree Callister is in big trouble.

For starters, a towering, baseball bat-wielding woman appears to be intent on killing him.

Then the beautiful wife of a disgraced media mogul hires Tree because she believes her husba...

• Dec-2012
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Welcome to Tree Callister's Sanibel Island...

Meet some of his friends.

THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN. She tries to seduce Tree in Paris and Key West-and she may be trying to kill him on Sanibel Island.

TWO SHADY CHARACTERS. A former ...

• Nov-2013
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Joshua and Madison are pretty smart kids. Except they have no idea what their father does for a living. They suspect the worst. That's where Private Detective Tree Callister comes in. Josh and Madi want him to find out what their father does, and why...

• Nov-2014
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WANTED! A big, floppy-eared hound dog. Answers to the name of Clinton. The FBI wants him. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is hunting for him. All sorts of bad guys are willing to kill each other for him. What Private Detective Tree Callister can't ...

• Nov-2015
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How does one detective end up married four times? A good question. Private detective Tree Callister wishes he had the answer. All he knows is that his three former wives have arrived on Sanibel Island off the west coast of Florida, much to the chagri...

• May-2016
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What's the Sanibel Sunset Detective doing in London?

Tree Callister and his wife Freddie are in town to attend the wedding of Freddie's nephew. It promises to be a relaxing time, visiting family, seeing London's historic sites.

So then...

• Oct-2016
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Private Detective Tree Callister thinks he's dying. He could be right. Humphrey Bogart doesn't give him much hope. A floppy-eared hound dog named Clinton insists on talking to him. Meanwhile, a mysterious list sends Tree and his wife Freddie from ...

• Oct-2017
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There is nothing like a dame.

Particularly when she's an improbable heroine like Freddie Stayner. Ordinarily, it's her husband, Tree Callister, a private detective on Sanibel Island, off the west coast of Florida, who gets into all the troub...

• Sep-2018
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TOP FIVE WAYS A DETECTIVE GETS HIMSELF KILLED ON SANIBEL ISLAND... 1. Drive a Mercedes off a bridge. 2. Incur the wrath of a couple of shady Hollywood producers who think you once wrote the worst script ever written. 3. Find a dead body on a golf c...

• Sep-2019
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His Head Will Roll.Somebody on Sanibel Island wants Tree Callister's head.It could be one of the two hoodlums threatening his life.Maybe it's his ex-wife, America's first female Russian oligarch.One thing is certain. Tree had better find the missing ...

• Aug-2020
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Beat the Devil!Two boys are caught in the midst of a raging nighttime storm on a Sanibel Island beach. Then lightning strikes and for those boys nothing will ever be the same.One of the youths is Tree Callister who grows up to be an unlikely private ...

• Aug-2021
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American astronaut Becky McPhee is experiencing the euphoria of her first spacewalk as she makes repairs to the International Space Station when she hears...A Voice...Returning to earth, Becky announces that the Voice has told her the planet will cea...

• Mar-2023
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The Sanibel Sunset Detective is back-and he's in bigger trouble than ever!The last thing Tree Callister wants is to get involved in the movie that is being shot on Sanibel Island. But the film deals with the Hollywood life of his best pal, Rex Baxter...

• Nov-2024
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Tree Callister is leaving Sanibel Island!Sanibel's most unlikely private detective has decided to call it a day. Battered by hurricanes, their Captiva home in ruins, Tree and his wife Freddie are moving to Chicago. Just before he leaves, Tree gets a ...