Worldwide Mysteries — Multiple Authors

• May-1988
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THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL The disappearance of Major Hamilton Willis and his wife from New York's Beaumont Hotel strikes a personal chord with manager Pierre Chambrun. The major once saved his life. Now it looks as if Hamilton's eleven-year-old son...

• Jun-1988
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"Mr. Kemp, someone is trying to kill me . . . " Thus confided wealthy, charming seventy-year-old Rose Amaury to Lennox Kemp, whom she had asked to prepare her will. But before Kemp can investigate, Rose is found dead, victim of a bungled robbery a...

• May-1988
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WHO WOULD WANT TO KILL LOVELY VENETIA FRANKLIN? APPARENTLY JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY With fair Venetia out of the way, several people were breathing easier in the tranquil suburb of Cannonbridge. Her exhusband, who was no longer paying her alimony dem...

• Jul-1988
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When the bodiless head of volumptuous soap opera siren Hermoine Leanders is broadcast live on a local game show, bored housewives all over San Francisco get quite a jolt. Especially Mary Sable, who then finds Hermoine's foot set prettily in aspic in ...

• Jun-1988
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DANCE WITH THE DEVIL A quiet holiday in Cornwall seemed the ideal place for Dr. Tina May to get some badly needed rest. For the celebrity pathologist, however, rest would not come easily. First, her charming cottage had walls painted with frenz...

• Aug-1988
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It's a gray November for Detective Luis Mendoza, and it's not getting any brighter The weather in L.A. hasn't been living up to its sunny reputation--the murder of an unwanted newborn and the assault of a twelve-year-old girl don't make things pre...

• Aug-1988
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• Sep-1988
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A Masterpiece Of Crime Frans Hals's painting The Cavalier in White disappears from a San Francisco gallery. Art security expert Joanna Stark returns from self-imposed retirement to solve the crime from a building she had made burglarproof. But art...

• Jul-1988
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Twenty years ago, when he was a young man, Detective Chief Inspector Luke Abbot broke free from the chains of Wychford. He thought he had escaped his hometown for good, leaving his bad memories and broken heart behind. He never considered the possibi...

• Sep-1988
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New York's top luxury hotel, the Beaumont, is invaded by hoodlums and the guests held captive, while Pierre Chambrun, the hotel's manager, tries to find a solution to the crisis....

• Oct-1988
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Bad Blood Lennox Kemp was rather bored. Not that he harbored grand delusions of being the next Philip Marlowe or Lew Archer. But a worried, beautiful wife, a missing husband and his missing mistress just didn't make for an exciting case. Then Mrs....

• Jan-1989
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Death in the air. Seventeen-year-old Joanne Mowbray arrived in Cannonbridge searching for her missing elder sister. Several months later her own brutally strangled body is found next to the badly decomposed body of her murdered sister. It's clear to ...

• Oct-1988
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Reporter Louisa Evans smelled a hard-hitting expose when she signed up for SUM - a new EST-like group encounter marathon. But when the green-haired punkette next to her dropped dead of cyanide poisoning, Louisa got more than a story - she got a murde...

• Jul-1988
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Hot days, Hot nights, cold murder. Los Angeles was thick with heat and smoke from a raging Santa Barbara fire when Paul Shaw began searching for a killer. His client: a beautiful secretary by day, a punker by night. His victim: her husband, found dea...

• Nov-1988
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It's springtime in Los Angeles, and there's murder in the air .. An early June hot spell takes its toll as it fuels a wave of bloody and bizarre crime for Luis Mendoza of the LAPD. Grisliest by far is the psycho they call the werewolf, who gets hi...

• Nov-1988
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Not only was Ramsey Farnsworth, star art director for P & Q ad agency, late for the shoot, but the client was getting ornery and the photographer was nearing a fit. Seems Ramsey, Peg's boss, is dead, carved up on his kitchen floor. Peg's apartment is...

• Nov-1988
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OVERTURE TO DEATH The Oliver Civic Symphony is just another small town orchestra, a gathering spot for local amateur musicians. It has weekly rehearsals, punch and cookies, and colorful people, and now, it has murder. An oboist suddenly drops dead...

• Mar-1989
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J. W. Sassoon, head man of the biggest oil conglomerate in the world, was found dead in his rooms in the plush Hotel Beaumont. Murder, the police said, and Pierre Chambrun, the imperturbable hotel manager, has only hours to find the answers to some l...

• Nov-1988
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One-man police force Reid Bennett enters gold strike territory. These are boom times in Canada. The biggest gold strike ever has turned Olympia into an instant mecca for prospectors, chopper pilots, construction workers, and drifters, all eager for a...

• Dec-1988
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The anechoic chamber of Hamilcar Hi-Fi - the dead room - was the only soundproof, airtight place to test new speakers. It was also the perfect place for an airtight murder. That's where seventy-year-old inventor Walter Kassel was stabbed to death ...

• Feb-1989
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Julie Hayes is just normally neurotic these days, working for Tony Alexander - the New York Daily's gossip columnist. But, when Tony's gunshot murder follows soon after the suicide of alcoholic press-agent Jay Phillips (whose wife went the same route...

• Mar-1989
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ACTING IS A DYING ART ALL WASHED UP Opening Night for the Carmel Playhouse production of A Classic Case of Murder was a killer. So was the cast party. Especially when the body of Sisu Porter washed ashore. The actress had been small on talen...

• Mar-1989
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Sandy Fleming Didn't Have Any Enemies...Except One. David Bynam. Handsome, successful, he had everything a man could want, until a freak accident left him alone, bitter, and vindictive. He becomes a man who openly admits he wants to kill the man r...

• Apr-1989
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Reid Bennett and his dog Sam serve as the police force for not-so-quaint Murphys Harbor, Ontario. They have yet another perilous but important task. There are some pretty nasty bikers disrupting the fa ade of serenity of Murphys Harbor, and Reid must...

• May-1989
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Why would Laney McCall take a midnight plunge off Crybaby Bridge? The mysterious circumstances of her cousin's death left Laura Graham grieving -- yet determined to find the answers. Her search takes her back to her South Carolina home -- and int...

• May-1989
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Someone broke into the North Coast Sperm Bank, stole the frozen stock and set it free in the ocean. Jake Samson and his partner, Rosie, head up the storm-swept California coast to get to the bottom of the crime. Was it just a prank? The work of relig...

