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10 Lb. Penaltyby Dick FrancisISBN 0515123471 (0-515-12347-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0486400778 (0-486-40077-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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And the Blood Cried Out: A Prosecutor's Spellbinding Account of the Power of DNAby Harlan LevyISBN 0465017045 (0-465-01704-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Annotated Innocence of Father Brownby Martin Gardner, G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486298590 (0-486-29859-0)
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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, Adam FrostISBN 048640062X (0-486-40062-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:The legendary romance between an irresistible siren and great general comes to dramatic life in one of Shakespeare's most powerful tragedies. Fascinating characterizations of a pair of historys most charismatic lovers, fast-paced action in scenes throughout the far-flung Roman Empire, and peerless poetry make this immortal drama a must for students of the theater and literature.[via]More editions of Antony and Cleopatra:
Bad Karmaby Deborah BlumISBN 0515093866 (0-515-09386-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Black As He's Paintedby Ngaio MarshISBN 0515076279 (0-515-07627-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Blood Sportby Dick FrancisISBN 0515126519 (0-515-12651-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Boltby Dick FrancisISBN 0515130427 (0-515-13042-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Break Inby Dick FrancisISBN 0515131008 (0-515-13100-8)
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The Cat Who Knew a Cardinalby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515107867 (0-515-10786-7)
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The Cat Who Knew Shakespeareby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515095826 (0-515-09582-6)
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Cat Who Moved a Mountainby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515109509 (0-515-10950-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat Who Moved a Mountain'Book summary:Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes. But Hawkinfield paid a steep price for his enterprise: He was pushed off a cliff by an angry mountain dweller. Qwilleran, however, suspects the man is innocent--and Koko's antics have him convinced something's wrong. He may be making a mountain out of a molehill...but he's determined to find the truth. Even if it means jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire![via]More editions of Cat Who Moved a Mountain:
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The Cat Who Played Brahmsby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515090506 (0-515-09050-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Played Brahms'Book summary:Is it just a case of summertime blues or a full-blown career crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim Qwilleran isn't sure, but he's hoping a few days in the country will help him sort out his life.[via]With cats Koko and Yum Yum for company, Qwilleran heads for a cabin owned by a longtime family friend, "Aunt Fanny." But from the moment he arrives, things turn strange. Eerie footsteps cross the roof at midnight, Local townsfolk become oddly secretive. And then, while fishing, Qwilleran hooks on to a murder mystery. Soon Qwilleran enters into a game of cat and mouse with the killer, while Koko develops a sudden and uncanny fondness for classical music...
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The Cat Who Played Post Officeby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515093203 (0-515-09320-3)
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The Cat Who Sang for the Birdsby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 051512463X (0-515-12463-X)
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The Cat Who Saw Redby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515090166 (0-515-09016-6)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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The Cat Who Tailed a Thiefby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515122408 (0-515-12240-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Tailed a Thief'Book summary:Lillian Jackson Braun never seems to run out of ideas for her popular series of mysteries featuring journalist Jim Qwilleran and his feline cohort, Koko. In this latest, The Cat Who Tailed A Thief, Koko again exhibits her preternatural intelligence by trying to tip off Qwilleran to important clues to a murder. That Qwilleran is not possessed of the same mental acuity as his cat is what makes this series work. Braun may not be noted for refined prose, perceptive characterizations, or stunningly original plots, but what she does do well is cats. Fans of felines in general and Koko in particular will find this book, the 19th in the Qwilleran series, almost as irresistible as, well, catnip. Some would even say it's purr-fect. [via]
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The Cat Who Talked to Ghostsby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515102652 (0-515-10265-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts'Book summary:When Mrs. Cobb heard unearthly noises in the antique-filled farmhouse, she called Jim Qwilleran for help. But he was too late. It looked as if his kindly ex-housekeeper had been frightened to death--but by whom? Or what? Now Qwilleran's moved into the historic farmhouse with his two cat companions--and Koko the Siamese is spooked. Is it a figment of feline imagination--or the clue to a murder in Moose County? And does Qwilleran have a ghost of a chance of solving this haunting mystery?[via]More editions of The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts:
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The Cat Who Went into the Closetby Lilian Jackson BraunISBN 0515113328 (0-515-11332-8)
