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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Months after his predecessor and lover is hit and killed by a car while reading a volume of Dickinson poetry, a Cambridge professor receives a copy of a Conrad novel with a mysterious dedication and travels to Buenos Aires and Uruguay in search of its sender.
Author
Series
Forgers volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. Adam's sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will -- a convicted if unrepentant literary forger -- struggle to come to terms with the seemingly incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening handwritten...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Jordan has been able to swing a romantic trip to San Francisco with Officer Tyler "Smiley" Dekker on one condition-she must return with a rare copy of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest for her irascible employer, Vera Van Alst. For his own part, Smiley is full of surprises. He's a Dashiell devotee himself-excited to be in the city of Hammett's hard-boiled heroes like Sam Spade and the Continental Op-and also announces he plans to visit his previously...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
Jordan works hard to improve Vera Van Alsts collection of classic detective stories. So when Chadwick Kauffmanheir to the Kauffman fortuneoffers a very good price on a fine collection of Ngaio Marsh first editions owned by his recently deceased stepfather, she is thrilled to meet with him at his fabled summer estate, Summerlea. The next day, Jordan and Vera are shocked to read that Chadwick has died in a fall from the grand staircase at Summerlea....
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's book-collecting friend is murdered. To solve the mystery of why the victim was killed, and which of his rare books was taken, Wigan dives into the world of 'runners' and book collectors, where avid agents...
Author
Publisher
Dreamland Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious book that promises unlimited power and unrivaled sexual pleasure. A down-on-her-luck book dealer hoping for the sale of a lifetime. And a twist so shocking, no one will come out unscathed. After a tragedy too painful to bear, former novelist Lily Albrecht has resigned herself to a dull, sexless life as a rare book dealer. Until she gets a lead on a book that just might turn everything around. The Book of the Most Precious Substance is...
Author
Series
Henry Gamadge mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Bibliophile-sleuth Henry Gamadge investigates the bizarre death of Amberly Cowden and uncovers murder and mayhem in the midst of a troupe of impoverished actors.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy widow has asked Sarah Winston to sell her massive collection of mysteries through her garage sale business. While sorting through piles of books stashed in the woman's attic, Sarah is amazed to discover a case of lost Hemingway stories, stolen from a train in Paris back in 1922. How did they end up in Belle Winthrop Granville's attic in Ellington, Massachusetts, almost one hundred years later?
9) Booked twice
Author
Series
Cliff Janeway mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jordan Kelly makes money tracking down rare and valuable mystery novels for her employer, Vera Van Alst, an avid collector and the most difficult woman in Harrison Falls, New York. But now her boss's complete set of Dorothy Sayers is missing, and finding them may lead Jordan to a murder suitable for Sayers's esteemed sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jordan Kelly needs a new job and a new place to live. She's back in Harrison Falls, New York, living with her not so law-abiding uncles, in debt thanks to a credit card-stealing ex and pending grad school loans. Enter the perfect job, a research position that includes room and board, which will allow her to spend her days hunting down rare mysteries for an avid book collector. Jordan's first assignment is to track down a rumored Agatha Christie play....
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