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And Four to Goby Rex StoutISBN 0553249851 (0-553-24985-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And Four to Go'Book summary:Nero Wolfe must track down a killer who murders his victims only during holidays and who, so far, has left Wolfe with four puzzling cases to unravel. Reissue. NYT. [via]
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Appointment With Deathby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350625 (0-553-35062-5)
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B Is for Burglarby Sue GraftonISBN 0553280341 (0-553-28034-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'B Is for Burglar'Book summary:Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie case to Kinsey Millhone. The flashy widow was last seen wearing a $12,000 lynx coat, leaving her condo in Santa Teresa for her condo in Boca Raton. But somewhere in between, she vanished. Kinsey's case goes from puzzling to sinister when a house is torched, an apartment is burgled of worthless papers, the lynx coat comes back without Elaine, and her bridge partner is found dead. Soon Kinsey's clues begin to form a capital M -- not for missing, but for murder: and plenty of it.
Winner of the 1985 Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award and the 1985 Anthony Award for Best Novel. [via]More editions of B Is for Burglar:
Bitch Factorby Chris RogersISBN 0553580019 (0-553-58001-9)
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The Black Mountainby Rex StoutISBN 0553272918 (0-553-27291-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Mountain'Book summary:Vowing to avenge the murder of his dear friend, Marko Vukcic, Nero Wolfe, along with his faithful partner, Archie Goodwin, journey to the hazardous mountains of Montenegro. Reissue. NYT. [via]
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Black Orchidsby Rex StoutISBN 0553257196 (0-553-25719-6)
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The Bloodied Ivyby Robert GoldsboroughISBN 0553278169 (0-553-27816-9)
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C Is for Corpseby Sue GraftonISBN 0553280368 (0-553-28036-8)
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Cabal : An Aurelio Zen Mysteryby Michael DibdinISBN 0553561731 (0-553-56173-1)
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Cat on the Scentby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553575414 (0-553-57541-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat on the Scent'Book summary:The animals in Crozet, Virginia, are a lot smarter than the humans, which will come as no surprise to the devoted fans of Rita Mae Brown's mysteries featuring Mrs. Murphy the tiger cat, the luxury-loving feline known as Pewter, and Tee Tucker, a curious corgi. In their seventh outing, they're leaps and bounds ahead of Harry Haristeen, the spunky postmistress they call Mom. Long before anyone else knows what's going on, they've figured out the connection between the shot fired at wealthy Sir Henry Vane-Tempest during the reenactment of a Civil War battle and a missing airplane hidden in Tally Urquhart's barn. They're better at finding evidence trampled underfoot at a crime scene than any detective is, and they know just whose lap to drop it in. While they might not understand exactly why county commissioner Archie Ingram is so exercised about Vane-Tempest's plans for development in Albemarle County--particularly when it promises to make him as wealthy as the husband of the woman he loves--they've sniffed out the sexual shenanigans that threaten to derail the private pact between Crozet's leading citizens. If Harry and her friends knew what the animals know, there'd be no mystery about it; there'd only be a charming and lighthearted story of chicanery in the new Old South with plenty of local color, the scent of lilacs wafting through every page, and the deft prose of a writer on top of her game. But then, there'd be no raison d'etre for the liveliest scene in the book, wherein Mrs. Murphy, Pewter, and Tee take a turbo-charged Porsche for a breakneck ride through Virginia's verdant hills and dales. By the end of the book, the only mystery is whether Harry and Fair, her favorite ex-husband, will manage to get back together again in the next installment--or the one after that--of this popular series. --Jane Adams [via]
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Caves of Steelby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553293400 (0-553-29340-0)
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Chill Factorby Chris RogersISBN 0553580736 (0-553-58073-6)
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The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350714 (0-553-35071-4)
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The Cobwebby Stephen BuryISBN 0553378287 (0-553-37828-7)
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The Cobwebby Neal Stephenson, J. FREDERICK GEORGEISBN 0553383442 (0-553-38344-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cobweb'Book summary:From his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic political thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a savagely witty, chillingly topical tale set in the tense moments of the Gulf War.