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Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poemsby Mark Thornton BurnettISBN 0460879952 (0-460-87995-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems'Book summary:Sensuous, passionate, disturbing, this is a collection of poems of love, violence and heroic deeds by arguably Shakspeare's greatest and most fascinating predecessor. [via]
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Colour Schemeby Ngaio MarshISBN 0515078816 (0-515-07881-6)
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Compelling Evidenceby Steven Paul MartiniISBN 0515110396 (0-515-11039-6)
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The Complete Playsby Christopher MarloweISBN 0460879871 (0-460-87987-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Plays'Book summary:Blasphemy, perversion, defiance and transgression...in a series of compelling tragedies, Marlowe challenged every authority of heaven and earth. From the proud wrath of Tamburlaine, the tyrant of Asia, to the racked anguish of Edward II, himself in thrall to unspeakable desires; from God's own Machiavel, the Duke of Guise, to Barabas, the Jew of Malta, curse of Christianity: all are taboo-breakers, to be broken in their turn. And in the tragedy of Doctor Faustus we perhaps read Marlowe's own: a tale of brilliance and audacity - and of terrible, inexorable punishment. [via]
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Compromising Positionsby Susan IsaacsISBN 0515093025 (0-515-09302-5)
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The Dark Roomby Minette WaltersISBN 0515120456 (0-515-12045-6)
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Death in Ecstasyby Ngaio MarshISBN 0515085928 (0-515-08592-8)
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Deciderby Dick FrancisISBN 0515116173 (0-515-11617-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decider'Book summary:Architect Lee Morris inherits partial ownership of the Stratton Park racecourse and finds himself embroiled in a deadly battle among its wealthy owners, members of his own estranged family. Reprint. K. NYT. PW. [via]
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The Echoby Minette WaltersISBN 0515122564 (0-515-12256-4)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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The Edgeby Dick FrancisISBN 051513113X (0-515-13113-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Edge'Book summary:Tor Kelsey, an undercover agent for the Jockey Club's security service is involved in the attempt to rid racing of one of its most notorious villains, Julius Apollo Filmer. The court however, does not go along with their beliefs, but Tor knows that to let Julius even suspect the service are still on his tail would mean certain death for a number of witnesses. Meanwhile, several racehorse owners have planned a luxurious train trip across Canada, with race meetings fixed for every major city. Julius Apollo Filmer and Tor are on the passenger list. The beautiful journey through the Rockies gets uglier by the minute and Tor finds himself pushed to dangerous limits to defeat Filmer's wily scheming. [via]
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Eight Million Ways to Dieby Lawrence BlockISBN 051508090X (0-515-08090-X)
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Enter a Murdererby Ngaio Marsh, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), Jove BooksISBN 0515074470 (0-515-07447-0)
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Field of Thirteenby Dick FrancisISBN 0515126098 (0-515-12609-8)
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The Floating Admiralby Agatha Christie, ChestertonISBN 051511023X (0-515-11023-X)
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Flying Finishby Dick FrancisISBN 0515125601 (0-515-12560-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flying Finish'Book summary:Two of Dick Francis' best-known thrillers set in the world of horse-racing, in one volume. Francis was a professional jockey for many years, and now has a string of best-selling thrillers to his name. [via]
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The Funhouseby Owen WestISBN 0515057266 (0-515-05726-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Funhouse'Book summary:A story of vengeance when a young mother, having married in haste to a violent man, kills their child in belief that he is an evil creature. Her husband swears revenge, and sets out to kill any further children that she may have. First published in 1981 under the pseudonym Owen West. [via]
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The Golemby Gustav MeyrinkISBN 0486250253 (0-486-25025-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golem'Book summary:"A favorite of connoisseurs of works of fantasy for many decades." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A compelling story of mystical experiences, strange transformations, and profound terror, this is the most famous supernatural novel in modern European literature, set in Ghetto of Old Prague around 1890. 13 black-and-white illustrations. "Not to be missed." Los Angeles Times.[via]More editions of The Golem:
The Golem and "the Man Who Was Born Again" Two German Supernatural Novelsby Gustav MeyrinkISBN 0486233278 (0-486-23327-8)
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The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murdersby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0486235025 (0-486-23502-5)
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.[via] -
Henry IVby William ShakespeareISBN 0486295842 (0-486-29584-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:Written between 1596 and 1597, Henry IV Part One represents Shakespeare's increasingly mature talent in staging the history of the early Tudor monarchy. Midway in the cycle of Shakespeare's History Plays, which begin with Richard II and ultimately culminate in his last play, Henry VIII, Henry IV Part One tells the story of the troubled reign of Henry IV following his deposition of Richard II. The historical action revolves around the attempt by Henry Percy (known as Hotspur) to overthrow Henry at the Battle of Shrewsbury. However, over half the play deals with the transformation of Henry's profligate son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), from tavern joker to national icon.
