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Authors: Gregory Mcdonald

Fletch's Moxie (24 page)

Then he called Washington, D.C. Now was the time to see if Global Cable News would listen to just any
barefoot boy with cheek
who happened to have a story.

A woman answered, saying, “Good afternoon. Global News. May I help you?”

“Hello,” Fletch said. “My name is Armistad…”

ALSO BY
G
REGORY
M
CDONALD

 

FLETCH

Fletch is currently living on the beach with the strung-out, trying to find the source of their drugs, and racking up charges on the expense account. So when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch a job that could be worth a fortune, he does some investigating. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems.

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FLETCH WON

As a fledgling reporter, Fletch’s editor’s got him pegged for the society pages. But his first big interview, a millionaire lawyer with a crooked streak, ends up dead in the
News-Tribune’s
parking lot. So Fletch ends up going after the murderer instead.

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FLETCH, TOO

Fletch is getting hitched, and somebody delivered a letter from his unknown father with an invitation to visit him in Nairobi. But as soon as the couple lands, there’s a murder at the airport, reports of the old man’s incarceration, and hospitality offered by Pop’s best friend, who flies them across the continent after the old rascal.

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FLETCH AND THE WIDOW BRADELY

If Tom Bradley, one of Fletch’s principal sources, is dead, who’s been signing his name to company documents? If he’s alive, why does his widow have Tom’s ashes? Fletch may have more questions than answers, but if he’s going to get his reputation back, not to mention his job, he’s going to have to get to the bottom of this quick.

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CARIOCA FLETCH

Fletch’s trip to Brazil wasn’t exactly planned. But he has plenty of money, and it took him no time to hook up with the luscious Laura Soares. But between the American widow who seems to be following him and the Brazilian widow who’s convinced that he’s her long-dead husband, Fletch suddenly doesn’t have time to enjoy the present.

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CONFESS, FLETCH

Fletch’s Italian fianceé’s father has been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the trail of her stolen art collection. But when he arrives in his apartment to find a dead body, things start to get complicated. With the police on his tail, Fletch makes himself at home in Boston, breaking into a private art gallery, “entertaining” his future mother-in-law, and visiting with the good Inspector Flynn.

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FLETCH’S FORTUNE

Once an investigative reporter of questionable methods, Fletch hasn’t been a practicing journalist for years, but when agents Eggers and Fabens approach him with too much information about himself and an invitation to the American Journalism Alliance convention, how could he refuse? So he finds himself enlisted as a spy among his peers. But before he can even set up his surveillance, there’s a murder. And almost everybody’s a suspect.

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FLETCH AND THE MAN WHO

Governor Caxton Wheeler’s presidential campaign has been leaving dead women in its tracks. Are the murders just coincidence, or is a cold-hearted killer looking for a job in the White House? As the governor’s press representative, Fletch is working overtime to find the killer and to make sure the governor doesn’t lose any more votes.

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ALSO AVAILABLE:

Flynn,
0-375-71357-3
The Buck Passes Flynn,
0-375-71360-3
Flynn’s In,
0-375-71361-1
Flynn’s World,
0-375-71358-1

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Copyright © 1982 by Gregory Mcdonald

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in the United States by Warner Books, New York, in 1982.

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Fletch’s Moxie
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eISBN: 978-0-307-52400-3

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