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Daly, Elizabeth.
Deadly Nightshade.New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1940
Introduces urbane, New York rare book/manuscript consultant and
amateur detective, Henry Gamadge. The date is September, 1939. Against
the backdrop of war's outbreak, Gamadge helps Maine police investigate
the mystery of three, possibly four, children poisoned with deadly
nightshade in a single day. 1st in the series.
Unexpected Night. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1940
The discovery of young Amberly Cowden's body at the base of a cliff,
as well as the strange events apparently related to the impoverished
acting troupe at the Cove, disrupt Gamage's restful golf retreat.
2nd Henry Gamadge
Murders in Volume 2. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1941
3rd Henry Gamadge
The House Without The Door. New York, Farrar & Rinehart,
1942; 1st UK., London, Hammond 1950.
Nothing Can Rescue Me. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1943;
1st UK., London, Hammond, 1945.
Evidence of Things Seen. New York, Farrar & Rinehart,
1943
1st UK., London, Hammond, 1946.
Arrow pointing nowhere. New York, Farrar & Rinehart,
1944
1st UK, London, Hammond, 1946. Alternative US title: Murder Listens
In.
Henry Gamadge and a strange marked railway time table. 7th in
series
The Book of the Dead.New York, Rinehart, 1944
The Book of the Lion. New York, Rinehart, 1944
Somewhere in the House. New York, Rinehart, 1946
The Wrong Way Down. New York, Rinehart, 1946
Night Walk. New York, Rinehart, 1947
Death and Letters. New York, Rinehart, 1950
The Book of the Crime.New York, Rinehart, 1951
Series character: Henry Gamadge, urbane, New York rare book/manuscript
consultant and amateur detective. One of the most popular series
characters in the bibliomystery genre.
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Dane, Clemence (Pseud.)
and Helen Simpson.
Author Unknown. New York, Cosmopolitan, 1930
Murder and an Australian publishing house
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Darby, J.N.
Murder in the House with Blue Eyes. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill,
1939
Bookstore mystery
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Davey, Jocelyn.
Naked Villainy. New York, Knopf, 1958
Spy novel involving some lost manuscripts. Ambrose Usher series
A Touch of Stagefright. London, Chatto and Windus, 1960
Prof Ambrose Usher investigates the murder of a Broadway actor.
Features the NYPL
A Treasury Alarm. London: Chatto and Windus, 1976. 1st US,
New York, Walker & Co., 1976.
While investigating the authenticity of a Donatello statue of John
the Baptist, Usher conflicts with Boston's Irish underground.
A Dangerous Liaison. New York, Walker & Co., 1988
Young Victoria McKenzie accepts an assignment to write the biography
of British tycoon Lord Cranford, and "not pull any punches." But
too many people are worried by the project, and Vicky turns to the
witty Oxford don, Ambrose Usher, for help. Plot involves a murder
over the research documents being used. 7th Ambrose Usher, Oxford
don, mystery.
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Davies, Robertson.
The Rebel Angels. Toronto, Macmillan of Canada, 1981. 1st
U.S. ed., Viking Press, 1982
Arthur Cornish, a young businessman, inherits some manuscripts and
paintings, which results in theft and murder. First volume in The
Cornish Trilogy: The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, The
Lyre of Orpheus.
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Davis, J. Madison.
Red Knight. Walker & Co, New York, 1992
During the turbulent 1960's, Raleigh Lee Menzies, a white man dubbed
'The Red Knight' by friends and enemies alike, was a leading activist
in the civil rights movement. Many years later, as the author of
a controversial book about the turbulent era he lived through and
the people he knew, he becomes the target of a mysterious assassin.
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Davis, Kenn.
Words Can Kill. New York, Avon, 1984
One murdered writer and four fellow writers as suspects. Series
Character: Carver Bascombe. 3rd in series. An Edgar nominee
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Davis, Lavinia R.
Reference to Death. Garden City, Doubleday, 1950
A librarian at Connecticut's Stillbridge Memorial Library is murdered.
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Dean, S.F.X. (pseud. of Amherst English
professor Francis Smith)
By Frequent Anguish. New York, Walker and Co., 1982.
Neil Kelly, professor of English literature, confronts murder in
a New England college library.
Such Pretty Toys. New York, Walker, 1982
Discussions of Donne and Joyce are as interesting as the action.
