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4: 50 From Paddingtonby Agatha ChristieISBN 0006157629 (0-00-615762-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: '4: 50 From Paddington'Book summary:Through the window of her first-class coach, Mrs. McGillicuddysees a woman being strangled in a passing train, No onebelieves her except her good friend Miss Marple. Now theinimitable sleuth must find a body and match wits with a killer [via]
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The Blessing Wayby Tony HillermanISBN 0061000019 (0-06-100001-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Burning Girlby Mark BillinghamISBN 0060745274 (0-06-074527-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burning Girl'Book summary:A contract killer is carving his way through North London's criminal underworld, leaving a bloody X on his victims' backs and taking Billy Ryan's gang down one thug at a time. Detective Inspector Tom Thorne and his team know there's a turf war going on, but who's attempting to take over Ryan's racket isn't quite clear. When DCI Carol Chamberlin comes out of retirement to work on the cold case squad and asks Thorne for help solving an old murder, the past and present catch up in what looks like a continuation of a twenty-year-old gang war. And when someone carves an X in Thorne's door, a fuse is lit that stretches from the eponymous burning girl of the title--Chamberlin's old case--to the gang war that's lighting up the London sky. It's a clunky plot that relies on telling more than showing, slowing down the pace and makeing it difficult for the reader to care about any of the principals involved--either the victims or those who seek justic for them. Billingham has written better thrillers (Lazybones, Scaredy Cat), but this one doesn't live up to their promises. --Jane Adams [via]
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A Catalogue of Crimeby Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig TaylorISBN 0060102632 (0-06-010263-2)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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A Catalogue of Crime/Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genresby Jacques Barzun, Wendell Hertig TaylorISBN 0060157968 (0-06-015796-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Chinese Bell Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Storyby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0060728884 (0-06-072888-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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- The Chinese Nail Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story: ISBN 0060751398 (0-06-075139-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Chinese Nail Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story: ISBN 0226848639 (0-226-84863-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Chinese Bell Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story: ISBN 0226848620 (0-226-84862-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - The Chinese Bell Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story: ISBN 0060152052 (0-06-015205-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Chinese Bell Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story: ISBN 0060728884 (0-06-072888-4)
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- The Chinese Nail Murders: A Judge Dee Detective Story: ISBN 0060751398 (0-06-075139-8)
Conocer a Diosby Deepak ChopraISBN 9681104560 (968-11-0456-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Coyote Waitsby Tony HillermanISBN 0061099325 (0-06-109932-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Detective Stories from the Strandby Jack AdrianISBN 019282998X (0-19-282998-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmesby Loren D. EstlemanISBN 0140056653 (0-14-005665-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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El Club Dumasby Perez ReverteISBN 9681903862 (968-19-0386-2)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Club Dumas'Book summary:Lucas Corso is a bibliophilic mercenary in the middle to two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned with the printer in 1667, and of which only two other copies are known. The mystery leads him from the Holy Office to books condemned by the Vatican; from dusty old bookstores to the most select libraries owned by important international collectors.
Description in Spanish: Descifrar el misterio de un libro que invoca al demonio, del que sólo quedan tres ejemplares en el mundo, se convirtió para Lucas Corso, comprador de libros antiguos por encargo, en peligrosa aventura. Pero por si esto fuera poco, un capítulo manuscrito de los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas entra en escena y se entremezclan historias para dar origen a un apasionante thriller al mejor estilo de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. "El club Dumas" (1993), una de las novelas más emblemáticas del autor, constituye un modelo ejemplar de utilización de los más genuinos ingredientes de la novela de intriga, de investigación criminal, ambientación histórica y ficción culturalista, además de ser un homenaje al maestro del folletín decimonónico, Alejandro Dumas. Esta novela ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla por Roman Polanski con el título "La novena puerta". [via]
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Ex Librisby Ross KingISBN 0142000809 (0-14-200080-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ex Libris'Book summary:A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe. Charged with the task of restoring a magnificent library destroyed by the war, Inchbold moves between Prague and the Tower Bridge in London, his fortunes-and his life-hanging on his ability to recover a missing manuscript. Yet the lost volume is not what it seems, and his search is part of a treacherous game of underworld spies and smugglers, ciphers, and forgeries. Inchbold's adventure is compelling from beginning to end as Ross King vividly recreates the turmoil of Europe in the seventeenth century-the sacks of great cities; Raleigh's final voyage; the quest for occult knowledge; and a watery escape from three mysterious horsemen. [via]
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Fencing Masterby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156029839 (0-15-602983-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: '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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Final Accountby Peter RobinsonISBN 0060502169 (0-06-050216-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Final Account'Book summary:There's more than blood and bone beneath the skin ...
