Scrape on spine edge. Slightly chipped at top of spine and along cover edges. Paperback Original. SIGNED by AUTHOR on title page. 256 pages. Signed by Author. Jordan Poteet has left the big city to work as a librarian in his hometown of Mirabeau, Texas. But his dream of the quiet life is shattered when he locks horns with Miss Beta Harcher, the town's prize religious fanatic, in a battle over censorship. When Jordan finds her murdered body in the library, he becomes the prime suspect. And when the police find a cryptic list stashed next to her fanatical heart, it seems as if Beta Harcher has ...
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Spine creasing; spine slant. 1 x 6.75 x 4.25 Inches. 256 pages. WW l Mystery. After their last adventure during an Elderhostel bonsai class, when Dodee was kidnaped and Jim found himself face to face with a killer, James P. Dandy (yes, that would make him Jim Dandy) and Dodee Swisher expect that their second trip to a Baltimore, Maryland, Elderhostel cooking class cannot possibly have the excitement the first one did. They hope to simply spend the time together, getting to know one another better, learn about how the great chefs of the world came to be great chefs, and maybe add to their own m...
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0.49 x 6.91 x 4.23 Inches. 215 pages. Twin Elms Inn Was Becoming a Three-Ring Circus... ...featuring the disappearing act of an eccentric rich girl and the psychic hired to find her. Innkeeper Kate Yancy has all she can do just to live there, let alone manage the place -- coping with a beauty-queen chambermaid, a religious-fanatic cook, a handful of eccentric guests, and a yardful of reporters. It's a heady shot of excitement for little Jesus Creek, Tennessee, already in the throes of a Sesquicentennial celebration. Murder is the only thing missing -- but not for long. Set in the sultry heat o...
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Paperback Original. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 0.75 x 7.25 x 4.25 Inches. 242 pages. A Jesus Creek Mystery, No. 6. For Meredith Bradley *Jesus Creek's most successful businesswoman *life has been no bed of roses even though she's the proprietor of the Back Door Florist shop. Now, while other Jesus Creekers are partying at the grand opening of her daughter-in-law's NewAge tea room, Meredith Bradley is murdered. Who did it? And why? Warmhearted cop Kay Martin hasn't a clue. Perhaps Meredith's illegitimate daughter is the culprit. Perhaps members of the mysterious Brotherhood of Str...
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Rough spot on back cover. Paperback Original. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 320 pages. A Books by the Bay Mystery. In the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, you'll find plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells, and even a few celebs trying to duck the paparazzi. But when murder joins this curious community, the Bayside Book Writers are there to get the story... Olivia Limoges is the subject of constant gossip. Ever since she came back to town-a return as mysterious as her departure-Olivia has kept to herself, her dog, and her unfinished novel. With a li...
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No spine crease.. 164 pages. The college dons at the University of Calleshire fully expected trouble when the students planned to shake their ivory tower with a sit-in at Almstone Hall. But no one expected the very peculiar theft from a dormitory room...or the very first dead body in the college quadrangle. For Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan the ivied halls hid a host of clues - from the words whispered with the dying man's parting breath to what a madrigal singer saw. So it was only a matter of time until he uncovered the murderer hidden in the groves of academe...but could he do it before de...
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No spine crease .Inscribed and SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. 320 pages. The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, No. 2. Signed by Author. Everyone in Sawrey likes Ben Hornby. So when Beatrix finds the shepherd dead in the meadow and suspects foul play, she wonders who would have done such a thing. A trio of village cats has an idea: When Ben breathed his last, his sheep must have seen his killer before scattering. So they set out to find the far-flung flock. Although she’s distracted by duties at the farm and the sad plight of a young girl, Beatrix must get to the bottom of this. As th...
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No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . Darling Dahlias Mysteries. The good old ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their town beautiful. The Darling Dahlias garden club is off to a good start until rumors of trouble at a bank, an escaped convict, and a ghost digging around their tree surface. If anyone can get to the root of these mysteries, it's the Darling Dahlias.
