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The 13th Jurorby John T. LescroartISBN 0816174482 (0-8161-7448-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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An Advancement of Learningby Reginald HillISBN 0881500534 (0-88150-053-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Appointed to Dieby Kate CharlesISBN 0892965487 (0-89296-548-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Asking for the Moonby Reginald HillISBN 0881503827 (0-88150-382-7)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Baby, Would I Lieby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0892965320 (0-89296-532-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baby, Would I Lie'Book summary:Wishing to escape tabloid journalism, Sara Joslyn is disgusted when her new editor gives her a story involving a gory sex-murder trial, until she learns that a country singer, known to her, may be involved. 50,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Bimbos Of The Death Sunby Sharyn McCrumbISBN 0880384557 (0-88038-455-7)
Softcover, Wizards of the Coast
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The Black Dahliaby James EllroyISBN 0892962062 (0-89296-206-2)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Dahlia'Book summary:The Black Dahlia is a roman noir on an epic scale: a classic period piece that provides a startling conclusion to America's most infamous unsolved murder mystery--the murder of the beautiful young woman known as The Black Dahlia. [via]
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The Black Towerby P. D. JamesISBN 0816167893 (0-8161-6789-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Blood From A Stoneby Donna LeonISBN 0871138875 (0-87113-887-5)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood From A Stone'Book summary:Guido Brunetti, the protagonist of Donna Leon's brilliant series about crime in high and low places in Venice, Italy, is back in a smart thriller about a murdered street vendor, one of the illegal immigrants who sell fake fashion accessories outside the tourist mecca's high-priced boutiques while trying to stay one step ahead of the law. Someone had a reason for wanting the nameless African man dead, and the search for the killers and the men who sent them to Brunetti's beloved and beautifully evoked city shortly before Christmas leads the thoughtful, multifaceted and uxorious Commissario to the unfamiliar Venetian milieu where the vu cumpra live. In the cramped, airless room where the Senegalese vendors manage to find shelter, Guido discovers a fortune in so-called "conflict diamonds" hidden among the murdered man's meager belongings. But finding the diamonds' provenance and the killers who were seeking them proves to be an exercise in bureaucratic misdirection. Warned off the case by his boss in the name of "national security," Guido nonetheless persists with his investigation, in the course of which he discovers what--and who--really matters to him. Leon depicts the city she also clearly loves with such skill the reader can almost hear the watter lapping at the edges of the canals and smell the espresso beans roasting in the crisp cold winter air. A tour de force from an author whose reputation for skillful plotting, extraordinary descriptive powers, and complex characters has earned her a loyal base of fans; if you haven't discovered her work before this, Blood from a Stone will only whet your appetite for her extensive backlist of titles featuring Brunetti and his colleagues. --Jane Adams [via]
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Bootlegger's Daughterby Margaret MaronISBN 0892964456 (0-89296-445-6)
Hardcover, Mysterious Pr
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Bullet for a Starby Stuart M. KaminskyISBN 0892961473 (0-89296-147-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Call No Man Fatherby William X. KienzleISBN 0836261313 (0-8362-6131-3)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Cape Cod Caperby Margot ArnoldISBN 0881501166 (0-88150-116-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cape Cod Caper'Book summary:When a mutilated corpse is found in a cranberry bog on the Dimola estate, Penelope Spring is summoned to the Cape by Zeb Grange, an old flame. But by the time she arrives, an attempt on Zeb's life has been made, leaving him in a coma.
As Penny's suspicions gradually point to the wealthy Dimola clan, her colleague Toby Glendower begins to probe into the family's past in Italy.
