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The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deceptionby Emmanuel Carrere, Linda CoverdaleISBN 0805065830 (0-8050-6583-0)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Deathby M. C. BeatonISBN 0804111634 (0-8041-1163-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Agatha has moved to a picture-book English village and wants to get in the swing. So she buys herself a quiche for the village quiche-making contest and is more than alarmed when it kills a judge. Hot on the trail of the poisoner, Agatha is fearless, all the while unaware, that she's become the next victim.... [via]More editions of Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death:
Alibiby Joseph KanonISBN 080507886X (0-8050-7886-X)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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And the Sea Will Tellby Vincent Bugliosi, Bruce B. HendersonISBN 0804109176 (0-8041-0917-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Sea Will Tell'Book summary:And the Sea Will Tell spins a riveting story--a story that could have been the backbone for a classic novel by Herman Melville or Joseph Conrad. Two couples--one wealthy and married, the other an ex-con and his hippie girlfriend-- separately set sail for a remote South Pacific island, each hoping to play "Adam and Eve" in paradise. Instead of getting away from it all, they take it with them-- their pasts and prejudices, and the petty battles over status and material goods that arise from their different social classes. Only two people out of the original four live through the experience. One of them has the extraordinary good luck to be defended in court by master attorney Vincent Bugliosi (author of Helter Skelter). As the Los Angeles Times writes, "The book succeeds on all counts. The final pages are some of the most suspenseful in trial literature." [via]
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Beatonby James DanzigerISBN 0805000240 (0-8050-0024-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Blood Shotby Sara ParetskyISBN 0816147752 (0-8161-4775-2)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A Story of Crime And Celebrity in 1920s New Yorkby Stephen Duncombe, Andrew MattsonISBN 0812977351 (0-8129-7735-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime And Celebrity in 1920s New Yorkby Stephen Duncombe, Andrew MattsonISBN 0814719805 (0-8147-1980-5)
Hardcover, New York Univ Pr
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Briarpatchby Ross ThomasISBN 0816139121 (0-8161-3912-1)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall
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The Case of the One-Eyed Witnessby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0816150621 (0-8161-5062-1)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Case of the Rolling Bonesby Erle Stanley GardnerISBN 0816140804 (0-8161-4080-4)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Cast of Killersby Sidney KirkpatrickISBN 0816142742 (0-8161-4274-2)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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The Cat Who Came to Breakfastby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0816159343 (0-8161-5934-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Cat Who Knew Shakespeareby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0816147906 (0-8161-4790-6)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Cat Who Saw Redby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0816143889 (0-8161-4388-9)
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Catalina's Riddleby Steven SaylorISBN 080411269X (0-8041-1269-X)
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A mystery of ancient Rome by the author of "Arms Of Nemesis."
When Gordianus the Finder deserts the fierce intrigues of Rome for domesticity on an Etruscan farm, his brilliant patron, the orator Cicero, draws him back with a curious proposal: keep Catilina, Cicero's radical rival, under a watchful eye.
Reluctantly, Gordianus complies -- and soon, despite himself, becomes intrigued by the notorious populist politician. Could Catilina really be conspiring against the Republic? Or are Cicero's accusation no more than vicious lies? Questioning his loyalty to his own patron, Gordianus comes to question even more when he discovers a headless corpse in his stables and is suddenly swept into a mystery more dangerous than any he has ever known. [via]More editions of Catalina's Riddle:
The Chain of Chanceby Stanislaw Lem, Louis IribarneISBN 0810117304 (0-8101-1730-4)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Chinese Shawlby Patricia WentworthISBN 0816153140 (0-8161-5314-0)
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The Con Manby Ed McBainISBN 0816139822 (0-8161-3982-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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A Conspiracy of Paperby David LissISBN 0804119120 (0-8041-1912-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Conspiracy of Paper'Book summary:A fool and his money are soon parted--and nowhere so quickly as in the stock market, it would seem. In David Liss's ambitious first novel, A Conspiracy of Paper, the year is 1719 and the place London, where human greed, apparently, operated then in much the same manner as it does today. Liss focuses his intricate tale of murder, money, and conspiracy on Benjamin Weaver, ex-boxer, self-described "protector, guardian, bailiff, constable-for-hire, and thief-taker," and son of a Portuguese Jewish "stock-jobber." Weaver's father, from whom he has been estranged, has recently died, the victim of a horse-drawn carriage hit and run. Though his uncle has suggested that the accident wasn't quite so accidental, Benjamin doesn't give the idea much credence:
I blush to own I rewarded his efforts to seek my opinion with only a formal reply in which I dismissed his ideas as nonsensical. I did so in part because I did not wish to involve myself with my family and in part because I knew that my uncle, for reasons that eluded me, had loved my father and could not accept the senselessness of so random a death.
