"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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"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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"A pretty young girl trapped in a town where murder waits around every corner."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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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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