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The Alcoholicsby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733132 (0-679-73313-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Archangelby Robert HarrisISBN 0679428887 (0-679-42888-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Big Sleepby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0679601406 (0-679-60140-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Black Fly Seasonby Giles BluntISBN 0679312439 (0-679-31243-9)
Hardcover, Random House Canada
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Black Friday and Selected Storiesby David GoodisISBN 0679732551 (0-679-73255-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Blue Belleby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679761683 (0-679-76168-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Belle'Book summary:Burke is one of the most cold-blooded yet strangely honorable heroes in the history of crime fiction, an outlaw who makes his living by preying on the most vicious of New York Citys bottom-feeders, those who thrive on the suffering of children.
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In Andrew Vachsss tautly engrossing novel Burke is given a purse full of dirty money to find the infamous Ghost Van that is cutting a lethal swath among the teenage prostitutes in the hood. He also gets help in the form of a stripper named Belle, whose moves on the runway are outclassed only by what she can do in a getaway car. But not even Burke is prepared for the evil that is behind the Ghost Van or for the sheer menace of its guardian, a cadaverous karate expert who enjoys killing so much that he has named himself after death.More editions of Blue Belle:
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Bone in the Throat: Novel of Death and Digestionby Anthony BourdainISBN 0679435522 (0-679-43552-2)
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Born Badby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679753362 (0-679-75336-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born Bad'Book summary:From a writer whose novels have been acclaimed for their unflinching exploration of evil comes a brilliant collection of short storiessome never before publishedthat distill dread back down to its essenceand inject it straight into the reader's back brain. Andrew Vachss might have scissored his characters from today's headlines: a stalker prowling around an anonymous high-rise; a serial killer whose transgressions reflect a childhood of hideous abuse; an inner-city gunman who is willing to take out a blockful of victims in order to win a moment of acceptance.
Tautly written and endowed with murderous ironic spin, Born Bad plunges us into the hell that lies just outside our bedroom windows. [via]More editions of Born Bad:
The Burglarby David GoodisISBN 0679734724 (0-679-73472-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Burnt Orange Heresyby Charles WillefordISBN 0679732527 (0-679-73252-7)
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Cassidy's Girlby David GoodisISBN 0679738517 (0-679-73851-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Cast, in Order of Disappearanceby Simon BrettISBN 0684147076 (0-684-14707-6)
Hardcover, Scribner
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China Menby Maxine KingstonISBN 0679723285 (0-679-72328-5)
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The Club Dumasby Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia SotoISBN 0679777547 (0-679-77754-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Club Dumas'Book summary:Fallen angels, satanic manuals, and a passion for the works of Raphael Sabatini and Alexandre Dumas among others--this is the stuff of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte's engrossing novel The Club Dumas. Set in a world of antiquarian booksellers where dealers would gladly betray their own mothers to get their hands on a rare volume, The Club Dumas is a thinking person's thriller: in addition to a riveting plot, the book is full of intriguing details that range from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might go about forging a 17th-century text. Woven through these meditations is enough murder, sex, and the occult to keep both the hero, Lucas Corso, and the reader hopping.