• Jun-1989
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The body of a woman from respectable, conservative Glendale is found stashed under a ramshackle house in the middle of the inner city. Detective Luis Mendoza marks the rising heat by the crime and violence raging through the sunbaked streets of Los ...

• Jun-1989
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Eccentric, to be sure. But absentminded? Precisely five weeks ago, Professor Basil Killingsley had pursued a rare edition of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon at the Smedley Library. Now it's missing...from the shelves, the records, and from everyone's m...

• Jul-1989
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER DIE TOGETHER The twenty tourists on the Bird Watchers Society's African safari looked forward to seeing rare and exotic bird life. They didn't expect to become sitting ducks themselves. An aging and hated company president dr...

• Jul-1989
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It was a terrible tragedy when Kate Teague's mother died on the hands of a common street mugger. But as sole beneficiary to a great deal of money and valuable Southern California real estate, Kate was now very rich indeed. Too rich, evidently. Sev...

• Aug-1989
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FAMILY TIES New York Daily reporter Julie Hayes could tell everybody's story -- except her own. But after a seemingly random act of violence shattered her life she knew it was time to put the pieces together. It began with an unknown name on her bir...

• Aug-1989
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JOSHUA CROFT WASN'T LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. IT JUST MANAGED TO FIND HIM. While Santa Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft wasn't exactly comfortable fencing a stolen diamond necklace ... he did have a living to make. But when the small-time cow...

• Sep-1989
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TRICK OR TREAT The elegant calm of New York's top luxury hotel is shattered when the mysterious Colonel Coriander arrives. Wearing fright wig and mask, the one-armed terrormonger has planted bombs throughout the building and is holding two small girl...

• Sep-1989
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Joanna Stark, art lover and part owner of an art security firm, has devised a daring plan to recover two valuable stolen paintings. Here scheme will also entrap one of the world's greatest art thieves - a man with whom she shares a passionate and vio...

• Oct-1989
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Till death do us part... Dressed in tweed and pearls, yearning for the life she had missed while caring for her wealthy, domineering mother, Fiona Davison-Maclean is rich and ripe for exploitation. A salesman, worried about his thinning hair and bank...

• Oct-1989
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Birch Kirby is a middle-aged private eye with a penchant for drinking too much, singing Irish barroom songs, and befriending $25-a-night ladies-of-the-night. He is not exactly the smoothest private eye in Chicago. But the CIA has noticed Kirby. They...

• Nov-1989
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Aided by his men in the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery and Homicide Division, seasoned veteran Luis Mendoza bravely meets the tough challenge of big-city crime and violence. Working with faint clues, he and his detectives systematically brea...

• Nov-1989
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True, Celia Sommerville waited ten days before her wedding to tell her fiance she couldn't marry him. But she never anticipated the cold censure from their colleagues at the university -- which worsened considerably when George's body turned up in a ...

• Dec-1989
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Inspector Charlie Salter of the Toronto Police Department returns in his sixth adventure, a solid, well-crafted mystery that will delight his fans. Most of the force is preparing for the arrival of a British princess. Salter, who is assigned to the S...

• Dec-1989
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With his star-quality looks and magnetic personality, third-party gubernatorial candidate Joe Richmond makes quite an impression. Especially when he's found hanging naked and quite dead from a tree in his favorite campaign manager's backyard. Ever...

• Jan-1990
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DESIGNS TO DIE FOR . When the head of a leading women's clothing manufacturer hangs herself with material from the new hosiery line, people will talk. Especially advertising people. Especially when the dead woman was about to cancel a huge deal fr...

• Jan-1990
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The latest of Lewin's excellent thrillers hurls the reader into swiftly unfolding events in Indianapolis, where energetic Adele Buffington reports an intruder in the social-service agency she heads. Sgt. Homer Proffitt, a new detective on the police ...

• Feb-1990
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Yet again, vacation rolls around for Reid Bennett and he passes it up for a case. This time, Norma Michaels offers Reid $25,000 to find her son, Jason. Reid heroically takes the job because he seeks to stick it to Colonel George Dunphy, a corrupt mil...

• Feb-1990
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Middleaged, Bronx-born New York detective Dave leaves the violence of the city streets for a change of pace as investigator for the district attorney's office in the small Southwestern town of Mesa Grande. But he soon encounters as much mayhem, and e...

• Mar-1990
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Red Carpet - George, Helen and twelve-year-old Marilyn - the Watson family - are the super all-American, superlucky winners of the Carlton's Creek lottery. The grand prize: $250,000 and one luxurious week at New York's legendary Hotel Beaumont. But ...

• Mar-1990
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IT'S FUNNY WHAT A MAN DOES WHEN HE'S TOLD HE'S DYING... Andrew Broom has everything: a thriving law practice in Wyler, Indiana, a beautiful and sophisticated wife and more money than he thought he had a right to. He's also in the middle of one of ...

• Apr-1990
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With her famous flair for high drama, Muriel Lake -- bestselling queen of the dime-store murder mystery -- chose the annual Writers of Mystery convention to announce her impending divorce from fellow mystery author Jonathan Pells. Hours later Muriel ...

• Apr-1990
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LENNOX KEMP TRIED NEVER TO JUDGE ON INITIAL IMPRESSION But when the sharp-eyed Mrs. Frelis Lorimer decides Kemp is just the man to help her get rid of her husband's lovely young mistress, Kemp's immediate mistrust of the woman is well founded. Fre...

• May-1990
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Death is everywhere. A child in a playground. A playboy in a cheap hotel. A John Doe in a freight yard. A nanny and her two charges in a church pew.After twenty-six years in homicide, Lieutenant Luis Mendoza knows death is all in a day's work. But in...

• May-1990
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STEP RIGHT UP ... TO MURDER Dan Fortune's latest case started out with a familiar scenario: rich Dad wants to find runaway son. The reason: none of Fortune's business. Only it becomes pretty clear that Dad is hiding something, the kid and his sexy...

• Jun-1990
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Policewoman Charmain Daniels' innate curiosity of feminist crime takes her on sabbatical from the force to research her thesis in historic Windsor. Her subjects are an odd group of six female ex-cons she's dubbed her Gang of Girls. But a series of...