But then Benjamin is hired by two different men to solve two seemingly unrelated cases. One client, Mr. Balfour, claims his own father's unexpected death "was made to look like self-murder so that a villain or villains could take his money with impunity," and even suggests there might be a link between Balfour senior's death and that of Weaver's father. His next customer is Sir Owen Nettleton, an aristocrat who is keen to recover some highly confidential papers that were stolen from him while he cavorted with a prostitute. Weaver takes on the first case with some reluctance, the second with more enthusiasm. In the end, both converge, leading him back to his family even as they take him deep into the underbelly of London's financial markets.Liss seems right at home in the world he's created, whether describing the company manners of wealthy Jewish merchants at home or the inner workings of Exchange Alley--the 18th-century version of Wall Street. His London is a dank and filthy place, almost lawless but for the scant protection offered by such rogues as Jonathan Wilde, the sinister head of a gang of thieves who profits by selling back to their owners items stolen by his own men. Though better connected socially, the investors involved with the shady South Sea Company have equally larcenous hearts, and Liss does an admirable job of leading the reader through the intricacies of stock trading, bond selling, and insider trading with as little fuss, muss, and confusion as possible. What really makes the book come alive, however, are the details of 18th-century life--from the boxing matches our hero once participated in to the coffee houses, gin joints, and brothels where he trolls for clues. And then there is the matter of Weaver's Jewishness, the prejudices of the society he lives in, and his struggle to come to terms with his own ethnicity. A Conspiracy of Paper weaves all these themes together in a manner reminiscent of the long, gossipy novels of Henry Fielding and Laurence Stern. Indeed, Liss manages to suggest the prose style of those authors while keeping his own, less convoluted style. This is one conspiracy guaranteed to succeed. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Cripple Creekby James SallisISBN 0802715206 (0-8027-1520-6)
Softcover, Walker & Co
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Death Claimsby Joseph HansenISBN 0805006222 (0-8050-0622-2)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Claims'Book summary:If this Corvette-cool, drumskin-taut policier leaves you marveling at its incorporation of a totally rugged, sexy, openly gay sleuth into a style and milieu that reads deliciously like Chandler, Hemingway, and Jacqueline Susann all in bed together, then get this: Hansen wrote it not at the turn of this century--which has gay characters popping up in books and movies and on TV in all sorts of stereotype-busting ways--but, remarkably, in the 70s! Indeed, it was the second in what became Hansen's series of Southern California-set whodunits featuring insurance-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter, who is not without his own lost loves and private demons--and yet never without his cigarette, glass of whiskey (neat, of course), and enough terse, manly stoicism to make Steve McQueen look like Richard Simmons. The Brandstetter series has acquired something of a cult following over the 30 years that Hansen developed it (Death Claims is the second title in its U.S. revival courtesy of Alyson Publications, although many more are currently in print by No Exit Press, available on Amazon's U.K. link) and this slim, no-slack volume, which followed up Fadeout, the series debut, makes it delightfully clear why. Everything you could want in a gay-inflected murder mystery set in golden-haired SoCal in the Nixon years is here: A middle-aged rare-books dealer whose doped-up body is found washed up on the coast, his shrewish ex-wife, his lovely young bibliophile girlfriend, and his angelically beautiful and adoring actor son. Don't forget the imperiously queeny head of the local repertory theater; the confirmed-bachelor superstar of a TV western and the blind, Bible-thumping mother who rules his life; a seedy young hospital orderly who smuggles morphine to addicted patients; and a couple of small-time academics obsessed with the lost notebooks of Thomas Wolfe.
