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Babson, Marian.
Weekend for Murder. London, Collins, 1985. U.S title: Murder
on a Mystery Tour. New York, Walker, 1985
Murder on a mystery weekend in England sponsored by a Boston mystery
bookstore and attended by U.S. fans and two crime novelists. |
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Baharav, I.D.
The Winds of April. New York, Primary Sources, 1963
Privately printed novel involving a beatnik coffee house, libraries,
murder and stolen manuscripts. |
 
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Baker, Abbey Penn.
In the Dead of Winter. New York, St. Martin's, 1994
Sherlockiana. A previously undiscovered manuscript relates the story
of how Myrl Adler, daughter of Irene Adler, who, while a student
at Smith College travels to Brattleboro, VT with her friend and
future Watson, Faye Martin, to investigate the murder of an actress.
In the course of her sleuthing she also discovers the identity of
her true father. He was none other than the world's greatest consulting
detective. |
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Baker, Carlos.
The Gay Head Conspiracy. New York, Scribners, 1973
Set on Martha's Vineyard. Noted Hemingway authority, Carlos Baker,
produced only one mystery. It concerns an army veteran at Martha's
Vineyard who discovers a badly mangled corpse. Hemingway, references
have to be in it somewhere. Episodes in Widener and Lamont Libraries. |
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Baker, Richard M.
Death Stops the Manuscript. New York, Scribner's Sons, 1936
Murder in a library.
Death Stops the Rehearsal. Scribner's, New York, 1937 Sequel
to Death Stops The Manuscript. The murderer is caught with the help
of the typewritten script and the murder weapon, a knitting needle,
is smuggled on to the crime scene in a copy of A Tale of Two Cities.
Series Character: Franklin Russell |
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Ball, Brian.
Montenegrin Gold. London, Barker, 1974; New York, Walker
& Co., 1974.
The diaries of Charles Copley's late father, a WW II intelligence
officer, lead him to treasure and deadly confrontation in the mountains
of Yugoslavia. |
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Ball, Terence.
Rousseau's Ghost. New York, State University of New York
Press (SUNY), 1998.
An Oxford don, a Rhodes Scholar, a long-missing manuscript by a
famous 18th century philosopher with a dark secret, the late 20th
century murder of a prominent Princeton Professor in Paris and the
connection between the latter two. |
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Ballinger, John.
The Williamsburg Forgeries. New York, St. Martin's, 1989
Set in Williamsburg, Virginia, centering around a large and fine
collection of modern first editions, Brad Parker of Parker's Rare
Books finds himself involved with a newly discovered Melville pamphlet
leading to deception, forgery, and the murder of a book dealer. |
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Banbury, Jen.
Like a Hole in the Head. New York, Little, Brown, 1998
Jill, a full time Gen-X with an attitude and part time bookstore
clerk buys a first edition Jack London book in this funny Los Angeles
mystery. Author's first book. |
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Bannister, Jo.
The Mason Codex. New York, Doubleday for The Crime Club,
1988.
A six-hundred-year-old deerskin parchment, a Mixtec Codex, is the
bait to entrap the heinous villain. |
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Barkworth, S.
The Nijmegen Proof. Philadelphia, Holmes, 1988
A fragmentary proof of a lost Latin text, printed in strange moveable
types older than any of Gutenberg's, turns up for sale in England. |
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Barnard, Robert.
Death of an Old Goat. London, Collins Crime Club, 1974.
Drummondale was not one of Australia's most distinguished seats
of learning, but then Professor Bellville-Smith was hardly one of
England's most distinguished scholars. Nevertheless, he came, he
saw, he lectured on Mrs. Gaskell and Jane Sustin and, within a few
hours, was found violently and mysteriously dead. Author's first
novel.
Unruly Son. London, Collins Crime Club, 1978. (1st US., Scribner's,
1979, as: Death of a Mystery Writer)
A famous author's last, unpublished manuscript turns up missing
and his death, of seemingly natural causes, turns out to be murder.
Posthumous Papers. London, Collins Crime Club, 1979; U.S.
ed. (title: Death of a Literary Widow) New York, Scribner's,
1980
A deceased novelist, his estate, and his sudden posthumous popularity
lead to murder & mayhem. 1981 Edgar Nominee for Best Novel.
