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The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Hold'em Close #1

ISBN 13: 978-0-9892819-0-4

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Duke Denim jumps into action in the debut novella, Hold’Em Close. A missing socialite puts into motion a tale of deceit, uncontrollable fury, millions in insurance money, broken hearts, and broken jaws. From high brow restaurants to unfinished skyscrapers, Duke Denim uncovers a city full of secrets and why people want to Hold’em Close.

The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Silver Roses #2

ISBN 13: 978-0-9892819-1-1

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Duke Denim is back and the streets of Big City are tangled with murder and mystery. You better use a glove if you touch the sidewalks because they’re hot…just like the action. Beginning with a garden variety ghoulish sandlot surprise to an all-out green thumbed knuckle brawl, Duke is finding twice the questions, twice the peril, and twice the heartache in Big City. Danger is growing and it’s going to take the skills, strength, and wit of Duke Denim to mow it down. There is a Silver Rose growing in Big City and you better watch out for its thorns.

The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: High Notes, Low Blows #3

ISBN 13: 978-0-9892819-2-8

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The music business is a killer and nobody knows it better than Big City’s newest singer, Songbird Gates. Nervous nightclub owners…shifty agents…greedy gangsters…all stand in her way as she climbs the scales to stardom.

Duke Denim returns to take it to the flipside and finds out what puts the hit in a hit song. While Songbird belts out the high notes, Duke’s in for some low blows. It’s a calloused concert of crime and calamity. Duke better be sharp or somebody’s going to be flat.

The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe #4

ISBN 13: 978-0-9892819-3-5

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It's Amazing! It's Stupendous! It's Deadly!

Pennypincher's Travelling Circus and Spectacles has come to Big City with a carnivalistic cast of tumbling, troublesome, and treacherous fliers, fire breathers, funsters, and frauds.

See Duke Denim delve into the depts of deceit, danger, and diabolical damsels.

Be Amazed by the billowing barrage of busted chops and bombastic backstabbing.

Feel the frenzied fervor of flights of fatalistic fancy and furtive furried femme fatales.

The Troublesome Troupe is more than another case for Duke Denim...it is three rings of knuckle-bustin', clown-nose honkin', midway gamin', and crystal ballin'. Fortunes told...integrity sold...sights to behold. All this action...without a net!

The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Field of Headstones #5

ISBN 13: 978-0-9892819-5-9

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The greatest sleep begins here. These words are etched on the archway leading to Weedy Fields. A graveyard alive with a valuable secret and connivers willing to fill coffins just to get their hands on it. Shovelers…shavers…and mortuary misbehavers feloniously haunt the sacred grounds of Big City.

Duke Denim faces the ghosts of his past while trying to save the future of Big City. He marches alongside a processional of dead-eyes, dead-shots, and dead-ends as exhumed clues lead him from open graves to cold hands to shut mouths. When the gates are locked at Weedy Fields, is it to keep the truth out or to keep him in?

Big City’s number one private detective takes on his most soul-searching, soul-stirring, and sole-shaking case. One wrong move and he just might be first to receive last rites. Duke better watch his step when walking through a field of headstones.

The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Field of Headstones #5

ISBN 13: 978-0-9892819-5-9

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The greatest sleep begins here. These words are etched on the archway leading to Weedy Fields. A graveyard alive with a valuable secret and connivers willing to fill coffins just to get their hands on it. Shovelers…shavers…and mortuary misbehavers feloniously haunt the sacred grounds of Big City.

Duke Denim faces the ghosts of his past while trying to save the future of Big City. He marches alongside a processional of dead-eyes, dead-shots, and dead-ends as exhumed clues lead him from open graves to cold hands to shut mouths. When the gates are locked at Weedy Fields, is it to keep the truth out or to keep him in?

Big City’s number one private detective takes on his most soul-searching, soul-stirring, and sole-shaking case. One wrong move and he just might be first to receive last rites. Duke better watch his step when walking through a field of headstones.

The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim:

Old College Try #6

ISBN 13: 978-0-9892819-7-3

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When the Good Ol’ Days go bad.

Wave your green and gold pennants. Give a cheer. The Strivers College event of the year is here!

The most coveted award of Strivers College is up for grabs and a sneaky, selfish, and sinister scoundrel is seeking to snatch the prize. Alumni of old are defrauded, degraded, and deceived in a green and gold fog of decadence. The meaning of beloved Strivers Descant is choiristically challenged as chiseling college chums belt out a collegiate conspiratorial chant.

Duke Denim is the big man on campus as he reluctantly enters the hallowed halls of history and tradition. Presidents and attendants, roommates and athletes, coaches and cheerleaders, all are probable perpetrators from the pages in a yearbook of criminal calamity.

Class is in session and the hard lesson of who to trust will be on the test. Duke is going to have to give it the old college try and pull an all-nighter if he is to solve this case.

The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim:

Muttin But The Best #7

ISBN 13: 978-0-9892819-8-0

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Duke Denim has the scent and won’t stray too far from the trail to find the truth.

There’s a four-legged fortune running loose in Big City and a pack of pooch poachers are on the prowl to fetch the prize. The streets are filled with rabid rapacious rascals with fangs bared and sharpened claws ready to ensnare. From cage rattlin’ to zoo battlin’ to seaside hagglin’, danger is unleashed as lies start unravelin’.

Phony puppy love, a bitter litter, and more money than a Dalmatian has spots. Will Duke solve the case or is he just chasing his tail? He may be dog tired but there’s no time to paws for the cause. There’s nuttin’ some won’t do when they want Muttin’ But The Best!