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Product Description: Most books on the subject of work focus on the increased amount of time Americans spend on the job. Peter Meiksins and Peter Whalley address the counter-trend, examining the difficult path traversed by people who choose to work less than the standard, forty-hour week...read more

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Product Description: Harry Sommers know his way around. Ex-boxer, ex-bouncer, ex-con, he's now running a private detective agency - and he's got the kind of credentials respected in the underworld!

When a skeleton is found in a building built by Percy Jordan, Christian Lewis's boss and father-in-law, Lewis suspects Jordan may have committed murder

After his boss dies, Harry Sommers, a gentle former prizefighter and amiable ex-con inadvertently inherits the private-eye trade when he investigates the blackmailing and murdering of the crooks who pulled off a successful wage heist eight years earlier

An old friend asks Harry Sommers to find a missing man who had lived a comfortable middle-class life, but the seemingly easy job turns ugly when the man is found dead and more bloodshed follows

After inheriting a fortune, mortician George Webster marries, moves into a big house, and takes a mistress, but soon after his gardener steals his mistress, George kills his wife and tries to cover up the murder

Detective Harry Sommers, investigating tampered slot machines at a seaside amusement arcade, uncovers a murder and finds his own life in danger

After his boss dies, Harry Sommers, a gentle former prizefighter and amiable ex-con inadvertently inherits the private-eye trade when he investigates the blackmailing and murdering of the crooks who pulled off a successful wage heist eight years earlier