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Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Wambaugh (born 1937)

actor

  • California State University, Los Angeles

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The blue knight
The secrets of Harry Bright
Harbour Nocturne
Hollywood Station
The secrets of Harry Bright
Hollywood Station
Nocturne
Hollywood moon
Hollywood Station
The onion field
The New Centurions
Hollywood moon
The Choirboys
Lines and shadows
Fire Lover
Echoes in the darkness
Finnegan's week
The delta star
The black marble
The blooding
Floaters
Hollywood Crows
The golden orange
Glitter dome, The
The glitter dome
The Choirboys
The New centurions
Fugitive nights
Finnegan's week
The delta star
Best American Crime Writing 2004
The delta star
Floaters
Four complete novels
Lines and shadows
Echoes in the darkness
Hollywood Hills
Blooding, The
The Golden Orange
Choirboys,, The
Fugitive nights
Harbor nocturne
Harbour Nocturne
The Delta Star
The choirboys
Fugitive nights
Hollywood Hills
Hollywood moon
Hollywood crows
Black Marble, The
The Glitter Dome
ONION FIELD A N ED
Hollywood Hills
Golden Orange, The (Mono Version)
The black marble
New Centurions/Ten Cassettes
Glitter Dome
Echoes in the darkness
Joseph Wambaugh
Finnegan's Week (Classic Collection)
Glitter Dome, The
The New Centurions
Hollywood Station
Hollywood crows
The Blue Knight
The Onion Field
Delta Star, The
Finnegan's week
The Blue Knight by Joseph Wambaugh (1972-02-28)
Blue Knight [Advance Reader Copy]
The Blooding
Fire Lover
Corbeau Hollywood
El caballero de azul
Black Marble, The
Secrets of Harry Bright
Last Seen off Stingray Point
Harbor Nocturne
Finnegan's Week
Les nuits du fugitif (Taschenbuch)
The Onion Field First edition by Wambaugh, Joseph (1973) Hardcover
The Delta Star by Joseph Wambaugh (1983-12-01)
Lines and shadows
Joseph Wambaugh X12 S/W
Finnegan's Week Lib/E
The new centurions
Choirboys
Delta Star
Police story
Corbeau à Hollywood
Fugitive Nights
La voix du sang L'histoire de la première affaire criminelle au monde résolue par la méthode des empreintes génétiques
Golden Orange
Finnegan's Week
[ HARBOR NOCTURNE - GREENLIGHT ] By Wambaugh, Joseph ( Author) 2012 [ Hardcover ]
Hollywood Station
"Finnegan's Week" A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh
Flic Hollywood (English and French Edition)
Finnegan's Week
The Blooding Genetic Fingerprinting DNA Joseph Wambaugh 1ST/1ST
Gölge Protokol
Onion Field
Fire Lover
Finnegan's Week
Harbor nocturne
Busting the Brass Ceiling
The blue knight
Lines and Shadows
The Blue Knight by Joseph Wambaugh (2008-09-04)
Hariuddo no satsujin
Hollywood crows
Floaters
Blooding, The
The Onion Field
Golden Orange
El caballero azul
Echos in the Darkness
Choirboys
Harbor nocturne
Lines and Shadows
The Glitter Dome
The Choirboys
The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh (1989-02-04)
L'envers du décor (French Edition)
The Delta Star
Bienvenue à Hollywood
Black Marble
By Joseph Wambaugh - The Choirboys (1976-04-23) [Hardcover]
Black Marble
Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly (born 1956)

