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Desperate Call

By: Coburn, Laura

Price: $0.99

Publisher: New York, Onyx: 1995-06-01

Seller ID: 020940

ISBN: 0451182944

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

349 pages; spine creasing, edge wear; The last person to see eight-year-old Billy alive was Kate Harrod, a homicide detective and the mother of Billy's best friend. When he turns up dead, she becomes obsessed with finding the killer--and winds up putting herself and her family in jeopardy.
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Southern Cross (Andy Brazil)

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $0.99

Publisher: New York, Berkley: 1999-12-01

Seller ID: 025350

ISBN: 0425172546

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

382 pages; spine creasing, edge wear; In this explosive follow-up to the bestselling police thriller "Hornet's Nest, " former police chief Judy Hammer has been brought into clean up the police force in Richmond, Virginia. She and two assistants must find the link between the desecration of Confederate president Jefferson Davis's statue and the brutal murder of an elderly woman.
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Dying of the Light

By: Dibdin, Michael

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1993-01-01

Seller ID: kb017798

ISBN: 0571168736

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

151 pages; corners lightly bumped, light edge wear to boards; jacket has more significant edge wear and creasing. The scene appears to be the usual country house hotel inhabited by a cast of characters that include the colonel, the clergyman and the rich invalid - and by the usual murderer. Rosemary and Dorothy need only follow the clues to find the murderer. But things are not as easy as they seem.
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Hot Money

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $1.99

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam: 1987

Seller ID: 029199

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

edge wear to jacket and boards, small edge tears and fraying to jacket edges; Multi-millionaire Malcolm Pembroke's colourful life has included five wives and nine children. When his fifth wife is murdered, he patches up a quarrel that has been simmering for nearly three years with his favourite son Ian, and asks for help. Ian Pembroke, who detested the fifth wife Moria, agrees to meet his father at Newmarket yearling sales. From here he is instantly whirled into a horrifying race against time to find Moira's murderer before the maniac can strike again. Greed, malice and lethal ploys lie ahead ...
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Under Orders

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Putnam: 2006-01-01

Seller ID: kb018071

ISBN: 0399154000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

308 pages; light edge wear to boards and jacket, corners bumped; 'Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than an eyebrow.' It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. But this is precisely how he finds jockey Huw Walker - who, only a few hours earlier, had won the coveted Triumph Hurdle. Just mome...
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A Personal Devil: A Magdalene la Batarde Mystery

By: Gellis, Roberta

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Forge Books: 2001-01-31

Seller ID: kb017813

ISBN: 0312869983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

316 pages; light edge wear to jacket and boards; A twisted tale of hatred, fear and blackmail, as a blind Madame becomes the mistress to a deformed man. When he is killed, the man's wife and his mistress get caught up in a web of deceit and mystery surrounding his death.
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Killing Time in St. Cloud

By: Guest, Judith; Hill, Rebecca

Price: $1.99

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: 1988

Seller ID: kb016478

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

244 pages; edge wear to jacket and boards, reverse side of jacket is foxed; Soon after Nick Buhler is back in St Cloud after 13 years absence, there are three deaths to contend with and in a town the size of St Cloud, where family and community are one, the secrets of the past begin to emerge, shaking the town to its very foundations.
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Winter in June: A Rosie Winter Mystery

By: Haines, Kathryn Miller

Price: $0.99

Publisher: New York, Harper Perennial: 2009-05-19

Seller ID: 020577

ISBN: 0061579564

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

320 pages; edge wear; New York, 1943: Aspiring actress Rosie Winter has been marooned in New York throughout the war. Now, faced with the news that her ex-boyfriend Jack might not be coming home again, she's desperate to leave the home front and head for the war front. So when Rosie and her best pal Jayne get an offer to go to the South Pacific to perform with USO Camp Shows, they jump at the chance. But being a greasepaint soldier isn't as easy as they had hoped. Not only are the cast members surly, the schedules inhumane, and the housing conditions primitive but they also have to travel with...
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Hannibal

