MYSTERY NOVELS
LP 05419 "L" Is for Lawless
AUTHOR: GRAFTON, SUE
ABSTRACT: P. I. Kinsey Millhone has a week off to help with the wedding of her
landlord Henry's elderly brother. But Henry has another favor to ask. Neighbor
Johnny Lee has passed away, and his relatives are trying to get the army to pay
for the funeral but the army has no record of Mr. Lee. The case takes Kinsey on
a cross-country chase for a hidden treasure.
LP 05418 "M" IS FOR MALICE
AUTHOR: GRAFTON, SUE
ABSTRACT: Private detective Kinsey Millhone is hired to locate a missing
person. Years ago, as a young drug and alcohol abuser, Guy Malek left home
in disgrace. Now his father has died, and Guy's brothers are outraged to learn
Guy is still in the will.
LP 06274 "N" Is For Noose
AUTHOR: GRAFTON, SUE
ABSTRACT: Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake, California,
sheriff's office -- a tough, honest cop, respected by everyone. When he died
suddenly at just shy of sixty five, folks were saddened. Tom's widow, Selma,
didn't doubt the coroner's report, but she just had to find out what had been
bothering him for the last six weeks of his life.
LP 07247 "O" IS FOR OUTLAW
AUTHOR: GRAFTON, SUE
ABSTRACT: A guy who auctions defaulted storage units at auction found a
stack with Kinsey stuff. For thirty bucks he'll sell her the lot. Curiosity wins
out, so she hands over a twenty. What she finds is an old undelivered letter
that will force her to reexamine her beliefs about the breakup of her first
marriage, the honor of her first husband, and an old unsolved murder.
LP 08168 P Is for Peril
AUTHOR: GRAFTON, SUE
ABSTRACT: Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired by prominent
physician Dowan Purcell's ex-wife to find him. Medicare investigators are
looking for the elderly doctor, too, although his current wife isn't. Also, Kinsey
is curious about her office landlord's past when she discovers he's suspected of
patricide.
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LP 08993 Q Is For Quarry
AUTHOR: GRAFTON, SUE
ABSTRACT: Two policemen out hunting discover a teenage girl's body near a
quarry off California's Highway 1. Eighteen years later, the two recruit
Millhone to help them try to identify the victim. Stacey Oliphant and Con
Dolan, both desperately want to find the killer in the quarry case.
LP 10437 R Is for Ricochet
AUTHOR: GRAFTON, SUE
ABSTRACT: Convicted embezzler Reba Lafferty's dying father hires P.I. Kinsey
Millhone to keep Reba out of trouble upon her release from prison. But the
Wealthy thirty-two-year-old party girl resumes her previous lifestyle and
Involves Kinsey in burglary, revenge, and eventually murder.
LP 06219 10 LB. PENALTY
AUTHOR: FRANCIS, DICK
ABSTRACT: At eighteen, easygoing Benedict Juliard’s ambition is to ride as an
amateur jockey in steeplechase races. His father, George, wishes to stand for
Parliament. Years later, Ben enters the political arena as his father's staunchest
ally and most trusted confidant, only to find himself targeted in a vicious
attack mounted by George's increasingly violent enemies.
LP 06517 82 DESIRE
AUTHOR: SMITH, JULIE
ABSTRACT: Amidst the charm of New Orleans, is Desire-the meanest street in
the city. Savvy Police Detective Skip Langdon has done her best to protect this
southern Louisiana city, but she cannot stop it all. And one case is leading her
into something very deep. Meanwhile, across town Talba Wallis-poet,
computer expert, and part-time detective - has her into something very deep.
LP 00965 AFFAIR FOR THE BARON
AUTHOR: MORTON, ANTHONY (JOHN CREASY)
ABSTRACT: Mario Ballas, a fabulously wealthy ex-criminal, lived in Mexico
surrounded by art treasures and jewelry. The collection was protected by
the old man's bodyguard of ruthless men, and when a valuable set of
emerald pieces was stolen, the baron was asked to investigate.
LP 07092 ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
AUTHOR: CLARK, MARY HIGGINS
ABSTRACT: It has been seven years since Sondra Lewis left her newborn baby
in front of a church while Lenny Centino was stealing a chalice from it. Sleuth
Alvirah Meehan tries to help the church's priest and nuns save their afterschool haven, she uncovers a connection between those events.
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LP 04060 ALPINE CONDO CROSSFIRE
AUTHOR: EBERHART, MIGNON G.
ABSTRACT: Visiting her guardian/uncle, Emmy brace finds that her uncle
has been interfering in her career. Matters get much worse when two murders
occur in the village.
LP 09364 AND JUSTICE THERE IS NONE
AUTHOR: CROMBIE, DEBORAH
ABSTRACT: Just as Inspector Gemma James's pregnancy is starting to show, her
lover, Supt. Duncan Kincaid happens onto a most reasonable five-year lease on
a house in Notting Hill, with room enough for the whole family. Their advent,
is marked by tragedy when antiques dealer Karl Arrowood's much younger
wife, Dawn, is found stabbed to death in her driveway.
LP 01406 ANGEL MAKER
AUTHOR: PEARSON, RIDLEY
ABSTRACT: Daphne Matthews, police psychologist, and Lou Boldt, who
plays jazz piano in a downtown bar and tries hard to forget he was a cop, are
caught in a vortex of a high-tech highly profitable underground industry-and
a doctor gone very, very bad.
LP 04902 APPEARANCES OF DEATH: A LUIS MENDOZA MYSTERY
AUTHOR: SHANNON, DELL
ABSTRACT: A series of apparently unrelated crimes send Mendoza and
His colleagues at the robbery and homicide division on the trail of something
big.
LP 06945 AN APRIL SHROUD: A DALZIEL AND PASCOE NOVEL
AUTHOR: HILL, REGINALD
ABSTRACT: Stranded in the country by heavy April rains, Superintendent Dalziel
is rescued by an odd funeral procession led by new widow Bonnie Fielding.
Dalziel discovers the strange manner in which Bonnie's husband died, the
possibility of an insurance scam, the mortal fear of Bonnie's father-in-law and
the realization that all the Fieldings, including Bonnie, are suspects in a
possible murder.
LP 09241 THE ART OF DECEPTION
AUTHOR: PERASON, RIDLEY
ABSTRACT: Detectives Lou Boldt, John LaMoia and Daphne Matthews are
working on potentially related cases, including a suspicious drowning and the
disappearance of two women who are presumed dead. Catching the crafty
would-be killer becomes harder when a suspect starts stalking Detective
Matthews and leads the trio on a chase through Seattle's Underground.
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LP 03151 AT DEATH'S DOOR
AUTHOR: BARNARD, ROBERT
ABSTRACT:A famous novelist lies old, ill, and helpless upstairs in his house.
One day his illegitimate daughter, the product of a liaison with an actress,
arrives researching a vitriolic biography of her mother. The actress comes to
thwart the biography, and is found dead.
LP 08927 BAD BOY BRAWLEY BROWN
AUTHOR: MOSLEY, WALTER
ABSTRACT: Easy Rawlings is back working a case on the streets of Los
Angeles. Easy's old friend John needs the help only Easy can provide. John's
stepson, Brawly Brown, has left home and John has reason to believe this
well-meaning boy is caught up in a situation that's more dangerous than he
knows.
LP 06706 THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER
AUTHOR: MCCRUMB, SHARYN
ABSTRACT: Tennessee Sheriff Spencer Arrowood finds parallels between a
nineteenth-century murder and one he investigated twenty years ago. In 1833
Frankie Silver was the first woman hanged in North Carolina. Another
murderer is bound for the electric chair for a crime committed on the
Appalachian trail. Both cases leave unanswered questions.
LP 04711 THE BARON AND THE MISSING OLD MASTERS
AUTHOR: CREASEY, JOHN (AS ANTHONY MORTON)
ABSTRACT: When John Mannering went to value an old lady's paintings,
deep in the heart of Wiltshire, he walked straight into a hornets' nest –
hornets that blackmailed, burned and murdered.
LP 01262 THE BARON ON BOARD
AUTHOR: CREASEY, JOHN
ABSTRACT: The mask of Sumi had been worn by the newly crowned rulers
of Sumi for hundreds of years, but now the princes no longer ruled that small
oriental country--and someone with an eye for profit as well as beauty was
arranging for the sale of the Sumi crown jewels."
LP 07985 THE BERYLLIUM MURDER
AUTHOR: MINICHINO, CAMILLE
ABSTRACT: Retired physicist Gloria Lamerino is suspicious when she learns
that former colleague Gary Larkin has died of beryllium poisoning in his
laboratory, since he knew too much about the hazards of the poison. Gloria
heads west to uncover the truth. Sidetracked to help solve the disappearance of
a friend's teenage son, Gloria is lead her back to the scene of Larkin's death.
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LP 08156 BETRAYAL IN DEATH
AUTHOR: ROBERTS, NORA
ABSTRACT: At the Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid is strangled, by a killer that
Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows well. He's Sly Yost, a hit man for the elite. But in
this twisted case, knowing the killer doesn't help solve the crime. There has to
be someone else involved, someone with a more personal motive. And Eve must
face a terrifying possibility-the real target may, in fact, be her husband Roarke.
LP 09132 BETTER TO REST
AUTHOR: STABENOW, DANA
ABSTRACT: Like a spectral presence, a hand clutching a gold piece emerges
from the ice of a calving glacier near the small town where Alaska state
trooper Liam Campbell is investigating the murder of a 74-year-old woman.
The hand belonged to an army soldier killed with his crewmates in the crash of
the World War II army plane entombed by the glacier a half century ago.
LP 07945 THE BIG SILENCE
AUTHOR: KAMINSKY, STUART M.
ABSTRACT: Abe Lieberman and his Irish partner, Bill Hanrahan are known on
the streets as the Rabbi and the Priest. The young son of an informant in the
witness protection program has been kidnapped and murdered, and they face
some hard choices to set things right. And Lieberman may have to bend the
rules to help Hanrahan face down his demons.
LP 06640 BLIND DATE
AUTHOR: FYFIELD, FRANCES
ABSTRACT: Elisabeth Kennedy is a complicated, prickly ex-police detective
recovering from an attack of deadly acid. Unable to escape the memory of her
sister's murder, she flees the safe confines of her mother's seaside home to
return to her apartment atop a London bell tower. In self-imposed exile, she
assumes she will be safe. But even the most cloistered places are not sacrosanct
– especially the human heart.
LP 01510 THE BLOND BABOON
AUTHOR: VAN DE WETERING, JANWILLEM
ABSTRACT: A former nightclub singer is pushed down the garden steps to
her death in Amsterdam, suspects include her former manager and lover,
"Blond Baboon," among many others. The amiable Dutch detectives de Gier
and Giripstra investigate.
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LP 05733 BLOOD IS THICKER THAN BEAUJOLAIS
AUTHOR: ASPLER, TONY
ABSTRACT: When internationally distinguished wine journalist Ezra Brant
travels to France for the release of the renowned Beaujolais Nouveau, he
never imagines that he will stumble into a web of murder, fraud and
international intrigue starting with a woman's body tumbling through a
cellar trapdoor.
LP 05470 BLOOD LINES: LONG AND SHORT STORIES
AUTHOR: RENDELL, RUTH
ABSTRACT: Eleven stories of psychological suspense with Chief Inspector
Wexford. A sinister evening of poetry and undying love...the ordinary girl
miraculously lucky to be married to an absolutely perfect man...a spurned
husband with a wicked new spin on the game of snooping...a lonely, reclusive
woman who finds family and redemption in the strangest of circumstances.
LP 01288 THE BLOODIED IVY
AUTHOR: GOLDSBOROUGH, ROBERT
ABSTRACT:Rex Stout's master detective, Nero Wolfe, is sent on a rare
outdoor excursion to help his clever if overzealous young assistant
Archie. Archie's investigation into the death of an aging, right-wing
professor uncovers several suspects amid the tensions of the cloistered
academic world, while Archie's enthusiasm lands him in jail.
