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The Alienistby Caleb CarrISBN 0812976142 (0-8129-7614-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alienist'Book summary:The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences. [via]
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The Angel of Darknessby Caleb CarrISBN 0345427637 (0-345-42763-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Angel of Darkness'Book summary:Random House, 1997. ISBN:0679435328 [via]
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The Ape Who Guards the Balanceby Elizabeth PetersISBN 1568955979 (1-56895-597-9)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ape Who Guards the Balance'Book summary:Named 1998 Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, Elizabeth Peters is also a doctor of Egyptology whose mysteries have submerged readers in the vivid turn-of-the-century world of Amelia Peabody. In The Ape Who Guards the Balance Peters captures the immediacy of uncovering a new Egyptian tomb within the context of a tightly plotted murder investigation involving the entire Emerson Peabody clan. The characters, including Amelia's husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and her gifted son, Ramses, are meticulously drawn. As in previous novels the dialogue is reminiscent of The Thin Man. When a man calls out to passing suffragettes, "You ought to be 'ome washin' your 'usband's trousers!" Ramses shoots back, "I assure you, sir, the lady's trousers are not in such sore need of laundering as your own." Peters also toys with differing narrative perspectives, and Ramses emerges as a possible successor to his mother's legacy of crime solving.
The Ape Who Guards the Balance begins in 1907 in England where Amelia is attending a suffragettes' rally outside the home of Mr. Geoffrey Romer of the House of Commons. It seems Romer is one of the few remaining private collectors of Egyptian antiquities, and a series of bizarre events at the protest soon embroil Amelia in grave personal danger. Suspecting that the Master Criminal, Sethos, is behind their problems, the Emerson Peabodys hasten to Egypt to continue their studies in the Valley of Kings where they soon acquire a papyrus of the Book of the Dead. As with past seasons, however, their archaeological expedition is interrupted. The murdered body of a woman is found in the Nile. Ramses, Radcliffe, and Amelia all have their theories as to the origin of the crime, but their own lives might soon be at stake if the cult of Thoth and their ancient book is, indeed, involved.
Other Peabody mysteries include Seeing a Large Cat, The Hippopotamus Pool, The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, The Deeds of the Disturber, Lion in the Valley, The Curse of the Pharaohs, and Crocodile on the Sandbank. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Arms of Nemesisby Steven SaylorISBN 0804111278 (0-8041-1127-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arms of Nemesis'Book summary:"Entertaining...Saylor's sense of style and elegantly witty writing make the most of this genre transference."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
South of Rome on the Gulf of Puteoli stands the splendid villa of Marcus Crassus, Rome's wealthiest citizen. When the estate overseer is murdered, Crassus concludes that the deed was done by two missing slaves, who have probably run off to join the Spartacan Slave Revolt. Unless they are found within five days, Crassus vows to massacre his remaining ninety-nine slaves.
To Gordianus the Finder falls the fateful task of resolving this riddle from Hades. In a house filled with secrets, the truth is slow to emerge. And as the hour of the massacre approaches, Gordianus realizes that the labyrinthine path he has chosen just may lead to his own destruction...
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Blind Justiceby Bruce AlexanderISBN 0425150070 (0-425-15007-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind Justice'Book summary:Falsely charged of theft in 1768 London, thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor finds his only hope in Sir John Fielding, the founder of the Bow Street Runners police force, who recruits young Jeremy in his mission to fight crime. Reprint. K. NYT. PW. [via]
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A Breach of Promiseby Anne PerryISBN 0804118558 (0-8041-1855-8)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Breach of Promise'Book summary:The promises that are breached, broken, and never born in Anne Perry's rich and resonant new William Monk mystery all have to do with the roles and positions of women in Victorian society. At the center of the book is a rousing courtroom drama, as young Zillah Lambert--daughter of a wealthy, well-meaning northern businessman and his socially ambitious wife--sues an immensely gifted architect, Killian Melville. Melville, Zillah argues, failed to live up to his promise of marriage and thereby ruined her chances of making any sort of acceptable match. Private detective Monk is brought into the case by lawyer Oliver Rathbone when his client (Melville), facing financial and social ruin, still refuses to offer any reason for his dastardly conduct.
