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The NIMBY Factor

A Hackshaw Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

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Small town newspaper editor Elias Hackshaw is his usual irascible self when he becomes embroiled in Kirkville’s fight to keep the county from building its new landfill within town limits. The NIMBY forces—Not In My Back Yard—are united against the proposal, and against Hackshaw when, in an editorial in the Triton Advertiser, he comes out in favor of the project. It doesn’t help matters when it gets out that Hack has an ulterior motive for his support; a chance to move and rehabilitate—at a tidy profit—an historic house that sits on the proposed landfill property. In an attempt to appease the NIMBY crowd, Hack agrees to interview crotchety Elton Venable, the head honcho of a group calling itself KRUDD—Kirkville Residents United to Defeat the Dump. Alas, Hack shows up for the interview only to find Venable as stiff as the floorboards he’s sprawled out on. Murdered, naturally. And, naturally, Hackshaw immediately becomes everybody’s favorite suspect.

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0595212921

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The Jericho Flower

A Hackshaw Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

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The Jericho Flower

A Hackshaw Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

Returning for his fourth misadventure, small-town newspaperman and social gadfly Elias Hackshaw finds himself immersed in a mystery involving a dead con man and a missing gypsy princess with the improbable name of Bimbo Wanka. Through no fault of his own—well, almost none—Hack becomes a suspect in the case when the cops mistakenly conclude that he was an acquaintance of the murdered con artist. Meanwhile, Bimbo's parents turn up on Hack's doorstep demanding he turn over their missing daughter, or face a gypsy curse. To add to the mayhem, a local industrialist is badgering Hackshaw to oversee a major renovation to his monstrosity of a house, and Hack's sister Ruth is hectoring him to forget everything else and see to his duties as editor of The Triton Advertiser. Trapped by circumstance, Hack begins poking into things and soon discovers a circus assortment of off-beat characters: gypsies in cowboy hats, a con man with a conscience, a sheriff's investigator without a heart—or a brain—ham-fisted townies, and much, much more. Only a strong survival instinct, and his usual portion of dumb luck, can save Hackshaw this time around. “Wilcox spins an entertaining yarn of murder and mayhem…With a credible plot and eccentric characters that adroitly avoid being mere caricatures, Wilcox offers a semi-cozy mystery—uncloying, clever and far from brutal.”—Publishers Weekly “Wilcox is an absolutely first-rate writer…The Jericho Flower is a well-crafted, imaginative tale that this reader wished could go on for much longer. It's a great read…”—Midwest Book Review “The Jericho Flower is a surprising, deep, amusing, and character driven mystery that will keep you on your toes…It's a mystery that keeps you hanging until the very end, an unlikely hero who will keep you laughing, and a full range of characters that opens you up to small town life…a most involved and amusing mystery from this very talented author.”—All About Murder

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0595215092

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9780595215096

All the Dead Heroes

A T.S.W. Sheridan Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

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All the Dead Heroes

A T.S.W. Sheridan Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

Crime reporter T.S.W. Sheridan investigates the troubled life—and untimely death—of one of his boyhood idols from the 1960s, baseball legend Frank Wooley. The second black player to play for the New York Yankees, Wooley's outspokenness on civil rights and labor issues -- and a reputation for womanizing and gambling -- had forced him from the game he loved. For twenty years he's lived the life of a recluse on a secluded piece of land tucked away in upstate New York's Finger Lakes region. Now, only weeks before his controversial induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Wooley is savagely murdered and Sheridan is determined to find out why.

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0595212913

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9780595212910

The Twenty-Acre Plot

A Hackshaw Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

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The Twenty-Acre Plot

A Hackshaw Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

In his inaugural adventure, Elias Hackshaw, the wry and irascible editor of a small-town upstate New York weekly newspaper, finds himself reluctantly investigating the death of a local farmer. Hack’s half-hearted snooping soon leads him to unscrupulous land developers, then to an eccentric millionaire, angry Indians, and, finally, a scheme (his own) to use old Iroquois artifacts to “salt” an archeological dig—but only as a way to lure the killer out into the open, he assures us. Any personal gain on Hackshaw’s part is, ahem, strictly serendipitous.