LP 09091 THE BORIC ACID MURDERS
AUTHOR: MINICHINO, CAMILLE
ABSTRACT: A trip to the Revere Public Library proves fatal for thirty-sixyear-old Yolanda Fiore. Her body is found early one morning at the bottom of
the library's staircase. The evidence shows she'd been struck on the back of
the head before her fall.
LP 05576 BORN GUILTY
AUTHOR: HILL, REGINALD
ABSTRACT: Joe Sixsmith leaves choir practice and takes a shortcut through the
church graveyard, where he makes a grisly discovery--a young boy's body
jammed into a box among the gravestones. Poking and probing among the
village's down-and-outs as well as its upper crust, Joe keeps at it until he
discovers the shocking secrets of some of the town's most prominent citizens.
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LP 08264 THE BOTTOMS
AUTHOR: LANSDALE, JOE R.
ABSTRACT: Harry, an elderly man, tells the story of a time when the mutilated,
murdered bodies of Negro prostitutes began turning up in the county where
his father was the local constable. Harry and his younger sister, find the first
one. The victims, who are dismissed by the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
Harry and Tom think they know who's responsible: the Goat Man.
LP 04772 BROUGHT IN DEAD
AUTHOR: HIGGINS, JACK
ABSTRACT: Detective sergeant Miller had brought in dead before now. But
when he dragged this girl's body out of the canal he knew immediately that it
was no suicide.
LP 02546 BUMP IN THE NIGHT
AUTHOR: HOLLAND, ISABELLE
ABSTRACT: Martha Tierney is awakened one morning from a drunken
stupor to be informed that Jonathan, her eight-year-old son, did not arrive at
his fancy private school in Brooklyn Heights. As the investigation progresses,
it appears that Jonathan may be the victim of a child-pornography operation.
LP 06911 BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN
AUTHOR: BLOCK, LAWRENCE
ABSTRACT: Bernie uncover the relation between the disappearance of his best
friend's cat and the ransom - a priceless Mondrian painting. Complications
ensure when Bernie finds the painting missing, a dead body in its place, and a
voluptuous stranger with designs of her own. And to top it all off, Bernie is the
prime suspect. Can Bernie prove his innocence?
LP 06376 THE BURGLAR WHO STUDIED SPINOZA
AUTHOR: BLOCK, LAWRENCE
ABSTRACT: A gentleman, a bookseller, and a thief, Bernie "happens" to
discover a rare coin in someone else's apartment. The next day, two dead
bodies are found in the same apartment, and it's time for Bernie to get to work.
The police are coming around asking some difficult questions, and to save
himself from a murder charge, Bernie must clear up the mystery.
LP 09767 CAPE REFUGE: CAPE REFUGE, BOOK 1
AUTHOR: BLACKSTOCK, TERRI.
ABSTRACT: Christians Thelma and Wayne Owens operate a Georgia island
bed-and-breakfast for ex-convicts. When the couple are murdered, their
daughters, Morgan and Blair, attempt to clear Morgan's husband of the crime.
They uncover secrets from their parents' past while trying to find the killer.
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LP 09349 CELT AND PEPPER: A NOTRE DAME MYSTERY
AUTHOR: MCINERNY, RALPH
ABSTRACT: After a young Notre Dame professor/poet dies unexpectedly,
Professor Roger Knight suspects murder. His erudition, coupled with
assistance from his brother Philip, a private investigator, leads to a killer.
LP 05533 CHAMELEON
AUTHOR: MCCLURE, KEN
ABSTRACT: Women in Kerr Memorial Hospital are dying at an alarming rate
from post-operative wound infections. The Home Office sends an outsider,
surgeon Scott Jamieson, to investigate.
LP 01120 CHERRY BLOSSOM CORPSE
AUTHOR: BARNARD, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: As a favor to his shy sister Cristobel, a fledging romance
author, Perry Trethowan of Scotland Yard goes to Norway for the biannual
jamboree of the world association of romantic novelists. When one of the pulp
queens is found dead in a fjord, an apparent homicide victim, Perry wrestles
with several of the suspects' alibis.
LP 09047 CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL
AUTHOR: COLLINS, MAX ALLAN
ABSTRACT: Nate Heller's A-1 Detective Agency is thriving in the fall of 1950,
but there's trouble on the horizon. When a former operative for A-1 gets
gunned down prior to testifying before Estes Kefauver’s Senate hearing on the
Mafia, Heller launches a one-man vigilante campaign against mobsters Sam
Giancana and the Fischetti brothers.
LP 09518 CLOSE TO HOME
AUTHOR: ROBINSON, PETER
ABSTRACT: Alan Banks, the brooding Yorkshire policeman is called back to
England when someone discovers the remains of his old childhood friend
Graham Marshall, who disappeared from their hometown in 1965.
LP 06021 CLOSE TO THE BONE
AUTHOR: TAPPLY, WILLIAM G.
ABSTRACT: When an old client needs a top notch criminal defense lawyer for
his son, Brady Coyne enlists his fishing buddy, Paul Cizek. Cizek defends Glen
Falconer, who killed a woman while driving drunk. Cizek works miracles and
gets him off. After this latest victory. He avoids Brady and leaves his wife –
and then the Coast Guard finds is empty boat drifting at sea.
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LP 07423 A CLUE FOR THE PUZZLE LADY
AUTHOR: HALL, PARNELL
ABSTRACT: Dale Harper, Police Chief of Bakerhaven, investigates when the
body of an unknown teenaged girl turns up in the cemetery. He consults Cora
Felton, puzzle expert/columnist, but soon Cora's meddling, mischief-making
behavior drives him to distraction. When another body turns up, Cora must
find a killer-before she winds up in a box three feet across...and six down.
LP 01509 THE CLUE OF THE NEW SHOE
AUTHOR: UPFIELD, ARTHUR W.
ABSTRACT: The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of
split point lighthouse on the S.E.Coast of Australia. Investigating this eerie
crime inspector Napoleon Bonaparte wonders why a coffin is moved at
night...
LP 07908 COLD HANDS
AUTHOR: CURZON, CLARE
ABSTRACT: A dead body is found on a railway line. When the dead man is
identified as a customs officer investigating counterfeit currency.
Superintendent Mike Yeadings is suspicious, so he sends his undercover team,
including DI Mott and DS Zyczinski, to Fraylings Court and the heart of the
operation.
LP 05785 THE COLLECTED STORIES
AUTHOR: CROSS, AMANDA
ABSTRACT: In these nine stories unforgettable characters probe baffling
riddles: the enigma of a nameless toddler who walks out of the bushes one New
England summer afternoon...the theft of a seventeenth-century painting from a
lonely Texas convent...and other wonderful mysteries, many starring the
incomparable private investigator Kate Fansler.
LP 08656 COMMON MURDER
AUTHOR: MCDERMID, VAL
ABSTRACT: After a former lover of Ace reporter Lindsay Gordon Gordon's is
accused of attacking, and then murdering, prominent citizen and antiBrownlow Common activist, Rupert Crabtree, Gordon finds herself embroiled
in an investigation with far-reaching political implications.
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LP 10040 CONCH SHELL MURDER
AUTHOR: FRANCIS, DOROTHY
ABSTRACT: In the wake of a traumatic classroom shooting, teacher Katie
Hassworth turns private detective in Key West. When an intruder bludgeons
prominent entrepreneur Alexa Chitting to death with a conch shell in what
appears to be a drug-related robbery at Alexa's marina office, the victim's
daughter gets her close friend Katie to investigate.
LP 02660 CONFESSION: A JENNY CAIN MYSTERY
AUTHOR: PICKARD, NANCY
ABSTRACT: On a hot summer day, a teenaged boy with rumpled clothes and
a motorcycle knocked at Jenny Cain's door and changed her life forever.
Claiming to be the biological son of her husband, Geof Bushfield, David
Mayer wasn't looking for an emotional reunion.
LP 10074 CORPUS DE CROSSWORD
AUTHOR: BLANC, NERO
ABSTRACT: Folks in Taneysville, Massachusetts, are furious when a builder
develops fifteen acres of their precious land. The determined developer is
stopped cold in his tracks. The skeletal remains of a young woman have been
unearthed by the construction crew. Anonymous crosswords start pouring inbut even with so many clues, Belle and Rosco find that in this old-fashioned
hamlet, not everything is black and white.
LP 05887 THE COUNTERFEIT KILLERS
AUTHOR: KNOX, BILL
ABSTRACT: A rival group, who called themselves The Cutters, arrived with
brutal plans to take over the Scottish crime scene. Detective Supt. Colin Thane
of the Scottish Crime squad found it hard to accept as a genuine priority. But
after two men were found shot execution-style, and a woman who dared to
talk had her face slashed, Thane plunged into the search.
LP 09236 CRIME SCHOOL
AUTHOR: O'CONNELL, CAROL
ABSTRACT: Kathy Mallory again prowls the mean streets of New York,
digging deeper into her past even as she and her cohorts ferret out a grisly
serial killer.
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LP 07937 CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE
AUTHOR: BATTISON, BRIAN
ABSTRACT: Within a day of each other, two young married women are
murdered. As fears of a serial killer on the loose becomes rife, Chief Inspector
Jim Ashworth suffers another fear; the fear of discovery. For the first time in
his career, Ashworth functions inefficiently: every clue, every instinct propels
him towards one suspect, but he fails to act for fear of the consequences.
LP 06154 CROMARTIE V. THE GOD SHIVA ACTING THROUGH THE
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
AUTHOR: GODDEN, RUMER
ABSTRACT: A revered eleventh-century statue of the Hindu god Shiva, missing
from the old-fashioned Patna Hall hotel, ends up in the hands of a Canadian
art dealer, Mr. Cromartie, who takes it to London to be appraised, but it is
impounded by the British police. Insisting the statue was not stolen, Mr.
Cromartie takes the case to court and a legal battle ensures.
LP 09320 CROOKED HEART
AUTHOR: SUMNERS, CRISTINA
ABSTRACT: When a suburban housewife goes missing, it doesn't take Chief of
Police Tom Holder long to conclude that she has decided to run away from her
despicable husband. He enlists the bright, attractive Reverend Kathryn Koerney
to help question a child who believes she has witnessed a murder.
LP 03259 THE DAY THE RABBI RESIGNED
AUTHOR: KEMELMAN, HARRY
ABSTRACT: Hoping to secure tenure, handsome professor Victor Joyce marries
the niece of board member Cyrus Merton. Meanwhile, Rabbi David Small,
after twenty-five years' service to his Barnard's Crossing congregation, is
contemplating an academic career for himself. When Joyce is killed in an
automobile accident, police chief Hugh Lanigan asks the rabbi to help him
clear up some troublesome details about the smash-up.
LP 01419 DEAD CRAZY
AUTHOR: PICKARD, NANCY
ABSTRACT: Jenny Cain is working to establish a shelter for mentally ill people
in a residential basement. From the outset, though, her humanitarian efforts
seem dogged by problems. A real estate company bids for the property; there
are objections of local residents; and there's an ill-timed murder that leaves a
butchered corpse in the basement.
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LP 08401 DEAD SLEEP
AUTHOR: ILES, GREG
ABSTRACT: An anonymous painter's series of candidly posed nudes called The
Sleeping Woman bursts on the art scene, amid rumors that the models are not
sleeping but dead. Beautiful, burned-out war photographer Jordan Glass
chances into a show and recognizes the subject of a painting as her identical
twin, Jane, who was kidnapped near her New Orleans home and never found.
LP 02675 THE DEATH - BRINGERS
AUTHOR: SHANNON, DELL
ABSTRACT: Lieutenant Mendoza of the Los Angeles homicide squad is, as
always, up to his eyes in work. There are three baffling murders to solve, as
well as a series of bank hold-ups by a lone thug whose latest victim is sergeant
Bert Dwyer, Mendoza's friend and colleague.
LP 02709 DEATH AND THE CHASTE APPRENTICE
AUTHOR: BARNARD, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Des Capper, landlord of the Saracen's Head Inn near London, is
a less-than-sterling character, what with spying on guests and intruding on
intimate moments. The annual Ketterick Arts festival has filled the inn with
opera singers, actors, and musicians, and when murder occurs, detective
Charlie Peace finds dark and surprising secrets.
