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Amis, Martin Night Train
New York, New York, U.S.A. Harmony Books 1997 0609601288 / 9780609601280 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Price inside dustcover: $20.00 - As the title might suggest, Martin Amis's new novel, Night Train, is swift and sometimes dark and mysterious as it surges forward with incredible speed. A captivating mystery of betrayal and deception, Night Train is somewhat of a departure for Amis, one of the world's most acclaimed novelists. This latest offering fuses all of his stylistic brilliance with the elements of a classic film noir mystery. Amis, an Englishman, has long been fascinated by American culture and dialogue, and Night Train benefits from this keen interest -- the language is dead-on and the landscape eerily familiar. Set in "Anytown, USA," Night Train perfectly captures the anxiety, paranoia, and entanglements that fuel a big-city police investigation. A 15-year veteran of the force, Detective Mike Hoolihan has risen from walking a beat to solving robberies to investigating homicides. She's seen it all, but one case -- this case -- has gotten under her skin. When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop -- now top brass -- takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel Tom, is ready to "put the case down": suicide, case closed. But Colonel Tom asks Hoolihan to do the one thing any grieving father would ask -- take a second look. Not since his celebrated novel Money has Amis turned his focus on America to such remarkable effect. Combining brilliant wordplay and the elements of a classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our humanity.
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Anderson, Kent Night Dogs
Bantam Dell Pub Group 1998 055310764X / 9780553107647 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Price inside dustcover: $22.95 - First Edition (January 1998) - The North Precinct of Portland, Oregon, is home to two kinds of cops: sergeants and lieutenants who've screwed up somewhere else, and patrolmen who thrive on the action on the Avenue. Officer Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who has traded his Bronze Star for a badge. War is what Hanson knows, and in this battle for Portland's meanest streets, he's fighting not so much for the law as for his own code of justice. Hanson is a man who seems to fear nothing -- except his own memories. And it is his past that could destroy him now: An enemy in the department is determined to bring him down by digging into his war record and resurrecting the darkest agonies of that nightmare time. And Hanson himself risks everything -- his career, his equilibrium, even his life -- when the only other survivor of his Special Forces unit comes back into his life. Doc Dawson is a drug dealer and a killer...but he's the one man Hanson can trust.
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Archer, Jeffrey Shall We Tell the President?
New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Press 1977 0670639346 / 9780670639342 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Stated First Printing - Price inside dustcover: $8.95 - Dustcover shows slight wear - Book is in Fine Condition - 241 Pages
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Arnold, Margot Dirge for a Dorset Druid: A Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Mystery
Woodstock, Vermont A Foul Play Press Book: The Countryman Press, Inc. 1994 0881502669 / 9780881502664 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Price inside dustcover: $20.00 - Arnold ( The Cape Cod Conundrum ) features her two clever and extremely likable elderly academics, archeologist Sir Toby Glendower and anthropologist Dame Penny Spring, in their 11th adventure. The plot, a potent mix of murder, smuggling and witchcraft revolving around a cache of priceless Crown jewels missing from France since 1792, and the tragic fate of 18th-century French Royalist emigres, promises literate fireworks but doesn't ignite until the final chapters. While Penny is on a book tour in Australia, Toby visits a former student in Dorchester who is about to open a dig in an Iron Age earthwork. The two discover a corpse dressed as a modern Druid, the second recent victim of murder in the area. Toby's detecting is sparked when Penny flies home to help. Another death, subtle threats and an awe-inspiring treasure uncovered at the end of a long-hidden tunnel precede a spectacular execution brought about by black magic. Although loose ends, especially those connected to possible suspects, are neatly tied up at the end, they are dangled too long. Even a middling offering from Arnold, however, delivers intelligent entertainment
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Arnold, Margot The Catacomb Conspiracy: A Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Mystery
