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Dead beat

Jim Butcher, Jim Butcher
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8 editions · 2 languages
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Harry Dresden's first hardcover adventure finds Chicago's preeminent wizard coping with his new roommate--vampire half-brother Thomas. Harry soon has problems bigger than Thomas' clutter to deal with. Marva, one of Harry's vampire foes, summons him with a threat to his police-lieutenant friend, Karrin Murphy. Marva demands Harry get the Word of Kemmler for her, or she'll frame Murphy for murder. Harry doesn't even know what the Word is, but while he's trying to find out, and also what damage Marva will be able to do with it, several necromancers descend on Chicago. When Harry learns that the…

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Editions

8 editions · 2 languages
  • Audiobook · English · 2014
    Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781664635395
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    Penguin Group USA, Inc. · 9781429514897
  • Other · English · 2011
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 464 pages · 9780356500331
  • Other · English · 2010
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 512 pages · 9780748116577
  • Other · English · 2009
    Roc · 435 pages · 9781435285231
  • Other · English · 2006
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780356246697
Harry Dresden (Fictitious character)WizardsFictionChicago (ill.), fictionPrivate investigators, fictionFiction, fantasy, contemporaryVampires, fictionFiction, mystery & detective, general