• Jun-1990
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MURDER IS CHILD'S PLAY Spunky schoolteacher Meg Halloran came to tiny, picturesque Port Silva to begin a new life. Instead she found murder. The dead body of one of her students--a member of the town's most prominent family--is found and suspic...

• Jul-1990
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A demented millionaire is convinced his awful son will be kidnapped for ransom. As the result of a bizarre chain of circumstances (There is a very beautiful woman involved.) the ebulliant Hooky Heffernan finds himself acting as companion and and gu...

• Jul-1990
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At the urging of a friend, Fort Worth police detective Deb Ralston attends a house party given by aging Margali Bowman, a much married former film star. The friend, Fara Johnson, is Margali's daughter, and she worries that her mother is either drinki...

• Aug-1990
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LOCAL COLOR Abdicating as queen of the Home Repair guides, author Charlotte Kent fled to quaint Pelican Rock to produce a "real" book: the biography of the California town's most famous, and tragic, historical figure, Dr. Stanley Hardwicke. The...

• Aug-1990
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CLASS DISMISSED ON ACCOUNT OF MURDER.... Professor Aiken Adamson was not well liked. In fact, somebody disliked him enough to ensure that his malicious, nasty tongue never wagged again. When his corpse was found, his tongue was nowhere in sight. ...

• Sep-1990
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Sharon Brand has been at the top of the Hollywood glamour ladder for almost thirty years. Her romances with some of filmdom's most famous male stars has added spice to the Brand story. But after she establishes a relationship with a man young enough ...

• Sep-1990
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A SPLASH OF RED From her peaceful Sonoma Valley home, art security expert Joanna Stark can't escape the crippling fear that Antony Parducci--thief, art dealer; dreaded enemy and onetime lover--is nearby, hot on the trail of a newly discovered Van ...

• Oct-1990
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Chief Mitchell Bushyhead, half-Cherokee and head of the four-man police force in Bushkin, Okla., gets his first homicide in 10 years when a prominent member of the Cherokee community is murdered. It's something of an event, not only because Bushkin's...

• Oct-1990
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Secrets of the sea... After some intensive research for Mr. Vincent Snape, a stockbroker interested in the financial aspects of recent divorce rulings, lawyer Lennox Kemp embarks on a matrimonial inquest of his own - as he contemplates once again ent...

• Nov-1990
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September is the worst month for heat in Southern California...and LAPD Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is feeling the burn as the sweltering temperatures raise tempers and violence. Heading the list is the bizarre murder of a young French girl - a search th...

• Nov-1990
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Though reluctant to defend a man accused of rape and murder, criminal attorney Lydia Ness knew it was her shot at the big time. Moreover, she believed Jerry Eldstrom was innocent. Young, earnest and sincere, with an airtight alibi, he seemed like a d...

• Dec-1990
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Till death do us part... After nearly thirty years of unhappily ever after, Wyler, Indiana's most affluent and argumentative couple decided to call it quits. At least Pauline Stanfield did. Hal Stanfield knew a divorce would unearth secrets - both th...

• Dec-1990
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JANTARRO DIDN'T LIKE TO LOSE A CLIENT... ESPECIALLY NOT TO MURDER When megabuck film producer/director Alan Laki is poisoned, private investigator J.K.G. Jantarro takes special interest. He'd been hired by Laki to investigate the bizarre spending ...

• Jan-1991
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NEITHER RAIN, NOR SNOW, NOR SLEET, NOT HAIL... A postman is murdered in his van. Nearby sits a charred 1957 Chevy. The first cop on the scene, Fort Worth detective Deb Ralston is also the first to find the abandoned house and the grisly bodies of ...

• Jan-1991
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FOR A SOFT-SPOKEN GRANDMOTHERLY TYPE, LOUISE SUGARMAN HAD A LOT OF ENEMIES... As head of Common Sense, an organization to repeal Illinois' drug laws, Louise had earned the wrath of the PTA, police and church groups all over Chicago. Free-lance jou...

• Feb-1991
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I HAD THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MOM THIS YEAR. A MURDER. Not only was Dave's mother a great cook, but she had an amazing knack -- between the chopped liver and the strudel -- for solving his most difficult murder cases. Possibly because no detail, no mat...

• Feb-1991
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THE KIND OF CASE THAT TEARS YOUR HEART OUT... Two-year-old Ricky Foster spent a bright October afternoon in the park with his babysitter, Lorna. But the young woman never returned home to the Fosters' apartment. Neither did Ricky. A twisted min...

• Mar-1991
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Rich, beautiful, lonely and in trouble, Valerie Summers arrived at New York's luxurious Hotel Beaumont dragging a trail of murder that baffled even the Beaumont's legendary manager, Pierre Chambrun. First her mother, then a man she had a crush on, ...

• Mar-1991
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ATTORNEY LENNOX KEMP YEARNED FOR A MURDER TO BROOD ON. WOULD HE SETTLE FOR SUICIDE? Dorothea Copeland was a model of propriety--unlike her oldest friend, Amanda. Odd that outrageous Mandy, such a lover of life, would kill herself... especially af...

• Apr-1991
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Meet Milt Kovak, divorced, overweight, mid-40s Chief Deputy of Prophesy County, Oklahoma. When his sleepy little burg and the surrounding towns suddenly get some horrific murders, Milt's cool intuition and great people-skills are put to the test. S...

• Apr-1991
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Santa Fe private investigator Joshua Croft is hired to find the lost remains of a Navajo leader and return them to their proper burial site. The bones disappeared over sixty years ago under bizarre circumstance, which, in turn, led to a murder that r...

• Apr-1992
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DEAD ON LOCATION The cast and crew of Japan's number-one prime-time show were shooting on location in Oregon's magnificent High Country. Tony Pratt, former advertising executive turned successful mystery novelist, was helping with local casting an...

• May-1991
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A nice young man is helping little old ladies with their groceries . . . then stealing their Social Security; an enormous 'ape man' with a face like King Kong is robbing liquor stores; 'Jack the Stripper' is leaving gas-station registers empty . . . ...

• May-1991
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Invited to spend the weekend at the mountain lodge of poet David 'Dai' Llewellyn outside San Francisco, Lark Dailey feels obligated to attend, although her police officer lover, Jay, isn't very keen on the idea of spending a 'literary weekend' with L...

• Jun-1991
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DEADLINES When writer Charlotte Kent began researching her latest self-help book, Tricks for the Sick! at a renowned East Coast medical center, she hadn't planned a chapter on tips to avoid murder. A slimy, unprincipled medical student is dead....

