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NON-STATE SPECIAL OPERATIONS

IAN RICE / CRAIG WHITESIDE

This book examines how violent non-state actors (VNSAs) emulate and develop military special operation capabilities. Building on previous research on Islamic State special operations, the book develops a theoretical framework surrounding a typology of VNSA (militants, proxies, criminal/cults, and mercenaries) to explore variations of non-state special operations, with multiple ...

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TO CATCH A THIEF

CRAIG RICE

A mysterious Robin Hood targets Wall Street titans in this "exciting " novel by the author of the John J. Malone Mysteries ( The Cincinnati Enquirer). Thanks to a financial scheme by a small circle of very rich men, countless people have suffered. Now one man intends to make the Wall Street moguls pay. He hovers on the edges of their social events, where their wives and daugh...

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THE WRONG MURDER

CRAIG RICE

A cynical Chicago attorney butts heads with a beautiful killer socialite—from "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction" (William Ruehlmann). Press agent Jake Justus doesn't care if all of Chicago drops dead. He's just tied the knot with debutante Helene Brand, and a Bermuda honeymoon is only three in-flight martinis away. But the shooting death of a man in broad daylight, on ...

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KNOCKED FOR A LOOP

CRAIG RICE

Being framed for murder is the least of a Chicago attorney's problems in this dizzying thriller by "the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" (Ed Gorman). Attorney John J. Malone, steadfast barfly and proud defender of the guilty, has a lot enemies, but few more formidable than Chicago financier and anti-vice crusader Leonard Estapole. So it doesn't look good whe...

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45 MURDERERS

CRAIG RICE

From Hollywood's Black Dahlia to the Arkansas Bluebeard: an anthology of true crime profiles by "the grand dame of mystery" (Ed Gorman). Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of...

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THE BIG MIDGET MURDERS

CRAIG RICE

It's murder backstage for a cynical Chicago attorney—from "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction" (William Ruehlmann). It's part casino, part nightclub, and part circus. For its new owners, Jake Justus and his socialite wife, Helene, it's also a gamble. Luckily they have Jay Otto. Next to a bouncy burlesque bit, Otto's high-wire act is the hottest draw in the joint. But the...

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BUT THE DOCTOR DIED

CRAIG RICE

A Chicago lawyer gets swept up in a conspiracy of spies, double-crosses, brainwashing, and murder. Defense attorney John J. Malone may be a habitué of Windy City dive bars, but he's never lost his balance—until now. Not only is he shaken by the contract killing of his latest client, but one of his best friends, socialite Helene Justus, is turning into a complete stranger. A...

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CRIME ON MY HANDS

CRAIG RICE

" The Dorothy Parker of detective fiction" (William Ruehlmann) ghostwrites for silver-screen sleuth George Sanders in this "thriller with laughs on the side" ( New York Herald-Tribune). The snarky and debonair actor George Sanders (who would go on to win an Academy Award for his performance in All About Eve) has had enough of playing a B-movie detective in the Falcon film ser...

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THE MAN WHO SLEPT ALL DAY

CRAIG RICE

A weekend getaway among friends becomes an occasion for murder in this "entertaining tantalizer" of a whodunit ( Kirkus Reviews). Eccentric brothers Frank and George Faulkner are hosting a weekend house party at the legendary Ravensmoor estate. The guests include a pair of struggling newlyweds, a brutal criminal attorney, a fading chorus girl, and a freeloading couple who liv...

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TRIAL BY FURY

CRAIG RICE

A Chicago lawyer must save his big-city friends from small-town corruption in this "triumphantly rowdy" mystery ( Time) that's also "exciting [and] hard as nails" ( The New Yorker). When club owner Jake Justus and his wife, Helene, flee a sweltering Chicago summer for rural Jackson County, Wisconsin, they expect sweet-as-apple-pie locals and calm lakes for fishing. Instead, t...

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EIGHT FACES AT THREE

CRAIG RICE

"The grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" introduces her popular, sharp-witted Chicago lawyer/sleuth (Ed Gorman, Ellery Queen Award–winning author). John J. Malone, defender of the guilty, is notorious for getting his culpable clients off. It's the innocent ones who are problems. Like Holly Inglehart, accused of piercing the black heart of her well-heeled and ty...

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HOME SWEET HOMICIDE

CRAIG RICE

From the "grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy": The children of a widowed mystery writer play amateur sleuths and matchmakers (Ed Gorman, Ellery Queen Award–winning author). When your mom's a mystery writer, a talent for detection is only natural. So when the three children of prolific whodunit author Marion Carstairs become material witnesses in a neighborhood ...

