John Farrow
1) Lady jail
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"Quebec, 1994. Fraud artist Abigail, the newest arrival at the Joliette Institution for Women, is struggling to adjust to the prison's communal quarters. Her fellow inmates only give out the bare bones of their crimes, and it's quite the roll call. Doi took a hatchet to her own daughter. Malka poisoned her husband. And that's just for starters. Abigail keeps her head down, does her best to make friends with the band of killers, tries to survive. But...
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"A co-ed is found murdered on campus, her body scarcely touched. The killer paid meticulous attention to the aesthetics of his crime. Coincidentally (or not), a college custodian is also found dead. While an epic rainstorm assails the Holyoake, New Hampshire campus, overflowing rivers and taking down power lines, a third crime scene is revealed: a professor, formerly a spy, has been shot dead in his home. A mysterious note is found that warned him...
3) Roar back
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"Montreal, 1978. Newly promoted Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars attends the scene of seventeen break-ins at an apartment complex. Nothing more than stolen toasters. Cinq-Mars suspects that the burglaries are a trial run for a bigger heist . . . until he discovers a body pinned to a wall with a machete in one apartment. When the former captain of Night Patrol, Armand Touton, receives a tip from an undercover informant in the Mafia, Cinq-Mars is...
4) Ball park
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"Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously tough department of officers in charge of watching over the city as it sleeps - to the day shift. His old superior has seen to it that he's assigned to partner Yves Giroux, another ex-Night Patrol detective some say isn't on the 'up and up'. Getting in a house is easy for thief Quinn Tanner. The stress comes in getting out clean. On finding her getaway...
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Emile Cinq-Mars mysteries volume 4
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"On the day after a massive blizzard, two policemen are called to an isolated farm house ... in the middle of a pristine snow-blanketed field. Inside the lonely abode are two dead people. But there are no tracks in the snow leading either to the house or away. What happened here? Is this a murder/suicide case? Or will it turn into something much more sinister?"--
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Minotaur Books
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2016.
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English
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"In Seven Days Dead, a woman races in a small boat through a torrential sea storm to Grand Manan island, located off the coast of Maine. She is determined to reach her dying father's bedside. Meanwhile, detective Cinq-Mars is enjoying vacation with his wife on the island until he's caught up in the investigation of a murder. Long-held secrets start to emerge, and Cinq-Mars begins to wonder if the two deaths are related."--
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Statement about the core cause behind the continued dysfunction in Washington that must be addressed first before any Hope can return in people's minds again for the country to begin moving forward again towards a more perfect union, as the founders always envisioned America to advance progressively through the changing times ahead. There are immediate and lasting solutions for this president to act on now that will change course In America that we...
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Emile Cinq-Mars mysteries volume 1
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Random House
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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In Montreal, the part-Indian, part-French detective Emile Cinq-Mars investigates the murder of a police informer. The probe leads to a confrontation with motorcycle gangs and the Russian mafia.
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Film noir classic collection volume 3
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort, $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect. -- container.
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Exile Editions
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"In John Farrow's riveting 10th novel featuring his iconic detective Émile Cinq-Mars, an investigation into a peculiar rash of deaths, in which the elderly sitting up straight suddenly "pop off," lays bare the roots and intricacies of the opioid crisis. Retired from the Montreal Police Service, Cinq-Mars is tapped by a state trooper to look into deaths being booked as "natural causes." Should they perhaps be viewed differently, as suspicious? Cinq-Mars's...
12) Alias Nick Beal
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
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Sheed & Ward
Pub. Date
1950
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English
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The author has succeeded (by concentrating on what is really significant) in condensing into a single, continuous narrative, simple, readable and packed with interesting detail, all the most important material from the monumental standard histories, which run to about 100 volumes and to more than five million words.
16) The big clock
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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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A hotshot crime magazine editor inadvertently becomes the subject of a murder investigation after spending an evening with his boss' mistress.
17) John Paul Jones
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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John Paul Jones is the epic story of that historic encounter and of the man who inspired the growth of a mighty navy.
18) Hondo
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Hondo Lane is a despatch rider for the cavalry who encounters Angie Lowe, a woman living alone with her young son in the midst of hostile Apache territory. She presumes she is safe because the Apaches, under their chief Vittorio, have always left them alone. Later Hondo has a run-in with Angie's good-for-nothing husband and is forced to kill him. Vittorio captures Hondo and to save his life, Angie tells the Apache chief that he is her husband. In...
19) Wake Island
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Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"Based on the incredible true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault."
