Results for: British Mysteries


Long Piddleton antiques dealer Marshall Trueblood is has acquired a secretaire--and a corpse, something he hadn't paid for, and definitely doesn't want. Detective Superintendent Richard Jury has acquired a corpse near Wapping Old Stairs in London. The two crimes were discoverd miles apart, but Jury thinks they may be connected. 299 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Timothy Weekly.
The Five Bells and Bladebone
Grimes, Martha
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1987.
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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 in 2000, the Malice Domestic Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement. A former steeplechase jockey, Francis' mysteries all involve horses in some manner, but each has a slightly different twist. In To the Hilt, artist Alexander Kinloch must leave his quiet existence on a Scottish mountain to assist his ailing stepfather. The family's brewery, racehorse, and sponsorship of the King Alfred Cup are under assault from multiple directions.
To the Hilt
Francis, Dick
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
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Fifth in the Sergeant Verity series. Sergeant William Clarence Verity is in Brighton this time, investigating the theft of the Shah Jehan clasp, an extremely valuable piece of jewelry. He thinks the case is well in hand, until his wife vanishes. What is the link between the theft and his wife's disappearance? 275 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". Jacket illustration by Jenny Thorne.
Sergeant Verity and the Swell Mob
Selwyn, Francis
New York: Stein and Day, 1981.
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Signed by author on title page. Frances Fyfield's novel, Blood From a Stone, won the 2008 Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for best Crime Novel, and she has been nominated for or won many other awards for her mystery series. In Shadow Play, Crown Prosecutor Helen West has just lost again in putting away Mr. Logo, a suspected child molester. It is known that Mr. Logo lures young women into dark places. What isn't known is that he is searching for his daughter, who ran away from home to escape the abuse at his hands. Nor does Helen West know that the missing daughter is none other than Rose, a clerk in West's office. What events will lead to the collision of these three lives? 208 pp. 9" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Marjorie Anderson.
Shadow Play
Fyfield, Frances
New York: Pantheon, 1993.
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The author's first novel. An elderly man asks Father Anselm for asylum in Larkwood Priory in England. Father Anselm later learns that the man is Eduard Schwermann, a former Nazi. Agnes Aubret lived in occupied Paris during World War II, part of a group that smuggled Jewish children to safety until the group was exposed--by Eduard Schwermann. When she learns that Schwermann is still alive, Agnes confides her past to her granddaughter Lucy. Lucy and Father Anselm each try to understand what happened more than fifty years before. 387 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 3/8". Jacket design by Paul Buckley.
The 6th Lamentation
Brodrick, William
New York: Viking Press, 2003.
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On the Channel Island of Guernsey, American China River is being held for the murder of philanthropist Guy Brouard. Brouard, at the time of his death, was working on a museum honoring island residents who resisted the Nazis in World War II. When China' brother Cherokee asks China's old friend, Deborah St. James, for help, Deborah and her husband Simon, characters in George's Lynley and Havers series, travel to Guernsey, where they discover there is no shortage of other suspects who wanted Brouard dead. 514 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4".
A Place of Hiding
George, Elizabeth
New York: Bantam Books, 2003.
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In 1994, a lost manuscript was discovered in Minnesota: Dr. Watson's account of Sherlock Holmes's journey to Minnesota to find the arsonist known as the Red Demon. 318 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4".
Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon
Watson, John H., edited by Larry Millett
New York: Viking Press, 1996.
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First Carroll & Graf edition. Sherlock Holmes and Watson have been summoned to Scotland to assist Queen Victoria. They are nearly murdered on the journey, then they learn of the murder of the architect and foreman who had been hired to renovate the Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh. To Holmes, their deaths are reminders of the murder of Divid Rizzio, the "Italian Secretary" assassinated in the presence of Mary Queen of Scots three hundred years before. Has Rizzio's ghost returned to protest the disturbance of his place of death? 266 pp. 8 1/2" X 6". Cover design by Tim Byrne.
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Carr, Caleb
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.