When a foreign exchange student is found murdered at an Iowa University, Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks finds that his investigation extends far beyond the small college townall the way to the Middle East. Shady events at the school reveal that a powerful department is using federal grant money for highly dubious research. And what its producing is a very nasty bug.
Navigating a plot that leads from his own backyard to Washington, D.C., to the Gulf, where his Army Reservist wife has been called to duty, Banks realizes he may be the only person who can stop the wholesale slaughtering of thousands of Americans. Its a lesson in foreign policy hell never forget. [via]More editions of The Cobweb:
Cold in Julyby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 0553280201 (0-553-28020-1)
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Curtains for Threeby Rex StoutISBN 0553244981 (0-553-24498-1)
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Dead of Jerichoby Colin DexterISBN 0553272373 (0-553-27237-3)
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Death Is a Lonely Businessby Ray BradburyISBN 0553264478 (0-553-26447-8)
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Death of a Dudeby Rex StoutISBN 0553247301 (0-553-24730-1)
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Death on Deadlineby Robert GoldsboroughISBN 0553270249 (0-553-27024-9)
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Dragondrumsby Anne McCaffreyISBN 0553258559 (0-553-25855-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dragondrums'Book summary:When his boy soprano voice begins to change, Piemur is drafted by Masterharper Robinton to help with political work and is sent on missions that lead him into unusual and sometimes dangerous adventures. [via]
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Dreaming of the Bonesby Deborah CrombieISBN 0553579312 (0-553-57931-2)
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The Edgeby Mark OlshakerISBN 0553574035 (0-553-57403-5)
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Elvis, Jesus & Coca-Colaby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0553568914 (0-553-56891-4)
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Encyclopedia Brownby Donald J. SobolISBN 0553567519 (0-553-56751-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encyclopedia Brown'Book summary:A Civil War sword...
A watermelon stabbing...
Missing roller skates...
A trapeze artist's inheritance...
And an eyewitness who's legally blind!
Theses are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain. Try to crack the cases along with him--the answer to all the mysteries are found in the back! [via]More editions of Encyclopedia Brown:
Encyclopedia Brown No. 1by Donald SobolISBN 0553304372 (0-553-30437-2)
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The Face on the Milk Cartonby Caroline B. CooneyISBN 0553289586 (0-553-28958-6)
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Fade to Blackby Robert GoldsboroughISBN 0553292641 (0-553-29264-1)
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The Father Huntby Rex StoutISBN 055324728X (0-553-24728-X)
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A Finer Endby Deborah CrombieISBN 0553579274 (0-553-57927-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Finer End'Book summary:Although P.D. James has made it to the top of American bestseller lists, she's not the only talented female writer of British mysteries who is popular here. Like James, Deborah Crombie is another exceptional stylist who uses every new book in a series as an opportunity to explore the emotional complexity of her central characters and further reveal the many dimensions of their personal and professional lives. Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner and lover, Sergeant Gemma James, are at a crossroads in their relationship. But far more compelling to both of them are their investigations in Glastonbury, the mythical burial place of King Arthur and Guinevere, where Kincaid's cousin Jack has discovered a thousand-year-old secret. Jack hasn't deciphered it yet--it's being transmitted to him by "automatic writing" in communiqués that seem to be coming (in church Latin, of course) from a monk who's been dead for centuries. Of course there's a murder involved--a couple of them, actually--but by the time Kincaid's involvement is officially sanctioned as an investigation rather than a favor for a relative, the reader has been drawn deeply into a much more ancient mystery.
