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THE PSYCHONEUROTIC VAMPIRE
Author: Maynard Allington
Published: July 10, 2011 by Amazon/Kindle
Series Name: Rich Hazzard Mystery Series
Category: Mystery/Detective

A young commercial artist, fearing he may have been responsible for the deaths of three women, approaches PI Rich Hazzard for help.  His bizarre story stretches back more than a century to the impressionist era in Paris and involves a young woman with an equally mysterious past.  Why are they both still alive and physically unchanged?


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The Court of Blue Shadows
Author: Maynard Allington
Published: April 12, 1995 by Brassey's
Category: Literary/thriller
(From the New York Times, April 23, 1995, review by Newgate Callendar) Former military officers can be very good at action novels, but how many of them are real writers? Maynard Allington, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who served in Vietnam and is the author of "The Grey Wolf" and "The Fox in the Field," is one of those rarities: a military man who is also a deft writer.
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The Fox in the Field
Author: Maynard Allington
Published: June 15, 1994 by Brassey's-Macmillan
Category: thriller
(From the Washington Post BOOK WORLD, July 3, 1994) British-backed spies work to crack a German plot to inspire an Indian rebellion against the British colonials in World War II. This real story makes for an extremely good espionage novel. But what really carries Maynard Allington's book is Derek Carr, a cardsharp known throughout Europe's casinos, and a broker for forged artworks.
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THE GREY WOLF
Author: Maynard Allington
Published: August 30, 1986 by Warner Books
Category: Thriller
A military coup attempt against Stalin by a cadre of senior Soviet officers. . . A British agent abandoned in Moscow by the Churchill government, which must deny any connection to the conspiracy. . . Tsar Nicholas's illegitimate son seeking to avenge his father's murder. . . Two women drawn into the operation and a love affair with the same man. . . The result is a literary thriller based on actual events in the USSR during the dark days of 1942.
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