• Jun-1991
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Going undercover was no way to spend a honeymoon... But the police commission needed a favor - badly - so Reid Bennett, his new wife and police dog, Sam, pack up for the Canadian mining town of Elliot, where Reid lands a job as a local cop to investi...

• Jul-1991
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His passion for the fair sex and English pubs aside, he had been known to solve a crime or two as a private investigator, profiting from the idiocies of this comic adventure called life. Now he's been hired to find a rebellious poor little rich girl ...

• Aug-1991
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Meg Halloran's romantic getaway with longtime love, policeman Vince Gutierrez, looks less appealing when Vince reluctantly introduces the third member of their party, his spike-haired, foul-mouthed niece, Cass. An accident with another car abruptly e...

• Aug-1991
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THE CORPSE WAS MALE. No one claimed him. Nobody wanted him--least of all, Police Inspector Charmian Daniels. But why did he have her name and telephone number on a card in his pocket? Several large-scale robberies of furs and jewels and a myste...

• Aug-1991
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From an actuarial point of view, death will come eventually. Stella Arthur can't wait for eventually. She doesn't love George Arthur. She never has. She'd married him for his money and now she wants to kill him for it. Actually, it's Roy Hunt, the to...

• Sep-1991
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MURDER CHECKS IN... Murder is an unwelcome spotlight on Pierre Chambrun's beloved hotel. All the more unwelcome when the body found is that of a mutilated fifteen-year-old boy--and when the mystery further involves a pop idol, a brutally beaten ce...

• Sep-1991
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THE TASK THAT FACED HOMICIDE SEEMED MONUMENTAL They had four dead cops from four different precincts, all shot through the head. The headlines were screaming cop killer; rookies were making sudden career changes while veterans of the force were an...

• Oct-1991
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The murder of masseuse Linda Thomas was a sticky situation - her clients included big people in high places. It was a case for Special Affairs Inspector Charlie Salter and his chief investigator, Sergeant Mel Pickett. Once on the job, they delicately...

• Oct-1991
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Tony Pratt was tired of hiding bodies... Then the popular mystery writer and his wife, Pat, found a corpse in their own backyard - and suddenly murder wasn't so black and white anymore. Now it was blood red...and very real. Carl Conley, local hot-s...

• Nov-1991
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At least, according to anyone with a motive to kill the wealthy, arrogant owner of the new resort lodge in Buckskin, Oklahoma. And that meant just about everybody. The lodge was built on an ancient Indian graveyard, and the Indian employees are co...

• Nov-1991
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The first victim was her husband. Then his best friend. So Molly Stonehouse had come to Harmony, Georgia, for Christmas -- to discover who in her husband's cheery hometown was a murderer. At the center of the mystery is a secret from the past, an...

• Dec-1991
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On medical leave during the last month of her pregnancy, Deb, the mother of three adopted children, discovers that her teenage son, Hal, and his girfriend, Lorie, have hitchhiked to New Mexico for their spring break. Before Deb can locate the adventu...

• Dec-1991
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A NIGHTMARE REVISITED Sara Hargreaves spent four years in prison for a crime of passion she didn't commit. Now she's escaped, desperate to see her dying mother and to clear her name. With her photo appearing nightly on the local news, ...

• Jan-1992
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Wealthy financier A.J. Strode was as ruthless as he was dirty, acquiring and discarding both wives and companies with equal aplomb. Now he wants to sink his teeth into a company called the House of Glass. He needs this company - and will stop at noth...

• Jan-1992
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In 1946, newly promoted detective-constable John Coffin arrives in Greenwich to take up his post. Soon after, the body of a young woman floats down the Thames to South London. It quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder: the victim has b...

• Feb-1992
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MURDER DRAWS ANDREW BROOM INTO ITS FOLD The victim, a client of Broom's, is gunned down in his backyard. But somebody sees the murder. An aging hippie and his nubile young companion seize this gold-en opportunity for blackmail. Ironically, it's An...

• Feb-1992
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WOMEN JUST LOVED GREG DILLON TO DEATH... Gorgeous and charming, the talented artist was simply irresistible--even to happily married women like Carrie Porter. But when the egocentric playboy is found shot and stabbed in an office at Carrie and Ben...

• Mar-1992
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Lennox Kemp is hired by poor Mrs. Sorrento to follow her errant husband, and by the rich Courtenay twins, Vivian and Venetia, to oversee the legalities of their massive inheritance. But when the paths of these clients cross, Kemp discovers he's unwit...

• Mar-1992
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BOOKED FOR DEATH Larry Welch, a well-known journalist, is sitting on a story so big, it could lead to international disaster--or even war. He seeks sanctuary in New York's luxurious Hotel Beaumont to decide his story's fate, throwing legendary man...

• Apr-1992
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THE FIRST SUSPECT IN THE KILLING OF A HUSBAND IS ALWAYS THE WIFE However, the wife in this case is Chief Deputy Sheriff Milt Kovak's baby sister, Jewel Anne. Now, he and Jewel weren't real close, but Milt knows their mama didn't raise any killers....

• May-1992
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DEAD MAN'S FLOAT Good food, rich company and a great story on how the other half lives combine for an assignment free-lance journalist Cat Marsala just can't pass up. Except for the fact that all this eating and making merry will take place on a ...

• May-1992
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MOM LOVED MURDER LIKE MOST PEOPLE LOVE CROSSWORD PUZZLES As chief investigator for the Mesa Grande, Colorado, public defender's office, Dave's reputation for solving the toughest cases had followed him all the way from New York City. So had is mot...

• Jun-1992
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Bad Ending. Struggling each month to fill the pages of her new magazine for writers, Charlotte Kent finds herself up the proverbial creek when she discovers her biggest, and very nearly only, contributor, Wesley Bell, sitting dead in her office swive...

• Jun-1992
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Scotland Yard's eminent Detective John Coffin was a mere sergeant. Anticipating a promotion, he now buys a house that needs repairs and proves a catalyst to dire events. Workmen find the body of an adolescent boy under the floor--and Coffin, though i...

• Jul-1992
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Nursing a nine-week-old baby during a bank robbery isn't Fort Worth detective Deb Ralston's idea of fun...but the robbers have a gun, she doesn't, and her son Cameron is demanding lunch - blissfully unaware of the terror gripping the crowd. Ready o...

