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Inscribed and dated by author on title page. "For Helen, With affection and appreciation for making my trip to St. Louis a memorable one! June 8, 1995, St. Louis." Includes a bookmark from the Saint Louis Club, June 8, 1995. Marianne Walker, professor of English and Philosophy at University of Kentucky/Henderson Community College, had never read Gone With The Wind, but went on to write what Publsher's Weekly described as "a moving love story of a symbiotic union that lasted 24 years." Illustrated with black and white photographs.
Margaret Mitchell & John Marsh: The Love Story Behind Gone With The Wind
Walker, Marianne
Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Lt., 1993.
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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.
Ill Wind
Barr, Nevada
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.
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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.
Hardball
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Scribners, 1990.
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Estelle Monbrun is the nom de plume of Elayne Dezon-Jones. Translated from the French by David Martyn. Inscribed on front fly leaf: "For Teri from teacher to teachee . . . with fun. Elayne. 21 October 1995". The author is a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a Proust scholar. In Murder Chez Proust, the president of the Proust Association is murdered at a Proust conference. Unfortunately for the murderer, another of the conference attendees is a police officer, in the perso of Inspector Foucheroux.
Murder Chez Proust
Monbrun, Estelle
New York: Arcade Publishing, 1995.
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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.
The Devil's Hatband
Greer, Robert O.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1996.
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Signed by author on flyleaf. In a departure from her V. I. Warshawski series, Sara Paretsky writes of family feuds, bigotry, religious fundamentalism and Wiccans in Lawrence Kansas. Violence ensues. Sara Paretsky has been awarded the Cartier Diamond Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Bleeding Kansas
Paretsky, Sara
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008.
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Signed by the author on title page. The staff and former residents of now-closed The Hawthorne House School for the Treatment of Autistic Children gather for a reunion. The shocking death of the school's founder, Dr. Jay Schermerhorn, brings Chicago detectives Emily Folkstone and Ollie Park to investigate. They discover hidden characteristics behind Dr. Schermerhorn's professional facade.
Death of a Thousand Cuts
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2004.
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Author's first novel, signed on title page. After a drug bust at the National Science and Space Museum that goes badly awry, Chicago police Commander Larry Cole becomes interested in a series of disappearances from the Museum--all most 200 people have vanished over the last hundred years. What secrets will be discovered in the Museum's past?
Presumed Dead
Holton, Hugh
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 1994.
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Signed by author on title page. Kill Me Again is set in 1947, and introduces Scott Elliott, an actor between engagements who's now working for The Hollywood Security Agency. He's hired to check into an anonymous note claiming that one of Warner Brothers screenwriters is a Communist. Elliott's task is made more difficult when the screenwriter is murdered.
Kill Me Again: A Scott Elliott Mystery
Faherty, Terence
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
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Inscribed on title page, "To Greg: enjoy a walk with 'The Dog'! John Galligan." Introduces Ned "Dog" Oglivie, a former security consultant who now spends his time traveling around the country trout fishing. When in Black Earth, Wisconsin, he discovers the body of another fisherman, then gets involved in the investigation.
The Nail Knot
Galligan, John
Madison, WI: 2003.
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Signed by author on title page. Sociologist Isaac Steiner is murdered at Friar's Close, a communal housing development. Police Detective Ray Koepp and his partner Margaret Loftus find no shortage of suspects despite the commune's insistance that none of the residents would do such a thing.
Mind Games
Koehler, C. J.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1996.
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Newspaper reporter Viv Powers is assigned to cover the conflict between Native American environmentalists and a company transporting nuclear waste. Then someone trashes her sister's house. Why are the IRS and FBI interested? What's going on in Cherokee County, Oklahma? Inscribed by the author on title page: "To Marshall. Thanks for the support. Letha Albright."
Bad Luck Woman
Albright, Letha
New York: Memento Mori Mysteries, 2005.
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Shadow Play
Fyfield, Frances
New York: Pantheon, 1993.
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Signed by the author on the title page. Faherty has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Shamus Award for Best Private Eye Novel, and won the 2003 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Short Story. In Prove the Nameless, former seminarian Owen Keane is working for an Atlantic City newspaper. He's asked to look into a 20-year-old multiple murder in which all but one member of a family die. The survivor, just a baby at the time, is now in college, but still unable to figure out why she survived.
Prove the Nameless
Faherty, Terence
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
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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.
I.O.U.
Pickard, Nancy
New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
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Signed by author on title page. Jessica Mann, a noted crime author herself, offers a study of the four premier authors of British crime fiction: Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Josephine Tey, plus New Zealander Ngaio Marsh.
Deadlier Than the Male: Why Are Respectable English Women So Good at Murder?
Mann, Jessica
New York: Macmillan, 1981.
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Signed by author on second flyleaf. The marriages featured are those of Edith and Woodrow Wilson; Bess and Harry Truman; Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt; Jackie and John F. Kennedy; Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson; Pat and Richard Nixon; Betty and Gerald Ford; Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter; Nancy and Ronald Reagan; Barbara and George Bush; and Hillary and Bill Clinton.
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History
Marton, Kati
New York: Pantheon, 2001.
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Inscribed and dated on flyleaf : To Jim Carrey. It's more than guns--it's freedom! W. LaPierre, 9/24/94.
Gus, Crime, and Freedom
LaPierre, Wayne
Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994.
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Free-lance writer Liz Conners had only recently moved into a new apartment in Cambridge, Massachussetts when she discovers the body of her next door neighbor. While Lt. Jack Lindemann conducts the official investigation, Liz does a little research on her own. Inscribed and dated by author on title page: "Sept. 9, 1985. To Carla Cunningham, Best wishes for your prospective bookstore. Susan Kelly."
The Gemini Man
Kelly, Susan
New York: Walker & Company, 1985.
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The Gambit is perpetrated by four scientists who have been collectively publishing their research under a single pseudonym. Their aim is to show that scientific research can be collegial rather than competitive. All goes well until one of the four discovers a breakthrough polymerase reaction. The discovery brings about conflict within the group and points to current attitudes and practices of scientific research. Inscribed on front flyleaf by author: "For Jorge Osorio. Congratulations!"
The Bourbaki Gambit
Djerassi, Carl
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
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