There is another murder, and Penny resolves to set a trap for her prime suspect, using herself as bait. But what Toby uncovers sends him racing back, fearful that Penny is making a disastrous mistake maybe her last. [via]More editions of The Cape Cod Caper:
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Cat Chaserby Elmore LeonardISBN 0877953988 (0-87795-398-8)
Hardcover, Arbor House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat Chaser'Book summary:In the world of Elmore Leonard novels, two ex-soldiers can sit around a hotel swimming pool in Florida and, as if it were perfectly natural, chat about a friendly fire incident during an "interventionist action" in Santo Domingo. His characters have learned the futility of complaining about a life where deadly violence and moral obligations are all too frequently intertwined. In Cat Chaser George Moran is the hotel manager who got shot at back then; now, he's rekindling his intimate acquaintance with the wife of Andres de Boya, a former Dominican military enforcer who currently invests in real estate with a healthy sideline in drugs.
A dizzying series of plot twists involving various grifters and strongmen (both hired and freelance) leads to the grimly comic suspense action that Elmore Leonard fans have come to know and love. But as always, it's Leonard's impressive ear for dialogue that raises Cat Chaser above the herd of crime novels. An example:
"That's correct," Scully said, "I'm a consultant... I advise people on business matters, act as a go-between, bring people together that want to make deals... things like that. You want to know any more, come by my office, we'll have a coffee sometime. Okay? Right now I'm going to see Mr. Pradi. Where you come in--I'm gonna knock on his door, he don't open it then I might have to kick it in. I mean the business I got with him is that pressing. So you can give me a key and maybe save yourself a door. What do you think?"
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Chain of CommandISBN 0831753285 (0-8317-5328-5)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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The Circular Staircaseby Mary Roberts RinehartISBN 0891630279 (0-89163-027-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopedia Britannica
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Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub - The Circular Staircase: ISBN 0816166412 (0-8161-6641-2)
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A Clubbable Womanby Reginald HillISBN 0881500321 (0-88150-032-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Cover Her Faceby P. D. JamesISBN 0816167931 (0-8161-6793-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Criminalistby Relling, William, Jr.ISBN 0843952784 (0-8439-5278-4)
Softcover, Dorchester Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Crocodile on the Sandbankby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0816163014 (0-8161-6301-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Dancers in Mourningby Margery AllinghamISBN 082402351X (0-8240-2351-X)
Hardcover, Garland Pub
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Dangerous to Knowby Margaret YorkeISBN 0892965002 (0-89296-500-2)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Dead in the Melon Patchby Connie FeddersenISBN 0821748726 (0-8217-4872-6)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Dead in the Waterby Connie FeddersenISBN 0821742671 (0-8217-4267-1)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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A Dead Man Out of Mindby Kate CharlesISBN 0892965851 (0-89296-585-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Deadly Duoby Margery AllinghamISBN 0891901930 (0-89190-193-0)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Death of a Charming Manby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892965290 (0-89296-529-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Death of a Dentistby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892966432 (0-89296-643-2)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Dentist'Book summary:In this addition to Beaton's series featuring unassuming Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth, Hamish finds himself precipitated by a vicious toothache into the world of Dr. Frederick Gilchrist. Gilchrist is a local dentist best known for his eagerness to replace healthy teeth with inexpensive dentures, and infamous for his hard hand on the drill. Maggie Bane, his lovely assistant with a harsh and unlovely voice, surprises Hamish with her hostility, but he is even more astonished to find the dentist's dead body reclining in his chair with mysterious drill marks on his teeth.
Delving deeper into the village's rural dish in search of the murderer, Macbeth uncovers long-buried relationships, an illicit local still, a robbery that is not what it appears, and the expected deceptions and partial truths his countrymen tell the police for reasons only a local character like Hamish can understand. Once again, he has occasion to contact his former love, the adamantine Priscilla Halburton-Smyth, and her friend, Sarah Hudson, even helps Hamish hack into police records for his investigation.