Woodstock, Vermont A Foul Play Press Book: The Countryman Press, Inc. 1991 0881502081 / 9780881502084 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Price inside dustcover: $18.95 - Sophisticated writing and stirrings of international intrigue have marked the previous exploits of American anthropologist Penelope Spring and British archeologist Sir Toby Glendower. In their ninth adventure (following Toby's Folly ) they take off for a Roman vacation in a borrowed villa--possibly the site of an unexcavated catacomb-- on the elegant and ancient Appia Antica. The murder of their womanizing caretaker puts them briefly in the news and embroils them in the affairs of movie star Margo Demerest, who is living in the villa next door while making a film. After Margo disappears, Sir Toby finds the catacomb and evidence that terrorists may have been using it. The police who at first think Margo's disappearance is a publicity stunt, belatedly become concerned because of the imminence of a critical international conference on united Europe. Then the sleuths are menaced and encouraged to leave town. Arnold paints a realistic picture of modern Rome and international politics in this well-paced, highly readable mixture of espionage and murder
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Arnold, Margot Toby's Folly: A Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower Mystery
Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A. Foul Play Pr 1990 0881501778 / 9780881501773 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Fine condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $18.95. NO writing, marks or tears. Tight spine, bright pages. 253 pages. From Publishers Weekly The eighth appearance (after The Menehune Murders ) of archeologists/sleuths Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower features a Russian ballet troupe touring the U.K. during the era of glasnost. The company manager, a KGB agent who had been sexually harassing many of the troupe members, is found murdered in Brighton's Royal Pavilion, and ballerina Sonya Danarova goes missing. Found and arrested, she demands to see Sir Toby, claiming he is her father. The astounded archeologist admits to a postwar romance with a Russian dancer, although he hadn't known of a child's existence. The defection to Brazil of two dancers and the murder of the prima ballerina follow as Toby, Penny and her son, physician Alexander Spring, try to prove Sonya's innocence and keep her in the U.K. Pursued by a motorcycle gang, Toby and Alex take Sonya to Toby's Welsh hideout, while a mysterious figure out of the sleuths' past enters the case with important information on what is really going on--a blackmail scam and a black market in Russian icons. Arnold's lively and literate mystery is enhanced by her sure eye for details. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Babson, Marian In the Teeth of Adversity
St Martins Pr 1990 0312043325 / 9780312043322 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $14.95. 167 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine - Bright pages. The man who threw his cat at his dentist... Doug Perkins, his partner Gerry and their cat, Pandora, have one job to do: spin gaffes into gold. But this cozy little London PR agency--a better environment for Pandora than profits--is about to get involved in a disastous affaire dentaire..Endicott Zayle, dentist to the rich and famous--as well as to Doug and Gerry--has a problem with royal proportions. He just killed a beautiful women with an experimental anesthetic. Or did he? By the time Doug arrives on the scene, the corpse is up and walking around--and someone else is dead instead. With Endicott losing his grip, and a line of women all claiming personal interest in the deceased, scandal is afoot. And so is a second dose of murder. For Doug, Perry and Pandora, making this mess look good will mean sorting through an old man's madness, a young man's foolishness, and a tooth-and-nail case of cat fighting--no holds barred...
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Barnard, Robert A Cry from the Dark
Scribner 2004 0743253450 / 9780743253451 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.00. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 279 pages. Synopsis: Master of mystery Robert Barnard, internationally acclaimed for his suspenseful, witty literary gems, cleverly mixes past and present in A Cry from the Dark, an intriguing tour de force sweeping from 1930s Australia to contemporary London. Bettina Whitelaw has come a long way from her childhood in the little outback town of Bundaroo, Australia. Many years have passed, a lifetime really, but she's never forgotten what happened there on the evening that changed her life forever. How could she forget the school dance, her taunting classmates, dancing with the strange but brilliant English boy, Hughie Naismyth? How could she forget what happened next, when, overheated and exhilarated by the music and the moment, she wandered off alone into a secluded, wooded area? Now a renowned, elderly author living in London's elegant Holland Park, Bettina faces a flood of memories as she works on her memoirs, even though her focus is more on the frightening things that are happening today. Someone has recently entered her home and gone through her desk. The intruder is clearly not an ordinary burglar. It must be someone she knows. She's been a little lax in handing out keys, so the suspects are many -- her nephew, Mark; her agent, Clare; her friends, Peter or Katie. Or it could be someone else. What does Bettina possess that this person would want to steal? A puzzle that at first seems mildly disturbing soon turns deadly serious. Someone is willing to kill -- but why? Does the answer rest in Bundaroo or nearer to home? A Cry from the Dark shows us vintage Robert Barnard as he slyly lays the clues that lead to his trademark surprise -- and poignant -- ending.
