Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2017
ISBN 10: 1631941089 ISBN 13: 9781631941085
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Softcover. Condition: Good. World War II is raging, but in this dusty backwater of the Belgian Congo, the biggest problem is finding a cold beer. Thats the case, at least, for Hooper Taliaferro, a U.S. government gofer sent to Africa on a vague errand related to the war effort. What he finds at the failing Congo-Ruzi plantation wont help the Allies much. Like colonialism itself, the owner is dying of a slow poison, and neither his staff nor his sluttish wife can muster the energy to care. But along with Hooper arrives Dr. Mary Finney, a formidable missionary with both moral outrage and sleuthing skills to spare. The Devil in the Bush introduces Dr. Finney as a sort of blunt-spoken American Miss Marple, with likable, lightweight Hooper as her faithful scribe.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2008
ISBN 10: 1934609137 ISBN 13: 9781934609132
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. In the 1920s, on a hill near Peking (now Beijing), a team of scientists discovered a huge cache of human bones, some more than half a million years old. Collectively dubbed ?Peking Man,? they were one of the most important finds in the history of paleontology. And in 1941, in the chaos of World War II they disappeared. No one knows what happened, but there are plenty of theories, many with political implications. Claire Taschdjian?s speculation as to what might have become of the priceless fossils could represent just another theory, but for one intriguing fact: Claire Taschdjian was one of the last people in the world known to have seen Peking Man. (With newly-commissioned material on the true story of the Peking Man.).
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2011
ISBN 10: 1934609714 ISBN 13: 9781934609712
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Julian Kestrel, the dandy detective of Regency London, is most decidedly a man of the world and, through his valet, Dipper, reformed Cockney pickpocket, is not without ties to the underworld. One such connection is Dipper's sister Sally, a prostitute who accidentally happens across the possibility of murder while picking her clients' pockets. Since Sally is not quite in the position to go to the police with her knowledge, she and Julian must chase the clues all through London, from glittery parlors to the dank halls of a home for fallen women.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2016
ISBN 10: 1631941003 ISBN 13: 9781631941009
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The British dont belong in Africa. Their skins are too pale, their clothing too heavy and elaborate, their morality all wrong. And yet here they are in 1912 in the British Protectorate of East Africa, tangled in an uneasy peace with the Sultan of Zanzibar.Much of the tangle in this new mystery in Alfieris East Africa series concerns the slave trade. The British have outlawed it, but, well, its all a matter of who you know and who you owe, isnt it? That slippery morality infuriates Vera Tolliver, a Scottish missionarys daughter and the bride of a English police officer, whose job it is to enforce the law. after he figures out what it is. The murder of a runaway slave only increases the complications, especially because a longtime friend of Veras family is the likeliest suspect. Meanwhile both the British government and the Sultanate sail above it all, as though they had nothing to do with the problem. But both Vera and Tolliver could tell you that official fingers are knotted into the tangles every strand.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2006
ISBN 10: 1933397292 ISBN 13: 9781933397290
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. First Thus. A sleepy community on the Indian coast, Goa is a paradise for the international hippie brigade, drawn by the golden beaches and endless supply of cheap dope. Lately, though, professionals have moved in on the drug trade, and even the sweetest smoke can't cover the stink of corruption that's pouring from the highest levels of local government. George Sansi, the half-Indian/half-English cop from Bombay, thinks he's seen about the worst the world can offer. But when he gets a call to help clean up Goa, he finds himself unprepared for the grimly dark side of paradise.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2013
ISBN 10: 1937384756 ISBN 13: 9781937384753
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Nothing will poison the present like lies from the past. Sisters Charlotte and Jennifer have a history of amusing misunderstandings about attempted suicide. Their granny, Bertha, is wrapped in memories of London in the 1920s, when she and her sister, Jemima, brought new meaning to betrayal. Bridging the two, Berthas daughter, Deirdre, is shaped by the night a Nazi bomb destroyed the entire street, and uncovered one of those poisonous lies.