The whole play is stolen from its kings and princes by Shakespeare's greatest comic creation, the "fat-kidneyed rascal" Sir John Falstaff, king of his own dominions--the taverns and brothels of London's Eastcheap district. The tavern scenes of the play are some of the most evocative accounts of 16th-century popular London life. They revolve around the comical but ultimately sinister relationship between Falstaff and his young apprentice Hal, who learns to "so offend to make offence a skill" as he learns the slippery ropes of realpolitik and kingship. The play is considered by many to be the liveliest and most profound of Shakespeare's History Plays, and remains one of its most popular examples. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Hidden Richesby Nora RobertsISBN 0515116068 (0-515-11606-8)
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Homeportby Nora RobertsISBN 0515124893 (0-515-12489-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homeport'Book summary:Where passion lives...The Maine air was bitter cold and frigid as Dr. Miranda Jones returned to the family home after a busy lecture tour. But her blood turned to ice when, out of nowhere, she felt a knife held against her throat. The unseen assailant stole her bags, slashed her tires . . . and disappeared. Shaken and bruised, Miranda was nonetheless determined to put the assault quickly out of her mind. Then comes a distraction in the form of a summons to Italy to verify the authenticity of a valuable Renaissance bronze of a Medici courtesan known as "The Dark Lady." However, instead of cementing Miranda's position as the leading expert in her field, the job unexpectedly nearly destroys it when her professional judgment is called into question. Emotionally estranged from her mother, her brother immersed in his own troubles-and a bottle-Miranda, desperate to restore her reputation, has no one to turn to . . . except Ryan Boldari, a seductive art thief whose own agenda forces them into a reluctant and uneasy alliance. Now, it has become frighteningly clear that the incident that day in Maine was not a simple mugging, and that "The Dark Lady" may possess as many secrets as its beautiful namesake once did. For Miranda, forced to rely on herself-and an enigmatic partner who offers her suspicion and an intoxicating passion-the only way home is filled with treachery, deception, and a danger that threatens them all. [via]
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Honest Illusionsby Nora RobertsISBN 0515110973 (0-515-11097-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Honest Illusions'Book summary:With Honest Illusions, national bestselling author Nora Roberts unveils a world where passion and mystery entwine, where nothing is as it seems. The daughter of a world-renowned magician, Roxy Nouvelle has inherited her father's talents-and his penchant for jewel thievery. Into this colorful world comes Luke Callahan, an escape artist who captures her heart-and keeps secrets that could shatter all her illusions... [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0486282147 (0-486-28214-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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An Intimate History of Killing: Face-To-Face Killing in Twentieth-Century Warfareby Joanna BourkeISBN 0465007384 (0-465-00738-4)
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0486424499 (0-486-42449-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:[via]An orphan girl's progress from the custody of cruel relatives to an oppressive boarding school culminates in a troubled career as a governess. Jane's first assignment at Thornfield, where the proud and cynical master harbors a scandalous secret, draws readers ever deeper into a compelling exploration of the mysteries of the human heart. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.More editions of Jane Eyre:
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Jane Eyreby Margaret Smith, Charlotte BronteISBN 0460875965 (0-460-87596-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jane Eyre'Book summary:Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, orphaned, penniless, victim to a harsh Aunt, and miserable years at Lowood institution finds love as Governess to the sickly Adele, illegitimate daughter of Mr Rocheste. With their wedding interrupted by the sudden intrusion of Rochester's mad Creole wife, inhabitant of the upper regions of Thornfield Hall for years, Jane flees. Nursed from near-death on the moors by the Revd St John Rivers and his 2 sisters, Jane learns both that they are her cousins and that she is the recipient of some money from her Uncle. On the verge of yielding to River's appeal that she marry him, Jane is prevented by a telepathic appeal from Rochester and returns to the Hall to find the building burned, his wife dead and Rochester blinded. Yet marriage seemsaid in the restoration of his sight. [via]
