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Admit to Murderby Margaret YorkeISBN 0140131582 (0-14-013158-2)
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Appleby's Other Storyby Michael InnesISBN 0140146792 (0-14-014679-2)
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Aunt Dimity and the Dukeby Nancy AthertonISBN 0140178414 (0-14-017841-4)
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Aunt Dimity Beats the Devilby Nancy AthertonISBN 0141002190 (0-14-100219-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil'Book summary:Lori Shepherd, niece of one of the most benevolent ghosts in fiction, discovers there's life (and death) after motherhood in this charming, neo-Gothic tale of haunted castles, time-traveling spirits, and hidden treasure. Leaving her twin toddlers at home in the Cotswolds with her husband, an American lawyer working in England, Lori sets off for Wyrdhurst Hall to evaluate a private library for a wealthy client who has given the castle to his niece Nicole and her new husband, Jared Hollander. But a mysteriously open gate leads Lori dangerously astray. Rescued from a potentially fatal accident by a handsome and charming stranger to whom she is immediately attracted, she resumes her journey to the gloomy Scottish estate. Once ensconced at Wyrdhurst, Lori finds the young mistress is terrified by the sounds and apparitions that haunt the castle and equally frightened of her cold and controlling husband. Lori uncovers a secret cache of letters from an earlier era that hint at a tragic love affair and a death that must be avenged before Wyrdhurst's ghost--and its present inhabitants--can rest in peace. With Aunt Dimity's magic journal warning her that danger surrounds her passionate infatuation with Adam Chase, who has his own reasons for wanting Lori to get to the bottom of the mystery, our intrepid heroine traces the ghostly apparitions to their source. In the process she makes the acquaintance of the restless spirit whose love for a World War I soldier was thwarted, but not destroyed, by Wyrdhurst's original owner and provides the happy-ever-after ending to this charming and lively mystery. Nancy Atherton's fans will adore Lori and Aunt Dimity, and readers new to the series will be delighted to discover the fearless duo in this atmospheric and very well-paced story. --Jane Adams [via]
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Aunt Dimity Digs inby Nancy AthertonISBN 014027569X (0-14-027569-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunt Dimity Digs in'Book summary:The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series, featuring the beloved ghost Aunt Dimity, opens in a picturesque English cottage where the lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles, striving to be the perfect mother to twins! Luckily, a beautiful Italian nanny arrives just in time?so Lori can help settle the local civil war stirred up by a visiting archaeologist's excavation.[via]With Reginald, the stuffed pink rabbit and Edmond Terrance, the stuffed tiger in tow, Lori hunts down a missing document, and the archaeologist digs up a lot more than artifacts. It is Aunt Dimity's magic blue notebook that provides the key to buried secrets and domestic malice, and shows all the residents of Finch that even the darkest acts can be overcome by forgiveness.
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Aunt Dimity's Christmasby Nancy AthertonISBN 0140296301 (0-14-029630-1)
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Aunt Dimity's Deathby Nancy AthertonISBN 0140178406 (0-14-017840-6)
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Aunt Dimity's Good Deedby Nancy AthertonISBN 0140258817 (0-14-025881-7)
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Awkward Lieby Michael InnesISBN 0140127852 (0-14-012785-2)
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The Bar on the Seineby Georges Simenon, David WatsonISBN 0143038311 (0-14-303831-1)
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Basic Instinctby Richard Osborne, Joe EszterhasISBN 0140165886 (0-14-016588-6)
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Birds of a Featherby Jacqueline WinspearISBN 0143035304 (0-14-303530-4)
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The Blackheath Poisoningsby Julian SymonsISBN 0140230661 (0-14-023066-1)
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Blanche Cleans Upby Barbara NeelyISBN 0140277471 (0-14-027747-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blanche Cleans Up'Book summary:Tart-tongued and shrewd, Blanche is unique in the field of amateur sleuths: a queen-sized, middle-aged black woman rooted in working-class America. In her latest adventure Blanche gets suckered into standing in as cook-housekeeper to Allister Brindle, a Boston Brahmin politician, and his do-gooder wife. Blanche is quickly enmeshed in a scandal that moves from the Brindles' house (a.k.a. Prozac House) to her own black community as she tries to figure out the truth behind the death of a young black man. Hot on the trail, she encounters a love triangle with bent angles, teen pregnancy, phony spirituality, and at least one person who doesn't mean her any good.