Monk's attentions are occupied elsewhere, too. Hester Latterly, the courageous nurse who worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, and whose favors Monk and Rathbone both desire, is looking after a British officer, Gabriel Sheldon, who was badly wounded and disfigured in India. Gabriel's wife, Perdita, is having trouble adjusting to her husband's broken body and spirit. "It was not Perdita's fault that she was confused and frightened," Monk muses. "She had been protected all her short life. She had not chosen to be, it was her assigned role." Monk has also promised a housemaid in the Sheldons' service that he will look for her two little nieces--deaf and deformed from birth--who were abandoned by their mother almost 20 years before. As the cases tangle and combine (perhaps a tad too coincidentally for some tastes, but, then again, real life is full of coincidences), Perry manages to show us the many ways in which women were made to pay for their place in a male-dominated society. She also delivers a touching and surprisingly suspenseful story. Other Monk books in paperback: The Silent Cry, Cain His Brother, Defend and Betray, Weighed in the Balance. --Dick Adler [via]
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A Broken Vesselby Kate RossISBN 0140234535 (0-14-023453-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0816163014 (0-8161-6301-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Cruel As the Grave : A Medieval Mysteryby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0805056084 (0-8050-5608-4)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Curse of the Pharaohsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0445406488 (0-445-40648-8)
Softcover, Mysterious Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Curse of the Pharaohs'Book summary:Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson and her archaeologist husband are busy raising their young son; yet Amelia dreams only of the dust and detritus of ancient civilizations. Happily, circumstances are about to demand their immediate presence in Egypt. Sir Henry Baskerville had just discovered a tomb in Luxor when he promptly died under bizarre circumstances. The tabloids scream of The Curse of the Pharaohs! Amelia and her husband arrive to find the camp in disarray and the workers terrified. A ghost even appears. It is not at all what Amelia considers an atmosphere conducive to scientific discovery. Thus the indomitable Victorian sets about bringing order to chaos and herself close to danger. How Amelia triumphs over evil and those who would stand between her and her beloved antiquities makes for a delightfully spirited adventure. [via]
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- The Curse of the Pharaohs: ISBN 0396079636 (0-396-07963-6)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead - The Curse of the Pharaohs: ISBN 0816132747 (0-8161-3274-7)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall - The Curse of the Pharaohs: ISBN 0922890390 (0-922890-39-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Curse of the Pharaohs: ISBN 0922890412 (0-922890-41-2)
Hardcover, Armchair Detective Library - The Curse of the Pharaohs: ISBN 0445406488 (0-445-40648-8)
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- The Curse of the Pharaohs: ISBN 0396079636 (0-396-07963-6)
The Curse of the Pharaohs/Collectorsby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0922890404 (0-922890-40-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cut to the Quickby Kate RossISBN 0140233946 (0-14-023394-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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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 Dante Clubby Matthew PearlISBN 034549038X (0-345-49038-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dante Club'Book summary:The New York Times Bestseller
Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dantes Inferno. Only an elite group of Americas first Dante scholarsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fieldscan solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dantes literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer. [via] 
Death of a Colonialby Bruce AlexanderISBN 0425177025 (0-425-17702-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Deeds of the Disturberby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0380731959 (0-380-73195-9)
Softcover, Twilight
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deeds of the Disturber'Book summary:Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody is back for more exotic suspense when a night watchman at the British Museum is found dead in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case. Skeptical of an ancient curse, Amelia is hot on the trail of the real killer. HC: Atheneum. [via]
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- The Deeds of the Disturber: ISBN 0446353337 (0-446-35333-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing - The Deeds of the Disturber: ISBN 0689119070 (0-689-11907-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Deeds of the Disturber: ISBN 0816146942 (0-8161-4694-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Deeds of the Disturber: ISBN 0380731959 (0-380-73195-9)
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- The Deeds of the Disturber: ISBN 0446353337 (0-446-35333-7)
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The Devil in Musicby Kate RossISBN 0140263640 (0-14-026364-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil in Music'Book summary:With flawless period detail and a dapper English detective reminiscent of Lord Peter Wimsey, Kate Ross is charming fans of Anne Perry and Elizabeth George--and earning a loyal following of mystery readers eager to accompany Julian Kestrel from adventure to satisfying adventure. Traveling on the Continent with his ex-pickpocket valet, Kestrel finds himself caught up in the mysterious and murderous world of the opera. Four years ago, the Italian marquis Ludovico Malvezzi was murdered, and Orfeo, the young English tenor he had been training for a career on the glittering operatic stage, disappeared. As Kestral is irresistibly drawn into the baffling case, he encounters suspects at every turn: a runaway wife and her male soprano lover; a liberal nobleman at odds with Italy's Austrian overlords; a mocking Frenchman with perfect pitch; a beautiful, clever widow who haunts Kestrel's dreams; and the missing Orfeo, the penniless protg who just might be a political agent. And when the killer strikes again, Kestrel's quest for answers spirals into a crescendo of passion, danger, and music as he risks becoming a ruthless murderer's next victim. [via]