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Killing Criticsby Carol O'ConnellISBN 0515120863 (0-515-12086-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing Critics'Book summary:As NYPD Detective Sergeant Kathleen Mallory probes the death of a hack artist at a local gallery opening, she uncovers links to a bizarre twelve-year-old double homicide and dismemberment. Reprint. PW. K. " [via]
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Last Ditchby Ngaio MarshISBN 051508798X (0-515-08798-X)
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Mallory's Oracleby Carol O'ConnellISBN 0515116475 (0-515-11647-5)
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The Man Who Cast Two Shadowsby Carol O'ConnellISBN 0515118907 (0-515-11890-7)
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Montana Skyby Nora RobertsISBN 0515120618 (0-515-12061-8)
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cabby Fergus W. HumeISBN 0486219569 (0-486-21956-9)
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The Mystery of Edwin Droodby Charles Dickens, G. K. ChestertonISBN 0486444996 (0-486-44499-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'Book summary:A tale of entangled loves and thwarted desires,THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD(1870) has at its heart an ill-starred engagement and a suspected murder,the victim of which has disappeared.Dickens's last novel is the natural culmination of his life's work.It is populated by memorable characters such as the fatuous Mr Sapsea and the bullying ' philanthropist'Mr Honeythunder,and it exhibits Dickens's dazzling talent for atmosphere and social observation.Various attempts have been madeby authors such as Leon Garfield(1980) and C.Forsyte(1980) to resolve the mystery at the heart of this,Dickens's intriguing unfinished masterpiece. [via]
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Odds Againstby Dick FrancisISBN 0515125512 (0-515-12551-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odds Against'Book summary:When he wakes up in hospital with his stomach shot full of holes, private detective and former steeplechase jockey, Sid Halley has his first case for a longtime. Taken to convalesce at his father-in-law's house, Sid encounters overbearing entrepreneur, Howard Kraye, a man determined to take over Seabury Racecourse - at any price. As Sid delves deeper into Kraye's shady past of violence, fraud and brutality, he finds that a bullet in the gut may turn out to the least of his problems. [via]
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Oedipus Rexby SophoclesISBN 0486268772 (0-486-26877-2)
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Passingby Nella LarsenISBN 0486437132 (0-486-43713-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Passing'Book summary:The heroine of Passing takes an elevator from the infernal August Chicago streets to the breezy rooftop of the heavenly Drayton Hotel, "wafted upward on a magic carpet to another world, pleasant, quiet, and strangely remote from the sizzling one that she had left below." Irene is black, but like her author, the Danish-African American Nella Larsen (a star of the 1920s to mid-1930s Harlem Renaissance and the first black woman to win a Guggenheim creative-writing award), she can "pass" in white society. Yet one woman in the tea room, "fair and golden, like a sunlit day," keeps staring at her, and eventually introduces herself as Irene's childhood friend Clare, who left their hometown 12 years before when her father died. Clare's father had been born "on the left hand"--he was the product of a legal marriage between a white man and a black woman and therefore cut off from his inheritance. So she was raised penniless by white racist relatives, and now she passes as white. Even Clare's violent white husband is in the dark about her past, though he teases her about her tan and affectionately calls her "Nig." He laughingly explains: "When we were first married, she was white as--as--well as white as a lily. But I declare she's getting darker and darker." As Larsen makes clear, Passing can also mean dying, and Clare is in peril of losing her identity and her life.
