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Set in Paris in the eighteenth century, this is the story of the birth and abandonment of a child and the development of a monster. The child had the unique ability to distinguish minute differences in odors, to know the origin and composition of objects. As he grew to manhood he used this power to create exquisite perfumes, and became the premier perfumer of Paris. When this pinnacle was reached, he withdrew from the world to prepare for his ultimate goal--to extract from the most perfect beings in the world--beautiful young virgins--the scent of life itself. This is the book on which the film was based. 259 pp. 8 1/2" X 6". Jacket design by Gun Larson.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.: Translated from the German by John E. Woods.
Suskind, Patrick
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
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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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Nominated for the 1996 Agatha Award for Best Novel and the 1997 Barry Award for Best Novel. A historical mystery set in 1786 Maine, the book's main character is a midwife who investigates the rape and murder of a young mother. 307 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket illustration by John Collier.
Hearts and Bones
Lawrence, Margaret
New York: Avon Books, 1996.
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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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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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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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Gilbert was honored with the 1994 British Crime Writers' Association' Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The Long Journey Home draws on Gilbert's own experiences in World War II, when, as an escaped prisoner of war, he made a similar journey. 232 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
The Long Journey Home
Gilbert, Michael
New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
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Signed by author on title page. The fifteenth book in the Carl Wilcox series. A local minister asks Carl Wilcox to find the man responsible for the rape and murder of his teen-age niece. While investigating the crime, suspicion falls on the husband of the school librarian. A side benefit of his task is a romance with the librarian herself. No Badge, No Gun was nominated for the 1999 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel. Another Carl Wilcox novel, The Man Who Was Taller than God, won the 1993 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel. 203 pp. 8 1/2: X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Krystyna Skalski.
No Badge, No Gun: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
Adams, Harold
New York: Walker & Company, 1998.
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First St. Martin's Minotaur Edition. Fidelma of Cashel is sister to one of the Kings of Ireland. When she returns to her brother's castle, she learns that her son's nurse has been murdered and her son is missing. Fidelma begins a frantic search to find her son and the people who seized him. 276 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". Jacket design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein.
The Leper's Bell
Tremayne, Peter
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006.
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Winner of the 2005 Crime Writers Association's Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. Second book in the Matthew Shardlake series. Sixteenth Century attorney Shardlake agrees to assist Thomas Cromwell in exchange for a 2-week reprieve for a woman sentenced to execution for a murder she didn't commit. Shardlake had defended her, and lost. His task: to find a missing store of Greek fire, an incendiary whose formula was secret. Shardlake and Jack Barak, employed by Cromwell, search throughout London, but murder and secrecy precede their every step. Illustrated endpapers. 503 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4".
Dark Fire
Sansom, C. J.
New York: Viking Press, 2004.
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With this book, Perry begins a new series. British intelligence agent Matthew Reavley and his Cambridge professor brother Joseph investigate their parents' death in a car crash. Their search is driven beyond normal grief when they learn that at the time of his death, their father may have been carrying a secret document linked to national security. 339 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Carl D. Galian.
No Graves as Yet: A Novel of World War I
Perry, Anne
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
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Husband and wife sleuths Kate and Charles Sheridan have been invited to stay at Blenheim Palace while Kate researches a book on the affair of King Henry II and the fair Rosamund. When a Palace maid is kidnapped, then the Duke of Marlborough and his mistress disappear, Kate's writing is put aside and she must bring her investigative skills come into play. 312 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". Jacket design by Teresa Fasolino.
Death at Blenheim Palace
Paige, Robin
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2005.
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In the ninth adventure of Sir John Fielding, the "blind beak" of London, Benjamin Franklin is a suspect in the theft of letters from the home of a British cabinet minister. The letters, which turn up in Massachusetts, may be pertinent to the colonial rebellion in America. Sir John's young assistant, Jeremy Proctor, acts as the magistrate's eyes and ears, gathering information which helps Sir John solve the case. 274 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso.
An Experiment in Treason
Alexander, Bruce
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.
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Peter Lovesey has been awarded the British Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement. The Bertie in the title is Prince Albert, and the Tinman the prince's favorite jockey, Fred Archer. Bertie doesn't think the Tinman's death was suicide and personally investigates. 212 pp. 8 3/8" X 5 5/8". Jacket illustration by Eliot Banfield.
Bertie and the Tinman
Lovesey, Peter
New York: Mysterious Press, 1987.
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Anne Perry has written a series of Christmas mysteries. In A Christmas Visitor, Judah Dreghorn died in a fall. Was it an accident, or murder? Judah's wife Antonia enlists the help of her godfather, Henry Rathbone, a character who also appears in Perry's William Monk series. Rathbone must determine if an old land dispute led to Judah's death. 199 pp. 7 1/2" X 5 3/8". Jacket illustration by Danilo Ducak.
A Christmas Visitor
Perry, Anne
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
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Winner of the 2005 Quill Book Award for the best Mystery/Suspense/Thriller. This is the eleventh book in the series featuring Trenton, New Jersey, Stephanie Plum, who works for her cousin Vinnie as a fugitive apprehension agent (a.k.a., bounty hunter). Or a former bounty hunter. Plum has decided it's time for a "normal" job. But normal doesn't necessarily mean safe. Cars are still getting blown up, and now someone's stalking her. Perhaps bounty hunting wasn't so bad after all. 310 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Jerry Todd.
Eleven on Top
Evanovich, Janet
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005.
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Cairo, Egypt, in 1942 was a hotbed of intrigue. It was filled with people from all over Europe and northern Africa, and was also full of spies. Captain Bert Cutler, former Glaswegian policeman, was sent to Cairo to find the leak in British intelligence that is fueling Rommel's advances. But even Bert Cutler isn't who he seems. Maps on endpapers. 376 pp. 9 3/8" x 6 1/4". Jacket design and Peter Thorpe.
City of Gold
Deighton, Len
New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
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Stephen Marlowe was awarded France's Prix Gutenberg for best historical novel for The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus. In The Lighthouse at the End of the World Edgar Allnn Poe, creator of the American mystery, is himself the protagonist in a mystery novel, pursued by one of his own creations, the detective C. Auguste Dupin. 325 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Mary E. O'Boyle.
The Lighthouse at the End of the World
Marlowe, Stephen
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1995.
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