• Jul-1992
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BEAUTIFUL LADIES, FINE SCOTCH AND A CHANCE TO BEST THE POLICE-ALL IRRESISTIBLE TEMPTATIONS FOR HOOKY HEFFERMAN Hooky's life has had some rough patches. But then that's to be expected when one's playing the role of gentleman adventurer, traipsing u...

• Aug-1992
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IMMEDIATE FAMILY ONLY The Deckers are dying grisly deaths. First there was fifteen-year-old Theo, kidnapped and murdered four years ago. Next came Bobby, then Ike and Lynn. All teenagers. All killed in bizarre "accidents." The latest victi...

• Aug-1992
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THE "MURDER OF THE MONTH" SUDDENLY TOOK A VERY REAL, VERY VIOLENT TURN Every month, Real Murders, a society of crime buffs in Lawrenceton, Georgia, met to discuss a favorite infamous murder. Its members were an eccentric lot: Gifford Doakes, the m...

• Sep-1992
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WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS .. . A tragedy turns into a living nightmare when health counselor Linda Stewart's adopted infant daughter is legally reclaimed by the baby's natural teenage mother -- and both are found dead two days later. Linda&...

• Sep-1992
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VICIOUS RUMORS Marion Walsh, the town's local femme fatale, loses her housekeeper to a bottle of poisoned milk--a bottle most likely intended for her. Helen Goddard, whose husband, Robert, had been shamelessly seduced by Marion's charms, is the lo...

• Oct-1992
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IT'LL MAKE A KILLING AT THE BOX OFFICE .. . Acts of sabotage are throwing a major film off financial kilter. Inspector Charlie Salter finds his glamorous job as watchdog turning sinister as fake fire alarms, muggings, damaged equipment, stolen fil...

• Oct-1992
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AT A PRESTIGIOUS SCHOOL FOR DIPLOMATS, SOME LESSONS ARE LEARNED THE HARD WAY The body of beautiful bad girl Melanie Forbes is found wrapped in an Oriental rug in an unused basement storeroom of Chicago's elite school of diplomacy, the Markham Inst...

• Nov-1992
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MIDGE COHEN'S MOTHER HAS FIXED HER UP ... AGAIN What would it hurt to meet this nice Jewish doctor, a urologist even, and give him a try, she insists. But all Dr. Leon Skripnik wants from Midge, an erstwhile Russian scholar, is a translation of...

• Nov-1992
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FOR THE TWISTED AND TALENTED, MURDER IS A GAME Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent John Coffin is properly skeptical of the evil reputation of the house at No. 22, Church Row. True, the house has seen violent death over the centuries. None of it...

• Dec-1992
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AN OLD HOUSE WITH...EVEN OLDER SECRETS For twenty-four years Gail Loring has fought both her fear of the alcoholic haze in which the women of her family have lived and the haunting images of a man -- her great-great-great-grandfather -- called the...

• Dec-1992
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IN PROPHESY COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF A HOMICIDE IS COUPLED WITH THE LIKELY EVENT THAT IF ONE OCCURS, THE VICTIM IS SOMEBODY EVERYBODY KNOWS.... And everybody knows nice bank teller Lois Bell who, along with her husband and three kid...

• Jan-1993
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The sudden death of Professor Peter Bradshaw and his wife was ruled accidental... But in light of the forensic pathologist's damning testimony in the Rapunzel murder cases - in which five prostitutes were strangled, long hair wrapped around their nec...

• Jan-1993
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Tired of the violence of big-city crime, former narcotics agent Frank Carver trades the streets of Seattle for the penny-ante stuff of Oregon's Neskanie National Forest. Work is wonderfully, refreshingly dull for the forest's new law enforcement offi...

• Feb-1993
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DEAD BODIES LEAVE NO TRAILS... . Three women are murdered--in identical and very unusual ways. The killer is solicitous--first breaking their necks, then tucking them neatly into bed before cleaning the house and tending to the pets. With no tr...

• Feb-1993
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Deceased literary giant Charles Melton has divided his final manuscript into sections and bequeathed each section to a different heir, so when someone starts murdering the heirs, Ben and Carrie Porter must uncover a hidden plot....

• Mar-1993
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READING, WRITING AND MURDER The Cherokee Heritage Festival is about to begin, and Buckskin, Oklahoma, is bustling--until the murder of Tamarah Birch, a third-grade girl from the tribal boarding school, dampens the festivities for the townspeople a...

• Mar-1993
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DEATH IN THE FAMILY Aidan Hope is bludgeoned to death in his hotel room in the hamlet of Little Hopford. The prime suspect is Alison Hope, the victim's cousin, a brash, beautiful, wealthy businesswoman who inherits sole ownership of a lucrative so...

• Apr-1993
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A LETHAL DOSE OF SOUTHERN COMFORT "Trouble follows that woman like fleas follow a dog" her father had always said about Aunt Mary. Sheila Travis ruefully agrees when she is dispatched by her colorful aunt to Charleston to "investigate" some mysterio...

• Apr-1993
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PORT SILVA--LAND TO KILL FOR? Situated on California's beautiful northern coast, Port Silva had escaped the rash of land developers eating up the state's prime real estate. But when a posh San Diego firm finally offers small fortunes to persuade t...

• May-1993
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MATTERS OF THE HEAD Life was good for Detective John Coffin--he'd earned a promotion and had just moved into a new home in the tower of a renovated church-turned-theater. True, he now headed his own force and was no longer a street detective, but ...

• May-1993
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Katherine Driscoll is just three weeks away from disaster: foreclosure on her home and business, even the sale of her beloved dog. She has no hope of raising the $91,000 she so desperately needs -- until the father she hasn't seen for thirty year...

• Jun-1993
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Blaine Stewart found work and self-pity moderately effective ways to cope with her husband's death. As a result, business was booming at her Manhattan investigations firm. Tough, tenacious, burned out, she was getting on everybody's nerves - includin...

• Jun-1993
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Freelance journalist Cat Marsala hits her stride in this third outing in which Jack Sligh, in charge of advertising for the Illinois State Lottery, plummets to his death, literally at her feet, leaving behind a memo indicating that he wanted to talk ...