The tale is simple on the surface--a few adventures in Chicago and New York's high life, with lots of real people and race-mixing events described (explicated by Thadious M. Davis's helpful introduction and footnotes). But underneath, it seethes with rage, guilt, sex, and complex deceptions. Irene fears losing her black husband to Clare, who seems increasingly predatory. Or is this all in Irene's mind? And is everyone wearing a mask? Larsen's book is a scary hall of mirrors, a murder mystery that can't resolve itself. It sticks with you. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Photo Finishby Ngaio MarshISBN 0515075051 (0-515-07505-1)
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, Cuddon J.A.ISBN 0460874713 (0-460-87471-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. [via]
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Private Scandalsby Nora RobertsISBN 0515114006 (0-515-11400-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Proofby Dick FrancisISBN 0515121207 (0-515-12120-7)
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The Raspby Philip MacDonaldISBN 0486238644 (0-486-23864-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rasp'Book summary:Debut of celebrated detective, Colonel Anthony Gethryn. Brutal murder enmeshes sleuth in dark tale of revenge. Superb suspense, shocking denouement.[via]More editions of The Rasp:
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The Red House Mysteryby Alan Alexander MilneISBN 0486401294 (0-486-40129-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red House Mystery'Book summary:This droll whodunit from the creator of Winnie the Pooh sparkles with witty dialogue, deft plotting, and an amusing cast. In between taking tea and playing billiards, an amateur detective and his chum investigate their genial host's disappearance. A series of lighthearted capers ensues, replete with secret passageways, underwater evidence, and other atmospheric devices.[via]More editions of The Red House Mystery:
The Reefby Nora RobertsISBN 051512608X (0-515-12608-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Revenger's Tragedyby Tourneur, Brian GibbonsISBN 051034206X (0-510-34206-X)
Softcover, Benn
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Running Blindby Lee ChildISBN 0515130974 (0-515-13097-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Sabbathday Riverby Jean Hanff KorelitzISBN 0515130117 (0-515-13011-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Sanctuaryby Nora RobertsISBN 0515122734 (0-515-12273-4)
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Scales of Justiceby Ngaio MarchISBN 0515079170 (0-515-07917-0)
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The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Casesby E. J. WagnerISBN 0471648795 (0-471-64879-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Second Wind: Library Editionby Dick FrancisISBN 0515129232 (0-515-12923-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Secret Agentby Joseph ConradISBN 0486419185 (0-486-41918-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Agent'Book summary:A group of revolutionaries in the backstreets of 19th-century London plot the destruction of the Greenwich Observatory in this 1907 masterpiece of suspense. Rich in atmosphere and psychological realism, the tale centers on a shopkeeper whose double life encompasses a quiet family circle, active friendships with anarchists, and allegiance to a foreign government.[via]More editions of Secret Agent:
Slay Rideby Dick FrancisISBN 0515129267 (0-515-12926-7)
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Spinsters in Jeopardyby Ngaio MarshISBN 0515087181 (0-515-08718-1)
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Stone Angelby Carol O'ConnellISBN 051512298X (0-515-12298-X)
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The Stoneware Monkeyby R. Austin FreemanISBN 0486254712 (0-486-25471-2)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0486266885 (0-486-26688-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Tales of Terror and Detectionby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0486287440 (0-486-28744-0)
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Tarzanby Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486295303 (0-486-29530-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan'Book summary:Imaginative and exciting tale recounts the remarkable exploits of young Lord Greystoke, who is raised by a family of apes in the African jungle and becomes the worthy opponent of the jungle's most feared predators. Large, easy-to-read type, accompanied by 18 striking illustrations. Abridged.[via]More editions of Tarzan:
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0486295702 (0-486-29570-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." [via]
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Tenant for Deathby Cyril HareISBN 0486241033 (0-486-24103-3)
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To the Hiltby Dick FrancisISBN 0515121487 (0-515-12148-7)
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Tom Sawyer: Library Editionby Mark Twain, Robert Blaisdell, John GreenISBN 0486291561 (0-486-29156-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Sawyer: Library Edition'Book summary:Specially abridged version of the beloved classic about a mischievous but well-meaning young lad who barely avoids calamity as he bounds along from one adventure to another. Memorable cast of characters includes Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, Huck Finn, Injun Joe, and others. 31 black-and-white illustrations. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via]More editions of Tom Sawyer: Library Edition:
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Trent's Last Caseby E.C. BentleyISBN 0486296873 (0-486-29687-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trent's Last Case'Book summary:Masterwork of the genre features detective Philip Trent in a case involving the murder of millionaire American financier Sigsbee Manderson, slain while on holiday in England. Trent matches wits with Scotland Yard's Inspector Murth. "One of the few genuine classics of detective fiction." The New York Times.[via]More editions of Trent's Last Case:
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Tripwireby Lee ChildISBN 0515128635 (0-515-12863-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tripwire'Book summary:Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is lying low in Key West, digging up swimming pools by hand. He is not at all pleased when a private detective starts asking questions about him. But when the detective, Costello, turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off, Reacher realizes it is time to move on.
