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Whatever Happened to Super Joe?
Catch up with 45 former Indians players and find out what they think now about their playing days and their lives after baseball.
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Women Behaving Badly
Sixteen strange-but-true tales of Cleveland women who murder.
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Trail Guide to Cuyahoga Valley National Park 3rd Edition
The largest and most comprehensive trail guide for Ohio's popular national park.
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Pepper Pike
The first in the Milan Jacovich series where Milan discovers that all is not as quiet it appears to be in the stately suburb of Pepper Pike.
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Strange Tales from Ohio
75 odd tales of Ohio’s most remarkable people, places, and events.
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Les Roberts, author of King of the Holly Hop

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Les Roberts

Les Roberts is the author of 14 mystery novels featuring Cleveland detective Milan Jacovich, as well as 9 other books of fiction. The past president of both the Private Eye Writers of America and the American Crime Writer's League, he came to mystery writing after a 24-year career in Hollywood. He was the first producer and head writer of the Hollywood Squares and wrote for the Andy Griffith Show, the Jackie Gleason Show, and the Man from U.N.C.L.E., among others. He has been a professional actor, a singer, a jazz musician, and a teacher. In 2003 he received the Sherwood Anderson Literary Award. A native of Chicago, he now lives in Northeast Ohio.

Books by Les Roberts

Clevland books: Pepper Pike by Les Roberts
Pepper Pike
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#1 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . Introducing Milan Jacovich (pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich), Cleveland's favorite private eye. Milan, an ex-cop, Vietnam veteran, and former football playe  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: Full Cleveland by Les Roberts
Full Cleveland
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#2 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . Polyester leisure suit, white patent leather shoes, matching white belt—that 1970s fashion statement was once unkindly dubbed the “full Cleveland.” And no  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: Deep Shaker by Les Roberts
Deep Shaker
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#3 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . No one is as loyal to old friends as Cleveland private investigator Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich). So when a grade school chum worrie  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: The Cleveland Connection by Les Roberts
The Cleveland Connection
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#4 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . Private investigator Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich) is Slovenian-American, but he's familiar with the varied ethnic groups that make u  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: The Lake Effect by Les Roberts
The Lake Effect
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#5 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . Every Clevelander understands the lake effect, a weather condition that brings plenty of snow, especially in November when election time rolls around. Mil  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: The Duke of Cleveland by Les Roberts
The Duke of Cleveland
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#6 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . “The wonderful thing about art is that it doesn't really have to do anything . . . All that is asked of it is that it be beautiful. It doesn't work that w  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: Collision Bend by Les Roberts
Collision Bend
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#7 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . Private investigator Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich) goes behind the scenes to uncover scandal, ambition, and intrigue at one of Clevel  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: The Cleveland Local by Les Roberts
The Cleveland Local
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#8 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . Hotshot young Cleveland lawyer Joel Kerner is shotgunned to death on a lonely beach on the Caribbean island of San Carlos. The local police are inept, and  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: A Shoot in Cleveland by Les Roberts
A Shoot in Cleveland
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#9 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . Hollywood producer Sidney Friedman has chosen Cleveland as the location for his new hope-to-be-blockbuster film, Street Games. The “shoot” is just getting  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: The Best-Kept Secret by Les Roberts
The Best-Kept Secret
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#10 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . Everyone has secrets. But college freshman Jason Crowell is especially guarded when an anonymous feminist organization on campus publicly accuses him of  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: The Indian Sign by Les Roberts
The Indian Sign
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#11 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . Veteran private eye Milan Jacovich (it's pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovitch) is rarely surprised. But his attention is grabbed one day by a Native American ma  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: The Dutch by Les Roberts
The Dutch
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#12 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . In street parlance, “the dutch” is another expression for suicide. That's what everyone assumes happened to Ellen Carnine when her broken body is found 1  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: The Irish Sports Pages by Les Roberts
The Irish Sports Pages
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

#13 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . A slick con man, posing as a recent immigrant from County Mayo all alone in America, is preying on the clannish loyalties of the Irish community in Cleve  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: We'll Always Have Cleveland by Les Roberts
We'll Always Have Cleveland
A Memoir of a Novelist and a City
by Les Roberts

When novelist and television producer Les Roberts arrived in Cleveland from Los Angeles for a short-term consulting job in 1986, he wasn't entirely prepared. It was January, and he'd brought no overco  . . . [Read More]

Clevland books: King of the Holly Hop by Les Roberts
King of the Holly Hop
A Milan Jacovich Mystery
by Les Roberts

Now in paperback, #14 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series . . . Going to your high school reunion is never fun. But this time, it's murder. When Cleveland private eye Milan Jacovich reluctantly atten  . . . [Read More]