Macbeth's efforts bustle charmingly along against the background of quirky Scots dialect and rustic pubs. And Beaton's tangled web of a mystery is tidily resolved to the satisfaction of the locals and, surely, for all the devoted fans of this winning series. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Death of a Dustmanby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892966319 (0-89296-631-9)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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Death of a Scriptwriterby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892966440 (0-89296-644-0)
Hardcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Scriptwriter'Book summary:M.C. Beaton's 14th adventure featuring Hamish Macbeth, lovable local bobby of Lochdubh, Scotland, is a similar treat to her previous efforts. Macbeth feels a dismal foreboding when television film crews descend into his neighborhood to film a local author's out-of-print mysteries. Not only are they led by an overbearing and egotistical scriptwriter, but they have completely stood the original manuscript on its head. The producers have determined that a sexy, pot-smoking heroine will bring in more viewers than the genteel and circumspect detective true to the original. The author herself and the local Calvinist minister are not amused. Before too long, the scriptwriter, the shapely actress playing the lead, and her jealous husband all end up dead, confirming Macbeth's suspicions that the gloomy village of Drim and glamorous media types were a dangerously combustible mix.
The mystery itself seems straightforward enough, but Beaton has provided more than the usual number of suspects and subplots. All of these spike the reader's interest while her wicked characterizations of both the locals and the inhabitants of TV-land are hilarious, and very occasionally thought-provoking. The real strength of the book, and indeed Beaton's work in general, is the way in which she evokes the genuine isolation of Macbeth's rural Highlands and blends it with breezy renderings of murder, mayhem, and cozy cups of tea. In some ways it's a bit of an incongruous mix, but Beaton successfully keeps the tone on the lighter side. Death of a Scriptwriter will certainly intrigue mystery fans as well as those who have wondered about the creations of the PBS/BBC series Mystery! --K.A. Crouch [via]
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Death of a Villageby M. C. BeatonISBN 0892966777 (0-89296-677-7)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Death of a Voodoo Dollby Margot ArnoldISBN 0881501328 (0-88150-132-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Voodoo Doll'Book summary:John Everett's conservative Boston publishing house has agreed to print a history of Mardi Gras. But when the author, a scion of one of the oldest and richest families of Creole aristocracy begins to receive doom-laden letters, Penny and Sir Toby are called upon to investigate. [via]
Death of an Expert Witnessby P. D. JamesISBN 0816166005 (0-8161-6600-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Doll in the Gardenby Mary Downing HahnISBN 0833598783 (0-8335-9878-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Don't Askby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0892964693 (0-89296-469-3)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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A Drink of Deadly Wineby Kate CharlesISBN 0892965010 (0-89296-501-0)
Hardcover, Mysterious Pr
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Drowned Hopesby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0892961783 (0-89296-178-3)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drowned Hopes'Book summary:An old cellmate asks Dortmunder for help robbing a reservoir
In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before the state put him away. They meant it to be for good, but after twenty-three years the prisons are too crowded for seventy-year-old bank robbers, and so they let the old man go. Finally free, he heads straight for John Dortmunders house.Long ago, Tom buried $700,000, and now he needs help digging it up. While he was inside, the government dammed a nearby river, creating a reservoir and putting fifty feet of water on top of his money. He wants to blow the dam, drown the villagers, and move to Acapulco. If Dortmunder wants a clean conscience to go along with his share, he needs to find a nice way to get the money before Toms nasty instincts get the best of both of them.