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Barr, Nevada Blood Lure
Berkley Pub Group 2002 0425183750 / 9780425183755 Mass Market Paperback Fine 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Like-new condition - Appears unread - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - 333 pages - "In Blood Lure, Anna Pigeon returns to the West, where she is sent on a training assignment to study grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park, straddling the border between Montana and Canada. But back in her beloved mountains, where the air is pure and cool, Anna fails to experience the spiritual renewal she expected. Instead, nature seems to have become twisted, carrying a malevolence almost human in its focus." "Along with a bear researcher, Joan Rand, and a volatile and unpredictable teenage boy, Anna hikes the back country, seeking signs of the bears. On their second night out, the tables are turned: one of the bears comes looking for them. Daybreak finds the boy missing and a camper dead, her neck snapped, the flesh of her face cut away. Feeling betrayed by nature and humanity, Anna must find the beast stalking the trails - and enter deep into a gripping wilderness life-or-death mystery."
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Barton, Wayne; Williams, Stan Lockharts Nightmare
New York, NY, U.S.A. Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 1998 0312861427 / 9780312861421 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
When James Lockhart and his actress friend Marian Taylor are arrested for a bank robbery and a murder they did not commit, Marian uses her skills as a master of disguise and as a pickpocket to help them escape so they can find out who the real culprit is and clear their names.
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Beaton, M. C. Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam
New York, New York, U.S.A. Minotaur Books / St. Martin's 2000 0312204965 / 9780312204969 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 197 pages. Synopsis: When a fortune teller from a previous case informs Agatha Raisin that her destiny-and true love-lies in Norfolk, she promptly rents a cottage in the quaint village of Fryfam. No sooner does she arrive than strange things start happening. Random objects go missing from people's homes and odd little lights are seen dancing in the villagers' gardens and yards. Stories soon begin circulating about the presence of fairies. But when a prominent village resident is found murdered, and some suspicion falls on her and her friend Sir Charles Fraith, Agatha decides she's had enough of this fairy nonsense and steps up her sleuthing for a human killer. The prickly yet endearing Agatha will have fans dangling in suspense: Will she catch her crook-and a husband?
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Beaton, M. C. Agatha Raisin And The Haunted House
New York, New York, U.S.A. Minotaur Books / St. Martin's 2003 0312207697 / 9780312207694 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 246 pages. Synopsis: Just back from an extended stay in London, Agatha Raisin finds herself greeted by torrential rains and an old, familiar feeling of boredom. When her handsome new neighbor, Paul Chatterton, shows up on her doorstep, she tries her best to ignore his obvious charms, but his sparkling black eyes and the promise of adventure soon lure her into another investigation. Paul has heard rumors about Agatha's reputation as the Cotswold village sleuth and wastes no time offering their services to the crotchety owner of a haunted house. Whispers, footsteps, and a cold white mist are plaguing Mrs. Witherspoon, but the police have failed to come up with any leads, supernatural or otherwise. The neighbors think it's all a desperate ploy for attention, but Paul and Agatha are sure something more devious is going on. Someone's playing tricks on Mrs. Witherspoon, and when she turns up dead under suspicious circumstances, Agatha finds herself caught up in another baffling murder mystery. Publishers Weekly: In M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House, the Cotswolds village sleuth investigates the murder of the owner of a supernaturally challenged house-and meets a handsome new neighbor. Besides the Hamish Macbeth series, Beaton is the author of Snobbery with Violence (Forecasts, June 2), an Edwardian mystery, writing as Marion Chesney. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Biography: M. C. BEATON, the Scottish-born author of fifteen previous Agatha Raisin novels as well as the Hamish Macbeth series, lives in a village in the English Cotswolds.
