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  Crime Fiction/0-375-71360-3

  FLYNN’S IN

  Flynn is no stranger to the bizarre, the perverse, or the ridiculous. But when he is suddenly summoned by the Police Commissioner D’Esopo to a secret wilderness compound far outside their jurisdiction, he is a little surprised to find himself the hostage of a secret club of the nation’s most powerful and peculiar and forced to conduct a clandestine murder investigation. But before one murder is even solved, membership at the Rod and Gun club continues to drop.

  Crime Fiction/0-375-71361-1

  FLYNN’S WORLD

  When Flynn’s barely adolescent daughter asks him to rescue her friend from the cemetery, where he’s been fastened to a tree by a nail through his earlobe, Flynn is pretty sure there’s something more behind what seems like a bully’s prank. And he’s convinced there is more than mischief involved in the threats against the Harvard professor Louis Loveson. If that weren’t enough, Lieutenant John Kurt’s impressive arrest record follows some very disturbing patterns.

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  Copyright © 1983 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 hardcover in the United States by Warner Books, New York, in 1983.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mcdonald, Gregory, 1937—

  Fletch and the man who/Gregory Mcdonald.

  p. cm.

  1. Fletch (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—United States—Fiction. 3. Women—Crimes against—Fiction.

  4. Presidential candidates—Fiction.

  5. Presidents—Election—Fiction. 6. Political campaigns—Fiction.

  7. Press secretaries—Fiction. 8. Serial murders—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3563.A278F45 2004

  813′.54—dc22

  2004049328

  Author photograph © Nancy Crampton

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  eISBN: 978-0-307-52385-3

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  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Other Books by This Author

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Also by Gregory Mcdonald

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