In Blanche, Barbara Neely has created a heroine to cheer for--and Blanche Cleans Up will thrill not only ardent Blanche fans and mystery buffs, but also anyone eager to explore a new neighborhood with a feisty, funny black woman as their guide. [via]
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Blind Dateby Frances FyfieldISBN 0140280529 (0-14-028052-9)
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The Blood-dimmed Tideby Rennie AirthISBN 0143037102 (0-14-303710-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blood-dimmed Tide'Book summary:Rennie Airth's first John Madden historical thriller, River of Darkness, found a place on more than a few "best of the year" lists in 1999--with good reason. Set in post-World War I England, it was serial-killer fiction of an unusually exalted order, with Madden, then a taciturn and wearily pragmatic veteran-turned-Scotland Yard inspector, investigating the eerie slaughter of a well-respected family in Surrey.
Fortunately, Airth's first sequel was worth the six-year wait. The Blood-Dimmed Tide (which takes its title from a W.B. Yeats poem) finds Madden now retired and living peacefully on a farm in Surrey with his doctor wife, the former Helen Blackwell, and their two children, 10-year-old Rob and 6-year-old Lucy. The year is 1932, and the precipitous rise of the Nazis in Germany leaves many of their fellow countrymen, as well as no few Brits, worried for the future peace and stability of the European continent. More immediately concerning for Madden, however, is his discovery of the corpse of pubescent Alice Bridger--raped, disfigured, and secreted near a tramps' backwoods campsite. Suspicion falls quickly on a vagrant known as Beezy, who was supposedly visiting the area, but Madden--with his remarkable insight into crime ("Madden's always had a way of seeing things clearly, of seeing through them, or rather beyond them," relates a former police colleague)--thinks this is more than an isolated homicide. Sure enough, a records check turns up similar slayings elsewhere in England, dating back to 1929, as well as an active investigation by German law enforcement into half a dozen dead girls in Bavaria and Prussia. What accounts for both the wide range of these mutilations, and the lengthy lag time between them? Could the police be looking for a psychopathic traveler, or worse, a rogue spy who's managed to maintain a respectable front at his international postings, while satisfying his malevolent appetites in his spare hours? And what is the "devils mark" that this killer reportedly bears?
Airth is a fastidious plotter, expert in trickling out twists that heighten story tension but don't leave readers awash in red herrings. Although Madden's role here is somewhat less than it was in River of Darkness--a consequence of his strong-willed wife trying to protect him from further hurt, after the horrendous events of that previous tale--the author compensates by giving us a supporting cast of amply dimensioned Yard types, led by Chief Inspector Angus Sinclair, a perceptive Scot whose doggedness pairs well with Madden's gift for inspiration. While Airth fails, oddly, to exploit a couple of opportunities for interesting plot turns at book's end, his psychological portrait of the murderer imbues Tide with a fine pathos, and the backdrop of Nazi power-grabbing sets the stage for what is supposed to be a third and final Madden yarn. Lets hope that novel appears in more expeditious fashion. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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A Broken Vesselby Kate RossISBN 0140234535 (0-14-023453-5)
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The Case of Sonia Waywardby Michael InnesISBN 0140119760 (0-14-011976-0)
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The Chalon Headsby Barry MaitlandISBN 0142000825 (0-14-200082-5)
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Cherry Blossom Corpseby Robert BarnardISBN 0140237895 (0-14-023789-5)
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The City of falling angels: a venice storyby John BerendtISBN 0143036939 (0-14-303693-9)
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The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: I Married a Dead Man, Waltz into Darkness, Rear Window and Other Storiesby Cornell WoolrichISBN 0140269770 (0-14-026977-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus: I Married a Dead Man, Waltz into Darkness, Rear Window and Other Stories'Book summary:Mystery aficionado Ellery Queen said of Cornell Woolrich that he can "distill more terror, more excitement, more downright nail-biting suspense out of even the most commonplace happenings than nearly all his competitors".
