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Overview: Michael Zinn Lewin (born 1942 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American writer of mystery fiction perhaps best known for his series about Albert Samson, a low-keyed, non-hardboiled private detective who plies his trade in Indianapolis, Indiana. Samson’s was arguably the first truly regional series for a private-eye, beginning with "Ask the Right Question" published in 1971.
Lewin himself grew up in Indianapolis, but after graduating from Harvard and living for a few years in Bridgeport, Connecticut and then New York City, he moved to England where he has lived since 1971. However much of his fiction continues to be set in Indianapolis, including a second series about Leroy Powder, a confrontational Indy police officer who also sometimes appears in the Samson novels. Samson and Powder also feature in short stories. The Samson and Powder novels and stories have been widely praised.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. Ask the Right Question
An Edgar Award Finalist: A teenager’s search for her birth father sends Indianapolis PI Albert Samson on a quest that rattles the skeletons in an old-money family’s closet
It’s a slow afternoon for Indianapolis private detective Albert Samson. He’s just awoken from an office doze when a new client walks in. Sixteen-year-old Eloise Crystal recently discovered that her blood type doesn’t match either of her parents’, and she wants Samson to find her biological father.
Skeptical, but one hundred dollars richer, Samson begins some preliminary digging. What he unearths is the kind of dirt that makes people do desperate things—and it thrusts him into a shifting world of lies, deceit, and murderous secrets.
3. The Enemies Within
The seediest and certainly the neediest P.I. in Indianapolis gets involved in a weird and convoluted situation when he is hired by an antique dealer to fend off an out-of-town shamus.
4. The Silent Salesman
Indianapolis private eye Albert Samson is hired to find out why a devoted sister is not being allowed to visit her brother in hospital. A salesman and researcher at a pharmaceutical laboratory, he’s been in a coma and in intensive care for seven months after an accident at work. His sister’s been told a visit would put him at risk. But how can that be? Samson tries to find out, and he too gets stonewalled. But wouldn’t his work be so much simpler if his clients actually told him the truth? Even so, the nest of intrigue expands to questions of murder, and even the FBI.
5. Missing Woman
A dowdy woman hires private eye Albert Samson to locate her college chum. But is she missing or has she just run away from her husband?A stop-start case takes Samson out of his Indianapolis comfort zone into Southern Indiana where he picks his way through intrigues, lies, and lures and where he tangles with a hostile police force. Everyone has something to hide.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if things did turn out to be as advertised, at least now and then. However here he scrapes the deceptions aside and works his way to the bottom of a tantalizing puzzle in a novel that was adapted for television in Japan.
6. Out of Season aka Out of Time
A short television spot about the life of the average private eye gives Albert Samson hope that his economic blues are about to disappear. Better yet, his newest case looks promising too. He’s just been paid a hefty retainer by Paula Belter, who has discovered that her birth certificate is a fake. There’s no record of her existence.
The trail leads to an unsolved murder and a highly publicized trial that dates back decades. But as Samson connects the dots, he doesn’t end up with a pretty picture. As another murder sends the investigation spiraling out of control, the PI edges closer to the dangerous truth.
The smart-mouthed midwestern detective who "is always good, wry company" returns in this witty crime novel from the critically acclaimed Albert Samson…
7. Called by a Panther
Can this go-for-it detective really be the Albert Samson we used to know? Advertising his wares on television? Having too many clients? If the workload is too intense, no problem: hire help for the less-pressing jobs.
In this novel, a ‘Marlowe’ winner in Germany, which cases have the strongest claim on Samson’s attentions? Maybe it’s the extraordinary fact that terrorism has come to Indianapolis. Yes, Indianapolis. A band of environmental extremists has hit the headlines by planting a bomb a week.
Not that Samson’s been hired to find them – that’s a job for the cops. But the city’s panic has even affected Samson’s normally level-headed police friend. For a moment – just a moment – the guy actually thinks Samson has something to do with the bomb-planters.
But that’s ridiculous. Isn’t it?
8. Eye Opener
Indianapolis PI Albert Samson gets his license back just in time to take on a high-profile case in the latest from the Shamus Award–winning author of Missing Woman. After a confrontation with a cop cost him his PI license, Albert Samson is thrilled to be reinstated. Within hours, he has two new clients and can leave his day job at his mother’s diner behind. But the real payday arrives when he is brought onto the defense team for a man accused of being Indiana’s most notorious serial killer. Of all the private eyes in town, why have the lawyers handpicked Samson for the biggest case to hit Indianapolis in decades? With cash in hand, Samson starts investigating. And what he finds isn’t pretty . . .
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