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When the 10-year-old daughter of a female Member of Parliament is kidnapped, one of the terms of her release is that her father, editor of a sleazy tabloid, acknowledge his paternity. The MP won't call in the police because she knows the publicity will ruin her political career. A murder provides the link that brings Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers into the case, with devastating consequences. 519 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4".
In the Presence of the Enemy
George, Elizabeth
New York: Bantam Books, 1996.
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Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley has been called to investigate the deaths of Nicola Maiden, daughter of Lynley's former mentor, and London artist Terry Cole, who found near the Nine Sister Henge, a stone circle on Calder Moor. At first there doesn't seem to be a connection between Nicola and Terry, but before long, the investigation reveals that Nicola was a prostitute and Terry was her "card boy," distributing ads for her services. Lynley's sidekick in this investigation is Winston Nkata. Barbara Havers is in disgrace after events in George's previous novel, Deception on his Mind. However, Nkata asks Barbara to do the legwork in London, which she attacks with zeal. Illustrated endpapers.
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
George, Elizabeth
New York: Bantam Books, 1999.
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Ellie Haskell's life is going along swimmingly until her char turns up dead. The same fate overtakes her replacement, and then another. It becomes a veritable chain of char demises, and Ellie poses as a char herself to get to the bottom of this series of crimes. 275 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Cover design by Yan Nascimbene.
Spring Cleaning Murders
Cannell, Dorothy
New York: Viking Press, 1998.
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First Anchor Books Edition. This first book in the Sunday Philosophy Club series introduces Isabel Dalhousie, editor of "The Review of Applied Ethics."
The Sunday Philosophy Club
McCall Smith, Alexander
New York: Anchor Books, 2005.
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Ninth book in the Sergeant Bragg and Constable Morton series, set in 1890s London. An American named McCafferty travels to London, then disappears. Bragg and Morton search for the missing man, and encounter violence and revolutionaries along the way. 224 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Amy Bernstein.
Sphere of Death
Harrison, Ray
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
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First Trade edition. Owen Archer, formerly a bowman in the King's army, lost an eye in the wars, and has entered a new profession as investigator for John Thoresby, the Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of York. In The Cross-Legged Knight, William of Wykeham, a bishop and former Lord Chancellor, has been assaulted, and his house set afire. As Owen tries to protect William from further attempts, the body of a midwife is discovered among the charred remains of Williams house. What is the connection between the midwife and the bishop? 321 pp. 8" X 5".
The Cross-Legged Knight: An Owen Archer Mystery
Robb, Candace
New York: Mysterious Press, 2002.
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Robert Amiss takes over management of the political journal, The Wrangler, which has been steadily bankrupting its owner. The journal and its staff are stuck in the past, and Amiss must jump start it into the latter half of the 20th century. The process isn't smooth, however; soon after he arrives, two of the editors are found murdered. Amiss soldiers on, however, assisted, or rather pushed, by his mentor, the Baroness Troutbeck. A previous reader was so impressed with Edwards' vocabulary that she noted her favorite words on the flyleaf. 217 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2".
Publish & Be Murdered
Edwards, Ruth Dudley
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 1999.
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Retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton has become the unintentional favorite of Scotland Yard with her uncanny ability to "see" the essentials of crimes and then draw them. In Miss Seeton Undercover, the Plummergen Peculiar apple is about to be featured on a television food program. Meanwhile, Miss Seeton, in her typical inimitable style, breaks up an art and antiques theft ring. 267 pp. 8 1/2" X 6 3/4". Jacket painting by Jeffrey Adams.
Miss Seeton Undercover
Crane, Hamilton
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1994.
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Miss Maude Silver, a former governess, is now a private detective. In Ladies' Bane, she has been hired by Allegra Trent's godmother to investigate Allegra's husband, Geoffrey's, financial status. Miss Silver is more concerned, however, by the fact that Allegra seems to have been drugged, and that Geoffrey's ward, Margot, dies in what may not have been an accidental fall.
Ladies' Bane
Wentworth, Patricia
New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.
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Someone in the Colonial Office has been feeding secrets about Britain's African strategy to the Germans. Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt has been charged with finding the traitor. He believes the crime is linked to the death of his childhood mentor, Sir Arthur Desmond. 412 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket painting by Mitzura Salgian.
