Books U-V

Summaries by Marsha McCurley, Candy Schwartz and Seth D. Bartner

Upfield, Arthur W.
An Author Bites the Dust. Garden City, Doubleday, 1948
The 11th in the series of 'Bony' books, set in Victoria's Yarra Valley featuring Upfield's chief literary invention, the part-Aborignal character, detective-inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.

Valin, Jonathan.
Final Notice. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1980
Features a seductive librarian

Van Greenaway, Peter.
The Judas Gospel. 1st U.S., New York, Atheneum. 1972
Discovery of a new Dead Sea Scroll of great importance results in murder and intrigue
Medusa Touch. Stein & Day, 1973
This is another Inspector Cherry mystery concerning a reclusive novelist. Author's fifth novel.

Van Gulik, Robert.
Poets & Murder. New York, Scribner's, 1968; 1st UK, London, Heinemann, 1968
A murder mystery set in ancient China involving the court poet, a beautiful poetess, and a Chinese manuscript. With end papers and eight illustrations by the author in Chinese style. Series character: Judge Dee

Van Rjndt, Philippe.
The Tetramachus Collection. Toronto, Lester & Orpen, 1976; New York, Putnam's, 1976; London, MacDonald & Jane's, 1977
A leather bound book that reveals secrets which could destroy the Church lies hidden in the innermost of the Vatican's archives until a crippled Polish priest steals the volume from the Vatican Library

Von Conta, Manfred.
The Deathbringer. London, Calder and Boyars, 1971
About the owner of a lending library

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