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By: McCrumb, Sharyn
Price: $3.45
Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 1991
Seller ID: 005268
ISBN: 0345360362
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"Elizabeth MacPherson gets the chance to revel in the rites of the old country at the annual Glencoe Mountain Games, the Scottish festival where several hundred like-minded Americans celebrate their ancestors' folkways. But the innocent ethnic fair is cursed when the loathed Colin Campbell is found murdered. The deceased was so universally disliked that it's difficult to distinguish the doers from the want-to-doers. Then a second murder silences e...
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By: Boyle, Gerry
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Berkley Prime Crime: 2004
Seller ID: 006586
ISBN: 0425196119
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
"Reporter Jack McMorrow befriends a runaway teen, but no sooner do his mother and stepfather try to retrieve him than the terrified stray vanishes again. When the boy's mother is murdered, Jack has no choice but to investigate the heart of a dark and deadly family secret . . . "; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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By: Garve, Andrew
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, Penguin: 1978
Seller ID: 003828
ISBN: 0140047417
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"The whispering voice on the telephone had reported a corpse. And, indeed, the police found Max Ryland, film star and womanizer, pinned to his floor with a knife. Suspects abound; and first among them is Walter Haines, for the irresistible Ryland had stolen, then abandoned, Haines's beloved wife. A highly successful writer of detective fiction, Haines now confesses to the crime - but is he, or is he not, telling the truth?"; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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By: Garve, Andrew
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, Penguin: 1978
Seller ID: 003829
ISBN: 0140047417
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"The whispering voice on the telephone had reported a corpse. And, indeed, the police found Max Ryland, film star and womanizer, pinned to his floor with a knife. Suspects abound; and first among them is Walter Haines, for the irresistible Ryland had stolen, then abandoned, Haines's beloved wife. A highly successful writer of detective fiction, Haines now confesses to the crime - but is he, or is he not, telling the truth?"; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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By: Cornwell, Patricia Daniels
Price: $3.75
Publisher: New York, Berkley Publishing Group: 1998
Seller ID: 000489
ISBN: 042516098x
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Fine
Violence is swarming in Charlotte, and Deputy Chief Virginia West has a mood to match. Another out-of-town businessman has been found murdered, a wise-ass detective has taken her parking slot, and her boss orders her to escort a young reporter (gung ho for the police) on patrol. Patricia Cornwell steps away from Kay Scarpetta with this novel, adding humor to the action, but never loses her sure sense of empathy for the extraordinary and intriguing new characters she has created.; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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By: Dolph, Jack
Price: $8.25
Publisher: New York, Lawrence E. Spivak: 1951
Seller ID: 004298
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Good
"The lean little dead man on the rubbing table was still warm when I got there. I took one look and refused to sign a medical certificate - my friend Johnny Mallo, the greatest jockey of them al...
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Price: $14.35
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1996
Seller ID: 004541
ISBN: 0060175125
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
"Albuquerque lawyer/sleuth Neil Hamel faces one of humanity's most primal foes --- fire --- when she investigates the death by flames of an elite firefighter in the Colorado wilderness. It is high summer and the Southwest is tinderbox dry when Neil is approached by the parents of Joni Barker, a "hotshot" (as wildland firefighters are known) who was killed in a highly publicized blaze that threatened several expensive hom...
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By: Dewey, Thomas B.
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 1963
Seller ID: 004081
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"Who stuck the pocketknife in Dickie boy's heart?
"Cathy, his wife, on whom he had cheated for fifteen years?
"Ziggy Paul, a fashion photographer who specialized in nudes and blackmail?
"Donald Clarkson, a Washington official who would stop at nothing to preserve his reputation?
"Helen Bachrach, a luscious widow who played dangerous games?
"Dr. Mike Monroe, whose prescriptions included threa...
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By: Grimes, Martha
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing: 1990
Seller ID: 006304
ISBN: 0440139244
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good-
"Not far from a fashionable Mayfair pub called I Am the Only Running Footman lies the body of a blond shopgirl. She has been strangled with her own scarf - a fact that reminds Scotland Yard's Richard Jury of an unsolved murder in Devon, where the irascible local constable Brian Macalvie presides. Macalvie is convinced the two deaths are connected. Jury has nothing to tie them together but the fatal scarves. . . until he visits the stately home of his only suspect. And there, amid marble h...
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By: Rydell, Forbes
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Popular Library: 1964
Seller ID: 006273
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good+
"A pretty young girl trapped in a town where murder waits around every corner."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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Price: $13.50
Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1999
Seller ID: 007012
ISBN: 0553102354
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
"Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped . . . lost . . . injured . . . when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge . . . a young man and woman. Each met death in a different fashion. Each died violently.
