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Haddad, C.A. A Great Day For The Deadly. New York, Bantam, 1992 Scenes in a library Caught In The Shadows. New York, St. Martin's, 1994 Hired by the lawyers of a Chicago socialite to use her computer expertise to dig up dirt on the socialite's murdered husband, Becky Belski discovers a dark secret involving the victim's father and Becky's own mother.
Haddock, Lisa. Edited Out. Tallahassee, Naiad Press, 1994 Reporter Carmen Ramirez, aided by a library clerk, begins probing the "solved" death of a lesbian school teacher and finds more questions than answers.
Haldeman, Joe. The Hemingway Hoax. New York, William Morrow & Co., 1990. In 1922, before any if his serious works are published, a suitcase containing Hemingway's first novel and dozens of his short stories was somehow lost. 72 years later, a con man attempts to have them recreated with nightmarish, otherworldly results.
Hale, Arlene. Goodbye to Yesterday. Boston, Little, Brown, 1973 Hendricks Public Library's librarian solves a mystery
Hall, James W. Rough Draft. St . Martins, 2000 Crime writer Hannah Keller becomes the bait to get a killer.
Hall, Mary Bowen. Emma Chizzit and the Napa Nemesis. New York, Walker, 1992 Involves the search for a lost Robert Louis Stevenson manuscript. Series character: Emma Chizzit, owner of a salvage company
Hallahan, William H. The Ross Forgery. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1973 Printer Edgar Ross creates a forgery of a 19th century Thomas Wise forgery; but it is a forgery of a forgery that never existed, even as a forgery &endash; no matter &endash; the pay-off would be $100,000.
Halliday, Brett. (Pseudonym of Davis Dresser) She Woke To Darkness. New York, Torquil, 1954 Set at the Mystery Writers of America, Edgar Awards banquet. The author involves himself in the plot, as well as many other well known mystery writers. 25th title in the Detective Michael Shayne series
Hamilton, Henrietta. The Two Hundred Ghost. London, Hodder, 1956 Setting is Heldar's Bookshop, an antiquarian bookstore located in Charing Cross, London Death At One Blow. London, Hodder, 1957 At Night To Die. London, Hodder, 1959 Involves a Jacobite library Answer in the Negative. London, Hodder, 1959 A Fleet Street whodunit featuring a book-dealer cum detective.
Handler, David. The Man Who Died Laughing. New York, Bantam Books, 1988. Series character: once best-selling author, now ghostwriter of celebrity memoirs, Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag and Lulu, his faithful basset hound 'of remarkable eating habits.' The Man Who Lived by Night. New York, Bantam Books, 1989. The second Hoag mystery finds our favorite ghostwriter/sleuth in England where he's been commissioned to pen the memoirs of aged rock star Tristam Scarr. There are those who don't want Scarr's story to see the light of day. Hoagy is accompanied to England by his perennial sidekick Lulu. The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York, Bantam, 1990; 1st HC, New York, Doubleday, A Perfect Crime Book, 1993. . Edgar & Amer. Myst. Awd for Best Original Paperback. 1st HC, New York, Doubleday, A Perfect Crime Book, 1993. Best selling first-time novelist Cam Noyes writes with a lyric voice like F. Scott Fitzgerald and looks like he leapt right out of a Ralph Lauren ad. But the media darling is too busy carousing with Dylan Thomas and Ernest Hemingway, bed-hopping, and brawling to write his long-overdue second book. Enter Hoagy to write an expose of the dirty business behind megabuck book deals. 3rd in series. The Woman Who Fell From Grace. New York, Doubleday, 1991. "Hoagy" Hoag is hired to write the surefire blockbuster sequel to the hit novel Oh, Shenandoah, and, in the meantime, investigates the mysterious death of the novel's author. Set in Virginia. 4th in series. The Boy Who Never Grew Up. New York, Doubleday, 1992. Hoag becomes caught in the middle of the biggest divorce war in Hollywood history, which quickly turns into a headline-making murder The Man Who Canceled Himself. New York, Doubleday, 1995. Hoagy's getting an up-close view of Uncle Chubby, the top-rated TV funnyman whose career nosedives after he's caught in a porn house. Uncle Chubby asks Hoagy to vindicate him with a flattering biography, and join the show's writing team. However, in the cutthroat world of prime-time TV, the show is knocking people dead. 6th in series The Girl Who Ran Off With Daddy. New York, Doubleday, 1996 After running off with his 18 year-old ward, writer Thor Gibbs is found dead and family members, especially his spurned wife, the legendary feminist and former congresswoman Ruth Feingold, are high on the list of suspects, until they too begin to die. 7th title in series The Man Who Loved Woman to Death. New York, Doubleday, 1997 Natty ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy", the one-time "It Boy" of modern American fiction is writing the story of New York's hottest celebrity, a cold-blooded serial killer who calls himself The Answer Man. It soon begins to dawn on Hoagie that the Answer Man may in fact be someone he knows; his oldest friend in the world.8th in series.
