Results for: American Mysteries


284 pp. 8 1/8" X 5 3/8".
A Red Death
Mosley, Walter
New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
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Signed by the author on title page. National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is now at Mesa Verde National Park, battling grief for her husband and a penchant for alcohol in her personal life. Her job has its problems, too. A fellow ranger dies after the death of a child. Suicide or murder? Then the husband of another park employee dies in a car wreck that may not be an accident. Anna and FBI agent Fred Stanton work together to find out what's really going on. 309 pp. 8 3/4" X 6". Jacket design and illustration by Honi Werner.
Ill Wind
Barr, Nevada
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.
Price: $40.00
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Introducing Cat Marsala. Signed by the author on the title page. D'Amato has won both the Anthony Award and the Agatha Awards. In Hardball, Chicago freelancer Cat Marsala is attending a symposium at the University of Chicago when a bomb explodes. Cat survives, but the woman sitting next to her, Louise Sugarman, an elderly woman activist, doesn't. Cat sets out to determine if Louise was the target of the bomb, and if so, why. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Michael Garland.
Hardball
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Scribners, 1990.
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Signed by author on title page. Author's first novel, which introduces C. J. Floyd, Denver bail bondsman and bounty hunter. He's been hired to look for Brenda Mathison, the daughter of a judge. The girl's involved with a group of animal rights activists who are packing a virus that could wipe out the cattle industry. Before that happens, Brenda winds up dead, and Floyd starts tracking her killer. 336 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Ken Joudrey.
The Devil's Hatband
Greer, Robert O.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1996.
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Signed and dated on title page. A small girl is left alone in the LAX airport when the woman she travelled with is killed in a shooting. The Immigration and Naturalization Service removes her from the airport in the course of the investigation into the death of the woman and two other people. LA Times reporter Eve Diamond wants to know who the little girl is, and why INS has taken custody of her. She also wants to know who the dead woman was, and why the woman's husband is missing. In her search for answers, Eve's own life is threatened. 357 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Henry Sene Yee.
Last Lullaby
Hamilton, Denise
New York: Scribners, 2004.
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A woman has drowned in Eastport, Massachussets, and Chief of Police Dan Burke enlists the aid of Brother Bartholomew of Faith Abbey. Complicating the investigating is the disappearance of $10 million in diamonds known to have been in the possession of the woman before she died. Signed by author on title page. 314 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 5/8".
A Matter of Diamonds: A Faith Abbey Mystery
Manuel, David
Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2000.
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Signed. Winner of the 1991 Agatha Award for Best Novel and the 1992 Macavity Award for Best Mystery. Jenny Cain, of Port Frederick, Massachusetts, has just buried her mother. Jenny has also learned that her mother's mental collapse and admission to a mental institution happened at the same time the family business failed. Determined to uncover the truth behind both family crises, Jenny is met by a wall of silence, and an attempt on her own life. 234 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/4". Jacket illustration by Daniel Craig.
I.O.U.
Pickard, Nancy
New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
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PI Carlotta Carlyle investigates a series of attacks on Boston cabbies. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Ray Santora.
Hardware
Barnes, Linda
New York: Delacorte Press, 1995.
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Written by champion American jockey Bill Shoemaker, this is the second novel featuring Coley Killibrew, jockey and amateur sleuth. This time, Coley assists his restaurant business partner, Johnny Rousseau, by checking out Johnny's girlfriend, Paula Dresner. Paula's delaying marriage plans, and Johnny wants to know why. As Coley investigates, he discovers that Paula's lined to some very shady people. Just how much trouble is the girl in? 298 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/4". Jacket illustration by Jeff Walker.
Fire Horse
Shoemaker, Bill
New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1995.
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Wealthy philanthropist and newspaper columnist Jim Qwilleran has temporarily moved into the Gage Mansion. Koko sets off to explore, and selects an eclectic collection of items from the overstuffed closets in the house. Is there a connection between Koko's trinkets and the deaths of Euphonia Gage and her housekeeper? 235 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket design and illustration by Jill Bauman.
The Cat Who Went Into the Closet
Braun, Lilian Jackson
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1993.
