Asked to deliver a quarter of a million dollars to whomever has stolen a prized African shield from a Washington museum, Philip St. Ives soon finds himself involved in a dangerous game. Reprint.

The brass go-between (Perennial library)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Oliver Bleeck

Thrillers & Suspense

HarperCollins (paper)

Asked by the United States government to rescue a U.S. ambassador kidnapped by Yugoslavian radicals, professional go-between Philip St. Ives finds himself trapped in Eastern Europe. Reprint.

Protocol for a kidnapping (Perennial library)

Ross, Thomas

Harper&Row

St. Ives goes to London on a job for the least trustworthy con artist he knows. Philip St. Ives has only been in the pub a few minutes before he realizes his whiskey is drugged. Instantly sick, he’s vomiting on the sidewalk when the muggers appear. He fights as best he can in his drugged state, and only when he feels the handcuffs does he realize his assailants aren’t muggers - they’re cops. He wakes in a dingy cell to the knowledge that English Eddie Apex has pulled a fast one on him. English Eddie is not English, but talks with a British accent that once made him New York’s most refined con artist. In retirement and living in London, he had hired St. Ives - a professional mediator between crooks and their marks - to come to England to help him recover a stolen painting. The drugged whiskey won’t be the last surprise St. Ives gets in Blighty, and the police won’t be the only ones who try to cause him pain.

The Highbinders

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

<p>Book by Oliver Bleeck, Ross Thomas</p>

No Questions Asked

Mystery

When his old boss is kidnapped, St. Ives reluctantly agrees to free him.Philip St. Ives loses his first job in journalism as soon as he realizes he hates the man who gave it to him. Chicago Post editor Amfred Killingsworth is a pompous blowhard, and fires his newest reporter for failing to fawn over him. St. Ives goes to New York, where he lands a daily column and the close friendship of an assortment of crooks. Killingsworth goes in a less respectable direction, becoming the US ambassador to Yugoslavia. By the time the ambassador gets himself kidnapped, the only man who can save him is his former cub reporter. The kidnappers demand the release of a Slavic poet in exchange for the ambassador, and St. Ives goes behind the Iron Curtain to arrange the hand-off. To protect a trove of ugly Washington secrets, he’ll have to save the life of a universally disliked man.

Protocol for a Kidnapping

Hodder and Stoughton

<p>Assigned to deliver the ransom money to whomever stole thief Abner Procane's diaries, professional go-between Philip St. Ives finds himself stumbling across dead bodies and cops on the make. Reprint.</p>

The Procane Chronicle

Mysterious Pr

Procane Chronicle

Contemporary

Pocket

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