• Jul-1993
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MURDER IS A FAMILY AFFAIR Reality was a far cry from the post-honeymoon bliss Nicky Titus had envisioned. First came the frantic call, then the flight from Frankfurt and finally the arrival of Sam and Nicky down home in Holton, Oklahoma, where Sam...

• Jul-1993
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LOVELY ENOUGH FOR A KILLER Murder stalks the quiet English village of Malminster. There's no connection between the victims, except that they're all young and all pretty. Chief Inspector Morrissey is desperately looking for shreds of evidence t...

• Aug-1993
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An unexpected trip to recording studios in London for advertising writer Tony Pratt and his wife, Pat, sounded fun and exciting - in spite of the rather off-the-wall bunch they'd be dealing with. The entourage included a depressed account executive...

• Aug-1993
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SHE'D BEEN ONE OF SAN FRANCISCO'S FINEST--HARD-BITTEN, CYNICAL AND HAPPILY UNATTACHED... Until Daniel Wren blew in like a tornado, sweeping Susan off her feet, and back home to Hampstead, Kansas--new bride of the small town's police chief. Ten day...

• Sep-1993
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HEAVEN CAN WAIT On Friday night, Sheriff Milt Kovak of Prophesy County, Olkahoma, proposed to his longtime lady love, Glenda Sue. She turned him down. On Saturday morning, Glenda Sue is found brutally murdered. Kovak begins a desperate search to f...

• Sep-1993
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CURTAINS Surviving thirty years of an actor's fluctuating fortunes, Charles Paris had played many roles. But until now, a starring role as a forklift driver in a corporate - video had yet to grace his resume. Costumed in de rigueur coveralls, he r...

• Oct-1993
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NO MORE MR. NICE GUY Prominent television personality Dean Anderson was as popular as he was respected, but he had incurred a good deal of animosity among family, friends and coworkers. Though the police are willing to rule his shooting death a su...

• Oct-1993
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NOBODY'S TALKING Down the mean streets of Manhattan's Alphabet City, Marian Larch discovers that even a cop's tough emotional hide can be riddled by the area's violent, twisted crime. Another murder is added to her caseload, and it's a beauty: fou...

• Nov-1993
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The brutal murder of a sixteen-year-old girl polarizes the inhabitants of the newly gentrified London neighborhood under the jurisdiction of police chief commander John Coffin, seen before in Coffin in the Museum of Crime . Victim Anna Mary Kinver be...

• Nov-1993
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BAD VIBES Santa Fe private investigator Josh Croft doesn't like his new case. .. or Roy Alonzo. The actor's messy divorce had made headlines when his ex-wife, Melissa, accused him of molesting their daughter. Now, mother and child have disappeared...

• Dec-1993
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Hovering perilously near burnout with the demands of police duty and family life - specifically toddler, husband, teenager and a friend comatose from a hit-and-run - Fort Worth detective Deb Ralston now adds a grisly ax murder to her twenty-five-hour...

• Dec-1993
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LAST REMAINS Had sweet, fragile, silver-haired Jane Engle, school librarian and churchgoer, murdered someone and put the victim's skull in her window seat? Did Aurora Teagarden, fellow librarian and astonished beneficiary of Jane's estate ...

• Jan-1994
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In tiny Murphy’s Harbour, where Reid Bennett serves as the one-man police force, questions and dead bodies tend to pile up all at once. The morning starts with Reid chasing off a gang of threatening teens with a baseball bat. Minutes later, Rei...

• Jan-1994
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STRANGER THAN FICTION Hacking may be borderline legal, but the profit is there, big-time, especially in a high-profile divorce case like the one Chicago computer "researcher" Becky Belski has just been handed. Arrest record? Bank statemen...

• Feb-1994
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ALL HALLOW'S EVIL Spotting Dracula hitchhiking at the side of the road, Sheriff Sam Titus and his wife, Nicky, do the neighborly thing--give him a lift. Black cloak and deathly pallor aside, the stranger's name is Damon Revels, and his business in...

• Feb-1994
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Auxiliary Catholic Bishop Francis X. Regan and Davey Goldman, a Jewish cop-turned-private eye, team up to solve the murder of a mob-connected theater promoter who, in deep with loan sharks, had been trying to muscle his way into his father's fortun...

• Mar-1994
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Nick Trevellyan and Alison Hope find that the sleepy English village of Little Hopford is a hotbed of illicit activity--past and present. When sexually generous 19-year-old Frisco Carstairs is fatally strangled, local police inspector Nick knows who ...

• Mar-1994
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STRANGE BEDFELLOWS Everybody talks under the influence of Mom's chicken pot pie--especially her son, Dave, an investigator with the public defender's office in Mesa Grande, Colorado. Discussing cases with Mom has become routine--her logic and rat-...

• Apr-1994
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CHECKOUT Murder at the seedy Days 'R Done motel is no surprise. But the killing of actor Alec Hunter poses some questions for Toronto police Inspector Charlie Salter. Namely, what was a nice guy like Alec doing in a place like that? His death ...

• Apr-1994
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CROSSFIRE It began with a set-up. Los Angeles private investigator Delilah West goes undercover in the county supervisor's office to smoke out the employee siphoning funds. Guilty party nailed. Case closed. That is, until the woman Delilah fing...

• May-1994
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CULTURE SHOCK When San Francisco bookstore owner Lark Dodge and her friend Ann rent a flat in London, they anticipate a bit of bookseller's business and a lot of touristy fun. They get murder. A new acquaintance, a Czech poet, is stabbed on the...

• May-1994
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WILLFUL INTENT Gambling had been Muriel's life--it had destroyed her marriage and very nearly her husband's career. Now, in death, Muriel has taken her biggest gamble of all. A deathbed revision of her will leaves everything, including several Las...

• Jun-1994
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In Butler's latest procedural, ominous threats to a child galvanize the police of the fictional Second City of London and their commander, John Coffin, who is being investigated by an overzealous MP. Nell Casey, an American soap opera star who is app...

• Jun-1994
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High Steaks After a steady diet of coffee, cigarettes and too much paperwork, New York private investigator Blake Stewart was hungry for undercover work. The place was WARM--Worldwide Animal Rights Movement--and they had a bone to pick with cattle...

• Jul-1994
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OVER HER DEAD BODY Young widow Sheila Travis is reluctantly drawn into the affairs of the extended Sims family by her neighbor, Sara Sims Tait, in the rural community of Snellville. The small Georgia town does little more than straggle along th...

