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Lucky
Dog and Other Tales of Murder
A collection of nine of Dick's short stories, including
Lucky Dog, Rappin' Dog and Mad Dog (featuring series
characters Leo Bloodworth and Serendipity Dahlquist), Get
the Message (featuring Terry Manion), Murder at the Mardi
Gras and A Murder of Import (featuring J.J. Legendre) and
Sad-Eyed Blonde, Vampire Dreams and A Tough
Case to Figure.
"These wonderful short stories remind us of how subtle and
incisive a writer Lochte is; he can create a credible
character with a few strokes and then proceed to tickle and
dazzle us into believing we've known this person all our
lives." -- The Chicago Tribune |
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SPECIAL!
KINDLE EDITION:
RAPPIN’ DOG: A Leo and Serendipity Short
In this short assignment, PI Leo Bloodworth and his
associate, teenager Serendipity Dahlquist, are hired to keep
world famous rapper, B.A. “Big Apple” Dawg, from harm. But
things don’t always go as planned.
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Orange County Noir, edited by Gary Phillips
Dick's story, The Movie Game, finds a late night cab driver
in Laguna Niguel trying to keep his beautiful blonde
passenger safe from two carloads of syndicate killers. |
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Hollywood and Crime, edited by Robert Randisi
In Dick's Devil Dog, private detective Leo Bloodworth starts
out looking for evidence of demonic
possession in Los Angeles and winds up tracking down caviar
smugglers and a murderer. |
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A
Prisoner of Memory, edited by Ed Gorman & Martin H.
Greenberg
Dick's story Devil Dog was selected as one of the Year's 25
best crime and mystery
stories. |
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Murder Most Feline, edited by Ed Gorman, Martin H.
Greenberg & Larry Segriff
Dick's short tale Catnip features New Orleans prosecuting
attorney Billy Quinlan and his wife Jenny, a former cat
burglar. Billy's trying his first murder case and Jenny
decides to fall back on her old skills to help.
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Creature Cozies, edited by Jill M. Morgan
In this collection of stories with pets, Dick's Diamond Dog
follows Leo Bloodworth and Serendipity
Dahlquist as they search for the murderer of a mean-spirited
noir novelist named Diamond Jack Barker who has tried to
steal an animal shelter dog Serendipity had picked for Leo's
birthday gift. |
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The
Best American Mystery Stories 2004, edited by Nelson
DeMille
Dick's story about the aftermath of a bank robbery, Low
Tide, originally appeared in the collection Flesh and Blood:
Guilty as Sin, edited by Max Allan Collins and Jeff Gelb. |
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Opening Shots: Volume Two, edited by Lawrence Block
Included is Medford & Son, Dick's first short story, about a
spy with a very limited future. It appeared originally in
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. |
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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, edited by Byron
Preiss
As part of Chandler's centennial celebration, Dick was one
of twenty-five authors asked to write an original story
featuring private detective Philip Marlowe. Set in 1940,
Sad-Eyed Blonde is a sequel to Chandler's story Goldfish. |
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