Hansen, Joseph. Death Claims. New York, Harper, 1973; 1st UK, London, Harrap, 1973 Brandstetter's investigation takes him through the rare book world of southern California. Series character: Dave Brandstetter Skinflick. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979; 1st UK, London: Faber and Faber, 1980. Was the dead man really the angry, anti-porn crusading, bookshop trashing fundamentalist everyone thought he was? The fifth of Hansen's Brandstetter mysteries. Series character: Gay, confident and well-adjusted, crack insurance claims investigator Dave Brandstetter.
Hanson, Virginia. Mystery for Mary. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Crime Club, 1942. A wealthy benefactress, loved by the town and hated by her heirs, is murdered. The story presented in the form of a written manuscript.
Harding, Paul. (Pseudonym of Doherty, P.C) Murder Most Holy. London, Headline, 1992; 1st US, New York, William Morrow, 1992 Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan series - set in medieval London. A librarian is among the victims.
Harkness, Clare. Monsieur de Brillancourt. US 1st ed., New York, St. Martin's, 1991 A bachelor who has spent his sixty-nine years quietly absorbed in the library of his French chateau falls fatally in love when a young Englishwoman and her children come to stay with him.
Harris, Charlaine. Real Murders. New York, Walker, 1990 First in the Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden, former librarian series. As a member of a club devoted to the study of famous crimes. Roe stages a re-enactment reading of a murder mystery, and a real murder takes place. Nominated for Agatha award for best mystery novel A Bone To Pick. New York, Worldwide, 1994 In the second Aurora Teagarden mystery, Aurora comes into quite a bit of money. Normally, this would make one quite happy, but the mysterious death of her friend Jane, a hidden skull and a lurking stalker combine to make Aurora forget her good fortune and force her to find out whodunit. Three Bedrooms, One Corpse. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994 The Julius House. New York, Scribner, 1995 Roe is about to marry a mysterious businessman and move into Julius House where people tend to disappear. Dead Over Heels. New York, Scribners, 1996 Roe Teagarden never liked Det. Sgt. Jack Burns when he was alive but she never wished him dead. Then he fell from the sky into her garden. A Fool and His Honey. 1999 Aurora Teagarden is a librarian turned Georgia real estate agent
Harris, MacDonald. Hemingway's Suitcase. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1990 Nils-Frederick Geas returns from Europe in possession of the Nick Adams stories lost in 1922. The only thing wrong with them is that they are fakes.
Harris, Robert. Archangel. London, Hutchinson, 1998. An Oxford historian is on the trail of a secret notebook kept by Josef Stalin, stolen from his bedside as he lay dying. His inquiries take him deep into an increasingly dangerous world set in the vast forests around the White Sea port of Archangel.
Harris-Burland, J.B. The Brown Book. London, John Long, 1923 Young man accepts library job in which previous employee was killed
Harriss, Will. The Bay Psalm Book Murder. New York, Walker, 1983 Special collections librarian at LA PL is murdered. Edgar winner.
Hart, Carolyn G. Death on Demand. New York, Bantam, 1987; New York, Doubleday, Perfect Crime Book, 1993 Design for Murder. New York, Bantam, 1988 Something Wicked. New York, Bantam, 1988 Agatha for Best Novel A Little Class on Murder. New York, Doubleday Crime Club, 1989 Annie Laurence teaching a mystery course at a community college. Honeymoon With Murder. New York, Bantam, 1989 Deadly Valentine. New York, Doubleday Crime Club, 1990 The Christie Caper. New York, Bantam, 1991 Death occurs during Annie's celebration of Agatha Christie's 100th birthday, and she has to hunt out the murderer. Southern Ghost. New York, Bantam, 1992 Mint Julep Murder. New York, Bantam, 1995 Mystery set at the Southern writers' Dixie Book Fair. Yankee Doodle Dead. New York, Avon/Twilight, 1998 The Fourth of July turns deadly in South Carolina. White Elephant Dead : A Death on Demand Mystery. Twilight, 1999. South Carolina mystery bookseller Annie Darling investigates when her friend Henny is suspected of the murder of a socialite who was blackmailing some of the town's citizens into donating valuable antiques to the annual white-elephant sale. Series character: Annie Laurence Darling, Death on Demand bookstore series. Set in South Carolina
Harvey, John. Living Proof. London, William Heinemann, 1995; 1st US, New York, Henry Holt, 1995 A best selling mystery writer from America attends the Nottingham, Shots in the Dark Crime Festival and a series of poison pen letters follows her across the Atlantic. Series character: Charlie Resnick
Harvey, W.F. The Mysterious Mr. Badman. London, Pawling and Ness, 1934 Missing books from bookstore
Haskell, Owen. If Books Could Kill. Cranston, RI, Lazarus Press, Dec. 1993. First ed., signed and limited to 250. Large soft cover. Rhode Island's booksellers are being cold-bloodedly murdered. Lots of booklore.