Sheer Torture. London, Collins Crime Club, 1981. (U.S. title:
Death by Sheer Torture.) New York, Scribner's, 1982.
Trethopwan's artistic family is composed of 'fruit cakes' headed
by Uncle Lawrence, the poet.
The Missing Bronte. London, Collins, 1983; U.S. ed. (title:
The Case of the Missing Bronte) New York, Scribner's, 1983
Inspector searches for stolen ms., includes a librarian as one of
the characters
At Death's Door. London, Collins Crime Club, 1988
Daughter's research on a biography of her actress mother leads to
murder
A Hovering of Vultures. London, Bantam Press, 1993. 1st U.S,
New York, Scribner's 1993.
An author murdered in 1932, a shady, modern-day publisher and murder
in the present - tense.
Series Characters: Oddie & Charlie Peace |
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Barnes, Linda.
Cold Case. New York, Delacorte Press, 1997.
Prodigy novelist Thea Janis commits suicide at age 15, but a manuscript
in her handwriting surfaces 24 years later, leadng part-time cabbie/detective
Carlotta Carlyle into a case full of family intrgue and secrets. |
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Barron, Stephanie.
Jane in the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor. Bantam Books,
1996
Jane Austen visits a girlfriend in Hertfordshire, only to end up
investigating the death of her friend's husband. First in a series
of books written in Jane Austen's literary style and purporting
to be part of some newly discovered manuscripts written by Austen.
Jane and the Man of the Cloth. Bantam Books, 1997
While her family is on vacation in the seatown of Lyme, Jane investigates
the mystery of the smuggler known as "the Man of the Cloth". 2nd
in the Jane Austen series.
Jane and the Wandering Eye. Bantam Books, 1998
A masquerade ball turns deadly for theatre manager and a miniature
picture of an eye is found on the body. 3rd in the Jane Austen series.
Jane and the Genius of the Place. New York, Bantam Doubleday
Dell Pub., 1999
While visiting her sister-in-law, Jane gets embroiled in solving
a murder and a planned invasion of England by Napoleon. |
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Bartram, George.
Fair game. New York, Macmillan, 1973. 1st UK ed. London,
Millington,1974
The hero/victim of this novel is John Grueby, a mild-mannered corporate
librarian, who must use all his skills to stay alive and fight a
plot involving international finance and the illegal transfer of
vast sums of money by computer.
The Aelian Fragment. New York, Putnam G P, 1976.
Samuel Teck purchases a priceless Cyrillic manuscript desired by
the Russians, the Israelites and wealthy American collectors who
would kill to obtain it. |
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Baxt, George
The Dorothy Parker Murder. New York, St. Martin's, 1984
The author brilliantly captures D. Parker's legendary personality
to create a mystery around Rudolph Valentino's death.
Affair at Royalities. New York, International Polygonics,
1988
Crime writer emerges from total amnesia to find she is suspected
of murder
The Noel Coward Murder Case. New York, St. Martin's, 1992
Set in New York City, 1935. A trio of thugs who call themselves
Vivaldi, Beethoven and Bizet are funding a flashy new nightclub
and the inimitable Noel Coward has been persuaded to entertain.
However, his talents turn to sleuthing when a showgirl is slain
on stage on opening night.
The Humphrey Bogart Murder Case. New York, St. Martin's,
1995
Dashiell Hammett's story of The Maltese Falcon comes to life. It's
1941 and in between battles with his third wife, Mayo Methot, Humphrey
Bogart is preparing to star in the classic film version of the mystery
novel. |
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Bayne, Spencer.
Murder Recalls Van Kill. New York, Harper, 1939
Archivist detective investigates murder of a professor |
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Beasley, David.
The Jenny : A New York Library Detective Novel. Buffalo,
N.Y., Davus Publishing, 1994
Based on real story of theft and recovery of rare stamps from the
NYPL, including a stamp known as the "inverted Jenny". Series character:
New York Public Library Security Detective Rudyard Mack and Libray
Union Leader Arbuthnott Vine
The Grand Conspiracy : A New York Library Mystery. Buffalo,
N.Y., Davus Publishing, 1997
Mack investigates the knifing and kidnapping of his girlfirend Arbie
Vine before she was to lead a protest march on City Hall. Series
character: New York Public Library Security Detective Rudyard Mack
and Libray Union Leader Arbuthnott Vine |
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Beck, Henry Charlton.
