B is for Burglar
Sue Grafton
1985
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- Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie case to Kinsey Milhone. The flashy widow was last seen wearing a $12,000 lynx coat, leaving her condo in Santa Teresa for her condo in Boca Raton. But somewhere in between, she vanished. Kinsey's case goes from puzzling to sinister when a house is torched, an apartment is burgled of worthless papers, the lynx coat comes back with out Elaine, and her bridge partner is found dead. Soon Kinsey's clues begin to form a capital M - not for missing, but for murder: and plenty of it.
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The Bilbao Looking Glass
Charlotte MacLeod
1983
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- 'A full winter season spent solving cases of sudden death has left pretty widow Sarah Kelling sorely in need of a vacation. Her summer estate at historic Ireson's Landing seems the perfect place. There's sea air and sailing for rest and relaxation - and her favorite almost-fiance, art investigator Max Bittersohn, for romance.
But a strange antique mirror found hanging in the house's front hall makes Ireson's Landing the sinister setting for a brand new mystery. When the Kelling clan of dotty aunts and eccentric cousins show up on Sarah's doorstep, her best-laid plans for moonlight and Max get swept out to sea...and what washes in is a dreadfully nasty murder.
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Bimbos of the Death Sun
McCrumb, Sharyn
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The Bishop and the Three Kings
Andrew M. Greeley
1998
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- It's a chilly October morning on Cologne, Germany, when a major relic of the Catholic Church, the remains of the Three Kings, is stolen from the cathedral. When the theft becomes public it'll be a cold day in Cologne, for the resultant furor could have dire political and religious complications world-wide. That is, unless Bishop Blackie, already far from home, can journey even farther to track down the thief and his plunder. But as each lead brings on greater dangers, even a detective like Blackie could use a miracle to bring back Cologne's most prized relic.
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The Bishop's Tale
Margaret Frazer
1994
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- Mourning darkened a medieval manor...and so did murder...
Death, the pious say, is the great mystery, and Sister Frevisse finds it puzzling indeed. She has come to Ewelme Manor to grieve for her uncle; Bishop Beaufort arrives to mourn his old friend. Neither expected querulous Sir Clement Sharpe to stand at the funeral fast, dare God to strike him down - and then collapse. Since other guests have supped on the same meat and wine without ill effect, all believe the Lord's hand smote Sir Clement.
The wily bishop, however, secretly orders Frevisse to snoop from the kitchens to the chapel for an unusual poison. But the clever nun has her eyes open for something else: a killer with a venomous hatred...or a diabolic love.
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Black Coffee
Charles Osborne
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- Agatha Christie wrote the play Black Coffee, in the 1930s, and Hercule Poirot is the detective. Charles Osborne has adapted into a novel.
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Blind Descent
Nevada Barr
1998
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- Anna Pigeon, the intrepid National Park Service ranger in Nevada Barr's superb wilderness mysteries, has had some perilous experiences in the five novel that preceded Blind Descent, but none compares with this thrilling subterranean adventure in the underground caverns of Lechuguilla, 'a monster, man-eating cave,' in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns. When a fellow ranger is injured in a caving accident, Anna chokes back the willies of claustrophobia and joins the rescue team. Burrowing 800 feet underground, she negotiates airless tunnels, gaping pits, vaulting caverns and silently fowing rivers, each hazard with a daunting name like Razor Blade Run or The Wormhole. At the end of the dangerous descent, she reaches her friend and hears her say, ''It wasn't an accident.''
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The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie
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- A Miss Marple mystery. When the body of a platinum blonde is found in the librarty at Gossington Hall, home of Mr. and Mrs. Bantry, life is turned upside down for the Bantry's. After all, what was the body doing in his house if he didn't have something to do with it? Mrs. Bantry appeals to her friend for help.
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But the Doctor Died
Craig Rice
1967
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- John J. Malone and Helen Justus were old friends. Together with her husband, Jake, they had been through several kinds of hell...and the tough, brash Chicago lawyer had gotten the goods on more than one murderer to pull his pals out of trouble.
Now Helene seemed to be in the middle of a new and complex mystery. There were spies in the woodwork...but instead of turning to Malone for help, Helene walked right past him as if he didn't exist.
Out of print, available from www.abe.com
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Agatha Christie
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- A novel featuring the now elderly adventurous duo, Thomas and Tuppence Beresford.
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