Havighurst, Marion Boyd. Murder in the Stacks. Boston, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard company, 1934; Oxford, Ohio, Miami University, 1989 Murder in a college library
Hawkes, Ellen and Peter Manso. Shadow of the Moth. New York, St. Martin's/Marek, 1983 Virginia Woolf investigating, ironically enough, the 1917 drowning death of a Belgian woman, the depth of which reveals a hidden tangle of espionage intrigue and murder.
Haynes, Conrad. Bishop's Gambit Declined. New York, Severn House, 1987 Academic mystery - some scenes in library. Series character: Professor Harry Bishop, witty, charming, disdainful and iconoclastic, who battles academic absurdities and crime with a deft, though booze-fogged touch.
Heald, Tim. Brought to Book. London, Macmillan London Ltd., 1988; 1st U.S., New York, Doubleday Crime Club, 1988. Investigator Simon Bogner, a dead publisher and fabulous collection of erotica. Series Character: British Board of Trade investigator Simon Bognor
Heath, Eric. Murder of a Mystery Writer. New York, Arcadia House, 1955 A real murder takes place at the Mystery Writers' Guild meeting
Hebden, Mark. Pel Among The Pueblos. New York, Walker, 1988. A valuable manuscript buried in Mexico during the reign of Emperor Maximillian and a criminal known as 'The Bookworm'
Heck, Peter J. Death on the Mississippi. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1995 After receiving a message from an old friend, Det. Mark Twain discovers the handwriting is the same as a note found in a dead man's pocket. So, he heads back to New Orleans along with a boat full of all kinds of people including a killer who wants to put an end to Mark Twain. A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1996 A beautiful city with ugly traditions of corruption and racism; a black man set to hang for a murder he didn't commit and a world-famous author and detective who isn't about to let it happen. The Prince and the Prosecutor. New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 1997 Twain and his assistant Wentworth Cabot are on a cruise to Europe. The company of Twain's friend Rudyard Kipling seems to guarantee smooth sailing. But soon a wealthy young man has disappeared from the ship. Now a murder needs solving, and Twain is on the case. The Guilty Abroad Prime Crime, 1999 Fourth Mark Twain mystery in the series. Mark Twain and Scotland Yard's Lestrade team up in London to solve this mystery. Series character: Mark Twain, author and detective
Heller, Jane. Cha Cha Cha. New York, Kensington Publishing Co., 1994. When fortunes desert wealthy suburbanite Alison Koff, she turns to house-cleaning for sleaze biographer Melanie Moloney, until Melanie turns up dead and Alison becomes chief suspect.
Herndon, Nancy. Lethal Statutes. New York, Berkley, 1996 Student killed in campus library. Series character: Elena Jarvis, a wise-cracking cop with a ruthless sense of justice.
Hess, Joan. Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1986 Murder at a mock-murder mystery weekend Strangled Prose. New York, St. Martin's, 1986 Murder of romance novelist/wife of English professor. Dear Miss Demeanor. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1987 A Really Cute Corpse. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1988 Malloy becomes involved in a local beauty contest. A Diet to Die for. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1989 Irregularities surrounding the Ultima Diet Center lead to murder. Roll Over And Play Dead. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1991 When a cruel pet thief begins stalking the pampered basset hounds of Farberville bookstore owner Claire Malloy decides to investigate and finds herself on the trail of a killer. Death by the Light of the Moon. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1992 Malloy's mother-in-law's 80th birthday celebration of at Louisiana family manor turns into gothic mystery. Poisoned Pins. New York, Dutton, 1993 While investigating a sorority member's death at her daughter's college, Claire Malloy discovers the sorority sisters are participants in many bizarre rituals and illegal activities. Tickled to Death. New York, Dutton, 1994 Claire's friend's new dentist boyfriend has been accused of the murders of his two previous wives. Claire tries to prove his innocence. When her efforts blow the lid off a nest of greed, passion, and murder, there's still one menacing question left, if he didn't kill his wives, who did? Busy Bodies. New York, Dutton, 1995 Everyone on Willow Street seems to have a bone to pick with their eccentric new neighbor, Zeno. An "interactive environmental artist," his idea of art seems to involve large piles of rusting junk and thunderous noise. Then Zeno's estranged wife is found murdered in his house. Odd though it might be, Claire Molloy, devoted amateur sleuth and bookstore owner, doesn't believe Zeno is a murderer. Closely Akin to Murder. New York, Dutton, 1996 At the request of long-lost cousin Ronnie, now a prestigious scientist,who as a teenager had been accused of the murder of a Hollywood producer in Acapulco some thirty years ago, Claire Malloy and her daughter Caron head to Mexico to find a blackmailer and unravel the truth about the decades-old killing. A Holly, Jolly Murder. New York, Dutton, 1997 Involves neo-Druids, a murder, and a Christmas setting. Series character: Claire Malloy, proprietor of Arkansas bookstore, The Book Depot. Hess' Malloy series has won both the Agatha and the American Mystery Awards.
