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The Collected Stories

Item code: MYS-52015
ISBN: 1582432619
Authors: Clare Boylan.
Pages/Length: 396
Publisher: Counterpoint
Publication Date: 2002
Format: Paperback
Primary Subject: fiction
Date Added: 12/03/2006
Price $16.50

Irish writer Clare Boylan, the author of six novels including Beloved Stranger, remains after more than twenty years an original and incisive spinner of short stories. This book culls 38 stories from her three previous collections A Nail on the Head, Concerning Virgins, and That Bad Woman. Boylan renders a consummately Irish collection of anarchists, dreamers, and outsiders, but like Alistair MacLeod, Alice Munro, and her compatriot William Trevor, her stories are universal, with "an imagination that transmutes reality into the stuff of magic" . Plumbing the inner workings of marriage, aging, family dynamics, and the cost of love, her richly sardonic humor and acutely merciless observations may seem gentle at first blush, but are edged with razors.

Viva Las Vengeance: A Murder Mystery Featuring Elvis Presley
By Daniel Klein

Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0709076592
Label: Robert Hale
Manufacturer: Robert Hale
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2004-10
Publisher: Robert Hale
Studio: Robert Hale

PRICE $35.00

Book Description
It's 1964 and Elvis is in Las Vegas for a little R&R before starting his next picture, Roustabout. This ought to be a quiet time for the overextended King of Rock 'n' Roll to find his bearings, himself, and maybe, just maybe, his own personal muse.

But a King's work is never done. And before long, Elvis finds himself under immense pressure to find something entirely different: a killer!

When an enormously overweight tourist turns up ritualistically murdered at the billboard for one of Las Vegas's preeminent wedding chapels, Elvis can't help falling into the middle of an inept police investigation. Just before the tourist's death, the Sahara Casino's

A day later, a second tourist is murdered and conspiracy theories multiply: Is it a hotel and casino war? A war between local wedding chapels? A war between Sin City's major brothels?

Drawn into the case, Elvis finds himself falling in love with a beautiful dancer who lives on a commune for failed showbiz types. He also discovers that a born-again Christian group in town is hailing him as the Second Coming.

As the death toll mounts, Elvis teams up in an unlikely alliance with a pill-popping, enlightenment-seeing Harvard dropout, a Southern belle turned high-class prostitute, and the immensely annoying Howie Pickles himself.

The story climaxes in a "peace concert" that Elvis gives to bring together all the warring factions. But with that concert come some painful - and deadly - revelations.

Viva Las Vengeance: A Murder Mystery Featuring Elvis Presley

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The Blind Man of Seville

Item code: MYS-63533
ISBN: 0151008353
Authors: Robert Wilson.
Pages/Length: 434
Publisher: Harcourt
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: fiction
Date Added: 12/08/2006
Price: $34.00

The Gold Dagger-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon returns with this psychological thriller. The normally dispassionate Detective Inspector Javier Falcón is transfixed by the brutalized face of murder victim Raul Jiménez in his Seville apartment. On his shirtfront, littered like exotic petals, are the man's eyelids, cut off by a murderer who forced his victim to watch something unbearable. Even more startling, Falcón finds an old photograph of his father, the artist Francisco Falcón, at the murder scene. He reads through his father's secret journals and discovers a dark side to Francisco he'd never known.

In the Kingdom of Mists

ISBN: 0425195120
Authors: Jane Jakeman
Pages/Length: 355
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: 2004
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: Mystery
Date Added: 1/26/2007
Price: $23.95

London, 1900: As Monet paints the wintry mists over the Thames, the bodies of two young women are dragged from its depths, arousing fears of a return of Jack the Ripper. Oliver Craston, a fledgling diplomat at the Foreign Office, happens to be nearby when an unrecognizable body is pulled from the river, and he is drawn into the police investigation. With anti-French sentiment running high in London, his superiors want Craston to keep a close eye on Monet and his son. But no one knows that the source of the horror—a horror beyond even the imagination of an artist—stalks the floor above M. Monet's suite.

One Last Hit: A Joe Portugal Mystery

ISBN: 0972441204
Authors: Nathan Walpow.
Pages/Length: 377
Publisher: Uglytown
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Paperback
Primary Subject: Fiction
Date Added: 1/26/2007
Price: $14.95

It's been 30 years since Joe put away his electric guitar. Maybe that's one reason he's suffering the midlife doldrums. Now he has a chance to put the old band back together—all he has to do is find the lead guitarist, who hasn't been seen since the 70s. But when he begins the search, it's soon apparent that someone doesn't want to see a reunion tour—someone with a gun. Nathan Walpow lists a few of the things this book is about, including a fat, perfect joint; midlife crises; a Gibson SG guitar; fresh-squeezed orange juice; the girl who got away; an eclectic after-hours club; Julie Andrews; local television news; the Berlin Wall; eBay; and one VW Beetle after another.

No Clue at the Inn

Item code: 62891
ISBN: 0425191885
Authors: Kate Kingsbury.
Pages/Length: 309
Publisher: Berkeley
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Paperback
Primary Subject: Fiction
Date Added: 12/7/2006
Price: $13.00

In this special holiday episode from Kate Kingsbury, revisiting her retired Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery series, Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her husband Hugh return to the hotel at Badger's End, which they haven't seen since they sold it two years earlier, in 1910. Now a country club, the Pennyfoot is under a cloud. The manager was found at the bottom of an abandoned well, so the new owner has called in the Baxters to help him run the club through the busy holiday season. Once Cecily has assembled as much of her old staff as she can enlist, she sets about investigating the death, much to the unease of her husband, who doesn't want to meet a similar fate.

                               Mallets Aforethought: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery



  ISBN: 0553803085
Authors: Sarah Graves.
Pages/Length: 294
Publisher: Bantam
Publication Date: 2004
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: Fiction
Date Added: 7/3/2007
Price: $21.95

Named for disgraced politician Chester Harlequin, Eastport's Harlequin House was used as a hideout for gangsters and their molls during Prohibition. Now fixer-upper enthusiast Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and Harlequin's only living descendant, Ellie White, are refurbishing the mansion. But when stripping wallpaper reveals a door to a room containing not one but two corpses, Jake and Ellie—in this seventh outing for the amateur sleuths—again find home repair leading to homicide. One of the bodies is a skeleton of a 1920s flapper, but the other is that of contemporary real-estate mogul Hector Gosling. The tycoon has been poisoned—by a substance that Ellie's husband George has been using to kill red ants. Furthermore, George had recently accused Gosling of a scheme to swindle George's elderly aunt out of her life savings—and George out of his inheritance. How will Jake and Ellie clear George and find the real killer?

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