LP 08020 DEATH BY MARZIPAN
AUTHOR: BURKE, JOHN
ABSTRACT: When businesswoman, Brigid Weir, is thrown out by her
employers, she plans revenge in no-holds-barred memoirs. When word of the
project leaks out, trouble arises in the theft of treasures from her home, and
art expert Detective Inspector Lesley Gunn is barely on the scene before
another crime demands her attention-the discovery of the body of one of
Brigid's ex-husbands in the grounds of her present husband's estate.
LP 07637 DEATH ON DEMAND
AUTHOR: HART, CAROLYN G.
ABSTRACT: Elliot Morgan, a mystery writer, is murdered at Annie Laurence's
Death on Demand bookstore on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, during
a weekly gathering of mystery writers. All of the writers are suspects, but when
the police focus on Annie, she and her rich paramour, Max Darling, begin
their own investigation.
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LP 08831DEATH OF A HIRED MAN
AUTHOR: WRIGHT, ERIC
ABSTRACT: The day shift at the Ontario Provincial Police Station had just
come on duty when they received a disturbing phone call- a homicide in a log
cabin on Larch River. Sergeant Wilkie fears it's Mel Pickett who has been
killed and is almost relieved when he sees that the victim is Norbert
Thompson, a local "hired man" who had been renting Pickett's cabin.
LP 05750 DEATH OF AN ANGEL
AUTHOR: O'MARIE, CAROL ANNE
ABSTRACT: Sister Mary Helen and her sidekick, Sister Eileen, take time off
from their duties at Mount St. Francis College in San Francisco when a
wealthy widow, a benefactor of the college and dear friend, becomes the
second victim of a local murderer.
LP 01287 DEATH ON DEADLINE
AUTHOR: GOLDSBOROUGH, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Another baffling case for the orchid-growing gourmet and
genius of detective, Nero Wolfe, who uncharacteristically takes out a full-page
ad in “The New York Times” calling for a united effort to keep international
presslord Ian Maclaren from turning the respectable 'Gazette' into another
sleazy tabloid.
LP 03340 DEATH TAKES A BOW
AUTHOR: LOCKRIDGE, FRANCES
ABSTRACT: Book publisher Jerry North introduces one of his authors, Victor
Sproul, to an expectant audience at a New York discussion club. The
introduction complete, Jerry turns to find the author dead in his chair on the
podium. Pam and Jerry North and their friend lieutenant Weigand of the
homicide squad are baffled by the lack of clues in this curious murder.
LP 01783 DEEP END
AUTHOR: NORMAN, GEOFFREY
ABSTRACT: When convicted-murderer-turned-detective Morgan Hunt is
asked by his buddy, Phil Garvey, to help him with a deep-sea diving class,
neither of them is aware that they'll soon be drawn into a web of deceit and
violence.
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LP 02562 DEER LEAP
AUTHOR: GRIMES, MARTHA
ABSTRACT: Scotland Yard's Richard Jury and his titled friend Malcolm
Plant meet at the Deer Leap, a pub in Ashdown Dean where people and pets
have been dying "accidentally." Jury quickly realizes that the puzzle's key lies
with teenage, taciturn Carrie Fleet, and an aging hard-drinking dowager who
brings Carrie to the village.
LP 08234 THE DEVIL RIDING
AUTHOR: WESLEY, VALERIE WILSON
ABSTRACT: Darnella Desmond, stepdaughter to wealthy Foster Desmond,
leaves home for the wilds of Atlantic City, eschewing all contact with her
family. When Darnella's last-known roommate is murdered, Darnella's
mother hires Tamara Hayle to track her daughter down.
LP 07914 DEVIL'S CLAW
AUTHOR: JANCE, J.A.
ABSTRACT: Sheriff Joanna Brady is about to be married and is dealing with
her preteen daughter, meddlesome mother, and new in-laws. The sudden
death of her friend Clayton Rhodes creates further turmoil and her daughter is
accusing Joanna of a murder cover-up. An Indian woman, recently released
from prison for manslaughter, is found shot to death and her fifteen-year-old
daughter Lucy is missing.
LP 06647 DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?
AUTHOR: CLARK, MARY JANE
ABSTRACT: When television news anchor Bill Kendall doesn't show up for
work one evening, Eliza Blake, morning anchor, takes over. Halfway through
the broadcast, she is fed shocking news--Bill has been found dead. His death
not only thrusts Eliza into an unwanted limelight, but also results in the
uncovering of other deadly secrets.
LP 05941DOUBLED IN SPADES
AUTHOR: MOODY, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: Someone is stalking Cassie Swann. She first noticed the man a
month ago. Now everywhere she goes, he's there. He's even waiting outside the
hospital after she visits her friend Naomi, who has her own terror to deal with
- she thinks her husband wants to kill her. Then Naomi's body is found stuffed
in the trunk of her car.
Mystery Novels
14
Maryland LBPH
LP 02690 DRIVING FORCE
AUTHOR: FRANCIS, DICK
ABSTRACT: Ex-jockey Freddie Croft has one strict rule for drivers of his
horse vans: never pick up hitchhikers. A driver breaks the rule, and before the
two reach their destination, the hitchhiker is dead. Then Croft's mechanic
makes a discovery that results in the mechanic's death, and Croft is nearly
drowned, his car is wrecked, and his house is ransacked.
LP 08828 DYING TO PLEASE
AUTHOR: HOWARD, LINDA
ABSTRACT: Sarah Stevens is a butler par excellence, skilled at running large
households smoothly, a trained bodyguard and expert marksman,
indispensable to her elderly employer. She thwarts a burglary in progress, a
courageous act that rewards Sarah fame with the local press. But the exposure
is enough to catch the attention of a tortured soul who, unbeknownst to Sarah,
will stop at nothing to have her for himself.
LP 09283 THE EIGHTH DAY
AUTHOR: CASE, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Danny Cray, a budding artist who works part time as an
unlicensed private investigator, is hired by a wealthy attorney to find out
who's been bad-mouthing one of his clients, the even wealthier Italian
businessman Zerevan Zebek. Danny's investigation takes him to Rome, where
he learns several unsettling things in rapid-fire succession and winds up on
the run for his life.
LP 08779 EMERALD AISLE
AUTHOR: MCINERNY, RALPH
ABSTRACT: Heavyweight Notre Dame professor Roger Knight and his P. I.
brother Philip investigate a baffling puzzle when some extremely rare literary
documents go missing in the fifth installment of this smart academic mystery
series. Complicating matters for the brothers are the impending nuptials of
some dear friends, Larry Morton and Nancy Beatty, which hit a snag.
LP 02353 EXPLOIT OF DEATH
AUTHOR: SHANNON, DELL
ABSTRACT: Lt. Luis Mendoza of the Los Angeles police dept. makes a fatal
mistake of becoming emotionally involved in a case. Called to a shabby
apartment to investigate an apparent suicide, Mendoza recognizes the corpse
as a charming young French woman he and his wife met on a recent flight.
The clues lead Mendoza to Paris, where the mystery grows more complex.
Mystery Novels
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Maryland LBPH
LP 08352 FALL OF A COSMONAUT
AUTHOR: KAMINSKY, STUART M.
ABSTRACT: Russian Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov of the Moscow police and
his colleagues handle three cases--a Mir cosmonaut lands and disappears; a
director's epic film about Tolstoy is stolen and held for ransom; and a
research parapsychologist is murdered. 2000.
LP 05539 THE FALLEN MAN
AUTHOR: HILLERMAN, TONY
ABSTRACT: The fallen man had sprawled on the ledge under the peak of
Ship Rock mountain for eleven years. Then a climbing party stumbles across
his bones and begins a chain of events that link Navajo policemen Joe
Leaphorn and Jim Chee on a trail long gone cold.
LP 04822 FAMOUS DETECTIVE STORIES IN LARGE PRINT
AUTHOR: REISER, VIRGINIG S. AND MARY C. ALLEN (EDS).
ABSTRACT: A collection of sixteen stories by the masters of mystery.
LP 05421 THE FATHER'S CLUB
AUTHOR: KATZ, JON
ABSTRACT: Linda Lewis wants suburban detective Kit Deleeuw to
investigate her ex-husband Dale. Dale has fallen behind on his child support
payments, and he hasn't called the kids or responded to messages. When the
deadbeat dad turns up dead in his office, Kit joins the men's club Dale
belonged to, hoping for a clue.
LP 06626 FIELD OF THIRTEEN
AUTHOR: FRANCIS, DICK
ABSTRACT: Mystery stories featuring horses and racetracks. Eight were
previously published (most in the 1970s), and five are originals. In "Spring
Fever," an older woman falls in love with her young jockey. In "Blind Chance,"
a blind boy picks up information about photo finishes and places his bets.
LP 01520 FINE ITALIAN HAND
AUTHOR: WRIGHT, ERIC
ABSTRACT: Staff inspector Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police
investigates the murder of actor Alec Hunter whose body is found in a sleazy
local motel. Insinuations by the media about mafia involvement have upset the
Italian community. And Salter, distracted by his wife's absence and an old
girlfriend's presence, must unravel the mystery.
Mystery Novels
16
Maryland LBPH
LP 01293 FIVE BELLS AND BLADEBONE
AUTHOR: GRIMES, MARTHA
ABSTRACT: Scotland Yard's Richard Jury, down in the village of Long
Piddleton to visit chum Melrose Plant, finds his vacation suddenly interrupted
when a bloody corpse falls out of a piece of furniture in the posh antique shop.
At first, the primary suspects are the dead man's local mistresses and his
neglected wife. Then jury runs directly into another homicide.
LP 00997 FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE
AUTHOR: ALLINGHAM, MARGERY
ABSTRACT: Detective Paul Campion delves into a tangled web of violence
and tragedy when a husband is found murdered, a rare manuscript is stolen,
and the obvious suspect-a close friend of Campion--is arrested.
LP 02606 FOR KICKS
AUTHOR: FRANCIS, DICK
ABSTRACT: A young Australian horse-breeder, hired to come to England
and pose as a stable boy, smokes out the criminals who are using a seemingly
undetectable method of fixing horse races.
LP 10196 FORGET ABOUT MURDER
AUTHOR: SQUIRE, ELIZABETH DANIELS
ABSTRACT: Absentminded sleuth Peaches Dann old acquaintance Belle Dasher
claims that a neighbor is poisoning the water supply with cancer-causing
chemicals. But when Belle starts spreading rumors about her enemy's family,
unsavory secrets from her own past come to light. And soon Peaches is
embroiled in the very thing she had hoped to avoid- a murder investigation.
LP 06783 GIRL GONE MISSING
AUTHOR: GREGSON, J. M.
ABSTRACT: A woman walking her dog discovers the body of teenager Alison
Watts washed up on the banks of the River Wye. To outward appearances,
Alison's life seemed perfectly ordinary. Gradually, as Supt John Lambet and his
sergeant, Bert Hook delve deeper into the murky depths of the local
community, they discover that Alison may not have been an innocent teenager.
LP 05825 THE GODDESS AFFAIR
AUTHOR: O'DONNELL, LILLIAN
ABSTRACT: Fellow vacationers aboard the cruise ship Dante Aligheri agree that
the rich Aldrich sisters are not without their flaws. Clever Diana is not quite
clever enough. Poor Juno is drab and overweight. Minerva has beauty and
brains but seems terribly ill. And one of them will soon die an ugly death.
Private Investigator Gwenn Ramadge is lured in to investigate the tragedy.
Mystery Novels
17
Maryland LBPH
LP 01413 GOOD NIGHT TO KILL
AUTHOR: O'DONNELL, LILLIAN
ABSTRACT: Lt. Nora Mulcahaney, head of a homicide division in
Manhattan, has two murders to solve on the night of a major snowstorm. In
one case, a young woman shoots a ski-masked man who threatens her on the
stoop of her apartment building. In another, the wife of a mafia leader is
drowned in her penthouse pool.
