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The Mystery of the Dead Man’s Riddle

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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to a mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews to search for a dead man’s missing fortune. Hired by the legal heirs of the town eccentric who changed his will shortly before his death leaving his hidden treasure for whoever could find it, the boys start with the clues left by the dead man on a race against other treasure hunters, Skinny Norris, and other members of the man’s family all willing to take drastic action to beat the Three Investigators to the prize.

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Night Passage

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Stone Sunday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and the introduction of  Jesse Stone. More stoic, and far less of a smart-ass, than Spenser, talented but also deeply flawed, Stone offered Parker a new character to develop. It’s notable that we meet Jesse while drunk, attempting to sober up before beginning the drive from Los Angeles (where he was fired for drinking on the job) to the small northeastern city of Paradise. Drunk when he applied for the job, the first 50 pages or so of Night Passage involve Jesse’s drive across country thinking over his life, leaving his former job as a Homicide Detective, and his ex-wife, on one coast and begin a new life on the other. 

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