Death by Clue. New York, Dutton, 1933
Book reviewer murdered, investigation leads into world of books |
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Beechey, Alan.
An Embarrassment of Corpses. New York, St. Martin's, 1997
Children's book author finds his friend's body floating in a Trafalgar
Square fountain. He is only the first of a serial killer's bizarre
murders. And what do they have to do with a battery-operated ferret,
the works of Lewis Caroll and the episode of the nude Macbeth? |
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Belfort, Sophie.
Marvell College Murders. New York, Fine, 1991
Library and library staff involved. Series characters: Professor
Molly Rafferty and Boston homicide detective Nick Hannibal |
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Bell, Josephine.
Death on the Borough Council. London, Longmans, 1937
A Swan-Song Betrayed. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1978.U.S.
(title: Treachery in Type) New York, Walker, 1980
Publisher's pirate edition leads to murder |
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Bentley, Nicolas.
The Events of That Week. London, Collins, 1972; New York,
St. Martins, 1972
A writer vacationing in Sicily is coerced by the Mafia. |
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Berckman, Evelyn.
The Fourth Man on the Rope. Garden City, Doubleday, 1972
Two librarians/archivists are involved in murder and mystery
The Hovering Darkness. New York, Doubleday, 1977
Detective bookseller, plot deals with extortion
Journey's End. New York, Doubleday, 1977
Ancient book belonging to an elderly Comtessehat harbors a priceless
secret |
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Bercovici, Eric.
Tread Lightly, My Dear. New York, Birch Lane Press 1990.
Comic bibliomystery of art and literary provenance. |
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Bernard, Robert.
Deadly Meeting. New York, Norton, 1970
Scholars at a convention include a murderer, library involved marginally |
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Betts, Doris.
Heading West. New York, Knopf, 1981
Bored librarian is about to go out of her head with frustration
over her inability to escape the miniscule life her family has chosen
for her, when she is kidnapped into a nightmare. |
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Bierstadt, Edward Hale.
Satan was a Man. New York, Doubleday & Doran, 1935
Thriller about being cooped up in large house with a library of
crime novels |
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Bingham, John.
My Name is Michael Sibley. London, Gollancz, 1952; New York,
Dodd, Mead, 1952
Newspaper reporter Michael Sibley narrates his own story of a murder
investigation in which he is the prime suspect. |
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Bishop, Claudia.
Taste for Murder. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1994
At a reenactment of the 17th-century witch trials at Hemlock Falls,
a mock execution goes horribly wrong. Includes a recipe for 'Zabaglione
a la Quilliam.' A Hemlock Falls Inn series mystery
Dash of Death. New York, Berkley, 1995
Murder Well Done. New York, Berkley, 1995
The Inn at Hemlock Falls is hosting the wedding rehearsal dinner
of ex-senator Alphonse Santini at which a member of the party is
murdered.
Death Dines Out. New York, Berkley, 1997
A Touch of the Grape. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1998
A Steak in Murder. New York, Berkley, 1999
Series Characters: Sarah & Meg Quilliam, one of whom is a librarian,
the other an innkeeper. An added bonus is that each mystery includes
a recipe from The Inn at Hemlock Falls, a real inn located in upstate
New York. |
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Blackburn, John
Blue Octavo (U.S. title:Bound to Kill). London, J.
Cape, 1953; New York, M.S. Mill and William Morrow, 1963.
At an auction, an antiquarian book dealer bids four times what a
limited edition on English mountain climbing is worth, and then
is found hanging from a ceiling rafter. His friend, certain that
the dealer had been killed because of this book, must discover why.
A classic bibliomystery.
Colonel Bogus (U.S. title: Packed for murder). London,
Panther, 1969; New York, Mill/Morrow, 1964
Blackburn's books focus on rare book dealers |
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Blackmur, L.L.