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A Dying Light in Cordubaby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892966645 (0-89296-664-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dying Light in Corduba'Book summary:In the dark of the night, a man is killed and Emperor Vespasian's chief of spies is left for dead. Private eye Marcus Didius Falco agrees to investigate and the case draws him into the highly-lucrative--and deadly competitive--world of olive oil production National ads & publicity. [via]
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Evil Under the Sunby Agatha ChristieISBN 0854560424 (0-85456-042-4)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evil Under the Sun'Book summary:Fast-paced, value-priced audio adaptations. This Christie classic feature Hercule Poirot, her most popular character. Filled with all the twists and turns Christie is famous for, and sure to please every mystery loverthey have all the crime in half the time![via]
Hercule Poirot is enjoying a well-deserved break on Smugglers Island, but when glamorous actress Arlena Stuart is found strangled on the beach of a small out-of-the-way cove, Poirot becomes embroiled in a murder investigation. With his clever and methodical questioning he discovers that nearly all the guests have a connection to Arlena. But which of these suspects felt strongly enough about Arlena Stuart to kill her?More editions of Evil Under the Sun:
Exit Actors, Dyingby Margot ArnoldISBN 0881501158 (0-88150-115-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Exploits of Sherlock Holmesby John Dickson Carr, Adrian Conan DoyleISBN 0880298596 (0-88029-859-6)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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The Fashion in Shroudsby Margery AllinghamISBN 0891901949 (0-89190-194-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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A Field of Darknessby Cornelia ReadISBN 089296023X (0-89296-023-X)
Hardcover, Mysterious Pr
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Final Designby Noreen GilpatrickISBN 0892965142 (0-89296-514-2)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Fugitive Colorsby Margaret MaronISBN 0892965673 (0-89296-567-3)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Home Firesby Margaret MaronISBN 0892966556 (0-89296-655-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Honourable Schoolboyby John Le CarreISBN 0816165394 (0-8161-6539-4)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Huckleberry Fiendby Julie SmithISBN 0892962372 (0-89296-237-2)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huckleberry Fiend'Book summary:When a burglar discovers an original manuscript for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the closet of a stewardess who later turns up dead, he decides to join forces with Paul McDonald to solve the mystery. Reissue. NYT. [via]
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Killer Marketby Margaret MaronISBN 0892966548 (0-89296-654-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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King & Jokerby Peter DickinsonISBN 0816164347 (0-8161-6434-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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LaBravaby Elmore LeonardISBN 0877955271 (0-87795-527-1)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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Last Act in Palmyraby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892966254 (0-89296-625-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Levineby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0892960639 (0-89296-063-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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A Likely Storyby Donald E. WestlakeISBN 0892960981 (0-89296-098-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Likely Story'Book summary:"This is an hilariously heart-warming and evocative love story, honest and funny, providing a look at both the world of publishing and contemporary mores." [via]
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Maltese Falconby Dashiell HammettISBN 0848824369 (0-8488-2436-9)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maltese Falcon'Book summary:Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.
Spade's partner is murdered on a stakeout; the cops blame him for the killing; a beautiful redhead with a heartbreaking story appears and disappears; grotesque villains demand a payoff he can't provide; and everyone wants a fabulously valuable gold statuette of a falcon, created as tribute for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. Who has it? And what will it take to get it back? Spade's solution is as complicated as the motives of the seekers assembled in his hotel room, but the truth can be a cold comfort indeed.
Spade is bigger (and blonder) in the book than in the movie, and his Mephistophelean countenance is by turns seductive and volcanic. Sam knows how to fight, whom to call, how to rifle drawers and secrets without leaving a trace, and just the right way to call a woman "Angel" and convince her that she is. He is the quintessence of intelligent cool, with a wise guy's perfect pitch. If you only know the movie, read the book. If you're riveted by Chinatown or wonder where Robert B. Parker's Spenser gets his comebacks, read the master. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
Menehune Murdersby Margot ArnoldISBN 0881501964 (0-88150-196-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Mind Readersby Margery AllinghamISBN 0891901795 (0-89190-179-5)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Miseryby Stephen KingISBN 0833518534 (0-8335-1853-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Misery'Book summary:In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.
Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard's She.
He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him.
Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book--one of King's shortest, and best novels ever. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Mrs. Pollifax on Safariby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0816164908 (0-8161-6490-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. Pollifax on Safari'Book summary:"Mrs. Pollifax is the American cousin to Agatha Christie's Miss Marple."
