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        | Peter Abresch | 
       
      
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        Jim Dandy: retired physical therapist,  and Dodee Swisher, a gallery owner, in North America, in  the Elderhostel Mysteries | 
       
     
       
      
        
          | Mario Acevedo | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Felix Gomez: private
            investigator who became a vampire as a soldier in Iraq, in various
            places in the United States | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Donna Andrews | 
         
        
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          Meg Langslow:  decorative blacksmith in a southern town in the USA  | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Tom Ardies | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Charlie Sparrow:  tough, smart-aleck spy who is
    irresistible to women in the USA | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Nevada Barr | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Anna Pigeon: park  ranger at various national parks in the USA | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Lawrence Block | 
         
        
          |   • | 
           Evan Tanner: government  agent with permanent insomnia, in the USA | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jack Bickham | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Brad  Smith:  championship tennis player and part-time CIA agent in the United
      States | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Lilian Jackson Braun | 
         
        
          |   • | 
           Jim Qwilleran: journalist, with cats Koko and Yum Yum in Pick Ax, northeast central United States | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Andrew Britton | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Ryan Kealey: ex-CIA agent and former Special Forces soldier,
            dealing with terrorists in the US | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | C.F. Button | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Tom Kreuger:  biologist working for the Bureau of Land Management in a small town in a western state of the US | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Robert Campbell | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Jake Hatch: railroad detective in the United
    States | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
       
      
        
          | John Clarkson | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Jack Devlin: ex-Secret Service turned security firm investigator in the USA | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | John Connolly | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Charlie “Bird” Parker:   ex-NYPD detective turned private
    investigator in cases taking him to  locations in North America | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Alan Cook | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Gary Blanchard: amateur
            sleuth in the American West, starting in the 1950s | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Clive Cussler (with Paul Kemprecos) | 
         
        
          |   • | 
           Dirk Pitt: marine engineer in the United States | 
         
       
      
        
          | Val Davis (Robert & Angie Irvine) | 
         
        
          |   • | 
           Nicolette Scott:  archaeologist in the
    southwestern USA | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | S.F.X. Dean | 
         
        
          |   • | 
           Neil Kelly: professor of  English in New England, USA | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Kathleen Delaney | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Ellie McKenzie: newly  certified real estate agent returning to her old hometown of Santa Louisa | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Peter Dunant (Sarah Dunant with Peter Busby) | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Marla Masterson:  young British
      Professor of Anglo Saxon Literature in the United States | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Gerald Elias | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Daniel Jacobus: blind,
            reclusive, and crotchety violin teacher living in self-imposed exile
            in rural New England | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Loren D. Estleman | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Page Murdock:
            deputy US Marshal in 1880s American West (and Canada) | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Donna Ferguson | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Mickey Sutter: sea urchin diver on the west coast of North America | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Michelle Gagnon | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Kelly Jones: FBI
            agent in New England | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Ed Gorman | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Noah Ford: military
            investigator for the Army in the post-Civil War US, in the Cavalry
            Man series | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Leo Guild: 1980s
            bounty hunter in the western United States | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Dev Mallory:
            Secret Service Agent in the post-Civil War US | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Maxwell Grant (Dennis Lynds)  | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          "The
      Shadow": private investigator in the USA | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Donald Hamilton | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Matt Helm: American superspy in the United States | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | David Handler | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag: celebrity ghostwriter in the United States, and his faithful basset hound, Lulu | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
       
      
        
          | Peter J. Heck  | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Mark Twain: 19th century American author, and Wentworth Cabot, his secretary, in the USA | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
       
      
        
          | Lynn S. Hightower | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          String:
    alien Ilaki, partners with a homicide cop, in the USA | 
         
       
       
      
 
      
       
      
        
          | David Hiltbrand | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Jim McNamara: former record company insider  turned insurance investigator specializing in hardcase rockers, on the  road in the USA | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Kay Hooper | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Hagen: government agent in the USA | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Richard Hoyt | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          James Burlane: ex-CIA
      operative turned private investigator in the USA | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
       
      
        
          | E. Richard Johnson | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Tony Lonto:  police detective in the United States | 
         
       
      
        
          | Paul Kemprecos (with Clive Cussler)  | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Dirk Pitt: marine engineer in the United States | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Lisa Kleinholz | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Zoe Szabo: former Rolling Stone reporter turned small town reporter in New
    England | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | W.W. Lee (Wendi Lee)  | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Jefferson Birch:  former Texas ranger working for Tisdale Investigations, in the American West in the second half of the 19th century | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
       
      
       
      
      
        
          | Owen Parry | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Abel Jones:  federal agent during the American Civil War | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Eliot Pattison | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Duncan McCallum:  Scottish prisoner transported  to Colonial America | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Don Pendleton | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Aston  Ford: former naval intelligence officer turned psychic private investigator | 
         
       
       
      
       
      
        
          | Clyde Lynwood Sawyer, Jr. and Frances Witlin | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Mario Castigliani: aging performing psychic in
      North America | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Sammy Greene:
            talk-radio host at an ultraconservative New England college | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Troy Soos | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Mickey Rawlings: 1910s journeyman second baseman in the United States | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Gene Stratton | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Mort Sinclair:  respected genealogist and lawyer on Fogge Island off the
      New England Coast | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Ted Thackrey, Jr. | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Preacher:
            poker player and mystic, in the American Southwest (Nevada,
            New Mexico, California) | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Jack Vance | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Kirth Gersen: hunter of nonhuman killers in the United States, in the Demon Princes series | 
         
       
       
      
        
          | Valerie Wolzien | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Josie Pigeon: owner of an all-woman construction firm in the Northeast USA | 
         
       
      
       
      
        
          | Richard Wormser | 
         
        
          |   • | 
          Andy Bastian: police
            lieutenant in the US Southwest | 
         
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