Assigned to investigate the ganglandstyle murder of young Frank Corvino, Gabriel Wager, a tough Chicano police detective, probes into mob affairs even though Corvino had no apparent link with organized crime

Angle of Attack

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Burns, Rex

Mystery

Harpercollins

This rare book is the first "Gabe Wager" homicide case. The Denver detective is confronted with a severed head carefully placed in the city's Botanic Gardens, and not much else by way of clues.

Speak for the dead

Harper&Row

"Detective Gabriel Wager . . . was going undercover as Gabriel Villanueva, dealer-on-the-make. He would be issued a driving licence in that name, a new Social Security Card, and everything else he needed, including a past as an ex-Texas ranch hand, and an ex-wife. . . . He needed clothes, too--especially a hat, an expensive one. . . . All this to help Wagher close in on a man named Farnsworth: a dealer, so big he thought no-one could touch him. Wager was tough, and he knew he way around. But he didn't realize how much trouble lay ahead."

The Farnsworth $core

A first novel is as much an experience for the reader as for the writer. Most of them have an abundance of vitality, but few of them have the total professional care given to The Alvarez Journal. Just when the police mystery seems to have become the Number One cliche in mystery, Burns makes plain it doesn't have to be. By choosing no megalopolis but the big Western city of Denver, he has a new canvas to work on, with samenesses but differences from the usual New York, Chicago, L.A. triad. Moreover by eliminating heart-of-gold kinkiness and misplaced sentimentality, he has a puzzle as rare as a good story by a police reporter. This one should with certainty make the Best First lists.--Dorothy B. Hughes

The Alvarez Journal

Thrillers & Suspense

Detective Gabriel Wager of the Denver police searches for a killer who leaves a drawing of an angel at the scenes of a series of murders and finds himself caught in the middle of a holy war and a struggle over water rights

The Avenging Angel (Gabe Wager Mystery)

Penguin??Books

Detective Gabe Wager investigates the murder of two strippers, who worked on Denver's notorious "strip," and as the case progresses, he himself becomes the target of the murderer

Strip Search: A Gabe Wager Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Denver detective Gabe Wager confronts the Colorado wilderness to investigate some strange happenings on the small-time rodeo circuit, and finds there can be just as much danger back at the ranch as there is in the city

Ground Money (Penguin Crime Fiction)

While investigating the sabotaging of two industrial development proposals, Devlin Kirk, a law-school dropout and ex-secret service agent, discovers that the prime suspect's suicide may be linked to his personal life

Suicide Season

Ground Money

Penguin Books, Ltd.

When the body of Horace Green, Denver's model black city councilman, is discovered in an abandoned lot, white racists, as well as the police are suspected, and Gabe Wager, who is uncovering Green's unsavory secrets, must move in on the killer before the city explodes in race riots

The Killing Zone (Penguin Crime Monthly)

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