Woolrich's work continues to fascinate readers all around the world, and this trilogy should become a staple in all noir collections. It contains two full length novels (I Married a Dead Man and Waltz into Darkness) and five short stories, including "Rear Window" -- works in which one of the genre's consumate "poets of terror" explores all the classic noir themes of loneliness, despair, futility, and occasionally redemption. [via]
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A Corpse in a Gilded Cageby Robert BarnardISBN 0140237887 (0-14-023788-7)
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuffISBN 0140449132 (0-14-044913-2)
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Translator's Preface
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Crimes of the Cityby Robert RosenbergISBN 0140166866 (0-14-016686-6)
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Cut to the Quickby Kate RossISBN 0140233946 (0-14-023394-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cut to the Quick'Book summary:Impeccably evoking Regency England, this period thriller stars historically authentic detective Julian Kestrel. During an elegant country weekend, Kestrel finds the corpse of an attractive young woman in his bed, and sets out to find the killer among the glittering denizens of a titled house harboring too many secrets. Reading tour. [via]
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The Cutting Roomby Robert RosenbergISBN 0140231129 (0-14-023112-9)
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Dark Fireby C. J. SansomISBN 0143036432 (0-14-303643-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Fire'Book summary:[via]From the acclaimed author of Dissolution comes a new sixteenth-century thriller featuring hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake. In 1540, during the reign of Henry VIII, Shardlake is asked to help a young girl accused of murder. She refuses to speak in her defense even when threatened with torture. But just when the case seems lost, Thomas Cromwell, the kings feared vicar general, offers Shardlake two more weeks to prove his clients innocence. In exchange, Shardlake must find a lost cache of "Dark Fire," a legendary weapon of mass destruction. What ensues is a page-turning adventure, filled with period detail and history.
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Death at the Chaseby Michael InnesISBN 0140172424 (0-14-017242-4)
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Death by Sheer Tortureby Robert BarnardISBN 0140237879 (0-14-023787-9)
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Death of a Mystery Writerby Robert BarnardISBN 0140237860 (0-14-023786-0)
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Different Women Dancingby Jonathan GashISBN 0140264116 (0-14-026411-6)
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Dirty Sallyby Michael SimonISBN 0143035312 (0-14-303531-2)
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Ex Librisby Ross KingISBN 0142000809 (0-14-200080-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ex Libris'Book summary:A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe. Charged with the task of restoring a magnificent library destroyed by the war, Inchbold moves between Prague and the Tower Bridge in London, his fortunes-and his life-hanging on his ability to recover a missing manuscript. Yet the lost volume is not what it seems, and his search is part of a treacherous game of underworld spies and smugglers, ciphers, and forgeries. Inchbold's adventure is compelling from beginning to end as Ross King vividly recreates the turmoil of Europe in the seventeenth century-the sacks of great cities; Raleigh's final voyage; the quest for occult knowledge; and a watery escape from three mysterious horsemen. [via]
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Excursion To Tindariby Stephen Sartarelli, Andrea CamilleriISBN 014303460X (0-14-303460-X)
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Fantomas: The Corpse Who Killsby Pierre Souvestre, John AshberyISBN 0143104845 (0-14-310484-5)
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Fear of the Darkby Gar Anthony Haywood, Gar Anthony AnthonyISBN 0140131531 (0-14-013153-1)
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God in Concord: A Homer Kelly Mysteryby Jane LangtonISBN 0140165940 (0-14-016594-0)
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The Grace in Older Womenby Jonathan GashISBN 0140246622 (0-14-024662-2)
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The Great California Gameby Jonathan GashISBN 0140172246 (0-14-017224-6)
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The Heather Blazingby Colm ToibinISBN 0140175326 (0-14-017532-6)
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I Married a Dead Manby Cornell WoolrichISBN 0140234276 (0-14-023427-6)
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Jade Womanby Jonathan GashISBN 014012280X (0-14-012280-X)
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. Braddon, Jenny Bourne TaylorISBN 0140435840 (0-14-043584-0)
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The Last Manly Manby Sparkle HayterISBN 0142000396 (0-14-200039-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Manly Man'Book summary:Amorous apes, fanatical feminists, tyrannical tycoons, idealistic animal rights activists, and sinister scientists: these are just some of the bizarre cast of characters of The Last Manly Man, a thoroughly entertaining comic caper featuring Sparkle Hayter's heroine, Robin Hudson. Integrating social satire into the mystery format is a challenging task mastered by just a few authors (Carl Hiaasen for one). Sparkle Hayter has earned entry into that select group with her popular series based around Hudson, a feisty New York City-based tabloid TV reporter (and, of course, amateur sleuth). The plot line of The Last Manly Man finds Robin in a bizarre encounter with a strange man in a hat, which leads her on a hunt for a sinister new drug and a cache of kidnapped bonobo apes. Occasionally, the story seems more a frame on which Hayter can drape her often acidic, always amusing observations on such topics as sexual politics and the state of contemporary media.
