A story of the Jazz Age; a woman is accused of a double murder where the victims were dismembered and concealed in trunks bound by train for LA.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original
Novel, 240 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st Edition
Simon & Schuster - 2009 - ISBN: 1416599096 / 9781416599098
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Alt, Madelyn
Bewitching #5: Where There's a Witch
Maggie O'Neill senses some bad spirits at a carnival; she and the ghost-hunting team must uncover the dark spiritual energy leaking into their town.
Novel, 290 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425228711 / 9780425228715
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ID: #New003213
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Ames, Delano
Jane & Dagobert Brown #2: Murder Begins at Home
When their hostess at a New Mexico ranch is stabbed to death, the Browns work with the local deputy to discover which of their fellow guests killed her.
Novel, 191 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1949)
Rue Morgue - 2009 - ISBN: 160187037X / 9781601870377
Book Condition: New.
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$14.95
Ashley, Mike (editor)
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Twenty-six stories featuring the world's greatest detective, by Derek Wilson, Peter Tremayne, Claire Griffen, Edward D. Hoch, David Stuart Davies, Barbara Roden, John Gregory Betancourt, Denis O. Smith, Guy N. Smith, Eric Brown, Simon Clark, Michael Moorcock, Barrie Roberts, Robert Weinberg and Lois H. Gresh, Stephen Baxter, Peter Crowther, Basil Copper, H.R.F. Keating, David Langford, Roger Johnson, Amy Myers, Martin Edwards, Michael Doyle, Zakaria Erzinclioglu, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, and L.B. Greenwood. (Note: the copyright page lists this as a revised and updated edition, but the stories are from 1997 or earlier, and the appendix of apocryphal Holmes stories has not been updated since the 1997 edition.)
Anthology, 586 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1997)
When their next-door neighbors are shot to death in their own home, Jim and Ellen Cutler ask themselves: how well did they really know their neighbors? The answers aren't reassuring.
Novel, 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Bantam - 2009 - ISBN: 055359043X / 9780553590432
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Benn, James R.
Billy Boyle #3: Blood Alone
Landed in Sicily in advance of the main Allied invasion force to enlist the cooperation of the Mafia, Billy awakens in a field hospital with amnesia. Before he can remember his name and his mission, several people are murdered.
Novel, 313 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
When a Scotland Yard inspector is murdered in San Francisco, the case is connected to a murder that happened there fifteen years earlier; Chan investigates.
Novel, 279 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1928)
Academy Chicago - 2009 - ISBN: 0897335848 / 9780897335843
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New003695
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Biggers, Earl Derr
Charlie Chan #4: The Black Camel
When a Hollywood star is murdered on location in Honolulu, Chan investigates, aided by the mysterious fortune teller Tarneverro.
Novel, 279 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1929)
Academy Chicago - 2009 - ISBN: 0897335856 / 9780897335850
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ID: #New003696
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Blackwell, Juliet
Witchcraft #1: Secondhand Spirits
When a client is murdered and children start disappearing from the San Francisco area, vintage clothing store owner Lily Ivory suspects that bad phantoms are behind it.
Novel, 313 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Busy opening her vintage clothing store in what was once the town's morgue, Madeira discovers an intruder snooping around a bunch of bones in a body drawer.
Novel, 276 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425229114 / 9780425229118
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ID: #New003555
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Bowen, Rhys
Royal Spyness #2: A Royal Pain
In 1930s London, Lady Georgiana - 34th in line to the throne - deals with a body in a bookshop and the princess' unwitting involvement with the Communist party.
Novel, 307 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 042522872X / 9780425228722
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Buchan, John
The Strange Adventures of Mr. Andrew Hawthorn and Other Stories
Eighteen short stories in which peculiar worlds of temptation, adventure, and iniquity are perilously close at hand.
Contents
A Captain of Salvation
A Journey of Little Profit
Politics and the May-Fly
Streams of Water in the South
The Watcher by the Threshold
Fountainblue
The Grove of Ashtaroth
Space
'Divus' Johnston
Basilissa
Fullcircle
The Loathly Opposite
Ship to Tarshish
Tendebant Manus
The Last Crusade
Sing a Song of Sixpence
The Wind in the Portico
The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn
Collection, 358 pages, Trade Paperback, 1st US Edition
A prominent London psychoanalyst uses his wealthy clients' case studies as material for his fiction writing; his decision to exploit a patient's breakdown causes his dark past to spin out of control.
When the police link her to a murder, Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair must rely on the members of the Sweet Briar, South Carolina, sewing circle to clear her name.
Novel, 280 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425229106 / 9780425229101
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Christopher, Paul (aka Hyde, Christopher)
John Holliday #1: The Sword of the Templars
When someone burns down his uncle's house in an attempt to retrieve a medieval sword, an Army Ranger realizes he's being drawn into a war that has been fought for centuries.
Novel, 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Signet - 2009 - ISBN: 0451227409 / 9780451227409
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ID: #New003224
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Cleverly, Barbara
Joe Sandilands #7: Folly du Jour
1926: An old friend of Joe's has been arrested for murder at the Folies-Bergere; a young usherette becomes Joe's guide through the treacherous world of the Paris Music Hall.
Novel, 318 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Delta - 2009 - ISBN: 0385341849 / 9780385341844
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Collins, Max Allan (writing as Culhane, Patrick)
Red Sky in Morning
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lieutenant Peter Maxwell volunteers for a dangerous mission on an ammunition ship, where he must deal with an untrained black crew, a prejudiced commander, and the murder of one of the white officers.
Novel, 271 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0060892560 / 9780060892562
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Connolly, Sheila (aka Atwell, Sarah)
Orchard #2: Rotten to the Core
Apple orchard owner Meg Corey must clear her name of murder after the discovery of a pesticide-poisoned body in her springhouse. Includes recipes.
Novel, 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425228762 / 9780425228760
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Connor, Beverly
Diane Fallon #7: Dust to Dust
A woman dies under suspicious circumstances; to prove a possible murder, forensic anthropologist and investigator Diane Fallon must root through the victim's family secrets - and the many skeletons in her closet.
Novel, 363 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
NYC medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton rush to India to help a UCLA student investigating medical tourism - and a sinister global conspiracy.
Novel, 507 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Berkley - 2009 - ISBN: 0425228959 / 9780425228951
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Cooper, Glenn
Will Piper #1: Secret of the Seventh Son (UK title: Library of the Dead)
Maverick FBI agent Will Piper's struggle to solve a serial killing leads him to a centuries-old secret that questions the existence of free will.
Novel, 393 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st US Edition