journalist, chronicler, actor, film producer, television producer

  • University of Florida

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The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller #1)
A darkness more than night
Blood Work
The Poet
The Closers
Chasing the dime
The black echo
The last coyote
Angels flight
The Narrows
Lost Light
The Overlook
The black ice
City of Bones
The Fifth Witness
Echo Park (Harry Bosch)
Trunk Music
The brass verdict
The Harry Bosch novels
The concrete blonde
The Crossing
Void moon
Nine dragons
The scarecrow
The wrong side of goodbye
The Harry Bosch Novels Volume 2
Blood work
The gods of guilt
The Last Coyote/Trunk Music
The late show
The fifth witness
The Gods of Guilt
The Lincoln Lawyer Novels
Dunkler als die Nacht
The overlook
The fifth witness
The overlook
Void moon
The Lincoln Lawyer Novels
The gods of guilt
The fifth witness
The Wrong Side of Goodbye
The late show
The fifth witness
Two kinds of truth
The Drop
In the Shadow of the Master
Face Off
The Best American Short Stories 2003
The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch)
Echo Park
The Reversal
The Black Ice (Harry Bosch)
The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch)
The Overlook (Harry Bosch)
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003
Echo Park
The Closers (Harry Bosch)
Crime beat
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch)
City of Bones (Harry Bosch)
Select Editions--Volume 2 2009
Nine dragons
Murder in Vegas
A darkness more than night
Angels flight
26 Miles to Boston
The Burning Room
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008
Rebound!
Poet, The
The scarecrow
9 Dragons
Trunk Music (Harry Bosch)
The poet
The Lincoln lawyer
Lost Light (Harry Bosch)
Trunk music
The brass verdict
The Harry Bosch Novels 3
The narrows
El eco negro (Harry Bosch)
The Lincoln lawyer
The narrows
Two kinds of truth
Black Box
Three Great Novels
Blood Work
Ciudad de huesos
The concrete blonde
Michael Connelly CD Collection 1
Nueve dragones
Blood Work
Poet, The
Michael Connelly CD Collection 2
THE LINCOLN LAWYER
Three Great Novels 3
Lost light
A darkness more than night
The Crossing
Angels Flight (Harry Bosch)
El veredicto
The reversal
La Rubia De Hormign
Red Baker
The drop
The black box
Void Moon
The brass verdict
City of bones
Trunk Music (A Harry Bosch Novel)
The fifth witness
Measures of Poison
The fifth witness
Riders in the Sky
The narrows
The black box
The Drop A Novel
The poet
La blonde en béton
Coffret Michael Connelly
Angels flight
Two Bagger
El inocente
The reversal
La Glace noire
La Oscuridad de los Suenos Darkness of Dreams Rocabolsillo Criminal
Two Great Novels
Time and space
L'Oiseau des ténèbres
Echo park
Luz perdida (Harry Bosch)
La oscuridad de los sueños
Mas oscuro que la noche (Harry Bosch)
The black ice
Angels flight
The drop
Wonderland Avenue
Le Poète
Trunk music
El último coyote
Cuesta abajo
Luna funesta
THE BLACK ECHO AND THE BLACK ICE
Nine dragons
Select Editions
El Vuelo Del Angel
The concrete blonde
Das Comeback
Michael Connelly, coffret de 3 volumes
The Harry Bosch Mysteries (Harry Bosch)
The Poet
The Night Fire
El Vuelo del Angel
CONCRETE BLONDE (HARRY BOSCH, NO 3)
The Lincoln lawyer
The black echo
El vuelo del a ngel
NBA List Jam
Angels flight
Mystery Writers Of America Presents Blue Religion New Stories About Cops Criminals And The Chase
Framgangens pris
Le Dernier Coyote
The black box
Michael Connelly Collection
Time and space, a basic reader
Nine dragons
La lune était noire
Der Poet
USA noir
Ultimo Recurso Bolsillo Zeta Edicion Limitada
Cauces de Maldad
Michael Connelly
À genoux
The concrete blonde
City of Bones Harry Bosch Prebound
Die Frau im Beton
Schwarze Engel
Nueve dragones
The drop