Then there's Hansen's language, which falls brilliantly somewhere between homage to and spoof of his thriller-penning forebears, right from the first line--"Arena Blanca was right. The sand that bracketed the little bay was so white it hurt the eyes...gulls sheared a sky cheerful as new denim"--to curt, epigrammatic lines--"The dead are terrible. They won't help you at all. No matter how you loved them"--that can only be said with a cigarette propped out of the corner of one's mouth. In fact, the only thing you could call even remotely stereotypically gay about Hansen's prose (or, indeed, Brandstetter's point-of-view) is its obsession with interior design--but even that remains true to genre ("a wastebasket was alone there like a dwarf prince in a dungeon--royal-purple plastic embossed with gold fleur-de-lis...").
True, none of the supporting characters is really developed beyond colorful stock, and not every gear of the story clicks into place with the elegant exactitude and ever-increasing tension and claustrophobia of the technically perfect mystery novel. But who cares? Dave Brandstetter is too cool to be passed up. He's got a steady enough hand to take a drink with even the most sinister of suspects, he hangs out and talks about relationships with his suave Lothario dad, and he can be sensitive and tender with his longtime lesbian friend Madge without lapsing into total schmaltz. Oh, and of course he's haunted by the boy that got away. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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Death Notesby Ruth RendellISBN 0816133352 (0-8161-3335-2)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall
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Detection Unlimitedby Georgette HeyerISBN 0805013385 (0-8050-1338-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Dolores Claiborneby Stephen KingISBN 0816156417 (0-8161-5641-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dolores Claiborne'Book summary:More of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing to savor King's leisurely study of character and island life will find many rewards. And all of this is not to say that the book is without suspense.
The story unfolds in one continuous chapter, told in the first person by the cranky, 65-year-old housekeeper, Dolores, who is explaining to police officers and a stenographer how and why she killed her husband, Joe, 30 years ago. At the same time, in her rambling monologue, she insists that she did not kill her longtime employer, Vera Donovan--notwithstanding what the residents of Little Tall Island may be whispering. Joe was a drinker, and, as Dolores gradually argues, he deserved to die for the horrifying crimes he committed against his family. But Vera, despite her cantankerous disposition as a lady governing her decaying estate with her precise rules about even the most mundane household chore ("Six pins! Remember to use six pins! Don't you let the wind blow my good sheets down to the corner of the yard!"), was a good woman--or at least not an evil one. She was the woman who hired the young Dolores and kept her on even after Dolores got pregnant again. Dolores cleaned and cared for her even as the old matron faded into senility.
Dolores Claiborne is a rich novel that recalls the regionalist writing of the turn of the century. It is a fine place for a skeptical newcomer--put off by King's reputation for outright terror--to start. And for fans, it is a book that offers new insights into an author who's an old favorite. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Down among the Dead Menby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805001174 (0-8050-0117-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Dragon's Clawby Peter O'DonnellISBN 0812586549 (0-8125-8654-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Enigmaby Robert HarrisISBN 0804115486 (0-8041-1548-6)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enigma'Book summary:literate and savvy . . . Brims with wartime intrigue."--the washington post book worldengland 1943. Much of the infamous nazi enigma code has been cracked. But shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by nazi u-boats, has masked the germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of allied vessels. Feeling that the blood of allied sailors is on their hands, a top-secret team of british cryptographers works feverishly around the clock to break shark. And when brilliant mathematician tom jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . ."a tense and thoughtful thriller."--san francisco chronicleuntil the unthinkable happens: the germans have somehow learned that shark has been cracked. And they've changed the code. . . ."suspenseful and fascinating."--the orlando sentinelas an allied convoy crosses the u-boat infested north atlantic . . . As jericho's ex-lover claire disappears amid accusations that she is a nazi collaborator . . . As jericho strains his last resources to break shark again, he cannot escape the ultimate truth: there is a traitor among them. . . . "gripping . . . Captivating ."--new york daily news"elegantly researched . . . Readers will find themselves perfectly placed to experience one of britain's finest hours."--people"satisfying . . . Harris does a crackerjack job here, playing his characters' lives off historical events in surprising ways."--entertainment weekly"suspenseful . . . Fiendishly clever."--detroit free press [via]