As in his previous novel, The Flanders Panel, set in the world of art restoration, Mr. Pérez-Reverte has written a literary thriller to tease both the intellect and adrenaline gland. Lucas Corso makes a complex, ultimately sympathetic hero, and there's plenty to delight in the intricate twists and turns the story takes before the mystery of The Club Dumas is finally solved. [via]
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Cockfighterby Charles WillefordISBN 0679734716 (0-679-73471-6)
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Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679600078 (0-679-60007-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime. He was a seminal figure in the development of science fiction and the detective story, and exerted a great influence on Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and Charles Baudelaire, who championed him long before Poe was appreciated in his own country. Baudelaire's enthusiasm brought Poe a wide audience in Europe, and his writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature. This edition includes his most well-known works--"The Raven," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Annabel Lee," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--as well as less-familiar stories, poems, and essays. [via]
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The Complete Storiesby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0679417400 (0-679-41740-0)
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Edgar Allan Poes gift for the macabrehis genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingswas so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful representin contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitmanthe other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.More editions of The Complete Stories:
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, W. J. LeatherbarrowISBN 0679420290 (0-679-42029-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Crime and Punishmentby Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0679734503 (0-679-73450-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
The Criminalby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733140 (0-679-73314-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Cropper's Cabinby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733159 (0-679-73315-9)
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Dance for the Deadby Thomas PerryISBN 0679449116 (0-679-44911-6)
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Dark Specterby Michael DibdinISBN 0679767231 (0-679-76723-1)
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Degree of Guiltby Richard North PattersonISBN 0679420649 (0-679-42064-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Denialby Keith R. AblowISBN 0679442111 (0-679-44211-1)
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Down in the Zeroby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679760660 (0-679-76066-0)
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Now Burke is back, investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among teenagers of a wealthy Connecticut suburb. There he discovers a sinister connection between the anguish of the young and the activities of an elite sadomasochistic underground, for whom pan and its accompanying rituals are a source of pleasureand power 
Dragon Bones: A Novelby Lisa SeeISBN 0679463208 (0-679-46320-8)
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The Drowning Poolby Ross MacDonaldISBN 0679768068 (0-679-76806-8)
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The Dying of the Lightby Michael DibdinISBN 0679753109 (0-679-75310-9)
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The Dying of the Light: A Mysteryby Michael DibdinISBN 067943075X (0-679-43075-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Edwin of the Iron Shoesby Marcia MullerISBN 0679507825 (0-679-50782-5)
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False Allegationsby Andrew H. VachssISBN 0679772936 (0-679-77293-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'False Allegations'Book summary:Vachss and his quasi-hero Burke are definitely not for the squeamish, dealing largely with stories about abused children. But he is a strong and angry writer who has carved himself out a unique territory in the dark landscape of the thriller. In his 11th Burke novel, Vachss uses the work of the real Dr. Bruce Perry, the Houston psychologist and pioneer researcher into recovered memory, to center the story about a shady lawyer who specializes in getting such cases thrown out of court. [via]
The Far Cryby Fredric BrownISBN 0679734694 (0-679-73469-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Fatherlandby Robert HarrisISBN 0679412735 (0-679-41273-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatherland'Book summary:Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.
As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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Felidaeby Akif PirincciISBN 067942069X (0-679-42069-X)
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The Final Judgmentby Richard North PattersonISBN 0679766669 (0-679-76666-9)
Softcover, Random House Large Print
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Fletchby Gregory McDonaldISBN 0672520206 (0-672-52020-6)
Hardcover, Bobbs-Merrill
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Heed the Thunderby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679740147 (0-679-74014-7)
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His Name Was Deathby Fredric BrownISBN 0679734686 (0-679-73468-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'His Name Was Death'Book summary:The title comes from Revelations 6:8, which in the King James Version says, "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."
Hook is that each section starts with "His name was" or "Her name was." The book begins, "Her name was Joyce Dugan, and at four o'clock on this February afternoon she had no remote thought that within the hour before closing time she was about to commit an act that would instigate a chain of murders." The last section, just a couple of pages long, begins, "His name was Death, and he waited for ____."