Traitors Gate
Perry, Anne
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995.
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A dozen and a half short stories by such authors as Nicholas Blake, Edmund Crispin, and Leslie Charteris, selected by Ellery Queen as representative examples of the evolution of the mystery in the decade of the 40s. 352 pp. 9 1/4" X 6".
Masterpieces of Mystery. The Forties. Selected by Ellery Queen
Queen, Ellery, compiler.
Davis Publications, 1978.
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Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Richard Jury's investigation into the death of a five-year-old child immerses him into the world of pedophiles. 407 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
The Winds of Change: A Richard Jury Mystery
Grimes, Martha
New York: Viking Press, 2004.
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The Tomb of Zeus introduces archaeologist Laetitia Talbot. It's 1928 when she travels to Crete to gain experience in the field by working with British archaeologist Theodore Russell in his quest to find the tomb of Zeus. Letty is soon digging for more than artifacts, however, when Russell's wife Phoebe is found dead. In 2004, Barbara Cleverly was awarded the Ellis Peters Award for Best Historical Novel for The Damascened Blade. 369 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". Cover design by Marietta Anastassatos.
The Tomb of Zeus
Cleverly, Barbara
New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2007.
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Richard Jury's friend Jenny Kennington, has been accused of murdering two women from a Lincolnshire estate. Jury asks his pal Melrose Plant to impersonate an antiques dealer and gather information, while Jury himself does some unofficial investigation on his own. What motive would Jenny have had for killing the two women? 370 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
The Case Has Altered
Grimes, Martha
New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
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Governess Rachel Penniston is uneasy in her new position at Talisman, on the coast of Cornwall. The arrival of a mysterious stranger exacerbates her unease. 204 pp. 8 3/8" X 5 1/2".
Web of Deception
Peart, Jane
Grand Rapids, MI: Fleming H. Revell, 1996.
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Third book in the series. British agent Philis is eager to transfer out of the "dirty business" branch of SR(2). His opportunity comes when he's assigned to be bodyguard to the beautiful Catherine Zafferelli. Philis thinks it likely that he's dealing with the Mafia, and his fears soon prove true. When Zaferelli is kidnapped, Philis soon finds himself dodging not only the Mafia, but also the FBI, who are interested in papers Zaferelli had been carrying.
Ticket to Ride
Perry, Ritchie
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
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Brown cloth over black boards. Seven short stories, chosen by the author. 275 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Rob Page.
The Best of Rumpole
Mortimer, John
New York: Viking Press, 1993.
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In 1989, Dick Francis won the British Crime Writer's Association Cartier Golden Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he's been racking up awards ever since. In 1996, he received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Grand Masters Lifetime Award, and Come to Grief won the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel. A former steeplechase jocky, Francis' mysteries all involve horses in some manner, but each has a slightly different twist. In Come to Grief, that twist finds ex-jockey Sid Halley trying to understand why a man who is well-respected in the horse world would harm the very creatures on which his life is based. 308 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4".
Come to Grief
Francis, Dick
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.
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The eighth outing for Dorothy Martin, an American woman living in the medieval town of Sherebury, England. When substituting as a teacher's aide in the local school, Dorothy becomes involved in another murder investigation, this time of a local pillar of the community. Was it the pillar's school teacher wife who did him in, or perhaps his 9 year old daughter? 254 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration Pamela Patrick White.
Sins Out of School: A Dorothy Martin Mystery
Dams, Jeanne M.
New York: Walker & Company, 2003.
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This anthology contains twenty stories ranging from classics by Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson to modern sleuths Jemima Shore and McLean of Scotland Yard. Other authors include Doug Allyn, Hugh B. Cave, Basil Copper, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Elizabeth Ferrars, Edward D. Hoch, James Hogg, P. M. Hubbard, Michael Innes, Christopher Johnston, Bill Knox, Ian Rankin, Rafael Sabatini, Catherine Sinclair, Guy N. Smith, and Peter Turnbull. 613 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Leah Lococo.
Murder Most Scottish
Dziemianowicz, Stefan, Bob Adey, Ed Gorman, and Martin H. Greenberg, selectors
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1999.
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