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This thriller really is about rocket science--the space race between the Americans and the Russians in 1958. Scientist Claude Lucas uncovers a plot by the Russians to destroy Explorer 1, set to launch from Cape Canaveral. Key to plot is a group of Lucas' friends from his Harvard days, all of whom are or have been involved in espionage. Lucas needs to figure out which of his friends might be the traitor. 358 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Richard Hasselberger.
Code to Zero
Follett, Ken
New York: Dutton, 2000.
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Jenny McPartland, a divorced mother of two girls, marries the man of her dreams. Or so she thinks. After their marriage, her new husband, artist Erich Krueger, takes Jenny and her girls to his home in Minnesota. Living in the elegant mansion is exciting at first, but it soon turns into a terrifying prison. Jenny must unravel the house's history to save her life and that of her children. This is the book on which the movie of the same name was based. 317 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket painting and design by Wendell Minor.
A Cry in the Night
Clark, Mary Higgins
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
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Dirk Pitt returns to take on the descendants of Genghis Kahn in an adventure that ranges from Siberia to Mongolia. Maps on end papers. Cussler has been honored by the International Thriller Writers with the Thrillermaster Award. 552 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket illustration by Craig White.
Treasure of the Khan
Cussler, Clive and Dirk Cussler
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006.
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After the death of his children in a car accident, attorney Marcus Glenwood leaves his law firm and moves to rural North Carolina. There, he is asked to assist a couple whose daughter Gloria disappeared while investigating human rights abuses in a Chinese factory owned by the American company New Horizons. When Marcus probes the company's operations, he finds nothing but greed and lies. But Marcus perseveres, relentless in his search for Gloria, and the truth. 392 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket illustration by Debra Lill.
The Great Divide
Bunn, T. Davis
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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First Putnam hardcover edition of the book that kicked off Lilian Braun's "The Cat Who . . ." series. The novel was originally published in 1966. Big-city reporter Jim Qwilleran is back on the beat, but he's not investigating serious crimes any more. Beggars can't be choosers, and the only job he can get after a double-whammy of divorce and alcoholism, is an assignment as a feature-writer on the Daily Fluxion. All is not lost, however: the features editor turns out to be Qwill's old friend Arch Riker. And an article on the local arts scene isn't the fluff piece Qwill feared. His investigative powers are soon called into play when one of the artists is found murdered. 216 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket design and illustration by Walter Harper.
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Braun, Lilian Jackson
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997.
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Just two months after California Fidelity paid a half million dollars on a life insurance policy, the man who had presumably died five years before is spotted in a bar. Is he truly dead, or was his disappearance yet another of his shady schemes? Kinsey Millhone investigates. 288 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.
"J" is for Judgment
Grafton, Sue
New York: Henry Holt, 1993.
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Charlotte MacLeod has been awarded the Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement. The Resurrection Man is an art restorer who steals paintings from his clients after he's restored them. Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn are on his trail. 250 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Mark Hess.
The Resurrection Man
MacLeod, Charlotte
New York: Mysterious Press, 1992.
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Roswell doesn't have a monopoly on UFOs--they've now been sighted in Moose County. Columnist Jim Qwilleran had hoped to have a quiet summer at his cottage, but the UFOs and a dead backpacker on the beach are a strong indication that those hopes won't be realized. 227 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket design and illustration by Walter Harper.
The Cat Who Saw Stars
Braun, Lilian Jackson
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1998.
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The Nutcracker Inn is reputed to be haunted, and Jim Qwilleran has offered to do some ghost-busting, along with his Siamese cats Koko and Yum-Yum. Qwill fills in the time between ghosts by gathering local stories for his book, Long and Short Tales. 226 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket design and illustration by Walter Harper.
The Cat Who Went Up the Creek
Braun, Lilian Jackson
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.
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Author's first book. Christopher Reich's years of experience in the Swiss banking industry lends verisimilitude to this novel set in Zurich. Nicholas Neuman is a former marine and Harvard MBA. He leaves his job on Wall Street to take a position with the Swiss bank for which his father was working at the time of his death seventeen years before. Nick finds evidence that the bank was implicated in his father's death, and is determine to find who was responsible. This proves difficult, until another banker has a nervous breakdown, a second defects to another bank, and a third dies. 485 pp. Jacket design by Craig DeCamps.
Numbered Account
Reich, Christopher
New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.
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