If the jibes at television news appear well founded, that's likely because the Edmonton-raised Hayter, before moving to the Big Apple, was herself a media personality, via stints at CNN and Global Television in Toronto. She has also written and performed stand-up comedy, an experience easily detected in her writing. Hayter's popular series of Robin Hudson mysteries also includes What's a Girl Gotta Do , Nice Girls Finish Last , Revenge of the Cootie Girls, and The Chelsea Girl Murders. Readers who have enjoyed any of those titles will find much to savour in The Last Manly Man : this Sparkle shines. --Kerry Doole [via]
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The Lies of Fair Ladiesby Jonathan GashISBN 0140176306 (0-14-017630-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lies of Fair Ladies'Book summary:Accused of stealing valuable antiques from a vacant mansion, antique expert Lovejoy investigates and becomes caught up in the activities of two very corrupt dealers. Reprint. [via]
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Lost in a Good Bookby Jasper FfordeISBN 0142004030 (0-14-200403-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in a Good Book'Book summary:[via]The second installment in Jasper Ffordes New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with New York Times bestselling author Jasper Ffordes magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfictionthe police force inside the BookWorld. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickenss Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poes The Raven. What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potters The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth. Its another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment for fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse. Thursdays zany investigations continue with The Well of Lost Plots. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including One of Our Thursdays is Missing and Jasper Ffordes latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!More editions of Lost in a Good Book:
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Maisie Dobbsby Jacqueline WinspearISBN 0142004332 (0-14-200433-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maisie Dobbs'Book summary:[via]Hailed by NPRs Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literatures favorite sleuths.
Maisie Dobbs isnt just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligenceand the patronage of her benevolent employersshe works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. After the War, Maisie sets up on her own as a private investigator. But her very first assignment, seemingly an ordinary infidelity case, soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind.
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The Marshall's Own Caseby Magdalen NabbISBN 0140143238 (0-14-014323-8)
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The Minus Manby Lew McCrearyISBN 0140134506 (0-14-013450-6)
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Moonspenderby Jonathan GashISBN 0140143394 (0-14-014339-4)
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The Moonstoneby Wilkie Collins, Sandra KempISBN 0140434089 (0-14-043408-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moonstone'Book summary:A novel which reflects the underside of Victorian life. A tale of a stolen jewel, foreign menace and violent death. A telling social portrait. [via]
Mrs. Pargeter's Pound of Fleshby Simon BrettISBN 0140234853 (0-14-023485-3)
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Natural Enemyby Jane LangtonISBN 0140133933 (0-14-013393-3)
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Nice Girls Finish Lastby Sparkle HayterISBN 0140245162 (0-14-024516-2)
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On Her Majesty's Secret Serviceby Ian FlemingISBN 0142003255 (0-14-200325-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'Book summary:[via]A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet and pulled away, the sexy boom of its twin exhausts echoing back at him. It was a girl driving, a girl with a shocking pink scarf tied round her hair. And if there was one thing that set James Bond really moving, it was being passed at speed by a pretty girl.
When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in the worldErnst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-bound fastness of his Alpine base, Blofeld is conducting research that could threaten the safety of the world. To thwart the evil genius, Bond must get himself and the vital information he has gathered out of the base and keep away from SPECTRE's agents.
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The Picture of Dorian Greyby Oscar Wilde, Robert MighallISBN 0141439572 (0-14-143957-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Grey'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]
A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hairby Jonathan GashISBN 0140298576 (0-14-029857-6)
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The Rich and the Profaneby Jonathan GashISBN 0140286225 (0-14-028622-5)
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Riftby Liza CodyISBN 0140124209 (0-14-012420-9)
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The Right Madnessby James CrumleyISBN 0143037307 (0-14-303730-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right Madness'Book summary:"This is not my kind of job, man," Montana private eye C.W. Sughrue insists when his psychiatrist pal, Dr. William "Mac" MacKinderick, asks him to find out who surreptitiously duplicated minidisks containing his conversations with seven long-term analysis patients. But, as we soon discover in James Crumley's The Right Madness, this is precisely the sort of investigation toward which C.W. (for Chauncey Wayne) gravitates--filled with violence, sex, despair, and victims at a dime a dozen, not to mention enough booze and illegal drugs to floor a full-grown rhino.