• Jul-1994
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A DAY IN THE LIFE Does anybody care about a dead hooker? That's the question Chicago journalist Cat Marsala is wrestling with. The hooker, Sandra love, is sleeping on Cat's couch in exchange for the Inside scoop on life as a prostitute. Now she's ...

• Aug-1994
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Old Lorely Pelling was as queer as two left boots...A reclusive eccentric with a checkered past and dozens of cats, her shooting death is first believed accidental, the result of local boys' target practice. But Detective Superintendent Mike Yeadings...

• Aug-1994
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NOW YOU SEE HER... NOW YOU DON'T A magic show at St. Hilary's one snowy night proves entertaining for the stragglers who braved the weather. Aggie Miller allows her ring to be used in a disappearing act and Father Dowling chances to notice the ins...

• Sep-1994
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THIN ICE It's a mean winter in Catlin County, Oklahoma, as modern-day rustlers are taking a deep cut out of the area's cattle production. The operation is slick...and murder is just another day's work. Rancher Joe Pilkington, neighbor to Sheriff ...

• Sep-1994
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Father Dowling is called to investigate when an old man is kidnapped from the church's social center. It turns out that the victim is an ex-con who was imprisoned for embezzling from the bank where he worked as an accountant, and that his kidnappers-...

• Oct-1994
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BREAK A LEG New York City Police Sergeant Marian Larch is on the verge of resigning from the force after a big case leaves her jaded, frustrated and boiling mad at the system. During a cooling-off period at another precinct, she comes to the ai...

• Oct-1994
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Christopher Bourke is an ex-priest and a former colleague of Roger Dowling. With his wife, Janet Gray - a lapsed nun herself - he co-hosts a cable television show espousing carnal pleasures rather than spiritual aspirations. But when their daughter S...

• Nov-1994
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DR. MARION MANNING WAS BEING WATCHED The man was quiet, determined, curious even - and always in his spot across the street from her home. Sometimes he followed her when she left town on lectures or other scholarly occasions. Sometimes not. Wh...

• Nov-1994
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Desert Sinner is the fifteenth mystery to feature Roger Dowling, the shrewd and compassionate priest of Fox River, Illinois. Ralph McInerny's novels are known for their subtle humor, humanity, grasp of religious issues, and Dowling's instinctively ac...

• Dec-1994
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As a working New York actress (i.e., only unemployed most of the time), Victoria Bowering ("Vic," please) is used to picking up the odd Odd Job while she waits for her Big Break. But her stint as an extra on the hot soap "Raging Passions" may launch ...

• Dec-1994
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In later years, Ray Sussock would look upon the case as being perhaps the most satisfying of his career. He began with the case and he was there at the conclusion twenty-five years later. It would, though, be many months, if not years, before the sen...

• Jan-1995
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There are meddling mothers and then there is Pearl Cohen. All she wants is the best for her daughter and, of course, some grandchildren. So what's the harm in a few blind dates? Although her previous attempt to fix her daughter up with a nice doctor ...

• Jan-1995
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Chief Inspector John Morrissey begins probing the death of a town's chief planning officer, whose car plunged off a bridge. Though the death was ruled an accident, Morrissey uncovers a dark side of the village where the event happened - and a killer ...

• Feb-1995
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NO BED OF ROSES... Criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn has had experience with skeletons in the closet -- but not in her own backyard. The discovery of a body's remains leads her boss, New Orleans chief medical examiner Andy Broussard, to some interes...

• Feb-1995
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Holy Terrors The beautiful Lady Eleanor, mistress of the feckless Prince of Wales, is banished to Godstow Priory by King Edward, eager to be rid of an embarrassment while negotiating his son's betrothal. Whispers of murder echo through the hall...

• Mar-1995
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CUTTING EDGE Neskanie National Forest law-enforcement officials Ginny Trask and Frank Carver have their work cut out for them as long as the Northwest timberlands remain a furious battlefield between environmentalists and the logging industry. ...

• Mar-1995
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A Pretty Place For Murder In the picture-postcard English village of Medmelton, the air remains thick with enchantment of centuries past. Here, women have strange eyes -- one brown, one green--and superstition and magic still rule. When a famou...

• Apr-1995
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Why would a millionaire in his sixties, with no accusers to answer to or social ambitions to protect, move to reopen a forty-year-old scandal? That's what ex-seminarian Owen Keane, an introspective, introverted, often idiosyncratic law-firm researche...

• Apr-1995
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TOXIC LOVE Two disturbing deaths have Superintendent Mike Yeadings's team spread out from the Thames Valley to Amsterdam, looking for answers. The first victim, Penny Winter, a divorced mother of two, dies as a result of food poisoning. Someone...

• May-1995
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LITERALLY--AND FIGURATIVELY--DEAD The politics and infighting to elect a new dean at Toronto's Bathurst College turns to murder when the winner is discovered dead. Though the case appears open-and-shut--an interrupted burglary and a suspect nea...

• May-1995
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BEACH BODY Former bookdealer Lark Dodge and her husband, Jay, have traded California for the rustic beaches of Washington state's Shoalwater Peninsula. At first, life is no more complicated than house renovating and baby making. But a carpetbag of...

• Jun-1995
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The latest of the accomplished Commander John Coffin mysteries revolves around the disappearance of two students from the university of the Second City of London. Although Amy Dean and Martin Blackwell have been missing only two days, Coffin, head of...

• Jun-1995
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PAST SINS AND PRESENT LIES The life of d small-town police chief is a far cry from that of a street-smart San Francisco cop. But as Susan Wren knows only too well, murder happens everywhere. The first victim is Lynnelle Flames, a young woman fo...

• Jul-1995
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BAD KARMA At a dinner party for Santa Fe's leading New Age healers, Quentin Bouvier, a magician and possibly a reincarnated Egyptian pharoah, is murdered. The cops have a good case against Giacomo Bernardi, a Tarot card reader believed to have kille...

• Jul-1995
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AN ENIGMA INSIDE A PUZZLE INSIDE A... Quiet, unassuming Ted Gray stumbles over the body of a strangled young woman, and people are shocked to learn that Ted himself is the prime suspect. This case, with all of its complexities, intrigues policewom...

