"Cornwell delivers a high-stakes Kay Scarpetta novel with an intrigue that will take Kay an ocean's length away from home. The nightmare begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway.
The autopsy performed by Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta initially reveals neither a cause of death nor an identification. But the victim's personal ef...
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"It's been a rainy week in LA, and among the tasks Mendoza and company face are tracing a couple who may have murdered their unwanted newborn infant, and investigating a possible case of husband-beating. There's a string of hit-and-run accidents in which the offending vehicle is a Model A Ford, and the peculiar case of a mugger who's as greedy for...
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"Head of the Bath murder squad, Peter Diamond isn’t exactly up to his elbows in bodies in the placid resort. He’s bored, a bit testy, and ready for an old-fashioned mystery. Alas, when one does come along it’s not in his division; it’s a half-million-dollar heist by a thief who first has sent a rhyming riddle to all the local radio stations. Diamond is ready to throw his weight around to help solve...
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"Antony Maitland, up-and-coming barrister, was used to waiting for James Winter, senior partner of Messrs. Ling, Curtis, Winter and Winter. But when he finally entered the revered gentleman's office he was quite unprepared for such an icy greeting. James Winter was slumped over his desk, staring blankly ahead, with a knife protruding from his back! So began the most difficult, most baffling, most terrifying courtroom battle-so far- of ...
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"What was so special about the book that was bound in blue? The best price it had ever fetched was £12 but many people suddenly seemed to think it was worth a lot more. They included a millionaire who wanted to die in peace, a bookseller who lived in poverty, an explorer who worshipped himself, and a clergyman with burnt feet. They all wanted a copy of the blue octavo very badly, and some of them died for it."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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"‘Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I killed a priest.’ Father Koesler is bound by the storied seal of the confessional. But is he? By odd coincidence, a new priest-in-residence, Father Nick Dunn, overhears the confession and Dunn, a product of the modern church, contests Father Koesler’s need for silence. To his further distress, Father Koesler discovers that Father Dunn has joined him in his rectory not only to study at the University of Det...
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'In Body of Evidence Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta must deal with a deranged killer who stalks and murders a noted historical novelist and then seems to be working back through the novelist's past . . . Scarpetta is much more than a female 'Quincy' and Cornwell is the perfect match for her." (Chicago Tribune); 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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"The party at the Manor had been a smash, and rock star Ken Cryer was feeling well pleased. . . until he found golden Alix Hamilton in his bed. Despite her seductive pose, Alix didn't fancy Ken, or anyone else. She was dead-shot twice, with two different guns, in a room Cryer had specifically locked against intruders. For Superintendent Robert Bone, these were only the first complications in a case that would include champagne corks that...
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"It is a golden evening of high summer. Walking a ridge on the Welsh Borders, Robin Timariot meets by chance an elegant middle-aged woman who seems strangely out of place. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable. A few days later, Timariot learns from the newspapers that, just hours after their meeting, the woman was raped and murdered.
"A man is swiftly charged and convicted of the crime, but a string of inexplicable events begins to convince T...
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"Shortly after Hollywood private eye Toby Peters receives a call from General Douglas A. MacArthur, he is whisked to the palatial military headquarters by Army escort. The general is planning a political career; his wartime successes have made him a popular enough figure to shoot for the U.S. presidency. But one of his aides has absconded with the money MacArthur had been planning to use to launch his campaign. . . as well as with papers that could destroy the general's plans to take and occupy the White House. Peters is helped i...
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Ellery Queen solves a mystery a month in this collection of twelve short story thrillers stretching from January, "The Inner Circle," to December, "The Dauphin's Doll." These stories originally appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine between 1946 and 1951.; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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After successfully writing a trio of science fiction detective novels in the 1950s, a straight detective story must have seemed much less complicated for Dr. Asimov. First appearing in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1971, the Black Widower's Club enjoyed popular...
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"When a double shooting leaves a woman dead and the town's sheriff badly wounded, Jolie finds herself trying to clear the prime suspect: her husband. But she may be too late to save her own neck as her sleuthing skills draw her ever closer to a killer."; Ex-Library; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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"An unpretentious country art exhibit turns into a frightening episode of theft, murder and blackmail in this classic puzzler set in an affluent English farming village. What is the secret Katharin Ridley is keeping from her granddaughter? And what does it have to do with the death of popular Francis Peck, the Heritage Trust caretaker at Fairlynch, former manor of the Ridleys? The Yard's Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Pollard and Inspector Toye are hard put to unravel the tangl...
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"An art history professor and writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. One day, he tood the hobby a step further and . . . well, one thing led to another, and he had to kill her. A man in his position couldn't be too careful, after all. And you know something? He liked it.
"Already faced w...
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"When hot shot Cleveland real estate attorney Joel Kerner Jr. Is killed on a Caribbean holiday, only his angry sister Patrice thinks it's more than a botched robbery. The island police have nothing and the Cleveland cops don't have the jurisdiction to track it down. So when burly P.I. Milan Jacovich is hired to swim through the mire, he's on his own."; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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"Twelve-year-old Emma Graham, the heroine of Hotel Paradise, continues her compelling inquiry into the suspicious drowning 40 years ago of another twelve-year-old in Spirit Lake, near the Hotel Paradise, the once-fashionable resort belonging to the Graham family. Emma Graham's quirky, mysterious story is spun out of old secrets and varnished truths. She is determined to find answers to the questions that surround not only the 'accidental' drowning, bu...
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"Crime doesn't respect the conventions of quiet English village life. When a young, successful bachelor is found stabbed to death, it's Inspector Kelsey's job to dovetail the slim leads and airtight alibis to ultimately uncover the missing pieces in this jigsaw puzzle suspense."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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