The victim, a nondescript "numbers cruncher," died horriblyjust yards away from his terrified wife and daughter, murdered by men who clearly enjoyed their work. The crime scene is one that could chill the blood of even the most seasoned police officer. But the strange revelations about an ordinary accountant's extraordinary secret life are what truly set Chief Inspector Alan Banks off -- as lies breed further deceptions and blood begets blood, unleashing a policeman's dark passions ... and a violent rage that, when freed, might be impossible to control.
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First Eagleby Tony HillermanISBN 0061097853 (0-06-109785-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Flanders Panelby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0156029588 (0-15-602958-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Flanders Panel'Book summary:Julia, a young Madrid art restorer, is pulled into a shadowy world of metaphor when she discovers a long-covered inscription on a Flemish painting: Who killed the knight? Art, chess and murder are intertwined in this elegant, seductive mystery in the manner of The Name of the Rose. [via]
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The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crimeby Jasper FfordeISBN 0143038923 (0-14-303892-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime'Book summary:The inimitable Jasper Fforde gives readers another delightful mash-up of detective fiction and nursery rhyme, returning to those mean streets where no character is innocent. The Gingerbreadmansadist, psychopath, cookieis on the loose in Reading, but thats not who Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary are after. Instead, theyve been demoted to searching for missing journalist Goldy Hatchett. The last witnesses to see her alive were the reclusive Three Bears, and right away Spratt senses something furryuh, funnyabout their story, starting with the porridge. The Fourth Bear is a delirious new romp from our most irrepressible fabulist.[via]More editions of The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime:
Freddy and the Ignormusby Walter R. Brooks, Kurt WieseISBN 0142300438 (0-14-230043-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Ghost Writerby John HarwoodISBN 0156032325 (0-15-603232-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ghost Writer'Book summary:The Cornish prayer: "From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!" is an appropriate invocation when reading The Ghost Writer, John Harwoods debut novel. It is a rousing good ghost story, with many twists and turns, rather like taking apart a Russian matryoshka nesting doll.
Gerard Freeman, at age ten, sneaks into his mother's room and unlocks a secret drawer, only to find a picture of a woman he has never seen before, but one that he will find again and again. His mother discovers him and gives him the beating of his life. Why this excessive reaction? She is a worried, paranoid, thin, and fretful type with an "anxious, haunted look." By tale's end, we know why.
Phyllis Freeman, Gerard's mother, was happiest when speaking fondly of Staplefield, her childhood home, where there were things they "didnt have in Mawson [Australia], chaffinches and mayflies and foxgloves and hawthorn, coopers and farriers and old Mr. Bartholomew who delivered fresh milk and eggs to their house with his horse and cart." It's the sort of childhood idyll that the timid and lonely Gerard believes in and longs for. He strikes up a correspondence with an English "penfriend," Alice Jessel, when he is 13 and a half, living in a desolate place with a frantic mother and a silent father. She is his age, her parents were killed in an accident and she has been crippled by it. She now lives in an institution, whose grounds she describes as much the way Staplefield looked. They go through young adulthood together, in letters only, thousands of miles apart, eventuallydeclaring their love for one another.
Interwoven with the narrative of Alice and Gerard's letters are real ghost stories, the creation of Gerard's great-grandmother, Viola. At first, they seem to be scary Victorian tales of the supernatural. Then, we see that they have a spooky way of mirroring, or preceding, events in real life, off the page. Gerard comes upon them, one by one, in mysterious ways, but clearly something, or someone, is leading him. The stories seem to implicate his mother in some nefarious goings-on, but the truth is far worse than Gerard imagines.
