"The New York police seize more than a million dollars tainted with heroin powder, implicating two elderly and distinguished Chinatown residents. Their case is rushed before the grand jury.
Susan Linwood and David Clark are strangers before being asked to serve in the name of justice. Yet as prosecutor Dan Mahoney presents the drug conspiracy case, they soon become completely absorbed with the proceedings -- and increasingly with each other.
As Mahoney struggles with facts that refuse to fit the crimes his superiors h...
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"Class war writ in blood colors the Rocksburg streets. . . A brutal regimen of down-sizing had shut down steel production and eliminated 2/3 of the factory's workforce-a policy enforced by steel magnate J.D. Lyons. If Lyons accomplished his business objectives, he has since paid the ultimate price. For J.D. Lyons has just been found in the trunk of his Jaguar, bent over a bag of golf clubs and sporting a small-caliber bullet wound at the base of his skull."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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"A hitherto lost journal of the indomitable Amelia Peabody has been miraculously recovered: a chronicle from one of the 'missing years' - 1907-1908 - shedding new light on an already exceptional career, a remarkable family ... And an unexpected te...
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An Inspector Roderick Alleyn mystery.
"Lady Banting had a talent for outrageious parties, but she never dreamed her treasure hunt would end in murder -- with a famous lawyer dead, his skull bashed in by a pipe.
Who planned this horrendous happening?
Inspector Alleyn probes the alibis of some elegant aristocrats -- for the hidden clue to a particularly deadly guest. "; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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"He's crossed the line no homicide cop ever should. He's involved with a suspect. Emotionally and physically. And it's something he knows is wrong. But that's nothing. She's got a whole list-a murdered husband, vicious threats, missing money, a missing will, the fear of losing everyone and everything she loves. . . Falling for the wrong man-that's damn far down the list. Until he arrests her for murder."; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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"The finger dropped by a common crow on a woodsy English footpath was most uncommonly missing a body. But a single digit was enough to tell Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan that something was rotten in the county of Calleshire. . . Something besides the dead man who lay unburied somewhere among the dewy green fields of British farmland. So while search teams scoured the area for the corpus delicti, Sloan we...
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"He was a wealthy man who'd enjoyed privacy all his life. He had it still: a private cell in the death house, a private knowledge of his innocence of murder, and a very private Doomsday, all his own. Then, with his execution only six days away, he hired a private detective to find the real killer. That was when trouble stopped being his personal property, and murder beca...
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"The townspeople would have said Larking, with its stone rectory and thatched farmhouses, was typical of a thousand other English villages. As it happened, this was true. And everyone in Larking thought they knew everything about everyone else. In that they found they were mistaken. . . especially the morning the postman found Grace Jenkins murdered. She had lived quietly at Boundary Cottage for twenty-one years, but there was a great deal about Grace the townspeople didn't know. And Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan soon discovered they...
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"The townspeople would have said Larking, with its stone rectory and thatched farmhouses, was typical of a thousand other English villages. As it happened, this was true. And everyone in Larking thought they knew everything about everyone else. In that they found they were mistaken. . . especially the morning the postman found Grace Jenkins murdered. She had lived quietly at Boundary Cottage for tw...
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"Down on his luck, yachtsman Mike Conway agrees to sail to Heureuse, an island in the Indian Ocean a thousand miles from the nearest land, and rescue a Middle-Eastern revolutionary leader interned by the British."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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"Down on his luck, yachtsman Mike Conway agrees to sail to Heureuse, an island in the Indian Ocean a thousand miles from the nearest land, and rescue a Middle-Eastern revolutionary leader interned by the British."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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"Gwenda was beautiful and pregnant. Susan was beautiful and rich. Alan was engaged to marry both. When he decided he'd rather be rich than a father, he was faced with a dilemma. How could he get off the hook with Gwenda-who would make a fuss-without losing Susan, who would be furious if she found out. Murder was one possible solution, but it might not work. Then Alan came up with a better scheme-a p...
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"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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"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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"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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"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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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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"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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"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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"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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