Stephen Greenleaf
1) Flesh wounds
Author
Series
John Marshall Tanner mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
To help an old flame, John Marshall Tanner tracks a missing model in Seattle As far as John Marshall Tanner can tell, everyone in San Francisco is lonely, and few are lonelier than him. He's lost too many friends, either to death or distance, and there's no one he misses more than Peggy Nettleton, his beloved former secretary, who left his detective agency six years ago, and broke his heart on her way out the door. When she calls out of the blue,...
Author
Series
John Marshall Tanner mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Against his better judgment, John Marshall Tanner takes a job as a writer's bodyguard Somebody wants Chandelier Wells dead. After years churning out bestselling bodice-rippers, she's the best-known author in San Francisco, and she's no stranger to receiving threatening letters. But the most recent ones seem different. They feel real. Ms. Wells knows her life is in danger, and the only man capable of protecting her is John Marshall Tanner. Tanner...
Author
Series
John Marshall Tanner mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
Back on his family farm, John Marshall Tanner investigates a murder that hits very close to home It's been thirty years since John Marshall Tanner, private eye, returned to Chaldea, and he hasn't missed the farm-three hundred acres of thin topsoil and ratty growth-any more than he's missed his family. There's his sister, Gail, worn down by decades of trying to do the right thing; his brother Curt, wallowing in depression ever since his son, Billy,...
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
A slightly sleazy divorce lawyer discovers something strange about himself: a conscience There are seven women in the courtroom, and D. T. Jones loves them all. They are women who married young, have been mistreated, and have no prospects, no hope. For them, Jones will do all he can, which isn't much. A cut-rate divorce lawyer, he specializes in default settlements-no alimony, no property, no fight. He's not good, but he's fast, and his clients ask...
Author
Series
John Marshall Tanner mysteries volume 7
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
To save a small publishing company, John Marshall Tanner searches for an anonymous scribe John Marshall Tanner has spent most of his life avoiding parties-an easy feat for San Francisco's most introspective private detective. Nevertheless, when one of his closest friends, publisher Bryce Chatterton, finds himself in desperate need of a private eye, Tanner joins him at the party thrown to announce Periwinkle Press's latest publication-but there's little...
6) Beyond blame
Author
Series
John Marshall Tanner mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
1986, c1985
Language
English
Description
John Marshall Tanner must outwit an expert in insanity to reveal the truth behind a woman's brutal murder
Dianne Renzel's parents, a kind old Swedish couple, have just sold their business and are planning to use some of the money to purchase a car for their only child. But when their daughter is found murdered in her home, her flesh cut to ribbons by a madman's blade, they'll need to buy her justice instead. The police investigation quickly stalls,...
Author
Series
John Marshall Tanner mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
To clean up a rotten town, John Marshall Tanner goes after the city's most powerful villain El Gordo is a quiet little city just outside of San Francisco, with a charming town square, a few local businesses, and the most corrupt police force in the state of California. John Marshall Tanner has worked a case here before, and it nearly ended with him taking a beating. When the private detective returns to El Gordo, it will be his life on the line. ...
Author
Series
John Marshall Tanner mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Description
The search for a dying millionaire's son leads John Marshall Tanner to a case of domestic terrorism Maximilian Kottle spent all his life fearing death. When he eventually developed cancer, he thought the disease might prove a disappointment. He was wrong. Dying is far worse than he had imagined. With less than a month to live, the wealthiest man in San Francisco calls on private detective John Marshall Tanner to fulfill his final wish: He wants to...
Author
Series
John Marshall Tanner mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco, a policeman with an unimpeachable record draws his revolver in open court and shoots the accused, on trial for abusing a daughter. Why? The policeman isn't talking and soon after being jailed he escapes. That is when his buddy, investigator John Marshall decides he must find him, if only to save him from himself. By the author of Flesh Wounds.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
While recovering from a gunshot wound, John Marshall Tanner meets a woman worth fighting for John Marshall Tanner left most of his blood in a vacant lot on Twentieth Street, along with the body of his closest friend. Tanner and Charley Sleet shot each other at the same time-a tragic finale to a long friendship that left Sleet dead and Tanner bleeding out on the sidewalk. The EMTs saved Tanner, but he isn't sure he wants to be alive. The uncertainty...
Author
Series
John Marshall Tanner mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Otto Penzler Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Author
Series
John Marshall Tanner mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English