"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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"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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"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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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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"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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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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"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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"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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"Project Community was supposed to be an occasion for good will: a police-sponsored exhibition of the handiworks of Glasgow’s hobby clubs. But as Sergeant Francey Lang discovered when he was "inspecting" the vast model train layout, someone had used it as an occasion for murder. The victim was a used-car dealer, of considerably less than savory reputation, who seemed to devote most of...
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Ry Slaight was a West Point cadet with everything going for him. The respect of his peers. A future military career with no limits. And a passionate love for Irit Dov, an Israeli woman with her own successful New York business.
But when a body was found floating in Lake Popolopen at the beginning of June Week, and the academy's official statements were startlingly at odds with what Slaight knew to be true, he was faced with the dilemma of his life.
Ry Slaight became obsessed with uncovering the truth. With Irit's help and the aid of a few truste...
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"That morning, Beulah bought the weapon. Before supper, she had spit out her hatred for the victim in poisonout - and public - words. And at the party, she was the last to see him alive.
"They found him slumped in a chair - his handsome head lo...
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"It's the 20th anniversary of TV's most popular soap, 'The Turning Seasons.' The celebration is in full swing at New York's posh Tavern on the Green when lovely young actress Terri Triano is murdered. She was the winner of a nationwide contest for a coveted new role on the show, and naturally suspicion falls on the first runner-up, also present at the banquet. Nina McFall, never content with the obvious solution, plays amateur sleuth while Detective Lieutenant Dino Rossi and his squad pursue...
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"The rather odd couple who appear on Jane da Silva's doorstep are either magazine salespeople-or the answer to her prayer for another hopeless case. It turns out that the bookish man and nervous young woman are worried that Irene March, their co-worker at a news clipping service, has met with foul play. They explain that Irene began acting 'stresses' after she became a contestant on Jeopardy!-and won. The mousy spinster had turned in...
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Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. A bright, attractive copy. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 310 pages; "She’s had enough. Stephanie Plum has finally quit bounty hunting and is in the market for a new job. Preferably one which doesn’t involve being shot at, blown up or kidnapped.
The trouble is, she can’t stop wondering about the missing men who all disappeared, without a trace, on the same day. And her super-hot mentor Ranger is making her an offer she can’t refuse. And someone is trying to kill her. It’s starting to se...
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Lancer # 73-814 appears to be a 1969 reprint of the 1966 paperback original.
"One mad killer. . . Jack the Ripper, the most depraved murderer the world has ever known. Two great detectives. . . Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes, match wits in a unique duel to solve a baffling mystery."
"presented with the full approval of the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is a legitimate addition to ...
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"It was a neat little murder, thought Inspector Hemingway - and quite the strangest of his career. For while the houseguests traded insults around the wassail bowl downstairs, the host lay in his bedroom stabbed to death.
"At least four guests would have cheerfully done the old boy in, it seemed. But how? Hemingway was damned if he knew. For there was no blood, no weapon, and...
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The first Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower mystery. "American anthropologist Penelope Spring and British archeologist Tobias Glendower are traveling in the Mediterranean. One day in a Greek amphitheatre, Penny comes upon the corpse of a beautiful young movie actress. And Toby discovers a body there too, that of a black actor decked out as a Roman gladiator. Investigating among the cast and crew filming 'The Travels of Telemachus,' they encounter enough plausible suspects to confound themselves and the Turkish police. At...
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"Tony Villiers was the hardest, most ruthless man Gabrielle had ever fallen in love with. That is why she had married him. Why she had divorced him. And why she was horrified to learn that she would be working with him again by order of British Intelligence.
Raul Montera was the handsomest, most gallant man Gabrielle had ever mete. That was why she would have gone to bed with him even had she not been under orders to do so. Why she was filled with joy at his all-consuming love f...
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"Nina McFall can't wait to take a long-overdue vacation from the pressures - and dangers - of 'The Turning Seasons' set. The rambling old farmhouse she's rented in upstate New York seems the ideal spot for a long, peaceful rest. With her friend Robin Tally to keep her company, and the prospect of a visit from Nina's lover, police detective Dino Rossi, what could possibly go wrong? As it turns out, plenty. Nina soon finds out that ten years ago, the beautiful young woman who lived in...
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