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By: James, P. D.
Price: $4.00
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 2002
Seller ID: 005623
ISBN: 0345446666
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good
"On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boy's influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dalgliesh, the son of a parson, once spent happy summers at the school. A detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery, Dalgliesh is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in a remote, rarified community of the fa...
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By: James, P. D.
Price: $9.90
Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 2001
Seller ID: 005708
ISBN: 0345446666
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket
"On the East Anglican seacoast a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. Then, the body of a student is found buried in the sand, and the boy's influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Adam Dalgliesh, the son of a parson, once spent happy summers at the school. A detective who loves p...
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By: Heyer, Georgette
Price: $5.95
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1980
Seller ID: 007792
ISBN: 055314085X
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good
"A moonlight night. A sleeping village. And a corpse in evening dress - locked in the stocks on the green. So opens another superb Georgette Heyer murder story in which Superintendent Hannasyde sets out on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his phenomenal powers of detection are tested to their limit."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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By: Shannon, Dell
Price: $6.95
Publisher: New York, NY, Mystery Guild: 1988
Seller ID: 001978
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
"Margaret Chadwick seemed to have everything-good looks, more money than she knew what to do with, and a pedigree to rival a princess. Margaret, however, had one serious flaw: she was a chronic do-gooder who insisted on prying too deeply into the lives of the 'unfortunates.' She was such a malicious busybody that hardly a tear was shed when her body was found in the freight yards-neatly strangled and minus a single sl...
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By: Beaton, M. C.
Price: $5.50
Publisher: New York, Ivy Books: 1988
Seller ID: 006019
ISBN: 0804102252
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, the whole town is delighted, save perhaps for love-smitten bobby Hamish Macbeth. But the morning after a tastefully posh engagement party, one of the guests, Captain Bartlett - who so enraged everyone with his boorish behavior and caddish comments - has the bad manners to be murdered on a grouse hunt. Unfortunately, the prime suspects are the titled...
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By: Fulton, Eileen
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Ivy Books: 1988
Seller ID: 008053
ISBN: 0804101965
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good
"TV soap star Nina McFall receives a terrible shock when she visits her old friend, actress May Minton, and finds her dead. May had won a juicy role on 'The Turning Seasons' over several others who desperately wanted the part. Was one of them desperate enough to kill? While Detective Lieutenant Dino Rossi and his men investigate the case, Nina does some snooping on her own. She's determined to discover whodunit if it's the last thing she ever does - and it looks as if it ...
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By: James, P. D.
Price: $3.33
Publisher: New York, Popular Library: 1977
Seller ID: 001332
ISBN: 0445043016
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good
"On the surface, Dr. Lorrimer was the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body was discovered and his secret past dissected die this image begin to change. And once again Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh learned that there was more to human beings than met the eye. . . and more to solving a murder than the obvious clues."; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall
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By: Beaton, M. C.
Price: $6.25
Publisher: New York, Ivy Books: 1990
Seller ID: 006018
ISBN: 0804104875
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"Nobody in the Scottish town of Cnothan had liked the abrasive Englishman, and mow that he has been murdered - in a most original fashion - nobody much minds. Constable Hamish Macbeth's hard luck is that he happens to be on temporary duty in this cloistered Highlands village when the killer strikes. And he has his work cut out for him, dragging from Mainwaring's close-mouthed neighbors enough facts to start solving this peculiar case. B...
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By: Innes, Michael
Price: $4.25
Publisher: New York, NY, Perennial Library: 1983
Seller ID: 001565
ISBN: 006080677X
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good+
"Student David Henchman decides to spend a quiet day in the country to escape from his boisterous class mate tormentors but gets more than he bargains for when he comes across a man with a bullet hole in his head. So begins a tale of frenzied pursuit featuring a disappearing corpse, a mad race from a killer on the moots, a panicky girl, a flight by automobile, and an ivy-covered tower that contains the secret of death on a quiet day."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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By: Clark, Mary Higgins; Clark, Carol Higgins
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2000
Seller ID: 002046
ISBN: 0743212002
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
"Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, have joined forces for the first time to create a brilliant and exciting story of high-stakes intrigue and detection in a kidnapping played out against a holiday setting."
When her father is kidnapped and held for ransom three days before Christmas, Regan Reilly, a dynamic young sleuth, joins forces with Alvirah Meehan, famous lottery winner and amateur detective, to find him before time runs out.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Price: $3.25
Publisher: New York, NY, Warner Books, Incorporated: 1993
Seller ID: 000733
ISBN: 0446364703
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good
"The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's, England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would love to solve, but a prior commitment puts her on a transatlantic cruise.
