Biography - Adams, Harold (1923-): An article from: ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 6 Publication Date: 2003-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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The Naked Liar
Fourth in series..starts to show contunity: "The Naked Liar" is the 4th Wilcox novel. The time setting is early 1930s, about a year after the previous novel "Missing Moon". We see many characters from that novel here, as Carl is hired [... more]
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A Perfectly Proper Murder: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
Not one of his better ones.: In this installment of the Wilcox series, Carl goes to Podunkville, and argues with a pharmacy owner who turns up dead the next day. Carl starts looking into the murder, and finds that the dead man's family has secrets they [... more]
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Barbed Wire Noose: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
A breakthrough book in the Wilcox series...: Harold Adams's "Barbed Wire Noose" is the best yet of the Wilcox series that I've read. In this story set in a bitter South Dakota winter in the mid 30's, Carl Wilcox temporarily takes over the job [... more]
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The Missing Moon
Enjoyable, but forgetable mystery.: "The Missing Moon" by Harold Adams is the third book in the Carl Wilcox series. Wilcox is out to prove that his old friend, retired janitor and bootlegger Boswell is innocent of murder. The victim is Kate [... more]
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The Ice Pick Artist: A Carl Wilcox Mystery (Carl Wilcox ...
Each book in this series is better than the previous one: During the Depression, painter Carl Wilcox works at his family's Corden, South Dakota hotel because his father is ill. Three individuals, traveling separately, book rooms in the Wilcox Hotel. [... more]
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No Badge, No Gun: A Carl Wilcox Mystery (Carl Wilcox ...
Amazon.com Review: Harold Adams's series of mysteries about small-town South Dakota during the Great Depression are like the work of another great artist of that period--the photographer Walker Evans, who captured in black and white every grain and pore [... more]
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No Badge, No Gun (Carl Wilcox Mystery)
Amazon.com Review: Harold Adams's series of mysteries about small-town South Dakota during the Great Depression are like the work of another great artist of that period--the photographer Walker Evans, who captured in black and white every grain and pore [... more]
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A Way With Widows
If Steinbeck wrote mysteries . . .: It's a good time for Harold Adams, whose novels about itinerent sign painter ex-cop Carl Wilcox had been languishing, garnering critical raves but little in the way of sales. Walker & Company, a publishing house [... more]
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The Ditched Blonde: A Carl Wilcox Mystery (Carl Wilcox ...
Gem of a book: This is a gem of a book. Mr.Adams recreates the Great Depression South Dakota with spare language and few colors. There is no unnecessary word or padded sentence in this short novel. It was a great pleasure to discover Mr.Adams.Four and a [... more]
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Hatchet Job: A Carl Wilcox Mystery (Carl Wilcox Mysteries)
Author: Harold Adams Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780802732866 ISBN: 0802732860 Number Of Pages: 153 Publication Date: 1996-11 [... more]
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Paint the Town Red
Good mystery involving gangsters..: "Paint the Town Red" is the second in the Wilcox series, but feels like the earliest. Set in 1929, it takes place just before the Great Crash. An old flame from Carl's past, Eleanor, is staying at the Wilcox [... more]
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