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Eye of the Needleby Ken FollettISBN 0816166552 (0-8161-6655-2)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Fadeout: A Dave Brandstetter Mysteryby Joseph HansenISBN 0805010548 (0-8050-1054-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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False Prophetby Faye KellermanISBN 081617458X (0-8161-7458-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Grievous Sinby Faye KellermanISBN 0816174601 (0-8161-7460-1)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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He Who Hesitatesby Ed McBainISBN 0816147698 (0-8161-4769-8)
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Honor Thy Fatherby Gay TaleseISBN 0804110581 (0-8041-1058-1)
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Here is the story of the rise and fall of the notorious Bonanno crime family of New York as only best-selling author Gay Talese could tell it. [via]More editions of Honor Thy Father:
How to Protect Yourself from Crimeby Ira A. LipmanISBN 0809242443 (0-8092-4244-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother ...: A Case of Parricide in the Nineteenth Centuryby Michel FoucaultISBN 0803268572 (0-8032-6857-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother ...: A Case of Parricide in the Nineteenth Century'Book summary:To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale.[via]Michel Foucault, author of Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish, collected the relevant documents of the case, including medical and legal testimony, police records. and Rivière's memoir. The Rivière case, he points out, occurred at a time when many professions were contending for status and power. Medical authority was challenging law, branches of government were vying. Foucault's reconstruction of the case is a brilliant exploration of the roots of our contemporary views of madness, justice, and crime.
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If Death Ever Sleptby Rex StoutISBN 0816147949 (0-8161-4794-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Inside the Criminal Mindby Stanton E. SamenowISBN 0812910826 (0-8129-1082-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Invisible Manby H. G. WellsISBN 0812504674 (0-8125-0467-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Man'Book summary:A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder. The inspiration for countless imitations and film adaptations, The Invisible Man is as remarkable and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. As Arthur C. Clarke points out in his Introduction, The interest of the story . . . lies not in its scientific concepts, but in the brilliantly worked out development of the theme of invisibility. If one could be invisible, then what? [via]
The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Artby Matthew HartISBN 0802714269 (0-8027-1426-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Killing Dollby Ruth RendellISBN 081613720X (0-8161-3720-X)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall
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Killing for Companyby Brian MastersISBN 0812883403 (0-8128-8340-3)
Softcover, Stein & Day Paperback
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Lady Killerby Ed MacBainISBN 0816136653 (0-8161-3665-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Last Camel Died at Noonby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0816153582 (0-8161-5358-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Camel Died at Noon'Book summary:Join our plucky Victorian Egyptologist, together with her devastatingly handsome and brilliant husband Radcliffe, in another exciting escapade. This time, Amelia and her dashing husband Emerson set off for a promising archaeological site in the Sudan, only to be unwillingly drawn into the search for an African explorer and his young bride who went missing twelve years back. They survive the rigours of the desert, the death of their camels, and the perfidy of their guides, only to find themselves taken prisoner in a lost city and civilisation. Amelia and Emerson must bravely continue making archaeological finds while doing their best to rescue the innocent...and themselves. [via]
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Last Ditchby Ngaio MarshISBN 0816165378 (0-8161-6537-8)
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The Lesson of the Scaffold: The Public Execution Controversy in Victorian Englandby David D. CooperISBN 0821401483 (0-8214-0148-3)
Hardcover, Ohio University Press
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The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christieby Charles OsborneISBN 0809241072 (0-8092-4107-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Lost Get-Back Boogieby James Lee BurkeISBN 0807113344 (0-8071-1334-4)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Get-Back Boogie'Book summary:The Lost Get-Back Boogie appeared to wide acclaim in 1986, James Lee Burke had been out of print in cloth for thirteen years and his fifth novel had received a record 111 rejection letters. "LSU Press put me back in the game and turned my career around," Burke says. The novels and stories Burke had written during those years of rejection eventually became the stuff of the Dave Robicheaux series, which has earned him two Edgar Awards.