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Beaton, M. C. Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell
New York, New York, U.S.A. Minotaur Books / St. Martin's 2001 0312207662 / 9780312207663 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 229 pages. Synopsis Who Doesn't Love Agatha Raisin? "Few things in life are more satisfying than to discover a brand new Agatha Raisin mystery." -Tampa Tribune Times "Beaton has a winner in the irrepressible, romance-hungry Agatha."-Chicago Sun-Times "The Miss Marple-like Raisin is a refreshingly sensible, wonderfully eccentric, thoroughly likable heroine...A must for cozy fans."-Booklist "Anyone interested in...intelligent, amusing reading will want to make the acquaintance of Mrs. Agatha Raisin."-Atlanta Journal Constitution "The Raisin series brings the cozy tradition back to life. God bless the Queen!"-Tulsa World "[Beaton's] imperfect heroine is an absolute gem!"-Publishers Weekly
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Beaton, M. C. Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. St Martins Pr 1999 0312198221 / 9780312198220 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Fine condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $20.95. ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's first name in book front on blank page "Connie". NO tears inside book. 196 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. Synopsis The local ladies deemed him a "wizard." So when, to Agatha's horror, she finds several coarse gray hairs poking out of her head--and the rinse she tries at home turns her hair a lovely shade of purple--she makes a beeline for Mr. John, the handsome Evesham hairdresser who promises to work his magic on Agatha's coif. And the charming beautician also seems to have designs on Agatha's heart. But their future together is cut short when Mr. John collapses dead from poisoning in his salon--and Agatha suddenly has a murder case in her hair. Was it one of Mr. John's many customers, all of whom divulged to him their darkest secrets? It's time for Agatha to get to the bottom of this hair-raising mystery. The Mystery Reader - Kay Black Agatha Raisin is her same unlovable, yet lovable self snapping at everyone, nasty to most, and yet so willing to please....Agatha embodies the characteristics of many middle-aged women who feel that life is passing them by. There is no equivalent to Agatha, with her acid tongue, in all of the mystery world....Long live Agatha Raisin! Biography M. C. BEATON, the Scottish-born author of fifteen previous Agatha Raisin novels as well as the Hamish Macbeth series, lives in a village in the English Cotswolds.
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Beaton, M. C. The Skeleton in the Closet
New York, New York, U.S.A. Minotaur Books / St. Martin's 2001 0312207727 / 9780312207724 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 218 pages. Synopsis: Since the death of his father, Fellworth Dolphin has been supporting both himself and his miserly mother with the meager wages he earns as a waiter in a local hotel. When his mother suddenly dies, Fellworth is shocked to find that she has left him a sizable inheritance. Not knowing where the money could have possibly come from, Fell teams up with Maggie, a plain girl with a similar background, to discover the source of the riches. Could Fell's late father have had a hand in a long-ago train robbery? What secrets surrounding the Dolphin family will the two sleuths uncover? As they poke around the village for answers, Maggie and Fell embark upon a surprise-filled path to danger and adventure, and - just possibly - love.
