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Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was an American author of hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Some of her very successful books and plays, such as The Bat (1920) were adapted for movies. While many of her books were best-sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. She also coined the famous phrase The butler did it._,

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who published 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author. The Daffodil Mystery (1920) is one of his classic mystery novels, full of devious twists and turns that will keep the reader guessing until the end!_,

Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the roman policier with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman named Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs mixed fiction and fact. Gaboriaus huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes. Interestingly, Holmes may have been at least partly based on another of Gaboriaus characters, consulting detective Father Tabaret, whose methods Monsieur Lecoq adopts in the first Lecoq book._,

Jack Davidson, a general surgeon at Midsouth Regional Medical Center in Evansville, N.C. accidentally stumbles upon a plot involving sham surgery being performed at his institution. Being Chief of Surgery at Midsouth, and driven by a high sense of responsibility to the Hippocratic Oath, he begins a solo quest to discover the person or persons and motives behind the dastardly scheme. Dr. Davidson finds that his initial suspicions only touch the tip of the iceberg and that he will ultimately come close to forfeiting his own life in his attempt to solve the mystery. Join him as the quest takes him from North Carolina to a small town in Maui that holds the answers to solving the mystery of Hanas Secret. _,

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was an American author of hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays, such as The Bat (1920) were adapted for movies. While many of her books were best-sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. She also coined the famous phrase The butler did it._,

Maurice LeBlanc became famous for the creation of Arsene Lupin, a gentleman thief and master of disguise. LeBlanc was born to a wealthy family, studied law, worked as a police reporter for a time, then found his career as a fiction writer. His first Lupin novel was hugely popular and set the pattern for his career. While LeBlanc wrote much other fiction, it was the Lupin series which made him internationally famous, the French equivalent of Arthur Conan Doyle._,

Originally published in 1913, this collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men._,

Eve Chandlers life is shattered when her husband Tom is found dead, murdered in a random act of violence-or so it seems until Detective Lou Benson uncovers a secret that just may have gotten Tom killed. Is Toms death somehow related to a series of murders being committed around the country, and if so, how? Eve is determined to learn the truth about her husband and sets out on a journey to find the answers. As she crosses the country in search of the truth, Eve becomes a target, and now that truth may get her killed._,

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Set in beautiful Lake Como, The Last Convoy is a mystery starring sports agent Dave Stillati on his latest case. The US tennis champion, Robert Case, has been arrested at his Villa in Italy. He is accused of killing his supermodel girlfriend and his agent. His wife, Samantha Eggers, hires Dave to fly to Italy and solve the case. In the meantime he will stumble upon the greatest gold theft in the history of World War II, battle a corrupt Italian prosecutor, and fight a father/son team of fascists. A fast paced adventure of the first kind._,

During his time in Washington DC, Wellington Sands has achieved the American dream. He has met and married the love of his life and lives with her in a beautiful home in a wonderful neighborhood. But their idyllic world is shattered when Wellington receives an unexpected phone call-his father has been murdered at the family business in the Bahamas. Wellington and his wife decide to return to his native Bahamas. What starts out as a journey to shoulder the responsibility of taking care of his fathers affairs and helping his mourning mother turns into a complex and dangerous trip into a world of illegal activity. Now, Wellington must solve the mystery of his iconic fathers murder and keep his family together-all while struggling to hold onto his marriage. When the fingerprints from the murder scene come back as a match to those of a convicted drug dealer who escaped years earlier, Wellington faces a whole new level of danger. The clues begin to fall into place, leading him to where he never would have suspected._,

HACKSAW is at once a slam-bang page-turner and a sophisticated, unusual mystery story. I fell in love with Eva Baum, the novels sassy, straight-talking, thoroughly modern narrator/sleuth. A terrific debut for the Phillips/Phillips team. William G. Tapply author of ONE-WAY TICKET and GRAY GHOST Houston PI Eva Baum knows how to find people, even if they dont want to be found. Her newest client is Shade, a mentally ill, homeless artist, and he wants Eva to tackle a bizarre case. His ex-wife, Julie, may hold the key to revealing the identity of a vicious serial killer-known as Hacksaw-who tortured and mutilated underage prostitutes years ago and was never caught. When Shade asks Eva to find Julie, her new mission could turn this very cold case hot again. Eva isnt the only one searching for Julie. A vicious Seattle mobster, a couple of unscrupulous federal officers, and possibly even the Hacksaw Murderer are keeping close tabs on Evas progress. Eva is looking for Julie, the truth, perhaps even some justice and redemption, but all she can see at the end of this complicated trail is terror, blood, and death. What she cannot see coming is ultimate, devastating betrayal. HACKSAW has everything I want in a private eye novel

THEY HAVE KILLED ME. Enter Detective William Moore. What he finds are a rash of threatening letters, two more suspected murders, several rapes, and the most bizarre group of suspects imaginable, among them a woman who believes the Mafia is shooting rays at her, a man whose tenuous grasp of reality has reduced him to complete ineptitude, his sideAkick, who is incapable of distinguishing people from toilet paper, a man who speaks only in a mysterious tongue, a young man who believes policemen communicate by scratching their behinds, an alcoholic, a rapist, a catatonic minister, and a child abuser. Half of these people are also hospital staff. Moreover, the number-one suspect is a disheveled, morose man who has had brushes with the law before and who just happens to be a very dedicated and very good doctor called Abraham Redden. What it all adds up to is a fast, furiAous, riotously funny tale of murder and intrigue, set in a place where the usual standards of sanity don t apply, where nothing is ever normal. More important, it is also a convincing portrait of real people trying to understand their responsibilities to each other, a remarkAable evocation of the madness that is the modern-day psychiatric institution.

beautiful, deadly, tragic, accursed, enticing... all gathered here for an amazing collection of new adventures... Tremble as Christine Daae meets Herbert West the Reanimator and Dr. Loveless Nurse Ratched! Experience thrills as Milady tries to outwit Captain Blood and Lady Blakeney the Black Coats! Watch in awe as Becky Sharp foils the designs of Sr Dubnotal and Amelia Peabody those of mad King Tut! Wonder as the Bride of Frankenstein challenges the power of Dr. Omega and the vampire countess Marcian Gregoryi that of Victor Frankenstein and the Illuminati! Also starring Carmilla! Catherine Levendeur! Rosa Klebb! And the Eyes Without A Face! With a foreword by Xavier Maumjean and a portfolio by Matt Haley.