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Mrs. Pollifax has been sent on safari by the C.I.A. and told only to take pictures of all of her companions, in order to find the international assassin whose next target is the president of Zambia. It sounded so simple, but shortly after Mrs. Pollifax started taking pictures, someone stole her film. And right after that she was kidnapped by Rhodesian terrorists. And right after that--well, read for yourself.... [via]More editions of Mrs. Pollifax on Safari:
The Mummy Caseby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0865531404 (0-86553-140-4)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Murder in the Supreme Courtby Margaret TrumanISBN 0877953848 (0-87795-384-8)
Hardcover, Arbor House Pub Co
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Who would want to kill Clarence Sutherland, a bright and handsome young man? The answer: practically everybody. [via]More editions of Murder in the Supreme Court:
The Mysterious Affair at Stylesby Agatha ChristieISBN 081616343X (0-8161-6343-X)
Hardcover, G. K. Hall
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Night Train to Memphisby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0816174830 (0-8161-7483-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Train to Memphis'Book summary:Night Train to Memphis is the 5th book in the Vicky Bliss Mystery series.
An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt. But she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5'11'' of her takes the plunge.
Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as ''Sir John Smythe.'' And right in the shadow of the Sphinx she spots him--with his new flame. Vicky is so furious at this romantic stab in the back, not to mention the sudden arrival of her meddling boss, that she may overlook a danger as old as the pharaohs and as unchanging--a criminal who hides behind a mask of charm while moving in for the kill. [via]More editions of Night Train to Memphis:
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agencyby Alexander McCall SmithISBN 0864864388 (0-86486-438-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'Book summary:Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an African detective, Precious Ramotswe, who's their full-fledged heir.
It's the detective as folk hero, solving crimes through an innate, self-possessed wisdom that, combined with an understanding of human nature, invariably penetrates into the heart of a puzzle. If Miss Marple were fat and jolly and lived in Botswana--and decided to go against any conventional notion of what an unmarried woman should do, spending the money she got from selling her late father's cattle to set up a Ladies' Detective Agency--then you have an idea of how Precious sets herself up as her country's first female detective. Once the clients start showing up on her doorstep, Precious enjoys a pleasingly successful series of cases.
But the edge of the Kalahari is not St. Mary Mead, and the sign Precious orders, painted in brilliant colors, is anything but discreet. Pointing in the direction of the small building she had purchased to house her new business, it reads "THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY. FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES. UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT."
The solutions she comes up with, whether in the case of the clinic doctor with two quite different personalities (depending on the day of the week), or the man who had joined a Christian sect and seemingly vanished, or the kidnapped boy whose bones may or may not be those in a witch doctor's magic kit, are all sensible, logical, and satisfying. Smith's gently ironic tone is full of good humor towards his lively, intelligent heroine and towards her fellow Africans, who live their lives with dignity and with cautious acceptance of the confusions to which the world submits them. Precious Ramotswe is a remarkable creation, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency well deserves the praise it received from London's Times Literary Supplement. I look forward with great eagerness to the upcoming books featuring the memorable Miss Ramotswe, Tears of the Giraffe and Morality for Beautiful Girls, soon to be available in the U.S. --Otto Penzler [via]
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The Original Illustratedby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0890093911 (0-89009-391-1)
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Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0890090572 (0-89009-057-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes'Book summary:1977 Castle Publishers HB. 356 illustrations by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine where the S. Holmes mysteries were originally published. Great gift for a Conan Doyle Fan!!! [via]
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Pearls Before Swineby Margery AllinghamISBN 0891901965 (0-89190-196-5)
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The Picasso Flopby Robert J. Randisi, Vince Van PattenISBN 0892960701 (0-89296-070-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picasso Flop'Book summary:Van Patten, host of Travel Channel's "World Poker Tour," and mystery writer Randisi team up to deliver this first novel in a new fast-paced, high-stakes poker mystery series. [via]
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Privileged Informationby Stephen WhiteISBN 0821739514 (0-8217-3951-4)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Psychoby Robert BlochISBN 088411077X (0-88411-077-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Psycho'Book summary:Norman Bates (and his mother) run the Bates Motel by an isolated road side. Norman has a particular interest in taxidermy. Alfred Hitchcock directed the Hollywood film, starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. [via]
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Puppet on a Chainby Alistair MacLeanISBN 0891901752 (0-89190-175-2)
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Salems Lotby Stephen KingISBN 0881037206 (0-88103-720-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salems Lot'Book summary:Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels: a small American town, usually in Maine, where people are disconnected from each other, quietly nursing their potential for evil; and a mixed bag of rational, goodhearted people, including a writer, who band together to fight that evil.