As usual, Crombie creates secondary characters who are as interesting and carefully developed as Kincaid and James: a middle-aged vicar whose life is nearly snuffed out just as she's fallen in love for the first time; a pregnant teenager with apparently psychic abilities that are somehow linked to the ruins of Glastonbury's old abbey; a mendacious historian who understands the true value of the mysterious "letters" from Brother Edmund; and especially the Company of Watchers, the spirits who guard Britain's spiritual heart, who are said to watch over King Arthur until he rises again. There's more than a smidgen of New Age-iness about this somewhat atypical Crombie thriller, but perhaps that will help widen her appeal and bring her the attention her brilliant but largely unknown books deserve. --Jane Adams [via]
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Follyby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553381512 (0-553-38151-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Folly'Book summary:"The thing about madness was, it just took so damn much energy, and it was so thoroughly tedious in the meantime." Master woodworker Rae Newborn knows madness intimately, with every bone, every pore, every particle of her being. At 52, with three suicide attempts, extended hospitalizations, the death of her husband and daughter, and a vicious attack behind her, Rae has come to Folly Island, far out in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, to rebuild her life by building a house:
She would pull herself together, she would go and rebuild Desmond's house, she would lift his walls and dwell within them quietly all the rest of her days. Everything that House was lay there waiting for her to take it up: House as shelter, House as permanence, House as a continuation and a legacy, comfort and challenge, safety and beauty, symbol and reality joined as one.
Bequeathed to Rae by Desmond Newborn, a great-uncle she never met, Folly Island is lovely indeed. But when Rae discovers Desmond's journal in the 70-year-old ruins of his house, she learns that Desmond had his own internal horrors to confront on the island. As she labors in solitude, her prickly nature deterring all but the most determined of her would-be neighbors, it's not just her well-being that's at stake. Rae must prove herself sane if she is to have any contact with her beloved granddaughter Petra. So when the "skin-crawling feeling of being watched" doesn't fade, she does her best to ignore it. But does paranoia have its roots in reality? And is Rae doomed to repeat her ancestor's tragic end?So effectively does King weave together past and present--the shrouded history of Desmond's life and death on Folly, and the tense, dusty, exhilaratingly panicky account of Rae's wrestling with old demons and new timber--that the future seems less important than the author might have wished. In other words, the eventual unmasking of Rae's watcher pales in comparison to the gradual revelation of Rae herself within King's haunted and haunting narrative. But with such a strong character and such moodily lovely prose, readers shouldn't miss the denouement-driven trappings of standard suspense. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Foolsby Pat CadiganISBN 0553295128 (0-553-29512-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fools'Book summary:When Marva, a Method actress, awakens in a hologram pool, carrying in her head the memory of a murder, she must think fast to find out whose life she is living and to elude the Escort Service assassins who are pursuing her. [via]
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For the Sake of Elenaby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0553561278 (0-553-56127-8)
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A Free Man of Colorby Barbara HamblyISBN 0553575260 (0-553-57526-0)
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Gambitby Rex StoutISBN 0553251724 (0-553-25172-4)
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Gone to the Dogsby Susan ConantISBN 0553297341 (0-553-29734-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone to the Dogs'Book summary:When a local vet and a pampered pet disappear, Holly Winter and her veterinarian lover Steve Delaney go to the exclusive Cambridge Dog Training Club to investigate. Reprint. [via]
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A Grave Talentby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553573993 (0-553-57399-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Grave Talent'Book summary:This gripping debut of the Kate Martinelli mystery series won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery, generating wide critical acclaim and moving Laurie R. King into the upper tier of the genre. As A Grave Talent begins, the unthinkable has happened in a small community outside of San Francisco. A string of shocking murders has occurred, each victim an innocent child. For Detective Kate Martinelli, just promoted to Homicide and paired with a seasoned cop who's less than thrilled to be handed a green partner, it's going to be a difficult case. Then the detectives receive what appears to be a case-breaking lead: it seems that one of the residents of this odd, close-knit colony is Vaun Adams, arguably the century's greatest painter of women, a man, as it turns out, with a sinister secret. For behind the brushes and canvases also stands a notorious felon once convicted of strangling a little girl. What really happened on that day of savage violence eighteen years ago? To bring a murderer to justice, Kate must delve into the artist's dark past--even if she knows it means losing everything she holds dear. [via]
