Author: Keating
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: books, mystery, crime
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-10-29
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0786703660
ISBN-13: 9780786703661

H.R.F Keating, author of The Perfect Murder and mystery reviewer for teh Times of London, offers a concise commentary on the finest mystery books ever written. From Poe’s tales of mystery and imagination to P.D. James’s A Taste for Death, Keating delivers a highly-readable evaluation of the 100 authors and their masterpieces. This collection is a must for all devoted mystery readers. "Something to offer almost everyone. If you are only just embarking on a life of crime fiction...a reliable guide." -The New York Times "Remarkably balanced and highly entertaining." -Library Journal "

Author: Michael Francis Gilbert
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pu
Keywords: battle
Number of Pages: 233
Published: 1997-02-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0786703989
ISBN-13: 9780786703982

Michael Gilbert, voted a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and his native Britain, has written fine books about crime and espionage set in all periods of the 20th century. Into Battle is a wonderfully rich and exciting story which begins just before World War I, as London policeman Luke Pagan joins a brand new intelligence agency and goes into battle against a much better organized and funded legion of German spies. More vintage Gilbert in paperback include The Crack in the Teacup, Ring of Terror, and Roller-Coaster.A former London police officer turned special intelligence agent

Author: Christianna Brand
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: christianna, brand, force, tour
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1996-06-20
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0786703407
ISBN-13: 9780786703401

The vacationing Inspector Cockrill is on the job again when a fellow tourist is stabbed to death on a small Mediterranean island. The local police, in Cockrill’s opinion, are illprepared for interrogating the tourload of suspects, she he takes it upon himself to confront these not-so-innocents abroad. The results, in high Brand-style, are both suspenseful and hilarious.

Author: Parnell Hall
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: manslaughter
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-01-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0786711272
ISBN-13: 9780786711277

Having survived a murderously uncomfortable New England holiday in the much-praised Cozy, private eye Stanley Hastings returns to more familiar New York urban turf with his twisted logic and droll style effectually intact. With Joe Balfour—a client who did time 25 years ago for killing a man in a barroom brawl—Stanley embarks on an ingeniously plotted and frequently hilarious excursion that will confront him continually with embarrassments: like the arrest of his client for the murder of a notorious blackmailer who’s been found in his Upper East Side apartment with a carving knife in his

Author: Camilla Gibb
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: novel, words, mouthing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-03-12
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0786709669
ISBN-13: 9780786709663

By turns harrowing and hilarious, this adroitly narrated winner of the Toronto Book Award re-creates the world in the imagination of Thelma. It’s a world in which she can escape some of her more painful childhood realities, like those games her father likes to make her play, where he’s the boss and she the naughty secretary. And her mother so fiercely favors her younger brother, the cherubic Willy, that Thelma finds herself perpetually in emotional exile. No wonder Thelma asks practically every adult she meets to adopt her. Along Thelma’s bumpy way from a rural English villag

Author: Joan Barfoot
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: novel, luck
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-02-14
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0786716460
ISBN-13: 9780786716463

One woman is an ex-beauty-queen, one is a recovering addict to virtue, and one is an artist. The man of the big old house on the hill, Philip Lawrence, is suddenly dead and his departure is bound to have dramatic effects. The abruptly widowed Nora, whose recent works of biblical art have caused a fundamentalist furor in their town, is unexpectedly confronted by solo life in a place she despises. Beth, her wispy, beautiful model, faces losing a haven from her own eerie history, while housekeeper Sophie, a former overseas aid volunteer shattered by trauma, will have to find new ways to resist ol

Author: Christianna Brand
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: danger
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1996-12-13
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0786703865
ISBN-13: 9780786703869

Set in a military hospital during the blitz, this novel is one of Brand’s most intricately plotted detection puzzles, executed with her characteristic cleverness and gusto. When a patient dies under the anesthetic and later the presiding nurse is murdered, Inspector Cockrill finds himself with six suspects--three doctors and three nurses--and not a discernible motive among them.