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Nocturne
87th precinct investigates the murder of an old lady and her cat, who used to be a famous concert pianist. The old lady, that is.
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9/2000
Romance
The 87th precinct investigates the attempted murder of an actress who is in a play about the murder of an actress in a play...
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9/2000
The Big Bad City
87th Precinct series. Who would want to murder a nun?
QUOTE:
And the other nun says, "It must be the cobblestones." BONUS QUOTE:
"He sometimes watched old ladies plodding heavily across city streets where buses threatened, and knew for certain that inside those shrunken bodies were the shining faces of fourteen-year-olds."Read:
7/1999
The Frumious Bandersnatch
A budding pop star is kidnapped.
Smoking Quote:
"She doesnt know I still smoke," he explained, letting out a self-satisfied poisonous cloud. "Her brother had his larynx removed last month, she thinks everybody in the worlds gonna get throat cancer now. Ive been smoking since I was sixteen, I dont even cough."Read:
12/2005
The Last Best Hope
Matthew Hope finds a missing husband who's trying to steal Socrates hemlock bottle.
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12/1999
Transgressions
Ten novellas by authors such as Westlake, McCrumb, King, Block, John Farris, and others.
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5/2005
Catacombs
Second (and probably last) volume of the space cats series, which apparently relates to the cats in "The Tower And The Hive" series.
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7/2017
Catalyst
Co-authored by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. This book is about cats in space. It is OK, funny at times, perhaps even "slyly" funny. I will read the next book. But after that, I am not making any promises.
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7/2017
In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies
Another in the series of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency stories, the second one I've read now. A very nice story, with interesting insights into life in Botswana.
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4/2016
The Kalahari Typing School For Men
I think that I am starting to get into this series, now that I've read maybe three!
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2/2019
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
A lady in Botswana start a detective agency to help people with their problems. Very nice.
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5/2004
Boy's Life
A young boy in Alabama gets involved in a murder back in the early sixties. Very excellent.
QUOTE:
... she turned away from me, and dismissed all of us with a buttstrut that was as wicked as a sword slash. (pg. 17)Read:
1/2003
Gone South
A jobless Vietnam vet kills a banker sorta accidently, ends up helping a girl search for the Bright Girl, and avoiding a bounty hunter with three arms. Very excellent.
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..."I always wanted to pull my own weight. Pay my bills and take pride in my job. That's what was importent to me." (pg. 231)Read:
1/2003
The Road
A man and his son travel the road to the sea in this tale of survival years after some unnamed disaster kills pretty much everything but a few semi-human survivors. The author seems to have a "thing" about using apostrophes consistently. Some lovely writing, but I didn't really care for the book.
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10/2011
The kite rider
A boy in China in the time of Kubla Khan finds a skill in flying on kites.
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6/2004
Coup de Grâce
Firefly, #8. It was nice to visit with the crew as they are hired to catch a killer who gunned down a beloved lawyer on the planet Abel. They are hired by the lawyer's daughter.
Quote:
Fella -- The word fella, or fellas, is used over a hundred times in the story. It annoyed me. Read:
2/2025
Bimbos & Zombies
Contains the stories "Bimbos Of The Death Sun" and "Zombies Of The Gene Pool", two very good stories involving Fandom and murder. The quote below, from "Zombies", reminds of when I had the flu last week...
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..."Are you all right?" An instant later they could see he wasn't. The smell of vomit and voided bowels reached them them and made them draw back, even before Marion saw the stiffening form of the room's occupant, sprawled across the sill of the bathroom.Read:
9/2000
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
24 or so examples of her short stories. Some suspense stories some not. Most are pretty good.
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9/2000
If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O
A folksinger moves to Hamelin in Appalacia and someone is out to get her, with spooky Vietnam War implications.
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9/2000
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him
Elizabeth MacPherson helps solve the murders of two husbands who died over 100 years apart.
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9/2000
20 books displayed
[M.W. - Maguire] [Maguire - Marsh] [Marshall - Mass] [Mass - McBain] [McBain - McCrumb] [McCrumb - McInerny] [Mcmanus - Miéville] [Miéville - Moody] [Moon - Morden] [Morden - Mullane] [Muller - Mysterious Press]