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The A.b.c. Murdersby Agatha ChristieISBN 1579126243 (1-57912-624-3)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The A.b.c. Murders'Book summary:Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to strike again. It is one of Poirots most challenging cases yet. [via]
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Adam and Eve and Pinch Meby Ruth RendellISBN 1400031184 (1-4000-3118-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Adventures and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesby Scott McKowenISBN 140271453X (1-4027-1453-X)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.[via]
Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.
Its elementarytheres no more intriguing detective than Sherlock Holmes, with his unequalled powers of deduction, and no better mysteries than the tricky ones that only he can solve. Here are some of the finest Holmes stories, recounted by his trusty friend and assistant, Dr. Watson.More editions of The Adventures and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes:
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After Dark, My Sweetby Jim ThompsonISBN 0887390056 (0-88739-005-6)
Softcover, Creative Arts
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Dark, My Sweet'Book summary:Bill Collins is young, good looking, agile and strong but he's a drifter with mild multiple neuroses, in and out of institutions, and dangerously violent on occasion. When he gets involved with the hard-drinking Fay Anderson and the deceptively pleasant ex-police officer everyone knows as Uncle Bud in a ruthless kidnap plot, everything goes to hell in a hurry, and the end, for Bill, is inevitable and shattering. This is a tour de force of paranoia and violence from the master of the crime noir novel. [via]
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The Amateur Cracksmanby Ernest William HornungISBN 0881843598 (0-88184-359-8)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Angels & Demonsby Dan BrownISBN 1416524797 (1-4165-2479-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels & Demons'Book summary:It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.
Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It's tasty. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Artists in Crimeby Ngaio MarshISBN 0884114716 (0-88411-471-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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The Babes in the Woodby Ruth RendellISBN 1400034191 (1-4000-3419-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Babes in the Wood'Book summary:After weeks of rain, Chief Inspector Wexford has just finished moving his books and furniture upstairs to protect them from the rising waters when the telephone rings. Two local teenagers and their babysitter have gone missing. Wexford isnt particularly worried, since these things usually sort themselves out. But as hours stretch into days, he begins to suspect he has a kidnapping on his hands. The stakes get even higher when a member of the missing trio turns up dead in the woods nearby.
In the course of his investigation, Wexford must deal with a neighbor whose alibi is questionable, a religious cult and its sylvan rituals, someone close to the childrens family who nurses a terrible secret, and the babysitters ex-husband, who reveals the womans hidden penchant for violence.
In The Babes in the Wood, Ruth Rendell draws the reader into a riveting story that alternates between Chief Inspector Wexfords domestic lifehis worries about the security of his home and his daughters odd new boyfriendand his determination to see through a kaleidoscope of lies and bring a murderer to justice. [via] 
Beast in Viewby Margaret MillarISBN 0930330072 (0-930330-07-2)
Softcover, Intl Polygonics Ltd
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Blue Shoes And Happinessby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 1400075718 (1-4000-7571-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Shoes And Happiness'Book summary:THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 7
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswanas premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, and good humornot to mention help from her loyal assistant, Grace Makutsi, and the occasional cup of tea.
Life is good for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve to solve peoples problems, heal their misfortunes, and untangle the mysteries that make life interesting. And life is never dull on Tlokweng Road. A new and rather too brusque advice columnist is appearing in the local paper. Then, a cobra is found in the offices of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. Recently, the Mokolodi Game Preserve manager feels an infectious fear spreading among his workers, and a local doctor may be falsifying blood pressure readings. To further complicate matters, Grace Makutsi may have scared off her own fiancé. Mma Ramotswe, however, is always up to the challenge. And Blue Shoes and Happiness will not fail to entertain Alexander McCall Smiths oldest fans and newest converts with its great wit, charm, and great good will.
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The Bone Collectorby Jeff DeaverISBN 1568955243 (1-56895-524-3)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bone Collector'Book summary:The hero of Jeffery Deaver's thriller The Bone Collector is Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic scientist known to his peers as "the world's foremost criminalist." Rhyme will need all his reason--and his considerable stock of high-tech tools--about him to solve this latest brain-twister: a serial killer with method to his madness. In tried and true thriller fashion, the killer's crimes are described in lurid detail, as is the astounding technological equipment with which Rhyme examines the evidence--everything from an energy-dispersive x-ray unit to a mass spectrometer.
