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    Jack Vance 
      John Holbrook Vance 
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    Joe Bain, a sheriff in fictional San Rodrigo County, California: | 
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    The Fox Valley Murders1        (1966)  | 
    The Pleasant Grove Murders1        (1967)  | 
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    Kirth Gersen, a hunter of nonhuman killers in the United States, in the Demon Princes series: | 
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    The
          Star King2         (1964) 
      The Killing Machine2         (1964) 
      The Palace of Love1         (1967)  | 
    The
          Face3         (1979) 
      The
          Book of Dreams3         (1981)        | 
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    Non-series: | 
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    To Live Forever (1956) 
      Isle of Peril (1957) 
        APA: Bird Isle (1988) 
      Take My Face (1957) 
      The
          Man in the Cage1, 4          (1960) 
         
      The Deadly Isles1, 4        (1969) 
      The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966) [SS]  | 
    Bad Ronald1, 4        (1973) 
      The View from Chickweed’s Window (1978) 
      The House on Lily Street (1979) 
      Galactic Effectuator (1980) [SS] 
      The Complete Magnus Ridolph (1984) [SS] 
      The Dark Ocean (1985) 
      Strange Notions (1985)  | 
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    Written as Ellery Queen | 
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    The Four Johns (1964) 
      APA: Four Men Called John (1976)  | 
    A Room To Die In (1965) 
      The Madman Theory (1966)  | 
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    Selected science fiction with some mystery
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      The Cadwal Chronicles: | 
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    Araminta
          Station (1988) 
      Ecce
          and Old Earth (1991)        | 
    Throy (1992)  | 
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    Selected science fiction with some mystery
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Alastor trilogy: | 
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    Trullion:
          Alastor 22624          (1973) 
      Marune:
          Alastor 9934          (1975) 
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    Wyst:
          Alastor 17164          (1978)  | 
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