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Graveyard Dustby Barbara HamblyISBN 0553575287 (0-553-57528-7)
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A Graveyard for Lunaticsby Ray BradburyISBN 0553354779 (0-553-35477-9)
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Heartstoneby Phillip MargolinISBN 0553569783 (0-553-56978-3)
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The Honourable Schoolboyby John Le CarréISBN 0553274376 (0-553-27437-6)
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In Pursuit of the Proper Sinnerby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0553575104 (0-553-57510-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner'Book summary:The narrative talents of English stage actor Derek Jacobi are put to excellent use in this intriguing mystery of a double murder most foul. Author Elizabeth George presents her popular detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers with one of their most grisly and difficult cases ever as they search for clues to a bloody crime while struggling to repair their own strained partnership. George's mystery bobs, weaves, twists, and turns from a packed West End theater through the sumptuous halls of a country manor and into the desolate reaches of the high country moors before revealing its delightfully wicked and suspenseful conclusion. Jacobi tackles the complex plot and diverse cast of characters with relish, working his theatrical skills into an outstanding performance. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --George Laney [via]
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In the Best Familiesby Rex StoutISBN 0553277766 (0-553-27776-6)
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The Innocentby Ian McEwanISBN 0553550004 (0-553-55000-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Innocent'Book summary:The setting is Berlin. Into this divided city, wrenched between East and West, between past and present; comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team.
Though only a pawn in an international plot that is never fully revealed to him, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life -- and to lose his unwanted innocence.
The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team, while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria, a beautiful young German woman. It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening -- a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed. [via]
Interstellar Pigby William SleatorISBN 0553255649 (0-553-25564-9)
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A Is for Alibiby Sue GraftonISBN 0553279912 (0-553-27991-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Is for Alibi'Book summary:Laurence Fife was a slick divorce lawyer and slippery ladies' man. Until someone killed him. The jury believed that it was his pretty young wife Nikki, so they sent her to prison for eight years. Now, Nikki's out on parole and Kinsey Miihone's in for trouble. Nikki hires Kinsey to discover who really killed her husband. But the trail is eight years cold, and at the end is a chilling twist even Kinsey doesn't suspect -- a second eight-year-old murder and a brand new corpse. [via]
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Jane and the Man of the Clothby Stephanie BarronISBN 0553574892 (0-553-57489-2)
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Justice Hallby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553581112 (0-553-58111-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justice Hall'Book summary:A lost heir, murder most foul, and the unexpected return of two old friends start Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes--spouses and intellectual equals--on an investigation that takes them from the trenches of World War I France to the heights of English society. In this sixth entry in Laurie King's award-winning series, fans will find the Baker Street sleuth mellowed by age and marriage yet still in possession of his deductive abilities and acerbic wit, and, in Mary Russell, a surprisingly apt companion for the legendary detective.
Justice Hall brings back two colorful characters from earlier in the series: Bedouins Ali and Mahmoud Hazr (now known as Alistair and Marsh), who last appeared in O Jerusalem. At their request, Holmes and Russell take up the trail of the doomed heir to Justice Hall, who has been executed for cowardice in the bloody trenches of France. As the detectives strive to make sense of his death and to locate another heir to the family title, an attempt is made on the life of the man who's soon to be welcomed as the new duke. Holmes and Russell soon realize something sinister is afoot, and that they must untangle a web of deceit to discover which of the many suspects is taking steps to shorten the line of inheritance. Once again, King's satisfying tale stays true to the spirit of Conan Doyle's original stories while extending them into new terrain. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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Kissed a Sad Goodbyeby Deborah CrombieISBN 055357924X (0-553-57924-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kissed a Sad Goodbye'Book summary:Nominated for an Edgar, Deborah Crombie's 1997 Dreaming of the Bones was such a triumph in all respects that it's a hard act to follow. Kissed a Sad Goodbye, Crombie's sixth book about Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, isn't quite as spectacular as her previous rendition. Still, the author who creates her very British world from a town in North Texas has managed to come up with an entirely respectable and highly enjoyable effort. Her story offers a fascinating setting in place of the poignant, personal drama that invigorated Dreaming of the Bones.