The novels title is also the name of the song that Iry Pareta honky-tonk musician, Korean vet, and ex-conwants to write to hold his memories of a "more uncomplicated time," before the war, before prison. The book opens the day thirty-year-old Iry leaves Louisianas Angola state penitentiary, after serving two years for manslaughter, and follows him to Montana, where he hopes to stay cool and out of trouble by working hard on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan. Iry finds the fresh start he seeks, joins a weekend band, and even falls in love. But the Riordan familys problems deal Iry a new sort of trouble with some ultimately tragic consequences.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie is a novel about loyalty and friendship, betrayal and loss. It is about essentially good people and their attempts to define the value of their lives and to find their place in a changing, complicated world. And it is the work of James Lee Burke at the top of his form. [via]
Maigret's Rivalby Georges SimenonISBN 0816144265 (0-8161-4426-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Make Death Love Meby Ruth RendellISBN 0816130124 (0-8161-3012-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Metzger's Dogby Thomas PerryISBN 0812967747 (0-8129-6774-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Miseryby Stephen KingISBN 0816143757 (0-8161-4375-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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More Deaths Than Oneby Rex StoutISBN 081615757X (0-8161-5757-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Off Minorby John HarveyISBN 0805054987 (0-8050-5498-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Only When I Laughby Len DeightonISBN 0816144184 (0-8161-4418-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Outlawsby George V. HigginsISBN 0805002715 (0-8050-0271-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0809599945 (0-8095-9994-5)
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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]
Please Pass the Guiltby Rex StoutISBN 0816161771 (0-8161-6177-1)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Prisoner's Baseby Rex StoutISBN 0816143919 (0-8161-4391-9)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co
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The Regatta Mystery and Other Storiesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816145962 (0-8161-4596-2)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co
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Relicby Douglas PrestonISBN 0812543262 (0-8125-4326-2)
Softcover, Forge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Relic'Book summary:Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human, but the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibiliton--in spite of the murders. Can a museum researcher find out what's going on before it's too late? Now a major motion picture from Paramount. [via]
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Reservoir Dogsby Quentin TarantinoISBN 0802136850 (0-8021-3685-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reservoir Dogs'Book summary:Quentin Tarantino's films have single-handedly revived and redefined American noir, bringing to Hollywood a new energy, irony, and cool. Tarantino has won awards and accolades around the world, earned a devoted following among critics, actors, and audiences, and paved the way for a new generation of young filmmakers. Tarantino's directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs, hit the screen with a freshness and brutal edge that left critics and audiences stunned. The story of a heist gone wrong, the film weaves a taut and menacing path, laced with bursts of absurd and unexpected humor, as an eccentric cast of urban outlaws attempts to identify the rat in their midst. The film established the groundbreaking aesthetic -- smart-ass, hard-edged, and ultravoilent -- that made Tarantino one of the most sought-after directors in the nation. As Newsweek wrote, "Reservoir Dogs leaves little doubt that you are in the presence of major league talent."[via]More editions of Reservoir Dogs:
Reservoir Dogs and True Romance: Screenplaysby Quentin TarantinoISBN 080213355X (0-8021-3355-X)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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The Rubber Bandby Rex StoutISBN 0816132240 (0-8161-3224-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Rushby Kim WozencraftISBN 0804107890 (0-8041-0789-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Russia Houseby John Le CarreISBN 0816148856 (0-8161-4885-6)
Softcover, G.K. Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Russia House'Book summary:When London publisher Barley Blair receives an important smuggled document from Moscow, the English spymasters are forced to use him to establish the document's veracity. His collusion with Katya, the Moscow intermediary, may represent the way of the future, to the distaste of espionage professionals on both sides. [via]
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Scene of the Crime : Photographs from the LAPD Archiveby Tim B. Wride, Los Angeles (Calif.), Police Dept Staff, Deborah Aaronson, William J. BrattonISBN 0810950022 (0-8109-5002-2)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Scene of the Crime : Photographs from the LAPD Archive'Book summary:Shares case information, articles, and recently discovered crime photos from the LAPD archives for dramatic cases that took place between the 1930s and 1960s, in a compilation that includes information related to such crimes as the Black Dahlia slaying, the Onion Field murder, and the deaths of "The [via]
