Back In The Real World by Marvin Albert

Back In The Real World

by Marvin Albert

Starring Pete Sawyer in a stylish mystery of high fashion and the lowest of crimes....

When Pete drops by his friend Frank Crowley's house one evening, neither Crowley nor his wife Nathalie is home. instead, he finds two dead bodies, and he recognizes them both. One is a rival private eye. The other is Nathalie's gorgeous sister in-law, Anna-Marie. Both naked with bullet holes in their heads. Where the two having an affair? Is there a connection between the two murders and the recent goings on at the prestigious couture house where Ann-Marie was a star designer? Pete must keeps his wits about him and his gun in hand to solve this stylish mystery and keep his friend Crowley out of jail.

Printing History

Written by Marvin Albert (1924-1996)

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

449 12917

December 1986

The Zig-Zag Man by Marvin Albert

A beautiful heiress needs Pete Sawyer's help to untangle a terror filled past that still shatters her present......

If anyone can track down the nameless, faceless mastermind of an unsolved eight year old kidnapping, it's Pete Sawyer. Pete's latest client, Helen Marsh, was only ten when she was abducted by a ruthless gang. The gruesome business cost ten million dollars. It cost Helen two fingers. Now, she wants revenge and Pete's help to get it. With Helen's suspicions to guide him. Pete lights out on the trail of a wealthy American businessman who's up to his neck in international drug trafficking. But as Pete's manhunt zig-zags across Europe, he discovers his quarry is a man of many faces, and many secrets. And as Pete Sawyer begins to peel away the years of deception, the twists and turns of the mystery bring him closer to his own dead end.... 

Printing History

Written by Marvin H. Albert (1924-1996)

copyright 1991 by Marvin Albert

Ballantine Books

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

ISBN 449 14624

July 1991

The Riviera Contract by Marvin Albert

A South American death squad is loose in the south of France

And Pete Sawyer stands between them and their prey

She Can Run, But She Can't Hide

Beautiful, feisty Sandrine Tally is a very exclusive and much sought after escort on the French Riviera. But with an unsavory group of international thugs after her, she vanishes. Leaving behind a bullet ridden corpse in her apartment. That's when her best friend asks Pete Sawyer to do the nearly impossible. Bring Sandrine back alive. It's an assignment that will call for even more dirty work than legwork. A deposed South American dictator planning a comeback coup, the ruthless agents of the junta that toppled him, and the French FBI all have a stake in finding the terrified Sandrine. Caught in the middle, Pete is not about to take sides. But the men he's tangling with want blood, and Pete may just live to regret taking them on. If he lives at all............

Printing History

Written by Marvin H. Albert (1924-1996)

copyright 1992 by Marvin Albert

Ballantine Books

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

ISBN 449 14625

January 1993

Bimbo Heaven by Marvin Albert

Pete Sawyer's tracking hot diamonds and a cold murderer under the dazzling Riviera sun.

Stone Angel #7

When a beautiful young woman, dripping wet and alone, wandered onto his patio, ex-cop and private eye Pete Sawyer knew he was looking at trouble. He also knew he would take the job. It sounded simple enough. Deliver a letter to a local Riviera resident. But when Pete arrived, the man had vanished and his wife was worked over by two thugs. That was only the beginning of a murderous trail of diamonds and death that led from the Cote d'Azur into the exotic heart of Morocco. There in the stark Sahara, Pete would spark a bloody showdown that few would live to talk about....

Printing History

Written by Marvin H. Albert (1924-1996)

Ballantine Books

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

ISBN 449 14623

April 1990

Crime Fiction Alphabet: The Letter G

This weeks contribution the the Crime Fiction Alphabet is 

G is for Get Off At Babylon by Marvin Albert

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The Midnight Sister by Marvin Albert

A low-life hood cons a beautiful lawyer, 

but Pete Sawyer's on hand to help her out of a tough spot.

When gutsy Arlette Alfani, a brilliant and beautiful Monaco lawyer, asks Pete for help, it's no cry in the dark. A former client of hers, the notorious killer and jewel thief, Andre Colin, has escaped from jail and the police think she arranged it. Pete puts himself on the case, scouting the discos and street-life of Paris and the hills of Monaco, chasing every clue to a million-dollar scam in stolen gems and a missing mob boss. What he discovers is an insidious connection to a secret society called the Midnight Sister and a lone, brutalized women he must protect from Colin's revenge. If only Pete can keep her healthy enough, long enough, and keep himself that way too!

