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Amnesia Moonby Jonathan LethemISBN 015603154X (0-15-603154-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Armadaleby Wilkie Collins, Catherine PetersISBN 0192818023 (0-19-281802-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Big Killingby Robert WilsonISBN 0156011190 (0-15-601119-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Big Killing'Book summary:In this second novel of the Bruce Medway series, our hero, a go-between and "fixer" for traders in steamy West Africa, smells trouble when a porn merchant asks him to deliver a video at a secret location. Things look up, though, when he's hired to act as minder to Ron Collins, a spoiled playboy looking for diamonds in the Ivory Coast. Medway thinks this could be the answer to his cashflow crisis. But when the video delivery leads to a shootout and the discovery of a mutilated body, he wants out. Obligations keep Medway fixed in the Ivory Coast and he is soon caught up in a terrifying cycle of violence. Unless he can get to the bottom of the mystery, Medway knows that for the savage killer out there in the African night, he is the next target.[via]More editions of The Big Killing:
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The Black Bookby Orhan Pamuk, Guneli GunISBN 0156003295 (0-15-600329-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Book'Book summary:Seven years after their divorce, Ilana breaks the bitter silence with a letter to Alex, a world-renowned authority on fanaticism, begging for help with their rebellious adolescent son, Boaz. One letter leads to another, and so evolves a correspondence between Ilana and Alex, Alex and Michel (Ilanas Moroccan husband), Alex and his Mephistophelean Jerusalem lawyer a correspondence between mother and father, step-father and stepson, father and son, each pleading his or her own case.
The grasping, lyrical, manipulative, loving Ilana has stirred things up. Now, her former husband and her present husband have become rivals not only for her loyalty but for her sons as well.
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The Blood-dimmed Tideby Rennie AirthISBN 0143037102 (0-14-303710-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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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Brighton Rockby Graham Greene, J. M. CoetzeeISBN 0142437972 (0-14-243797-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brighton Rock'Book summary:Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind.[via]Pinkie, the teenage gangster, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of the spirit or of the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed Kite and also for the death of Hale, he is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, he is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands.
He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For the sheer joy of it she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice.
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Call for the Deadby John Le CarreISBN 0151768439 (0-15-176843-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Call for the Dead'Book summary:Called by Time magazine, ''the premier spy novelist of his time and perhaps of all time,'' John le Carre has raised the spy novel to a new height. Call for the Dead is his first novel and the one in which we meet the world's most famous undercover operative, George Smiley.
The cast of characters includes a bright, twisted former hero of the German underground, a once beautiful woman with a terrifying secret, a high-ranking pompous fool of a bureaucrat, and a suspect British civil servant. The protagonist, George Smiley, is bitter, weary--he has seen too much and done too much--yet he cannot refuse one last desperate call for his services. [Call for the Dead was made into a 1966 film named The Deadly Affair.] [via]More editions of Call for the Dead:
Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseballby David Adler, Susanna NattiISBN 0142400157 (0-14-240015-7)
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Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Circus Clownby David A. Adler, Susanna NattiISBN 0142400165 (0-14-240016-5)
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Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Dinosaur Bonesby David A. Adler, Suanna NattiISBN 0142400122 (0-14-240012-2)
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Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Gold Coinsby David A. Adler, Susanna NattiISBN 0142400149 (0-14-240014-9)
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Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Monster Movieby David A. Adler, Susanna NattiISBN 0142400173 (0-14-240017-3)
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Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamondsby David A. Adler, Susanna NattiISBN 0142400106 (0-14-240010-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds'Book summary:The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades. Now the first ten books in the series have updated covers that bring new life to these perennial best-sellers. Old fans and new readers will love Cam's cool, modern look![via]More editions of Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds:
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Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Television Dogby David A. Adler, Susanna NattiISBN 0142400130 (0-14-240013-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Television Dog'Book summary:The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades. Now the first ten books in the series have updated covers that bring new life to these perennial best-sellers. Old fans and new readers will love Cam's cool, modern look! [via]