Love Lies Slain. New York, St. Martin's, 1989
Galen Shaw, newspaper reporter-turned-freelance writer has been
asked by Boston Brahman and renowned artist H.L. Baugh to help him
write his life story. But what happened to his first ghostwriter?
Had he discovered one too many family secrets? |
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Blackstock, Charity.
Dewey Death. London, Heinemann, 1956
Barbara Smith, oft-time writer of historical romances and full-time
employee of the Inter-libraries Dispatch Association, discovers
double murders on the premeses. Each chapter has its own Dewey Decimal
number. A classic library bibliomystery. |
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Blake, Nicholas. (Pseudonym of Cecil Day
Lewis, Poet Laureate of England)
End of Chapter. London, Collins for The Crime Club, 1957;
New York, Harpers, 1957
A potentially libelous manuscript leads to murder at a publishing
house. Series Character: Nigel Strangeways.
The Private Wound. London, Collins Crime Club, 1958.
Set in Ireland in 1939, a young British novelist rents a cottage
to write his new book. He is seduced by the wife of the local squire
and becomes the primary suspect when she's brutally murdered. |
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Blankfort, Michael.
The Widow-makers. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1946
A daughter searches for a spy's manuscript in a vintage suspense
novel in which three children become unwittingly involved with a
resurgent Nazi plot. |
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Blau, Ernest E.
The Queen's Falcon. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1947
Theft of medieval book leads to murder |
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Bleeck, Oliver. (Pseudonym of Ross Thomas)
No Questions Asked. New York, Morrow, 1976
Features the Library of Congress; Series character Philip S. Ives,
professional 'go-between,' becomes involved in a deadly game of
deception and murder while trying to recover a stolen book valued
at a quarter of a million dollars. |
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Blochman, Lawrence G.
Death walks in Marble Halls. 1st appeared in American Magazine,
1942; New York, Dell, 1951
Murder in the New York Public Library |
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Block, Lawrence.
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling. New York, Random
House, 1979
Bernie Rhodenbarr tries to steal a rare Kipling inscribed to H.
Rider Haggard. Nero Wolfe Award
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza. New York, Random House,
1980
Bernie is at it again over a quarter-of-a-million dollar coin. 3rd
Bernie Rhodenbarr.. Winner of Nero Wolfe Award
The Burglar in the Closet. New York, Penguin, 1981
Bernie ends up implicated in the murder of his dentist's ex-wife
when he breaks into her apartment to steal her jewelry and comes
out of the closet, only to find her dead.
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian. New York, Arbor House,
1983
Bernie is asked by a Manhattan book collector to appraise his library,
but after he returns home from this errand, he finds his friend
Carolyn Kaiser's cat is being held for ransom (a Mondrian painting).
Murder and a missing painting follows.
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams. New York, Dutton, 1994.
6th Bernie Rhonenbarr bibliomystery and the first since 'Mondrian,'
pub. in 1983. By now he's ostensibly gone 'straight,' his bookstore
is turning a profit and he's adopted a cat, which would make him
a 'cat burglar'? A million-dollar baseball card is stolen. Bernie
is blamed and, as usual, he's innocent. At the time of the crime
he was off burglarizing another apartment where all he was able
to come up with was a lot of untraceable cash and a the body of
a nude man in the bathtub.
The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart. New York, Dutton,
1995.
7th in the burglar series. Bernie's in love; Raffles, the cat, prowls
the shop for murder clues, and for once the police believe Rhodenbarr's
innocent. But, how can he prove it?"
The Burglar in the Library. Harpenden:London, No Exit Press,
1997. First U.S. ed. NY: Dutton, 1997.
Bernie's hunt for a copy of 'The Big Sleep' inscribed by Raymond
Chandler to Dashiell Hammett.
The Burglar in the Rye. New York, Dutton, 1999
Bernie is implicated in the murder of a literary agent when he tries
to steal the letters of a J.D. Salinger-like writer named Gulliver
Fairborn.
Bernie Rhodenbarr, NYC bookstore owner and burglar series |
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Bloomfield, Anthony.
The Tempter. London, Hogarth Press, 1961. 1st U.S., New York,
Scribner, 1962
A mystery involving a London pornographic bookshop |
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Bond, Michael.