Any more would be telling too much. Turn on all the lights in the house when you settle down with this one, and plan to spend a long time reading because you will be lost in the story immediately. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Herby Melanie RehakISBN 015603056X (0-15-603056-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her'Book summary:A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. Here, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy's adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon? The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over as CEO after her father died. In this century-spanning story, Rehak traces their roles--and Nancy's--in forging the modern American woman. [via]
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Hangman's Holidayby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0060808373 (0-06-080837-3)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hangman's Holiday'Book summary:Amusing and absolutely appalling things happen on the way to the gallows when murder meets Lord Peter Wimsey and the delightful working-class sleuth Montague Egg. This sumptuous feast of criminal doings and undoings includes a vintage double identity and a horrid incident of feline assassination that will tease the minds of cat-lovers everywhere. Not to be missed are "The Incredible Elopement of Peter Wimsey" (with a lovely American woman-turned-zombie) and eight more puzzlers penned in inimitable style by the mistress of murder. [via]
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- Hangman's Holiday/a Collection of Short Mysteries: ISBN 0060923962 (0-06-092396-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Hangman's Holiday: ISBN 0061043621 (0-06-104362-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Hangman's Holiday: ISBN 0060550333 (0-06-055033-3)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - Hangman's Holiday: ISBN 0060808373 (0-06-080837-3)
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- Hangman's Holiday/a Collection of Short Mysteries: ISBN 0060923962 (0-06-092396-2)
The Haunted Monasteryby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0226848795 (0-226-84879-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Have His Carcaseby Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0060808276 (0-06-080827-6)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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Lemony Snicketby Lemony Snicket, Brett HelquistISBN 0060562250 (0-06-056225-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lemony Snicket'Book summary:Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is bizarre, abstruse ("a word which here means 'cryptic'"), and truly entertaining. Would you expect anything less from the mystery man behind A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning, The Ersatz Elevator and so on.)? Virtually every detail of the volume has Snicket's indelible mark, from the book jacket to the copyright page text to the intentionally blurry and bewildering black-and-white photographs appearing throughout. An apparently false obituary for Lemony Snicket sets the stage for what turns into a series of mind-boggling bundles of coded information passed from hand to hand, gleaned from newspapers blowing through streets, pages from a journal addressed to "Dear Dairy", blueprints of ships, minutes from secret meetings, and a lot of edited and disputed commentary. The question is, do we finally discover the meaning of VFD? You know you're not going to get a straight answer. But any fan of Snicket will have a lot of fun trying. (ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter, Amazon.com [via]
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Lifelessby Mark BillinghamISBN 0060841664 (0-06-084166-4)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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Lord of the Silentby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0066209617 (0-06-620961-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Silent'Book summary:Amelia Peabody Emerson is the Mary Poppins of Egypt. Forthright, intrepid, and industrious, she brooks no nonsense from anyone and is armed with an apparently magical parasol. As the legions of fans of Elizabeth Peters's Edwardian archeological mystery series know, Amelia is also possessed of a swift temper, an incorrigible curiosity, and an uncanny proclivity for attracting trouble. But in 1915, with the world gripped by the madness of war, trouble is endemic. In an effort to prevent their son Ramses from being coerced into working for British intelligence (in the sort of endeavor that nearly got him killed a year earlier when he infiltrated a band of Egyptian nationalists and prevented a Turkish-backed uprising), Amelia and husband Emerson and the rest of their dizzyingly large entourage flee England for the reassuringly stoic splendor of their beloved Egyptian ruins.
So much for a quiet dig among the mastabas. With their usual luck, the family promptly finds itself inundated by would-be assassins and nosy journalists. Amelia quickly deduces that Ramses's undercover work is at the root of both threat and curiosity; more puzzling is the appearance of the odd corpse or two and a rash of stunningly efficient tomb robberies. When Ramses and his wife, Nefret, travel to Luxor to check on the security of some of their old excavations, they find an all-too-familiar irritant behind the robberies. It would be telling to reveal his identity, but fans of the series will soon figure it out, with the aid of a little suspension of disbelief. With Ramses and Nefret on one hand, and Amelia and Emerson on the other, engaged in "protecting" the other side from conflict and trouble, the novel unfolds in a merry chase of misdirection and miscommunication.
