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Mystery Writers of America Lawrence Block asked thirteen current mystery authors to select their own personal best stories, and also to choose the one story that had inspired them most. Mary Higgins Clark selected her own "The Man Next Door" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Joyce Carol Oates selecter her own "Lover" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat." Joe Gores selected his own "The Criminal" and John Russell's "The Knife." Doug Allyn chose his own "Puppyland" and William Banker's "Child of Another Time." Ian Rankin chose his own "Adventures in Babysitting" and Mat Coward's "No Night by Myself." Reginald Hill chose his own "True Thomas" and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Markheim." Carolyn Wheat chose her own "Cousin Cora" and Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers." Stuart Kaminsky chose his own "Adele" and the anonymous "The Death of Colonel Thoureau." Edward D. Hoch chose his own "The Detective's Wife" and Stanley Ellin's "You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life." Sharyn McCrumb chose her own "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and Saki's "Sredni Vashtar." Clark Howard chose his own "The Last One to Cry" and Jack Ritchie's "The Absence of Emily." Evan Hunter chose his own "The Interview" and Robert Turner's "Eleven O'Clock Bulletin." And Lawrence Block chose "Soetimes They Bite" and Frederic Brown's "Cry Silence." 369 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket art by Segal Design.
Master's Choice Volume II: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them
Block, Lawrence, ed.
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2000.
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Seventh in the Benni Harper series of mysteries. Benni's visit to the ranch of her stepson's future in-laws ends in tragedy when a family member is murdered. The investigation reveals deep family problems, among them great distrust of the murdered man. Benni's has her own family problems when her husband's ex-wife appears in San Celina. 308 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Jacket art by Cherul Griesbach and Stanley Martucci.
Seven Sisters
Fowler, Earlene
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2000.
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Elizabeth MacPherson is a forensic anthropologist, accustomed to solving medical mysteries. But the puzzle she must solve now invovles her lawyer brother, who was hired to sell an antebellum mansion for a group of elderly ladies. She's charged with fraud when the ladies disappear and the money from the sale is deposited in an off-shore account. 260 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". Jacket painting by Stanislaw Fernandez.
MacPherson's Lament
McCrumb, Sharyn
New York: Ballantine Books, 1992.
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Gregor Ragusic, owner of the U.S. World Cup soccer team, is found murdered on the eve of the competition. Who hated him enough to kill him? 318 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". Cover design by Edward C. Carenza.
The World Cup Murder
Pelé, with Herbert Resnicow
New York: Wynwood Press, 1988.
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Seattle lawyer Dana Hill seems to have it all--great career and great family. But when her brother is murdered, and she tries to figure out why, she also reassesses her life. 406 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Anne Twomey.
Damage Control
Dugoni, Robert
New York: Warner Books, 2007.
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Author's first mystery novel. Susan Beckett inherited the "Beckett's of Belmore" antique store from her father, Hank Beckett. When Joe Foster, one of Hank's former customers, dies, the appraisal Hank did of a highboy that Joe bought years ago is called into question. To preseve her father's good name in the antiques community, Susan determines to find out the truth behind the appraisal. 155 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Sue Lobel.
Antique and Deadly
Flynn, Lucine Hansz
New York: Walker & Company, 1988.
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A simple assignment to write the obituary of a reclusive scholar leands reporter Paul Tomm on a search back through 900 years of alchemical history and the people who practiced the art. 375 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/8". Cover painting by Mehdi.
The Geographer's Library
Fasman, John
New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
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Author Baden is a former New York City medical examiner, and forensic pathologist for the State of New York. This is his first novel. Attorney "Manny" Manfreda is hired to represent the family of a body found on a construction site. Chief medical examiner Jake Rosen investigates. Together, Manny and Jake work together on the crime, and find themselves drawn to each other in the process. 232 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/4". Jacket design by Carole Devine Carson.
Remains Silent
Baden, Michael and Linda Kenney
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
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The sixth novel in the Fremont Jones series. When Fremont Jones learns that her father is gravely ill, she hurries to his side. His doctor feels he has recovered enough to leave the hospital, but he dies shortly after returning home. Then Fremont's step-mother is murdered. Fremont must find the answers to the deaths of two family members. The first book in the Fremont Jones series, The Strange Files of Fremont Jones," won the Macavity Award for Best First Novel. 277 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket illustration by Joseph Daniel Fieldler.
Beacon Street Mourning: A Fremont Jones Mystery
Day, Dianne
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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The author's first novel, which introduces Joe Pickett, the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming. Twelve Sleep is a place where everyone hunts, but may not follow the rules. Pickett does follow the rules, however, which tdoesn't make him the most popular guy in town, so when a local hunter is found dead in his back yard, Pickett takes it personally. Open Season won the 2001 New York Times Notable Book Award, and the 2002 Anthony, Barry, and Macavity Awards. 293 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Royce M. Becker.