Heward, Dorothy. The Pulitzer Prize Murders. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1932 A manuscript and the Pulitzer Prize lead to death among writers
Hildick, Wallace. The Weirdown Experiment. New York, Harper & Row, 1976 Writer Hubert Weirdown asks an English teacher, who is attempting to recover from the death of his wife, to be the subject of his latest piece of 'concrete fiction.'
Hinkle, Vernon. Music to Murder By. New York, Belmont, 1978 Librarian sleuth modeled on Harvard University music librarian Larry Mowers
Hitchcock, Jane Stanton. The Witches' Hammer. New York, Dutton, 1994. Beatrice O'Connell's father, a rare book collector is brutally murdered and a 15th century grimoire missing from his library.
Hjortsberg, William. Nevermore. St. Martin, 1996. The lives of Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are irrevocably intertwined when they investigate a series of chilling murders that imitate those found in Edgar Allen Poe's most disturbing stories
Hoch, Edward D. The Shattered Raven. New York, Lancer Books, 1969. Paperback. The Mystery Writers of America present are about to present a special award to its Mystery Reader of the Year, until he is murdered at the annual awards dinner.
Hodel, Michael P. and Wright, Sean M. Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes. New York, Hawthorn Bks, 1979., 1st UK, J. M. Dent, London, 1980. An incredible manuscript is unearthed, containing an astounding tale involving an 1875 attempt to overthrow the U.S. government and restore the Confederacy under British rule, as told by Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's equally brilliant older brother.
Hodgkin, M.R. Student Body. New York, Scribner's sons, 1949 Murder in a college library, staff is suspect Dead Indeed. New York, Macmillan, 1956 Death in a publishing house
Holme, Timothy. A Funeral of Gondolas. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1982 A most complicated plot involving illegal betting, a priceless manuscript, a gondola and more
Holt, Hazel. The Cruellest Month. London, Macmillan, 1991 Sheila Malloy finds herself in idyllic Oxford doing research at the Bodleian Library, and once again is thrust into an investigation, when a particularly loathsome woman, who was probably also a blackmailer, is buried under a collapsed shelf of rare books. Series character: Authentically British Mrs. Sheila Malory, an irresistibly charming 50-something widow with a talent for sleuthing that, to her dismay, is all too frequently needed in her quiet English village of Taviscombe, or at the Bodleian.
Holt, Henry. Murder at the Bookstall. London, Collins, 1934 Series character: Inspector Silver, C.I.D., of New Scotland Yard
Hopkins, Kenneth. Body Blow. New York, Harper & Row, 1985 Man expecting delivery of private library receives body instead
Hoppe, Joanne. The Lesson Is Murder. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovitch, 1977 Library research helps solve murder case
Houston, Robert. The Fourth Codex. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1988 An ancient and priceless Mayan document, a codex, is missing
Howard, Clark. Mark the Sparrow. New York, Dial Press, 1975 Law librarian reviews case of death row inmate
Hoyle, Fred and Geoffrey. The Incandescent Ones. New York, Harper & Row, 1977 Bookstore purchase with a cryptic message
Hoyt, Richard. The Siskiyou Two-step. New York, Morrow, 1983 Instead a fishing trip, Denison finds himself caught in a net of international intelligence agents and academicians arguing the real identity of William Shakespeare, a plot to steal a long-lost Shakespearean manuscript and several murders. Series character: John Denson, a private investigator with passions for salmon, raw cauliflower and screw-top wine.
Hugo, Richard. The Hitler Diaries. New York, William Morrow, 1983 A novel based on the sudden appearance of Hitler's diaries and an attempt to authenticate them before they hit the auction block.
Hunt, Barbara. A Little Night Music. New York, Rinehart, 1947 Chicago second hand book store
Hunter, Alan. Death on the Heath. London, Constable, 1981; New York, Walker, 1982 Murder of a publisher. Series character: Supt. George Gently
Hyland, Stanley. Who Goes Hang ? London, Gollancz, 1958 Green Grow The Tresses-o. London, Gollancz, 1965 Top Bloody Secret. London, Gollancz, 1969 Involves the House of Commons library

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