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Name: Sentinels
Author: Bill Pronzini

"Sentinels" is the twenty‑third entry in the nameless detective series by Bill Pronzini. The story follows the nameless detective, a private investigator, who is contracted by a worried mother to investigate her daughter’s disappearance. The case takes him to a small, California backwater where Allison McDowell, a college student from Oregon, has vanished while traveling to San Francisco with her new, mysterious boyfriend. What begins as a simple missing‑person investigation unfolds into a sinister and deadly conspiracy that tests the detective’s skills and resolve.

First publish date: 1996

Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator

Authors: Bill Pronzini

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