LP 07720 GRAVE UNDERTAKINGS: A FATHER DOWLING MYSTERY
AUTHOR: MCINERNY, RALPH
ABSTRACT: Vincent O'Yoole, a local mobster, has just died and has been
buried in the local cemetery. While questions still surround the cause of his
death, someone has been attempting to dig up his grave. When the town's
police finally disinter the coffin, they find it empty. Who and why would
anyone wish to steal the mobster's corpse?
LP 02897 THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT
AUTHOR: HIGGINS, JACK
ABSTRACT: Ben Garvald has been released and is heading for town...so
Detective Sergeant Miller, an unusually well-educated and intelligent copper
fresh from police college, is hauled back from holiday to see what he's after.
LP 07952 GRIEVANCE
AUTHOR: CONSTANTINE, K.C.
ABSTRACT: J.D. Lyons enforced a policy that had shut down steel
production and eliminated two-thirds of a Rocksburg, Pennsylvania factory
workforce. For Lyons has just been found dead in the trunk of his Jaguar.
The list of suspects is the size of a phone book. This won't be a easy case
for Detective Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci.
LP 02673 HAPPY ARE THE PEACE MAKERS
AUTHOR: GREELEY, ANDREW M.
ABSTRACT: Vacationing in Dublin with his niece and youngest sister, the
Most Reverend John Blackwood Ryan becomes involved in a baffling
mystery. Irish millionaire James Lark Macdonaugh has been murdered,
possibly by the IRA, and his disinherited family and business associates want
Blackie Ryan to find the killers.
LP 03743 HER DEATH OF COLD
AUTHOR: MCINERNY, RALPH
ABSTRACT: Stubbornly determined Father Dowling, with the help of his old
friend the chief of detectives, comes up with a surprising answer to how old
Mrs. Lowery came to be stuffed in her own freezer.
Mystery Novels
18
Maryland LBPH
LP 07758 HOLY TERROR IN THE HEBRIDES
AUTHOR: DAMS, JEANNE M.
ABSTRACT: A peaceful vacation on the charming Scottish island of Iona
sounds idyllic to sometime sleuth Dorothy Martin. Everybody except Dorothy
believes the unpleasant American's fatal fall from a cliff is accidental. The only
witness, she saw a small clue the police dismiss, one that makes her believe the
death was not an accident.
LP 01494 THE HOUSE OF BRASS
AUTHOR: QUEEN, ELLERY
ABSTRACT: Aged millionaire Hendrik Brass invited six people to his
Mansion--'out of gratitude to their parents,' he said. But the six soon realized
that the parent's had been Brass's most hated enemies and they were the
victims of a monstrous joke.
LP 05026 HUNTER IN THE DARK
AUTHOR: THOMPSON, ESTELLE
ABSTRACT: In Queensland, Philip Blair who has been blind for two years, is
at a bus stop when a girl, accepts a ride from a man she obviously knows.
When she is found strangled, Philip rages at the crime and his inability to
identify the monstrous killer.
LP 05897 IF I'D KILLED HIM WHEN I MET HIM...
AUTHOR: MCCRUMB, SHARYN
ABSTRACT: When forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson becomes
the official P.I. for her brother's law firm, she quickly takes on two complex
cases. Eleanor Royden has shot her exhusband and his new wife in cold blood.
And Donna Jean Morgan is implicated in the death of her Bible-thumping
bigamist husband.
LP 08671 ILLUSIONS
AUTHOR: SAUNDERS, JEAN
ABSTRACT: Private Investigator Alexandra Best hasn't envisaged meeting
Leanora, an elderly psychic who warned her of an impending death. Leanora
herself is the victim of her own prophecy and when her daughter Moira, begs
Alex to investigate she is forced to reveal that someone is stalking both mother
and daughter.
Mystery Novels
19
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LP 06580 AN INCONSIDERATE DEATH
AUTHOR: ROWLANDS, BETTY
ABSTRACT: Lorraine Chant, wife of a wealthy businessman, is found
strangled. What was Lorraine's relationship with Hugo Bayliss - a man with a
dubious background and a penchant for married women? How did Bayliss
come to meet Sukey, police photographer, before the investigation became
public? Then, Sukey plays into the hands of Lorraine's murderer.
LP 04083 FINE PLACE FOR DEATH
AUTHOR: GRANGER, ANN
ABSTRACT: After fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills is found murdered in the
Cotswolds town of Bamford, Chief Inspector Markby is aware that his grasp
on the lives led by he community's teenagers is tenuous.
LP 08089 IRISH EYES
AUTHOR: GREELEY, ANDREW M.
ABSTRACT: Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband Dermot Coyne lives in
Chicago with their new baby girl. Nelliecoyne is no ordinary baby: fey like
her mother, she can see into the past and the future. Nuala and her baby
sensed vibration from a place on the Lake where many Irish Americans lost
their lives. Nuala and Dermot begin to investigate and they will make
dangerous enemies, solve a murder, and find a buried treasure.
LP 07895 IRISH MIST
AUTHOR: GREELEY, ANDREW M.
ABSTRACT: When Nuala Anne McGrail, beautiful and vivacious "Celtic witch",
began to have visions of a burning castle, the captain of the infamous "Black
and Tan" police force, a wild woman from Chicago, and bloodshed -all
somehow connected-lead the two to the remnants of a mystery long buried.
And who among the living will do whatever it takes to keep Nuala and Dermot
from finding out?
LP 09371 IRISH STEW
AUTHOR: GREELEY, ANDREW M.
ABSTRACT: Nuala Anne McGrail, returns, along with her devoted husband
Dermot, to lend her second sight and irrepressible personality to another
savory concoction made up of equal parts of love, humor, and intrigue.
Mystery Novels
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LP 07621 IRISH TENURE
AUTHOR: MCINERNY, RALPH
ABSTRACT: In the University of Notre Dame's philosophy department,
Professor Roger Knight is a friend to both Amanda Pick and Hans Wiener, two
young scholars who are competing for the same tenure position. Knight learns
of the many secrets that both professors have. Amanda crosses the wrong path
and ends up dead. Speculation is building about the true origins of an unknown
G. K. Chesterton manuscript. Is it somehow tied into Amanda Pick's death?
LP 07801 IRISH WHISKEY
AUTHOR: GREELEY, ANDREW M.
ABSTRACT: Nuala AnneMcGrail has twice before amazed Dermot Coyne, with
her psychic ability to discover a past wrong that needs righting. But while
visiting his grandparents in Chicago's cemetery, Nuala points to the grave of
Jimmy "Sweet Rolls" Sullivan, a famous bootlegger, and states that there is
nobody buried in it. Dermot finds yet another historic mystery.
LP 07730 JEOPARDY'S CHILD
AUTHOR: BATTISON, BRIAN
ABSTRACT: A missing eight-year-old is every parent's nightmare, and when
a second child disappears Detective Chief Inspector Jim Ashworth must face a
nightmare of his own-a pedophile ring operating in Bridgetown. Then another
child is abducted and every second counts if they are to find her alive.
Ashworth and his team can only pray that they are not too late.
LP 01294 JERUSALEM INN
AUTHOR: GRIMES, MARTHA
ABSTRACT: Several days before Christmas, Scotland Yard's Supt. Richard
Jury accidentally meets Helen Minton in a snow-covered graveyard near
Newcastle. Attracted to her, he is shocked to learn that she has been found
dead. When an autopsy reveals poison as the cause of death, jury searches for
the killer.
LP 09400 JFK IS MISSING
AUTHOR: EVANS, LIZ
ABSTRACT: PI Grace Smith is back, walking the mean streets of Seatoun. Client
Henry Summerstone has asked her to find a missing person, but he has no idea
of her name, where she lives or works, or what she looks like-he's been blind
for years. He's not even sure she's missing. But he's offering cash, an offer that
Grace finds hard to refuse. Soon she's got a lead on the girl-several girls.
Mystery Novels
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LP 08864 THE KILLING BEE
AUTHOR: WITTEN, MATT
ABSTRACT: Writer and stay-at-home dad Jacob Burns investigates the
murder of a grade school principal in this new mystery .
LP 09666 THE KILLING HOUR
AUTHOR: GARDNER, LISA
ABSTRACT: Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy is after a serial killer who
always claims two victims, leaving clues with the first corpse that will lead to
the second-whose slow, torturous death could be prevented.
LP 03724 KING AND JOKER
AUTHOR: DICKINSON, PETER
ABSTRACT:Zany, witty mystery set in Buckingham Palace with such
Characters as King Victor II, M.D., a frustrated doctor, his wife, a Spanish
princess, a vegetarian Prince of Wales, and Princess Louise, the heroine.
LP 06907 KISSED A SAD GOODBYE
AUTHOR: CROMBIE, DEBORAH
ABSTRACT: Det Supt Duncan Kincaid promised the weekend to Kit, the eleven
year old son of his ex-wife. But Duncan's best intentions are shattered by the
discovery of the body of a beautiful young woman in an East London park.
Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James will discover that this case has long roots
that reach far back into the past.
LP 04200 LADY YESTERDAY
AUTHOR: ESTLEMAN, LOREN D.
ABSTRACT: An Amos Walker mystery. Walker follows a cold trail into
Detroit's great jazz past to help his friend Iris, a bronze-skinned beauty who
wants to find her father, a hot musician in the heyday of the Chicago jazz
greats.
LP 09214 LAST SCENE ALIVE
AUTHOR: HARRIS, CHARLAINE
ABSTRACT: "Roe" Teagarden relives past history when a movie crew settles
in town to make a film based on her first sleuthing adventure. The crew
includes both Robin Crusoe, her former co-sleuth and a true-crime writer, and
her hate-filled stepson.
Mystery Novels
22
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LP 05160 THE LEATHER DUKE
AUTHOR: GRUBER, FRANK
ABSTRACT: Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg take jobs with "The Leather duke"
Chicago's biggest operator in the leather business. But before they've been
there half a day, Sam finds a corpse.
LP 07343 LEAVE THE GRAVE GREEN
AUTHOR: CROMBIE, DEBORAH
ABSTRACT: Scotland Yard Supt Duncan Kincaid and Sgt Gemma James,
Investigate when Connor Swann is found in the Thames River. Swann is the
estranged husband of Julia, daughter of two prominent opera figures. The
family had suffered a similar loss two decades ago when Julia's brother
drowned while playing. But Swann's death doesn't appear to be an accident.
LP 01407 A LEGACY OF DEATH
AUTHOR: PENN, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Once again, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Tansey
And Detective-Sergeant Bill Abbot of the Thames Valley Police are in familiar
territory, this time investigating mysterious events at a co-educational day and
boarding-school near Colombury in the Cotswolds."
LP 05432 LEGAL TENDER
AUTHOR: SCOTTOLINE, LISA
ABSTRACT: Benedetta "Bennie" Rosato, a gutsy six-foot tall, super athletic
lawyer and her partner/lover, Mark Biscardi, have established a successful
law firm. Mark ousts her from their firm in favor of a beautiful new associate.
When Mark is found murdered at his desk, Bennie's alibi is weak. Bennie,
realizing someone is trying to frame her, is now on the run from the police.
LP 06146 A LIKENESS IN STONE
AUTHOR: MARTIN, J. WALLIS
ABSTRACT: When divers discover remains in a house that has long been
submerged by a reservoir, Driver finds Helena Warner, an undergraduate at
Somerville College, was murdered, and three of her closest friends colluded to
protect the identity of the killer. If he is to prevent further deaths, Driver must
understand the dark ties that bind Helena's three friends together in silence.
LP 05620 LILY WHITE
AUTHOR: ISAACS, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: Attorney Lee White is defending a charming con man who moves
from town to town seducing middle-aged women out of their money, and who
is now accused of urdering his latest mark. In alternate passages, Lee reviews
the shabby treatment in her own personal life.
Mystery Novels
23
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LP 09133 LINES OF DEFENSE
AUTHOR: SIEGEL, BARRY
ABSTRACT: Doug Bard is a conscientious and dogged detective, separated
from his upwardly mobile financial-analyst wife, Sasha, who is not at all
happy with the local DA's finding that a fire that killed an elderly eccentric
and his young piano student was accidental. When the authorities finally
accept that it was murder, they seem to Doug to have hit upon the wrong man
as a suspect. Meanwhile the ambitious DA, glamorous Angela Stark, has set
her cap for a man of mysterious wealth who's trying to develop the town.
