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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. Endnotes. Index. 555 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 3/8". Jacket design by Candace J. Magee.
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. 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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Estelle Monbrun is the nom de plume of Elayne Dezon-Jones. Translated from the French by David Martyn. Inscribed on front flyleaf: "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 person of Inspector Foucheroux. 228 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Abby Kagan.
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. 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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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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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. 431 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Thomas Tafuri.
Bleeding Kansas
Paretsky, Sara
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008.
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Signed by the author on the title page. Cassie Black is out of prison after serving time for manslaughter in the death of Max, her partner-in-burglary. She heads back to Vegas for one last score. The situation deteriorates rapidly, however. Her intended victim turns out to be part of the Chicago mafia, and the casino's hitman, Jack Karch, is on her trail. Cassie will have to use every one of her resources to get out alive. 393 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye.
Void Moon
Connelly, Michael
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2000.
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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. 350 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8".
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? 318 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket art by Tom Galasinski.
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. 300 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by John Mattos.
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. 252 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Peter Streicher.
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 insistence that none of the residents would do such a thing. 214 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Francine Kass.
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, Oklahoma? Inscribed by the author on title page: "To Marshall. Thanks for the support. Letha Albright." 303 pp. 7 1/4" X 5 1/4".
Bad Luck Woman
Albright, Letha
New York: Memento Mori Mysteries, 2005.
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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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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. 294 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Alan Dingman.
Prove the Nameless
Faherty, Terence
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
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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. 256 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
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. 417 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Archie Ferguson.
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." Endnotes. Index. 263 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Mike Stromberg.
Guns, Crime, and Freedom
LaPierre, Wayne
Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994.
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