First Edition, first printing 1984 paperback / The National Poetry Series. Some light fading on cover and a faint crease across the spine. Otherwise, a very good copy. Clean, crisp pages. No markings of any kind.

Black dog, red dog: Poems (The National poetry series)

DOBYNS, STEPHEN

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Charlie Bradshaw, ex-policeman and security chief for Lew Ackerman's vast horse stables, assumes the role of private detective when Ackerman is murdered amidst the splendor of Saratoga's horse country

Saratoga Swimmer: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Penguin??Books

Charlie Bradshaw, an ex-cop, now private detective, returns home one afternoon to discover his houseguest brutally murdered and is determined to find the killer

Saratoga Headhunter (Charlie Bradshaw Mystery)

After Victor Plotz becomes the victim of a hit-and-run and his camera is stolen by the driver, Charlie Bradshaw finds himself between the police and an armed robbery scheme in his efforts to track Victor's assailant

Saratoga Snapper: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery

For the sake of an old girl friend, Charlie Bradshaw, a Saratoga Springs police sergeant, agrees to go to New York City to investigate the disappearance of her son, a petty drug dealer

Saratoga Longshot: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery

Lowell Perry, Tucker Morgan, and Brian Davis's quick money drug-running scheme is complicated by a beautiful girl, several ruthless and violent men, and a friend who should not have to die

A Boat off the Coast

Inside an opulent home, as a Latin American Civil War rages outside, Senora Puccini listens as Dr. Daniel Pacheco weaves the story of his obsession with her for his rapt guests, until she provides her own violent cathartic end to the story

The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini

Literature & Fiction

Literary

What's Super Bowl Sunday without a little gambling party in Saratoga Springs? By bedtime, private detective Charlie Bradshaw's a busy man. The bash has been robbed, Charlie hasn't recovered a stolen painting and a grocer lies dead behind his cash register. 
The names of five heavy gamblers promise to hold the key to the murder...and maybe much more. Charlie's investigation veers toward terror as it twists through a netherworld of unpleasant surprises. 
"Dobyns is a graceful, assured writer with felicity of word and phrase. His characters spring to life, and he captures the charm of Saratoga Springs, both past and present." (The Washington Post)

Saratoga Bestiary

Saratoga Hexameter: A Charlie Bradshaw Mystery

A colleague's murder embroils Charles Bradshaw in literary mystery as a poem written in iambic pentameter provides a clue to a series of mysterious deaths

From Publishers Weekly\nMichael Latchmer, instructed to bury the corpse of a date's pet dog, finds himself on a Dantesque adventure with a Haitian cab driver who claims that he can get money for the dog's body. "This is a ludicrous, occasionally amusing romp," said PW , although "the polished writing of novelist and poet Dobyns deserves a stronger plot than this." 
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Cold Dog Soup

United States

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