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Rituals of the Season Rituals of the Season Margaret Maron - "High Country Fall, Margaret Maron's most recent installment in the Deborah Knott series, was published in Mysterious Press hardcover in 8/04, with a first printing of 40,000 copies.- Margaret Maro… OL100007W
Hard row Hard row Margaret Maron As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the cou… OL100017W
Spooksville - The Haunted Cave Spooksville - The Haunted Cave Christopher Pike "There is a famous cave located just outside of Spooksville. A lot of stories surround the dark place-scary ones as well as exciting ones. Adam decides to explore the cave with his friends Watch, Sal… OL1000686W
Complicity Complicity Iain M. Banks COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act. A few spliffs, a spot of mild S&M, phone through the copy for tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your myste… OL100777W
Kara kitap Kara kitap Orhan Pamuk The Black Book is a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirms Orhan Pamuk's reputation as a writer of international stature, comparable to Borges and Calvino. Galip is… OL1019601W
Cat in a golden garland Cat in a golden garland Carole Nelson Douglas That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame haired human companion Temple Barr are looking forward to a Christmas vacation spent in the Big Apple. But there's more than merriment … OL103227W
Cat in a neon nightmare Cat in a neon nightmare Carole Nelson Douglas Sleuth and supercat Midnight Louie has anthropomorphized his way through murder at romance writers' conventions, cat shows, and various other venues designed to display Las Vegas at its most outrageo… OL103230W
Deck with flowers Deck with flowers Elizabeth Cadell Madame Landini's memoirs promised to be sensational. Rodney, who had captured them for his publishing house, and Oliver, his literary agent friend who would handle the business side of the book, coul… OL104230W
A corpse in a gilded cage A corpse in a gilded cage Robert Barnard Perce Spender, a working-class Londoner, is unexpectedly transformed into the twelfth Earl of Ellesmere when a distant relative dies. But he would rather be warming a bar stool in his local pub, and … OL10467098W
Neck and neck Neck and neck Leo Bruce Lionel Townsend, Beef's toffee-nosed biographer, finds himself a prime suspect when his aunt in Hastings is poisoned. At the same time, an unpopular publisher is found hanged in the Cotswolds, appare… OL10508008W
Lonelyheart 4122 Lonelyheart 4122 Colin Watson From Maurice Prior's review in The Spectator, 17 March 1967: "A fine example of an oblique murder mystery is Lonely Heart 4122 by Colin Watson. In provincial Flaxborough two marriage bureau lady … OL10537031W
The offshore conspiracy The offshore conspiracy John Newton Chance 188p OL10632077W
The "Z" murders The "Z" murders J. Jefferson Farjeon Richard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in a nearby hotel, along with a disagreeable fellow passenger, who has snored his way through the train… OL10647341W
A blind eye A blind eye G. M. Ford Beneath the rotting floorboards of an abandoned shed are human bones -- lots of them -- the last things a runaway rogue true-crime writer and his photojournalist ex-lover expected to find when they t… OL108459W
The Door in the Hedge The Door in the Hedge Robin McKinley "She took a deep breath, and stepped through the door in the hedge." Four tales of stolen princesses, magical hinds, talking frogs, and dancing princesses, on the far side of the door into faer… OL109415W
The "Canary" Murder Case The "Canary" Murder Case S. S. Van Dine *The Canary Murder Case* is a classic whodunit mystery novel which deals with the murder of a sexy nightclub singer, with Philo Vance as an investigator. The beautiful Margaret Odell, famous Broadway… OL11158827W
Pagan Babies Pagan Babies Elmore Leonard Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nin… OL111667W
Split Images Split Images Elmore Leonard When a Detroit homicide cop takes a vacation, he looks for some place far away from murder and mayhem. But when Bryan Hurd lands in Palm Beach, he finds that a gun-collecting millionaire and a bitter… OL111691W
Maximum Bob Maximum Bob Elmore Leonard This is a book about a Florida Jurist who has been sentenced to death by a grudge bearing malefactor. OL111695W
Bandits Bandits Elmore Leonard Working at his brother-in-law’s New Orleans funeral home isn’t reformed jewel thief Jack Delaney’s idea of excitement—until he’s dispatched to a leper’s hospital to pick up a corpse that turns out to… OL111705W
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