Simply taken as a contemporary vampire novel, 'Salem's Lot is great fun to read, and has been very influential in the horror genre. But it's also a sly piece of social commentary. As King said in 1983, "In 'Salem's Lot, the thing that really scared me was not vampires, but the town in the daytime, the town that was empty, knowing that there were things in closets, that there were people tucked under beds, under the concrete pilings of all those trailers. And all the time I was writing that, the Watergate hearings were pouring out of the TV.... Howard Baker kept asking, 'What I want to know is, what did you know and when did you know it?' That line haunts me, it stays in my mind.... During that time I was thinking about secrets, things that have been hidden and were being dragged out into the light." Sounds quite a bit like the idea behind his 1998 novel of a Maine hamlet haunted by unsightly secrets, Bag of Bones. --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Second Mouseby Archer MayorISBN 0892960728 (0-89296-072-8)
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The Shape of Dreadby Marcia MullerISBN 0892962712 (0-89296-271-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shape of Dread'Book summary:Bobby Foster, car-hop at the chic Cafe Comedie, is going to the gas chamber. He's already confessed to the murder of Tracy Kostakos, the club's rising star. But two years after the crime, Tracy's body is still missing and Bobby's confession is full of holes. All Souls Legal Cooperative's final appeal sends San Francisco's #1 P.I. Sharon McCone behind the footlights into the super-charged arena of anxious club owners and aspiring young hopefuls...into the fractured world of Tracy's privileged family and the mind of a young comedienne who was not the good little girl they thought they knew...into a labyrinth of death and deception where someone will kill to laugh last and get away with murder. [via]
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The Shiningby Stephen KingISBN 0881037265 (0-88103-726-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shining'Book summary:Danny is only five years old, but he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of an old hotel, his visions grow out of control. Cut off by blizzards, the hotel seems to develop an evil force, and who are the mysterious guests in the supposedly empty hotel? [via]
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Shooting at Loonsby Margaret MaronISBN 0892964472 (0-89296-447-2)
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Southern Discomfortby Margaret MaronISBN 0892964464 (0-89296-446-4)
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Split Imagesby Elmore LeonardISBN 0877953546 (0-87795-354-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Split Images'Book summary:Quintessential Elmore Leonard, Split Images stars Palm Beach playboy Robbie Daniels. He's the kind of guy who gets away with everything -- even murder -- until a vacationing Motown cop, Bryan Hurd, starts asking questions. When this millionaire reptile reveals the psychopath beneath his slippery skin, Hurd finds out this is one helluva way for an out-of-town lawman to spend his vacation.
