Douglas Dinunzio: 10 books

When Brooklyn shamus Eddie Lombardi saves deadbeat gambler Johnny Temafonte from a beating, he’s just being a good neighbor. And he has no interest in helping the kid further until he meets Johnny’s pretty sister Laura. But when Eddie tries to settle Johnny’s...

When private eye Eddie Lombardi's friend Watusi is gunned down and seriously wounded in a trash-filled alley on Manhattan's West Side, Eddie vows revenge against the shooter. His efforts are hampered, however, when the local police precinct seems to have no interest in finding the man. As if that's...

When Sammy Borzano, about to take the big leap off the roof of Bellevue Hospital, asks private investigator Eddie Lombardi to right an old wrong committed by his late brother Tommy, Eddie reluctantly agrees. The task is to find and return a jewel-encrusted crown that came to a church in Bay Ridge,...

Brooklyn. Winter. 1949. Private eye Eddie Lombardi is have a very bad dream--and it starts coming true the minute he wakes up. This first novel is an iPublish original mystery.

When Brooklyn private eye Eddie Lombardi gets his first case after coming back from World War II, it doesn't figure to be challenging: find the part-time waitress at a strip club who's stolen five hundred dollars of the club's money. Trouble is, in the process of tracking down the runaway waitress,...

When private eye Eddie Lombardi discovers the body of a young pianist in an abandoned Brooklyn slum in the depths of winter, he vows to find the person who murdered her. But the more he investigates, the more discrepancies he finds between her family's image of her and who she really was. Her father,...

When Brooklyn private eye Eddie Lombardi saves hit man Carlo Cattalanotte from an assassin’s bullet, he sets himself up for trouble. Carlo, it appears, has stolen Mafia kingpin Jimmy Santini’s entire inventory of cocaine, which is why Santini wants him dead. Eddie couldn’t care less what happens...

When Brooklyn private eye Eddie Lombardi tries to help retired sanitation man Thomas Hamilton, the alleged Cut-'Em-Up Killer, he steps into a world that is beyond his wildest experience. Eddie has seen more than his share of danger, first as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne during World War II,...

NEW YORK STORIES: "The Lady of the House," "A Manhattan Beach Melodrama in Three Acts," "Persistence of Vision," "A Knight-Errant on Cortlandt Street," "Swastika Sal," "The Safest Place in the World," "The Night of the Hunter,"...

Titles for The Ice Cream Man Cometh And Other Stories include: White Cadillac, The Ballad of the Sad Hotel, The Actor, Tenacity, The Hold Up, The Absolute, A Shooting on Plymouth Street, The Ice Cream Man Cometh, Girl on a Pedestal, So This Nun Walks Into a Bar, Flying Down to Rio, Anthony, The Boy Who Quoted Nietzsche, Up From Chastity, and O Death!