Disabilities in Mystery

A selection of mystery and suspense stories featuring detectives, victims and criminals with disabilities.



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Alexander,  Bruce 
The Price of Murder
London Magistrate Sir John Field, blinded as a teenager, stumbles upon a disturbing case of missing parents and enslaved children, in the tenth entry to this outstanding historical mystery series.
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Aubert,  Brigitte 
Death from the Woods
Left blind, deaf and quadriplegic by an IRA car bomb, Elise Adrioli becomes the confidante of several people involved in a tragic string of child murders, one of whom, she comes to realize, is responsible.
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Bukiet,  Melvin Jules
Strange Fire
In this twisted tale of intrigue in the Middle East, Nathan Kazakov, a blind and saucy political mouthpiece, tries to sniff out the assassin who fired the bullet that missed his boss but took off his left ear.
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Collins,  Michael 
Fortune's World
Fourteen stories featuring Dan Fortune, a gruff, hardboiled New York detective with one arm, and a two-fisted approach to solving crimes.
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Deaver,  Jeffrey 
The Vanished Man
In his fifth case, quadriplegic crime fighter Lincoln Rhyme and his sidekick Amelia Sachs seek a murder suspect who was cornered in a locked room, only to vanish into thin air.
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Delinsky,  Barbara 
An Accidental Woman
Confined to a wheelchair since the snowmobile accident that killed her partner, Poppy Blake tries to help her best friend beat a murder rap, and makes some startling discoveries about friendship and love.
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Francis,  Dick 
Whip Hand
After the loss of a hand ends his career as a jockey, private investigator Sid Halley risks his other hand to rein in some very bad criminals, in this thrilling sequel to 'Odds Against.'
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Green,  George Dawes
The Caveman's Valentine
A gifted, Julliard-trained musician who lives on the streets and sleeps in a cave in Central Park must struggle with the phantoms that occupy his mind to uncover his friend's murderer.
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Haddon,  Mark 
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Autistic savant Christopher Boone views the world in strikingly different terms, enabling him to sleuth out some troubling twists and turns in his young life, while opening up fresh mysteries for the reader.
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Hecht,  Daniel 
Skull Session
Paul Skoglund, a talented craftsman with Tourette's syndrome disrupts demonic and deadly spirits when he sets out to remodel the home of his peculiar aunt.
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Lethem,  Jonathan 
Motherless Brooklyn
The clock is ticking, and so is Lionel Essrog, an astonishing young man who is not about to let his Tourette's Syndrome stop him from solving the murder of his dear friend and mentor.
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Lutz,  John 
Lightning
That old pain in Florida P.I. Fred Carver's shattered knee can't compete with that felt by the victims of an abortion clinic bombing, and there are more suspects than he can shake his walking stick at.
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McBain,  Ed 
Hark
Will the cops of the 87th precinct ever learn the true identity of the nefarious criminal known as the Deaf Man, and whether or not he can hear them coming?
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Moore,  Harker 
A Mourning in Autumn
New York homicide detective Sakura continues his search for villains and evildoers, utilizing the spiritual vision of his blind wife to help solve a murder.
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Warner,  Penny 
Blind Side
Frogs aren't the only things croaking in bucolic Flat Skunk, California, and when murder casts a pall on the Jumping Frog Jubilee, deaf reporter Connor Westphal is back on the case.
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