LP 09622 LITTLE GIRL LOST
AUTHOR: KELLY, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: When Emilia Troy is kidnapped, social worker and neighbor
Joshua Salem is the prime suspect. The case is turned over to Superintendent
Gregory Summers who must solve Emilia's disappearance by trawling through
his suspects' murky lives--the over protective social worker, the lonely nurse,
the jilted foster parents.
LP 07392 LOVELY IN HER BONES
AUTHOR: MCCRUMB, SHARYN
ABSTRACT: ELizabeth MacPherson, college graduate in sociology, enrolled in
an Appalachian studies course in folk medicine. Her brother's roommate
invited her to an archaeological dig to determine if an obscure Indian tribe can
lay legal claim to the land they live on. The dig is nearly called off when the
leader is found murdered in his tent. It takes a second mysterious death for
ELizabeth to come up with a batch of answers that surprises even the experts.
LP 04224 LOVER AND THIEF
AUTHOR: MALING, ARTHUR
ABSTRACT: Calvin Bix, a savvy private eye, is hired by Chicago socialite
Anita Danton to find her lover Peter Ives.
LP 07088 THE LOW ROAD
AUTHOR: HILL, REGINALD
ABSTRACT: Even in a remote part of Skye, William Blake Hazlitt finds it
hard to hide from his pursuers. His disappearance has caused some concern at
the university where he is Deputy Registrar - but when American research
student Caroline Nevis decides to investigate, she finds there are other hunters
whose motives are more sinister.
Mystery Novels
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LP 08601 MAID FOR MURDER
AUTHOR: COLLEY, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: Charlotte La Rue cleans houses in New Orleans. Having become
friendly with Jeanne Dubuisson, Charlotte tries to help out after someone kills
Jeanne's well-known (but philandering) attorney husband. His death echoes
the unsolved murder of Jeanne's father some 15 years previously. Charlotte
does a little sleuthing on her own, taking a few tips from a detective niece.
LP 00411 MAIGRET AND THE APPARITION
AUTHOR: SIMENON, GEORGES
ABSTRACT: Inspector Lognon, dubbed "Inspector Hapless", has a close
brush with death when he investigates suspicious activities in an elegant
mansion. Maigret helps clear up the puzzle by pitting himself against an
international figure of the art world.
LP 01473 MAIGRET AND THE BURGLAR'S WIFE
AUTHOR: SIMENON, GEORGES
ABSTRACT: The French detective is pitted against a surly dentist and his
cunning mother. The wife of a respected safe-cracker has come to Maigret
after her frightened husband tells her of stumbling upon a corpse while
robbing the dentist's house. When the dentist and his mother deny being
robbed or any knowledge of a corpse, Maigret must investigate.
LP 02343 MAIGRET AND THE FLEA
AUTHOR: SIMENON, GEORGES
ABSTRACT: Monsieur Maurice, one-time gangster and now well respected
patron of the celebrated Sardine Restaurant, is found shot dead. Maigret is
perplexed by an apparently motiveless crime.
LP 04057 MAIGRET AND THE GANGSTERS
AUTHOR: SIMENON, GEORGES
ABSTRACT: Chief inspector Jules Maigret of the Paris crime squad is
reluctantly helping the hapless detective Lognon discover the identity of a
body dumped from a passing car and immediately picked up by another.
LP 01462 MAIGRET AND THE MAN ON THE BENCH
AUTHOR: SIMENON, GEORGES
ABSTRACT: French inspector Maigret unravels the case of a man stabbed to
death in an alley. As he follows the dead man's tracks, a single incongruous
clue keeps recurring: the murdered man was frequently seen sitting on a
bench on a Paris boulevard.
Mystery Novels
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LP 02344 MAIGRET BIDES HIS TIME
AUTHOR: SIMENON, GEORGES
ABSTRACT: The daring daylight smash-and-grab robberies of jewelry store
display windows by a gang of Corsican bandits has tested Maigrrett's
legendary patience for over two decades. When the body of Corsican
immigrant Manuel Palmari turns up slumped in his wheelchair with a bullet
through his head, a generation of conspiracy finally begins to unfold.
LP 01463 MAIGRET GOES HOME
AUTHOR: SIMENON, GEORGES
ABSTRACT: The French police ignore the anonymous note announcing that a
crime will be committed in the church at St. Fiacre on All Souls' Day. But
Maigret is determined to investigate, for St. Fiacre was his birthplace.
LP 01633 MAIGRET GOES TO SCHOOL
AUTHOR: SIMENON, GEORGES
ABSTRACT: Inspector Jules Maigret has no more reason to mourn the loss of
an unsavory ex-postmistress than has any resident of Saint-Andre-sur-mer.
Almost anyone could have shot her, including the frightened schoolmaster
who's been charged.
LP 00373 MAN WHO MADE THE DEVIL GLAD
AUTHOR: MCCAIG, DONALD
ABSTRACT: Widower Cub Hamill is sheriff of Tucker county, high up in the
mountains of West Virginia, until he loses the November election to his bornagain deputy. Fairly content to work his farm and hunt for a wily coyote who
has been butchering the sheep, Hamill begins to ask questions when a smalltime criminal is murdered.
LP 06145 MAYDAY FROM MALAGA
AUTHOR: KNOX, BILL
ABSTRACT: Marine Claims Manager Andrew Laird is sent to Spain to take
the Sea Robin insurance claim. He learns that the Sea Robin, a twenty-year-old
cargo ship, had had an engine failure, drifted onto a ridge of undersea rock
and sunk. But when he discovers that both the ship's hull and its cargo had,
been insured together, his suspicions are aroused.
Mystery Novels
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LP 02683 MEANS OF EVIL: AND OTHER STORIES
AUTHOR: RENDELL, RUTH
ABSTRACT: In these five cases, Detective Chief Inspector Wexford solves the
murder of a ninety-two-year-old woman planning to enter a nursing home,
investigates the death of a woman who supposedly jumped from her home,
finds a kidnapped baby, and looks into odd behavior by fellow tourists in
Yugoslavia. Also solved from Wexford's armchair is a historic old crime.
LP 02346 MISS MELVILLE RETURNS
AUTHOR: SMITH, EVELYN E.
ABSTRACT: Sometime professional assassin, now a successful artist, Susan
Melville has the role of amateur sleuth thrust upon her when multi-media
artist Rafael Hoffman is murdered.
LP 05504 MOURN NOT YOUR DEAD
AUTHOR: CROMBIE, DEBORAH
ABSTRACT: Alastair Gilbert, a commander in the London Metropolitan
Police, is found bludgeoned to death in the kitchen of his suburban Surrey
home. Investigators Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James must put their feelings
for each other and their memories of Gilbert as their superior aside, as they
discover that Gilbert did not always play by the rules.
LP 06031 A MULTITUDE OF SINS
AUTHOR: BELL, PAULINE
ABSTRACT: Zoe Morgan is a part-time marriage counselor, a far cry from
her days as a police officer with Cloughton CID. When Graham Crowther is
killed in a dangerous canoeing trick at his local club. The club coach is not
convinced Graham would have attempted such a stunt, especially alone, and
Zoe draws on her old detective skills to look into the suspicious death.
LP 02718 MURDER IN E MINOR
AUTHOR: GOLDSBOROUGH, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: The niece of the conductor of the New York symphony
orchestra asks Archie Goodwin to persuade Nero Wolfe discover who has been
sending her uncle threatening letters. Soon the conductor is found stabbed.
LP 06062 MURDER OF A SUICIDE
AUTHOR: FERRARS, ELIZABETH
ABSTRACT: When Toby Dyke and his friend George heard the shouting,
they raced to the edge of the cliff, where they were just in time prevent Edgar
Prees from jumping to his death. When the same Edgar Prees was found the
following morning, shot to death with his own revolver, Toby and George are
thrust headlong into their oddest case - of a suicide that isn't.
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LP 04272 A MURDER OF QUALITY
AUTHOR: LE CARRE, JOHN
ABSTRACT: A murder of quality is committed at one of England's most
prestigious public schools, where an atmosphere of pomp and snobbery
pervades the ancient halls and determines behavior.
LP 01699 NERVE
AUTHOR: FRANCIS, DICK
ABSTRACT: Top jockey Art Matthews shot himself in the center of the parade
ring at the Dunstable races. Then another leading jockey, suffers a mental
breakdown, all because of nasty rumors circulating from an unknown source.
When rumors begin about Rob Finn and his horses begin to run slow and jump
badly, he suspects foul\d play and goes looking for the cause.
LP 08830 NEVER KISSED GOODNIGHT: A LEIGH KOSLOW MYSTERY
AUTHOR: CLAIRE, EDIE
ABSTRACT: Leigh's cousin Cara has a picture-perfect life. She has a
knock-out figure, an adorable son, and a rich, devoted-not to mention
gorgeous-husband. But if Cara's life is so wonderful, then why did she show
up at Leigh's apartment in the middle of the night with tears in her eyes?
LP 08435 THE NEXT ACCIDENT
AUTHOR: GARDNER, LISA
ABSTRACT: FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy is haunted by questions.
The official report concluded that his daughter's death was an accident.
Amanda Quincy was driving drunk when her car careened out of control.
Quincy is prepared to risk everything to learn about Amanda's death.
LP 08429 NINE LIVES
AUTHOR: LEAN, FRANK
ABSTRACT: Manchester's most intrepid private eye is in jail. Framed and
arrested for a cold-blooded murder, Dave Cunane turns to the ever-tricky
Delise, his part-time lover and full-time assistant, to save his neck and find out
who the real killer is, but as the clock ticks away and the corpses pile up, Dave
realizes that more than one party wants him out of the way- for good!
LP 06271 NO PLACE OF SAFETY
AUTHOR: BARNARD, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: When two teenagers go missing from the same school,
Detective Constable Charlies Peace is puzzled - none of their friends know of
any connection between them. The mystery soon solves itself: they are not
homeless street kids, but they're working at a hostel for them. Who is
the man running the hostel - what is his past and what is his motivation?
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LP 08980 NORTH OF NOWHERE
AUTHOR: HAMILTON,STEVE
ABSTRACT: Ex-Detroit cop Alex McKnight celebrating his 49th birthday by
retreating to his cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where he laments his
personal and career failures. McKnight is coaxed out with a poker game,
hosted by wealthy contractor Winston Vargas, only to have the game
interrupted by armed men in masks, who empty Vargas's safe.
LP 08260 NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
AUTHOR: STABENOW, DANA
ABSTRACT: Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell's latest investigation into a
seemingly routine homicide-a robbery gone bad-becomes something else when
the first murder is followed by a second...then a third. Soon a chilling pattern
begins to emerge that leads him back through the years and into the sights of a
diabolical killer whose agenda could have fatal consequences for Campbell.
LP 01295 OLD FOX DECEIV'D
AUTHOR: GRIMES, MARTHA
ABSTRACT: Inspector Richard Jury of Scotland Yard is completely baffled
by a mystery in a tiny Yorkshire fishing village with a history of bad blood
and undiscovered murders. Simply ascertaining the identity of the victim, a
woman found dead in a bizarre costume, proves to be no simple matter for
inspector jury and his colorful sidekicks.
LP 06127 OMENS OF DEATH
AUTHOR: RHEA, NICHOLAS
ABSTRACT: Detective Inspector Montague Pluke was a very superstitious
man and when he noticed the solitary crow upon the roof of No 15 Padgett
Grove, he realized it was an omen of death. When the naked body of a young
woman is found at the local Druids' Circle, Fate seems to be on his side.
When two more people die in suspicious circumstances, Montague Pluke is at
last able to put all his police training, together with his great knowledge of
superstitions ancient and modern, to good use.
LP 07238 ONE LAST DANCE
AUTHOR: GOUDGE, EILEEN
ABSTRACT: On the eve of their fortieth anniversary, the Seagraves are among
the most enviable couples in Miramonte, California - then Vernon Seagrave is
shot to death and Lydia is jailed for his murder. What could have gone wrong?