• Jul-1995
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FAMILY SECRETS TO DIE FOR Terry Girard returns from a weekend of research to find her adored aunt Cecile dead--a victim, apparently, of suicide. But Terry is convinced CeCe was murdered. She and her aunt were partners in an expensive genealogy ...

• Aug-1995
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Victoria Bowering, the perenially underemployed and wickedly witty actor/sleuth, takes the spotlight again in this stylish sequel to her debut performance in Cancellation by Death. Vic is flying high after being cast as the lead in an international s...

• Aug-1995
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A KILLING IN REAL ESTATE Armed with a hefty inheritance, Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is embarking on a new career in real estate. But her first showing is, well, murder...when the elegant master bedroom reveals the body of a real-estate broker. The ...

• Aug-1995
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DEATH PROSPECTS Emma Chizzit, sixty-something owner of A-1 Salvage, is hired to help with plans to preserve the historic gold mining town of Buckeye, California. The savvy sleuth soon discovers that she's not welcome, as rattlesnakes in picnic ...

• Sep-1995
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For the rich and security conscious, Branch Hill offers the posh Estates - an exclusive community of impressive homes and a state-of-the-art security system. Anna Peters and her artist husband arrive there for his gallery exhibit - but murder steals ...

• Sep-1995
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Owen Keane returns, once again on the trail of human mysteries, hoping to find clues to the spiritual questions that haunt him. In this compelling new novel, Owen is struggling to recover from the sudden death of Mary Ohlman, the wife of his friend H...

• Sep-1995
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CLASS KILLER After making it "big" as a New York journalist, Kay Engels returns to her twentieth high school reunion, hoping to find a good human interest story. So when Terry Campbell, voted Best Looking in Her Class, is found strangled in her h...

• Oct-1995
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It's ski season in Vermont. The snow is good. The ski lifts are busy. The apre's-ski bars are bustling with thirsty tourists. But the little town of Chambers is, in many ways, not nearly as snow-white as the hills that surround it. Not everyone in Ch...

• Oct-1995
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN MURDER English professor Lee Squires signs on as camp cook for a wilderness outfitter hired by the wealthy and dysfunctional Strand family. As the group begins the week-long trail rides through the Bob Marshall Wilderness, patriarc...

• Oct-1995
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In this brilliant crime-fiction debut, Geraldine Evans introduces an offbeat police duo in Inspector Rafferty and Sergeant Llewellyn. Inspector Joseph Rafferty is under pressure. The naked body of a teenage girl has been found on the grounds of Elmhu...

• Nov-1995
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THE FINE ART OF MURDER As houseguest of one of the Huntington Museum's board members, and busy with her restoration project, art restorer Andrea Perkins is dimly aware of the discovery of a corpse on the grounds of the museum. LAPD detectives T...

• Nov-1995
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It looked like a burglary gone wrong... And it left a harmless old-age pensioner dead. However, burns and gashes on the man's face told a different story: Ernest Clare had been tortured. As fear hangs heavily about the residents of Inkerman Str...

• Nov-1995
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UNHOLY ALLIANCE Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey (Emtee), of the declining Order of Martha and Mary, follows another calling, this time to investigate the untimely death of former protegee, Margaret Doyle. Fatally beaten as she emerged from the bath,...

• Dec-1995
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In the tradition of Patricia Cornwell's Body of Evidence and Postmortem, D. J. Donaldson is back again with a new mystery featuring New Orleans Chief Medical Examiner Andy Broussard and criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn, the detective team whom the ...

• Dec-1995
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MALICE AND AFORETHOUGHT When ancient Hadrian Bascombe summons his heirs to his bedside to announce he's bequeathing his vast fortune to just one of them, his malicious intent is to set them at each other's throat. And it worked. Superintendent ...

• Dec-1995
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Retired archaeology professor Colin Edwards returns to the small town on Florida's Gulf Coast at the request of his cousin Charles, who believes there's a killer among the trustees of his family's estate. Charles's fears are realized when one of the ...

• Jan-1996
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Escalating violence in Southern California puts even tough and savvy Delilah West's nerves on edge. She wants a safe, routine case and thinks finding missing teenager Tamra Wylie is just that - until Delilah discovers a corpse in the yard next door t...

• Jan-1996
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A man with more questions than answers, Owen Keane has one foot in the priesthood, the other in detective novels - a trait that finds him questioning his own vocation. So when a fellow seminarian disappears, Owen sees it as a chance to unravel a myst...

• Jan-1996
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Not a pretty picture Stunningly beautiful, brazenly sexy, Julia Henderson was every man's fantasy and every wife's nightmare--until her brutal murder rocks the quiet English village of Rickenham Green. Detective Chief Inspector Ian Roper and hi...

• Feb-1996
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A STIFF ACT TO FOLLOW... If playing a dead man could be called a role, Charles Paris has sunk to new lows when he agrees to play missing Martin Earnshaw on the true crime TV series "Public Enemies." The show has all the hallmarks of a hit: a vu...

• Feb-1996
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Path of Deadly Resistance Boston artist Leigh Haring arrives in northern New Mexico to claim the body of her sister, Leni, found with a cache of exotic drugs on the scene. But straight answers are not forthcoming and Leigh must draw her own conclu...

• Feb-1996
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Florence Beasley insists that her husband is not just missing--he's dead, and asks retired state trooper and self-styled curmudgeon Hugh Morrison to find the body so she can collect on the insurance. Hugh discovers the professor led a life outside of...

• Mar-1996
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USER FRIENDLY Trading her high-tech, high-stress Silicon Valley career for her own computer fraud investigations agency, Julie Blake embarks on her first case: the disappearance of Arnie Lufkin, a renegade programming genius and suspected embezzle...

• Mar-1996
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CLOSED RANKS When old Tom Carter is found bludgeoned to death, Inspector Alex Sinclair makes quick work of arresting the only suspect, Joey Macready, a young man living with his mother. Social worker Kate Weston is convinced that Joey is innoce...

• Mar-1996
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STRANGE BEDFELLOWS It all began when a very hung over Cole January stepped out of a warm bed and onto a stone-cold corpse -- a beautiful blonde in a slinky number that would have done his male ego proud if she had a pulse. She is identified as ...

• Apr-1996
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John Coffin's life, steadily unfolding in Gwendoline Butler's long series of novels about him, continues to be both involving and suspenseful. After a stormy affair, he and actress Stella Pinero are now married, and Coffin has reached the rank of Com...