 East of
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By Russell
Atwood EAST OF A is well written urban Noir that brings alive the East Village and surrounding neighborhoods of Manhattan. Payton is a great new entry in the sleuthing world (he has previously appeared in a short story). The story line is quirky and different. Fans will want more works from Russell Atwood, starring Payton in the city. Read more from the author's site. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships within 24 hours. |
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| The Cactus Club
Killings | |
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By Nathan
Walpow Joe Portugal likes people. But he likes plants better. That's why the former theater actor turned small-time L.A. commercial star is a prominent member of the Culver City Cactus Club. Unfortunately, so is a killer. The club's president is dead -- a poison succulent lodged in her mouth. With a father who knows a thing or two about murder, and police breathing down his neck, Joe can recognize a jam when he sees one. But when he begins searching through a colorful cast of plant lovers, plant dealers, and even international plant smugglers, he doesn't find the answers he needs. Meanwhile, the killer has struck again, working his way through the Cactus Club with a garden variety motive -- and a very green thumb -- for murder. PAPERBACK / AVAILABILITY: Pre-Order for shipping May 11, 1999. |
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 Old Time Radio Detectives and Crime
Fighters | |
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The Smithsonian
Collection 12 Complete radio shows; 5 hours of rare radio entertainment - digitally restored and remastered. Features:
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| Jitter
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By Howard
Swindle Jeb Quinlin is a homicide detective - maybe the best one in the Dallas PD. He's also a drunk. There he is - a shaky, achy inmate just days past detox when the murders start piling up. One, two, three and each of the bodies is bearing a lipsticked message with particular resonance for the Cedar Ridge population: the words of an AA Twelve Step program are scrawled on all. Soon it becomes all too obvious the killer is - or was until recently - doing the course at Cedar Ridge. And what's equally obvious is that Quinlin has no choice but to revert from patient to cop. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 2-3 days. |
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| Ashes to
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By Tami
Hoag A monster known as the Cremator is killing prostitutes in Minneapolis parks and setting their bodies on fire. When one of his victims turns out to be the daughter of a local billionaire, and a homeless teenager claims to have witnessed the burning, it brings together former FBI agent Kate Conlan (now working as a victim-witness advocate) and the Bureau's top serial-killer profiler, John Quinn. Conlan and Quinn share a painful personal history; now they have to work together against a very smart lunatic who seems to be able to read their minds. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Cat on the
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By Rita Mae Brown &
Sneaky Pie Brown As the men and women of Crozet, Virginia, prepare for a local Civil War reenactment, popular Tommy Van Allen is reported missing. No one's seen his single-engine plane, either--no one but Mrs. Murphy, who spotted it during a foggy evening's mousing in Tally Urquhart's abandoned barn. Even if fat cat Pewter insists that "nothing ever happens in May," Mrs. Murphy is certain that something sinister did occur that night on the Urquharts' deserted airstrip. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Best Mystery Value Collection I
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By Josh
Pachter, Martin Greenberg In the high-octane follow-up to No Human Involved, amateur sleuth Miranda "Munch" Mancini plunges back into the labyrinth of the dangerous world of her former pals, and the life she so desperately wants to leave behind. Audio Cassette / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| The New Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes #6 Classic Radio Mysteries: Gift Sets | |
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By Anthony Boucher,
Denis Green, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce Welcome to the golden age of radio and the best in classic mystery... From 1939 to 1946 Americans gathered around their radio to listen to The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- featuring Basil Rathbone as the high strung crime-solver and Nigel Bruce as his phlegmatic assistant. Witty, fast-paced, and always surprising, these great radio plays, written by the prolific writing team of Anthony Boucher and Denis Green, are as fresh today as they were then, and feature perfect sound along with nostalgic war-time announcements, original narrations and radio commercials. Audio Cassettes AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours / 2-3 days (depends on volume #.) a l s o a v a i l a b l e : New Sherlock Holmes: Original Radio Broadcasts The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Gift Set, Vol. 2 The Night Before Christmas and the Darlington Substitution More New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Clue of the Hungry Cat / The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys |
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| No Offense
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By Barbara
Seranella In the high-octane follow-up to No Human Involved, amateur sleuth Miranda "Munch" Mancini plunges back into the labyrinth of the dangerous world of her former pals, and the life she so desperately wants to leave behind. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Circles of
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By April
Henry When Claire Montrose inherits her aunt's rundown trailer she hardly considers a wealthy heiress. But she does discover a lovely painting amid the junk and that's when her troubles start. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Mary, Mary : A