After Dugan, the focus moves around a few other people, primarily her boss, Darius Conn, who runs a print shop. The year before he'd killed his wife and gotten away with it, and now he's feeling bold and very confident. He's got a plan, and no-one's going to get in his way. [via]More editions of His Name Was Death:
Inspector West at Homeby John CreaseyISBN 0684133962 (0-684-13396-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Intruder in the Dustby William FaulknerISBN 0679736514 (0-679-73651-4)
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Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Storiesby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0684130270 (0-684-13027-0)
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Kill the Boss Good-Byeby Peter RabeISBN 0679740694 (0-679-74069-4)
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Killing Mister Watsonby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0679734058 (0-679-73405-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing Mister Watson'Book summary:Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century. [via]
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LA Tabla De Flandes/the Chess Masterby Arturo Perez-ReverteISBN 0679760903 (0-679-76090-3)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
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The Last Donby Mario PuzoISBN 067975900X (0-679-75900-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Don'Book summary:Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, knows a thing or two about the Mafia and about the movie business; here he brings them together. In the prologue, a Mafia don oversees the double christening of two infant boys, Dante and Cross, into the Clericuzio family. Later, when Cross is tapped to take over as the "Hammer" of the Clericuzios, their prime hit man, he proves not cold-blooded enough for the role. Dante takes his place, and Cross moves from Las Vegas to Hollywood, which proves to be an even worse den of iniquity. When he falls for a movie star Athena Aquitaine, he exhibits the "fatal flaw" the old don always warned against: loving a beautiful woman. A taut novel of sex and money, of love and power. [via]
The Laughing Policemanby Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo, Alan BlairISBN 0679742239 (0-679-74223-9)
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The Law of Similarsby Chris BohjalianISBN 0679771476 (0-679-77147-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Law of Similars'Book summary:In Chris Bohjalian's fine follow-up to Midwives, individual judgment and the unconventional again clash with the medical and legal forces of tradition. In rural Vermont, two years after his wife's sudden death, an exhausted state's attorney can hope for little but a quiet life with his 4-year-old daughter. Leland Fowler's only goal is a cure for the common cold--his own, that is, which has dragged on for months. As it turns out, his appointment with the town's only homeopath will set to rights his physical and emotional symptoms. At least for a while.
Alas, another of Carissa Lake's patients isn't quite so lucky. Despite her warning that Richard Emmons not go off his prescription drugs, he does exactly that. In fact, during an asthma attack, he takes the homeopathic law of similars--the belief that "like cures like"--to an entirely new level. This tragedy embroils Carissa in an investigation of her practice and forces Leland into a decision that is to alter not only her life but his:
Upstairs, my daughter slept. And for a long time we sat on the floor before the tree, neither of us saying a word, as I worked out in my mind exactly what I would have needed to prosecute this case if a summer cold had not lasted into the fall, and I had not met Carissa Lake. Once I knew, nothing seemed quite so hopeless, and I began to sketch aloud for her exactly what we would want to create in the morning, and exactly what we would want to destroy.
Chris Bohjalian is an artist of the small but seismic instant. As this gripping novel proves, he knows all too well the awful daring of a moment's surrender. --Siobhan Carson [via]More editions of The Law of Similars:
The Locked Roomby Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo, Paul Britten AustinISBN 0679742220 (0-679-74222-0)
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The Man on the Balconyby Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo, Alan BlairISBN 0679745963 (0-679-74596-3)
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evilby John BerendtISBN 0679751521 (0-679-75152-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'Book summary:John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has been heralded as a "lyrical work of nonfiction," and the book's extremely graceful prose depictions of some of Savannah, Georgia's most colorful eccentrics--remarkable characters who could have once prospered in a William Faulkner novel or Eudora Welty short story--were certainly a critical factor in its tremendous success. (One resident into whose orbit Berendt fell, the Lady Chablis, went on to become a minor celebrity in her own right.) But equally important was Berendt's depiction of Savannah socialite Jim Williams as he stands trial for the murder of Danny Hansford, a moody, violence-prone hustler--and sometime companion to Williams--characterized by locals as a "walking streak of sex." So feel free to call it a "true crime classic" without a trace of shame. [via]
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Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil: A Savannah Storyby John BerendtISBN 0679643419 (0-679-64341-9)
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie CollinsISBN 0679417222 (0-679-41722-2)
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Murder at the National Cathedralby Margaret TrumanISBN 0679400443 (0-679-40044-3)
