Author: Frederick Ramsay
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Keywords: room, stranger
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1590585356
ISBN-13: 9781590585351

The elderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his family history. He is related to the Virginia Lees (both Light Horse Harry and Robert E. Lee) and to the Custis family (and thus to George Washington). But these connections donat seem to matter to the current generation. In fact, they seem utterly disinterested in family, history, or position. But for Lydell, family history is the only real thing leftathat and his antebellum house. Lydell is committed to restoring the home to its antebellum configuration, complete with a stranger roomaan attached room with its own entrance, separately locked and

Author: Mary Anna Evans
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Keywords: mysteries, longchamp, faye, artifacts
Number of Pages: 492
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1590580796
ISBN-13: 9781590580790

Faye Longchamp has lost nearly everything except for her quick mind and a grim determination to hang onto her ancestral home, Joyeuse, a moldering plantation hidden along the Florida coast. No one knows how Faye?s great-great-grandmother Cally, a newly freed slave barely out of her teens, came to own Joyeuse in the aftermath of the Civil War. No one knows how her descendants hung onto it through Reconstruction, world wars, the Depression, and Jim Crow, but Faye has inherited the island plantation?and the family tenacity. When the property taxes rise beyond her means, she sets out to save Jo

Author: Deborah Turrell Atkinson
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Keywords: mysteries, hardcover, kayama, storm, dead, pleasing
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1590585976
ISBN-13: 9781590585979

Some nasty predators dwell in paradise, and they arenat all hiding in the azure waters. The day attorney Storm Kayama arrives in Kahului to help Lara Farrell set up her new dive shop, someone bombs a restaurant. When one of Laraas employees, a recent Japanese immigrant, kills himself and one of his young daughters, Storm begins to ask questions. The tentacles of the Yakuza, the dangerous, Japanese organized crime group, grip local businesses, real estate, and politics. Cunning and deadly, the clan leaders exploit underage women and eliminate anyone who dares face up to them. Storm finds hers

Author: Michael Pearce
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Keywords: mystery, zapt, mamur, men
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2003-03-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1590580524
ISBN-13: 9781590580523

While riding home to lunch on his donkey, Fairclough of Customs is rudely unseated by shots fired from behind. The incident is but the first of a series of attacks seemingly aimed at public officials. Even Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo’s Secret Police, barely escapes. Is a sinister campaign to undermine foreign rule under way? And who are “the men behind”? True, the Nationalist movement is rising after thirty years of the British Protectorate, and the new Liberal Government in London is more sympathetic than the heavy-handed Conservatives and Cromer to lo

Author: Kerry Greenwood
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Keywords: mysteries, paperback, fisher, phryne, almonds, raisins
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 159058516X
ISBN-13: 9781590585160

Phryne Fisher loves dancing, especially with gorgeous young Simon Abrahams. But PhryneA[a¬a[s contentment at the Jewish Young PeopleA[a¬a[s Society Dance is cut short when SimonA[a¬a[s father asks her to investigate the strange death of a devout young student in Miss Sylvia LeeA[a¬a[s bookshop located in the Eastern Market.

Authors:Mary Reed, Eric Mayer,
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Keywords: mystery, eunuch, john, sorrow, one
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1890208426
ISBN-13: 9781890208424

Byzantium, capitol of the 6th century Roman Empire, simmers a rich stew of creeds, cultures, and citizens with a sprinkling of cutthroats and crimes. John the Eunuch, Emperor Justinian’s Lord Chamberlain, orders a Christian court while himself observing the rites of Mithra. Thomas, a knight from Britain, Ahasuerus, a soothsayer, and two ladies from Crete stir up events and old memories for John, who must ask how the visitors link to the death of Leukos, Keeper of the Plate. An Egyptian brothel keeper and a Christian stylite know more than they are telling.... In due course, John gets his

Authors:Justin Scott, Val McDermid, Catherine Aird pse, Susan
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Keywords: classic, murder
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-07-06
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1890208086
ISBN-13: 9781890208080

Papers of the 1996 mystery symposium on classic crime with authors Catherine Aird (mystery scholarship), Michael Connelly (Chandler), Joe Gores (Hammett), H.R.F. Keating (Sayers), Laurie R. King (Doyle), Janet Laurence (The Golden Age of Publishing), Margaret Lewis (Ellis Peters), Peter Lewis (Ambler), Edward Marston (Carr), Val McDermid (Hardboiled Detectives), Miriam Grace Monfredo (Daphne du Maurier), Susan Moody (Oxford Detectives), Steven Saylor (Palmer), Robin Smiley (E.S. Gardner), and Justin Scott (R.L. Stevenson).Classic was a 1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee for Best Critical/Biogr