She shouldn't have fretted. The clues to the crime are following her on the Queen Guinevere. Here, on a ship awash with secret lovers, a fortune hunter, a jewel thief and an assassin, Regan is sailing home -- and in...
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Price: $3.25
Publisher: New York, NY, Warner Books, Incorporated: 1993
Seller ID: 001422
ISBN: 0446364703
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good
"The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's, England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would love to solve, but a prior commitment puts her on a transatlantic cruise.
She shouldn't have fretted. The clues to the crime are following her on the Queen Guinevere. Here, on a ship awash with secret lovers, a fortune hunter, a jewel thief and an assassin, Regan is sailing h...
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By: McInerny, Ralph
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, NY, St. Martin's Press: 1992
Seller ID: 001966
ISBN: 0312081774
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
"A former Las Vegas showgirl named Stacey Wilson is jailed for the murder of her husband, Marvin, a rich playboy whose marriage to the showgirl was a local scandal. Stacey staunchly claims innocence; despite a life sentence, she refuses to disclose her whereabouts on the murder day. While the police see the case as closed, Father Dowling, uncomfortable with the verdict, privately seeks the truth. Sin, innocence, and their linked consequences are played out by a varied cast of cha...
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By: Coomes, David
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Oxford, Lion Publishing: 1992
Seller ID: 003747
ISBN: 0745919227
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
"Known to millions as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and the bestselling author of a dozen detective novels, Dorothy Leigh Sayers was in reality a complex woman-moved, she said, by a 'careless rage for life'. The elusive mystery of the real person behind the public figure makes Sayers an attractive choice for the biographer. It is her own distinctive voice, the fact that she is allowed to speak for herself through extensive quotation from...
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By: Queen, Ellery
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Co: 1950
Seller ID: 005840
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good in Poor dust jacket
"Ellery has never had a more bewitching client than Miss Rima Anderson, who recalls him to Wrightsville. A series of newspaper clippings, sent anonymously, have half-prepared him for Rima's visit, but upon his arrival for 0n-the-spot investigation, he comes up against the most puzzling set of clues in his career: a heart attack, a suicide, a disappearance over a cliff, all quite natural - perhaps - ...
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By: Porter, Joyce
Price: $5.50
Publisher: Woodstock, Vermont, Foul Play Press: 1992
Seller ID: 005461
ISBN: 0881502456
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
Ninth in the Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover series.
"Fans of Scotland Yard's least competent detective take note: here for the first time in paperback in the United States is a surprising departure from the series - and the first to depart is none other than Dover himself. When the doubtful detective suddenly vanishes from Scotland Yar...
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By: Porter, Joyce
Price: $4.75
Publisher: London, Pan Books: 1966
Seller ID: 005458
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"Dover One" is not only the first in the Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover series, it was Joyce Porter's first publshed book.
"Dover is Chief Inspector, moody, lazy, dyspeptic. In company with his Sergeant, a keen boy and a slick dresser, he investigates the disappearance of a sixteen-stone teenage nymphomaniac….The general tone is bawdy, , a...
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By: Porter, Joyce
Price: $4.50
Publisher: Woodstock, Vermont, Foul Play Press: 1991
Seller ID: 005459
ISBN: 0881502111
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good-
Sixth in the Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover series.
"Sully Martin had probably been a picturesque English village before the earthquake nearly destroyed it. And construction tycoon Walter Chantry might have been taken for another of the many casualties if it hadn't come out that he had been strangled. This time Dover is in for much more than his usual share of bother. For a start, the town's only hotel...
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By: McBain, Ed
Price: $4.00
Publisher: New York, NY, Morrow/Avon: 1993
Seller ID: 001151
ISBN: 0380707616
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good
"It's Christmas Eve -- and Florida orange grower Michael Barnes is in the Big Apple with a couple of hours to kill.
In no time at all, he's scammed by a shady blonde and robbed by a bogus policeman. His rental car is stolen by a "good Samaritan." And he's being framed for the murder of a slimy, two-bit movie producer.
Now he's running from the mob, the cops and a hired killer. And a beautiful Oriental bombshell in a white limo is taking him for the ride of his life - showing Barnes a sleazy side of "Fun City" he never d...
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Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus Giroux: 1977
Seller ID: 9176
ISBN: 0374318689
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
"A stolen heirloom painting - a shipboard murder. Can Simon and the O'Keefe clan unravel the mystery? Poly and Charles O'Keefe have no idea when they board the M.S Orion headed for Venezuela t...
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