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And Some of Them Are Dead

And Some of Them Are Dead

Central Coast Mystery Writers

Short Story Anthology by Central Coast Mystery Writers: A dozen mysteries by a dozen well-known and new authors; Carolyn Wheat, Victoria Heckman, Martha Lawrence et al.
Mexican American Baseball in the Central Coast

Mexican American Baseball in the Central Coast

Richard A. Santillán

This book remedies the glaring omission of baseball images and stories of Mexican American neighborhoods in the Central Coast of California.
Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on ...

Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on ...

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This is the one essential book for every reader who has ever finished a mystery novel and thought . . . I want more! *** “Why does the mystery novel enjoy such enduring appeal? There is no simple answer.
Moon Santa Barbara & the Central Coast

Moon Santa Barbara & the Central Coast

Stuart Thornton

Travel writer Stuart Thornton introduces you to the best of Santa Barbara and California's Central Coast, from Santa Barbara's stunning Spanish architecture to Ventura's treasure-filled thrift shops.
Done to Death: A Mystery-comedy in Two Acts

Done to Death: A Mystery-comedy in Two Acts

Fred Carmichael

The story alternates between reality and imagination as five mystery writers wrestle with the problem of writing a television mystery series. All around them murders occur." Glens Falls Post Star.
The Mystery of Billy-Goat Smith

The Mystery of Billy-Goat Smith

Barbara Ann Lambert

Mystery surrounded Billy Goat-Smith, a hermit living on the West Coast. Rumours swirled around this man, bank robber, arsonist, even murder! Readers are asked to solve this historical mystery!
Reference Sources for Small and Medium-sized Libraries, ...

Reference Sources for Small and Medium-sized Libraries, ...

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Latin American mystery writers: An A-to-Z guide, see 1389. 1305 Make mine a mystery: A reader's guide to mystery and detective fiction. Gary Warren Niebuhr. 624p. Libraries Unlimited, 2003. $ 813 PN3448 Make mine a mystery II: A reader's ...
Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery

Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery

Norman Norwood Holland

In this detective novel set in a small, intense seminar, eight students study what their professor regards as the central mystery of human nature: the uniqueness of the individual.
War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer and the ...

Richard Toronto

What is the truth behind these men and their “mystery”? This is the question writers and editors that promoted the Shaver Mystery try to answer as they reveal the behind-the-scenes story of the phenomenon known as “Shaverism.”
Dick Francis

Dick Francis

Melvyn P. Barnes

Mystery Writers Bruce Cassiday, General Editor Raymond Chandler by Jerry Speir P. D.James by Norma Siebenheller John D . MacDonald by David Geherin Victorian Masters of Mystery: From Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle by Audrey ...
Vietnam

Vietnam

Nick Ray

South-Central Coast, Central Highlands, Ho Chi Minh City, Around Ho Chi Minh City, Mekong Delta Curiosity compelled Wendy Yanagihara to live in Ho Chi Minh City for a year, during which she taught English, learned more than could be ...
100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical ...

100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical ...

Bernard Alger Drew

Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections. * Provides interesting and informative profiles of 100 ...
American Mystery and Detective Writers

American Mystery and Detective Writers

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... 40 (1993) : 46, 71 ; Betta Ferrendelli, Mystery Scene (January-February 1996): 51. References: Linda Claycomb Pelzer, Mary Higgins Clark: A Critical Companion (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995); Jean Swanson and Dean James, ...
The secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the ...

The secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the ...

Carol Billman

RECOGNITIONS Mystery Writers Bruce Cassiday, General Editor Raymond Chandler by Jerry Speir P. D. James by Norma Siebenheller John D. MacDonald by David Geherin Victorian Masters of Mystery: From Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle ...
Coming Up for Air: A Novel

Coming Up for Air: A Novel

Patti Callahan Henry

On the coast of Alabama, there is a house cloaked in mystery, a place that reveals the truth and changes lives.
The Impersonator

The Impersonator

Mary Miley

Set against a Prohibition-era backdrop of speakeasies and vaudeville houses, Mary Miley's Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition winner The Impersonator will delight readers with its elaborate mystery and ...
Wow Canada!: Exploring This Land from Coast to Coast to Coast

Wow Canada!: Exploring This Land from Coast to Coast to Coast

Vivien Bowers

Offers a portrait of each of the provinces and territories of Canada as seen by Guy and his family as they visit each area, seeing the sights and learning more than they expected, in a fictionalized presentation. Simultaneous.
Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters ...

Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters ...

Colleen Barnett

Edgar- and Agatha-nominated author Colleen Barnett here updates her essential reference for readers and writers of mystery, examining women who detect, women as sleuths, and the evolving roles of women in professions and in society.
Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

Elizabeth Hodgson

Forgetting, being forgotten, and being dead are risks that the dead and the living ironically share in these central texts by the English Renaissance's most illustrious women writers.
The Mystery of the Shemitah: The 3,000-Year-Old Mystery That ...

The Mystery of the Shemitah: The 3,000-Year-Old Mystery That ...

Jonathan Cahn

Offers an exploration of a three-thousand-year-old mystery that is purported to foresee the future of America and the world, with explanations of how this secret mystery has foretold major events in recent history.
The Ladies'' and Gentlemen''s Diary, Or, United States ...

The Ladies'' and Gentlemen''s Diary, Or, United States ...

Melatiah Nash

Melatiah Nash ... 25° 36'' W. of New-York. It will be central near Sunbury, a small seaport in Georgia, and central on the meridian, in lat. 13° 45'' N. and long. 25° 43 '' E. The centre will leave the globe in the ocean S. E. of St. Helena, near the African coast, in lat 2-9 33° S. and long. 81° 46'' E., and the entire penumbra go off a little W. of S. from St. Helena, in lat. 24°32'' S, and long. 65° 20'' E. - “At Charleston, South Carolina, the Eclipse will be 103 digits on the South limb, and at Havana, ...
Differential Equations

Differential Equations

Lou Aronica

How the stories of these four people merge is the central mystery of this arresting work of imagination.
Emily Carr: A Biography

Emily Carr: A Biography

Maria Tippett

No artist has expressed the mood, mystery, and soul of Canada’s west coast as Emily Carr did in her landscape art and novels.
Moon Spotlight Cambria & San Simeon

Moon Spotlight Cambria & San Simeon

Stuart Thornton

This lightweight guide is packed with recommendations on sights, entertainment, shopping, recreation, accommodations, food, and transportation, as well as helpful maps, making navigating this lovely stretch of California's Central Coast ...
Albanian Journal: The Road to Elbasan

Albanian Journal: The Road to Elbasan

Edmund Keeley

A journey of discovery by a group of American writers to an emerging Central European nation.
The New Wine Country Cookbook: Recipes from California's ...

The New Wine Country Cookbook: Recipes from California's ...

Brigit Binns

“I enjoy cooking, but it would take me hours to cook a meal for the 10 to 15 people at the winery, so when it's my turn, ... at various wineries, tasting rooms, and retailers on the Central Coast before landing in the cellar of Zaca Mesa winery, ...
Classic Mystery Stories

Classic Mystery Stories

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Classic mystery stories / edited by Douglas G. Greene. . cm. ~(Dover thrift editions) ISBN 0-486-40881-7 ( pbk.) 1. Detective and mystery stories, American, 2. Detective and mystery stories , ...
Masquerade: The Father Koesler Mysteries:

Masquerade: The Father Koesler Mysteries:

William Kienzle

"A nice, tidy mystery . . . with characters who are plausible, intelligent, about whom we can care and with whom we might even empathize."—West Coast Review of Books "This tale should once again entertain the many fans of Kienzle's sleuth ...
Pacific Coast Foraging Guide: 45 Wild Foods from Beach, ...

Pacific Coast Foraging Guide: 45 Wild Foods from Beach, ...

Jennifer Hahn

The Pacific Coast Foraging Guide provides quick-reference identification for 45 wild foods commonly foraged in the Pacific Coast region, from the San Francisco Bay Area north to Alaska, including mushrooms, nettles, shellfish, berries, sea ...

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