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    Thomas Gifford 
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    John Cooper, dealing with the Nazis
      in 1970s Cooper’s Falls, Minnesota, and then 1990s Boston, Massachusetts,
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    The
          Wind Chill Factor (1975)  | 
    The
          First Sacrifice (1994)  | 
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    Ben Driskill, a lawyer dealing with major
      political conspiracies, in New York, Iowa, and elsewhere: | 
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    The
          Assassini (1990)  | 
    Saints
          Rest (1996)  | 
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    The
          Cavanaugh Quest (1976) 
           
      The
          Man from Lisbon (1977) 
      The
          Glendower Legacy (1978)  | 
    Hollywood
          Gothic (1979) 
      Praetorian (1993)  | 
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    Written as Thomas Maxwell 
    Lew Cassidy, a former pro football player, now a private detective, in 1940s
        New York City: | 
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    Kiss
          Me Once (1986) 
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    Kiss
          Me Twice (1988)  | 
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    Written as Thomas Maxwell 
Non-series: | 
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    The
          Saberdene Variations (1987)  | 
    The
          Suspense Is Killing Me (1990)  | 
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    Written as Dana Clarins: | 
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    Woman
          in the Window (1984) 
      Guilty
          Parties (1985)  | 
    The
        Woman Who Knew Too Much (1986) [as         Thomas Gifford (1999)] | 
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