Category: mystery
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Shake It Up! #2: Bring It! (Junior Novelization)
By: Grace, N. B.
Price: $2.50
Publisher: Disney Press:
Seller ID: 9781423163367
Series Description: Ready, set, dance Best friends CeCe Jones and Rocky Blue have just landed their dream roles as dancers on the hit show Shake It Up, Chicago But when the cameras are turned off, CeCe and Rocky are faced with the pressures of fame, competition, and celebrity-not to mention the normal stresses of being a teenager. Full of the excitement, comedy, and entertainment that you've come to expect from Disney Channel, this series has become a certified hit Ti... View more info
The Dark Wind
By: Hillerman, Tony
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Harper:
Seller ID: 9780062018021
The corpse had been "scalped," its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee's fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Na... View more info
The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries 7
Price: $6.95
Publisher: Running Press:
Seller ID: 9780762438464
The seventh annual collection of the very best of British crime-writing from established bestsellers and newcomers alike. Thirty-five stories from top contemporary names in British crime fiction, such as Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith, John Mortimer, and Colin Dexter."Publishing News" calls it "an essential read for all crime fans." View more info
The Dark Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Praeger:
Seller ID: 9780313294778
This anthology of essays focuses on the darker side of the human condition as it appears in fantastic literature. The first section of the book, The Dark Self, takes its direction from Colin Manlove's essay on Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," a classic examination of the dark side of the self. Section two, Mainstream Dark, examines mainstream authors who have used elements of the fantastic in their dark visions. The Dark Arts, section three, examines the ways in... View more info
Murder with a Twist (Mack's Bar Mysteries)
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Kensington:
Seller ID: 9780758280176
Kill Me Again
By: "Abbott, Rachel"
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Black Dot Publishing:
Seller ID: 9780957652262
Werewolf Smackdown: A Novel
By: "Acevedo, Mario"
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Harper Voyager:
Seller ID: 9780061567186
Felix Gomez, Latino vampire detective extraordinaire, tackles a dangerous werewolf cabal in the fifth installment in Mario Acevedo's satirical supernatural seriesA sure-to-be-bloody civil war is brewing between rival werewolf factions, and P.I . Felix Gomez will do anything he can to make sure it doesn't explode into a vicious battle that engulfs all creatures, living and dead. Between that, the sudden reappearance of an ex-girlfriend, and a gang of other vampir... View more info
Peach Pies and Alibis (A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery)
By: "Adams, Ellery"
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Berkley:
Seller ID: 9780425251997
Ellery Adams serves up a mystery that's a real peach... Ella Mae LeFaye's Charmed Pie Shoppe is wildly popular in Havenwood, Georgia--which is not surprising since Ella Mae can lace her baked goods with enchantments. The shop's extraordinary success seems destined to continue when Ella Mae meets an engaged couple who hire her to handle the dessert buffet at their wedding. But Ella Mae has a lot on her plate. She is also searching for the origin of her magical p... View more info
Breach of Crust (A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery)
By: "Adams, Ellery"
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Berkley:
Seller ID: 9780425276037
Hickory Smoked Homicide (A Memphis BBQ Mystery)
By: "Adams, Riley"
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Berkley:
Seller ID: 9780425244609
BBQ-joint owner Lulu Taylor knows pretty much everyone in Memphis who loves ribs. But one person she'd rather not know is Tristan Pembroke, a snooty pageant coach with a mean streak. When she finds Tristan's dead body stuffed in a closet at a party, the police are suspicious- especially since Lulu's developed a taste for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Caught in a situation stickier than molasses, Lulu must clear her name, or risk getting fried... View more info
A Cat with No Regrets (An Alice Nestleton Mystery)
By: "Adamson, Lydia"
Price: $2.00
Publisher: A Signet Book:
Seller ID: 9780451180551
A Cat on a Winning Streak: An Alice Nestleton Mystery
By: "Adamson, Lydia"
Price: $2.25
Publisher: Signet:
Seller ID: 9780451180827
A Cat in Wolf's Clothing (An Alice Nestleton Mystery)
By: "Adamson, Lydia"
Price: $2.50
Publisher: A Signet Book:
Seller ID: 9780451170859
Rosemary Remembered (China Bayles Mystery)
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Berkley:
Seller ID: 9780425154052
Love Lies Bleeding (China Bayles Mystery)
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Berkley:
Seller ID: 9780425166116
The newest in the nationally bestselling series--a "fast-paced and absorbing" tale (Midwest Book Review). Ex-lawyer and herb-shop proprietor China Bayles is investigating the mystery of retired Texas Ranger shot dead with his wife's gun...and at the same time trying to sort out some mysteries about her own relationship after she overhears a suspicious phone conversation... View more info
The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press:
Seller ID: 9780195092653
The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in t... View more info
The Talk Show Murders
By: "Allen, Steve"
Price: $1.50
Publisher: Dell Pub Co:
Seller ID: 9780440184805
Wake Up to Murder
By: "Allen, Steve"
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation:
Seller ID: 9781575662367
The Fashion in Shrouds
Price: $12.95
Publisher: NY, 1995
Edition: (1st thus)
Seller ID: 2NP001
"Tight, bright and clean. Faintest age tanning to pages. ""An Albert Campion mystery….George Well's suicide was last year's gossip. But Albert Campion stubbornly refused to close his personal books on the affair.""" View more info