The body of a lovely young woman is found in London's fashionable Docklands area. She turns out to be Annabelle Hammond, the director of an old family firm of tea merchants. She was a woman of tremendous talent and sexual appetite, but also the kind of harsh and abrasive personality that provides plenty of motives for murder. The Hammond family is also historically linked to the self-made property developer Lewis Finch and his son, an activist dropout and street musician. The other suspects include a spineless boyfriend who works at the tea firm, a secretary too loyal to be true, and herrings of various shades of crimson. Kincaid and James have to solve it all, even as their own personal problems threaten to intrude. Thanks to Crombie's enviable ability to bring people and places to life with a single phrase, the story zips along like the new Docklands electric railroad.
Previous Kincaid-James books in paperback include Dreaming of the Bones, All Shall Be Well, Leave the Grave Green, and Mourn Not Your Dead. --Dick Adler [via]
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The Lake of Darknessby Ruth RendellISBN 0553263986 (0-553-26398-6)
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The Last Coincidenceby Robert GoldsboroughISBN 0553286161 (0-553-28616-1)
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The League of Frightened Menby Rex StoutISBN 0553259334 (0-553-25933-4)
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The Limits of Justiceby John Morgan WilsonISBN 0553578618 (0-553-57861-8)
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Lullaby Town: Library Editionby Robert CraisISBN 0553299514 (0-553-29951-4)
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Might As Well Be Deadby Rex StoutISBN 0553247298 (0-553-24729-8)
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The Missing Chapterby Robert GoldsboroughISBN 0553568744 (0-553-56874-4)
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The Mother Huntby Rex StoutISBN 0553247379 (0-553-24737-9)
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Motownby Loren D. EstelmanISBN 0553297287 (0-553-29728-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Motown'Book summary:Working undercover in order to stop a consumer advocacy agency from putting Detroit auto companies out of business, ex-cop and car lover Rick Amery becomes involved in the conflagration of a black gang war. Reprint. [via]
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The Mousetrap and Other Playsby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553259024 (0-553-25902-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mousetrap and Other Plays'Book summary:Readers will be front-row center for this special trade collection of Agatha Christie's greatest suspense plays, which includes: The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history, Ten Little Indians and Witness for the Prosecution, both made into classic films, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Towards Zero, Go Back to Murder, and one of Christie's personal favorites, The Verdict-all perfectly staged by the Queen of Crime. [via]
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Murder at Monticelloby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553572350 (0-553-57235-0)
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The most popular citizen of Virginia has been dead for nearly 170 years. That hasn't stopped the good people of tiny Crozet, Virginia, from taking pride in every aspect of Thomas Jefferson's life. But when an archaeological dig of the slave quarters at Jefferson's home, Monticello, uncovers a shocking secret, emotions in Crozet run highdangerously high.
The stunning discovery at Monticello hints a hidden passions and age-old scandals. As postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and some of Crozet's Very Best People try to learn the identity of a centuries-old skeletonand the reason behind the murderHarry's tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her canine and feline friends attempt to sniff out a modern-day killer. Mrs. Murphy and corgi Tee Tucker will stick their paws into the darker mysteries of human nature to solve murders old and newbefore curiosity can kill the catand Harry Haristeen. [via]More editions of Murder at Monticello:
Murder by the Bookby Rex StoutISBN 0553277332 (0-553-27733-2)
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Murder in E Minorby Robert GoldsboroughISBN 0553279386 (0-553-27938-6)
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A Murder of Qualityby John Le CarréISBN 0553264435 (0-553-26443-5)
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Murder She Meowedby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553572377 (0-553-57237-7)
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The Mysterious Mr. Quinby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350439 (0-553-35043-9)
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O Jerusalemby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553581058 (0-553-58105-8)
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Pawing Through the Pastby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553580256 (0-553-58025-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pawing Through the Past'Book summary:When a mystery author claims her cat as coauthor, it's a fairly safe bet that the team won't be producing disturbing psychological thrillers or hard-edged legal procedurals. And indeed, Rita Mae Brown and her cat, Sneaky Pie, have carved out a comfortable niche for themselves in the cozy category, spinning tales (Rest in Pieces; Murder, She Meowed; Cat on the Scent) around the goings-on in Crozet, a small Virginia town where everyone knows everyone else and recipes and gossip are exchanged over the post office counter. Mary Minor Haristeen ("Harry") is Crozet's postmistress and the proud owner of two cats, Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and one corgi, Tee Tucker--animals with an uncanny ability to sniff out secrets and hidden motives as well as mice and roast beef.
