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The Nail Knot: A Fly Fishing Mystery

By: Galligan, John

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Madison, WI, Bleak House Books: 2005

Seller ID: AB00212

ISBN: 1932557113

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

(Description) First paperback printing. *** (Synopsis) Fly fisherman Ned Oglivie (Dog to his friends), has every intention of fishing Black Earth, Wisconsin for a few relaxing days before moving his RV to the next stop. Then he finds a dead body, and a whole small town of suspects. When all he wants to do is get out of town, it seems he can't move an inch. This marks the first installment in a series of murder mysteries starring the Dog by author John Galligan.
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The Blood Knot: A Fly Fishing Mystery

By: Galligan, John

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Madison, WI, Bleak House Books: 2005

Seller ID: AB00357

ISBN: 1932557121

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(Synopsis) Ned Dog Oglivie, the hero of Madison author John Galligan's first mystery, The Nail Knot, has taken to heart the bumper sticker When the going gets tough, the tough go fishing. Now the Dog is back in Wisconsin, in the heart of Amish country. All is going well until he's bitten by a beaver. Well, that and the fact that a local artist has been murdered. Half-drunk and completely feral, the Dog avoids getting sucked in, but sometimes the pull is too strong.
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The Clinch Knot

By: Galligan, John

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Madison, WI, Bleak House Books: 2008

Seller ID: AB00388

ISBN: 1606480030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(Synopsis) The Dog is in Livingston, Montana, daydreaming about fishing the 'Stone and, as usual, subsisting on Swisher Sweets, vodka-Tang, and the hope that pretending to forget will be enough. He's forged a few tenuous friendships, and now finds himself watching from the bank as troubled local girl Jesse Ringer leads D'Ontario Sneed into the swift current of young love. It's sweet, really . but some of the locals object to the relationship on the basis of Sneed's skin color. Then the unthinkable: vibrant, wild Jesse is found shot in the head, and Sneed is passed out in her car, gun beside h...
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The Nail Knot: A Fly Fishing Mystery

By: Galligan, John

Price: $38.95

Publisher: Madison, WI, Bleak House Books: 2003

Seller ID: AB00437

ISBN: 1932557024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(Synopsis) Fly fisherman Ned Oglivie (Dog to his friends), has every intention of fishing Black Earth, Wisconsin for a few relaxing days before moving his RV to the next stop. Then he finds a dead body, and a whole small town of suspects. When all he wants to do is get out of town, it seems he can't move an inch. This marks the first installment in a series of murder mysteries starring the Dog by author John Galligan.
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The Wind Knot

By: Galligan, John

Price: $59.95

Publisher: Madison, WI, Tyrus Books: 2011

Seller ID: AB00922

ISBN: 1935562304

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

(Synopsis) After five years of self-imposed exile on the rivers of America, trout bum Ned ôDogö Oglivie has burned his waders and hat, given away his rod, and turned his Cruise Master RV away from the famous Hemingway water in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, bound for reconciliation with his past. But some men never make it home.
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Crosses To Bear

By: Gordon, M. W.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Charleston, SC, Swift Creeks Press: 2012

Seller ID: AB01306

ISBN: 0984872329

Binding: Softcover

Condition: As New

(Synopsis) When Macduff Brooks and his two clients approached the takeout at the end of a day's float on the Yellowstone River, they saw Brook's trailer wasn't lined up with the others the Shuttle Gals service had moved that morning. The trailer had been backed into the river and a woman’s body was nailed to a large wooden cross strapped to the trailer. Mexican drug boss's sister and new Paradise Valley ranch owner Victoria Montoya was the first of three obvious suspects. Another was Helga Markel, a black-leathered, heavy-metaled, twenty-something member of PARA (People Against Recreational ...
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Deadly Drifts; A Macduff Brooks Mystery

By: Gordon, M. W.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Charleston, SC, Swift Creeks Press: 2012

Seller ID: AB01305

ISBN: 0984872302

Binding: Softcover

Condition: As New

(Synopsis) Florida law professor Maxwell Hunt wants nothing more than to spend his life married to El and teach international law in Gainesville. But after ten years of marriage El dies in a terrifying drift boat accident on the Snake River in Wyoming. Maxwell blames himself for not saving her. Despondent, he increasingly accepts “special work” for a federal agency while lecturing in such troubled countries as Sudan, Yugoslavia, Paraguay, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. His work is misinterpreted in Guatemala by the nation's drug lord, who nearly beats Maxwell to death, until he is rescued a...
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'You're Next'

By: Gordon, M. W.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Charleston, SC, Swift Creeks Press: 2013