Life hasn't treated Sughrue kindly over the years. Introduced in The Last Good Kiss (1978), this now late-middle-aged, Texas-born redneck and Vietnam vet was left for dead at the end of the Hammett Award-winning The Mexican Tree Duck (1993), and he almost bit it on several more occasions in the revenge fantasy Bordersnakes (1996). As Madness opens, C.W.'s younger lawyer wife, Whitney, has taken new employment in Minneapolis, and he's in serious denial about the consequences of this separation on their marriage. Instead, Sughrue loses himself in MacKinderick's supposedly "easy job"--witnessing a series of gruesome deaths (including the botched hanging of a professor's spouse and an artist's fatal tumble), chasing across the highway-striped West in search of some missing forensic evidence, being physically violated by a "blond giantess from Ukraine," and endeavoring to protect his client's redheaded wife from a couple of licentious FBI agents and her own self-destructive habits. Along the way, MacKinderick's blood-soaked sports car is found on a Washington state Indian reservation, and the doctor is presumed dead. But that only drives Sughrue on harder, as he tries, with help from seductive Butte attorney Claudia Lucchesi, to determine how all the pieces of this puzzle fit together. He's barely more successful at that task than readers will be. But then, Crumley's detective stories have always been stronger on character development, high-caliber action, literary wit, and lyrical exposition than on meticulous plot construction. If you've ever wondered how Hunter S. Thompson might have rewritten Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, The Right Madness provides more than a few clues. Watch out: bad craziness ahead. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]
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River of Darknessby Rennie AirthISBN 0140291962 (0-14-029196-2)
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Madden is sent to a town in Surrey where a local family has been massacred in what looks like a robbery gone wrong. He finds enough echoes of his recent battlefield experiences to conclude that the killer was just one man--most likely a former soldier using a bayonet. As for motive, it could well be perverse sexual passion, that "river of darkness" to which a psychologist introduces him. We meet the killer early on, watch him as he maintains a rigid control over every aspect of his life, then stare in horror as he periodically explodes into mad violence. Unlike Madden, this man has not been severely damaged or changed by the war; he has simply used it to channel and redirect his dark river. Airth's point--that survival comes in many shapes and sizes--gives a solid foundation to an impressive leap of imagination. --Dick Adler [via]
Rumpole a LA Carteby John Clifford MortimerISBN 014017981X (0-14-017981-X)
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Rumpole à la Carteby John MortimerISBN 0140156097 (0-14-015609-7)
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Rumpole and the Age of Miraclesby John MortimerISBN 0140131167 (0-14-013116-7)
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Rumpole and the Angel of Deathby John MortimerISBN 0140263144 (0-14-026314-4)
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Rumpole and the Golden Threadby John MortimerISBN 014025014X (0-14-025014-X)
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Rumpole And the Penge Bungalow Murdersby John MortimerISBN 0143036114 (0-14-303611-4)
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Rumpole of the Baileyby John MortimerISBN 0140250123 (0-14-025012-3)
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The Sixth Lamentationby William BrodrickISBN 0142004626 (0-14-200462-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sixth Lamentation'Book summary:[via]Larkwood Priory, Suffolk, 1995: Following his afternoon confessions, Father Anselm is stopped by an old man. What, he is asked, should a man do when the world has turned against him? Anselms responseclaim sanctuaryis to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined, for the man returns demanding the protection of the Church. He is Eduard Schwermann, a suspected Nazi war criminal.
Meanwhile, with her life running out, Agnes Aubret unburdens a secret to her granddaughter Lucy. Fifty years earlier Agnes lived in occupied Paris and risked her life to smuggle Jewish children to safety until her group was exposed by an SS officer: Eduard Schwermann.