Every fictional detective has his or her gimmick, from Sherlock Holmes's violin to Nero Wolf's orchids, and Rhyme is no exception. He is a quadriplegic who can move nothing but a single finger. Gadget-philes will be in seventh heaven reading about Lincoln Rhyme's tools; other readers might feel the book could do with a few more plausible characters and a little less technology. [via]
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Booked to Dieby John DunningISBN 1416513221 (1-4165-1322-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Bridesmaidby Ruth RendellISBN 0892963883 (0-89296-388-3)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bridesmaid'Book summary:When Philip Wardman's feminine ideal, a Greek goddess, appears in the flesh as Senta Pelham, Philip thinks he has found true love. But darker forces are at work, and Senta is led to propose that Philip prove his love by committing murder. [via]
The Case of the Gilded Flyby Edmund CrispinISBN 1558821082 (1-55882-108-2)
Softcover, Intl Polygonics Ltd
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The Church of Dead Girlsby Stephen DobynsISBN 1568954786 (1-56895-478-6)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890366 (0-922890-36-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Curse of the Pharaohsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890390 (0-922890-39-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Curse of the Pharaohs/Collectorsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890404 (0-922890-40-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dain Curseby Dashiell HammettISBN 0893406066 (0-89340-606-6)
Softcover, J. Curley
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Dance Hall of the Deadby Tony HillermanISBN 1568496958 (1-56849-695-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dance Hall of the Dead'Book summary:Two boys suddenly disappear, and Lt. Joe Leaphorn sets out to locate them. Three things complicate the search: an archaeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the strange laws of the Zuni Indians. A riveting mystery from the bestselling author of Talking God and Skinwalkers. [via]
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Death and the Dancing Footmanby Ngaio MarshISBN 0884114775 (0-88411-477-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Death of a Peerby Ngaio MarshISBN 0884114813 (0-88411-481-3)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Death of a Red Heroineby Qiu XiaolongISBN 1569472424 (1-56947-242-4)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Red Heroine'Book summary:By any standard, Inspector Chen Cao is a novelty in the world of police procedurals. A published poet and translator of American and English mystery novels, he has been assigned by the Chinese government, under Deng Xiaoping's cadre policy, to a "productive" job with the Special Cases Bureau of the Shanghai Police Department.
Shanghai in the mid-1990s is a city caught between reverence for the past and fascination with a tantalizing, market-driven present. When the body of a young "national model worker," revered for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up in a canal, Chen is thrown into the midst of these opposing forces. As he struggles to unravel the hidden threads of this paragon's life, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. With party-line-spouting superiors above him and detectives who resent his quick promotion beneath him, Chen finds himself wondering whether justice is a concept at all meaningful in late-20th-century China.
Death of a Red Heroine is a book hovering uneasily between the spheres of fiction and fact, creativity and didacticism. For much of the novel, author Qiu Xiaolong seems more intent on driving home the actions and consequences of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath than on the slowly unfolding plot. Tedious repetitions of the fates, under Mao, of "educated youths" joust with both the actions of the detectives and Chen's "poetic" ruminations, which, unfortunately, are infected by precisely the stiffness and arbitrariness Qiu is at pains to decry in his historical passages. The moving couplets Chen favors are potentially fascinating insights into the interaction between ancient and modern China, but instead of provoking the reader into reflection, Qiu offers reductive explanations of each and every poem.
The moments when Qiu concentrates on invoking atmosphere are both illuminating and rewarding: Detective Yu's wife's pride and pleasure in having brought home a dozen crabs at "state price" are movingly well crafted, all the more so because Qiu seems almost unaware of what he is doing. Rather than lecturing on the economic dilemmas of the modern worker, he lets Peiqin's simple happiness speak for itself. In the last quarter of the book, Qiu seems to find his stride, though his writing style remains undeniably awkward. Here Chen expands and relaxes, and with him, the novel. Qiu's debut, though anything but polished, holds the promise of better things to come. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Deception Pointby Dan BrownISBN 1416524800 (1-4165-2480-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deception Point'Book summary:Penzler Pick, December 2001: In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book, Digital Fortress, almost passed me by, he wrote Angels and Demons, which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting, believable, and just plain unputdownable.