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First St. Martin's Minotaur Edition. Young boys are disappearing, and the only link between them is an aviary, or bird yard, at an abandoned house. When a boy known to Detective Superintendent Parker of the Greater Manchester disappears, he knows he must find the killer before more tragedy occurs. 340 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket art by Mark Yanjus.
The Bird Yard
Martin, Julia Wallis
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 1998.
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Playing God
Whitehead, Barbara
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
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The twelfth Peter McGarr outing. On Clare Island off the west coast of Ireland, Clement Ford is a mysterious man, even fifty years after his arrival on the island. When Ford disappears and three people are found dead, Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr is called in to investigate. 296 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". Jacket design and illustration by Honi Werner.
Death of an Irish Sea Wolf
Gill, Bartholomew
New York: William Morrow, 1996.
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Based on an outline created by Dorothy L. Sayers before her death, newlywed Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, Harriet Vane, travel to Parish, were they meet Laurence and Rosamund Harwell. The fair Rosamund is soon thereafter strangled, and the Wimseys' honeymoon is overtaken by paired sleuthing. 312 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Thrones, Dominations
Sayers, Dorothy L. and Jill Paton Walsh
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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Someone is perpetrating hoaxes on the Coleridge and Other Romantic Poets Society. At the urging of his ex-wife, John Farmer is tracking the events from Venice, Italy to London. Farmer soon learns more than he ever wanted about academic jealousy, and the tension that arises therefrom. 191 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
Death and Deconstruction
Fleming, Anne
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
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Deborah Crombie's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James novels have been nominated for the Agatha and Barry Awards, and Dreaming of the Bones on the Macavity Award for Best Mystery. Kincaid and James investigate two different crimes in In a Dark House, but the cases are closer than they know. Arson, battered women, and an abducted child all figure in the resolution. 382 pp. 9 1/4" 6 1/4". Jacket design by Thomas Tafuri.
In a Dark House
Crombie, Deborah
New York: William Morrow, 2004.
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Brigadier General Nigel Haversham, relic of British Cold War intelligence service, heads off to Southern California to find his missing goddaughter, who may have been kidnapped by a Hollywood hotshot. Little does the hotshot know what avenging fury is about to descend upon him. 336 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design and illustration by Julie Lappen.
The Old Limey
Crocker, H. W. III
Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2001.
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Set in 14th Century London, Red Slayer pits Brother Athelstan of St. Erconwald and his unlikely partner in medieval detection, Sir John Cranston, the Lord Coroner of London, against the slayer of Sir Ralph Whitton, Constable of the Tower. Whitton was murdered in a locked room inside the Tower. And who is robbing the graves in St. Erconwald Cemetery? 283 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Christopher Zacharow.
Red Slayer, Being the Second of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan
Harding, Paul
New York: William Morrow, 1992.
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312 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by David Baleosingh Rotstein.
Murder in the Smokehouse
Myers, Amy
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
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Inspector Wexford searches for the daughter of a friend. False hopes and fears arise when the body of another young black woman is found, then a second. A third woman is found alive but badly beaten. Ruth Rendell has been awarded three Edgar and four Gold Dagger Awards. 327 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Rick Pracher.
Simisola
Rendell, Ruth
New York: Crown Publishers, 1995.
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Bride-to-be Princess Amy is kidnapped on the brink of her wedding by a group of animal activists. Jemima Shore, recently fired from her television job has been covering the impending nuptials as a free-lancer for American television, and is drawn into the drama of the Princess's abduction. 229 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Pamela Sherlaw.
Your Royal Hostage: A Jemima Shore Mystery
Fraser, Antonia
1988: Atheneum, 1988.
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A young girl is killed in her North Oxford home. Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis investigate. The death of such a person in such a place would seem to have no relation to the dreaming spires of Oxford University, but before the case is solved, the investigation leads Morse and Lewis back to Lonsdale College. This novel was made into a PBS Mystery movie. 347 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Whitney Cookman.
Death Is Now My Neighbor: An Inspector Morse Novel
Dexter, Colin
New York: Crown Publishers, 1996.
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