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Toronto: Amanita Publications, 1990 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 1st Canadian Edition.. [Helen Keremos Mystery - 3] Fast-paced thriller has Helen Keremos, street-smart lesbian detective, searching for a long lost sixties revolutionary who happens to be the daughter of a right-wing U.S. presidential candidate..

New York: Crown Publishers, 1998 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. Murder,mystery and mayhem in Athens and New York resulting from the discovery of a MSS of Homer made for Alexander the Great. 339p.Crisp copy, looks unread.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1998 Book. As New. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Murder,mystery and mayhem in Athens and New York resulting from the discovery of a MSS of Homer made for Alexander the Great.271p. .

New York: William Morrow., 1967 Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. "Black, black, black is the colour of my true-love's heart! His tongue is like a poisoned dart,The coldest eyes and the lewdest hands..." The brilliantly talented singer Liri Palmer is obviously sending a message to someone in the audience. Various musicians and students are gathered for a folk music seminar at the fantastic neo-Gothic country mansion called Follymead. Most come only to sing or to listen, but one or two have non musical scores to settle. Passions run high; there is trouble brewing at Follymead. Among the music students are Tossa Barber and her boyfriend, Dominic Felse. When tragedy strikes, Dominic privately enlists the aid of his father, Detective Inspector George Felse, to piece together a broken tune of murder. Death and mystery at a weekend course on Folk Music involving Tossa Barber & Dominic Felse.221p. (dj slightly chipped).

London: Headline, 1988 Ex-Library. Good>Very Good. Pbk.. Reprint. "Black, black, black is the colour of my true-love's heart! His tongue is like a poisoned dart,The coldest eyes and the lewdest hands..." The brilliantly talented singer Liri Palmer is obviously sending a message to someone in the audience. Various musicians and students are gathered for a folk music seminar at the fantastic neo-Gothic country mansion called Follymead. Most come only to sing or to listen, but one or two have nonmusical scores to settle. Passions run high; there is trouble brewing at Follymead. Among the music students are Tossa Barber and her boyfriend, Dominic Felse. When tragedy strikes, Dominic privately enlists the aid of his father, Detective Inspector George Felse, to piece together a broken tune of murder..

London: Orion, 2001 Book. Fine. Pbk. Reissue. A shot rings out, the woman dies instantly. But she was not alone on the steps of the London hotel. A number of other people could also have been the intended target of the invisible sniper.But the assassin, Michael Weston, knows he has carried out his assignment successfully. One mistake was enough, a long time ago, when a young American girl had accidentally received the fatal bullet. After all those years, the father of the dead girl still had a private eye named Hoffer on a permanent retainer to track him down. Every time Weston completed a job, he knew Hoffer would not be far behind. But why had the police been on the scene so quickly? Weston has to find out ? even if it means coming face to face with Hoffer . . ..

Toronto: Warwick Publishing, 2000 Book. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Pbk Edition. When Ezra Brant, internationally distinguished wine journalist, travels to France for the release of the renowned Beaujolais Nouveau, he stumbles upon a plot of murder, fraud and international intrigue. Combines the page-turning immediacy of a compelling mystery with the beauty and poignancy of the best travel writing.. 206p. Signed on half-title.

Stratford ON: Mercury Press, 1993 Book. As New. French Wraps. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Can Ed.. This mystery story set in Stratford, Ontario was nominated for the 1994 Canadian Crime Writers Arthur Ellis Award.. "A clever and thoroughly entertaining murder in five acts that will appeal to mystery and theatre fans alike. A wonderful performance. [Halifax Daily News] "A whimsical mystery diversion that provides a gentle portrayal of Stratford, its environs, ambience and theatrical denizens. [Toronto Star]216p.Author signed on title page as both Bevan Underhill and as Bruce Barber!.

Toronto: Collins, 1987 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.. [The fifth Charlie Salter mystery]. Although still the charming maritime province depicted in the Anne of Green Gables books, Prince Edward Island was no longer as tranquil. Greed, jealousy and rage had made it a setting for crime. Robbed were a dozen vacationers' cottages. Missing was a rare antique. Murdered was a local historian. And on the scene was off-duty Toronto homicide detective Inspector Charlie Salter.On the island for a holiday with his family, was caught in a tug-of-war between in-laws looking for favors and female house guests looking for love. Since Salter much preferred looking for suspects, he found a mysterious fish man, a churlish chicken man, and a weasel of an art dealer. But would he see the fox in a hen house so close to home...and a clever killer about to strike again...?.

London: Century, 2002 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. The thirteenth adventure involving the detecting skills of Marcus Didius Falco (and Helena) In in Britain King Togidubnus of the Atrebates is running up huge bills for his fine new residence (known to us as Fishbourne Palace). Suspecting corruption, the frugal Emperor Vespasian demands an investigation and Falco-with his own pressing reasons to leave Rome-accepts the task.304p. Remainder mark, else as new..

