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Never Wake a Sleeping Man

James Holding

Never Wake a Sleeping Man

Jimmy Lee dreams of replacing rhino horn with a cheaper ingredient in old Liu Kam Fan's secret formula for Heavenly Heavenly Happiness Salt. It will make millions. But Liu Kam Fan doesn't want to listen to reason. The old ways are good enough…

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A Temporary Bind

James Holding

A Temporary Bind

Irresponsible spender (and bank robber) Michael decides to pull an insurance scam on his car. He has certain debts to pay off to a gang boss. It’s easy to organize the scam with the help of a chop shop owner and an insurance man, but it turns out they have plans of their own…

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Jade Monkey

James Holding

Jade Monkey

A thief specializing in jade decides to go for his big score – the fabulous Green Monkey, an incredibly valuable piece of carved jade…

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Fly Away Home

James Holding

Fly Away Home

Yancey, a no-good deadbeat, has been borrowing money from his successful friend, a doctor, for years. When Yancey comes in one day and pays back all the money that he's borrowed, how he got it is quite a tale…one that may leave him dead!

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The Photographer and the Columnist

James Holding

The Photographer and the Columnist

The sixth installment in James Holding's classic «The Photographer» series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.

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A Question of Ethics

James Holding

A Question of Ethics

The first installment in James Holding's classic «The Photographer» series about a professional assassin. One of his best.

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The Photographer: Lisbon Assignment

James Holding

The Photographer: Lisbon Assignment

The Photographer is hired to kill a man who is using a model to smuggle heroin into the U.S…but the model double-crosses him with unexpected results.

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The Photographer and the Butcher

James Holding

The Photographer and the Butcher

The Photographer latest assignment: identify and kill The Butcher, a rival killer. Noting that The Butcher's victims show no signs of struggle, are all ugly, and wore topaz jewelry in bad taste, he deduces that The Butcher is a demented interior decorator. But nothing is ever quite as it seems…

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Once Upon a Bank Floor…

James Holding

Once Upon a Bank Floor…

Two mystery readers meet on a plane. One reads crime stories to pass the time. The other reads them to keep abreast up with the trade…

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The Photographer: Second Talent

James Holding

The Photographer: Second Talent

In «Second Talent,» Manuel, Holding's photographer assassin, is assigned to kill a rare art collector, Senhor Martinho. But Martinho has plans of his own…

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The Photographer and the Professor

James Holding

The Photographer and the Professor

The fifth installment in James Holding's classic «The Photographer» series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.

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Portrait in Yellow

James Holding

Portrait in Yellow

Hitman (and used car dealer) Pete Borelli is promised a Van Gogh for a mercy-killing job on an in-law. But the man he has to kill has good reason to hate him…

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The Fund-Raisers

James Holding

The Fund-Raisers

Ramon Ribero, Minister of Justice, is (voluntarily) kidnapped by the Society of the Parrot, a revolutionary organization that he has helped fund against his own government. The government ransoms for his release, but refuses to set free their own political prisoners when threatened with Ramon's death.

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Black Cat Thrillogy #3: 3 Classic M...

James Holding

Black Cat Thrillogy #3: 3 Classic Mysteries by James Holding

Welcome to the third volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s THRILLOGY series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. Included this time are three classic tales by James Holding: «Career Man,» «The Tahitian Powder Box Mystery,» and «A Deal in Rubies.»

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The Photographer and the Artist

James Holding

The Photographer and the Artist

The photographer is hired to kill an artist – who moonlights as a forger.

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The Photographer and the Final Paym...

James Holding

The Photographer and the Final Payment

In the February 24, 1982 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the editor offered the following challenge to the Author: «A plot idea for the next Photographer story: when Manuel looks at the name and address on the slip of paper handed to him by Rodolfo, he reads his own name and address. He has been given the assignment to nullify himself! How does the Photographer give positive proof to the Big Ones (no trick photo) of his own death, collect his murderer’s fee, and still remain alive...

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A Visitor to Mombasa

James Holding

A Visitor to Mombasa

Officer Harper takes a pair of reports of leopard sightings in Mombasa and manages to track the beast to a baobob grove off the coast. Then he hatches a scheme for a promotion, with the help of the beast…

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The Photographer and the Arsonist

James Holding

The Photographer and the Arsonist

The Photographer wakes in a coffin, and flashes back to a meeting where he is hired to kill a one-armed man – who has gotten the drop on him. Will he live long enough to complete his mission? #17 in the classic series.

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China Trader

James Holding

China Trader

A fsherman with a fondness for self-made aphorisms, Fong Kam Lee arrives in Hong Kong to fish lucratively, but is convinced by a syndicate representative that he should instead smuggle luxury goods…

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The Mystery of Dolphin Inlet

James Holding

The Mystery of Dolphin Inlet

Pete Hobbs, a fisherman's son in the Florida Keys, and Susan Frost, a go-getter from Tallahassee, join forces one summer to investigate strange happenings in Dolphin Inlet. Their quest will ultimately lead them into danger – with a sunken treasure as the ultimate reward…if they can find it – and keep it! This book is one of two original Young Adult novels written by James Holding (the other being The Mystery of the False Fingertips). In addition, Holding wrote the Ellery Queen, Jr....

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Career Man

James Holding

Career Man

Mr. Cardone, a career thief, has managed to avoid being caught in all his years of schemes and robberies. Upon visiting India for a vacation, he is approached by Mirajkar Dass, a big Hindu man, who proposes the heist of a valuable jewel-encrusted tapestry…

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The Photographer and the Servant Pr...

James Holding

The Photographer and the Servant Problem

When the Photographer is hired to kill a servant, he finds more than a mere thief plundering employers' homes…

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The Photographer And The B.L.P.

James Holding

The Photographer And The B.L.P.

The Photographer is hired to kill an executive at a chemical company, but as he prepares for the job, the man is kidnapped by the Brazilian Liberation Party, who seek to hold him for ransom.

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The Photographer and the Undertaker

James Holding

The Photographer and the Undertaker

The second installment in James Holding's classic «The Photographer» series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.

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