In searching for a lost parrot who recites Shakespeare with a stutter, Jupiter Jones' firm of young detectives becomes involved with a missing masterpiece. Author: Robert Arthur Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0394822005 ISBN-13: 97803948..
Here is a deftly written thriller that is also a "deep and moody" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) journey through the dark side of Japan's consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable personal debt and fall prey to dangerous webs of underground creditors-so dangerous, in fact, th..
Barring the usual teenage pranks, all seems peaceful at Philly Prep, the private school in Philadelphia where Amanda Pepper teaches English. No doubt the money that appears to be missing from funds collected to aid victims of a catastrophic hurricane Down South will turn up. Probably the rumor that ..
A TRIP TO DIE FOR... Accompanying her grandmother on a seniors tour of Switzerland, Emily Andrew had envisioned a vacation straight out of a travel brochure: spectacular scenery, great food, and a classy European hotel, all worlds away from her rural Iowa hometown. But her dream trip quickly snowbal..
From the author of Borne and Annihilation comes the one-volume hardcover reissue of his cult classic Ambergris Trilogy.More than twenty years ago, Jeff VanderMeer first introduced the world to the fictional city of Ambergris, a beautiful and sinister sprawling metropolis populated by artists and thi..
Make it easy on yourself, read Amethyst Dreams in Large Print* About Random House Large PrintAll Large Print titles are published in a 16-point typeface.Shining with intrigue, allure, and passionate suspense, Amethyst Dreams is Phyllis Whitney at her most spectacular--a story bejeweled with hypnotic..
In the thrilling next novel by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.It's Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The follo..
From BooklistIn the latest Avram Cohen mystery, the retired Jerusalem police commander has become a best-selling author. When Cohen reluctantly agrees to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair to promote his autobiography, Twentieth Century Cop, he finds a dead body and a bomb in his hotel room. Was someone..
book sat on my desk for the entire semester, ships fast, has a bent corner, great price Author: Eden, Dorothy Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0340155892 ISBN-13: 9780340155899..
King Stephen and his rival cousin, Empress Maud, struggle for the crown, and Brothers Humilis and Fidelis arrive at the abbey and stumble on a mysterious disappearance Author: Peters, Ellis Publisher: William Morrow & Co Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0688062504 ISBN-13: 9780688062507..
The dons at St Thomas''s College are enjoying after-dinner port and cigars when a tutor is found shot to death. In the absence of clues, Scotland Yard can make littl e headway and it is left to a visiting Viennese lawyer to sh ed some light on the death. ' Author: Masterman, J. C. Publisher: Dover P..
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces bestselling mystery author P.D. James’s courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a “top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way” (The New York Times).Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint ..
An early work by one of Science Fiction's grand mastersAnarchaos is a planet, inhabited by humans, where anarchy is the only law; where each man protects himself as best he can; and where the weak are soon dead. Malone's brother had dies that way, and Malone has come to Anarchaos, carrying a small a..
From Library JournalPicture Chuck Norris on the loose in New York, who along the way allies himself with an old codger--an ex-cop cum private detective--and a Bruce Lee assistant. Add a few beautiful women, a psychotic, sleazy club owner, and a revenge angle, and you have this novel. By page 25, the..
When the husband of a former pupil, the coach of a celebrated girls' soccer team, is found dead, as is the team's star player, Sister Mary Teresa resolutely follows her intuition as she searches for the murderer Author: Quill, Monica Publisher: Vanguard Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-1..
Amos Walker, a tough Detroit private detective, is hired by a beautiful nightclub dancer who claims she's about to become a missing person Author: Estleman, Loren D. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0395315581 ISBN-13: 9780395315583..
Product DescriptionThe third adventure of the feisty Suzie MountfordUnder the shadows of the first B17s taking off from East Anglia in 1942, the Ascoli family is found ruthlessly murdered their faces blasted off with a shotgun. It's an intriguing inquiry, all the more so because Max Ascoli had been ..
Product DescriptionWhen she finds her beloved cats and some protected wildfowl dead of illegal poison, elderly Ursula Ottway threatens to expose her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, as an anti-preservationist. Within hours, Ursula is dead . . . by the same illegal poison. Now, as George and Mo..
Upon receiving death sentence messages from the "April Rainers," some of the city's most unpopular inhabitants are found murdered Author: Fraser, Anthea Publisher: Doubleday Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0385410883 ISBN-13: 9780385410885..
Suppose a stranger told you your daughter was his daughter in another life Suppose you began to believe him Suppose it was true Author: De Felitta, Frank Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Binding: mass_market Language: English ISBN-10: 0446324825 ISBN-13: 9780446324823..
The new novel featuring homicide detective Sigrid Harald When a shadowy figure kills a dancer in a little Greenwich Village theatre before an audience of horrified children, Sigrid is outraged. Her instincts tell her it was a crime of passion, but she has no evidence. To find out the truth she uses ..
Sister Agatha is one of the two extern nuns in a cloistered order in the Our Lady of Hope Monastery in the New Mexico desert. As an extern, it is her role to be the link between the order and the outside world. On most days, that means picking up supplies in the "Anti-Chrysler," the order's aging, a..
Anthony- and Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron delivers another "masterpiece of high-octane narrative" (Booklist) with his newest harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstormMaine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile,transferred by his supe..