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Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Ufoby David A. Adler, Susanna NattiISBN 0142400114 (0-14-240011-4)
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Can Jane Eyre Be Happy: More Puzzles in Classic Fictionby John SutherlandISBN 019283309X (0-19-283309-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Captain And the Enemyby Graham Greene, John AuchardISBN 0143039296 (0-14-303929-6)
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The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes IIby Arthur Conan Doyle, W.W. RobsonISBN 0192123114 (0-19-212311-4)
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Casino Royale: Library Editionby Ian FlemingISBN 014200202X (0-14-200202-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Casino Royale: Library Edition'Book summary:In the first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH.[via]
The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond's fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure.More editions of Casino Royale: Library Edition:
The Chelsea Girl Murdersby Sparkle HayterISBN 0142000108 (0-14-200010-8)
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The Club Dumasby Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia SotoISBN 0151001820 (0-15-100182-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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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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The Club Dumasby Sonia Soto, Arturo PTrez-ReverteISBN 015603283X (0-15-603283-X)
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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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Damnation Streetby Andrew KlavanISBN 0151012172 (0-15-101217-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Damnation Street'Book summary:They are two sworn enemies with a single obsession: a woman on the run from them both.Scott Weiss is a private detective. John Foy is a professional killer. The woman is Julie Wyant, a hooker with the face of an angel.[via]
Julie spent one night with Foya night of psychopathic cruelty that Foy called love. Desperate to get away from him, she vanished without a trace. And Foy wants her back.
Theres only one man who can find her: Weiss, the best locate operative in the business. Shes begged him not to look for her, fearing hell bring the killer in his wake. But Weiss cant stay away.
Now, from a town called Paradise, through a wilderness that feels like hell, Weiss searches for Julieand the killer follows, waiting for his chance.
They are two expert hunters matching move for moveuntil it ends on Damnation Street.More editions of Damnation Street:
Death And Judgmentby Donna LeonISBN 0143035827 (0-14-303582-7)
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Decameronby Giovanni Boccaccio, Guido WaldmanISBN 019282712X (0-19-282712-X)
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Dissolutionby C. J. SansomISBN 0142004308 (0-14-200430-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dissolution'Book summary:[via]Exciting and elegantly written, Dissolution is an utterly compelling first novel and a riveting portrayal of Tudor England. The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the king and the newly established Church of England. When a royal commissioner is brutally murdered in a monastery on the south coast of England, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIIIs feared vicar general, summons fellow reformer Matthew Shardlake to lead the inquiry. Shardlake and his young protégé uncover evidence of sexual misconduct, embezzlement, and treason, and when two other murders are revealed, they must move quickly to prevent the killer from striking again.
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Don't Look Backby Karin Fossum, Felicity DavidISBN 0156031361 (0-15-603136-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Look Back'Book summary:Meet Inspector Sejer: smart and enigmatic, tough but fair. At the foot of the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small, idyllic village, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquility is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly perfect façade.[via]
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 014600177X (0-14-600177-X)
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Dressed for Deathby Donna LeonISBN 0143035843 (0-14-303584-3)
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Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detectionby Chris Steinbrunner, Otto PenzlerISBN 0156287870 (0-15-628787-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Falcon's Malteserby Anthony HorowitzISBN 0142402192 (0-14-240219-2)
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The Fencing Masterby Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0151001812 (0-15-100181-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fencing Master'Book summary:In The Club Dumas, Arturo Pérez-Reverte explored the labyrinthine world of antiquarian book dealers, spicing his tale of mystery and murder with characters straight out of Paradise Lost and The Three Musketeers. Next came The Flanders Panel, a brilliant puzzle comprised of art, chess, and untimely death whose resolution lies in a painting by a Flemish master. In The Seville Communion, Pérez-Reverte turned his sights on the tangled politics of the Roman Catholic Church as an appropriate backdrop--for murder. In his fourth novel translated into English, the Spanish writer changes centuries (if not his focus on homicide), returning to the mid-1800s to follow the exploits of Don Jaime Astarloa, the eponymous fencing master.