Pawing Through the Past capitalizes on the myriad subtle relationships that form the backbone of small-town culture, and which Brown and Sneaky Pie have carefully woven throughout the Mrs. Murphy series. In a nicely appropriate nod to that culture's rivalries and alliances, Brown has chosen a high school reunion--traditional hotbed of simmering unease--as her mise-en-scène. When each member of the Crozet High Class of 1980 receives an anonymous note stating, "You'll never get old," most take it as a joke or a compliment. But when the class womanizer turns up with a bullet between his eyes, and more notes--and more bodies--start appearing, Harry and her menagerie find themselves at the center of a revenge plot 20 years in the making.
Brown's latest is replete with the sly asides that have endeared her to animal lovers--"Cats are by instinct and inclination dedicated anarchists"--and with the naively humorous "conversations" between the animals themselves. When Pewter, watching a team of police officers wrestling a stiff corpse out of a dumpster, wonders, "Why don't they just break his arms and legs?" Murphy replies knowingly, "They'd pass out. Humans are touchy about their dead." Unfortunately, these favorable attributes can't quite mask an incoherent plot, nor Brown's awkwardly pompous social commentary: "By and large, the women looked better than the men, testimony to the cultural pressure for women to fuss over themselves." But Brown's legions of fans will doubtlessly forgive these shortcomings, concentrating instead on the antics of a memorable four-legged and furry trio. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Pay Dirt Or, Adventures at Ash Lawnby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553572369 (0-553-57236-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pay Dirt Or, Adventures at Ash Lawn'Book summary:The residents of tiny Crozet, Virginia, thrive on gossip, especially in the post office, where Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen presides with her tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy. So when a belligerent Hell's Angel crashes Crozet, demanding to see his girlfriend, the leather-clad interloper quickly becomes the chief topic of conversation. Then the biker is found murdered, and everyone is baffled. Well, almost everyone...Mrs. Murphy and her friends, Welsh corgi Tee Tucker and overweight feline Pewter, haven't been slinking through alleys for nothing. But can they dig up the truth in time to save their humans from a ruthless killer? [via]
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Playing for the Ashesby Elizabeth GeorgeISBN 0553572512 (0-553-57251-2)
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Plot It Yourselfby Rex StoutISBN 0553253638 (0-553-25363-8)
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Prisoner's Baseby Rex StoutISBN 0553242695 (0-553-24269-5)
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Rage Factorby Chris RogersISBN 0553580701 (0-553-58070-1)
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The Red Boxby Rex StoutISBN 0553249193 (0-553-24919-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Red Box'Book summary:Nero Wolfe, gourmet and connoisseur, who can solve a crime without leaving his desk, is investigating the murder of a beautiful model with his assistant, Archie Goodwin. Neither of them realise it is to trigger the supreme insult of Wolfe's career - another murder, right in his own home. [via]
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Red Dragonby Thomas HarrisISBN 0553264850 (0-553-26485-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Dragon'Book summary:Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs. As in Silence, the pulse-pounding suspense plot involves a hypersensitive FBI sleuth who consults psycho psychiatrist Lecter for clues to catching a killer on the loose.
The sleuth, Will Graham, actually quit the FBI after nearly getting killed by Lecter while nabbing him, but fear isn't what bugs him about crime busting. It's just too creepy to get inside a killer's twisted mind. But he comes back to stop a madman who's been butchering entire families. The FBI needs Graham's insight, and Graham needs Lecter's genius. But Lecter is a clever fiend, and he manipulates both Graham and the killer at large from his cell.