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Season of Snows and Sinsby Patricia MoyesISBN 0805008497 (0-8050-0849-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Silver Mistressby Peter O'DonnellISBN 0812586506 (0-8125-8650-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Sleeping Dogsby Thomas PerryISBN 080411160X (0-8041-1160-X)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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Smiley's Peopleby John Le CarreISBN 0816130906 (0-8161-3090-6)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dogby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0816156824 (0-8161-5682-4)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog'Book summary:The seventh novel featuring Amelia Peabody, 19th-century Egyptologist and intrepid adventurer. She and her dashing husband, Emerson, return to Amama for a second honeymoon, where Emerson is kidnapped. After a daring rescue, Amelia discovers that he remembers nothing of her, or their marriage. [via]
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The Stainless Steel Rat's Revengeby Harry HarrisonISBN 0802755259 (0-8027-5525-9)
Hardcover, Walker
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Three Blind Mice and Other Storiesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0816144621 (0-8161-4462-1)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co
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Three Men Outby Rex StoutISBN 0816147930 (0-8161-4793-0)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Too Many Clientsby Rex StoutISBN 0816135495 (0-8161-3549-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Breon MitchellISBN 0805209999 (0-8052-0999-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial'Book summary:A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral. [via]
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Softcover, Schocken Books - The Trial : A New Translation Based on the Restored Text: ISBN 0805241655 (0-8052-4165-5)
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance And the Reality of Life Among the Piratesby David CordinglyISBN 081297722X (0-8129-7722-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Black Flag: The Romance And the Reality of Life Among the Pirates'Book summary:Though literature, films, and folklore have romanticized pirates as gallant seaman who hunted for treasure in exotic locales, David Cordingly, a former curator at the National Maritime Museum in England, reveals the facts behind the legends of such outlaws as Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Calico Jack. Even stories about buried treasure are fictitious, he says, yet still the myth remains. Though pirate captains were often sadistic villains and crews endured barbarous tortures, were constantly threatened with the possibility of death by hanging, drowning in a storm, or surviving a shipwreck on a hostile coast, pirates are still idealized. Cordingly examines why the myth of the romance of piratehood endures and why so few lived out their days in luxury on the riches they had plundered. [via]
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Vanishing Actby Thomas PerryISBN 0804113874 (0-8041-1387-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimesby Mary S. HartmanISBN 0805236082 (0-8052-3608-2)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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The Waterworksby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0812978196 (0-8129-7819-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waterworks'Book summary:An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.
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One rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he recognizes as his supposedly dead and buried father. While trying to unravel the mystery, Pemberton disappears, sending McIlvaine, his employer, the editor of an evening paper, in pursuit of the truth behind his freelancers fate. Layer by layer, McIlvaine reveals a modern metropolis surging with primordial urges and sins, where the Tweed Ring operates the city for its own profit and a conspicuously self-satisfied nouveau-riche ignores the poverty and squalor that surrounds them. In E. L. Doctorows skilled hands, The Waterworks becomes, in the words of The New York Times, a dark moral tale . . . an eloquently troubling evocation of our past.
Startling and spellbinding . . . The waters that lave the narrative all run to the great confluence, where the deepest issues of life and death are borne along on the swift, sure vessel of [Doctorows] poetic imagination.
The New York Times Book Review
Hypnotic . . . a dazzling romp, an extraordinary read, given strength and grace by the telling, by the poetic voice and controlled cynical lyricism of its streetwise and world-weary narrator.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
A gem of a novel, intimate as chamber music . . . a thriller guaranteed to leave readers with residual chills and shudders.
Boston Sunday Herald
Enthralling . . . a story of debauchery and redemption that is spellbinding from first page to last.
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An immense, extraordinary achievement.
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