Open Season
Box, C. J.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001.
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Bookman Cliff Janeway is hired to appraise the library of a noted collector of children's books. Janeway find the collection oddly ravaged--some valuable books have been replaced with inexpensive reprints, but other, equally valuable, copies still remain. What caused this inexplicable plundering of the collector's estate? 339 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket art by Mark Yankus.
The Bookwoman's Last Fling
Dunning, John
New York: Scribners, 2006.
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Pickax City is gearing up for its sesquicentennial, with all the associated hoopla. Wealthy philanthropist and writer Jim Qwilleran is involved with all aspects of the celebration. Then, a local couple is murdered, and their son is the primary suspect, to Qwill's consternation, for he had recently befriended the young man. Qwilleran and his cats Koko and Yum Yum investigate. 191 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket design and illustration by Andrea Ho.
The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell
Braun, Lilian Jackson
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006.
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Signed by the author on the title page. The author's third novel. It's summer 1969 in Barrington, Georgia, and Charley Selkirk is having a rough time of it. Nothing seems to be going right for him until he meets photographer Tallasee Tynan, returned to her home town to complete a book of portraits of mountain women. Charley is hired as Tallasee's assistant, and together they look for the missing grandson of one of the women featured in the book. The search takes them to a local commune, where they boy was last seen. A Viet Nam vet who befriended the boy becomes the chief suspect, but Charley isn't so sure, and sets out to prove it. 224 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Calvin Chu.
Blue Hole
Gearino, G. D.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
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Inscribed by the author on the title page, "Arlene, Best Wishes. Anna Salter." Forensic psychologist Michael Stone is an advocate for children in child abuse cases. She testifies in a custody fight in which the father is suspected of molesting the children. Then the children are found murdered, and their mother is accused of the crime. Michael is drawn into the case, and into danger. The author's first novel. Author lives in Madison, Wisconsin. 259 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket illustration by Greg Harlin.
Shiny Water
Salter, Anna
New York: Pocket Books, 1997.
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Preceded by a limited trade edition by Dennis McMillan. Officer Hanson is a Viet Nam vet turned cop in Portland, Oregon. The streets of Portland aren't so different from what he experienced in Viet Nam. His past comes back to haunt him when the only other survivor of his Special Forces unit appear in Portland, and someone on the police force sets out to use his past against him. 416 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Tom Tafuri.
Night Dogs
Anderson, Kent
New York: Bantam Books, 1998.
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Tony Hillerman has been racking up awards for more than two decades, both for individual books and for his cumulative work. It started in 1974 with the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for Dance Hall of the Dead, and included two Doctorates of Literature. In Hunting Badger, Jim Chee and now-retired Joe Leaphorn are in search of a group of militiamen who robbed a Ute tribal casino and the murder of the head of the casino's security team, and the wounding of a Navajo police officer moonlighting as a security guard. The book is based on true events. Brown paper over pumpkin boards. 275 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". Jacket design and illustration by Peter Thorpe.
Hunting Badger
Hillerman, Tony
New York: Harper Collins, 1999.
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Inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Arlene (finally). Walter Mosley." This is the third novel featuring black private detective Easy Rawlins. Set in 1950s Los Angeles, Rawlins investigates the murder of a white University of California coed. He is startled to learn that the student had another life as a stripper; her stage name was "White Butterfly." Is there a link between this girl's murder and that of three black prostitutes? 272 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
White Butterfly
Mosley, Walter
New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
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Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Marcia--Breaking into the genre with my book--I am honored! Marie Schulenburg." The Riverview, Wisconsin, newspaper editor has instituted a new policy--the paper will no longer publish anything about serial killers, whom the editor believes kill only for the publicity. The policy backfires, however, when it sparks a spate of murders. This is the author's first novel. Author is from Madison, Wisconsin. 304 pp. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". Jacket design by Gail Cross.
Murder off the Record
Schulenburg, Marnie
Aurora, CO: Write Way Publishing, 1998.
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The second Easy Rawlins Mystery. 284 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
A Red Death
Mosley, Walter
New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
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Private Detective Aaron Asherfeld is hired to look into the death of a philosophy professor at a northern California university. He finds that the halls of academe are rife with politics and racism. Nobody liked the dead professor, but with all the secrets and hidden lives, Asherfeld has trouble finding anyone who actually killed him. 194 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Neil Shigley.
Less Than Meets the Eye
Berlinski, David
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
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