El Club Dante/The Dante Clubby Matthew PearlISBN 8432296325 (84-322-9632-5)
Softcover, Seix Barral
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El Nombre De La Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 9685959242 (968-5959-24-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El nombre de la rosa / The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 8497592581 (84-9759-258-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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The Hippopotamus Poolby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0783817266 (0-7838-1726-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hippopotamus Pool'Book summary:Is the Hippopotamus Pool a legend? Or Amelia's nemesis! A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queens' lost tomb - and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archaeologist husband Emerson are intrigued, to say the least. When the guide mysteriously disappears before he can tell them his secret, the Peabody-Emersons sail to Thebes to follow his trail, helped - and hampered - by their teenage son Rameses, and beautiful ward Nefret. Before the sands of time shift very far, all of them will be risking their lives foiling murderers, kidnappers, grave robbers, and ancient curses. off once again on a rollicking adventure involving archaeology, murderers, kidnappers, grave robbers and ancient curses. And the hippopotamus Pool? It's a legend of war and wits that Amelia is translating, one that alerts her to a hippo of a different type - a nefarious, overweight art dealer who is on course to become her new arch-enemy! [via]
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Il Nome Della Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845207056 (88-452-0705-6)
Hardcover, Bompiani
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Nome Della Rosa'Book summary:"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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An Instance of the Fingerpostby Iain PearsISBN 1573227951 (1-57322-795-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'Book summary:An Instance of the Fingerpost is that rarest of all possible literary beasts--a mystery powered as much by ideas as by suspects, autopsies, and smoking guns. Hefty, intricately plotted, and intellectually ambitious, Fingerpost has drawn the inevitable comparisons to Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and, for once, the comparison is apt.
The year is 1663, and the setting is Oxford, England, during the height of Restoration political intrigue. When Dr. Robert Grove is found dead in his Oxford room, hands clenched and face frozen in a rictus of pain, all the signs point to poison. Rashomon-like, the narrative circles around Grove's murder as four different characters give their version of events: Marco da Cola, a visiting Italian physician--or so he would like the reader to believe; Jack Prestcott, the son of a traitor who fled the country to avoid execution; Dr. John Wallis, a mathematician and cryptographer with a predilection for conspiracy theories; and Anthony Wood, a mild-mannered Oxford antiquarian whose tale proves to be the book's "instance of the fingerpost." (The quote comes from the philosopher Bacon, who, while asserting that all evidence is ultimately fallible, allows for "one instance of a fingerpost that points in one direction only, and allows of no other possibility.")
Like The Name of the Rose, this is one whodunit in which the principal mystery is the nature of truth itself. Along the way, Pears displays a keen eye for period details as diverse as the early days of medicine, the convoluted politics of the English Civil War, and the newfangled fashion for wigs. Yet Pears never loses sight of his characters, who manage to be both utterly authentic denizens of the 17th century and utterly authentic human beings. As a mystery, An Instance of the Fingerpost is entertainment of the most intelligent sort; as a novel of ideas, it proves equally satisfying. [via]
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- An Instance of the Fingerpost: ISBN 1573220825 (1-57322-082-5)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books - An Instance of the Fingerpost: ISBN 0425167720 (0-425-16772-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - An Instance of the Fingerpost: ISBN 061365630X (0-613-65630-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Instance of the Fingerpost: ISBN 0606169407 (0-606-16940-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media - An Instance of the Fingerpost: ISBN 0783802803 (0-7838-0280-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - An Instance of the Fingerpost: ISBN 1573227951 (1-57322-795-1)
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- An Instance of the Fingerpost: ISBN 1573220825 (1-57322-082-5)
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The Last Camel Died at Noonby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0446363383 (0-446-36338-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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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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Monk's Hoodby Ellis PetersISBN 0446403008 (0-446-40300-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monk's Hood'Book summary:When a visitor to the abbey dies, Brother Cadfael faces a personal drama. For not only was the man poisoned by monk's hood oil, made in Cadfael's own laboratory, the dead man's widow is also the woman to whom Cadfael was betrothed before he took his vows. [via]
