Ross Thomas: No Questions Asked (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
With eviction looming, St. Ives searches for a big payday and a rare book
Philip St. Ives has no love for New York's drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to learn about a job that calls for his specific talents as a mediator between thieves and their victims. It sounds like the set-up to a bad joke: A thief, an insurance salesman, and the Library of Congress call Philip's lawyer to ask about a stolen copy of Pliny'sHistoria Naturalis. To find it, Philip will risk becoming history himself.

The book was stolen on its way from the Library of Congress to California, and the detective guarding it vanished as well. Mired in snow-choked Washington, DC, St. Ives must arrange for a pair of ransoms to avoid becoming a victim of book collectors who value a nice first edition over an investigator's life.

Ross Thomas: No Questions Asked. A Philip St. Ives Mystery. Mysterious Press / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781453259702 (July, 2012), 1 MB (ca. 192 p.), $9.99 (?).

Oliver Bleeck: No Questions Asked (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
"In the front ranks of modern writers of suspense fiction." -- Omaha World-Herald
"Has no peer as a story teller and compares favorably with the best writers in the business." -- Charlotte Observer

Philip St. Ives, that most professional of professional go-betweens, pursues a most curious and dangerous assignment in snow-covered Washington, D.C. A copy of Pliny's Historia Naturalis has been stolen and is now being ransomed for a quarter of a million dollars. The well-known private detective guarding the book also has been kid-napped, and St. Ives must survive long enough to recover. the prized book.

Oliver Bleeck: No Questions Asked. New York: Harper & Row, 1987, ISBN: 0060808632, Perennial Library P863, 188 p., $3.95.

Oliver Bleeck: No Questions Asked (USA 1976)

From the Publisher:
Incomparable professional go-between Philip St. Ives, short of funds, agrees to act as go-between to recover a rare book, which has been stolen and is being ransomed for $250,000. A private detective named Jack Marsh had the book when it was stolen, and he has been kidnapped as well.

St. Ives is soon involved in a deadly game of deception and murder with a colorful cast of characters that includes a nearly seven-foot, 275-pound insurance agent and a beautiful blonde.

This is more super entertainment from Ross Thomas writing as Oliver Bleeck, author of The Highbinders and other St. Ives books, with lots of great action, suspense. and twists of plot.

Oliver Bleeck: No Questions Asked. A Novel of Suspense. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1976, ISBN: 0688030114, 228 p., $6.95.