As Father Anselm struggles to discover the truth about Schwermanns history and Lucy delves ever deeper into her grandmothers past, their investigations dovetail to reveal a remarkable story, in which two seemingly unconnected lives shockingly converge. William Brodrick is a master of crisp historical re-creation, precision plotting, and morally complex characterization.More editions of The Sixth Lamentation:
The Skeleton in the Grassby Robert BarnardISBN 0140237836 (0-14-023783-6)
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A Small Deceitby Margaret YorkeISBN 0140154434 (0-14-015443-4)
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The Smell Of The Nightby Stephen Sartarelli, Andrea CamilleriISBN 0143036203 (0-14-303620-3)
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The Snack Thiefby Andrea CamilleriISBN 0142003492 (0-14-200349-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snack Thief'Book summary:[via]In the third book in Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano series, the urbane and perceptive Sicilian detective exposes a viper's nest of government corruption and international intrigue in a compelling new case. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished housecleaner and sometime prostitute, whose young son steals other schoolchildren's midmorning snacks. But Karima disappears, and the young snack thief's lifeas well as Montalbano'sis on the line...
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Snow Falling on Cedarsby David GutersonISBN 0151001006 (0-15-100100-6)
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Some Cloudsby Paco Ignacio Taibo, William I. NeumanISBN 0140148965 (0-14-014896-5)
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Speak for the Deadby Margaret YorkeISBN 0140127658 (0-14-012765-8)
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Sun and Shadow: An Erik Winter Novelby Ake Edwardson, Laurie ThompsonISBN 0143037188 (0-14-303718-8)
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A Taste of Lifeby Sara ParetskyISBN 0146000404 (0-14-600040-4)
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The Terra-Cotta Dogby Andrea Camilleri, Stephen SartarelliISBN 0142004723 (0-14-200472-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Terra-Cotta Dog'Book summary:[via]Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic take on Sicilian life. Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious têtê à têtê with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and dying words that lead him to an illegal arms cache in a mountain cave. There, the inspector finds two young lovers, dead for fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-sized terra-cotta dog. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him on a journey through Sicily's past and into one family's darkest secrets. With sly wit and a keen understanding of human nature, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness, compassion, and imagination make him totally irresistable.
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The Terra-Cotta Dogby Stephen Sartarelli, Andrea CamilleriISBN 0142002631 (0-14-200263-1)
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Therese Raquinby Emile Zola, Robin BussISBN 0140449442 (0-14-044944-2)
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This Way Outby Sheila RadleyISBN 0140144536 (0-14-014453-6)
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The Trudeau Vectorby Juris JurjevicsISBN 0143037404 (0-14-303740-4)
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The Very Last Gambadoby Jonathan GashISBN 0140147381 (0-14-014738-1)
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Voice of the Violinby Andrea Camilleri, Stephen SartarelliISBN 0142004456 (0-14-200445-6)
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Wash This Blood Clean from My Handby Fred Vargas, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0143112163 (0-14-311216-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand'Book summary:A #1 bestselling author in France, Fred Vargas repeatedly captivates her many admirers across the globe with suspenseful mysteries featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, ?a Gallic cousin to Ruth Rendell?s Chief Inspector Wexford? (The Washington Post). In the same way that Donna Leon?s Commissario Brunetti and Andrea Camilleri?s Inspector Montalbano have won countless fans on this side of the Atlantic due to Penguin?s robust commitment to the best international mystery writing, Vargas?s Commissaire Adamsberg is poised to conquer America in a series of novels that are ?truly original . . . like nothing else in contemporary fiction? (The Sunday Times, London), beginning with Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand.[via]More editions of Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand:
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What's a Girl Gotta Do? : A Robin Hudson Mysteryby Sparkle HayterISBN 0140244816 (0-14-024481-6)
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Whom the Gods Loveby Kate RossISBN 014024767X (0-14-024767-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whom the Gods Love'Book summary:Alexander Falkland hasn't an enemy in the world. Young, talented, charming, he shines in every field he enters: law, architecture, the investment market. But one night his luck runs out with a vengeance. In the midst of one of his famous parties, he is found in his study with his head smashed, a blood-stained poker beside him. No wonder the inscription on his gravestone reads: whom the gods love die young. When the Bow Street runners fail to solve the crime, Alexander's distraught father turns to Julian Kestrel, elegant dandy and intrepid amateur sleuth. Soon Kestrel is up to his ears in suspects. But the greatest enigma is Alexander himself. Who was he really? Social reformer or butterfly, devoted husband or rake? In this, his third murder case, Julian must peel off one mask after another, till at last he discovers an Alexander no one knew - except, perhaps, the killer. [via]
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