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    Carl Brookins 
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    Michael Tanner, a successful public relations executive, and his second wife, Mary Whitney, an heiress to an industrial empire, in Seattle, Washington: | 
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    Inner Passages (2000) 
      A Superior Mystery (2002)  | 
    Old Silver (2005) 
      Devils
          Island (2010)  | 
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    Sean “NMI” Sean, a private investigator in Hennepin County, Minnesota: | 
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    The Case of the Greedy Lawyers (2005) 
      The
          Case of the Deceiving Don (2008)  | 
    The
          Case of the Great Train Robbery (2010) 
      Case of the Purloined Painting (2013)  | 
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    Jack Marston, head of Student Services
      at City College in Minneapolis, Minnesota: | 
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    Bloody
          Halls (2008) 
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    Reunion (2011) 
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