There is a comforting consistency to Peters's series. By now, all of the characters' quirks are etched in stone like so many well-worn hieroglyphs. Amelia's narrative has the familiarity of a treasured and oft-read letter from a slightly batty aunt. Even the miraculous return of (no, I really can't say), though perhaps intended as a radical plot twist, adheres to the most genteel of mystery traditions, à la Doyle and Christie. Innovation can be overrated; with Peters's flawless record of producing amusing, easily digested novels showing no signs of faltering, fans should devour this morsel--and wait impatiently for the next tasty installment. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Lord Peter Views the Bodyby Dorothy Leigh SayersISBN 006080839X (0-06-080839-X)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Peter Views the Body'Book summary:In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque but absolutely bewitching side rarely shown in Lord Peter's full-length adventures.
Lord Peter views the body in 12 tantalizing and bizarre ways in this outsanding collection. He deals with such marvels as the man with copper fingers, Uncle Meleager's missing will, the cat in the bag, the foosteps that ran, the stolen stomach, the man without a face...and with such clues as cyanide, jewels, a roast chicken and a classic crossword puzzle.
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- Lord Peter Views the Body: ISBN 0060923954 (0-06-092395-4)
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Lord Peter Views the Body: ISBN 0060550287 (0-06-055028-7)
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Lost in a Good Bookby Jasper FfordeISBN 0142004030 (0-14-200403-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in a Good Book'Book summary:[via]The second installment in Jasper Ffordes New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with New York Times bestselling author Jasper Ffordes magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfictionthe police force inside the BookWorld. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickenss Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poes The Raven. What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potters The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth. Its another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment for fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse. Thursdays zany investigations continue with The Well of Lost Plots. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including One of Our Thursdays is Missing and Jasper Ffordes latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!More editions of Lost in a Good Book:
Off With His Headby Ngaio MarshISBN 0002316102 (0-00-231610-2)
Hardcover, Collins [for] the Crime Club
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One for the Moneyby Janet EvanovichISBN 0061009059 (0-06-100905-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One for the Money'Book summary:Stephanie Plum is so smart, so honest, and so funny that her narrative charm could drive a documentary on termites. But this tough gal from New Jersey, an unemployed discount lingerie buyer, has a much more interesting story to tell: She has to say that her Miata has been repossessed and that she's so poor at the moment that she just drank her last bottle of beer for breakfast. She has to say that her only chance out of her present rut is her repugnant cousin Vinnie and his bail-bond business. She has to say that she blackmailed Vinnie into giving her a bail-bond recovery job worth $10,000 (for a murder suspect), even though she doesn't own a gun and has never apprehended a person in her life. And she has to say that the guy she has to get, Joe Morelli, is the same creep who charmed away her teenage virginity behind the pastry case in the Trenton bakery where she worked after school.
If that hard-luck story doesn't sound compelling enough, Stephanie's several unsuccessful attempts at pulling in Joe make a downright hilarious and suspenseful tale of murder and deceit. Along the way, several more outlandish (but unrelentingly real) characters join the story, including Benito Ramirez, a champion boxer who seems to be following Stephanie Plum wherever she goes.
