 | The Castle in the Attic
Release Date: March 14, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up...
 |  | Piranha to Scurfy: And Other Stories
Publication Date: March 2001The long title story is about a man whose life, in a sense, is a book. There are shelves in every room, packed with titles which Ambrose Ribbon has checked pedantically for mistakes of grammar and fact. Life for Ribbon, without his mother now, is lonely and obsessive. He still keeps her dressing table exactly as she had left it, the wardrobe door always so that her clothes can be seen inside, and her pink silk nightdress on the bed. There is one book too that he associates particularly with her - volume VIII of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Piranha to Scurfy. It m...
|  | Clue Mysteries: 15 Whodunits to Solve in Minutes
Publication Date: January 31, 2003Once readers develop a taste for our thrilling little mystery stories, they just want more and more! Based on the grand success of our Five-Minute Mysteries series, this collection features fifteen light and lively tales, each of which can be solved in ten minutes or less. Set in the fictional Tudor Hall in 1926 and starring familiar characters from the classic 1949 board game, these stories give readers an opportunity to sleuth out the culprit among Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, Mrs. Patricia Peacock, and the others in all manner of fun-to-solve intrigue...
|  | Murder Most Catholic: Divine Tales of Profane Crimes
Publication Date: August 15, 2002| Series: Murder Most The murder mysteries that make up this unusual anthology all have one thing in common: the hero or heroine who solves the crime is a Catholic cleric. Perhaps that should not be surprising, for since the time of G. K. Chesterton those who have explored stories with a religious belief or background have tended to place them in the Middle Ages. And during that time most Christians were in one way or another connected to the Catholic church. From Chesterton’s classic priest-turned-detective Father Brown to Peter Tremayne’s historic...
|  | Speak of the Devil: 14 Tales of Crimes and Their Punishments (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
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|  | More Clue Mysteries
Publication Date: January 31, 2003Starring familiar characters from the classic 1949 board game, these stories give readers an opportunity to sleuth out the culprit among Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, Mrs. Patricia Peacock, and the others in all manner of fun-to-solve intrigues.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | The Sunken Sailor (A Serial Novel)
Release Date: April 6, 2004During a weekend house party in a proper English village, a body is discovered at the bottom of a pond tied to a submerged statue of Neptune.And the weekend has only just begun. So has this ingenious mystery-a literary game of round robin in which fourteen master crime writers have each contributed a chapter of their own. What they deliver is a wildly entertaining whodunit with as many dizzying twists, turnabouts, double-crosses, and divergent styles as there are solutions and suspects.Featuring the bestselling and multiple award-winning talents of:Simon Bret...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Illustrated Short Stories: All 56 Stories with Original Illustrations from The Strand Magazine
Publication Date: May 28, 2002They're among the most influential, enduring, and popular short stories in the English language; marvelous mysteries that feature the "most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has ever seen." Here are all 56 Sherlock Holmes tales in one very handsome collection, accompanied by the original artwork in facsimile reproduction. Every short story is here--grouped into series (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Last Bow), each containing several adventures. Among the highlights: "A Scandal in Bohemia," where the gr...
|  | Crowded Lives and Other Storie (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
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|  | Crime Movies II (Famous Television Crime)
Publication Date: August 1, 1997| Series: Famous Television Crime "Cops on the Box" have been among the most popular series on television for many years. From the days of Edgar Lustgarten's Scotland Yard by way of Softly, Softly; Maigret; The Professionals and more recently, New Columbo, these stories of crime busters battling to bring criminals to justice have proved to be enormously popular with audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.This collection brings together for the first time a number of the short stories on which these series were based, most by writers whose names are now automa...
|  | Chicago Blues
Publication Date: October 16, 2007Nobody does Blues like Chicago. This collection of dark stories, from today's best Chicago crime fiction authors, captures the depths to which people sink when they run out of options. The emptiness and pain spawned by greed.The violence--or occasionally, the bittersweet redemption--that springs from a broken heart.The writers who live and breathe in Chicago make Chicago live and breathe in this stunning collection. Contributors include Sara Paretsky, Stuart Kaminsky, Barbara D'Amato, Max Allan Collins, Marcus Sakey, Sean Chercover, Michael Black, JA Konrath...
