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Joe Barley

This page lists novels that feature the Toronto based academic, part time security guard and part time investigator Joe Barley.

 

Joe Barley: Novels

The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn

Eric Wright

Perseverance Press / Daniel & Daniel

2000

A Joe Barley novel.

"Joe Barley, a part-time lecturer in English Literature and part-time security guard, is alerted by his maid to the disappearance of another of her employers, Rosie Dawn, a student of classics who is working her way through school by being an exotic dancer and the mistress of a fast-food entrepreneur. The novel also involves campus politics - a student tries to exploit the nervous administration over its minority policies."
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The Hemingway Caper

Eric Wright

Dundurn

2003

A Joe Barley novel.

"Joe Barley, full-time English professor and part-time private detective, is given a simple case: to track Jason Tyler and find proof of his adultery. But as he's investigating, Barley stumbles across the story of a missing manuscript containing writings by a young Ernest Hemingway. What is Tyler's connection to the Hemingway papers? And why does Tyler's wife insist that Barley stay on the case, long after he's come up with the required evidence of Tyler's infidelity? While these questions hang over Barley, his own life is complicated by academic politics, and challenges to his monogamous relationship with his longtime partner, Carole."
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A Likely Story

Eric Wright

Cormorant Books

2010

A Joe Barley novel.

"As if Joe Barley doesn't have enough on his mind. His job as a part-time instructor at Hambleton College is likely to be eliminated, and his partner, Carole, is expecting their first child. He's also been assigned to find the identity of a mole in the English Department who is part of a nasty and embarrassing letterwriting exchange in a student newspaper. But the stresses of his job and personal life are compounded by the disappearance of a member of the Hambleton faculty, and Joe begins to hear rumours that the teacher was involved with a drug ring run by the Russian mob."
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