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Inspector Jules Maigret has fallen into disfavor with his Paris superiors and has been shunted to a district supervisor's job on the northern French coast. Depressed and bored, Maigret regains a sense of purpose when a corpse is discovered in the house of a retired judge.

First published in the U.K. in 1997 and now extensively revised and updated, this assured third entry in Scott's Ben Abbott series (after HardScape and StoneDust) provides plenty of macho action. In quaint Newbury, Conn., real estate broker Abbott gets caught in a nasty land battle between two neighbors: cantankerous Vietnam vet Richard Butler, whose troubled, violent son, Dicky, has just been released from jail, and Harry King, a high-powered former diplomat and owner of Fox Trot estate,...

MYSTERY NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES was published as part of what has been now called "Weird Menace." Stories with horrid people doing horrid deeds to innocent people. Most stories begins with supernatural events and ends with less than supernatural conclusions. BRIDE OF THE APE by Harold Ward Madness was enfolding me as my beloved bride lay there, her luscious sweetness unconcealed . . . while that stone-age monster sought to blaspheme her golden body-in a barbarous orgy of jungle lust! MISTRESS OF...

Author: Mystery Writers of America ISBN: 0517881152 Pages: 192 Subject: Bibliographies & Indexes Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Info from Publisher:

The young woman behind the burglar's mask had been abused by fate. Intelligent, pretty, and caring, she became a criminal in an attempt to save her dying father. Reared by her father, she had lived a lonely life, inexperienced in the ways of the world. Now she was being pursued by local, state and federal authorities… and a mysterious group of men. The complexity of her life increases when she unknowingly becomes involved with the state trooper assigned to capture the person known to authorities...

So, off we went to Aunt Melvinia's mansion to find the Ming. The only thing was, it turned out we had two big problems before we even stepped inside her huge, old mansion. First of all, nobody even knew that Aunt Melvinia had a Ming, so that meant she must have kept it hidden. And believe me, there were plenty of places to hide things in her house. Second, we only had a few hours to find that old piece of pottery before all her stuff went up for auction. and it turned out, we weren't the only...

Illustrated wrappers. 32pp. Modest stains and tiny chips to the front wrap'; drug store stamp on the rear wrap, a nice, very good copy. Five stories, including Crane's, in a patent medicine brochure advertising Dr. Greene's cure-alls. This story appeared in The Little Regiment, (1896). BAL does not specifiy which came first. BAL 4077.

Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of...

Do you dare to enter the House of Mystery? This value-priced collection includes stories from HOUSE OF MYSTERY #195-211. These fantastic black-and-white tales of mystery and suspence from the 1970s feature thrilling stories with surprise twist endings that will keep readers on the edges of their seats!

So Stephanie Plum quits. Resigns. No looking back. No changing her mind. She wants something safe and normal. As it turns out, jobs that are safe and normal for most people aren't necessarily safe and normal for Stephanie Plum. Trouble follows her, and the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office can't compare to the kind of trouble she finds herself facing now. Her past has come back to haunt her. She's stalked by a maniac returned from the grave for the sole purpose of putting her into...