"Mignon F. Ballard perfectly evokes the lives and surroundings of Southern women in small-town America, a sympathetic place that we would like to know and, for the moment at least, to live in. Murder in this context is more shocking, more threatening, than murder in the drug-choked streets of the Bronx.
"Molly Stonehouse, on a holiday visit to her late husband Ethan's aunts, suspects th...
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"Life held very little for Louise; drunken, vicious, middle-aged, she was soon to leave it. Charles Hilary found himself accused of his wife's murder, tried, convicted and sentenced to hang. A few hours before execution comes a development surprising as a bombshell."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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"Sir John Appleby, retired Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, thinks Martyn Ashmore, the lord of a neighboring manor, is suffering from senile delusions. Ashmore has accused Sir John of wanting to kill him. However, afrter a large stone block falls from a roof and the two men narrowly escape death, Sir John decides to look further.
He discovers that Ashmore lives with a terrible guilt -- his cracking under Nazi torture led to the massacre of many Resistance fighters -- and with a terrible threat -- each year on the anniversa...
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"It was a most embarrassing way for a policeman's father to die; garbed in gauzy spangled tights and dangling from his own Marquis de Sade strappado machine. It didn't matter that he had broken with the old boy years before. The murder at Harpenden House was sure to make Detective Inspector Perry Trethowan the laughingstock of the CID. So it was sheer torture for Perry to return to his ancestral home to investigate this unconvent...
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"Lew Deever, the greatest bank robber of them all, had eluded justice for twenty years. When young Inspector Beaton was sent to Lady's Holt to investigate a strange murder - there was a story of a grey hooded figure which had been seen in the house of a Mrs. Sylvia Temple - by some strange coincidence there seemed to be many of Deever's old acquaintances in the vicinity, all searching for the Tranter Steal - Deever's biggest haul - half a million...
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"It certainly seemed like an accident-though a rather bizarre one-when twelve-year-old David Fleming was killed falling into the hold of a ship on a school field trip. His father, John Fleming, came to the school prepared to charge it with negligence, but he wasn't prepared for the icy p...
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"It certainly seemed like an accident-though a rather bizarre one-when twelve-year-old David Fleming was killed falling into the hold of a ship on a school field trip. His father, John Fleming, came to the school prepared to charge it with negligence, but he wasn't prepared for the icy politeness or the atmosphere of fear the greeted him. With slowly building horror, John Fleming realizes there is something terribly wrong at Marristone Grange. Something the school is determined to hide. If Davi...
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"When Sir Peregrine Piers decided to open his stately home to the public, Regency Rakes Ltd was formed to promote it. Spectacular stunts were planned: a regency rout and hunting supper, and a midnight steeplechase. Nathaniel Goss, magazine publisher and amateur detective, took a lively interest in Regency Rakes, the more so as he had recently joined a shooting syndicate whose terrain bordered on Sir Peregrine's land. The syndicate is ...
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"In the history of Hope House, a home for working girls, nothing untoward had ever happened. The ladies of the home were very proper ladies, indeed. Then Ruth Miller mover in and a very few hours later was found limp, broken, and very dead in the courtyard. 'Fell or jumped,' was the comfortable verdict - until Mark East entered Hope House and found little signs that the police, on a routine investigation, hadn't thought to look for. Little things that added up to murder."; 6¾" - 7¾" T...
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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