Blood work
Deuda de sangre
The Closers
The narrows
Cronicas de sucesos
Schwarzes Echo
El observatorio
El observatorio
Reader's Digest Select Editions
The poet
Darling Lily
Void Moon
The International Association of Crime Writers presents Murder in Vegas
Dangerous Women
La revocación
Blood Work. Roman zum Film
La caja negra
The overlook
Créance de sang
Llamada Perdida / Chasing the Dime (Latrama)
City of bones
La blonde en beton
Le poète
Pasaje al paraíso
The crossing
The Best American Mystery Stories
The reversal
the brass verdict fathers and sons moscow rules the crossing places (select editions)
La habitación en llamas
Nine dragons
Dark sacred night
The Black Ice
Hielo negro (Harry Bosch)
Echo Park
Llamada perdida (Byblos Narrativa Thriller)
Fuego nocturno
El eco negro
Wonderland Avenue (French text version)
The Lincoln lawyer novels
Oiseau des tenebres-10cd
The burning room
Luna funesta (Punto De Lectura, 230/5)
Cauces de maldad
Chasing the Dime
Trunk music
Morkare an natten
Ciudad de Huesos / City of Bones
Les égouts de Los Angeles
L'Envoi Des Anges (Harry Bosch)
The poet
La Glace noire (coffret de 10 CD)
Darling Lilly
Las horas oscuras
The brass verdict
El lado oscuro del adiós
Trunk music
Das zweite Herz
Crime Fiction Boxed Set
A darkness more than night
Wonderland Avenue (coffret 9 CD)
Hielo Negro
Les Egouts de Los Angeles
Lost Light
La rubia de hormigón
City of Bones
The scarecrow
The president's team
Crime beat
La ley de la inocencia
El inocente
Der letzte Coyote
Le Poète - La Glace noire - La Blonde en béton
Smrt' v Meste Anjelov
The president's team
Chernyĭ i︠a︡shchik
The black echo
Im Schatten des Mondes
Trunk music
The reversal
Schwarzes Eis
The closers
Michael Connelly's Police Thriller Three-Book Set [A Darkness More than Night, Angels Flight, Blood Work]
Último recurso
El ultimo coyote (Harry Bosch) (Harry Bosch)
La Rubia de Hormigon / The Concrete Blonde (Latrama)
The last coyote
Del otro lado
Chasing the dime
Black Echo, The (Harry Bosch)
Pasaje Al Paraiso / Passage to the Paraiso
Pasaje al paraíso
Le Cadavre dans la Rolls
City of Bones
Echo Park
The Mortarmen
L'épouvantail
Betonblond
Xie xing pin tu =
Luz Perdida
Ppk27 Void Moon
Der Mandant
Hielo negro
Echo Park
El inocente
Cronaca Nera
Le cinquième témoin
Los Angeles river
Hielo Negro
Select editions
Vuoto Di Luna
Darling Lilly
Hnoah Ton Oeton
The gods of guilt
Echo Park
Ppk36mx Michael Connelly
Kayıp delil
Volte-face
Crimetime
Kuraku seinaru yoru
Luna Funesta / Void Moon (Harry Bosch)
Eco Negro, El
Nine dragons
Gatans lag
Les neuf dragons
The reversal
Potaennyĭ svet
Nine dragons
Pasaje Al Paraiso
Letzte Warnung
L'envol des anges
Mesto Kosti
Más oscuro que la noche
Het holst van de nacht
As Garras do Mal
Volte-face
Za poetto
De herziening
Spoordood
Hotet
Het laatste oordeel
Ceux qui tombent
El Poeta
The Lincoln lawyer
Three great novels
Het recht om te zwijgen
The gods of guilt
Dans la ville en feu
Le verdict du plomb
Moisson noire
Wydział spraw zamknie̜tych
Nachtgoud
Fritt Fall
The narrows
City of Bones Display with Other
סניגור במבחן
Aenjelsŭ p'ŭllait'ŭ
Donkerder Dan De Nacht
Slotakkoord
L'envol des anges
Lincoln lawer
Lame Di Luce
O Voo dos Anjos
Unutulan sesler
Scarecrow
The black box
Winthrop Papers
Echo Park
ha-Mefaʻanḥim
Fallan
Deuil interdit
Les neuf dragons
The black echo
Le poète
Luukaupunki
Lame de luce
Estrella del desierto
La lune était noire
Angels flight
ha-Meshorer
Les dieux du verdict
Crime beat
The black ice
Cauces de maldad
Deuda De Sangre
El poeta
Luna bez kursa
Los Angeles river
Creance de Sang
Dark sacred night
Deuil interdit
The Harry Bosch mysteries
L'oiseau des ténèbres
Nine dragons
Cierny L'ad
Vsetko Pre Prachy
Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley (1940-2006)