|  | Big Foot Stole My Wife! and Other Stories (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
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|  | Chronicles of Crime
Publication Date: August 3, 2000This is an anthology of some of the contemporary leading British and American crime writers who have contributed stories on a wide-range of settings and sleuths. It should appeal to fans of historical and modern crime. ...
|  | Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem
Publication Date: April 20, 2010Running a scam in a two-bit Caribbean republic, a tough-as-nails gun moll has to outrun both a murder rap and the local neo-Nazi commandant. A jealous archaeologist uses a Mayan stone dildo to bludgeon to death the chairman of the Archaeology Department. An accountant goes on a tropical vacation to a place where everything is falling apart, including his own sketchy soul. Seduced by an escaped psychopath named Dandelion, a frat boy has no choice but to commit murder. The nineteen opium dreams that make up Bad Juju provide the most outrageous, entertaining and ...
|  | Murder In The Family
Release Date: August 3, 2004A dozen of today's masters of mystery and suspense present an anthology of compelling and provocative stories which prove that the families that play together sometimes slay together. ...
|  | A Good Story and Other Stories
Publication Date: 2000This collection of short fiction, selected by the author, spans a writing career of more than 40 years and illuminates the heart and soul of the antihero. A lone castaway on a desert island commits a murder for which he is the sole suspect. A genealogist learns just how far rotten apples fall from the family tree. A con man, impersonating a minister, finds religion. A tabloid journalist must solve a murder to complete his story on the death of a major television star, who happens to be a dog. A self-made widower discovers how hard it is to get rid of a wife, especially ...
|  | On a Raven's Wing: New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, James W. Hall, Rupert Holmes, S. J. Rozan, Don Winslow, and Fourteen Others
Release Date: January 6, 2009Twenty contemporary writers commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe with chilling stories inspired by the master himself.Nearly two centuries after they were penned, Edgar Allan Poe's macabre tales are still working their eerie magic on readers of every stripe—thrill-seekers, filmmakers, even fellow writers of suspense. Collected here to honor and celebrate Poe's genius are original stories by some of the best mystery writers at work today. A son attempts to connect with his dying father in Thomas H. Cook's "Nevermore." Jo...
|  | The Last Noel (Worldwide Mystery)
Publication Date: November 1, 2004| Series: Worldwide Mystery (Book 509) SANITY CLAUSE Steve Brewer When a panicked elf finds Santa's dead body at a local mall, private investigator Bubba Mabry is in the hot seat. Merry tidings of greed, betrayal and Grinch-like deviousness soon follow as a grumbling Bubba hunts for a yuletide killer in a tale of murder, mistletoe and misery.FINDING CHARITY Catherine DainHollywood actress turned therapist Faith Cassidy discovers that the disappearance of a young prostitute named Charity and the murder of Faith's good friend Tori are connected in ominous ways...
|  | The Reluctant Detective and Other Stories
Publication Date: October 2001DETECTIVES AND MURDERERS(Reluctant and Otherwise)Michael Z. Lewin's view of the world is slightly offbeat.Reared inIndiana, he created tales in which one of Indiana's most famouspoliticos, "Danny" Quayle, actually solves crimes.Having lived inEngland for some thirty years, Lewin invented a "reluctant detective"who prefers to take advantage of Britain's tax laws than do any actualdetecting.A few years ago, Lewin invented a family of detectives— grandfather, children, and grandchildren — who investigatecriminals in Bath, England, but (with the sensitivit...
|  | The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Savor the delights in this fine collection, a must for every home library, in which multi-award winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler presents the fifty most exquisite tales of mystery and suspense from fifty master writers. With classic tales from masters such as Edgar Allen Poe, Wilkie Collins, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Stephen King, James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith, Sara Paretsky, Lawrence Block, Elmore Leonard, and dozens of others! ...
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