Monsieur Pamplemousse Rests his Case. London, Headline, 1991
Murder among crime writers at a re-creation of a banquet given by
Alexandre Dumas. Series characters: M. Pamplemousse undercover agent
for a prestigious culinary guide and his faithful canine, Pommes
Frites |
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Bonnamy, Francis.
Dead Reckoning. New York, Duell, 1943
Murder in the Library of Congress |
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Bontly, Thomas.
Celestial Chess. New York, Harper & Row, 1979
American scholar David Fairchild is in England to investigate the
mysterious 12th century Westchurch Manuscript lying inexplicably
neglected in a Cambridge college library. He discovers that its
author, Geoffrey Gervaise, poet, priest, scholar, Becket disciple,
and chess master hand entered into a pact with the Devil which has
modern day implications. |
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Borgenicht, Miriam.
Booked for Death. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1987
What is the connection between the death of her former fiancé
and the book which and elderly scholar is dictating to Celia Sommerville? |
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Borthwick, J.S.
Bridled Groom. New York, St. Martin's, 1994
Are the two retired children's librarians on a murder spree?
Dolly is Dead. New York, St. Martin's, 1995
Librarian among cast of characters
The Down East Murders. New York, St. Martin's, 1985
Small town NE library's painting is one of several stolen
The Student Body. New York, St. Martin's, 1986
Murder on a college campus, denouement in the library |
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Bosse, Malcolm.
The Incident at Naha. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1972.
A death in Greenwich Village is tied to a My Lai incident. Involves
a search for a lost diary
The Man Who Loved Zoos. New York, Putnam, 1974
San Francisco librarian Victoria Welch investigates the murders
of a busload of tourists in order to clear her dead Vietnam vet
nephew of being a suspect in the killings |
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Boutell, Anita.
Death Has a Past. London, Michael Joseph, 1939
Story takes place over a twenty-four hour period when a mysterious
family manuscript leads to murder in a locked room. |
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Bowen, Michael.
Corruptly Procured. New York, St. Martin's, 1994
Ex-foreign service officer Richard Michaelson deals with death &
the theft of the Library of Congress' Gutenberg Bible. |
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Boylan, Eleanor.
Pushing Murder. Henry Holt,1993.
The 3rd mystery in the Senior sleuth Clara Gamadge, widow of Elizabeth
Daly's, Henry Gamadge, rare book/manuscript consultant and scholar,
finds the white-haired sleuth in the hospital, a victim of a bad
hors d'oeuvre consumed at the opening of a friend's new Greenwich
Village mystery book shop named Pushing Murder. |
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Bracken, C.P.
Roman Ring. London, Cassell, 1968
Woman blackmailed into assisting ring of bookdealers stealing books
and manuscripts |
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Bradbury, James.
Ruins of Civility. New York, St. Martin's, 1996
Princeton Professor Jamie Ramsgill travels to England to research
his new book and to visit his old mentor, Rainer Gass at Cambridge.
He discovers that the last anyone claims to have seen the generally
despised don was at his retirement party, where he had shocked everyone
present by rescinding his resignation. |
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Bradbury, Ray.
Death is a Lonely Business. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1985
A young writer of pulp fiction and a detective team up to solve
fourseemingly unrelated murders. |
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Brady, Liz.
Sudden Blow. Toronto, Second Story Press, 1998. wraps
Irreverent writer on 'big business,' Jane Yeats is hired to discover
who really murdered real estate baron Charles Durand by shattering
his skill with one of his own collectibles. The police are certain
the killer is his gay son, William. |
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Brandon, Beatrice.
The Court of Silver Shadows. Garden City, Doubleday, 1980
Suspense novel about a librarian cataloguing a 'vast and priceless
collection of rare movie memorabilia'. |
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Braun, Lilian Jackson.
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards. New York, Dutton, 1966
Braun introduces Jim Qwilleran, a prizewinning reporter who's been
on the skids but is now coming back with a job as feature writer,
mostly on the art scene, for the Daily Fluxion.