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Beck, K. K. A Hopeless Case: A Mystery Novel
New York, New York, U.S.A. Mysterious Pr 1992 0892964790 / 9780892964796 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $18.95. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 265 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. Synopsis: Jane da Silva knows a Cole Porter tune and a silky voice will only carry you so far through the urbane cabarets of Europe. So when the young widow's "eccentric" Uncle Harold dies, she jets back to the States to claim the fortune she dearly needs to ransom her Visa card. Unfortunately, Jane finds her inheritance conditional and her situation critical. It seems Uncle Harold and his old-codger cronies are part of a secret society dedicated to aiding and abetting offbeat lost causes, and Jane must carry on her uncle's "work" if she expects to see anything resembling a windfall. But just how far will the chic expatriate go when her "hopeless case" forces her to mingle with a sleaze-ball lawyer, a scheming psychiatrist, a sinister New Age cult, a stone-cold corpse--and a ruthless murderer? Publishers Weekly: Beck's ( Death in a Deck Chair ) newest mystery offers a neat twist as a premise for what could turn out to be a delightful series. In her late 30s and tired of eking out an existence in Europe, expatriate widow Jane Silva is offered a substantial inheritance if she will assume her late uncle's quixotic profession of solving hopeless cases for those who have no other recourse. Seattle, her childhood home, at first seems to provide little scope for the type of situation that would fit the criteria of the will (which mandates absolutely no publicity), but soon Jane is approached by Leonora Martin, a talented young musician who wants to finance her further studies by regaining the substantial amount of money her now-dead hippie mother, Linda, had given years before to a cult called the Fellowship of the Flame. With the aid of attorney Calvin Mason, another collector of lost causes, Jane starts poking around, despite attacks on her person and the murder of an artist who may have known Linda. Ignoring the warnings of the personable detective on the case, Jane continues her dangerous sleuthing. A good, clean writer with an eye for apt description, Beck has created a breezy and modern detective in a relatively little-mined setting.
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Begiebing, Robert J. The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin: A Mystery
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1996 1565121457 / 9781565121454 Trade Paperback Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good, clean copy - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - 236 pages - NO remainder marks or price clippings - 1640: In the New England settlement of Piscataqua, a young woman is found dead, her violated body stripped naked and thrown into a river. When a newcomer to the settlement is asked by the elders to investigate, he finds that the more he learns, the more puzzling the crime becomes. Based on an actual unsolved murder that took place in colonial New Hampshire.
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Belzer, Richard; Black, Michael I Am Not a Cop!
Simon & Schuster 2008 1416570667 / 9781416570660 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. Remainder mark on bottom. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $24.00. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. 261 pages. Synopsis IN THIS CAPTIVATING, OFTEN HILARIOUS DEBUT MYSTERY, ONE OF THE GREAT COMEDIANS OF OUR TIME BLENDS FACT WITH FICTION, AS LAW & ORDER: SVU'S RICHARD BELZER'S OFF-CAMERA PERSONA COMES TO LIFE ON THE PAGE, EMPLOYING INVESTIGATIVE KNOW-HOW AND COMEDIC TIMING IN EQUAL MEASURE TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A TRUSTED FRIEND. When Richard Belzer meets Rudy Markovich, nyc medical examiner, for dinner in Brighton Beach, he has little reason to expect anything more than a friendly bull session. But in the next twenty-four hours Belzer finds himself in the middle of a vicious street brawl, splashed across the tabloid headlines as an out-of-control celeb, and fearing for the life of his good pal Rudy — who police assume is sleeping at the bottom of the East River. As Belzer finds himself increasingly required to call upon the resources he taps to portray Detective Munch on nbc, he maintains his sense of humor and carries us along on a rollicking ride through the underworld of New York City. With Rudy kidnapped, or worse, it falls to The Belz to track him down and solve the riddle to the vanishing act. The lives of Detective Munch and Richard Belzer collide and mesh in I Am Not a Cop! as one of America's great comics and TV cops brings all of his talents to bear in book form and provides a triumph of the mystery genre. Biography: Richard Belzer plays the acerbic Detective John Munch on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, after first portraying Munch on nbc's critically acclaimed drama series Homicide: Life on the Street for seven seasons.
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