The year is 1866 and revolution is brewing in Spain. The corrupt Bourbon queen, Isabella II, is slowly losing her grip on power as equally corrupt exiled politicians vie to be her successor in a new republic. Against this background of political upheaval, Don Jaime goes about his business, teaching a dying art to a dwindling number of students. This is a man who resists changing times; to a friend he explains, "I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain idea of myself, and that is all. You have to cling to a set of values that do not depreciate with time. Everything else is the fashion of the moment, fleeting, mutable. In a word, nonsense." But then Adela de Otero--a woman with a mysterious past and an amazing talent for swordplay--comes into his life, and Don Jaime's world is turned upside down. As always, Pérez-Reverte offers literary excellence, a thumping good mystery, and fascinating insight into an arcane practice, in this case, fencing. Though the 19th-century politics in the book may resonate more with a Spanish audience than with English readers, the moral at the heart of The Fencing Master is universal: "to be honest, or at least honorable--anything, indeed, that has its roots in the word honor." In this, Don Jaime and Arturo Pérez-Reverte both succeed. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Foucault's Pendulumby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 015603297X (0-15-603297-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foucault's Pendulum'Book summary:Book Department Fouault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco [via]
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Freddy and the Ignormusby Walter R. Brooks, Kurt WieseISBN 0142300438 (0-14-230043-8)
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Freddy and the Space Shipby Walter R. Brooks, Kurt WieseISBN 0142300896 (0-14-230089-6)
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The Investigationby Stanislaw LemISBN 0156451581 (0-15-645158-1)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Literatureby John SutherlandISBN 019282516X (0-19-282516-X)
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The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fictionby Patricia CraigISBN 0192819380 (0-19-281938-0)
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Laidlawby William McIlvanneyISBN 015648109X (0-15-648109-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Laidlaw'Book summary:An extraordinary debut by a Scottish mystery writer, this cult classic of crime fiction presents Detective Jack Laidlaw, a policeman as complex and self-critical as you'll ever meet. Laidlaw follows the trail of murder investigation deep inot the underbelly of Glasgow, a world he knows the way Phillip Marlowe knew Los Angeles.[via]More editions of Laidlaw:
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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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Lock 14by Georges Simenon, Robert BaldickISBN 0143037277 (0-14-303727-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lock 14'Book summary:[via]In Lock 14, Simenon plunges Maigret into the unfamiliar canal world of shabby bars and shadowy towpaths, drawing together the strands of a tragic case of lost identity.
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Magic or Notby Edward EagerISBN 0156551217 (0-15-655121-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Maigret and the Apparitionby Georges Simenon, Eileen EllenbogenISBN 0156028387 (0-15-602838-7)
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Maigret and the Bumby Georges Simenon, Jean Margaret StewartISBN 0156028395 (0-15-602839-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maigret and the Bum'Book summary:A homeless man is found beaten and unconscious along the banks of the Seine. Inspector Maigret must connect him to a past--and a possible motive for for his attempted murder. The investigation provides Maigret with a chilling look at those who have rejected society and the small measure of justice it offers them.[via]
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Maigret and the Flemish Shopby Georges Simenon, Geoffrey SainsburyISBN 0156551187 (0-15-655118-7)
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Maigret and the Fortunetellerby Georges SimenonISBN 0156551632 (0-15-655163-2)
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Maigret and the Gangstersby Georges SimenonISBN 0151555656 (0-15-155565-6)
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Maigret and the Killerby Georges Simenon, Lyn MoirISBN 0156028417 (0-15-602841-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maigret and the Killer'Book summary:Maigret, accompanying his physician on an emergency call, is drawn into one of his most stubborn cases yet. The victim, a son of a wealthy perfume manufacturer, had been enjoying an odd hobby before his death: collecting human voices with a tape recorder, often in the rougher districts of Paris. But his wallet and his tape recorder have been left untouched, so the killer's motive is unclear. The absence of clues begins to exasperate Maigret until an anonymous letter reveals that he is dealing with no ordinary criminal.[via]