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Front and back reading creases. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 305 pages. The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, No. 5. Near Sawrey, the seat of Miss Beatrix Potter's country home, has been abuzz ever since Mr. Wickstead met his death under a tree limb. Many believe it had to do with a treasure he had dug up. And only Pickles, his dog, knows what happened. Meanwhile, Miss Potter faces dilemmas in her love life and with her parents. But she has no time to muse, what with helping humans and animals alike-and this little matter of murder
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Blue gray boards with black spine in gold with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. 286 pages. The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, No. 1. Signed by Author. The author of Peter Rabbit and other tales, Beatrix Potter is still, after a century, beloved by children and adults worldwide. In this first Cottage Tale, Albert introduces Beatrix, an animal lover and Good Samaritan with a knack for solving mysteries. With help from her entourage of talking animal friends, Beatrix sets out to win over the human hearts of Sawrey, where she's jus...
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Spine creasing. Paperback Original. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 304 pages. A Stay at Home Mystery, No. 1. When Deuce Winters, a stay-at-home dad in sleepy Rose Petal, Texas, discovers a dead body in his mini-van, it quickly throws his quiet life into disarray. It doesn't help that the victim ruined Deuce's high school football career and married his ex-girlfriend. As the number one suspect in the court of public opinion, Deuce is determined to clear his name, with a little help from his wife, Julianne, a high-powered attorney. His search for the killer leads him to a business pla...
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Stamp on bottom of text block. Scratch on front cover . 0.49 x 6.83 x 4.16 Inches. 224 pages. Mary Moriarity's roses were beautiful--as were her six fatherless children. But when pesky old "Aunt" Emily Brown came to visit, she was poisoned by pesticides, and detective MacDougal had to investigate. But would his feeling for Mary and her children interfere with his sleuthing?
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Slight spine crease. Paperback Original. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 304 pages. A Templar Knight Mystery, No. 4. The town of Lincoln is covered in snow?concealing the mortal remains of a clerk who worked in the local mint. The only clue is a pristine coin stamped with the visage of King Stephen. But Templar Bascot de Marins soon discovers that the motive goes beyond money?and beyond mere murder.
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Paperback Original. 275 pages. Templar Knight Mysteries, No. 1. After years of captivity in the Holy Land, Templar Bascot de Marins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now on sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he hopes to regain his strength, and mend his waning faith-but not even the peace of God's countryside is safe from the mortal crimes of man... When four victims are found slain in the town alehouse, Bascot discovers that what appears to be the grisly end to a drunken row is in fact a cunning and baffling case of murder. Bascot tracks his quarry from bawdy-house to baron's keep, once a...
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Crease to bottom back corner. No spine crease.. 269 pages. Main Street Murders
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Paperback Original No spine crease. 182 pages. Who's beating a dead horse? Certainly not die-hard horse aficionado Robin Vaughan. She would never lay a hand on any four-legged creature, least of all the magnificent horse her friend Lola had just received as a Christmas gift. But Robin suspects that beautiful Noel isn't quite the horse he seems. For one thing he killed his last owner. For another he bears an uncanny resemblance to a horse called Wickie, who haunts Robin's past and whom she knows to be dead. In fact, she'd swear that Noel is Wickie. Can she prove it? She decides to try, and unc...
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224 pages. Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs -- a writer with a vast public that loved his best-selling mystery novels, and a small circle of family and friends who despised him as an obese, overbearing bully -- died with distinction while sipping a special liqueur in his luxurious library on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday.
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No spine crease. 0.7 x 6.6 x 4.3 Inches. 242 pages. When Scotland Yard's Perry Trethowan accompanied his sister Christobel to the Romantic Novelists' Association meeting in Bergen, Norway, he hardly expects that the main item on the agenda will be murdered
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No spine crease. 181 pages. Benedict Cotteral, an elderly writer, living out his last days at his son's home, receives a visit from his long-forgotten illegitimate daughter and becomes a suspect in her murder
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No spine crease. 0.75 x 7 x 4.25 Inches. 207 pages. Carlotta Carlyle Mysteries, No. 1. It's the kind of case that has "NO!" written all over it. But ex-cop Carlotta Carlyle has a p.i. license getting moldy from disuse, so she takes on the search for a little old lady's missing brother. After all, how much trouble could an aging cabbie get into? Plenty, Carlotta learns, as she uncovers a scam of laundered money and drug running, all mixed together in that dangerously powerful brew known as Boston-Irish politics.
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