journalist, actor

  • Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy

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Jaws
Beast
Three Complete Novels (Beast / Girl of the Sea of Cortez / Jaws)
Best Sellers
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 2 - 1974
White Shark
The Deep
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 1992
Shark Life
Rummies
Shark Trouble
The Island
Selected from Jaws
Ocean planet
Time and a ticket
Shark!
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez
Jaws [Screenplay]
Q Clearance
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
Lush
McDougal Littell Literature
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume M-1983
Interactive reader grade 7
Jonathan visits the White House
Shark
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" [story in] If - March 1967
Reader's Digest Condensed Books
L'ile sanglante 022796
ha-Naʻarah mi-Yim Ḳorṭez
ha-Karish
ha-I ha-neʻelam
Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler (1909-1998)

film producer, actor, producer

  • University of London, Colfe's School

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Journey Into Fear
Epitaph for a Spy
A Coffin for Dimitrios
The Levanter
Uncommon danger
The light of day
Cause for alarm
A Kind of Anger
Passage of arms
The Schirmer inheritance
Judgment on Deltchev
The care of time
Three complete novels in one volume
Send No More Roses
The story so far
The Night-Comers
Waiting for Orders
The dark frontier
Here Lies
Doctor Frigo
The Intercom Conspiracy
The Maras affair
Dirty story
Great cases of Scotland Yard
High stakes and desperate men
The ability of kill and other pieces
The Ethnic Detectives
To catch a spy
Passport to Panic
Charter to Danger
The intriguers
Skytip
Intrigue
The Intrusions of Dr. Czissar
Double decker
Journey into Fear / The 39 Steps / And Then There Were None / The Maltese Falcon / The Nine Tailors / The Doorbell Rang
State of Siege
The Intercom Conspiracy. Jack's Return Home. The Tale of the Lazy Dog
ERIC AMBLER''S THE SCHIRMER INHERITANCE
Tender to danger
The Army of the Shadows and Other Stories
Topkapi
The Seige of Villa Lipp
Untitled
הקונניה
The mask of Dimitrios ; Journey into fear ; Judgment on Deltchev ; The Schirmer inheritance ; Passage of arms ; The light of day
Al tishlaḥ ʻod ṿeradim
Puteshestvie vnutrʹ strakha
Masaʻ el tokh ha-paḥad
Untitled 2
The way ahead
Ansichten über die Schweiz
Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley (born 1952)

film producer, playwright, actor

  • City College of New York, Goddard College

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Cinnamon Kiss
A red death
The man in my basement
Fortunate son
The wave
Trouble is what I do
Whispers in the Dark
Diablerie
The Greatest
John Woman
Known to Evil
47
RL's dream
Futureland
Stories
Walkin' the dog
Six easy pieces
The long fall
Transgressions
Killing Johnny Fry
Blue light
This Year You Write Your Novel
Blonde Faith
The Best American Short Stories 2003
Always outnumbered, always outgunned
Fear of the Dark
The Tempest Tales
What next
White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
Charcoal Joe
The right mistake
When the thrill is gone
Stepping Stone The Love Machine Crosstown To Oblivion
Black Betty (Easy Rowlins Mysteries)
Life Out of Context
Rose Gold
Little Scarlet (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
Gone Fishin' (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Audio))
A Little Yellow Dog (Easy Rowlins Mysteries)
Merge--Disciple
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
Fearless Jones
All I did was shoot my man
Bad Boy Brawly Brown (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
And sometimes I wonder about you
The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin
Black genius
Down the River unto the Sea
Little green
Folding the red into the black, or, developing a viable untopia for human survival in the 21st century
Fantastic Four No. 1
Working on the Chain Gang
Awkward Black Man
Traición
Elements Of Fiction
Blood Grove
La mariposa blanca
Devil in a Blue Dress / A Red Death / White Butterfly
Inside a silver box
Twelve steps toward political revelation
Dead Man's Hand
Fear Itself
Papillon blanc
Buscando problemas
The fall of heaven
de Pesca
Al rojo vivo
Every Man a King
Debbie doesn't do it anymore
Socrates' Welt
Love Machine
Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Easy Rowlins Mysteries)
Der weisse Schmetterling
Stepping Stone
California Schemin'
Mavi Elbiseli Seytan
Six Easy Pieces
Conversations with Walter Mosley
100% Marvel la cosa. la siguiente gran cosa
Rubia peligrosa
Thing
On the Head of a Pin
Bu Yil Romanini Yaziyorsun; Yazar Adayinin Basucu Kitabi
Touched
EL CASO BROWN
Gift of Fire
Pek Saygideger Ptolemy Grey
Jack Strong
El hombre del sótano
Kurmacanin Unsurlari
Merge
Disciple
Le casseur
Socrates in Watts
Fische fangen
Noirs baisers
Rubia peligrosa
Parishioner
Auf Abwegen
White Butterfly
Un Perro Amarillo
Futureland
En bout de course
Um demónio vestido de azul
Siete casos
Le vertige de la chute
Ostatnie dni Ptolemeusza Greya
L'âme d'un héros
Teufel in Blau
Black Betty (Library Editions)
Roderick Thorp
Roderick Thorp (1936-1999)

actor

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River
Nothing lasts forever
Hot Pursuit
Rainbow Drive
The detective
Die hard
Dionysus
Wives
Jenny and Barnum
Westfield
Devlin
The circle of love
Westfield
Slaves
The music of their laughter
Dionysus
Into the forest
The Detective by Roderick Thorp (1987-07-01)
Wives
The Music of their laughter
Joy Fielding
Joy Fielding (born 1945)