The time is now and President Zachary Herney is facing a very tough reelection. His opponent, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, is a powerful man with powerful friends and a mission: to reduce NASA's spending and move space exploration into the private sector. He has numerous supporters, including many beyond the businesses who will profit from this because of the embarrassment of 1996, when the Clinton administration was informed by NASA that proof existed of life on other planets. That information turned out to be premature, if not incorrect. (This story is true; I repeat, Dan Brown's research is very, very good.) The embattled president is assured that a rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice will prove to have far-reaching implications on America's space program. The find, however, needs to be verified.
Enter Rachel Sexton, a gister for the National Reconnaissance Office. Gisters reduce complex reports into single-page briefs, and in this case the president needs that confirmation before he broadcasts to the nation, probably ensuring his reelection. It's tricky because Rachel is the daughter of his opponent. Rachel is thrilled to be on the team traveling to the Arctic circle. She is a realist about her father's politics and has little respect for his stand on NASA, but Senator Sexton cannot help but have a problem with her involvement.
Adventure, romance, murder, skullduggery, and nail-biting tension ensue. By the end of Deception Point, the reader will be much better informed about how our space program works and how our politicians react to new information. Bring on the next Dan Brown thriller! --Otto Penzler [via]
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Destination: Morgue! L.A. Talesby James EllroyISBN 1400032873 (1-4000-3287-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales'Book summary:Dig. The Demon Dog gets down with a new book of scenes from Americas capital of kink: Los Angeles. Fourteen pieces, some fiction, some nonfiction, all true enough to be admissible as states evidence, and half of it in print for the first time. And every one of them bearing the James Ellroy brand of mayhem, machismo, and hollow-nose prose.
Here are Mexican featherweights and unsolved-murder vics, crooked cops and a very clean D.A. Here is a profile of Hollywoods latest celebrity perp-walker, Robert Blake, and three new novellas featuring a demented detective with an obsession with a Hollywood actress. And, oh yes, just maybe the last appearance of Hush-Hush sleaze-monger Danny Getchell. Heres Ellroy himself, shining a 500-watt Mag light into all the dark places of his life and imagination. Destination: Morgue! puts the readers attention in a hammerlock and refuses to let go.
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The Dogs of Rigaby Laurie Thompson, Henning MankellISBN 1400031524 (1-4000-3152-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dogs of Riga'Book summary:Bringing the acclaimed series to a close, The Dogs of Riga takes Inspector Kurt Wallander across the Baltic to a disintegrating soviet union
February, 1991. A life raft washes ashore in Skåne carrying two dead men in expensive suits, shot gangland-style. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team determine that the men were Eastern European criminals. But what appears in Sweden to be an open-and-shut case soon plunges Wallander into an alien world of police surveillance, thinly veiled threats, and life-endangering lies.
When another murder is committed, Wallander must travel to Riga, Latvia, at the peak of the massive social and political upheaval that preceded the nation's independence from the Soviet Union. Struggling to catch up with the culprits he pursues in this shadowy nation, Wallander finds that he must make a choice, decide who is lying and who is telling the truth, and test his bravery. [via]
Eight Million Ways to Dieby Lawrence BlockISBN 1568959397 (1-56895-939-7)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Endless Nightby Agatha ChristieISBN 1417618450 (1-4176-1845-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endless Night'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Repackaged and reissued. [via]
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Faceless Killersby Henning Mankell, Steven T. MurrayISBN 1400031575 (1-4000-3157-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faceless Killers'Book summary:If you remember with pleasure those dark and gloomy Martin Beck mysteries by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, you'll be glad to plunge into the first of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallender mysteries to appear in English. Wallender's personal life can occasionally seem more depressing than even a provincial Swedish detective should be asked to bear, but his investigative skills are strictly first rate. And Mankell's story of the brutal murder of an elderly farm couple uncovers an unusual aspect of life in modern Sweden--a streak of fear and prejudice against the many newcomers from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe who have sought asylum there. [via]
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Faceless Killersby Steven T. Murray, Henning MankellISBN 1565846052 (1-56584-605-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faceless Killers'Book summary:If you remember with pleasure those dark and gloomy Martin Beck mysteries by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, you'll be glad to plunge into the first of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallender mysteries to appear in English. Wallender's personal life can occasionally seem more depressing than even a provincial Swedish detective should be asked to bear, but his investigative skills are strictly first rate. And Mankell's story of the brutal murder of an elderly farm couple uncovers an unusual aspect of life in modern Sweden--a streak of fear and prejudice against the many newcomers from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe who have sought asylum there. [via]