As in Lee Child's two previous thrillers, Die Trying and Killing Floor, Reacher is soon up to his neck in lethal trouble, this time involving a vicious Wall Street manipulator, a mysterious woman (of course), and the livelihood of a whole community. Even the fate of soldiers missing in action in Vietnam is stirred into the brew.
But this is not a book by one of the new breed of U.S. thriller writers. Child prides himself on his ability, as an Englishman, to write American thrillers that are utterly convincing in milieu and toughness of action, without a trace of English sensibility. Tripwire is no exception. Every bit as lean and compulsive as its predecessors, it also builds on the freshest aspect of those books: Reacher may be a tough, epic hero, but he always remains human and vulnerable. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Trouble in Paradiseby Robert B. ParkerISBN 0515126497 (0-515-12649-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trouble in Paradise'Book summary:Robert Parker's Trouble in Paradise imagines an old-fashioned tough guys' world where most of the women are summed up by their figures and the men are measured by their ability to intimidate. Chief Jesse Stone of Paradise, Massachusetts, is Parker's hero again in this sequel to Night Passage. When he's not thinking about what his girlfriends look like under their clothes, Stone's touring his beat, hanging out at the Gray Gull Hotel bar to get intelligence on local thugs, or interrogating teens about their destructive pranks. But he has a vulnerable side, too, and Parker adds new layers of depth and complexity to his latest series character. Jesse's still reeling from his divorce. He and his ex-wife, Jenn, are not entirely ready to let go. In fact, Jenn has followed Jesse east from L.A. and is suffering in the Boston climate as one of the anchors on the local news. Romance with Jenn is further complicated by Jesse's ongoing attraction to attorney Abby Taylor and his emerging relationship with realtor Marcy Campbell.
Jesse's domestic troubles are gradually overshadowed, however, when ex-con Jimmy Macklin arrives in town. Macklin plans to pull "the mother of all stickups" on the ritzy Stiles Island in Paradise Harbor. He has figured out that the Stiles Island bridge, with its underpinning of utility cables and pipes, is a veritable lifeline to the mainland, and he's gathered a rogues' gallery of professional crooks and killers to help him take the bridge and make the island into a thieves' paradise. The one problem: Macklin never figured that Paradise, Massachusetts, would have a police chief as tough and resourceful as Jesse Stone.
As usual, Parker's stark and facile prose perfectly complements the masculine sufferings of his hero, and the action of the novel unfolds with an effortlessness that intimates a craftsman at work. With Parker's Spenser safely canonized as a detective fiction legend, Jesse Stone's unfolding world offers a welcome new addition to Parker's ouevre. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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True Betrayalsby Nora RobertsISBN 0515118559 (0-515-11855-9)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Betrayals'Book summary:Kelsey Byden always believed that her mother was dead. But now, after all this time, she has discovered the truth: Naomi Chadwick is still alive--after spending years in prison for the murder of her lover. Now, at Naomi's Virginia horse farm, Kelsey is trying to sort out a lifetime of deception--and her feelings about her mother. The bonds of love can be fragile...as Kelsey learned from her recently ended marriage. But as the two women rebuild their relationship--and Kelsey finds herself swept into an unsettling new romance--she must decide once and for all who she can trust, and who threatens to betray her? [via]
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Undue Influenceby Steven Paul MartiniISBN 051511605X (0-515-11605-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undue Influence'Book summary:Paul Madriani made a deathbed promise to his wife to help her sister Laurel win a custody battle against Jack Vega. But when Jack's new wife is found shot to death in her bathtub--and Laurel is caught fleeing with crucial evidence--things heat up. The CBS mini-series of this title airs September 15th and 17th. [via]
The Valley of Fear: Library Editionby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 048644533X (0-486-44533-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Whip Handby Dick FrancisISBN 0515125040 (0-515-12504-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whip Hand'Book summary:This "convincing and memorable"mystery is "among Dick Francis's best," says the Cincinnati Post. And we're sure readers will agree.
Ex-jockey and private investigator Sid Halley is approached by the wife of an elite racehorse trainer, begging his help in figuring out why her husband's most promising horses have been performing so poorly. At first Halley thinks she's overreacting and the losing streak is just dumb luck. But now he's beginning to think it's something far more dangerous...
* A New York Times bestselling author whose reputation is virtually unmatched among modern mystery writers
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