Series Character: Professor Neil Kelly
It Can't Be My Grave. London, Collins Crime Club, 1983. 1st
U.S., New York : Walker and Co., 1984
A long-lost 16th century play and an eccentric cast of a London
theatre and publishing people. Series Character. Neil Kelly
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DeCaire, Edwin.
Death Among the Writers. London, Hodder & Stoughton,
1952
British authors are being murdered
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Delving, Michael (Pseudonym of novelist,
poet and juvenile author, Jay Williams)
Smiling the Boy Fell Dead. New York, Scribner's, 1967; 1st
UK, London, Macdonald, 1967
Introduces Dave Cannon, Connecticut antique dealer and bookseller,
who scouts himself into a modern mystery as he pursues a rare medieval
manuscript.
The Devil Finds Work. New York, Scribner, 1969
Cannon is joined this time by his partner, Native American Bob Eddison,
in search of antiques and rare book finds in the English countryside;
the two stumble upon murder, occult rites and perhaps Satan himself.
Die Like a Man. New York, Scribner, 1970
Cannon is offered what might be the Holy Grail
A Shadow of Himself. London, Collins Crime Club, 1972; New
York, Scribner, 1972
Bob Eddison, Cannon's partner in business and mystery solving, purchases
a 17th-century Dutch painting at auction and finds himself involved
in solving a murder.
Bored to Death (UK title:A Wave of Fatalities). New
York, Scribner's Sons, 1975; 1st UK, London, Collins Crime Club,
1975
The title refers to a tidal wave on the Severn River called a "bore."
5th mystery in the Dave Cannon series.
No Sign of Life. London, Collins crime Club,1978; New York,
Doubleday, 1979
Dave Cannon becomes involved in a murder investigation during a
buying trip to England.
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Dereske, Jo.
Miss Zukas and the Library Murders. New York, Avon, 1994
"A dead body stashed in the fiction stacks is most improper, and
this librarian aims to nab the culprit."
Miss Zukas and the Island Murders. New York, Avon, 1995
Miss Zukas and the Stroke of Death. New York, Avon, 1995
Zukas paddles her own canoe in a race
Miss Zukas and the Raven's Dance. New York, Avon, 1996
Out of Circulation. New York, Avon, 1997
Final Notice. New York, Avon, 1998
Sixth in the series with librarian sleuth Helma Zukas. A visiting
aunt turns Helma's life upside down.
Miss Zukas in Death's Shadow. Twilight, 1999.
Miss Zukas refuses to pay a traffic fine and is sentenced to fifty
hours of community service, which she serves at a local homeless
shelter. She ends up investigating thefts and murder.
Miss Zukas is a librarian in Bellehaven, Washington
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Derleth, August.
The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians. Sauk City, WI,Mycroft
& Martin, 1968.
Dickens collectors, with names like Ebebezer, meet over Christmas
and discover a stolen manuscript in Dicken's hand, titled 'Master
Humphry's Clock,' a portion of, but never included in, the published
edition of The Old Curiosity Shop.
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DeWeese, Jean. (Pseudonym of Gene Deweese)
The Doll With Opal Eyes. New York, Doubleday, 1976
Hour of the Cat. New York, Doubleday, 1980
Public library
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Dewey, Thomas B.
Draw the Curtain Close. New York, Morrow/Jefferson House,
1947; 1st UK, Dakers 1951 Published by Signet in 1958 as Dame
in Danger.
A slew of not very literary characters are in pursuit of a lost
Gutenberg Bible.
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Dexter, Colin.
The Wench is Dead. New York, St. Martin's, 1989; 1st UK,
London Macmillan, 1990
While recovering in hospital from an ulcer attack, cantankerous
Inspector Morse uses the services of Christine Greenaway, an attractive
librarian to do his historical research in order to correct a miscarriage
of justice in a murder case dating from 1859. Series character:
Inspector Morse
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Dickinson, Peter.
Hindsight. London, Bodley, 1983; New York, Pantheon, 1983
While doing research for a biography of a Hemingway-like author,
English mystery writer, Paul Rogers, becomes involved in a deadly
40 year-old mystery.
Death of a Unicorn. London, Bodley, 1984; New York,
Pantheon, 1984.
Story centers around best selling romance novelist.