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0595212964

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9780595212965

The Hidden Men

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

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The Hidden Men

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

Many well-known sleuths are at work on these challenging cases, including: Stacy Champagne, who solves mysteries at her family's grand hotel in the mountains of Silver Ridge, Colorado: Justin Cobb, a bicycle messenger in a big city; and Ann Keltry, the owner of a small bookstore in Edinburg, Scotland, who solves mysteries on the side.

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NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company

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0809206056

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9780809206056

The Painted Lady

A Hackshaw Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

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The Painted Lady

A Hackshaw Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

With his eye for the ladies and his knack for Victorian house restorations, how can Elias Hackshaw resist when the beautiful Hester DelGado asks him to help with the renovation of her “painted lady” in Port Erie? Upstate New York’s most irascible and astute weekly newspaper editor, however, is also one of its biggest gadflies and snoops. Before he knows what’s happening, Hackshaw has jumped with both feet into a controversy (over Hester’s garishly painted house) and then into a murder investigation (of a wayward girl who lived with Hester), both of which are at the heart of a complicated scam. And this time, Hack had no part in the clever con job – but try convincing the local police chief and his brawling young deputy, who just happens to be the dead girl’s boyfriend. Toss in a hapless town drunk, a furious boat race down the Erie Canal, and an assortment of quirky small-town characters, and once again you have the elements for a top-drawer comic mystery.

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0595212905

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9780595212903

The Hard Time Cafe

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

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The Hard Time Cafe

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

Joan Lowery Nixon, president of the Mystery Writers of America, has found 10 well-known writers to craft spellbinding stories for adults who want to read but have undeveloped reading skills. Here are stories with adult themes and interests that challenge adult minds. All of the books in the series are written at the fourth-sixth-and eighth-grade reading levels, yet offer characters, situations, and concerns appropriate for adult readers.

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NTC Business Books

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0809206021

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The Green Mosaic

A T.S.W. Sheridan Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

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The Green Mosaic

A T.S.W. Sheridan Mystery

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

Green terrorists, big lumber, and the local law are all at odds with T.S.W. Sheridan as he probes the death of a beautiful environmentalist named Glenny Oldham. Old flames, new jealousies, the age-old hostilities between the forces of progress and preservation – where do the lies end and the truth begin? A twisting trail through northern New York’s rugged Adirondack Mountains leads Sheridan to Glenny’s killer, but not before he deals with a barroom brawl with the town bully, a near-miss in the deep woods, and enough red herrings to fill any angler’s stringer.

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0595212948

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9780595212941

Niagara Fall

A Novel of Crime and Comedy

By: Stephen F. Wilcox

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Niagara Fall

A Novel of Crime and Comedy

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Slowly I turned...page after page." Niagara Fall, with its edgy mix of sly humor and sudden, matter-of-fact violence, is a different kind of crime novel for Stephen F. Wilcox, author of the Elias Hackshaw comic mystery novels. Amateur hit men, not-so-wise guys, and gals with guns and comfortable shoes cross paths with a love-lorn ex-monk toting an empty camera and a falls fetish, in America's honeymoon capital. The action begins with a suburban housewife deciding to hire a novice hit man to knock off her insurance man husband, setting off a chain-reaction of mistaken identities, dishonor among thieves, misbegotten romance, and, ultimately, murder. And more murder. From the notorious Love Canal neighborhood to the precipice of the famous falls itself, Niagara Fall will keep you guessing, keep you gasping, keep you laughing, and keep you reading to the very last page. "Wilcox...can write a wonderfully crusty, wry turn of phrase." —Kirkus Reviews

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0595221467

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Book's by Stephen F. Wilcox

The NIMBY Factor

The NIMBY Factor

The Jericho Flower

The Jericho Flower

All the Dead Heroes

All the Dead Heroes

The Twenty-Acre Plot

The Twenty-Acre Plot

The Hidden Men

The Hidden Men

The Painted Lady

The Painted Lady

The Hard Time Cafe

The Hard Time Cafe

The Green Mosaic

The Green Mosaic

Niagara Fall

Niagara Fall

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