Janet Evanovich shares an authentic feel for the streets of Trenton in her debut mystery (she developed her talents in a string of romance novels before creating Ms. Plum), and her tough, frank, and funny first-person narrator offers a winning mix of vulgarity and sensitivity. Evanovich is certainly among the best of the new voices to emerge in the mystery field of the 1990s. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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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)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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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:
Piece of My Heartby Peter RobinsonISBN 006054435X (0-06-054435-X)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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A Pinch of Snuffby Reginald HillISBN 0002316439 (0-00-231643-9)
Hardcover, Collins [for] the Crime Club
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pinch of Snuff'Book summary:Splitting a main character into two parts that compliment and confound each other has worked well for mystery writers from Conan Doyle to Rex Stout (and for non-mystery writers such as Patrick O'Brian in his Aubrey/Maturin sea stories). Reginald Hill's unique contributions to this form are his books about two policemen in an unnamed city in Northern England, Detectives Dalziel (pronounced "Dee-al" in the TV version) and Pascoe. Both get to show off their strengths and shortcomings in this wonderfully macabre second book in the series; Dalziel's brawn and instinct meets Pascoe's intellect as the two investigate pornographic "snuff" films in which the actors really wind up dead. [via]
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Put on by Cunningby Ruth RendellISBN 009144120X (0-09-144120-X)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Put on by Cunning'Book summary:The great flautist's death seemed to Chief Inspector Wexford an open-and-shut case of misadventure, but with the return of his daughter after an absence of 19 years come a couple of niggling doubts. [via]
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Studentsby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0140057080 (0-14-005708-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Students'Book summary:Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach falls. In that time the criminals of London have been able to sleep safe in their beds. But with the appearance of a dangerous individual with an air gun, the capital has never been in greater need of its protector. And so it is that Dr Watson meets a mysterious deformed man who reveals the truth behind the fateful final conflict between Holmes and Moriarty, and paves the way for the extraordinary return of the world's greatest sleuth in thirteen new tales of mystery and deduction. [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Books - The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Students: ISBN 0192823760 (0-19-282376-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Students: ISBN 0192123173 (0-19-212317-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Students: ISBN 0140057080 (0-14-005708-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes I: The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, and The Adventure of the Three Students: ISBN 0140100261 (0-14-010026-1)
Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirthby Mircea EliadeISBN 0061312363 (0-06-131236-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Ruling Passionby Reginald HillISBN 0002317109 (0-00-231710-9)
Hardcover, Collins [for the] Crime Club
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ruling Passion'Book summary:Sergeant Pascoe finds his social life and his work uncomfortably brought together by a horrific triple murder. Meanwhile Superintendent Dalziel is on his back about a string of unsolved burglaries. Somehow the two cases keep getting jumbled in Pascoe's mind. [via]
Rumpole And The Primose Pathby John MortimerISBN 0142004863 (0-14-200486-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Sacred Clownsby Tony HillermanISBN 0060538058 (0-06-053805-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sacred Clowns'Book summary:Hillerman's long-awaited new novel shows how amply he deserves such high praise, as it reunites Navajo Tribal Policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in an effort to unravel a treacherous web of tribal politics and murder. Yesterday a teacher was killed at a mission school on the Navajo Reservation, but today in the Tano Indian pueblo murder seems inconceivable as a tribal ceremony unfolds. The sacred kachinas have danced into the ancient plaza, and the koshare in their grotesque disguises have tumbled down from the rooftops to ape the foolishness of humankind. At first, the crowd welcomes this troupe of sacred clowns with laughter. But something in one clown's red wagon hushes the crowd. And then murder strikes at Tano. To Officer Chee and Lieutenant Leaphorn, now working as an uneasy team, the solution to the killing at the mission school seems straightforward, and the death at Tano seems to be out of their jurisdiction. But the odd behavior of a runaway student connects the two crimes and shows that neither is what it seems. Chee and Leaphorn's search for the truth propels them into a realm where battles as old as humanity's foibles and as new as its high technology are fought to the death. Sacred Clowns brims with subtly drawn personalities, revealing glimpses into proud, ancient cultures, crystalline evocations of the Southwest's stark beauty, and taut yet lyrical prose. It is, simply, Tony Hillerman at his best. [via]
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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]
Sherlock Holmes Vs. Draculaby John H. Watson, Loren D. EstlemanISBN 0140052623 (0-14-005262-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Shinjuby Laura Joh RowlandISBN 0061009504 (0-06-100950-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shinju'Book summary:When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the culprit was forbidden love. Everyone but newly appointed yoriki Sano Ichiro.
Despite the official verdict and warnings from his superiors, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People suspects the deaths weren't just a tragedy -- they were murder. Risking his family's good name and his own life, Sano will search for a killer across every level of society -- determined to find answers to a mystery no one wants solved. No one but Sano...
As subtle and beautiful as the culture it evokes, Shinju vividly re-creates a world of ornate tearooms and guady pleasure-palaces, cloistered mountaintop convents and dealthy prisons.