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Maigret and the Madwomanby Georges Simenon, Eileen EllenbogenISBN 0156028506 (0-15-602850-6)
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Maigret and the Pickpocketby Georges Simenon, Nigel RyanISBN 0156551454 (0-15-655145-4)
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Maigret and the Toy Villageby Georges Simenon, Eileen EllenbogenISBN 0156551543 (0-15-655154-3)
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Maigret and the Wine Merchantby Georges Simenon, Eileen EllenbogenISBN 0156028441 (0-15-602844-1)
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Maigret Goes to Schoolby Georges Simenon, Daphne WoodwardISBN 015655156X (0-15-655156-X)
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Maigret Has Doubtsby Georges SimenonISBN 0151555583 (0-15-155558-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Maigret Hesitatesby Georges Simenon, Lyn MoirISBN 0156551527 (0-15-655152-7)
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Maigret on the Defensiveby Georges SimenonISBN 0151555575 (0-15-155557-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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A Maigret Trio : Maigret's Failure, Maigret in Society, and Maigret and the Lazy Burglarby Georges Simenon, Daphne Woodward, Robert EglesfieldISBN 0156551373 (0-15-655137-3)
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A Maigret Trio:Maigret's Failure, Maigret in Society, Maigret and the Lazy Burglar: Maigret's Failure, Maigret in Society, Maigret and the Lazy Burglarby Georges SimenonISBN 0151551391 (0-15-155139-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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The Mainby TrevanianISBN 0151555494 (0-15-155549-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Main'Book summary:The Main is Montreals teeming underworld, where the dark streets echo with cries in a dozen languages, with the quick footsteps of thieves and the whispers of prostitutes. It is a world where violence and brutality are a way of life. To the people of the Main, police lieutenant Claude LaPointe is judge and jury, father confessor and avenging angel. Montreals police force has changed over time, but LaPointe has not. His commitment to justice is total, as is his devotion to the Main and its underworld community. But when a cold-blooded murderer invades LaPointes territory, he is forced to examine his long-held beliefs and secrets and to confront his own loneliness and mortality. With a cast of unforgettable supporting characters and an unusual and remarkable hero, The Main is another gripping tale of death and danger, of action and mystery, by the incomparable Trevanian.
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The Man With the Twisted Lip and the Adventure of the Devil's Footby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0146000277 (0-14-600027-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Napoleon of Notting Hillby G. K. Chesterton, Bernard BergonziISBN 0192831453 (0-19-283145-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Olivia Joules And The Overactive Imaginationby Helen FieldingISBN 0143035363 (0-14-303536-3)
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The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of thby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0192123297 (0-19-212329-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th'Book summary:Any fan of detective fiction knows that there is no substitute in all of literature for a few hours of reading pleasure at 221 B Baker Street. The tobacco in the persian slipper, the piles of monographs and newspaper clippings covering the floor and table, the unanswered correspondence affixed to the mantle with a dagger. What will the next visitor or urgent message bring? Perhaps a request from a mysterious stranger to help prevent "A Scandal in Bohemia." Perhaps Watson will tell us the story, discretely leaving out certain names, of how he and Holmes had to step outside the law to protect a certain royal personage from a blackmailer in "The Case of Charles Augustus Milverton." Or, for a very unusual treat, perhaps Holmes himself, in quiet retirement in Sussex, will tell a tale in his own words as in "The Lion's Mane."
In the more than a century since the publication of the first tale featuring Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's characters and stories have inspired countless films, plays, pastiches, literary tributes, and tens of thousands of imitations. Now, Oxford is proud to announce The Oxford Sherlock Holmes, the complete works gathered together in nine handsomely bound, meticulously edited volumes. The books themselves are beautiful, and the entire set comes in an attractive display box, perfect for gift-giving.