That killer, Francis Dolarhyde, works in a film lab, where he picks his victims by studying their home movies. He's obsessed with William Blake's bizarre painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, believing there's a red dragon within him, the personification of his demonic drives. Flashbacks to Dolarhyde's terrifying childhood and superb stream-of-consciousness prose get us right there inside his head. When Dolarhyde does weird things, we understand why. We sympathize when the voice of the cruel dead grandma who raised and crazed him urges him to mayhem--she's way scarier than that old bat in Psycho. When he falls in love with a blind girl at the lab, we hope he doesn't give in to Grandma's violent advice.
This book is awesomely detailed, ingeniously plotted, judiciously gory, and fantastically imagined. If you haven't read it, you've never had the creeps. --Tim Appelo [via]
Rest in Piecesby Sneaky Pie Brown, Rita Mae Brown, Wendy WrayISBN 0553562398 (0-553-56239-8)
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The Riddle of the Third Mileby Colin DexterISBN 0553273639 (0-553-27363-9)
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The Robber Brideby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0553569058 (0-553-56905-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Robber Bride'Book summary:Exploring the paradox of female villainy, this tale of three fascinating women is another peerless display of literary virtuosity by the supremely gifted author of Cat's Eye and The Handmaid's Tale. Roz, Charis and Tony all share a wound, and her name is Zenia. Beautiful, smart and hungry, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless, Zenia is the turbulent center of her own neverending saga. She entered their lives in the sixties, when they were in college. Over the three decades since, she has damaged each of them badly, ensnaring their sympathy, betraying their trust, and treating their men as loot. Then Zenia dies, or at any rate the three women -- with much relief -- attend her funeral. But as The Robber Bride begins, Roz, Charis and Tony have come together at a trendy restaraunt for their monthly lunch when in walks the seemingly resurrected Zenia... In this consistently entertaining and profound new novel, Margaret Atwood reports from the farthest reaches of the war between the sexes with her characteristic well-crafted prose, rich and devious humor, and compassion. [via]
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The Rubber Bandby Rex StoutISBN 0553255509 (0-553-25550-9)
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Savage Seasonby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 0553285637 (0-553-28563-7)
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The Second Confessionby Rex Stout, William G. TapplyISBN 0553245945 (0-553-24594-5)
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The Secret of Annexe 3by Colin DexterISBN 0553275496 (0-553-27549-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret of Annexe 3'Book summary:The exceptional talents of Chief Inspector Morse are put to the test when he and his long-suffering subordinate, Sgt. Lewis, are called in to investigate the death of the winner of Hawworth's Hotel's New Year's Eve costume party. From the author of The Dead of Jericho. HC: St. Martin's. [via]
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Some Buried Caesarby Rex StoutISBN 0553254642 (0-553-25464-2)
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Stalking the Angelby Robert CraisISBN 0553286447 (0-553-28644-7)
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Three Men Outby Rex StoutISBN 0553245473 (0-553-24547-3)
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Three Witnessesby Rex Stout, Susan ConantISBN 0553249592 (0-553-24959-2)
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The Tiger in the Smokeby Margery AllinghamISBN 0553248146 (0-553-24814-6)
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To Play the Foolby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553574558 (0-553-57455-8)
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Too Many Clientsby Rex StoutISBN 0553254235 (0-553-25423-5)
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Too Many Cooksby Rex StoutISBN 055327290X (0-553-27290-X)
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Too Many Women: A Nero Wolfe Mysteryby Rex StoutISBN 0553250663 (0-553-25066-3)
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The Under Dog and Other Storiesby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350706 (0-553-35070-6)
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The Wench Is Deadby Colin DexterISBN 0553291203 (0-553-29120-3)
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Where There's a Willby Rex StoutISBN 0553295918 (0-553-29591-8)
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Whiskey Riverby Loren D. EstlemanISBN 0553290258 (0-553-29025-8)
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Wish You Were Hereby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0553287532 (0-553-28753-2)
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