"To Detective Inspector Thomas L...
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By: Cecil, Henry
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Chicago, Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited: 1989
Seller ID: 004493
ISBN: 089733325x
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Fine
"When a motorcyclist hits his car broadside, Michael Barnes, Member of Parliament, leaves the scene of the accident. Later on, he has second thoughts about what he id and he reports the incident to the police. Although Barnes was innocent of any wrongdoing in the actual cause of the accident, he is prosecuted. Worse yet, many observers who had been in the vicinity of the mishap are prepared to testify against him. All the action in this superb 'trial procedural' takes place inside the courtroom. In a series of cross-examinations, lawyers attempt t...
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By: Aird, Catherine
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, MacMillan: 1994
Seller ID: 9172
ISBN: 0333625897
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
"Who poisoned Anna Macmillan with a deadly dose of antimony? What caused the temperature of a health club sauna to rise so dramatically that its occupant was dead withing minutes? Where are the priceless pearls which vanished during a country house weekend and how was the code to an eminent scientist's high-tech alarm system brok...
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By: James, P. D.
Price: $6.50
Publisher: New York, Charles Scibner's Sons: 1980
Seller ID: 001310
ISBN: 0684165910
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
"Innocent Blood is a novel that goes far beyond the bounds of the mystery story to explore the themes of the growth of love and the search for identity. Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, exercises her legal right to apply for a copy of her birth certificate when she becomes eighteen. Although she has always had a fantasy of being the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father and no...
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Price: $5.75
Publisher: Chicago, IL, Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited: 1985
Seller ID: 001558
ISBN: 0897331796
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good+
"The Indian police inspector is sent to attend an international conference on drug smuggling; and in cold, drizzling London he is faced with his first case outside India. The girl, Ranee, niece of relatives of Ghote who live in London, has vanished-seduced, kidnapped, murdered, so her relatives allege, by the notorious pop singer Johnny Bull. Ghote is hounded by the relatives into spending his few leisure hours from ...
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By: Porter, Joyce
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Woodstock, Vermont, Foul Play Press: 1992
Seller ID: 005460
ISBN: 0881502332
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Eighth in the Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover series.
"This time, Scotland Yard sends Detective Chief Inspector Dover and his woeful assistant MacGregor off on the Stately Home circuit to look into murder. Since Lord Crouch, master of Beltour, can hardly make ends meet despite the hoards of tourists visiting the manor, his hospitality is meager - though his vegetarian sister, Lady Priscilla, would love to cook for Dover. ...
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By: Moyes, Patricia
Price: $5.95
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston: 1966
Seller ID: 002291
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair in Good dust jacket
"Chief Detective Inspector Henry Tibbett of England's C.I.D. finds himself in a desperate and shocking situation. His wife, Emmy, is the prime murder suspect when the body of one of her old friends is found by the police."; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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By: Maxwell, A. E.
Price: $7.95
Publisher: New York, Doubleday Publishing: 1988
Seller ID: 002571
ISBN: 0385237138
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
"Sexy, savvy private eye Fidler knows the US/Mexican border better than the Border Patrol. He cut his teeth down there while learning the smuggler’s trade from his late, unlamented Uncle Jake. So when Special Agent Aaron Sharp, the man who once saved Fiddler’s life, is executed in Mexico, Fiddler heads south to ask some unpopular questions. An encounter with a sniper convinces Fiddler that he is target number 2 in the ancient game of murder-for-profit. But whose...
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By: Myers, Tamar
Price: $3.95
Publisher: New York, Signet: 1997
Seller ID: 005284
ISBN: 0451192931
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Condition: Good
"A twenty-year-old barrel of genuine Pennsylvania Dutch sauerkraut isn't Magdalena Yoder's idea of a great wedding present from her future father-in-law. Especially when it has a corpse in it. And it sure puts Mennonite-born Magdalena, owner of the picturesque PennDutch Inn, in a pickle. She has just one week before she ties the knot with the man of her dreams -and this bride of forty-four will allow nothing to delay her nuptials, even murder. Of course, Magd...
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Price: $14.75
Publisher: New York, Saint Martin's Press, LLC: 1989
Seller ID: 001174
ISBN: 0312038542
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Signed by author on title page.
"When Isaiah Justice, owner and publisher of 'The Defender,' a small-town newspaper, dies of cyanide poisoning, his death makes the front page of his own paper and becomes the focus of an investigation by the paper's top reporters, Howard Justice, the Old Man's son, and Leeroy Hicks, who comes from humbler origins.
Then 'The Defender's' major stockholders receive a takeover bid from the gemtrex Group, a large, shady corporation that had been trying to buy out the Old Man when he was conveniently murdered. Did ...
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