Toronto: Worldwide Library, 2004 Book. As New. Pbk. 1st Pbk Edition. Crine "the leafy Thames Valley, a lovely enough part of old England where one of the old villages seem right out of a nineteenth-century painting. But people are the same mix of good and bad whatever scenery surrounds them.The victim herself is a puzzle. The corpse, clad in carnival dress and with a huge bird's-head mask hiding her face, is revealed to be a respectable, conservatively behaved woman of the town, a woman whom no one would ever have imagined made up and dressed so bizarrely. The police have good reasons for looking at all the people in this psychological merry-go-round, and another attempted murder only complicates their work, spreading the suspicion to touch even more of the town's kaleidoscope of citizens..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2002 Book. As New. Trade Paperback. 1st Canadian Edition.. Phoebe Fairfax films the launch of a TV special on Dr. Graham Maxwell, a paleoanthropologist who announces that he has fossil evidence of a new hominid species who appreciated and played music. When Phoebe returns to the studio the next morning to collect her equipment, she finds Maxwell's dead body and discovers that someone has stolen the fossils.168p..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992 Book. As New. Hardcover. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local bookscout is killed on his turf his wrathful brand of off-duty justice costs him his badge. His life opens a new chapter when he opens a small bookshop. As he delves further into his city's antiquarian book trade he finds some practitioners display an expertise exceeded only by their greedThen, when prized volumes in a highly sought-after collection begin to appear, so do dead bodies. Now he attempts to find out who's dealing death along with vintage Chandlers and Twains . ..

Toronto: Little,Brown,Canada , 1997 Book. As New. Pbk.. 1st Pbk Edition. At the biggest and most prestigious party at the Frankfurt International Bookfair, where the leading lights of the book world gather annually to trade tales and buy and sell books, Marsha Hillier realizes the famous literary agent she is chatting up is in fact sitting in his wing-chair quite dead. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that Agent Andrew Myles was well-hated by most of his peers, and everyone at the party, including Marsha, are under suspicion. The Bookfair Murders is filled with intrigue and plenty of mysterious twists and turns. Mystery buffs will adore this sexy and hilarious romp through the world of publishing..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. The second book in the Cliff Janeway seriesCliff Janeway, a book dealer, agrees to collect a woman who has skipped bail in Seattle. But when he arrives, he realizes he's been employed to find a rare edition of "The Raven". He also learns that those who are known to have owned copies of the book have met untimely deaths. , An Edgar Award nominee as Best Novel..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition.. The Bookman's Promise is the third biblio adventure of Cliff Janeway .. "The quest begins when he buys a signed first edition of Richard Burton's account of his jouney to Mecca and Medina which a woman alleges is rightfully hers, part of her Grandfather's library which disappeared She begs Janeway's promise to find the collection.When a friend's murder is tied a Burton book, he knows that he must find the anser. Clean crisp copy, looks unread. Tiny tear on dj.else fine.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. The second book in the Cliff Janeway series " Cliff Janeway, a book dealer, agrees to collect a woman who has skipped bail in Seattle. But when he arrives, he realizes he's been employed to find a rare edition of "The Raven". He also learns that those who are known to have owned copies of the book have met untimely deaths. , An Edgar Award nominee as Best Novel..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway soon finds that several titles are missing, replaced by cheap reprints -- while other hugely expensive pieces remain. Why would a thief take one priceless book and leave an equally valuable volume on the shelf? Suspecting foul play, Janeway follows the trail of Candice's shadowy past to California's Golden Gate and Santa Anita racetracks, where he signs on as a racehorse hot walker. Eavesdropping on the chatter among the hands, he doesn't like what he hears. And when he goes to the house where Candice died to look for answers, Janeway finds much more than he bargained for..

New York: Pocket Books, 2009 Book. Fine. Pbk. 1st Pbk Edition. This tale of suspense set amid the vines of Virginia wine country involves a two-hundred-year-old bottle of Bordeaux that Thomas Jefferson may have purchased for George Washington and is now turning out to be a wine to die for....ao a mystery that began more than two centuries ago in France and ends in murder not far from Montgomery Estate Vineyard.When author and historian Valerie Beauvais turns up dead the night after a verbal brawl with a noted wine critic on the grounds of Mount Vernon, George Washington's home, Lucie Montgomery is certain Valerie's death is related to something she knew concerning the authenticity of the priceless Washington Bordeaux. As Lucie and her eccentric winemaker Quinn Santori bring in the last grapes of the season, Quinn's controversial past becomes intertwined with the murder and the rare wine, testing the bonds of their increasingly close relationship. New neighbors challenge Lucie for allowing… Leer más

New York: Dell, 1964 Book. Good>Very Good. Pbk. First Thus. An orphan, Brat Farrar, poses as the long-missing heir to an English estate. Little by little he becomes more sure of the reason why the true heir is missing. Should he reveal his knowledge and reveal himself to be a crook? Vintage copy, Pages clean and complete, but about beginning to separate from cover..