Beautifully designed, boasting an introduction by a Doyle authority, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and notes, all carefully researched and assembled, this magnificent set will enhance the reading pleasure of readers new to Doyle's work and veterans of Holmsian arcana. A goldmine of reading pleasure, The Oxford Sherlock Holmes is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in crime fiction. [via]More editions of The Oxford Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet/the Sign of the Four/the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/the Hound of th:
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The Rules of the Gameby Georges SimenonISBN 0151694753 (0-15-169475-3)
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Rumpole Rests His Caseby John Clifford MortimerISBN 0142003476 (0-14-200347-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Secret Agentby Joseph Conrad, John LyonISBN 0192801694 (0-19-280169-4)
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Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques. [via] -
Seville Communionby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Sonia SotoISBN 0156029812 (0-15-602981-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seville Communion'Book summary:Spain's Arturo Perez-Reverte continues his string of comfortably old-fashioned, modestly intellectual thrillers with a touching and suspenseful story of faith and duty, set in the timeless and enchanting city of Seville. "In Seville different histories were superimposed and interdependent," he writes, aided by Sonia Soto's seamless translation. "A rosary stringing together time, blood and prayers in different languages beneath a blue sky and wise sun that leveled everything over the centuries. Stone survivors that could still be heard. You just had to forget for a moment the camcorders, postcards, coaches full of tourists and cheeky young girls, and put your ear to the stones and listen." As in his previous surprise bestsellers--The Club Dumas and The Flanders Panel, both available in paperback--Perez-Reverte takes a supposedly cool observer and turns the person into a hot-blooded participant in the action. In The Seville Communion it's Father Lorenzo Quart, who works for an investigative branch of the Vatican that is referred to by an angry, upstaged Archbishop of Seville as "you and your mafiosi in Rome, playing God's police." Father Quart, a very attractive man with prematurely gray hair cropped short, wears expensive suits and has to fight off the women who test his vows of celibacy. His toughest challenge is a breathtaking, titled beauty named Macarena, whose banker husband is at the center of a plot to tear down a historic church. Two people have already been killed because of the intrigue, and more violence threatens as Father Quart is pursued by a trio of ineptly dangerous villains, straight out of Bogart's Beat the Devil, through the gorgeous streets of a city to die for. [via]
The Shape of Waterby Andrea Camilleri, Stephen SartarelliISBN 0142002399 (0-14-200239-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozenby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 019281530X (0-19-281530-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Snack Thiefby Andrea CamilleriISBN 0142003492 (0-14-200349-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Star of Kazanby Eva Ibbotson, Kevin HawkesISBN 0142405825 (0-14-240582-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermistonby Robert Louis Stevenson, Emma LetleyISBN 019281740X (0-19-281740-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Tales of Mystery and Imaginationby Edgar Allan Poe, Gary KelleyISBN 0151002347 (0-15-100234-7)
Hardcover, Creative Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'Book summary:Award-winning fantasy illustrator Gary Kelley writes, "I have selected three of Edgar Allan Poe's best short stories.... I chose 'The Fall of the House of Usher' for its classic Gothic images and its dark, melancholic central characters, including the house itself. 'The Black Cat' is ... appealing to me for its use of mystery and foreboding that takes us to a horrifying climax. 'The Cask of Amontillado' ... my personal favorite, [is] a simple narrative of revenge set in the contrasting worlds of carnival and catacomb." Click on the book's cover for a closer look, but the reproduction doesn't really do justice to the richness of color in Kelley's shadowy, atmospheric paintings. (The cat's eye is green, and its tongue is pink.) This gorgeous edition has 20 full- and double-page paintings, including a melancholy portrait of Poe; each page of text is surrounded by subtle decorative frames. The images of Roderick and Madeleine Usher are especially effective. [via]
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The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4by John Buchan, Christopher T. HarvieISBN 0192829912 (0-19-282991-2)
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Undercurrentsby Frances FyfieldISBN 0142000442 (0-14-200044-2)
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Unsuspecting Gourmetby M. E. RabbISBN 0142500445 (0-14-250044-5)
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Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detectionby Michael CoxISBN 0192123084 (0-19-212308-4)
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The Westing Gameby Ellen RaskinISBN 014240120X (0-14-240120-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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