title: The Case of the Canny Killer
author: Harry Stephen Keeler
description: Never heard of Harry Stephen Keeler? Don't feel alone. He's America's most forgotten author, victim of a plot by publishers to weed out all writers who don't write swift, easy-to-read, dumbed-down prose for the masses. Harry wrote because he enjoyed it and early on developed a style all his own. He devised incredibly convoluted plots involving ethnic characters (who speak in outrageous dialect), pop culture of the 30s and 40s, and his favorite MacGuffin: skulls. Modern-day writers have their DNA evidence; Harry preferred skulls. Once you read a Keeler, you're never quite the same, and now -- thanks to Ramble House -- you can read all you want. And more! Every one of Keeler's 90+ novels has been brought back into print by Ramble House, including at least 20 titles that were never published before in English.
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  ## The Last Coyote
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Michael Connelly
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Harry's life is a mess. His new house has been condemned because of earthquake
  damage. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And he's even had
  to turn in his badge: he attacked his commanding officer and is suspended
  indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first Bosch resists the LAPD
  shrink, but finally he recognizes that something is troubling him, a force
  that may have shaped his entire life. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his
  mother was brutally murdered. No one was ever even accused of the crime. Harry
  opens up the decades-old file on the case and is irresistibly drawn into a
  past he has always avoided. It's clear that the case was fumbled. His mother
  was a prostitute, and even thirty years later the smell of a coverup is
  unmistakable. Someone powerful was able to keep the investigating officers
  away from key suspects. Even as he confronts his