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    More Oddments

    By Bill Pronzini

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    More Oddments features fourteen more detective stories featuring characters such as Fergus O'Hara and the "Nameless" Detective. The stories included in this collection are:

    Fergus O'Hara, Detective
    Chip
    Opportunity
    A Craving for Originality
    One of Those Cases (A "Nameless Detective" Story)
    I Didn't Do It
    Quicker Than the Eye (with Michael Kurland)
    Angel of Mercy
    Connoisseur
    Mrs. Rakubian
    Smuggler's Island
    A Taste of Paradise
    Under the Skin
    Prose Bowl (with Barry N. Malzberg)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossroad Press
    Release dateJun 25, 2013
    ISBN9781301380435
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    Bill Pronzini

    Bill Pronzini has published seventy-nine novels, thirty-eight of which feature the Nameless Detective, Americas longest-running PI series, begun in 1971. He is also the author of four nonfiction books and three hundred fifty short stories, and the editor of numerous anthologies. Among his many awards is the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, presented in 2008—a distinction he shares with his wife, crime novelist Marcia Muller, the 2005 Grand Master recipient. The couple lives in Northern California.

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