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Monsieur Lecoq

by Emile Gaboriau (Illustrator: Bayard Jones)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (2005-04-01)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 380 pages
SKU: 39612
Condition: VG / NONE

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1905. Gaboriau was the first French novelist to write detective novels. His character Monsieur Lecoq, private detective, first appeared in the novel, The Widow Lerouge. The novel begins: On February 20, 18-, a Sunday that chanced to be Shrove Sunday, about eleven o'clock in the evening, a party of agents of the safety-service left the police-station at the old Barriere d'Italie. The mission of this party was to explore that vast precinct which extends from the road to Fontainebleau to the Seine, and from the outer boulevards to the fortifications. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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Mystic in Ruins

by L. Lee Kimler
Publisher: Authorhouse (2004-09)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 236 pages
SKU: 77864
Condition: G+

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A young BIA Agent is murdered on a lonely Arizona back road, then a wealthy rancher with a weakness for collecting priceless artifacts is discovered murdered inside a ruin. When former Naval Intelligence operative Stock Morgan takes over the governments investigation, he encounters a tangled trail of clues that are bound up in embezzlement, the drowning death of a young Navajo girl years earlier, and a frightening scenario for biological terrorism that if not curbed will leave the southwest a wasteland. Making an explosive situation even more volatile, Morgans estranged daughter is in danger, an old enemy has found him and she might be the instrument for his revenge. With a dire sense hes next on the killers list, Morgan follows a rapidly fading trail through ancient Anasazi ruins, and the Canyonland desert at night. The People believe their ancestors walk among the ruins; they may be right!

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The Garden of Evil

by David Hewson
Publisher: Delacorte Press (2008-07-29)
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 480 pages
SKU: 78864
Condition: VG+ / VG+

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In a deserted artistâs studio in the heart of Rome, detectives stumble upon a scene of shocking brutality: two bodies, freshly killed. Looming over them is a painting that bears all the hallmarks of a Caravaggio: a brilliantly colored canvas depicting a violent tableau of beauty and depravity. . . . In David Hewsonâs bold new novel of suspense, this grisly discovery sends Detective Nic Costa on a desperate chase through the streets of his city. The consequences are devastating. And for Nic, the case has only just begun.

At the crime scene, detectives find a treasure trove of evidenceâfrom fresh blood to lurid photos of dead prostitutes. For Costa, finding the killer who escaped him is intensely personal. But his prime suspect arrogantly hides in plain sight behind a fortress of money, power, and the law.

Teaming with an art expert, Costa follows clues hidden in the mysterious Caravaggio canvas. As he moves through a maze of history, he begins to make stunning connections to the present case. And each discovery brings him closer and closer to a secret buried in a priceless work of art, a conspiracy dating back four hundred yearsâand men who will stop at nothing to protect their own private garden of evil.

From modern forensics to the realm of the Medicis, from the force of faith to the corruption of power, The Garden of Evil is a novel steeped in Roman historyâand an unforgettable experience in richly atmospheric, modern-day suspense.

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The Honor of the Name

by Emile Gaboriau (Illustrator: Bayard Jones)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (2005-04-01)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 600 pages
SKU: 39610
Condition: VG / NONE

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1880. The book begins: On the first Sunday in the month of August, 1815, at ten o'clock precisely, as on every Sunday morning-the sacristan of the parish church at Sairmeuse sounded the three strokes of the bell which warn the faithful that the priest is ascending the steps of the altar to celebrate high mass. The church was already more than half full, and from every side little groups of peasants were hurrying into the church-year. The women were all in their bravest attire, with cunning little fichus crossed upon their breasts, broad-striped, brightly colored skirts, and large white coifs. Being as economical as they were coquettish, they came barefooted, bringing their shoes in their hands, but put them on reverentially before entering the house of God. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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The Last Enemy: A Commissario Cenni Investigation

by Grace Brophy
Publisher: Soho Crime (2007-05-01)
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 320 pages
SKU: 64366
Condition: VG / VG

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Rita grew up in Brooklyn, the only child of a narcissistic Italian mother and the GI she married at the end of World War II. After her mother’s death, she quits her teaching job and descends upon her poor but aristocratic relatives, the Count and Countess Casati, in Assisi. It takes a while before they realize, to their chagrin, that Rita has come to stay. When the family assembles to watch the penitentes procession in the town square during Easter Week, a Casati tradition, Rita does not join them as planned. Her corpse is later found in the family mausoleum.

Alessandro Cenni, a commissario in the State Police of Umbria, and a handsome bachelor whose twin brother is about to become a bishop, must penetrate the secrets of the Casati family and their circle if he is to discover who killed Rita and why. But he is blocked by their powerful right-wing connections, and by a superior who prefers to arrest a scapegoat rather than risk political suicide. Aided by a loyal staff in his quest for that rarityâjusticeâhe still must acknowledge that no one can defeat the last enemy, death itself.

Grace Brophy grew up in Queens, New York. She now divides her time between New York and Terni, a village in Umbria, where she lives with her husband, a Uruguayan artist. This is the first in the Commissario Cenni series of investigations set in Italy.

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The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern: An Asey Mayo Classic

by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Publisher: Countryman Press (2005-05-30)
Binding/Media: Paperback - 288 pages
SKU: 65275
Condition: VG

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There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.

For all its ingenious plot, The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern is more than a mystery; it is a genuine New England novel, full of Yankee horse sense, Cape Cod culture, and solid characters. This classic is an apt accomplice for an evening's excursion into the world of crime for Asey Mayo fans and initiate mystery lovers alike.