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Authors: Howard Engel

DEAD AND BURIED

Howard Engel

A BENNY COOPERMAN MYSTERY

When Jack Dowden’s widow appeals to Benny to investigate the death of her truck-driving husband, Canada’s favourite gumshoe finds himself up to his egg-saladstained lapels in the deadly filth of Kinross Disposals. As he unearths clues—and PCBs—the body count begins to rise, and Benny does his best not to end up ... dead and buried.

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THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN

Howard Engel

A BENNY COOPERMAN MYSTERY

It all starts with a noisy toilet. Benny Cooperman, the working-stiff private eye, is back, this time trying to sort out the trivial from the deadly in a case that involves faulty plumbing, a dead old woman, and a crooked politician.

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GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER

Howard Engel

A BENNY COOPERMAN MYSTERY

Benny is, as always, desperate for paying work, but he flatly refuses an invitation to work for Grantham’s most notorious crime boss. But Benny doesn’t have much of a choice when Abram Wise has him kidnapped in the middle of the night and gives him an ultimatum: either Benny takes the case, or his parents and girlfriend may run into some very bad luck.

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THE COOPERMAN VARIATIONS

Howard Engel

A BENNY COOPERMAN MYSTERY

Vanessa Moss, an executive with the National Television Corporation, thinks somebody’s trying to kill her. To protect herself, she engages the services of former classmate and gumshoe Benny Cooperman to go undercover as her personal assistant. Benny discovers a warren of competing executives, backbiting lawyers, arrogant producers, and sycophantic flunkies.

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MEMORY BOOK

Howard Engel

A BENNY COOPERMAN MYSTERY

Benny is recovering in a Toronto hospital from a serious blow to the head. He was found unconscious beside a dead woman in a dumpster, so he figures he must have been close to solving a case, though he has no memory of the events. With his girlfriend, Anna, working as field agent, he tries to piece together the events that led to a murder—and his own injuries.

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EAST OF SUEZ

Howard Engel

A BENNY COOPERMAN MYSTERY

Left with short-term memory loss and unable to read, Benny Cooperman is ready to pack in his career as a private investigator. But an old schoolmate convinces him to locate her missing husband—or at least the family savings. Benny’s quest takes him to the seductive environs of Murinam, a former French possession in Indonesia, where nothing is as it appears to be. The heat is on as mayhem and murder ensue among the colourful denizens of the tropics, but Benny keeps a cool head.

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