By: Harris, Thomas

Price: $0.99

Publisher: New York, Dell: 2000-05

Seller ID: kb012406

ISBN: 0440224675

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

546 pages; spine and cover creasing, some edge wear; Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody, seven years since FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is still at large, but Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr. Lecter, and the metallic rasp of his seldom-used voice still sounds in her dreams..
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The History Book

By: Hawksley, Humphrey

Price: $3.99

Publisher: New York, Grand Central Publishing: 2007-08-16

Seller ID: kb016763

ISBN: 0446527440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

339 pages; slight edge wear; Kat Polinski - burglar, hacker, undercover agent - returns home from a deadly mission at the Kazakh Embassy in Washington to find a cryptic message from her sister. Soon after she learns that her sister, Suzy, has been murdered - shot with a high-powered rifle in a desolate spot 30 miles from London. Why was Suzy there? Was it anything to do with the controversial 'Project Peace'? An international security agreement, this project allows constant surveillance and loss of individual freedom in return for stability and order. Kat must use every weapon at her disposal ...
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April's Grave / Call in the Night

By: Howatch, Susan

Price: $3.99

Publisher: New York, Stein and Day: 1974

Seller ID: 024341

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

2 novels in one volume; 315 pages; edge wear to jacket, light edge wear to boards; APRIL'S GRAVE: Karen had been trying not to think about her twin sister April since the day she had decided to try not to think about Neville Bennet any more. Now, as she replaced the receiver after speaking to Marney, she discovered that her memories of both of them were scarcely less painful even now after three years.' Karen and Neville plan a reconciliation in Scotland. April, Karen's twin sister, had caused the split three years previously, but she has not been seen since. So when Karen finds April's suit...
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: June 2002

By: Hutchings, Janet (editor)

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Dell Magazines: 2002

Seller ID: kb017678

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

144 pages; edge wear, surface tear on cover where subscriber label was removed; Includes: "A Nose for Murder" by David Williams; "Lesson in Terror" by Donald Olson; "Angel of Wrath" by Joyce Carol Oates; "Farber Loses a Dependent" by Gordon Cotler; "Desolation River" by Raymon Steiber; "The Problem of the Traveler's Tale" by Edward D. Hoch; "Dognapped" by Robert Barbard; "Bible Belt" by Toni L. P. Kelner; "Woman at the Window" by Percy Spurlark Parker; "False Report" by Helen Tucker; + articles & departments, poetr...
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Cinnamon Skin

By: MacDonald, John D.

Price: $1.99

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1982

Seller ID: kb017503

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

214 pages; light edge wear to jacket and boards, corners lightly bumped; When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece Norma, and her new husband Even, the boat exploded out in the waters of the Florida Keys. Travis McGee thinks it's no accident, and clues lead him to ponder possibilities of drugs and also to wonder where Evan was when his wife was killed...
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Dead and Dying Angels (The Dos Cruces Trilogy)

By: Mangum, James A.

Price: $0.99

Publisher: Alpine, TX, John M. Hardy Publishing: 2005-02-01

Seller ID: kb017995

ISBN: 097176672X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

213 pages; light edge wear; Advance Reading Copy; In "Dead and Dying Angels"--the first volume of the Dos Cruces Trilogy--elements of pathos, the supernatural, and dark humor merge in a writing style that has been referred to as a cross between William Faulkner and Kurt Vonnegut, with shades of Wally Lamb
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Rattlesnake Lawyer

By: Miller, Jonathan

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Cool Titles: 2000-05-31

Seller ID: kb017975

ISBN: 0967392012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

305 pages; light edge wear to jacket and boards, bit of scuffing to back of jacket; Flat signed on the ffep by the author. A legal mystery set in modern New Mexico, based on personal experiences of a criminal trial lawyer who fought in the trenches.
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Clubbed to Death: A Dead-End Job Mystery

By: Viets, Elaine

Price: $4.99

Publisher: New York, NAL Hardcover: 2008-05-06

Seller ID: 019635

ISBN: 0451223942

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

264 pages; light edge wear to jacket and boards; Helen Hawthorne's ex-husband sails back into her life aboard the yacht of his new lady, known as the Black Widow because of her string of dead spouses. When her ex goes missing and a club patron is found dead, she fears the Black Widow may have struck again.
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Category: Mystery Fiction