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A Stranger Is Watchingby Mary Higgins ClarkISBN 0816165971 (0-8161-6597-1)
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Take Two at Bedtimeby Margery AllinghamISBN 0848819519 (0-8488-1951-9)
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Theres Something in a Sundayby Marcia MullerISBN 0892962704 (0-89296-270-4)
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Three Hands in the Fountainby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892966912 (0-89296-691-2)
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Time to Departby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892966262 (0-89296-626-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time to Depart'Book summary:In Rome during the first century, sleuth Marcus Didius Falco matches wits with Balbinus Pius, the dirtiest mobster in Vespasian's empire and a man capable of murdering his enemies. By the author of Last Act in Palmyra. [via]
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spyby John Le CarreISBN 0816162417 (0-8161-6241-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'Book summary:The enduring novel by one of our greatest storytellers. George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy. The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lamplighters, scalp-hunters and pavement artists, where men are turned, burned or bought for stock. Smiley's mission is to catch a Moscow Centre mole burrowed thirty years deep into the Circus itself. [via]
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Tourist Trapby Julie SmithISBN 0892961627 (0-89296-162-7)
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Traitor's Bloodby Reginald HillISBN 0881500763 (0-88150-076-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Traitor's Blood'Book summary:His refuge had become a prison. The world outside a trap. But it was time that was his greatest enemy... Viscount Bessacarr was once the centre of a notorious trial. When the news comes that cancer is suspected, he is determined to see his young daughter again. But the price of being allowed back in Britain is high. Bessacarr's job is to kill a famous traitor and defector - his father. Soon he is caught up in a mad race from London to Rome and along the coast to Amalfi. His opponents are the KGB, British Intelligence and his own family. He can hardly hope to win the race, but he can't afford to lose either... [via]
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Trophies and Dead Thingsby Marcia MullerISBN 0892964170 (0-89296-417-0)
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Two for the Lionsby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892966939 (0-89296-693-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two for the Lions'Book summary:Marcus Didius Falco, Lindsey Davis's clever, ambitious, not-so-holy Roman man about town, is on special assignment for the Emperor Vespacian. This time he's tracking down tax fraud among the bestiarii, the slaughterers, and the lanistae, the suppliers of the gladiators and animals who provide the executions, spectacles, and entertainment for the Roman masses.
Hoisted by his own tarnished petard, Falco is unwillingly partnered with his ex-boss Anacrites, Rome's chief spy, but that's the least of his problems; his investigation has hardly begun when he finds himself in the tunnels under the arena with a lion named Leonidas--a man-killer who may or may not have been switched with a tamer beast for a private party meant to impress a wealthy Senator's mistress.
While Leonidas presents no immediate threat to Falco--the king of the jungle is quite dead--the circumstances of the beast's demise lead Falco to ponder a connection between a murderous feud that seems to have broken out in the ranks of the lanistae and the lucrative contracts soon to be let by the emperor for his magnificent new amphitheater. And when the most popular gladiator in Rome is killed--not in the arena, as might be expected, but while sleeping in his own bed--Falco and his patrician lover Helena take passage to Tripoli to track down the perpetrator. Along the way, they attempt to solve a domestic crisis involving Helena's youngest brother, who seems to be right in the middle of the African connection between the murders of man and beast, as well as the feud between two powerful lanistae. And there's still another reason to embark on a journey to the Dark Continent--the search for an extinct variety of wild garlic, which could make Falco a wealthy man and which ends with a hilarious denouement.
As usual, Davis serves up a generous helping of history, a raffish band of minor characters, a charming love story, and surprisingly relevant commentary on the nature of the bureaucracy, politics, and chicanery among the rich and famous. Two for the Lions promises--and delivers--a treat for the author's many fans, and a terrific introduction to his new ones. --Jane Adams [via]
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Uniform Justiceby Donna LeonISBN 0871139030 (0-87113-903-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uniform Justice'Book summary:As Uniform Justice opens, Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a parent's worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than understanding this tragedy. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician, a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. Dr. Moro is clearly and understandably devastated by his son's death; but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seem convinced that the boy's death could not have been suicide, neither appears eager to talk to the police or involve Brunetti in any investigation of the circumstances in which he died. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? And what of the other witnesses? Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy far greater than this one death? [via]
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Up Jumps the Devilby Margaret MaronISBN 0892965681 (0-89296-568-1)
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Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wetby Harry KemelmanISBN 0816164134 (0-8161-6413-4)
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The Yellow Room Conspiracyby Peter DickinsonISBN 0892965568 (0-89296-556-8)
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