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern. Dorset Press, 1967
Jim Qwilleran is not exactly thrilled by his new assignment
for the Daily Fluxion but finds himself on familiar territory when
a murder is committed, and he and his brilliant Siamese, Koko, take
the case. Braun lets you guess what the solution to the mystery
is, then eliminates the possibility by introducing more clues.
The Cat Who Turned On and Off. New York, Dutton, 1968
When a mysterious fall ends the life of one of Junktown's leading
citizens, Qwilleran is convinced it was no accident. And Koko proves
him right.
The Cat Who Saw Red. Berkley, 1986
Jim Qwilleran goes on a diet and almost immediately gets assigned
to write about food and moves into a boarding house full of gourmet
cooks one of whom is odd in the extreme.
The Cat Who Played Brahms. Berkley, 1987
Qwill and the cats head north to vacation in a cabin owned by
family friend, Aunt Fanny. This book introduces us to the rural
setting of Moose County; to the geography, the people and their
families and many of the other intrigues and relationships that
are further explored in future books in the series.
The Cat Who Sniffed Glue. New York, Putnam, 1988
It looks like robbery gone awry to the police. But then Koko develops
an odd appetite for glue, and he and Qwilleran become entangled
in a web of love and danger in their stickiest case yet.
The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare. New York, G.K Hall, 1988
Koko's snooping into an unusual edition of Shakespeare proves to
be nearly cat-astrophic for folks around Pickax.
The Cat Who Played Post Office. J. Curley, 1989
An unexpected inheritance throws reporter Jim Qwilleran into
the limelight of the rich and famous until a missing maid and a
shocking murder show him the unsavory side of the upper crust. His
Siamese Koko's propensity for clues that leads the roving reporter
to some unlikely suspects.
The Cat Who Went Underground. New York, Putnam, 1989
Jim Qwilleran takes his two Siamese to the lake for the summer only
to learn that carpenters are disappearing or dying in freaky accidents.
The Cat Who Lived High. New York, Putnam, 1990
Jim Qwilleran and his two traveling companions, Koko and Yum Yum,
go Down Below for a stay at the Casablanca, an apartment building
that resembles a refrigerator housing a cast of oddities, eccentrics
and weirdos.
The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts. New York, Putnam, 1990
Are ghosts really haunting the Goodwinter Farmhouse Museum?
The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal. New York, Putnam, 1991
The town's high school principal made a career out of offending
everyone, and everyone was suspect when his body is found Jim Qwilleran's
apple orchard.
The Cat Who Moved a Mountain. New York, Putnam, 1992
After 5 years of legal formalities, Jim Qwilleran has officially
inherited his freedom & fortune, which leaves him with a serious
dilemma. What should he do now?
The Cat Who Wasn't There. New York, Putnam, 1992
A group tour to Scotland is cut short when a thief swipes a suitcase,
the bus driver disappears and a fellow tourist is found dead.
The Cat Who Went into the Closet. New York, Putnam, 1993
A radio reenactment of the Great Fire of 1869 leads to a discovery
that will uncover long buried secrets.
The Cat Who Came to Breakfast. New York, Putnam, 1994
Development of Pear Island into a resort complex has residents,
summer people and mainland fishermen irate, but mad enough to murder?
The Cat Who Blew the Whistle. New York, Putnam, 1994
When an affluent banker and railroad buff Floyd Trevelyan abandons
his lovingly restored antique train is on its first run to abscond
with millions, police are unable to follow his tracks. But Jim Qwilleran
doesn't believe Floyd would abandon his choo choo for a few measly
million.
The Cat Who Said Cheese. New York, Putnam's, 1996
The Great Food Expo is all set to open in Pickax to advertise its
new restaurants and specialty markets permitting Koko and Yum Yum
to develop a taste for gourmet cheese. Meanwhile a vengeful bomber
is loose in town.
The Cat Who Tailed a Thief. New York, Putnam, 1997
The proud residents of Pickax have their feathers ruffled when a
string of petty thefts upsets the holiday season. Oddly enough,
the crime wave coincides with the arrival of a new banker and his
lovely, young wife.
