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The Do-Re-Mi
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2012 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-463-7, ISBN: 1-59058-463-5

"It's late summer, 1972, up in California's redwood forests. They seem a ""safe and wondrous place,"" but some of Evergreen's population is growing pot up in the trees and others are bent on stealing it. Then there's the coming folk festival, a jamboree bringing in musicians, fans, war protestors--a ferment of flower power (the local hippies), raw power (the local biker gangs, notably the Cossacks), and the power of the law (local and fe ..."






The Good Know Nothing(1st Edition)
(Hickey Family)
by Ken Kuhlken
Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2014 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4642-0286-5, ISBN: 1-4642-0286-9

"During the summer of 1936, destitute farmers from the Dust Bowl swarm into California, and an old friend brings police detective Tom Hickey a manuscript, a clue to the mystery of his father Charlie’s long-ago disappearance. Tom chooses to risk losing his job and family to follow this lead. Even his oldest friend and mentor, retired cop Leo Weiss, opposes Tom’s decision. Why so passionately?_x000D_ _x000D_ Tom lures the novelist B. Trav ..."






The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles(Unabridged)
(California Century Novels)
by Ken Kuhlken, Reader-Ray Porter
Cd, Published 2010 by Blackstone Audio, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4417-3925-4, ISBN: 1-4417-3925-4






The Good Know Nothing(1st Edition)
(California Century Mysteries)
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2014 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4642-0288-9, ISBN: 1-4642-0288-5

"DURING THE SUMMER OF 1936, destitute farmers from the Dust Bowl swarm into California, and an old friend brings police detective Tom Hickey a manuscript, a clue to the mystery of his father Charlie's longago disappearance. Tom chooses to risk losing his job and family to follow this lead. Even his oldest friend and mentor, retired cop Leo Weiss, opposes Tom's decision. Why so passionately? Tom lures the novelist B. Traven to a meeting o ..."






Vagabond Virgins(1st Edition)
A Hickey Family Mystery (California Century Mysteries)
by Ken Kuhlken
Hardcover, 234 Pages, Published 2008 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-461-3, ISBN: 1-59058-461-9

"In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego P.I. Alvaro Hickey follows newspaper accounts of the stories Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy Virgin. She’s admonishing them to vote the corrupt and tyrannical PRI out of power. Though Alvaro doubts her divinity, he’s firmly on her side. He harbors deep personal and political antipathy to the PRI, even before Lourdes Shuler comes asking him to u ..."






The Venus Deal
(California Century Mysteries)
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 291 Pages, Published 2007 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-408-8, ISBN: 1-59058-408-2

"While the rest of San Diego is dealing with the rages of World War II, Tom Hickey--half owner of a local club--is making money. But when the clubs young singer Cynthia Moon disappears, business drops precipitously. Sometime private detective Hickey sets off looking for the girl, but instead discovers her bizarre and tragic family, including her mother Venus. Can Hickey navigate the half-mad atmosphere of Venus cult, the hard business wo ..."






Writing and the Spirit
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 206 Pages, Published 2015 by Hickey's Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9965242-8-5, ISBN: 0-9965242-8-2

"With all the ease of a friend on your couch-an ingenius, multiple-PhD-holding, wise-man sort of friend, Ken Kuhlken combines observations of the world we live in, writers in history and his own experience (failures and triumphs) to form an all-around handbook of writerly wisdom."






The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles
A California Century Mystery (California Century Mysteries)
by Ken Kuhlken
Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2010 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-697-6, ISBN: 1-59058-697-2

"In 1926, when musician Tom Hickey reads a broadside about a lynching the Los Angeles newspapers failed to report and discovers the Negro victim was an old friend, he goes to his neighbor, LAPD detective Leo Weiss."






The Loud Adios
A California Century Mystery (California Century Mysteries)
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 217 Pages, Published 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-339-5, ISBN: 1-59058-339-6






The Do-Re-Mi(1st Edition)
A California Century Mystery (Hardback)
by Ken Kuhlken
Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 2006 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-337-1, ISBN: 1-59058-337-X

"It's late summer, 1972, up in California's redwood forests. They seem a "safe and wondrous place," but some of Evergreen's population is growing pot up in the trees and others are bent on stealing it. Then there's the coming folk festival, a jamboree bringing in musicians, fans, war protestors--a ferment of flower power (the local hippies), raw power (the local biker gangs, notably the Cossacks), and the power of the law (local and fede ..."






