David Handler
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Series
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English
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"A 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud is a fantastically expensive car, especially in the pristine condition of the one owned by Muriel Cantrell. Living in a luxury apartment building on Central Park West, the delicate, sweet 75-year-old woman is a neighbor of Merilee Nash, the beautiful movie star, and Stuart Hoag, whose first book was a sensation but whose career crashed when he became involved with drugs and alcohol. Divorced ten years earlier, Hoagy...
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
A new resident of wealthy Dorset, Connecticut, New York film critic Mitch Berger finds himself investigating a homicide when the daughter of famed American sculptor Hangtown Frye is found murdered.
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Mitch Berger has been accepted at least on the surface by some of the posh families in the small enclave to which he's moved - even his open affair with the beautiful black policewoman is looked upon peaceably. But when a member of the small group of men who gather for early-morning walks is found dead, the subsequent investigation, involving both Mitch and Desiree, opens a very large container of personal evil that has no place in any society.
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Les plans a high-profile gala to welcome ninety-four-year-old icon Ada Geiger's return to the area, filled with Hollywood celebrities, supermodels, and high-profile athletes, hoping to boost sales at the inn, but his event is downsized by a blizzard, which makes it even easier for Des and Mitch to track down a guest is really a murderer in disguise.
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Police officer Desiree Mitry is considering New York film critic Mitch Berger's marriage proposal, and the two just might be able to come to an agreement if they can solve the latest puzzle--the death of a homeless man in Dorset.
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Series
Berger and Mitry volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002, ©2001.
Language
English
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Desiree Mitry is furious to discover that a major drug cartel has been operating in Dorset, Connecticut, right under her nose. Matters escalate when a troubled Sour Cherry Lane resident turns up dead. Desiree pursues the case in her own way. The problem is that her way gets her in way too deep. And there's only person who can possibly get her out--New York film critic Mitch Berger.
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Under pressure to capture a flasher who has been targeting wealthy women in the Dorset Historic District, police officer Desiree Mitry becomes convinced about the culprit's identity and is wrongly accused of murder when her suspect turns up dead after a heated public confrontation.
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Series
Stewart Hoag mysteries volume 10
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the next novel in David Handler's Edgar award-winning series, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and his beloved basset hound, Lulu, investigate a murder in a fabled Connecticut summer playhouse. Hollywood ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has chronicled the rise, fall, and triumphant return of many a celebrity. At last he's enjoying his own, very welcome second act. After hitting a creative slump following the success of his debut novel, Hoagy has found inspiration...
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Series
Berger and Mitry volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Every year, the Gant family performs an annual ritual desecrating the tomb of Aurora Bing. The Gants have held a grudge against the legendary silent film star for almost eighty years, but for Shem Gant and his son, things have become personal. Aurora's only grandchild, Hubie Swope, has shut down Shem's notoriously rowdy beachfront bar, and refuses to allow The Pit to reopen until Shem undertakes expensive upgrades. This means war. And when The Pit...
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Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 9
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Three blizzards have blanketed the village in forty inches of snow. Bryce Peck, Mitch's blue-blooded neighbor out on Big Sister Island, has just been found dead of a drug overdose. Young Kylie Champlain has slammed her car head-on into an office building after she's caught trying to shoplift a pair of Ugg boots. And a grinch has taken to stealing the mail from Hank Merrill's postal route, which happens to be the main route through the historic district....
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry volume 10
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The historic New England village of Dorset has actually elected a living, breathing woman as its First Selectman. And now she's about to undertake the Historic District's biggest public works project in a generation--the widening and re-grading of Dorset Street. The job has needed doing for ages but the previous First Selectman, Bob Paffin, always opposed it. So did a lot of Dorset's blue-blooded old guard. The long put-off dig uncovers a body buried...
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Series
Stewart Hoag mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After six glorious weeks of hard work on his long-overdue second novel, celebrity-ghostwriter Stewart 'Hoagy' Hoag has hit a crossroads in his plot. He thinks a change of scenery will do him good--and he knows just the place. His ex-wife, the actress Merilee Nash, has offered him the use of her idyllic Connecticut farmhouse, while she's away shooting a movie in Budapest. Hoagy and his beloved basset hound Lulu settle in for a few days' rest and relaxation....
Author
Series
Benji Golden volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Benji Golden works in his family's struggling mom-and-pop business above a twenty-four-hour diner: Golden Legal Services, a private detective agency. Benji specializes in tracking down teen runaways. One day, when a lawyer in fancy shoes arrives from Park Avenue's classiest law firm offering a job and lots of money, Benji and his mother can't say no. Bruce Weiner, a senior at prestigious Canterbury College has gone missing.
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Series
Stewart Hoag mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©1991.
Language
English
Description
Hoagy and his neurotic basset hound trek to a ancestral Virginia home to ghost write a literary sequel and finds a freak series of deaths.
Author
Series
Stewart Hoag mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©1992.
Language
English
Description
This time, celebrity ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is caught in the middle of the biggest, ugliest divorce war in Hollywood history. The tabloids are calling it the House of Wax. The public can't get enough of it. In one corner is Matthew Wax, reclusive millionaire director of five out of the top ten blockbusters in movie history. In the other is his breathtaking leading lady, Pennyroyal Brim--America's sweetheart. Pretty Penny wants their son,...
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Series
Stewart Hoag mysteries volume 11
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Washed-up celebrity ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag has finally rediscovered his voice and is making progress on what he hopes will be his long-awaited second novel. Burrowed up in his less-than-luxurious, sweltering fifth floor walk-up, he tries not to think of the disparities between himself and his ex-wife, celebrity actress Merilee Nash, who is sifting through film offers - and also her fickle feelings for Hoagy - from her elegant eight-room...
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
""Series fans will have fun catching up with the latest twists in the always interesting relationship of this interracial couple."--Publishers Weekly on The Shimmering Blond Sister When a famously volatile and suspended NFL superstar linebacker and his entourage decide to spend his season in exile in bucolic Dorset--much to the dismay of his early-to-bed, ultra-white neighbors--Des Mitry is put on the spot. And when his 17-year-old sister-in-law washes...
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Series
Stewart Hoag mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is walking on cloud nine after a meeting with his editor, Norma Fives, where she predicts his new book is sure to establish him as the next great American author. It has been years since he has even dreamed of such success after a crippling case of writer's block limited his literary aspirations to ghostwriting celebrity memoirs. But his happiness is short-lived when at his next meeting with Norma she asks for his help in discovering...
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Series
Stewart Hoag mysteries volume 14
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this new installment of the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series, the ghostwriting sleuth investigates a trail of murder amidst Hollywood's rich and famous. Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag hasn't written any fiction since his debut novel rocked the literary world of the 1980s and then left him with a paralyzing case of writer's block. Since then, he's been reduced to ghostwriting celebrity memoirs. But his newest project could have him diving...