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Fatal Inversionby Barbara VineISBN 1555047785 (1-55504-778-5)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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A Fatal Inversionby Ruth RendellISBN 1555047777 (1-55504-777-7)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer
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Ghostwayby Tony HillermanISBN 0896216330 (0-89621-633-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Great Train Robberyby Michael CrichtonISBN 1568492685 (1-56849-268-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Hand in Gloveby Ngaio MarshISBN 0884114864 (0-88411-486-4)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hand in Glove'Book summary:One of Ngaio Marsh's most ingenious novels, finally republished in B-format. The April Fool\'9291s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed except for poor Mr Cartell who had ended up in the ditch for ever. Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period\'9291s letter of condolence, sent before the body was found not to mention the family squabbles. It was a puzzling crime for Superintendent Alleyn& [via]
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Hide & Seekby James PattersonISBN 1568953453 (1-56895-345-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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His Last Bowby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1419123807 (1-4191-2380-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'His Last Bow'Book summary:The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the downs five miles from Eastbourne, where his time is divided between philosophy and agriculture. [via]
In the Electric Mist With Confederate Deadby James Lee BurkeISBN 1562828827 (1-56282-882-7)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Kalahari Typing School For Menby R. A. McCall SmithISBN 140003180X (1-4000-3180-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kalahari Typing School For Men'Book summary:Very minimal signs of shelf wear to cover, but all pages are clean, bright and intact. Spine appears unread. SHIPS NEXT BUSINESS DAY! [via]
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Kansas Troublesby Earlene FowlerISBN 1574902938 (1-57490-293-8)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kansas Troubles'Book summary:Visiting her new husband's Kansas hometown after a whirlwind marriage, Bennie meets aspiring country singer Tyler Brown and is shocked when he is later murdered, prompting a stormy investigation into the crime. [via]
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The Killings at Badger's Driftby Caroline GrahamISBN 0917561414 (0-917561-41-4)
Hardcover, Woodbine House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Killings at Badger's Drift'Book summary:A television tie-in set in the quiet English village of Badger's Drift, where an unwilling Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby is dragged into the investigation of the killing of a popular spinster. First published in paperback in 1989 and now reissued. From the author of DEATH OF A HOLLOW MAN and MURDER AT MADINGLEY GRANGE. [via]
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L.A. Noirby James EllroyISBN 0892966866 (0-89296-686-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Lauraby NISBN 1558615067 (1-55861-506-7)
Hardcover, Feminist Pr
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Lauraby Vera Caspary, Emrys, A. B. (AFT)ISBN 1558615059 (1-55861-505-9)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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Lion in the Valleyby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0896217302 (0-89621-730-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lion in the Valley'Book summary:The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and their precocious (some might say rambunctious) eight-year-old son, Ramses. The long-denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor has finally been granted, and the much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid is now theirs for the exploring.
Before the young family exchanges the relative comfort of Cairo for the more rudimentary quarters near the excavation site, they engage a young Englishman, Donald Fraser, as a tutor and companion for Ramses, and Amelia takes a wayward young woman, Enid Debenham, under her protective wing.
But there is danger and deception in the wind that blows across the hot Egyptian sands. A brazen kidnapping attempt, a gruesome murder, and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and deathall serve to alert Amelia to the likely presence of her arch nemesis, the "Master Criminal," notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivate the man known as Sethos. The evil genius has a score to settle with the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice . . . and he's got her dead-on in his sights.
Replete with edge-of-the-seat suspense and scrupulous archaeological and historical detail, all delivered in Amelia Peabody's unique, wry voice, Lion in the Valley is a classic installment in Elizabeth Peters's beloved mystery-adventure series.