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HAVING WONDERFUL CRIME

CRAIG RICE

A Chicago attorney scours the Big Apple for a missing bride and a wedding-night murderer in a mystery that's "Miss Rice at her best" ( The New Yorker). On a break from the Windy City, aspiring crime novelist Jake Justus and his wife, Helene, are acquainting themselves with Manhattan's finest cocktail lounges when they befriend Dennis Morrison, a blind-drunk groom. The handsom...

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THE SUNDAY PIGEON MURDERS

CRAIG RICE

Two New York City street photographers develop a deadly get-rich-quick scheme in this novel from "the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" (Ed Gorman). Resourceful Bingo Riggs and his partner, Handsome Kusak, are in the sucker-bait business, snapping candid pics of tourists off Central Park. Their fly-by-night enterprise can be irresistible to souvenir lovers, b...

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THE CORPSE STEPS OUT

CRAIG RICE

A Chicago cad blackmails a torch singer in this thriller: "Why can't all murders be as funny as those concocted by Craig Rice?" ( The New York Times) Radio star Nelle Brown is known coast-to-coast for her sweet and sultry voice. But her press agent and manager, Jake Justus, is familiar with another side of the darling of the airwaves: her crackpot marriage to a penniless tyco...

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THE NAME IS MALONE

CRAIG RICE

Ten stories featuring the Chicago attorney-turned-sleuth from " the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" (Ed Gorman). From suburban cocktail parties to music halls to the precarious ledge of a high-rise, Chicago attorney John J. Malone is willing to take on any case—as long as it'll pay his bar tab. In this ten-story collection of murder most offbeat, a weddin...

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INNOCENT BYSTANDER

CRAIG RICE

A midway murder sends a terrified eyewitness running for her life—from a cop, a con, and her own secrets—in this mystery by the author of the John J. Malone series. The best carnival barker in the business couldn't have drawn a crowd like the one now gathered around the Ferris wheel on the pier. In one of the cabs, still rocking with the ocean breeze, is a dead man—a bloody k...

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THE FOURTH POSTMAN

CRAIG RICE

For a Windy City attorney, the clues to a triple murder lie somewhere between the sinking of the Titanic and the dead letter office. Rodney Fairfaxx is influential and wealthy enough for his family to ignore the Chicago magnate's one little quirk: Ever since his sweetheart sank with the Titanic three decades ago, he's been anxiously awaiting her letter assuring him she's dry,...

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YESTERDAY'S MURDER

CRAIG RICE

From the author of the John J. Malone Mysteries: An estranged relative becomes heir to a Chesapeake Bay fortune—and his family's ghostly history. If it hadn't been for his great-uncle Philip, David Telefair would've grown up unwanted, forlorn, and poverty stricken in a New England parsonage. But for twenty years, David's generous benefactor paid for his education, yearly summ...

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THE RIGHT MURDER

CRAIG RICE

A dozen murders and counting—and any one of them could lead a Chicago attorney to a hotheaded female tycoon. It's 11:59 p.m. on New Year's Eve and criminal lawyer John J. Malone is nursing his blues in a Chicago dive bar. He's been two-timed by his inamorata and abandoned by his favorite gumshoe partners, crime reporter Jake Justus and socialite Helene Brand, for their Bermud...

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MY KINGDOM FOR A HEARSE

CRAIG RICE

A supermodel's beauty secrets trigger an ugly series of murders in this "pretty damn wonderful" mystery ( The New York Times). From her velvety voice to a pair of legs that say walk this way, Delora Deanne is the most divine creation ever put on earth to sell moisturizer. As Chicago attorney John J. Malone's new client, the notoriously reclusive model has requested a rare one...

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THE THURSDAY TURKEY MURDERS

CRAIG RICE

This Thanksgiving, two birds of a feather are about to get plucked— "Why can't all murders be as funny as those concocted by Craig Rice?" ( The New York Times) Former con-artist photographers Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak are en route from the grit of New York City to the glitter of Sunset Boulevard when their dreams are waylaid in a tragic roadside accident with an errant t...

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THE LUCKY STIFF

CRAIG RICE

Wrongly convicted of murder, a death-row chorus girl lives for revenge, in this novel from "the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" (Ed Gorman). Anna Marie St. Clair was a normal Wisconsin-farm-girl-turned-mistress when she was framed for the murder of her racketeer boyfriend, one of Chicago's sleaziest politicians. Sentenced to death, and only hours from getti...

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