Their three grown daughters struggle to find the answer. Daphne, Alex, and
Kitty must bury their father and uncover the ugly truth that could save their
mother. At the same time, they must untangle their own lives.
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LP 06459 OOPS! A NUDGER MYSTERY
AUTHOR: LUTZ, JOHN
ABSTRACT: The case: The client's daughter, alone in her locked house, tripped
on the stairs, fell, fractured her skull, and died. The police shut the case, but
the deceased's father wants to open it and prove murder. A continuum of
accidents follow Nudger and company as his sense of justice pushed him on.
Lutz uses Nudger's daily insecurities - Can he face danger yet again and
survive. What if his junky car won't start? - And Lacey's humorous
interference to produce a bumbling fun detective story.
LP 06008 OUT OF THE SUN
AUTHOR: GODDARD, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: David Venning is a brilliant mathematician, whose condition is
taken to be either an accident or a suicide attempt. But, oddly enough, his
notebooks are missing from the hotel room in which he was found. His father
Harry discovers that two other scientists employed, like David, by Globescrope
Inc., have died in mysterious circumstances.
LP 07345 OUTFOXED
AUTHOR: BROWN, RITA MAE
ABSTRACT: Jane Arnold, Master of the Jefferson Hunt Club, is looking forward
to retirement. When the opening hunt day ends in murder, Jane realizes a
member of her hunt must be responsible. Only she, with the help of a few
clever foxes and hounds, can lay the trap to catch the killer.
LP 07713 THE PMS OUTLAWS
AUTHOR: MCCRUMB, SHARYN
ABSTRACT: Elizabeth McPherson’s brother Bill bought a stately old mansion to
use as his law office, only to find that the house comes with a charming
codger-in-residence who is far too old to be a dangerous outlaw, isn't he? Bill's
law partner is trying to track down the PMS Outlaws-an escaped convict and
her attorney-who are cruising pickup joints and wreaking a peculiar
vengeance on lust-crazed men.
LP 09128 A PAINTED DOOM
AUTHOR: ELLIS, KATE
ABSTRACT: Lewis Hoxworthy discovers a disturbing painting in a medieval
barn, a discovery which excites archaeologist Neil Watson. When former rock
star Jonny Shellmer is found shot in Lewis' father's field and Lewis goes
missing, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson and his boss, Gerry Heffernan,
face their most intriguing case yet.
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LP 04486 PALE GRAY FOR GUILT: A TRAVIS MCGEE MYSTERY
AUTHOR: MACDONALD, JOHN D.
ABSTRACT: Travis McGee's old buddy Tush Bannon dies mysteriously after
a big Florida corporation decides it must have his prime oceanside acres.
LP 09001 PAST TENSE
AUTHOR: TAPPLY, WILLIAM G.
ABSTRACT: Brady Coyne and girlfriend Evie become prime suspects when a
stalker from Evie's past winds up dead outside the couple's rented Cape Cod
cottage. Evie's subsequent disappearance sends the Boston attorney into
investigative mode.
LP 04368 PICTURES OF PERFECTION: A DALZIEL AND PASCOE NOVEL
AUTHOR: HILL, REGINALD
ABSTRACT: Detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe are called to the
village of Enscombe to investigate the disappearance of a young constable.
Beneath the calm exterior of village life, they find lust, lies, thievery, and
feuds that go back for generations. It seems that the constable's disappearance
may be the least of their concerns.
LP 06625 THE PILOT'S WIFE
AUTHOR: SHREVE, ANITA
ABSTRACT: While Kathryn Lyons is first mourning her pilot husband Jack's
death in a plane explosion, she learns that he is suspected of planting the
bomb. After finding out there was another woman in his life, Kathryn
confronts her in London to solve the puzzle of Jack's hidden self.
LP 02424 THE PIPER ON THE MOUNTAIN
AUTHOR: PETERS, ELLIS
ABSTRACT: A solitary climber fell to his death from a mountain in Slovakia.
The police said it was an accident but his young stepdaughter thought
otherwise. Wishing to see justice done, she diverted a student holiday tout into
the wild and lovely Tatra mountains for further investigations.
LP 08384 A PLACE OF EXECUTION
AUTHOR: MCDERMID, VAL
ABSTRACT: On a freezing day in December 1963, thirteen-year-old Alison
Carter vanishes from her village. Nothing will ever be the same again for the
inhabitants of the isolated hamlet in the English countryside. A young George
Bennett, a newly-promoted inspector, is determined to solve this case even if
it just to bring home a daughter's dead body to her mother.
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LP 07969 PLAYGROUND PETS
AUTHOR: ELLIS, RON
ABSTRACT: When opera 'queen' Max Cadamarteri is found with his throat cut
open, Glass is called in. Glass also has the Police Christmas Party, which turns
to disaster when a blue movie is shown and Detective Sergeant Evans
recognizes his under-age goddaughter in the cast. Glass's son-in-law,
Detective Chief Inspector Robin Knox, is on the trail of a serial murderer after
a number of young girls have been found dead and identically mutilated.
LP 09296 PRESCRIPTION FOR TERROR
AUTHOR: CEREN, SANDRA LEVY
ABSTRACT: When rape and murder strike young, single women on the sun
drenched San Diego coast, police are stumped. One of the victims was Dr.
Cory Cohen's patient, which flashbacks for Cory. Her attacker went free, but
she vows this one won't. In her relentless pursuit she risks the loss of an
important friendship, and worse, places herself squarely into the killer's path.
LP 07689 PROBABLE CAUSE
AUTHOR: PEARSON, RIDLEY
ABSTRACT: Having given up his job as a forensic investigator, James DeWitt
now works as a detective in the town of Carmel. Suddenly Carmel is hit with a
series of apparent suicides, and as DeWitt investigates, he finds himself being
dogged by the cop whom he blames for his wife's death.
LP 03756 PUPPET ON A CHAIN
AUTHOR: MACLEAN, ALISTAIR
ABSTRACT: The London chief of Interpol is sent to Amsterdam to collect
narcotics information that cannot be forwarded by diplomatic pouch. Upon
arrival at the airport, he sees the messenger shot down and so must crack the
crime ring without the data.
LP 06329 THE PUZZLED HEART
AUTHOR: CROSS, AMANDA
ABSTRACT: Savvy New York English professor and amateur sleuth Kate
Fansler's husband, Reed, has been kidnapped -- and will be killed if Kate
doesn't obey the carefully delineated directives of the ransom note, which
include Kate's publicly renouncing her feminist politics. Who precisely is this
enemy? A vengeful colleague? A hostile student? A terrorist sect?
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LP 05497 RAINBOW'S END: A RICHARD JURY NOVEL
AUTHOR: GRIMES, MARTHA
ABSTRACT: Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury has been called in
to investigate the deaths of three women, all from natural causes.The first
victim, a young American from Sante Fe, New Mexico, died in Salisbury.
The other two, who were British, died in London and Exeter. When Jury
learns that all three had been in New Mexico at the same time, he is off to the
U.S. to sleuth.
LP 01312 RECALLED TO LIFE
AUTHOR: HILL, REGINALD
ABSTRACT: The past comes back to haunt Dalziel when a tv journalist turns
up new evidence in a 1963 murder case. This new evidence has won the
accused’s release and casts aspersions on the original investigation. Dalziel
and Pascoe investigate on their own – unofficially. Cracking this case will
involve some of the world’s prominent politicians-who will stop at nothing.
LP 07486 RECKLESS LADY
AUTHOR: FOLEY, RAE
ABSTRACT: Beautiful and rich Kay Spaulding was found dead in a shabby
stolen car, mugged and robbed. But the police were calling it premeditated
murder. The net closes around her half-sister Martha who was in love with
Kay's husband Alan, a television personality. Only when Martha is trapped on
a mountain does she learn the truth about a gamble that nearly paid off.
LP 08222 REPORT FOR MURDER
AUTHOR: MCDERMID, VAL
ABSTRACT: Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why
else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls' public school? But
when the star attraction is garrotted with her own cello string, mere moments
before she is due on stage, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious
murder.
LP 07970 RULING PASSION
AUTHOR: HILL, REGINALD
ABSTRACT: Police Sergeant Peter Pascoe and his girl, invited to spend a
weekend with old friends in a village in Northern England arrive to find three
of them dead at the cottage. Only the host is missing.
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LP 01313 SACRED CLOWNS
AUTHOR: HILLERMAN, TONY
ABSTRACT: Navajo policeman Joe Leaphorn uses traditional methods to
solve crimes while his colleague, Jim Chee, relies on his intuition for most
cases and likes to work alone. The team has its hands full when a teacher at
a mission school is murdered, a boy from a pueblo is missing, a sacred clown
is stabbed to death, and an old man is a hit-and-run victim.
LP 00398 SALT IS LEAVING
AUTHOR: PRIESTLEY, JOHN BOYNTON
ABSTRACT: A doctor investigates the disappearance of a middle-aged
bookseller and a girl in urgent need of drugs. In the face of threats and
indifference of the police, he reaches a startling and macabre conclusion.
LP 02728 SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA
AUTHOR: BARNARD, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Peter Proctor, ex-cabinet member, is writing his memoirs. The
image of deceased Timothy Wycliffe keeps popping up--just as Tim used to
pop into his office thirty years ago. Proctor must dig into Wycliffe's death
before he can get on with his memoirs, and two shocks await him.
LP 08316 SCREEN SAVERS
AUTHOR: JARDINE, QUINTIN
ABSTRACT: An undercover stint posing as a TV wrestling master of ceremonies
to catch a killer has convinced Private Enquiry Agent Oz Blackstone that he
might just have a bit of hidden theatrical talent! So when Oz gets the chance of
a bit part in a movie, it seems like an offer he can't refuse- even though a
frightening series of accidents befall people close to him!
LP 09646 THE SECOND TIME AROUND
AUTHOR: CLARK, MARY HIGGINS.
ABSTRACT: Lynn Spencer asks financial reporter Carley DeCarlo, her
stepsister, to investigate the case of Lynn's missing husband, Nick. Nick's
medical research company, which may have been on the verge of discovering
a cure for cancer, has been left nearly bankrupt by Nick's disappearance along
with substantial corporate assets.
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LP 00440 SECRETS OF HARRY BRIGHT
AUTHOR: WAMBAUGH, JOSEPH
ABSTRACT: Two Los Angeles police detectives find themselves on an allexpenses-paid busman's holiday in the seedier environs of palm springs,
California. A millionaire brings them in to investigate the year-old but still
unsolved murder of his only son. Their search brings them into contact with
some inept policemen and leads to a poignant solution.
LP 03085 SEE JANE RUN
AUTHOR: FIELDING, JOY
ABSTRACT: One afternoon in late spring, Boston housewife Jane Whittaker
goes to the store for some milk and eggs and forgets who she is. What is
happening to her? she remembers why she went to the store, but she has no
idea who she is, or where she is. Then she realizes that her dress is covered
with blood and her coat pockets are full of $100 bills!
LP 05183 SENOR SAINT
AUTHOR: CHARTERIS, LESLIE
ABSTRACT: The Saint, as debonair and fast-moving as ever, now finds
himself involved in four Latin American adventures, which include protecting
a romantic widow in Havana and outwitting revolutionaries in Mexico.
LP 07825 SHADOW ACRES
AUTHOR: MCHUGH, FRANCES Y.
ABSTRACT: Dressing to go with her fiance, Bryan Sedgwick, to a dance in
their honor, Reda could not imagine why she should have a premonition of
disaster. Even a call from Bryan's grandfather, asking Reda to come see him
at once, hardly seemed to justify her fears. The discovery of the old man dead
in the library of his home, Shadow Acres, turned fear into horror.
LP 01925 SHADOWS ON THE SHORE
AUTHOR: STIRLING, JESSICA
ABSTRACT: Thirteen years have passed since Frederick Striker abandoned
Clare Delso, leaving her alone to face the trial for their son's murder. Now
the scheming rake is back and no one knows what he has up his sleeve.