Novel | |
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By Julie
Parsons Dr. Margaret Mitchell, who left Ireland for New Zealand when her daughter was just an infant, now returns 20 years later as a successful psychiatrist and expert on women's mental health. Shortly after she arrives in Dublin to care for her dying mother, Margaret's daughter, Mary, is brutally tortured and murdered. Full of rage and sadness, Dr. Mitchell watches as a once-brilliant, now-boozy cop catches Mary's killer but botches the case against him and raises the possibility of his serving just a short sentence. Enter the gimmick--which we won't spoil except to point out that anyone who doesn't have suspicions about Mary's father hasn't been paying attention. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Body
Language | |
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By James
W. Hall James Hall's UNDER COVER OF DAYLIGHT and RED SKY AT NIGHT have won him great critical acclaim, and both were national bestsellers. BODY LANGUAGE, his latest, is a novel of blistering suspense about a forensic photographer hot on the trail of a vicious killer who is somehow linked to her past. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Murder for Love: 16 New Original
Stories | |
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By Otto
Penzler Eight men and eight women--the best writers in and out of the mystery field--render their very own, original take on love gone wrong in this fresh collection of stories. Animosity and affection intermingle dangerously in these delightfully deadly works by: William J. Caunitz, Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, James Crumley, John Gardner, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, Michael Malone, Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Anne Perry, Shel Silverstein, and Donna Tartt. PAPERBACK / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Murder for Revenge: 12 New Original
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By Otto
Penzler A high school wallflower cooks up justice la carte at her 20th reunion...A submissive wife sails her domineering husband straight to hell...A man disposes of his enemy in a murder only a writer could commit. This irresistible collection of original stories was born of a deliciously wicked idea: ask twelve of America's best writers to explore a single subject--people willing, often gleefully so, to kill for revenge. The result is a star-studded gathering of fiction's finest, and an infinitely satisfying banquet of...Murder for Revenge. PAPERBACK / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| An American
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By Mary-Ann Tirone
Smith When Denise Burke's lover, a high-profile Washington, D.C. insider, urges her to look into an old murder in his home town and then dies under mysterious circumstances soon after, Denise thinks she might be next. AN AMERICAN KILLING is a fast-paced and wisecracking tale of double-dealing of the dirtiest kind. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Field
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By Dick
Francis This first collection of short stories by Dick Francis (author of 10 Lb. Penalty and more than 30 other horseracing mysteries) pulls together five new tales with eight that have appeared scattered in periodicals over the last three decades. One of the pleasures of his stories is witnessing the breadth and variety within Francis's racetrack milieu. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Black
Coffee A New Hercule Poirot Mystery | |
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By Agatha Christie
and Charles Osborne Agatha Christie's first novel since 1976 brings back Hercule Poirot for one last case. It is 1934, and Poirot is called to Surrey by a physicist who is convinced that his new discovery -- a formula that will be critical to England's defense -- is about to be stolen by someone very close to him. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Easier to
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By Valerie
Wilson Wesley In Wesley's newest, a popular radio show host is convinced she's being stalked. After threatening notes and some frightening acts of vandalism, she turns to private investigator Tamara Hayle for help. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| The Angels Will Not
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By John
Straley In this witty and suspenseful tale, the fifth of Straley's crime novels, private investigator Cecil Younger takes on an unusual assignment. With his P.I. business on the brink of failure, Cecil Jumps at the chance to look into a series of strange unexplained deaths on a luxury cruise liner. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Blue | |
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By Abigail
Padgett When a 72-year-old woman confesses to a brutal murder, her brother hires Blue McCarron, a social psychologist and private investigator who lives and works outside San Diego. Digging around for information on the inexplicable case, Blue discovers the roots of what looks to be a massive international conspiracy. BLUE is the first novel in a new series. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Deja Dead | |
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By Kathleen J.
Reichs Temperance Brennan may not be competition for Kay Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell's medical examiner, in the romance department, but she's just as stubborn and almost as astute when it comes to sleuthing. While investigating a grisly discovery for the Montreal coroner's office, Tempe finds herself remembering a similar investigation she conducted on the remains of a woman who was savagely dismembered and stuffed in garbage bags. When Tempe's concerns about a serial killer are dismissed by the police, she decides to pursue the matter herself--a course of action that both puts her career on the line and so effectively upsets the murderer's plan that he sets his sights on her. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| A Darker
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By Laurie R.