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Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2008
ISBN 10: 1934609102 ISBN 13: 9781934609101
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Softcover. Condition: Good. For Nina Fischman and her mother, Ida, Long Island a purely mythological concept, like Atlantis with strip malls. But when Helen Hirsch dies, Ida feels obliged to schlep out to her funeral, with Nina alongside to help criticize the clothes. Escaping Long Island is tougher than expected, in part because Helen's granddaughter, a pudgy bundle of teenage angst, needs Nina's help in about 14 different ways. Nina has plenty to keep her busy in Manhattan, but Helen was Ida's oldest friend, and the Fischmans take friendship seriously. Nina has no choice: She's going to be logging some serious time in darkest suburbia.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2009
ISBN 10: 1934609382 ISBN 13: 9781934609385
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Andy Dalziel knows how to cope with crime. Give him a nice straightforward murder, some bloke with a gun and a grievance, and he?s a happy man. But this new one, that the press is calling the ?Yorkshire Choker??well, Andy could suggest some different names, none of them fit for a family paper. It?s not just that he keeps phoning the cops to boast about the girls he?s strangled. No, this one apparently thinks he?s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. And furthermore, the sergeant has called in a ?clairvoyant,? as though Andy needs some nutjob with a crystal ball to help him crack the case.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2012
ISBN 10: 1934609994 ISBN 13: 9781934609996
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Felony & Mayhem ed. A tragedy of manners, like Jane Austin in 1950s London. It's 1952 and for England, it's a brave and bright new world. The Depression is over, the WAr is over, even the endless bloody rationing is nearly over, and the future looks as lovely as the young Queen Elizabeth, due to be crowned next June. Ms. Harriett Wallis, for one, cannot wait for tomorrow. Her husband has an important job with an important firm, the children are settling in with the new nanny, the new fashions are terrifically flattering, and the War-grubby, grim, ghastly-is done. Life is going to be just killing wonderful.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2024
ISBN 10: 1934609536 ISBN 13: 9781934609538
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Book annotation not available for this The Feng Shui Vittachi, Natl Book NetworkPublication 2010/06/16Number of 274Binding PAPERBACKLibrary of 2010003066.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2013
ISBN 10: 1937384373 ISBN 13: 9781937384371
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Following up on The Innocent Spy, the second Ted Stratton novel is set in the summer of 1944, almost five years into the war. Bombs are still falling in London and everyone is thoroughly exhausted of the war. In the middle of all this Stratton investigates a string of deaths in a hospital, where he suspects a serial killer might be at work.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2006
ISBN 10: 1933397535 ISBN 13: 9781933397535
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. America is reeling from the Iran hostage crisis, which is threatening to topple the Carter presidency, and Claire Brooks is reeling from the collapse of her marriage. Frantic to escape the wreckage, she hops a plane to Amsterdam, which turns out to be packed with visitors, some noisily celebrating the new queen's coronation, and some quietly plotting a response to Iran. Claire couldn't find Iran on a map, but a reckless one-night stand with a reporter lands her in the thick of the intrigue, where even tulips can pack a threat. She's already learned she cannot trust her husband, and now she's stumbled into a world where everybody's loyalty is up for grabs.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2012
ISBN 10: 1937384020 ISBN 13: 9781937384029
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Ahilarious parody of Agatha Christie and fourth in a series nominated for two Edgar awards. Ethelred Tressiders career is not, lets face it, what one might call glittering. This is not surprising: Ethelred lost any real interest in writing mystery novels many years ago, and his audience has never been truly excited about reading them. And yet the bills must be paid. In a desperate effort to revive his imagination, Ethelred books a cruise down the Nile-cradle of civilization, ancient royal rivalries, etc. Well, it worked for Agatha Christie.