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Murder at the National Galleryby Margaret TrumanISBN 0679435301 (0-679-43530-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoirby James EllroyISBN 0679762051 (0-679-76205-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Name of the Game Is Deathby Dan J. MarloweISBN 0679738487 (0-679-73848-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Storyby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0684106205 (0-684-10620-5)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Nightfallby David GoodisISBN 0679734740 (0-679-73474-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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No Beast So Fierceby Edward Bunker, William StyronISBN 0679741550 (0-679-74155-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Nothing More Than Murderby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733094 (0-679-73309-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Pick-Upby Charles WillefordISBN 0679732535 (0-679-73253-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0679600019 (0-679-60001-9)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'Book summary:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Psalm Killerby Chris PetitISBN 0679451269 (0-679-45126-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Rainbow's Endby Martha GrimesISBN 0679441883 (0-679-44188-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow's End'Book summary:"Once again, Grimes hooks her readers with the engaging Jury and friends and with skillful tucking of hints into unexpected corners."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
When three women die of "natural causes" in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection--or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he's following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There, in the company of a brooding thirteen-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest. And while his good friend Melrose Plant pursues inquiries in London, Jury delves deeper into the more baffling elements of the case, discovering firsthand what the guide books don't tell you: that the Land of Enchantment is also a landscape ripe with tragedy, treachery, and murder.
"RAINBOW'S END is itself a literary rainbow. It's the skillful blend of mystery and comedy and pathos, a Martha Grimes trademark, that makes this visit with Richard Jury and company so memorable and satisfying."
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Recoilby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733086 (0-679-73308-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Red Squareby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0679416889 (0-679-41688-9)
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Ripley under Waterby Patricia HighsmithISBN 0679748091 (0-679-74809-1)
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Savage Art : A Biography of Jim Thompsonby Robert PolitoISBN 0679733523 (0-679-73352-3)
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Savage Nightby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733108 (0-679-73310-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Shadow Horseby Alison Hart, Alice LeonhardtISBN 0679886427 (0-679-88642-7)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Shatteredby Richard NeelyISBN 0679734988 (0-679-73498-8)
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Silent Witnessby Richard North PattersonISBN 0679774165 (0-679-77416-5)
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Snow Falling on Cedarsby David GutersonISBN 067976402X (0-679-76402-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Falling on Cedars'Book summary:Fighting the distrust and prejudice of his neighbors on a remote island in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American man who spent time in an internment camp during World War II, finds himself on trial for murder. The histories of the accused and the victim, both fishermen and residents of the small town of San Piedro, unfold as newspaperman Ishmael Chambers embarks on a quest for the truth. Lonely and war-scarred, Chambers strives for justice and inner strength, while coming to terms with his ill-fated love for Hatsue Miyamoto, the wife of the accused. Evocative and beautifully written, Snow Falling on Cedars won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. [via]
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South of Heavenby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679740171 (0-679-74017-1)
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A Swell-Looking Babeby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733116 (0-679-73311-6)
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Texas by the Tailby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679740112 (0-679-74011-2)
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To Love and Be Wiseby Josephine TeyISBN 0684006316 (0-684-00631-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Love and Be Wise'Book summary:Literary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Author Lavinia Fitch was sure her guest "must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece," and the art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed. Yet Grant heard nothing more of Searle until the news of his disappearance. Had Searle drowned by accident or could he have been murdered by one of his young women admirers? Was it a possible case of suicide or had the photographer simply vanished for reasons of his own? [via]
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The Transgressorsby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679740163 (0-679-74016-3)
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Unusual Suspects : A New Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizardby James Grady, William ShoreISBN 0679767886 (0-679-76788-6)
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The Vintage Book of Classic Crimeby Michael DibdinISBN 0679768556 (0-679-76855-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Wash This Blood Clean from My Handby Fred Vargas, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0676977987 (0-676-97798-7)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Watson's Choiceby Gladys MitchellISBN 0679506586 (0-679-50658-6)
Hardcover, McKay
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Wild Townby Jim ThompsonISBN 0679733124 (0-679-73312-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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