LP 08315 SHAME THE DEVIL
AUTHOR: ORMEROD, ROGER
ABSTRACT: To Richard Patton, the inheritance of George Tate's camera
equipment at first seems inexplicable. They had only known each other for
three weeks, and that had been sixteen years before. He has inherited much
more-the tag end of an investigation into an unsolved kidnapping.
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LP 08496 THE SHAPE OF SNAKES
AUTHOR: WALTERS, MINETTE
ABSTRACT: When "Mad Annie," a black woman who suffers from
Tourette's syndrome, dies in a gutter in West London in 1978, it changes the
lives of everyone in the neighborhood. Particularly affected is Ann Ranelagh,
who, convinced that Annie was murdered, spends the next twenty years trying
to prove it.
LP 10043 THE SHAPE OF WATER
AUTHOR: CAMILLERI, ANDREA
ABSTRACT: Inspector Salvo Montalbano is handed a hot potato when the
body of Silvio Luparello, a local politico, is found in the Pasture, the little
town of Vigata's red-light district. The death seems to have occurred in
flagrante of natural causes, but Montalbano's instincts tell him something is
wrong.
LP 07807 SHATTERED
AUTHOR: FRANCIS, DICK
ABSTRACT: Jockey Martin Stukely dies after a fall at Cheltenham. His death
accidentally embroils his friend, Gerard Logan, in a perilous search for a stolen
videotape. Logan is suddenly faced with terrifying threats to his business,
courage, and his life. A group of villains is attempting to extract answers from
Logan that he doesn't have.
LP 06368 SHELTER FROM THE STORM
AUTHOR: DUNBAR, TONY
ABSTRACT: When big-time criminal Willie LaRue flies into New Orleans for a
bank heist on Mardi Gras eve, LaRue figures he and his gang will be lost amid
the confusion of parades, parties, and other festivities. Indeed, kooky
characters abound, including a bellboy cum activist, a reclusive couple from
Atalnta, and a gold digging Chicago blonde looking for love.
LP 06214 SHOOT DON'T SHOOT
AUTHOR: JANCE, J. A.
ABSTRACT: An assassin's bullet shattered Joanna Brady's world, leaving her
policeman husband to die in the Arizona desert. But the young widow fought
back the only way she knew how: by bringing the killers to justice... and
winning herself a job as Cochise County Sheriff. Still mourning her loss,
Joanna Brady needs to be strong for her nine-year-old daughter, Jenny.
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LP 06944 SHOT IN THE DARK: A BEL CARSON MYSTERY
AUTHOR: ROSS, ANNIE
ABSTRACT: When an elderly nun is raped and murdered at a drop in-centre
for drug addicts, the police decide it's a burglary gone wrong. Television
director Bel Carson sees pictures of the body, and is convinced that this was a
ritualistic murder, carried out by a sadistic and calculating killer. As she closes
in on the monster, she senses that someone is spying on her home.
LP 04766 SIMON LASH: PRIVATE DETECTIVE
AUTHOR: GRUBER, FRANK
ABSTRACT: Private Simon Lash was far more concerned with his library of
rare Americana than with the prospect of gaining clients, but when Joyce
Bonniwell arrived one morning in a state of extreme agitation, there wasn't
much Lash could do.
LP 08306 THE SINGING OF THE DEAD
AUTHOR: STABENOW, DANA
ABSTRACT: Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak joins the staff of a political campaign
to work security for a native woman running for Alaska state senator. But just
as she's getting started, the campaign is rocked by the murder of the staff
researcher, who, Kate discovers, possessed some damning information about
both candidates. To track the killer, Kate has to delve into the past.
LP 09827 THE SINNER
AUTHOR: GERRITSEN, TESS
ABSTRACT: Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Det. Jane Rizzolo are called
to Boston's Graystones Abbey when two nuns are discovered in an abandoned
chapel, both brutally bludgeoned. Isles's discovery that one of the murdered
nuns had recently given birth; the murder of a homeless derelict with her face
and extremities removed by her killer; and the lurking menace of a
multinational chemical company.
LP 07772 SKELETON DANCE
AUTHOR: ELKINS, AARON
ABSTRACT: When the local police inspector finds reason to suspect foul play,
he calls his old friend, Gideon Oliver, the famed "Skeleton Detective." When
Gideon arrives, murder piles on murder, puzzle on puzzle, and surprise on
surprise, in a series of unexpected events that threaten to tear the once sober,
dignified institute apart.
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LP 01574 THE SKELETON'S KNEE
AUTHOR: MAYOR, ARCHER
ABSTRACT: Abraham Fuller died of a gunshot wound that took twenty years
to do the job... Detective Joe Gunther decides to learn more about Abraham
Fuller--and whomever wanted him dead.
LP 03430 SKINWALKERS
AUTHOR: HILLERMAN, TONY
ABSTRACT: Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee of the tribal police work with the
Navajo people of the southwest trying to solve crimes that seem to resist logic.
When an unknown assailant attempts to kill Chee, Leaphorn must determine if
the incident is related to three recent murders that he has been struggling to
solve. The trail leads to the mysteries of Navajo witchcraft.
LP 08396 THE SKULL BENEATH THE SKIN
AUTHOR: JAMES, P. D.
ABSTRACT: Private investigator Cordelia Gray is hired as a bodyguard for
difficult actress Clarissa Lisle, who has been receiving death threats with
quotes from long-dead dramatists. During a house party, Cordelia discovers
the actress's mutilated body.
LP 08072 SLIGHTLY SHADY
AUTHOR: QUICK, AMANDA
ABSTRACT: Danger seems to follow Lavinia Lake whereever she goes. First
her shop in Italy is destroyed, then, upon her return to England with her niece,
she becomes the target of a blackmailer. When Lavinia goes to confront the
blackmailer, she finds his murdered body. Tobias March, a private
investigator, catches her at the scene.
LP 08071 A SMILE ON THE FACE OF THE TIGER: AN AMOS WALKER NOVEL
AUTHOR: ESTLEMAN, LOREN D.
ABSTRACT: Eugene Booth wrote "Paradise Valley" fifty-years ago. With a
New York publisher eager to reprint Booth's classic, Booth's recent
disappearance doesn't make sense. While hunting down Booth, Amos Walker
finds this missing-person case developing into somthing more deadly. A
notorious mob hit man, who's in protective custody, is also trailing Booth, and
a half-century-old murder comes back to light.
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LP 10309 THE SNACK THIEF
AUTHOR: CAMILLERI, ANDREA
ABSTRACT: When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a
crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol
boat off Sicily's coast, only Montalbano suspects the link between the two
incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished
housecleaner and sometime prostitute.
LP 02691 SNAGGED
AUTHOR: CLARK, CAROL HIGGINS
ABSTRACT: Private investigator Regan Reilly is in Miami for the wedding of
Maura, a close friend. Maura's uncle has created the perfect pair of panty
hose—runproof and snagproof--which he hopes to sell at a panty hose
convention in Miami. When attempts are made on the uncle's life, Regan finds
herself in danger of attending a funeral--her own--instead of a wedding.
LP 01122 SNAPSHOT
AUTHOR: BARNES, LINDA
ABSTRACT: Carlotta Carlyle, a Boston-based private investigator, receives a
photograph of a girl in the mail. Another arrives, and soon there is a series.
Then the girl's mother contacts Carlyle about the strange death of her
daughter. Carlyle's life gets complicated as she uncovers a murderous scam in
a famous hospital.
LP 09375 THE SNIPER'S WIFE
AUTHOR: MAYOR, ARCHER
ABSTRACT: Leaving Vermont, Detective Willy Kunkle seeks revenge for the
death of his ex-wife in the back alleys of New York City. Labeled an accidental
overdose, her death is considered routine by the NYPD. But Willy's
investigation points to foul play. Now, his search will uncover more about his
own life than even he thought possible-and place him in the gravest danger he
has ever known.
LP 01329 SOMETHING IN THE AIR
AUTHOR: LATHEN, EMMA
ABSTRACT: Mitch Scovil, CEO, wants to expand Sparrow Flyways, but the
employees object. When outspoken pilot Alan Whetmore is found murdered,
Scovil becomes the chief suspect. John Thatcher, vice president of the bank that
holds stock in the airline, becomes involved in the investigation and soon
uncovers blackmail, conspiracy, and sabotage.
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LP 09156 THE SOUL CATCHER
AUTHOR: KAVA, ALEX
ABSTRACT: When a senator's daughter is murdered at a religious revival in
Washington, FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell, a criminal profiler, and R.J.
Tully, her partner, suspect that it's the work of a serial killer. They soon
discover that the girl's murder is connected to the suicides of five young men
during a Waco-like standoff in a rural Massachusetts cabin--even if they're
not sure how.
LP 05469 SQUEAKY CLEAN
AUTHOR: PATTINSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: Senator William S. Gallicauder appeared to fit the bill of being
a prospective candidate for the United States presidency - being clean and not
having any dirt in his background. But then a skeleton came rattling out of an
English cupboard. Violence and murder ensue.
LP 03897 SS-GB: NAZI-OCCUPIED BRITAIN
AUTHOR: DEIGHTON, LEN
ABSTRACT: What might have been if Germany had invaded and conquered
Britain in 1941. In a ravaged London under Nazi occupation, suave
Superintendent Douglas Archer of Scotland Yard, under SS command starts
work on a murder case. He soon finds himself involved with the Free British
underground, who despise him for working for the Nazis.
LP 06659 THE STARGAZEY: A RICHARD JURY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: GRIMES, MARTHA
ABSTRACT: Richard Jury is so strangely intrigued by the attractive woman
wearing a luxurious fur who boards the bus he is riding, that he follows her
when she leaves. A few days later, Jury learns a woman matching her
description is found dead. Jury's investigation leads him to an art-theft ring
and another murder.
LP 04955 STREETS OF DEATH: A LUIS MENDOZA MYSTERY
AUTHOR: SHANNON, DELL
ABSTRACT: Mendoza and his colleagues in the robbery and homicide
division of the Los Angeles police department find themselves in the midst of
a number of more than troublesome and confusing crimes.
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LP 03442 THE SUICIDE MURDERS: A BENNY COOPERMAN MYSTERY
AUTHOR: ENGEL, HOWARD
ABSTRACT: Benny Cooperman suspects the suicide of a prominent contractor,
Chester Yates, was a murder. Benny courts trouble by digging into the dead
man's affairs. When the psychiatrist who treated Yates is murdered, the
detective comes close to making himself another victim of the killer.
LP 06293 SUMMER AT THE LAKE
AUTHOR: GREELEY, ANDREW M.
ABSTRACT: For Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained Father "Packy"
Keenan, summers at the lake were pure magic. And none was more enchanting
than the summer three decades ago - until a tragic car wreck killed two of
their friends. A vicious scandal, a cover up, rumors of murder and a metal box
with $50,000 in it ended their summer together.
LP 06126 A TASE OF POWER
AUTHOR: BURLEY, W. J.
ABSTRACT: Dr. Henry Pym, scholar, recluse and amateur detective is asked
to help headmaster Tristram-Jones solve a nasty case of poison-pen writing at
his school, perpetrated, it is thought, by one of the teachers. Miss Pugsley, a
recent addition to the chemistry staff, is found dead at the foot of nearby
cliffs, and Chief Inspector Judd joins the amateur sleuths.
LP 06989 TELL NO TALES: A MARTI MACALISTER MYSTERY
AUTHOR: BLAND, ELEANOR TAYLOR
ABSTRACT: MacAlister's honeymoon is interrupted by her partner, Vik, when
the son of one of Chicago's wealthier families is found dead. Who could have
been angry enough to bash in the head of a man who lived alone? A mummy
has been found in the closet of a long-shuttered historic theater. Who was the
woman, and when and how did she die?
LP 05932 THIS MEANS MISCHIEF
AUTHOR: FLEMING, ANNE
ABSTRACT: On holiday in France Detective Chief Superintendent John Charter
came across an abandoned picnic of Epicurean proportions, which soon
became a murder enquiry culminating in four deaths. Inspector Mathieu, the
brilliant French investigating officer, did not hesitate to make use of Charter's
expertise and, together, they solved a baffling case.