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The Long Firmby Jake ArnottISBN 1569472327 (1-56947-232-7)
Softcover, Soho Pr Inc
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The Midnight Clubby James PattersonISBN 1568957165 (1-56895-716-5)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Mind Readersby Margery AllinghamISBN 0891901795 (0-89190-179-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Murder at the Vicarageby Agatha ChristieISBN 1417617659 (1-4176-1765-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder at the Vicarage'Book summary:Murder at the Vicarage marks the debut of Agatha Christies unflappable and much beloved female detective, Miss Jane Marple. With her gift for sniffing out the malevolent side of human nature, Miss Marple is led on her first case to a crime scene at the local vicarage. Colonel Protheroe, the magistrate whom everyone in town hates, has been shot through the head. No one heard the shot. There are no leads. Yet, everyone surrounding the vicarage seems to have a reason to want the Colonel dead. It is a race against the clock as Miss Marple sets out on the twisted trail of the mysterious killer without so much as a bit of help from the local police. [via]
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Murder Being Once Doneby Ruth RendellISBN 0891903720 (0-89190-372-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Native Tongueby Carl HiaasenISBN 1568953445 (1-56895-344-5)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Native Tongue'Book summary:Now reissued--one of the most beloved novels by the "New York Times" bestselling author in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. [via]
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Nerveby Dick FrancisISBN 0922890269 (0-922890-26-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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One Step Behindby Henning MankellISBN 1400031516 (1-4000-3151-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Step Behind'Book summary:On Midsummer's Eve, three friends gather in a secluded meadow in Sweden. In the still-sun-lit northern night, they don costumes and begin to role play. But an uninvited guest soon brings their performance to a gruesome conclusion. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. Meanwhile, the Ystad police station is experiencing a summer lull. Inspector Kurt Wallander is focusing on living healthier, but his peace of mind is shattered when a fellow officer is murdered. The police slowly realize how little they know about what is going on in their seemingly serene town. An unknown killer is on the loose, but their only lead is a photograph of three dead young people in costume. Forced to dig more deeply than he'd like into the personal life of one of his colleagues, Wallander's investigation uncovers something he could never have imagined. One Step Behind is the fifth book to appear in English in what the Los Angeles Times Book Review calls the "exquisite" Kurt Wallander series. [via]
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The Picasso Flopby Robert J. Randisi, Vince Van PattenISBN 0892960701 (0-89296-070-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Q Is for Quarryby Sue GraftonISBN 1410401634 (1-4104-0163-4)
Softcover, Large Print Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Q Is for Quarry'Book summary:Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has served Sue Grafton well through 16 letters of the alphabet in a perennially popular series that occasionally breaks new ground but more often traverses familiar territory, as is the case here. Two old, ailing cops--one retired, the other disabled--try to breathe some life into an 18-year-old mystery that haunts them both for different reasons. They enlist Kinsey's help in identifying the victim, a young woman who was murdered and left for dead in the old quarry of the title. Neither they nor Kinsey expect that reopening an old case will incite the killer to strike again--not once, but twice. And while the real case of the still-unidentified victim that inspired this fictionalized scenario continues to languish in the cold case file in the Santa Barbara sheriff's office, Grafton's solution is as plausible as any. While the unlikely trio of Millhone and her cranky geezer sidekicks offers a few chuckles, the inner reaches of Kinsey's soul remain largely inaccessible to her as well as to the reader, which will probably not bother most of Kinsey's or Grafton's many admirers. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Road to Perditionby Max Allen Collins, Bob Lappan, Richard Piers RaynerISBN 1563894491 (1-56389-449-1)
Softcover, Vertigo
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The Second Mouseby Archer MayorISBN 0892960728 (0-89296-072-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1402718926 (1-4027-1892-6)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Sidetrackedby Henning Mankell, Steven T. MurrayISBN 1565845072 (1-56584-507-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sidetracked'Book summary:"The Swedish summer-time is too beautiful and too brief for something like this to happen." A young girl commits self-immolation, a former government minister is killed with an axe and scalped; these are the two brutal facts that confront Inspector Kurt Wallander as he prepares for his holiday. As the Swedish midsummer approaches there is no escaping from the darkness of society.
Sidetracked, the fifth of Henning Mankell's acclaimed Kurt Wallander mysteries, and the second to be translated into English, is an engrossing police procedural. The hard-boiled Kurt Wallander has softened slightly since he was first introduced in Faceless Killers, the first title in the series. He drinks less, has more functional relationships and has developed a faith in his investigative team. Despite this, it is his other qualities as a character, his philosophical angst and his intuitive pursuit of hunches, which drive this novel as Wallander struggles to discover the leads that will trap the killer.
