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Post-life citizens Breath challenged vertically disadvantaged (buried, not short) Johnny Maxwell's new friends not appreciate the term "ghosts," but they are, well, dead. The town council wants to sell the cemetery, and its inhabitants aren't about to take that lying down! Johnny is the only one who can see them, and the previously alive need his help to save their home and their history. Johnny didn't mean to become the voice for the lifeless, but...
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One dark, drippy day, when Byron "Fergie" Ferguson gets bored, he wonders what the last book in the library is. What he finds past the last set of shelves is a battered black cover with the Dewey decimal number 99.99S and a title as red as blood-The Book of True Wishes by Jarmyn Thanatos. Even though Fergie is a good kid, he steals the book, setting off a chain of sinister events that threaten not only his life but the lives of his friends Johnny...
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Bruising Manhattan PI Johnny Amsterdam finds a twisty link between a debauched artist, a Hollywood glamour girl, a beatnik singer, and murder. When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From the 1940s through the 1960s, Lariar continued to switch from sketching caricatures to sketchy characters, writing hardboiled crime fiction under his...
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Johnny Amsterdam, Manhattan's toughest private dick, takes it hard when his favorite nightclub chanteuse books a playdate with murder. When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From the 1940s through the 1960s, Lariar continued to switch from sketching caricatures to sketchy characters, writing hardboiled crime fiction under his own name...
7) Blutschach
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Ein tödliches Spiel ...
Seit Hauptkommissar Johannes "Johnny" Thiebeck vom Dienst suspendiert ist, widmet er sich mit Leidenschaft dem Schachboxen. Als in seinem Auto eine Leiche auftaucht, wird Johnny in eine Mordserie verstrickt. Der Täter hat es auf Johnnys Freunde und Verwandte abgesehen. Aber was ist sein Motiv, und wie kann man ihn stoppen? Während Johnny versucht, den Mörder zu finden, eröffnet dieser eine perfide Partie Schach - denn...
8) Killerverse
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Das Schweigen der Schuld ...
Ein Serienmörder hat es auf die Mitglieder einer Reisegruppe abgesehen, die vor Jahren in Irland war. Er klebt seinen Opfern Augen, Nase und Mund zu und lässt sie jämmerlich ersticken. Neben den Leichen hinterlässt er Zeilen eines irischen Kinderreims.
Für die junge Berliner LKA-Beamtin Henni Herzog ist der Fall persönlich: Ihre Schwester hat damals auch an der Reise teilgenommen. Henni zieht den ehemaligen Kommissar...
9) Puppenruhe
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Die abgründige Seite Berlins ...
Der ehemalige Kommissar Johannes "Johnny" Thiebeck soll als verdeckter Ermittler in die Drogenszene von Berlin eintauchen. Zur gleichen Zeit geschehen bizarre Morde: Die Opfer werden gefoltert, verstümmelt und erst nach langem Leiden getötet. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass ein Bandenkrieg zwischen verfeindeten Drogenbossen eskaliert ist. Doch Johnny findet Hinweise darauf, dass die Drahtzieher möglicherweise ganz...
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A flu epidemic ushers in a plague of dark magic in this spooktastic mystery featuring teenage sleuth Johnny Dixon from The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost.
Though forty miles away, Duston Heights is not safe from the flu that's raging through Boston. When Johnny Dixon's grandmother falls ill, he's sent to live with his neighbor to avoid infection. So many locals are getting sick that school is canceled for a week, and the reclusive Dr. Abram Ashburn...
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Even "the best little ghost in the world" gets bored sometimes! But in the award-winning Johnny Boo series, fun is never far away. For instance, check out this magic hammer... Johnny Boo lets Squiggle borrow his magic hammer so Squiggle can work on a mysterious project, but that leaves Johnny Boo with nothing to do today. He has lots of great ideas about how to spend his time while he waits, but - oh NO! - ends up getting bored of each and every...
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Embark on a thrilling journey through the memoirs of Johnny Two Kebabs, the legendary 'conscious vigilante,' in this gripping trilogy of novellas. In the first instalment, "From Russia With Chilli And Garlic Sauce," Johnny uncovers a sinister plot involving a Russian assassination. As he delves deep into the conspiracy, he must navigate a treacherous web of lies and deceit. In the second novella, "How I Found The G Spot," Johnny takes on a different...
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