LP 03659 THURSDAY THE RABBI WALKED OUT
AUTHOR: KEMELMAN, HARRY
ABSTRACT: Barnard's crossing chief of police turns to Rabbi David Small for
assistance in solving the murder of a much-feared millionaire anti-Semite. The
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Rabbi applies all of his Talmudic skills and training, including the help of his
wife.
LP 06303 TO LIVE AND DIE IN DIXIE
AUTHOR: TROCHECK, KATHY HOGAN
ABSTRACT: When Callahan Garrity, cleaning-lady-cum-sleuth cleans the
mansion of antiques dealer Elliot Littlefield, she finds a dead teenage girl. The
valuable diary of Civil War prostitute Lula Belle Bird has been stolen. Littlefield
feels the diary's theft is connected with the girl's murder, and he hires Callahan
to find the truth. But Callahan is not so sure, particularly as Littlefield killed
another girl twenty years ago.
LP 05683 TO THE HILT
AUTHOR: FRANCIS, DICK
ABSTRACT: Alexander Kinlock merges from his remote and quietly profitable
artistic life only twice a month to secure provisions and pick up his mail. Then
one day he is summoned home to London to the bedside of his dying
stepfather. Ensuing events unleash even greater shocks as danger and physical
threats follow him to his very doorstep.
LP 08028 TOMBSTONE COURAGE: A JOANNA BRADY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: JANCE, J.A.
ABSTRACT: When drug dealers murdered her lawman husband, Joanna
Brady vowed she would carry on his good work; no matter what the cost.
Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must battle
the prejudice and hostility of a mistrustful, male-dominated police force and
solve a grisly double homicide.
LP 08616 TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
AUTHOR: MICHAELS, KASEY
ABSTRACT: PI Grady Sullivan and sham heiress Annie Kendall lob jokes
back and forth while trying to stop someone who wants to kill manipulative
toilet-paper billionaire Archie Peevers.
LP 08358 TRACKING TIME
AUTHOR: GLASS, LESLIE
ABSTRACT: When a young doctor goes for his daily run in New York City's
Central Park and doesn't come back, NYPD detective April Woo is convinced
that he's still alive. When a witness in the case is brutally murdered April's
hunch is taken seriously -- by her superiors, by the mayor and by the already
frenzied press. It might be too late to stop an out-of- control killer.
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LP 08131 TRIPLE PURSUIT: A FATHER DOWLING MYSTERY
AUTHOR: MCINERNY, RALPH
ABSTRACT: A young woman who occasionally attended mass at St. Hilary's
has been killed in a car accident. Witnesses reports have Detective Phil Keegan
wondering if it really was something more sinister. The old church school
house has been turned into a senior center and chaos erupts among the social
retirees when one woman attracts multiple suitors.
LP 05817 THE TRIUMPH OF MCLEAN
AUTHOR: GOODCHILD, GEORGE
ABSTRACT: When Chief Inspector McLean is sent to solve the murder of a
young man in the West End of London he quickly realizes that death is the
work of "The Scorpion", an international criminal whose identity is unknown.
McLean's enquiries lead him to Cornwall where he meets Celia, a beautiful
pianist, whom he suspects is an accomplice of "The Scorpion".
LP 01513 TUMBLEWEED
AUTHOR: VAN DE WETERING, JANWILLEM
ABSTRACT: Detectives Gripstra and de Ger, those ornaments of the
Amsterdam police force, are assigned to investigate the murder of a
high-class prostitute.
LP 08079 A TURBULENT PRIEST
AUTHOR: GREGSON, J.M.
ABSTRACT: The body of a man is found during freak weather. He is identified
as Father John Bickerstaffe, and it appears that more people wanted him dead
then befitted a man of the cloth. Peach and Blake prepare to open an unholy
can of worms-how far will a parent go to protect, or avenge, a child? How
low will an MP stoop to maintain his squeaky-clean image? What will a
violent man do to protect the woman he loves?
LP 01237 UNDER CONTRACT
AUTHOR: CODY, LIZA
ABSTRACT: Threatening letters, over attentive fans, drugs, and jealous
hangers-on menace the rock superstar Shona Una. Anna lee, a game young
security investigator, finds the letter writer and puts together other pieces of
the puzzle involving drugged-out deadbeats in Shona's band, the scheming
costume lady, and an old friend discarded in Shona's climb to the top.
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LP 08439 UNDER SUSPICION
AUTHOR: LEE, RACHEL
ABSTRACT: Anna Lundgren puts together an exhibition of prehistoric Mayan
artifacts. The theft of an ancient dagger-associated with a terrifying legendbrings the police into the museum. As the police investigate, Anna becomes the
main suspect. When her only ally-Detective Gil Garcia-starts to doubt her,
Anna must find who took the dagger, who killed a museum security guard,
and the truth behind the dagger's curse.
LP 08019 UNDERNEATH EVERY STONE
AUTHOR: GOSLING, PAULA
ABSTRACT: It's election time in Blackwater Bay-but there's a dead man in
Cotter's Cut who won't be casting his vote this year. Sheriff Matt Gabriel is
faced with a murder without apparent motive. Circumstantial evidence leads
him to arrest Frog Bartlett. The election heats up, tempers become frayed, a
small riot occurs- and then somebody else is killed. Suddenly, Matt Gabriel
himself is a suspect.
LP 08088 UNHOLY DYING
AUTHOR: BARNARD, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Father Pardoe is a good priest, but he is also a man with a
man's attendant weaknesses. Father Pardoe started spending time at the house
of a certain young, single mother called Julie. Rumors scorch the parish phone
lines and Pardoe is suspended. Cosmo Horrock of the West Yorkshire
Chronicle exploits the story in a big way. When Cosmo is found bludgeoned to
death, Inspector Mike Oddie and Sergeant Charlie Peace find themselves with
no shortage of suspects.
LP 03238 UNWANTED ATTENTIONS
AUTHOR: BECK, K. K.
ABSTRACT: History professor Rebecca Kendall has been trying to avoid
Benjamin Knapp for fifteen years. His sick obsession and his relentless
stalking have made her life unbearable. Now she is engaged to Philip
Patterson. But when Benjamin disappears and his apartment walls and
mattress are blood-soaked, Rebecca is suspected of murdering him.
LP 05889 VANISHING POINT
AUTHOR: WEST, MORRIS
ABSTRACT: Carl Strassberger renounced his position in an old New York
Banking firm. His place is taken by his brother-in-law, Larry Lucas. When a
very large deal is signed and sealed, Larry returns to New York. The next day
he disappears. Carl returns to New York to head the search for his brother-inlaw. What happens to Larry Lucas is a life-or-death matter.
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LP 05613 A VENETIAN RECKONING
AUTHOR: LEON, DONNA
ABSTRACT: After a lorry crashes in the Italian Dolomites the rescue workers
are appalled when they discover its terrible cargo. Then the body of a
prominent international lawyer is found. Can the two tragedies be connected?
With the help if his fourteen-year-old daughter, Chiara, Commissario Guido
Brunetti digs deeper into their secret lives.
LP 08552 THE VIKING FUNERAL
AUTHOR: CANNELL, STEPHEN J.
ABSTRACT: Sergeant Shane Scully is back with a big problem: he spots an
old friend and colleague who supposedly committed suicide. It seems that
there's a bunch of cops running around who went deep undercover and
promptly went bad.
LP 01373 VISION OF DEATH
AUTHOR: MATTHEWS, PATRICIA WITH CAYTON MATTHEWS
ABSTRACT: When the bodies of five illegal aliens are found in the desert,
Casey Farrel, a member of the governor's task force on crime, is assigned to
the case. Evidence is hard to find, but when Casey finally comes up with the
tiniest shred, she suddenly understands why.
LP 04082 VOW OF PENANCE
AUTHOR: BLACK, VERONICA
ABSTRACT: On the Cornish moor where Sister Joan lives with other sisters
of the Daughters of Compassion, a shadowy figure is stalking the night,
slashing trees. When Father Malone's housekeeper is found dead, suicide is
the verdict - but Sister Joan and her old friend, Detective Sergeant Mill, think
otherwise.
LP 05768 VOW OF POVERTY
AUTHOR: BLACK, VERONICA
ABSTRACT: Sister Joan is deputed to clear out the attic storerooms hoping for
some valuable antiques. Something else lurks in the attic, leaving footprints in
the dust. The deaths of two young people and the apparent reappearance of a
man who has been in his grave for over a year involve Sister Joan in one of
her most chilling and dangerous assignments.
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LP 01273 WAY THROUGH THE WOODS
AUTHOR: DEXTER, COLIN
ABSTRACT: While taking a holiday, Inspector Morse snoops a bit in regard to a
mysterious female guest at the hotel. Morse's holiday is cut short when a
newspaper prints a poem that sparks renewed interest in his year-old missing
person case. The new investigation is fraught with poetry analysis,
birdwatchers, and pornography, and it hinges on a surprising look-alike.
LP 03658 WEDNESDAY THE RABBI GOT WET
AUTHOR: KEMELMAN, HARRY
ABSTRACT: In a small New England town Rabbi David Small becomes
involved in the mysterious death of an old man with many enemies and in the
predicament of a young druggist facing a murder rap. In his own Talmudic
style, the rabbi comes up with a solution.
LP 04518 WHERE OLD BONES LIE: A MITCHELL AND MARKBY COTSWOLD
WHODUNNIT
AUTHOR: GRANGER, ANN
ABSTRACT: Chief inspector Alan Markby is dismissive of Ursula's
suspicions concerning the disappearance of Dan Woollard's wife - until a
woman's body is found near the site Woollard and Ursula have been
excavating.
LP 01261 WHILE MY PRETTY ONE SLEEPS
AUTHOR: CLARK, MARY HIGGINS
ABSTRACT: Madison avenue boutique owner Neeve is intrigued when one
of her famous clients, Ethel, a gossip writer whose latest book is about to
expose a dark side of the fashion industry, is murdered. There is no shortage
of characters who might have a reason to want Ethel out of the way. Neeve
finds herself in danger, but she is strangely drawn into the mystery.
LP 10344 WHISKER OF EVIL
AUTHOR: BROWN, RITA MAE.
ABSTRACT: Virginia postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen finds horse
breeder Barry Monteith bleeding to death. After another killing, two rabies
cases, and discovery of a ring owned by a long-missing woman, Harry's
sleuthy four-legged cohorts help investigate.
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LP 08607 WHISPERS IN THE DARK
AUTHOR: BLAND, ELEANOR TAYLOR
ABSTRACT: African-American heroine, homicide detective Marti
MacAlister, and her partner, Matthew Jessenovik, are assigned a most unusual
case--all that's left of the unfortunate murder victim is an arm. Their
investigation leads them into the exclusive and secretive history of the artistic
community in Lincoln Prairie, Illinois.
LP 05511 THE WOOD BEYOND
AUTHOR: HILL, REGINALD
ABSTRACT: Inspector Peter Pascoe is busy eulogizing his deceased
grandmother when Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel is called to the
research headquarters of ALBA Pharmaceuticals to investigate human remains
unearthed by a pack of animal rights activists.
LP 05910 WYCLIFFE AND HOW TO KILL A CAT
AUTHOR: BURLEY, W. J.
ABSTRACT: Superintendent Wycliffe was officially on holiday, but the case
of the murdered girl fascinated him. She had been strangled, but someone had
smashed her face in after she was dead. She lay in a sordid room in a seedy
hotel, yet her clothes, luggage and makeup were all expensive and she had a
thousand pounds hidden under some clothing. As he began to investigate why
she had been "Murdered" twice, Wycliffe found there was too much of
everything about the case -- too many suspects, too many motives, and too
many lies.
LP 05329 WYCLIFFE AND THE THREE-TOED PUSSY
AUTHOR: BURLEY, W. J.
ABSTRACT: Features Superintendent Wycliffe, the famous Cornish detective
who finds that Pussy Welles was dead, a jagged hole ripped by a bullet in her
chest.
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