Part love story, part myster, Shinju is a tour that will dazzle and entertain all who enter its world. [via]
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Sign of Fourby Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter AckroydISBN 0140439072 (0-14-043907-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sign of Four'Book summary:When a woman who has received mysterious pearls in the mail is asked to meet her correspondent, Holmes and Watson are called in on the case. A terrible death and vanishing treasure lead to an epic chase through the dawn streets and along the River Thames in this spellbinding mystery. [via]
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Single & Singleby John Le CarreISBN 9871138628 (987-1138-62-8)
Softcover, Sudamericana
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Sparkling Cyanideby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003794 (0-06-100379-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sparkling Cyanide'Book summary:Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction isunparalleled. Her worldwide popularity isphenomenal, her characters engaging, her plotsspellbinding. No one knows the human heart-orthe dark passions that can stop it-better thanAgatha Christie. She is truly the one and onlyQueen of Crime.Sparlkling Cyanide
"Rosemary that's for remembrance" Six people are thinkingabout beautiful Rosemary Barton, who died nearly a yearbefore. There's the loving sister, the long-suffering husband, thedevoted secretary, the lovers, and the betrayed wife. None ofthem can forget Rosemary But did one of them murder her? [via]
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Talking Godby Tony HillermanISBN 006109918X (0-06-109918-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Thief of Timeby Tony HillermanISBN 0061000043 (0-06-100004-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thief of Time'Book summary:A noted anthropologist vanishes at amoonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders. [via]
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Third Girlby Agatha ChristieISBN 0061003824 (0-06-100382-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Third Girl'Book summary:A desperate woman seeks the aid of Hercule Poirot in a matter of life and death. A near-lethal dose of poison, a blood-stained knife, a revolver, and a family who aren't what they seem all figure in an extraordinary case that takes the celebrated Belgian detective from a village estate to the bohemian streets of London. [via]
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The Thirty-Nine Stepsby John BuchanISBN 0140011307 (0-14-001130-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4by John Buchan, John KeeganISBN 0141441178 (0-14-144117-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4'Book summary:'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well - the mysterious 'Black Stone'. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead? [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4: ISBN 0194230481 (0-19-423048-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Thirty-Nine Steps: Level 4: ISBN 0141441178 (0-14-144117-8)
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To Love and Be Wiseby Josephine TeyISBN 0020780605 (0-02-078060-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Unauthorized Autobiographyby Lemony SnicketISBN 0060007192 (0-06-000719-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unauthorized Autobiography'Book summary:Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is bizarre, abstruse ("a word which here means 'cryptic'"), and truly entertaining. Would you expect anything less from the mystery man behind A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning, The Ersatz Elevator and so on.)? Virtually every detail of the volume has Snicket's indelible mark, from the book jacket to the copyright page text to the intentionally blurry and bewildering black-and-white photographs appearing throughout. An apparently false obituary for Lemony Snicket sets the stage for what turns into a series of mind-boggling bundles of coded information passed from hand to hand, gleaned from newspapers blowing through streets, pages from a journal addressed to "Dear Dairy", blueprints of ships, minutes from secret meetings, and a lot of edited and disputed commentary. The question is, do we finally discover the meaning of VFD? You know you're not going to get a straight answer. But any fan of Snicket will have a lot of fun trying. (ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter, Amazon.com [via]
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An Unkindness of Ravensby Ruth RendellISBN 0099450704 (0-09-945070-4)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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La Gita a Tindariby Andrea CamilleriISBN 8838915741 (88-389-1574-1)
Hardcover, Sellerio
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L'odore Della Notteby Andrea CamilleriISBN 8838917299 (88-389-1729-9)
Hardcover, Sellerio
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Borges Y Los Orangutanes Eternosby Luis F. VerissimoISBN 9500726327 (950-07-2632-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El Relato De Henry Tod/the Story of Henri Todby William F. BuckleyISBN 9501504409 (950-15-0440-9)
Softcover, Distal USA Inc
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Handelser Vid Vattenby Kerstin EkmanISBN 9100556769 (91-0-055676-9)
Hardcover, A. Bonniers forlag
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Hari Butor Wa Hajar Al-fayasuf / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stoneby J. K. RowlingISBN 9771418815 (977-14-1881-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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