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Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2010
ISBN 10: 1934609617 ISBN 13: 9781934609613
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. There shouldn't be anything unusual about the death of an elderly widow, until a man appears at her graveside, claiming to be her long-lost son. He's entitled to shed all the tears he likes, but whether he's entitled to her substantial fortune is another question. It's a poser, but one Fat Andy can handle much more easily than he can the decision of the resolutely boring Sgt. Wield to come busting out of the closet.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2009
ISBN 10: 1934609293 ISBN 13: 9781934609293
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. Eva and Jonas are two separate pots of poison, both coming inexorably to a boil. For Eva, the poison stems from the dawning realization that her cozy family life has been a lie, that her loving husband loathes her and has been having an affair. Jonas, for years the keeper of his parents' secrets, has transferred all his obsessive yearnings for connection to a woman who now lies in a coma. Both Eva and Jonas are carrying enough rage and despair to destroy themselves. But when the two of them come together, that destructive potential is magnified to a terrifying extent.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2015
ISBN 10: 1631940694 ISBN 13: 9781631940699
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Its 1956 and Inspector Ted Stratton must investigate the murder of a young man in London who had just recently left the Foundation for Spiritual Understanding, a new age cult based in Suffolk. Traveling to Suffolk, Inspector Stratton encounters a community of fervent believers led by an enigmatic, charismatic leader, and a femme fatale with a shady past.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2013
ISBN 10: 1937384381 ISBN 13: 9781937384388
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, 27 years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. They always acquire a shaggy white dog. In 1913, the world is thrilling to that fabulous invention, the motion picture. When the movies move West, Jack and Susan (and Tripod!) decide to go along with them, only to discover that not all of the bad guys are on the silver screen.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2005
ISBN 10: 1933397136 ISBN 13: 9781933397139
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Nicola Ward is a divorced schoolteacher living in Maine when a mysterious (and long-delayed) trunk arrives from Shanghai. Inside are family papers, photographs, and several pieces of priceless Russian art. To authenticate the art (and translate the diary bundled with it), Nicola hires Neil Walker, a burnt-out former CIA operative. Neil's spy-world training comes in handy when Nicola starts receiving death threats clearly connected with the contents of the trunk. What stirred up the hornets' nest? The Russian collection, which seems to identify Nicola as the heir to the Romanov throne? Or could something in her family papers point to a Soviet mole in the U.S. government?.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2013
ISBN 10: 193738439X ISBN 13: 9781937384395
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, 27 years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. They always acquire a shaggy white dog. In 1933 Jack and Susan are both married to the Wrong People. These People are not quite so Wrong that Jack and Susan would like to bump them off, but when one of them turns up dead, Susan becomes the cops favorite suspect. Thank heaven Jack (and the intrepid Scotty and Zelda) are on hand to prevent a terrible miscarriage of justice!.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2010
ISBN 10: 1934609641 ISBN 13: 9781934609644
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. It's midsummer and murderously hot in British Columbia. For the vacationing Karl Alberg, that becomes more than a metaphor when he discovers a body on the beach, fresh from a fatal plunge into the waves. Back home in the town of Sechelt, where Alberg is the chief of police, the heat is bringing out the crazies, most recently a tribe of violent rednecks loony enough to make Alberg yearn a little for his days as a big-city cop.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2010
ISBN 10: 1934609595 ISBN 13: 9781934609590
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Patrick Aldermann, an accountant with a company that makes toilets, is passionate about his roses, which he prunes ruthlessly, ?deadheading? any blossoms a minute past their prime so as to make space for the younger blooms. Not much of a gardener, Dalziel views Patrick as a strong contender for the title of Most Boring Man in Yorkshire. Pascoe, though, has noticed that senior executives at the toilet company?gentlemen, you might say, just a minute past their prime?have an unlucky habit of dying. And when they do, it?s all but inevitably Patrick who, like a lucky young bloom, is poised to take their place.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2006
ISBN 10: 1933397357 ISBN 13: 9781933397351
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Acquitted of murdering her husband, Mrs. Vina Gregson remains essentially a prisoner, trapped in her elegant New York apartment with occasional furtive forays to her Connecticut estate. A jury may have found her innocent, but Mrs. Gregson remains a murderess in the eyes of the public and of the tabloid journalists who hound her every step. She has recently begun receiving increasingly menacing letters written, she is certain, by the person who killed her husband. Taking the matter to the police would heighten her notoriety, so she calls on Henry Gamadge, the gentleman-sleuth who is known for both his discretion and his ability to solve problems that baffle the police.