Printing History

Written by Marvin H. Albert (1924-1996)

Ballantine Books

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

ISBN 449 13163

June 1989

Trivia

Obit from the NY Times

Marvin Albert

The Last Smile by Marvin Albert

Starring Pete Sawyer 

in an artful mystery 

of ancient treasure 

and thoroughly modern murder.....

On a midnight in December, Fritz Donhoff, Pete's partner and surrogate father, is shot down in Paris. Fritz has left a case behind that Pete can't turn his back on. Susan Kape, the beautiful young oil heiress, hungers for a foothold in the international art world. And the Etruscan tomb filled with priceless relics may help her get it. All she needs is an easy eighteen million dollars and Pete's protection while she has the discovery authenticated in Italy. Pete Sawyer must call on all his creative powers as a sleuth and survivor to solve this inspired mystery. While a gallery of murder victims collects artlessly around him....

Printing History

Written by Marvin Albert (1924-1996)

copyright 1988

Ballantine Books

Fawcett Gold Medal 

ISBN 449 13162 

November 1988

Long Teeth by Marvin Albert

Stone Angel #4
 Pete Sawyer must keep his eyes open and his gun at hand to solve this family affair

When Arlette Alfani, a lawyer as competent as she is beautiful, asks Pete to help her client whose wife has been kidnapped, Pete agrees. Only to find that the man in question is none other than Karl Malo, the inconceivably wealthy patriarch of the Malo Transport family. Completely in love for the first time in his life, Malo is inconsolable over the kidnapping of his third wife, Jacqueline. But no sooner has Pete done all he can to get Jacqueline back than Malo has another problem. Someone very close to him has betrayed him. Is it his brilliant, rebellious son, Alexandre? His once wild daughter, Claudette? His impeccably tailored son-in-law, Jean-Noel?

Printing History

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

449 13161

July 1987

Get Off At Babylon by Marvin Albert

Stone Angel #3

He's got American grit and French Savoir-Faire

Minding his own business at a favorite Nice creperie, Pete Sawyer notices a teenage girl hurrying by, with a desperate look on her face. Moments later, two cops arrive, a young actor named Bruno Ravic burst from a nearby doorway, shots are fired, and Pete's most dangerous case to date begins. The girl is Odile Garnier and her father, former Grand Prix champ Egon Mulhausser, hires Pete to find her. But what is the connection between Odile and Bruno, who is murdered just a few days later? And why do so many clues seem to lead to the Cannes Film Festival, and to a certain director? Pete Sawyer must go underground, literally, to save lives and to solve this sensational mystery

Printing History

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

449 12918

March 1987

Back In The Real World by Marvin Albert

Starring Pete Sawyer in a stylish mystery of high fashion and the lowest of crimes....

When Pete drops by his friend Frank Crowley's house one evening, neither Crowley nor his wife Nathalie is home. instead, he finds two dead bodies, and he recognizes them both. One is a rival private eye. The other is Nathalie's gorgeous sister in-law, Anna-Marie. Both naked with bullet holes in their heads. Where the two having an affair? Is there a connection between the two murders and the recent goings on at the prestigious couture house where Ann-Marie was a star designer? Pete must keeps his wits about him and his gun in hand to solve this stylish mystery and keep his friend Crowley out of jail.

Printing History

Fawcett Gold Medal Books

449 12917

December 1986

Stone Angel by Marvin Albert

Introducing a terrific new private eye,

half French, half American, totally sophisticated.

Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a WW II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic, though he prefers his sun dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasures in a fine wine, and a good gun. His French name is Pierre Ange and it suits him. In English it means Stone Angel.

Pete is hired by a wealthy American couple to locate their missing teenaged daughter, But when he tracks her down Sarah Bryne's most recent Paris address, he finds not the girl, but a bloody trail of a band of terrorists. What is the link between Sarah and the deadly gang? And more perplexing, what is the link between the group and the aristocratic Lemaire family whose fortune was made by a Champagne business to rival Pommery and Mumm? Pete Sawyer must use all his charms and cunning to solve these problems and prevent a national disaster.

Printing History

BallantineBooks

Fawcett Gold Medal

449-12918 

July 1986