King Anne Waverly is a respected university professor. Few know that, eighteen years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and seven-year-old daughter. Fewer still know that her past and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Deadbeat: An Angela Matelli
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By Wendi
Lee Boston investment counselor Cynthia MacDonald hires private investigator Angie Matelli to uncover the identity of the person using her stolen credit cards to run up a sizable debt. Angie quickly but cleverly traces the scam to Lisa Browning, a single mother in the midst of a financial crisis. Feeling sorry for the desperate woman, Angie promises not to turn her into the law if she names her associates. Lisa insists she has no partners. However, someone must have disagreed because Lisa is soon murdered. The ex-marine takes the woman's death as a personal affront, investigating the killing even if it means placing her own life on the line. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Broken
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By Jo
Bannister Riding his motorcycle through the frosty back roads in the country is Detective Sergeant Donovan's idea of relaxation: Walking in on the armed robbery of a Castlemere gas station isn't. Donovan pursues the thief, but the chase ends in a horrible accident. The nineteen-year-old driver of the getaway van survives the crash, thanks largely to Donovan himself, who plunges into the burning wreckage and pulls the young man to safety. Case closed, or so it seems... HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| L Is for Lawless A Kinsey Millhone Mystery | |
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By Sue
Grafton Typical of the series, the mystery is not the central point of the story, but rather a starting point for Kinsey to become embroiled in a suspenseful (and delightful) search-and-rescue operation, usually against her better judgement. In this case, a gun-toting, arthritic octogenarian and revelations of the inner workings of bargain-rate motels are all part of the adventure. PAPERBACK / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 2-3 days. |
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| M Is for Malice A Kinsey Millhone Mystery | |
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By Sue
Grafton Kinsey Millhone, the normally bubbly California private investigator, is depressed in Sue Grafton's new alphabet mystery; so depressed she goes back with old flame Robert Dietz for a while. Bad move. Meanwhile she gets wrapped up in a family affair, locating the missing heir to a fortune and then protecting him from his ill-intentioned brothers. Typically, our woman Kinsey has little patience with the boys, but a firm grasp of family dysfunction. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| N Is for Noose A Kinsey Millhone Mystery | |
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By Sue
Grafton Sharp prose, keen plotting and Millhone's engaging first-person sensibility help make Ms. Grafton's books hugely popular. All those elements are notably present in 'N' Is for Noose. The closer this prolific author gets to the letter Z, the more impressive the high standard she sustains. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| The Year's 25 Finest
Crime & Mystery Stories (6th Edition) | |
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By Joan Hess (Editor),
Ed Gorman (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Edward Gorman
(Editor) "Something for everyone" best describes this collection of short fiction by writers such as Donald E. Westlake, Simon Brett, Lawrence Block, Joyce Carol Oates, and Walter Mosley. Fans of certain series characters--for example, Bill Pronzini's John Quincannon and Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone--will not want to miss this collection! Lovers of finely crafted short mysteries may be reluctant to come up for air. This collection definitely belongs in every library's mystery section. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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| Dirty Linen: A Fred Taylor
Mystery | |
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By Nicholas
Kilmer Art collector Clayton Reed sends agent Fred Taylor to bid on erotic art up for bid as part of the auction of the late Lord Hanford. Fred successfully purchases the drawings at an extraordinary low price. But before they can toast their victory, problems surface. Hanford's son slaps them with a law suit, demanding their return. A rival collector puts pressure on everyone associated with the purchase about what they know about the works. Fred begins his own investigation to ascertain why these drawings have become suddenly hot. However, it's an assistant working on his thesis who uncovers the link to a Victorian age murder. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 2-3 days. |
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| Hush
Money | |
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By Robert B.
Parker Twenty-five years and 26 books into the Spenser series, Hush Money dishes up another solid installment that is sure to fulfill the cravings of Parker fans new and old. This time Spenser and his buddy Hawk are helping a couple of troubled friends (i.e., they're working without a fee). The first case involves the denial of tenure for Professor Robinson Nevins. While tenure meetings are always closed-door affairs, Nevins assumes that the recent suicide of graduate student Prentice Lamont ruined his chances for a coveted permanent position. Spenser and Hawk cut a brawl-strewn path through the members of the tenure committee on their way to the surprising truth of the Nevins case. HARDCOVER / AVAILABILITY: Usually ships in 24 hours. |
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