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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death
Of crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the "bibliomystery": stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books.
In Vincent Starrett's "A Volume of Poe," a bookseller is murdered; in Ellery Queen's "The Adventure of the Three R's," the detective tracks the disappearance of a local Missouri author;
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Publisher
Library of Congress/Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This entertaining short story collection features Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, nicknamed "The Thinking Machine"-a brilliant but abrasive scientist who proves time and again that any puzzle can be solved by the application of logic. Could you beat the world chess master in one try if you'd never played or studied the game? Or plot and execute a successful escape from an inescapable prison cell? And could you do it at the turn of the twentieth...
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Cleveland is a working-class town, though its great institutions were founded by twentieth-century robber barons and magnates . . . It's this mix of the wealthy and the working class that makes this city--an urban center of brick and girders surrounded by verdant suburbs--a perfect backdrop for lawlessness. Cleveland has certainly seen its share of high-profile crime. Eliot Ness, Cleveland's director of public safety in the 1930s, hunted unsuccessfully...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Three cozy novellas that take place on St. Patrick's Day include the tale of a killer green milkshake at a New Jersey luncheonette and another murderous milkshake that takes out a wedding guest on a ferry trip to Inis Mór.
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Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-162
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Collected here for the first time anywhere are the author's 20 finest stories, including his Edgar-winning "The Home Front," about death and repentance during World War II; the Shamus Award finalist "Nobody Wins," about a brutal gangland enforcer searching for the woman he loves; and year's-best selections such as "A Bar Called Charley's," about a traveling salesman's most grueling night on the road."--
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"An anthology of classic murder mysteries - the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by the most famous practitioners A Penguin Classic These are not the usual suspects. When Edgar finalist Michael Sims formed the line-up for The Penguin Book of Murder, he did not include the familiar classics that you can find anywhere. Although he wanted to explore the first century of murder mysteries (from 1827 to 1924), he sought out the...
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Series
Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Fer-de-lance: Multiple murders send sedentary sleuth Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin on a desperate hunt for clues, but they may be getting too close when someone sends them one of the world's most poisonous snakes as a deadly "gift,"
League of frightened men: Nero Wolfe tries to find evidence against a murderer who has confessed his crime, yet is still free to make good his threats of revenge against a group of former schoolmates.
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Mrs. Claus series volume 4
Mrs. Claus mystery volume 3.5
Witch City mystery volume 12.5
Irish village mystery volume 9.5
Mrs. Claus mystery volume 3.5
Witch City mystery volume 12.5
Irish village mystery volume 9.5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
HALLOWEEN CUPCAKE MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNOR: With Galway’s Halloween Mystery Tour only a few days away, Tara Meehan is scouring the town’s curiosity shops for spooky decorations to draw tourists into her architectural salvage store. But when a stranger appears in her shop bearing a cryptic cupcake and an ominous message, Tara suddenly finds herself tangled in a mystery with ancient Gaelic roots, but very modern—and very deadly—consequences...
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Narrative innovation is often thought to be the domain of the avant-garde or the experimental. However, manipulations of viewpoint and timelines and other unconventional techniques, have been part of popular American culture and storytelling since at least the 1940s. How did different forms and styles once regarded as "difficult," become mainstream and familiar to audiences? As David Bordwell demonstrates in Perplexing Plots, popular narratives have...
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