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Dillard, R.[ichard] H.W.
The Book of Changes. New York, Doubleday, 1974.
From Romania through Scotland to Newark, N.J. stretches a tale involving
an enormous diamond, a mask said to have belonged to Fu Manchu and
a series if 'Zodiac' murders. Authors 1st novel.
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Dobson, Joanne.
Quieter Than Sleep. New York, Doubleday, 1997.
Academic mystery involving English professor Karen Pelletier, a
murder, and Emily Dickinson. Agatha Nominee for Best First Novel.
The Northbury Papers. New York, Doubleday, 1998
Professor Karen Pelletier looks for another missing manuscript.
The Raven and the Nightingale : A Modern Mystery of Edgar Allan
Poe. New York, Doubleday, 1999.
Young English professor Karen Pelletier again applies the rules
of scholarly research to help hunky Lieutenant Piotrowski solve
a murder. This time the deceased is ambitious Edgar Allan Poe scholar
Elliot Corbin, who has hogged the limelight and perks available
in the English department at Enfield, the elite New England college
where Karen teaches. Corbin and a crew of others had been on hand
when Pelletier received as a gift a huge box of papers and journals
belonging to Emmeline Foster, a (fictitious) 19th-century poet who
is believed to have committed suicide out of doomed love for the
notoriously destructive--and self-destructive--Poe. When one of
Emmeline's journals vanishes from Karen's office, the professor
suspects that the disappearance has something to do with professional
competition.
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Dobson, Margaret.
Primrose. New York, Dell, 1987
Soothsayer. New York, Dell, 1987
Character owns a bookstore
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Dobyns, Steven.
Saratoga Hexameter. New York, NY, Viking Penguin, 1990
1st in the Charlie Bradshaw series. Three cases, each involving
very bad poetry and a colleague's death, in which a poem written
in iambic hexameter will provide a clue to a series of mysterious
deaths.
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Dolson, Hildegarde
Please Omit Funeral. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1975
Murder of an author whose novel had been burned by a self-appointed
censor of the high school library.
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Donohue, H.E.F.
The Higher Animals. New York, Viking, 1965
The story of Daniel Conn, a sometime bookseller in Chicago. It is
Daniel's 25th birthday and on this date two arbitrary and seemingly
unconnected events will force him from his position of bemused neutrality
-- involves a bookshop assistant, a philosopher, and a nymphomaniac
named Naomi.
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Douglas, Carole Nelson.
Catnap. New York, Tor Books, 1992.
Baker and Taylor are catnapped. Temple Barr and Midnight Louie (a
cat) helps solve the mystery
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Drake, Alison. (pseudonym of T.J. MacGregor)
Fevered. New York, Ballantine, 1988
Tango Key. New York, Ballantine, 1988
Black moon. New York, Ballantine, 1989
Police detective and bookstore owner Aline Scott
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Duffy, Margaret.
Murder Of Crows. London, Piatkus, 1987. 1st U.S., New York,
St. Martin's, 1987
Author's 1st novel features secret service man Patrick Gillard &
writer Ingrid Langley. Her husband was gunned down, and her ex-husband
was the only witness.or, was he the murderer? Series Characters:
Langley & Gillard
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DuMaurier, Daphne.
The Flight of the Falcon. Garden City, Doubleday, 1965
A gothic mystery set in Italy and a tour guide turned college librarian
who solves a murder with roots going back 500 years.
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Dunning, John.
Booked to Die. New York, Scribner's Sons, 1992
Introduces Cliff Janeway, bookseller and ex-Denver detective. Nero
Wolfe Award, Dilys Winn award
The Bookman's Wake. New York, Pocket Books, 1996
People are killing for a book, a 1969 ed. of Edgar Allan Poe's "The
Raven", published by the prestigious Grayson Press of Northbend,
that may never have existed. Edgar for best novel. Macavity Award
Nominee. New York Times Notable Novel Mystery
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Dutton, Charles J.
The Crooked Cross. New York, Burt, 1926
Book-collector involved in murder
Streaked With Crimson. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1929
Local librarian helps solve murder mystery
Murder in a Library. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1931
Murder in a municipal library
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Dwight, Olivia.
Close His Eyes. New York, Harper & Bros., 1961
Professor cataloging papers of a poet who had committed suicide
finds murder
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