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- Monk's Hood: ISBN 0449206998 (0-449-20699-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - Monk's Hood: ISBN 0786210737 (0-7862-1073-7)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - Monk's Hood: ISBN 0333294106 (0-333-29410-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Monk's Hood: ISBN 0688004520 (0-688-00452-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Monk's Hood: ISBN 0446403008 (0-446-40300-8)
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- Monk's Hood: ISBN 0449206998 (0-449-20699-8)
Monk's Hood/Cassettesby Ellis PetersISBN 0787102547 (0-7871-0254-7)
Hardcover, New Star Media Inc
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Morbid Taste for Bonesby Ellis PetersISBN 0446400157 (0-446-40015-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morbid Taste for Bones'Book summary:Murder in the twelfth century is no different from murder today. There is still a dead body, though this time with an arrow through the heart instead of a bullet. There is still a need to bury the dead, to comfort the living - and to catch the murderer. When Brother Cadfael comes to a village in the Welsh hills, he finds himself doing all three of those things. And there is nothing simple about this death. The murdered man's daughter needs Cadfael's help in more ways than one. There are questions about the arrow. And the burial is the strangest thing of all ... [via]
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- A Morbid Tase for Bones: ISBN 0786210699 (0-7862-1069-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr - Morbid Taste for Bones: ISBN 0333223241 (0-333-22324-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan - Morbid Taste for Bones: ISBN 0688033741 (0-688-03374-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Morbid Taste for Bones: ISBN 0446400157 (0-446-40015-7)
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- A Morbid Tase for Bones: ISBN 0786210699 (0-7862-1069-9)
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The Mummy Caseby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0060878118 (0-06-087811-8)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mummy Case'Book summary:The third in the popular series charting the adventures of Amelia Peabody, this novel follows the Victorian lady sleuth to the "pyramids" of Mazghunah. On her arrival, it seems that the barren area can be of no interest, but a murder in Cairo soon persuades her otherwise. [via]
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- The Mummy Case: ISBN 0061429783 (0-06-142978-3)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co - The Mummy Case: ISBN 0446601934 (0-446-60193-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - The Mummy Case: ISBN 0812532147 (0-8125-3214-7)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom - The Mummy Case: ISBN 0312925476 (0-312-92547-6)
Hardcover, Congdon & Weed - The Mummy Case: ISBN 0816139342 (0-8161-3934-2)
Hardcover, G.K. Hall - The Mummy Case: ISBN 0865531404 (0-86553-140-4)
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- The Mummy Case: ISBN 0061429783 (0-06-142978-3)
The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Name Of The Rose'Book summary:"A brilliantly conceived adventure into another time" (San Francisco Chronicle) by critically acclaimed author Umberto Eco. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns to the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, and the empirical insights of Roger Bacon to find the killer. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey ("where the most interesting things happen at night") armed with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious curiosity. [via]
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- The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0156001314 (0-15-600131-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0151446474 (0-15-144647-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0307264890 (0-307-26489-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0446357200 (0-446-35720-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0816136955 (0-8161-3695-5)
Softcover, G.K. Hall - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0517448424 (0-517-44842-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0816136637 (0-8161-3663-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Name Of The Rose: ISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
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- The Name of the Rose: ISBN 0156001314 (0-15-600131-4)
One Corpse Too Manyby Ellis PetersISBN 0786210729 (0-7862-1072-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Picasso Flopby Robert J. Randisi, Vince Van PattenISBN 0892960701 (0-89296-070-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picasso Flop'Book summary:Van Patten, host of Travel Channel's "World Poker Tour," and mystery writer Randisi team up to deliver this first novel in a new fast-paced, high-stakes poker mystery series. [via]
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The Queen's Man : A Medieval Mysteryby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 034542316X (0-345-42316-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen's Man'Book summary:Do you know the story of Sharon Kay Penman's first mystery novel, The Sunne in Splendour? She spent every spare moment for years--first as a law student, then as a lawyer--working on the book about Richard III. And when the only copy of the manuscript was stolen from her car, she sat down and wrote it again. Five excellent historical mysteries later, Penman has started a new series set even farther back in time. It's 1193, and King Richard has disappeared on his way back to England after fighting in the Crusades. Justin de Quincy, the well-educated but illegitimate son of a bishop, is tapped to search for the missing ruler, and he turns out to be just the chap to blow away the cobwebs that often hang over historical mystery. Other Penman picks: Falls the Shadow; Here Be Dragons; Reckoning. [via]
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Roman Bloodby Steven SaylorISBN 0804110395 (0-8041-1039-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roman Blood'Book summary:"Remarkable...Takes the reader deep into the political, legal and family arenas of Ancient Rome, providing a stirring blend of history and mystery, well seasoned with conspiracy, passion and intrigue."