Seller ID: AB01307

ISBN: 0984872337

Binding: Softcover

Condition: As New

(Synopsis) Macduff Brooks starts his guiding season on June 21st, the summer solstice, with a client floating on the Madison River near Ennis. Another boat drifts toward them with what appears to be only one person. But on closer inspection that person is encased in a wicker man basket-like covering, with only the person’s head exposed. The person is wearing a wreath of mistletoe. As the boat drifts closer Macduff recognizes the person as Paula Pajioli, the CIA agent for Montana. On the front of the wicker are plastic explosives and a sign that reads “You’re Next, Lucinda,” a reference...
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Gill Net Games

By: Gordon, M. W.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Charleston, SC, Swift Creeks Press: 2014

Seller ID: AB01308

ISBN: 0984872345

Binding: Softcover

Condition: As New

(Synopsis) Gill Net Games opens with two good ole boys heading out from Ft. Meyers for a day of bait fishing near Sanibel. As they pass a channel marker they see a gill net hanging from the marker and when closer discover that a body is wrapped in the gill net. Macduff and Lucinda learn of the death the following morning at Macduff’s cabin in Montana. Macduff knew the person from a conference where they both spoke. Macduff and Lucinda decide to do something more pleasant and go fishing on the Passage Falls Creek. But on their way home they discover a body also wrapped in a gill net and wedge...
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Barracuda Pens

By: Gordon, M. W.

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Swift Creeks Press: 2014

Seller ID: AB01513

ISBN: 0984872353

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

***(Synopsis) The Fifth MacDuff Brooks Flyfishing Mystery. U.S. Representative from New Mexico Juan Mendoza is fly fishing in Cuba at Playa Larga near the infamous Bay of Pigs. He dies an agonizing death. Macduff is asked by Juan's sister, Elena, U.S. Representative from Connecticut, to go to Cuba and search for Juan. Traveling to Cuba to fish is not permitted by U.S. laws, but Elena pulls strings and gets Macduff and Lucinda visas. While Macduff searches for Juan, Lucinda photographs places made famous by U.S. author Ernest Hemingway. for publication in a Canadian travel magazine. In Havan...
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Deadly Airboats

By: Gordon, M. W.

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Swift Creeks Press: 2015

Seller ID: AB01514

ISBN: 0984872361

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

***(Synopsis) The Sixth MacDuff Brooks Flyfishing Mystery. Macduff and Lucinda Brooks are on their flats boat in Pine Island Sound off Southwest Florida, on their way to Cabbage Key for the weekend, when they come upon an airboat driven into the mangroves on the edge of Black Key. A body is in the propeller cage, dismembered from being spun to death. The Brooks are drawn into the search for the killer by their curiosity, to the dismay of local authorities in Ft. Myers, who confuse curiosity with involvement. As they have done since they met, Macduff and Lucinda move between St. Augustine, F...
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Barbed Wire

By: Gordon, M. W.

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Swift Creeks Press: 2016

Seller ID: AB01515

ISBN: 098487237X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

***(Synopsis) The Seventh MacDuff Brooks Flyfishing Mystery. Macduff is without Lucinda as the book opens. Alone, he continues to guide in Montana and Wyoming. He has an incident with a client from Hell, Palmer Brown, who is planning to kill his wealthy wife. Floating on the Gallatin River fly fishers discover barbed wire stretched across the river at about neck height. Was done to harm or kill specific persons, or any person fishing along privately owned land? With Lucinda's absence Macduff has been seeing Florida State Attorney, Grace Justice. But a letter comes from Lucinda. Macduff d...
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Black Flies

By: Gordon, M. W.

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Swift Creeks Press: 2016

Seller ID: AB01516

ISBN: 0984872388

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

***(Synopsis) The Eighth MacDuff Brooks Flyfishing Mystery. Macduff has arrived alone at the Florida cottage as the book opens. He learns that about the time he left Montana for Florida, a Master Casting Instructor named Arthur Spence was found dead in the creek in Cascade Canyon at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. He was found under water and when pulled ashore had a black fly tied around his neck. The Wyoming Attorney General enters the picture, for ambitious political reasons he attempts to make Macduff the scapegoat in the death of Spence in Cascade Canyon, even though Macduff had le...
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Toxic Trout

By: Gordon, M. W.