Mankell manages to squeeze in serious comments on the state of Swedish society. The over-stretched police force, child prostitution and the corruption of high politics, all come under the scrutiny of Wallander's wearied gaze as he struggles to come to terms with the new violence of his society. This is a dark novel peppered with genuinely nasty violence, but it is Wallander's struggle to uncover the truth and face his own demons that provide the real thrills. --Iain Robinson [via]
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Sidetrackedby Steven T. Murray, Henning MankellISBN 1400031567 (1-4000-3156-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sidetracked'Book summary:"The Swedish summer-time is too beautiful and too brief for something like this to happen." A young girl commits self-immolation, a former government minister is killed with an axe and scalped; these are the two brutal facts that confront Inspector Kurt Wallander as he prepares for his holiday. As the Swedish midsummer approaches there is no escaping from the darkness of society.
Sidetracked, the fifth of Henning Mankell's acclaimed Kurt Wallander mysteries, and the second to be translated into English, is an engrossing police procedural. The hard-boiled Kurt Wallander has softened slightly since he was first introduced in Faceless Killers, the first title in the series. He drinks less, has more functional relationships and has developed a faith in his investigative team. Despite this, it is his other qualities as a character, his philosophical angst and his intuitive pursuit of hunches, which drive this novel as Wallander struggles to discover the leads that will trap the killer.
Mankell manages to squeeze in serious comments on the state of Swedish society. The over-stretched police force, child prostitution and the corruption of high politics, all come under the scrutiny of Wallander's wearied gaze as he struggles to come to terms with the new violence of his society. This is a dark novel peppered with genuinely nasty violence, but it is Wallander's struggle to uncover the truth and face his own demons that provide the real thrills. --Iain Robinson [via]
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1404331395 (1-4043-3139-5)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sign of Four'Book summary:It is in this, the second Holmes novel, that the great detective comes fully to life not only as a melancholic and an inscrutable master of deduction, but also as an incurable drug addict. "Which is it today?" Watson asks Holmes matter-of-factly on the opening page of the novel, "morphine or cocaine?" "It is cocaine," Holmes famously replies. "A seven-per-cent solution. Would you like to try it?" Mary Morstan comes to Holmes in the hope that he will be able to solve a mystery. Ten years earlier her father, Captain Arthur Morstan, had returned to London on leave from his regiment in India where it is said that he and one Thadeus Sholto, "came into possession of a considerable treasure." By the time his daughter arrived at his hotel, he had vanished without a trace. The Sign of Four remains a small masterpiece of suspense, and the novel has enjoyed a steady readership ever since its first publication in 1890. In recent years, however, it has not been readily available except as a part of larger omnibus Holmes anthologies. This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price. It contains textual notes but no appendices or introduction. [via]
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Skinwalkersby Tony HillermanISBN 0896217868 (0-89621-786-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Southern Crossby Patricia Daniels CornwellISBN 1568959737 (1-56895-973-7)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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Stone Angelby Carol O'ConnellISBN 1568955073 (1-56895-507-3)
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1420925539 (1-4209-2553-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Study in Scarlet'Book summary:Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes's Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.
Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.
Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.
Conan Doyle quickly learned that it was Holmes's deductions that were of most interest to his readers. The lengthy flashback, while a convention of popular fiction, simply distracted from readers' real focus. It is when Holmes and Watson gather before the coal fire and Holmes sums up the deductions that led him to the successful apprehension of the criminal that we are most captivated. Subsequent Holmes stories--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes--rightly plunge the twosome directly into the middle of a baffling crime, piling mystery upon mystery until Holmes's denouement once more leaves the dazzled Watson murmuring, "You are wonderful, Holmes!" Generations of readers agree. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Tether's Endby Margery AllinghamISBN 1567230180 (1-56723-018-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Till the Butchers Cut Him Downby Marcia MullerISBN 0892964553 (0-89296-455-3)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Trent's Last Caseby E.C. BentleyISBN 1419191063 (1-4191-9106-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Valley of Fear: Library Editionby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 1404337490 (1-4043-3749-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Valley of Fear'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I am inclined to think- said I. "I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but I'll admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. "Really, Holmes," said I severely, "you are a little trying at times." He was too much absorbed with his own thoughts to give any immediate answer to my remonstrance. He leaned upon his hand, with his untasted breakfast before him, and he stared at the slip of paper which he had just drawn from its envelope. Then he took the envelope itself, held it up to the light, and very carefully studied both the exterior and the flap. [via]
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Obsessionby Ruth Rendell, Bettina Blanch TyrollerISBN 1400059240 (1-4000-5924-0)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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