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Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2018
ISBN 10: 1631941151 ISBN 13: 9781631941153
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Even though the police insist that Judith Hayes's friend, George, killed himself--after all, several people saw him jump, right in front of the moving train--Judith is not convinced. First in a duo of mysteries featuring this tough and appealing heroine.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2005
ISBN 10: 1933397012 ISBN 13: 9781933397016
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. 0. One hundred years earlier, a beautiful guest had disappeared from the wealthy Vauregard household, along with the second volume in a set of the collected works of Byron. Improbably enough, both guest and book seem to have reappeared, with neither having aged a day. The elderly Mr. Vauregard is inclined to believe the young woman's story of having vacationed on an astral plane. But his dubious niece calls in Henry Gamadge, gentleman-sleuth, expert in rare books, and sufficiently well-bred to avoid distressing the Vauregard sensibilities. As Gamadge soon discovers, the household includes an aging actress with ties to a spiritualist sect and a shy beauty with a shady (if crippled) fiance. As always in this delightful series, Gamadge comes up trumps, but only after careful study of the other players' cards.
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Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2018
ISBN 10: 1631941399 ISBN 13: 9781631941399
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Softcover. Condition: Good. John Grey, a newly minted lawyer in Cromwell's England is back in this follow-up to A Cruel Necessity. This time around, a mis-delivered letter has left Grey with more information about a murderous plot than its entirely safe to know. Can Grey prevent the murder' And can he keep his mouth shut long enough to save his own skin'
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2014
ISBN 10: 1631940163 ISBN 13: 9781631940163
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. The village of South Mardian likes the old ways. This may be 1957, but South M. still features a blacksmith, a village idiot, and an elaborate fertility ritual performed at the winter solstice. There's squabbling, of course, and things come to a head when one of the ritual's main players is found be-headed, everything north of his neck having been neatly lopped off by a ritual sword.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2014
ISBN 10: 1937384993 ISBN 13: 9781937384999
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Reissue. Of all the books in the Alleyn series, Scales of Justice is most powerfully reminiscent of Agatha Christie, with its setting in an almost unspeakably charming little English village, and its cast of inbred aristocrats. When one of the aristos turns up dead next to the local trout-stream-with a trout at his side-everyone is dreadfully upset, but really, just a tad irritated as well: Murder is so awfully messy. Thank gawd that nice Inspector Alleyn is on hand to clear things up.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2015
ISBN 10: 1631940627 ISBN 13: 9781631940620
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Alice Dunbar was a very proper upper East Side woman with a very boring life. There is, in fact, absolutely no reason anyone can think of for Alice to go missing, and yet thats exactly what she does, shortly after the death of an elderly aunt. Henry Gamadge thinks theres more to the story, and as he tracks down Alices last trip, he turns up a secret life no one suspected. Originally published in 1949.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2008
ISBN 10: 1933397888 ISBN 13: 9781933397887
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. In mid-1943, and up to his elbows in war work, Henry Gamadge is longing for a quiet weekend. But when a half-forgotten classmate requests assistance, Gamadge is unable to refuse the tug of an old school tie. The problem, says Sylvanus, concerns his Aunt Florence'a giddy socialite terrified of Nazi bombs. Florence has moved her extensive household of hangers-on to the family mansion in upstate New York. But menace seems to have followed them, in the form of threatening messages inserted into the manuscript of Florence's painfully bad novel in progress. Several members of the household are convinced the messages are emanating from Another World, but the politely pragmatic Gamadge suspects a culprit rather closer to home.
Published by Felony & Mayhem, 2013
ISBN 10: 1937384543 ISBN 13: 9781937384548
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. The unspeakably wealthy (and generally unspeakable) Jonathan Royal has decided to throw a party and, just for fun, has studded the guest-list with people who loathe one another. When a blizzard imprisons them all in Royals country house, murder ensues. In true Christie-esque tradition, there are nearly as many suspects as there are potential victims. Eventually, Inspector Alleyn makes his way through the snow to put things right.
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