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Swift Creeks Press: 2017

Seller ID: AB01517

ISBN: 0998943606

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

***(Synopsis) The Ninth MacDuff Brooks Flyfishing Mystery. On a beautiful fall day along Mill Creek in Paradise Valley, Montana, Lucinda and Macduff are enjoying coffee when they see the creek suddenly begin to flow a grungy bright orange. They head up Mill Creek to investigate and enter a maze of trouble involving some unpleasant FBI agents and a spillage at an old gold mine. When they head cross country and reach their Florida cottage for the winter, they learn that a new AP writer, Lorna Dubois, wants to write about Macduff’s early years, which he has carefully avoided discussing since ...
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Dead Renegade

By: Houston, Victoria

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Madison, WI, Bleak House Books: 2009

Seller ID: AB01331

ISBN: 1606480618

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(Synopsis) A sunny Thursday heading into the Fourth of July and retired dentist, Doc Osborne, is helping his daughter, Erin, who has just opened her own legal practice. They are assisting an elderly client of Erin’s reclaim an antique chest from an uncooperative antique dealer when Doc Osborne stumbles over a rug and human remains tumble onto the floor. While he is alerting Chief of Police Lew Ferris, his fly fishing instructor who is more than that, he learns that his granddaughter, Mason, may be the victim of an assault. This brings back ugly memories exacerbated by the release of a man, a...
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Dead Tease

By: Houston, Victoria

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Madison, WI, Bleak House Books: 2012

Seller ID: AB01332

ISBN: 1440533121

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(Synopsis) A hot August afternoon and Midwest Clinic CEO John McNeil has been working late. Working on his latest conquest, that is. Jen Williams is twenty-six, in charge of graphics for the hospital's PR division—and quite attractive in a healthy, athletic kind of way. She is quick to laugh and a little too quick to fall for guys. She is no virgin. And she is one of three women—including his wife—intimately familiar with McNeil. When Jen's youthful body is found with a single stab wound through the heart, suspicion falls on both McNeil's wife, who insists she is being stalked, and the s...
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Dead Madonna

By: Houston, Victoria

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Madison, WI, Bleak House Books: 2007

Seller ID: AB01330

ISBN: 1932557393

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(Synopsis) When the body of a lovely young woman is found floating beneath a party pontoon on a popular lake in northern Wisconsin on the same morning that a prominent widow is found bludgeoned in her gracious home, Loon Lake Police Chief Lew Ferris is caught short-handed. This is not a problem for Doc Osborne whom she deputizes to act as coroner and to assist with the investigation. Fishing aside, there’s nothing Osborne likes better than helping Lew -- a world-class fly fisherman in her own right – delve into Loon Lake’s criminal underworld. They’re joined in their efforts to untangl...
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Gray Ghost

By: Tapply, William G.

Price: $24.95

Publisher: New York, NY, St. Martins Minotaur: 2007

Seller ID: AB00203

ISBN: 0312363036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(Synopsis) Stoney Calhoun hasn't recovered the memories he lost to a lightning strike seven years ago, but he's acting more and more like the cop he suspects he once was. A routine fishing trip to Maine's Casco Bay with historian Paul Vecchio as client and Stonewall Jackson Calhoun as guide ends prematurely when they stop at Quarantine Island and discover the corpse of a man who'd been tortured, castrated and set on fire. At first, Stoney refuses Sheriff Marshall Dickman's request for help. But he changes his mind after Kate Balaban, his bait-and-tackle partner and lover, tells him she's goin...
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Bitch Creek

By: Tapply, William G.

Price: $36.95

Publisher: New York, NY, The Lyons Press: 2004

Seller ID: AB00429

ISBN: 1592284353

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(Description) Light scuffing and bumps to DJ, else new. *** (Synopsis) William G. Tapply has created a fresh new world in BITCH CREEK, a steamy, perfectly crafted mystery introducing Stoney Calhoun, an unlikely hero. Stoney is a man without a past. A lightning strike obliterated his memory; and, as so many might like to do, he was given a chance to completely reinvent himself. That's not an easy task when a man doesn't know the slightest thing about himself . But Stoney was driven by some current within and ended up as a fishing guide in Maine. He's reeducating himself, he's in love, and life...
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Bitch Creek

By: Tapply, William G.

Price: $29.95

Publisher: New York, NY, The Lyons Press: 2004

Seller ID: U02465

ISBN: 1592284353

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(Description) Light scuffing, bumps and small tear at bottom corner of DJ, else new. *** (Synopsis) William G. Tapply has created a fresh new world in BITCH CREEK, a steamy, perfectly crafted mystery introducing Stoney Calhoun, an unlikely hero. Stoney is a man without a past. A lightning strike obliterated his memory; and, as so many might like to do, he was given a chance to completely reinvent himself. That's not an easy task when a man doesn't know the slightest thing about himself . But Stoney was driven by some current within and ended up as a fishing guide in Maine. He's reeducating hi...
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