Background
Doug J. Swanson was born in 1953.
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Big Town
(Down-and-out private investigator Jack Flippo falls for a...)
Down-and-out private investigator Jack Flippo falls for a woman at the center of a web of blackmail and murder and finds himself implicated in the very case he has been hired to solve.
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Town-Doug-J-Swanson/dp/0060177497/?tag=2022091-20
1994
Dreamboat
(Jack Flippo is a "recovering deadbeat" investigating an i...)
Jack Flippo is a "recovering deadbeat" investigating an insurance scam with an attractive barkeep and facing jack-in-the-box corpses, an attack with an Elvis lamp, and exploding vehicles.
https://www.amazon.com/Dreamboat-Doug-J-Swanson/dp/0060177489/?tag=2022091-20
1995
96 Tears
(Private eye Jack Flippo focuses on a deadly kidnapping pl...)
Private eye Jack Flippo focuses on a deadly kidnapping plot that features a nouveau riche beauty, a lovable arsonist, and an ex-con named Fred Mertts.
https://www.amazon.com/96-Tears-Doug-J-Swanson/dp/0060175117/?tag=2022091-20
1996
Umbrella Man
(Marty Dufrain, owner of a black-and-white film of the Ken...)
Marty Dufrain, owner of a black-and-white film of the Kennedy assassination, leads Jack Flippo on a perilous quest to find out the truth about Kennedy's murder.
https://www.amazon.com/Umbrella-Man-Jack-Flippo-Mysteries/dp/0399145036/?tag=2022091-20
1999
House of Corrections
https://www.amazon.com/House-Corrections-Doug-Swanson-2000-08-05/dp/B01K92R1MI/?tag=2022091-20
2000
Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
(A rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of La...)
A rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas.
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Aces-Binion-Gangster-Created/dp/0143127586/?tag=2022091-20
2014
Doug J. Swanson
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Doug J. Swanson graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. Through the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship, he had an opportunity to attend Stanford University.
Career
Doug J. Swanson published his first novel about a private investigator Jake Flippo in 1994. In ‘Big Town’, its main character lost his job at the district attorney’s office after he was discovered having sexual relations with the wife of a prominent drug dealer. In ‘Dreamboat’ which followed the next year, Flippo was a private investigator working insurance-fraud cases. In the third Jack Flippo mystery book, ‘96 Tears’, Flippo was hired by stripper Sherri Plunkett to detect who was secretly tracking Plunkett’s daughter, Sandra, a beautiful actress seemingly unconcerned with her stalker. The mystery series was completed by two additional volumes during the subsequent years.
In addition to writing books, Swanson also serves as an investigative projects editor in the Dallas Morning News.
Achievements
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Doug J. Swanson is a compelling and accomplished newcomer to the mystery genre.
His mystery series about a private investigator Jake Flippo has been a finalist of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the Best first novel by an American author. In 1994, it received the CWA New Blood Dagger award.
Swanson has also been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and was chosen twice as the best newspaper reporter in Texas.
Works
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Dreamboat
(Jack Flippo is a "recovering deadbeat" investigating an i...)
1995 -
Big Town
(Down-and-out private investigator Jack Flippo falls for a...)
1994 -
Umbrella Man
(Marty Dufrain, owner of a black-and-white film of the Ken...)
1999 -
96 Tears
(Private eye Jack Flippo focuses on a deadly kidnapping pl...)
1996 -
Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
(A rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of La...)
2014 - House of Corrections 2000
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Dreamboat
