Author: Bruce Hale
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: mystery, gecko, nice, chet
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 0152025154
ISBN-13: 9780152025151
When Principal Zero doesn’t punish Chet Gecko for his less than flattering drawing of a teacher, Chet, the best lizard detective at Emerson Hicky Elementary, knows something fishy is going on. "And I was just the gecko to find out what it was." Soon this hard-boiled fourth-grade detective is on the case, mixing with a tough hamster ex-con named Guido, a brass-knuckle-wielding bat called Ms. Darkwing, and the ringleader, a fat cat fake principal who aims to take over the elementary school and turn it into a vocational school for criminals. But will Chet and his cohort, a mockingbird by th
Author: Pierre Magna
Publisher: Minotaur Book
Keywords: mystery, laviolette, commissaire, provence, messengers, death
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0312387571
ISBN-13: 9780312387570
A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery of 2008, this is the exceptional follow-up to Pierre Magnans highly acclaimed Death in the Truffle WoodLocal handyman Emile discovers an envelope addressed to a Mlle Veronique in a disused mailbox. Being a former postman, he dutifully purchases a stamp and mails the letter. But when the body of this same Mlle Veronique is soon found murdered, Commissaire Laviolette is coaxed out of retirement to solve one of the most bizarre crimes imaginable.
Author: Inc. Mystery Writers Of America
Publisher: Three Rivers Pre
Keywords: novels, time, mystery, top, crime, companion, crown
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1995-05-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0517881152
ISBN-13: 9780517881156
The Crown Crime CompanionThe Top 100 Mystery Novels Of All TimeSelected by theMystery Writers Of AmericaAnnotated by 0tto Penzler and Compiled by Mickey FriedmanFor The Crown Crime Companion, the Mystery Writers of America have compiled a list of the best 100 mystery novels of all time, as well as a list of favorites in ten categories.Fully annotated and reviewed by Otto Penzler, this list of the top 100 mysteries will be a valuable resource to fans, introducing them to new novels and reminding them about books by favorite writers they may have missed.Each of the ten category lists is introduc
Authors:Mystery, Chris Odom, Neil Strau,
Publisher: St. Martin’s Pre
Keywords: bed, women, beautiful, method, mystery
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-02-06
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0312360118
ISBN-13: 9780312360115
One of the most admired men in the world of seduction (The New York Times) teaches average guys how to approach, attract and begin intimate relationships with beautiful womenFor every man who always wondered why some guys have all the luck, Mystery, considered by many to be the worlds greatest pickup artist, finally reveals his secrets for finding and forming relationships with some of the worlds most beautiful women. Mystery gained mainstream attention for his role in Neil Strausss New York Times bestselling expos, The Game. Now he has written the definitive handbook on the art of the p
Author: Mike Befeler
Publisher: Five Star (ME)
Keywords: mystery, five, star, first, lit, geezer, kids, murder, paul, jacobson, living
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 2009-04
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594147612
ISBN-13: 9781594147616
In this, the second of the Paul Jacobson Geezer-lit Mystery series, cantankerous octogenariam Paul Jacobson must solve two murders while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. As Paul ends up suspiciously close to a bank robbery, kidnapping and drug bust, his granddaughter Jennifer helps him track down the real perpetrators. Paul juggles two girlfirends, experiences the quirks of ald age romance and must find a way to stay alive when he confronts the murderer.
Author: Michael L. Cook
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: mystery, related, fanzines, index, annotated, fanfare, composite
Number of Pages: 446
Published: 1983-06-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0879722304
ISBN-13: 9780879722302
This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys’ book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
Author: Jane Langton
Publisher: Thomas T Beeler
Keywords: mystery, large, print, series, beeler, escher, homer, kelly, twist
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2003-03
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1574904515
ISBN-13: 9781574904512
An exhibit of the work of the Dutch artist M. C. Escher is being held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, home to amateur sleuths Homer and Mary Kelly and their friend Leonard Sheldrake. At the exhibit, Leonard, an avid Escher fan, falls instantly in love with a woman in a green coat who is equally enthralled by Escher’s brilliance. To Leonard’s dismay, she hurriedly leaves the exhibit, hinting to him that if he knew her better, he would not love her. Homer and Mary offer to help a now desperate Leonard find the woman but end up in an Escher-like labyrinth of their own. Enhanced with Esch