The Cat Who Saw Stars. Wheeler, 1998
While still writing his twice-weekly column, "Straight from the
Qwill Pen," Qwilleran's book collection is growing as he pursues
old editions of Twain and his relationship with Polly Duncan, director
of the Pickax Public Library, although warm is not yet fixed on
marriage. To stay busy he and the cats follow the trail of some
very unusual visitors, after rumors circulate that extraterrestrial
beings are responsible for the disappearance of a stray backpacker.
The Cat Who Sang for the Birds. Wheeler, 1998
It's spring in Moose County and newspaper columnist Jim Qwilleran
and his remarkable felines, Koko and Yum Yum, are caught up in investigating
the death of an elderly woman in a suspicious fire and the mysterious
break-in at the newly opened art museum.
The Cat Who Robbed A Bank. Putnam, 2000
A hijacked bookmobile, an attemped bank robbery, and a dead jeweler
are all components in this new Qwilleran mystery.
Series characters: Wealthy journalist/sleuth Jim Qwilleran, his
Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Tum, and often Jim's girlfriend, Polly
Duncan, director of the Pickax Public Library. |
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Breen, Jon L.
Listen For the Click. New York, Walker & Co., 1983
Breen's 1st novel. Aging Olivia Barchester uses knowledge gained
from years of reading mystery novels to solve the death of a champion
jockey, murdered at her estate, who was in the process of dictating
his memoirs.
The Gathering Place. New York, Walker, 1984
Rachel Hennings, owner of an L.A. bookshop, becomes involved in
murder after she discovers some curious facts about an early Hollywood
writer.
Touch of the Past. New York Walker 1988. U.K ed., London:
Macmillan Crime Case, 1989
Author's second Rachel Hennings mystery. Antiquarian bookseller-cum-sleuth
Hennings is offered a collection of books published in 1937, the
year its owner ceased writing mysteries. When the collector turns
up murdered, Hennings and sidekick Stu Wellman must unlock the secrets
of the past. Dagger Nominee. |
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Breslin, Howard.
Autumn Comes Early. New York, Crowell, 1956 |
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Brill, Toni.
Date With a Plummeting Publisher. New York, St. Martins Press,
1993
Victim is a publisher, sleuth is a mystery writer. |
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Bristow, Gwen, and Bruce Manning.
The Gutenberg Murders. New York, Mystery League, 1931
Rivalry over library directorship in Sheldon Memorial Library, New
Orleans |
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Bronson, F.W.
Nice People Don't Kill. New York, Farrar & Rinehart,
1940
Volume of Keats leads to murder |
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Brown, Frederic.
Murder Can Be Fun. New York, Dutton, 1948 |
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Browne, Douglas G.
Death in Seven Volumes. London, Macdonald, 1958
Involves the London Library and rare books. |
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Bruce, Leo.
Neck and Neck. London, Gollancz, 1951; 1st US ed., Chicago,
Academy , 1980.
Sgt. William Beef's toffee-nosed biographer Lionel Townsend finds
himself a prime suspect when his aunt in Hastings is poisoned. Catalogue
of Crime #500 & selected as one of the titles for inclusion
in Fifty Classics of Crime 1900-1975. |
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Bryant, Dorothy.
Killing Wonder. Berkeley, Ata Books, 1981
Poisoning death of popular author |
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Burke, J.F.
Kelly Among the Nightingales. New York, Dutton, 1979
Harlem native, Samuel Moses Kelly, former police officer and now
a private investigator is hired to find out why Bart Manfredi, a
well-known editor, fell forty floors to his death during a party
he is giving to toast a new book. |
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Burke, John.
The Black Charade. New York, Coward, McCann & Geohegan,
1977
A bookseller is mired in a mystery involving psychics, mindreading,
alchemy, ritual murder and reincarnation |
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Burley, W.J.
Death in Willow Pattern. London, Gollancz, 1969; New York,
Walker, 1970
Hired to catalog private library, professor stumbles upon mystery
instead
Death in Stanley Street. London, Gollancz, 1974; New York,
Walker, 1974
Police procedural centers on a British antiquarian bookshop. Series
character: Supt. Charles Wycliffe |
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Byatt, A.S. (Antonia Susan)
Possession: A Romance. London,Chatto & Windus, 1990.
Byatt's book is already considered by some to be one of the great
novels 20th century. It's a bibliomystery sans murder. Booker Prize,
1990. |
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