actor, film actor

  • University of Toronto

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Missing pieces
Whispers and lies
Lost
Huye, Jane, huye!
Heartstopper
The Deep End
Don't cry now
Life Penalty
Shadow Creek
Now You See Her
Charley's web
She's Not There
Someone is watching
See Jane Run
Missing Pieces
Still Life
The Wild Zone
See Jane run
Shadow Creek
Home invasion
See Jane Run (Headline Feature)
SOMEONE IS WATCHING
She's Not There
Cul-de-sac
Don't Cry Now
The deep end
She's not there
Still Life
Charley's web
The bad daughter
Whispers and Lies
Someone Is Watching
Heartstopper
Bad Daughter
Lost
Charley's Web
Whispers and Lies
The first time
Grand avenue
Kiss Mommy Goodbye
Tell me no secrets
Charley's Web
Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 3 1986
Good Intentions
The Other Woman
Puppet
Life penalty
Mad River Road
Still Life
Sag Mammi Goodbye
The wild zone
Now you see her
Good Intentions
Tell me no secrets
The deep end
Puppet
Mad River Road
Whispers and lies
The wild zone
Puppet
See Jane run
KISS MOMMY GOODBYE
Decidle adiós a Mamá
Mad River Road (Fielding, Joy (Spoken Word))
All the Wrong Places
Lost (Needlecraft Mystery)
FIRST TIME
Whispers and Lies (Needlecraft Mystery)
The deep end
The Brightest Star in the Sky (Marian Keyes) / The Good Luck Girl (Kerry Reichs) / Still Life (Joy Fielding)
Don't cry now
Someone is watching
The best of friends
The Transformation
Tell Me No Secrets
Am seidenen Faden. Sonderausgabe
SECRETOS PELIGROSOS (Titania Contemporanea)
Trance
Kiss Mummy goodbye
Lebenslang ist nicht genug ein mörderischer Sommer
Decidle Adios a Mama/Kiss Mommy Goodbye
Kijk niet om
Vies éclatées
Ich will Ihren Mann. Roman
WHISPERS AND LIES
Poprvé
Perseguida
La Ultima Pieza (Los Jet De Plaza & Janes)
See Jane Run
Ein mörderischer Sommer
Puppet/Mad River Road: Two novels in one volume!
Flieh, wenn du kannst. Sonderausgabe
La Ultima Pieza
Ik hou je in de gaten
Vermoorde onschuld
Zaehl nicht die Stunden
Eindstation
Ne me racontez pas d'histoires
Lost
Zähl nicht die Stunden
Lauf, Jane, lauf! Sonderausgabe zum Welttag des Buches
Blind Date
Le Dernier Eté de Joanne Hunter
Still life
Lost
GRAND AVENUE
Im Koma
Die Katze
Lauf, Jane, lauf!
Shadow Creek
Zawsze ktoś patrzy
Someone Is Watching
Dis au revoir à maman
La última pieza (Missing Pieces)
Good Reads Collection 1
Zabójcze piękno
Sag Mami goodbye / Schau dich nicht um. Zwei Romane in einem Band
Ich will Ihren Mann. Sonderausgabe. Roman
Missing Pieces 36 Copy Bin
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir Jane?
Housekeeper
Charley's Web
First Time
MISSING PIECES
Alguien te vigila
Mad River Road
La femme piegee
Home Invasion
The Wild Zone
Sag, dass du mich liebst
Seytanin Izi
Rue des mensonges
Joy Fielding CD Collection 2
XO
Missing Pieces
Am seidenen Faden
Condenada a Vivir/Life Penalty
Missing Pieces Book Club Edition
Si tu reviens
Now You See Her
Secretos peligrosos
All the Wrong Places
La última pieza
Die Schwester
Nur wenn du mich liebst.
Puppet Lib/E
Ingen återvändo
Träume süss, mein Mädchen
Rue des mensonges
Missing Pieces
Zabójcze piękno
Golgeler Kasabasi
Tell me no secrets
The other woman
Herzstoß
Orada Olmayan Kiz
Home Invasion
The wild zone
Charley's web
Still Life
See Jane Run
Dis-moi que tu m'aimes
Dis au revoir à maman
Ella No Esta
Morderstwa nad Shadow Creek
Condanne
Still life
Ne me racontez pas d'histoires
Martwa natura
O Kiz Ben Degilim
Ich will Ihren Mann
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir Jane?
Joy Fielding Collection #1
Joy Fielding CD Collection
Ne me racontez pas d'histoires
Huye, Jane, Huye!
Grand Avenue
Lebenslang ist nicht genug
La Vie déchirée
El Abismo Del Miedo
Sag mami goodbye schau dich nicht um
First Time
The bad daughter
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro (born 1964)

film director, film producer, film actor, television actor, television producer, visagiste, make-up artist, director

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