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One unseasonably warm spring morning in 80 B.C., Gordianus the Finder is summoned to investigate a murder. Sextus Roscius is accused of killing his own father. This, in a society rife with deceit, betrayal, and conspiracy, where neither citizen nor slave can be trusted to speak the truth. But even Gordianus is not prepared for the spectacularly dangerous fireworks that will attend the resolution of this ugly, delicate case.... [via]More editions of Roman Blood:
The Second Mouseby Archer MayorISBN 0892960728 (0-89296-072-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Silver Pigsby Lindsey DavisISBN 031235777X (0-312-35777-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silver Pigs: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery'Book summary:[via]When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman "informer" who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her--a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of stolen Imperial ingots, in fact. Matters just get more complicated when Falco meets Helena Justina, a Senator's daughter who is connected to the very same traitors he has sworn to expose. Soon Falco finds himself swept from the perilous back alleys of Ancient Rome to the silver mines of distant Britain--and up against a cabal of traitors with blood on their hands and no compunction whatsoever to do away with a snooping plebe like Falco&. -
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dogby Elizabeth PetersISBN 044651585X (0-446-51585-X)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog'Book summary:A brand-new Elizabeth Peters novel is one of the uncompromising pleasures in life. As Peter Theroux in the New York Times Book Review points out, "Her wonderfully witty voice and her penchant for history lessons of the Nile both ancient and modern keep (her) high adventure moving for even the highest brows". In her previous outing, The Last Camel Died at Noon, Amelia Peabody and her dashing husband, Emerson, discovered a fabulous lost oasis in the Nubian desert. Now, in the seventh mystery in the series, the Emerson-Peabodys are traveling up the Nile once again to encounter their most deadly adversary, the Master Criminal, who is back at his sinister best. Amelia Peabody was unabashedly proud of her newest translation, a fragment of the ancient fairytale "The Doomed Prince". Later, she would wonder why no sense of foreboding struck her as she retold the story of the king's favorite son who had been warned that he would die from the snake, the crocodile, or the dog. Little did she realize, as she and her beloved husband sailed blissfully toward the pyramids of ancient Egypt, that those very beasts (and a cat as well) would be part of a deadly plot. The expedition began so happily....Leaving their delightful, but catastrophically precocious, son, Ramses, back in England, Amelia hoped this romantic trip might rejuvenate her thirteen-year-old marriage and bring back the thrills that she feared were fading. She and her dear Emerson were returning to the remote desert site where they had first fallen in love, Amarna, the holy city of Akhenaton and his beautiful queen, Nefertiti. But their return would threaten not only their marriage, but their very lives with perils as chilling as a mummy'scurse. An old enemy was determined to learn Amelia and Emerson's most closely guarded secret: the location of a legendary long-lost oasis and a race of people bedecked in gold. So cunning was his scheme that Amelia might ove [via]
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Watery Graveby Bruce AlexanderISBN 042516036X (0-425-16036-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Watery Grave'Book summary:The legendary, blind eighteenth-century judge returns in his third mystery, in which he investigates the murder of a sea captain, possibly at the hands of his own stepson. By the author of Blind Justice. BOMC Alt. [via]
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Whom the Gods Loveby Kate RossISBN 014024767X (0-14-024767-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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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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El Club Dante/ The Dante Clubby Matthew Pearl, VICENTE VILLACAMPAISBN 8432217204 (84-322-1720-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club Dante/ The Dante Club'Book summary:Una magistral obra de suspense mundialmente aclamada. Boston, 1865. Importantes personalidades est´n siendo brutalmente asesinadas por un criminal inspirado en los tormentos del Infierno de Dante. Sólo los miembros del club Dante --poetas y profesores de Harvard dirigidos por Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-- pueden anticiparse al asesino e identificarle. Mientras preparan la primera traducción americana de La divina comedia enfrentándose a la oposición de la puritana vieja guardia de Harvard, los intelectuales deberán convertirse en detectives y pasar a la acción. Nicholas Ray, el primer policía negro del departamento de Boston, dirigirá la investigación oficial mientras los miembros del club llevan a cabo sus insólitas pesquisas. Un dantesco infierno medieval se cierne sobre las calles de la ciudad, en una época que toca a su fin, convulsa por la recién terminada guerra civil, el asesinato del presidente Lincoln y los disturbios raciales. Comparada insistentemente con El nombre de la rosa, de Umberto Eco, aclamada por la crítica con una unanimidad asombrosa y refrendada por el público con su presencia en las listas de los libros más vendidos de New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, entre otros, El club Dante (http://www.seix-barral.es/club-dante) está a punto de ser publicada en veintiún países antes de ser llevada al cine. Matthew Pearl ha logrado un equilibrio perfecto entre realidad y ficción, una novela histórica de suspense que sorprende de principio a fin. [via]
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El Nombre De La Rosaby Umberto Eco, Ricardo PochtarISBN 8426411487 (84-264-1148-7)
Hardcover, Editorial Lumen
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Il Nome Della Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845246345 (88-452-4634-5)
Softcover, Rl Libri
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Nome Della Rosa'Book summary:"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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