Isaac Bell thrillers
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1) The chase
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Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
404 p. : ill., col. map ; 24 cm.
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The 1950 discovery of four bodies inside a sunken steam locomotive in a Montana lake gives way to the story of a murderous 1906 bank robber whose ruthlessness challenged Isaac Bell, a talented detective struggling to identify and capture the killer.
2) The wrecker
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
470 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1907, after a rash of vandalism and sabotage, the Southern Pacific Railroad employs the famed Van Dorn Detective Agency. Charged with discovering the culprits behind the railroad's latest misfortune, the agency sends their best investigator, Isaac Bell, to the Cascades. However, after conversing with several drifters, Bell discovers that a man known as 'the Wrecker' is behind the random acts of violence.
3) The spy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.
4) The race
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Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
404 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Bell has never encountered a case, and an enemy, quite like the one before him now. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates, an intrepid aviatrix named Josephine Frost, and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency,...
5) The thief
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 5
Pub. Date
p2012
Physical Desc
8 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more....
6)
The striker , Isaac Bell thrillers volume 6
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear...
8) The assassin
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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409 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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"As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin - shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range - kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent...
9) The gangster
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 9
Pub. Date
[2016]
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"It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special 'Black Hand Squad,' but the gangsters appear to be everywhere--so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and...
10) The cutthroat
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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"The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate--petite...
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When Isaac Bell attempts to decipher the forbidding deaths of nine men, he encounters a secret so powerful it could dictate the fate of the world ... A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time."
12) The saboteurs
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Description
Detective Isaac Bell's wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda--one involving the newly constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building of the...
13) The sea wolves
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"As New England swelters in the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles--only to discover something much more sinister. Whoever broke into this Winchester Factory wasn't looking to take weapons, they wanted to leave something in the shipping crates: a radio transmitter, set to summon a fleet of dreaded German U-boats. Someone is trying to keep American supplies from reaching British shores, and if Bell...
14) The heist
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Pub. Date
2024.
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388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in this all-new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler." 1914: As America's century of dominance dawns, the country's greatest detective, Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell, is pitted against a master thief and his assassin accomplice. They're plotting to pull off the greatest heist in America's history: the theft of a billion dollars from the newly created Federal...