The Loud Adios(1st Edition)
by Ken Kuhlken
Hardcover, 217 Pages, Published 1991 by St Martins Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-05951-4, ISBN: 0-312-05951-5

"The Loud Adios - Winner of St. Martin's/ Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye novel competition, THE LOUD ADIOS is set on the home front during World War II. Tom Hickey is in the army, an M.P. working the Tijuana-San Diego border, when a farm boy draftee about to ship overseas begs for help rescuing his sister from a gang of German and Mexican Nazis."






The Vagabond Virgins
A California Century Mystery (Paperback)
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2013 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-649-5, ISBN: 1-59058-649-2

"In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego P.I. Alvaro Hickey follows the stories Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy Virgin."






The Biggest Liar in Los Angeles(1st Edition)
(California Century Mysteries)
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2010 by Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59058-736-2, ISBN: 1-59058-736-7

"In 1926, musician Tom Hickey reads about a lynching the Los Angeles newspapers failed to report and realizes the Negro victim is an old friend. He goes to his neighbor, LAPD detective Leo Weiss who confirms that, officially, the lynching didn't occur. The murder happened in Echo Park, across the street from evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson's Angelus Temple. When Tom goes there looking for clues, he is greeted by an usher who continues ..."






The Venus Deal
(EasyRead Large Edition)
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 492 Pages, Published 2009 by Readhowyouwant
ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-4603-0, ISBN: 1-4587-4603-8

"... Denver police technician Mike Shonk; and Vera and Ralph Steinhoff, not only for facts and ideas but for the love you've given my kids and me. ..."






The Loud Adios
(EasyRead Large Edition)
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 364 Pages, Published 2009 by Readhowyouwant
ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-3964-3, ISBN: 1-4587-3964-3

"Beside him sat a giant, a young guy with a face all cheeks and a high tuft of wheat-colored hair. He was twice as wide across the shoulders as Leo. Hickey ..."






The Vagabond Virgins
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 396 Pages, Published 2009 by Readhowyouwant
ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-4537-8, ISBN: 1-4587-4537-6

"Thanks to Pam Fox, Gene Riehl, and Dave Knop for help and encouragement, to Barbara Peters for excellence in editing and for creating a place where the ..."






the Answer to Everything
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Independently Published
ISBN-13: 978-1-73074-843-1, ISBN: 1-73074-843-0

"The Answer to Everything: (San Diego, Tijuana, Lake Tahoe, 1990) Attorney Alvaro Hickey assists in the murder of a Tijuana cartel sicaro then becomes the murderer’s lawyer. The cartel, which has lately massacred an entire family, now targets another whole family, the Hickey-McGees.Jodi McGee, narrator of The Answer to Everything, has a seventeen-year-old daughter, a husband in prison, and a deep affection for Clifford Hickey, a San Dieg ..."






Cars
California Stories
by Ken Kuhlken
Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2016 by Hickey's Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9965242-7-8, ISBN: 0-9965242-7-4

"Stories selected from the work of much honored novelist Ken Kuhlken that vividly capture California as a glorious dream, a hallucination and a nightmare, a state we all should visit though we might not want to risk living there."






The California Century Novels Ser.(Unabridged)
The Do-Re-Mi
by Ken Kuhlken, To Be Announced, Ray Porter
Cd, Published 2012 by Blackstone Pub
Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-4708-0911-9, ISBN: 1-4708-0911-7






No Cats, No Chocolate
by Ken Kuhlken, Alan Russell
Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2004 by Hickey's Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9759047-0-1, ISBN: 0-9759047-0-1

"If Hollywood needs another reality show (Heaven forbid), they might consider the Ken and Alan show. Ken Kuhlken and Alan Russell are mystery writers. The two of them have written over a dozen critically acclaimed novels, and yet neither has become a household word. A few years back they had the idea of doing an "international" book tour together, and naturally everything went to hell. Their hilarious book Road Kill documented their ..."



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