Benjamin Abbott returns to his hometown to save his family’s recession-battered real estate business, never dreaming that things are about the heat up in picturesque Newbury, Connecticut. Broke and looking for some excitement, Ben takes a job videotaping the adulterous goings-on in a bedroom in Jack and Rita Long’s “castle.” But he doesn’t bargain on becoming embroiled in the murder of Rita Long’s friend. A second murder closer to home propels Ben to embark on a new career as a neophyte detective and leads him to encounter answers that will put him in mortal danger.

Hardscape

Literature & Fiction

SCOTT, Justin

Genre Fiction

Harpercollins

1st edition 1st Collins hardcover 1995 printing, fine book & fine (as new) dw (dust jacket) In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Stonedust (Collins crime)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Collins Crime

Recently home from the slammer, former Wall Street trader Ben  Abbott is hired by a New York City private detective to spy on Rita  Long, suspected of cheating on her husband. 20,000 first printing.  $15,000 ad/promo.

Stoia, Lucia De

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Ben Abbott is back in StoneDust, a complex, richly plotted, and enthralling mystery that tests this witty, literate realtor and fledgling detective as never before.The Fisks’ weekend party, a “sleep-over” for select couples, remains the talk of the town long after Reg Hopkins’ body turns up in an isolated covered bridge.  For Reg may have paid the party a fleeting visit—before dying in a way everyone swears was impossible.  Ben, who used to play backyard baseball with Reg and all the party guests, must take up the matter with a hometown cast of friends, foes, and family—including his ninety-year-old Aunt Connie, the rising politician and his sometime lover Vicky McLachlan, the comely and ambitious State Police Detective Marian Boyce, and a pair of deadly housebreakers.  Soon everybody’s getting much more in the way of kicks than they bargained for.

Stonedust (Ben Abbott Mystery)

The Man Who Loved the Normandie

Harper

Ben Abbott, just returned to his small Connecticut hometown, is hired by a New York City private eye to videotape the activities in newcomer Rita Long's bedroom--where the ravishing Rita cheats on her husband. But murder wasn't part of the deal. And now Ben is embroiled in a mystery that will take a decidedly sinister turn.

Hardscape: A Mystery Introducing Ben Abbott

Mystery

Penguin??Books

Hardscape, in Susan Isaacs' words, had "enough suspense to make the reader hyperventilate". Now witty, literate Ben Abbott--who served time for a Wall Street indiscretion and is struggling to revive his family's real estate firm--returns in a mystery even more complex, richly plotted, and enthralling.

Stonedust: A Ben Abbott Mystery

United States

The Wrecker: Isaac Bell #2

Private detective Isaac Bell returns in Clive Cussler's The Wrecker.
1907: train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's new express line . . .
The desperate railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency, who send their best man, Isaac Bell. He quickly discovers that a saboteur calling himself the Wrecker is attacking the Southern Pacific with accomplices recruited from down-and-outs - who are killed afterward. The Wrecker strikes wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he an anarchist? A revolutionary? A criminal mastermind?
Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create havoc. And Bell is convinced he is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. 
If the Wrecker isn't stopped in time, more than a railroad is at risk - the future of the entire country is on the line . . .
Bestseller Clive Cussler - author of the Dirk Pitt novels Black Wind and Trojan Odyssey - and co-author Justin Scott pit legendary detective Isaac Bell against a mysterious murderer and railroad saboteur in the second novel of historical thriller series The Isaac Bell Adventures, The Wrecker. 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
'The guy I read' Tom Clancy
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

CUSSLER,CLIVE

Penguin

Abridged CDs, 5 CDs, 6 hours Read by TBA Detective Isaac Bell, hero of The Chase and The Wrecker, returns in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.

The Spy (An Isaac Bell Adventure)

Penguin Audio

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Books by SCOTT, Justin

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Hardscape

Stonedust (Collins crime)

Hardscape

Stonedust (Ben Abbott Mystery)

The Man Who Loved the Normandie

The Man Who Loved the Normandie

Hardscape: A Mystery Introducing Ben Abbott

Stonedust: A Ben Abbott Mystery

The Wrecker: Isaac Bell #2

The Spy (An Isaac Bell Adventure)