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Devil Take The Hindmost

Reads 4,750
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Parts 39
Time 9h 43m

Reads 4,750
Votes 789
Parts 39
Time 9h 43m

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Satchmo Turner, proprietor of the Waifs and Strays private detection agency, can feel all of his meagre past success slipping away. His relationship is on the skids, he's flat broke and his business partner is hell-bent on taking a murder case that isn't paying.  When a dynamite client proposes a doddle of a job for a bucket-full of cash, it seems like a no-brainer. But with the bodies piling up on the streets of Wolverhampton, and the ghostly hand of the city's founder on his shoulder, Satchmo and his motley group of pseudo-sleuths soon hope it won't be them that end up brain-dead.All Rights Reserved

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Fighting Harvest

Two foolish detectives, Anthony Weaver and Clyde Moore, are given a job that's more than anyone could imagine, finding body bag after body bag, the two nearly give up until they come across something big. There's a bigger threat out there, besides the well-known drug lords and criminals that plague the city of Savannah, but will our detectives finally stop this threat? Or screw up once again...