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Bibliomysteries

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Pegasus Crime
ISBN 13 : 9781681774589
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Bibliomysteries written by Otto Penzler and published by Pegasus Crime. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially commissioned by the Mysterious Bookshop, the “bibliomysteries” in this unique collection feature original stories by the genre’s most distinguished authors: Ian Rankin, Thomas Perry, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, and Elizabeth George. If you like mysteries and you like books, what could be better than combining both worlds, with mysteries set against a background involving books? This collection of crime for bibliophiles includes stories about rare books, bookshops, libraries, manuscripts, magical books, collectors—in short, the wonderful universe that makes this precious object we all love so important and priceless. Ian Rankin sets his tale of the lost original manuscript of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the legendary Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Co., while F. Paul Wilson offers a book with remarkable powers. Joyce Carol Oates portrays an overly ambitious dealer in mystery fiction, while James Grady has the “Condor” working in the Library of Congress. Ste- phen Hunter tells a previously unknown story of Alan Turing set during World War I—involving a book that could change the history of the world—and Peter Lovesey writes about a box full of Agatha Christie titles that just may be priceless. Carolyn Hart’s story is about an astonishing inscription in a book, while Megan Abbott and Denise Mina add their Edgar-nominated stories to this stellar collection. Whether your taste is for the traditional mystery, something a little more hard-boiled, or the bizarre and humorous tale, you will find exactly your cup of tea in this outstanding collection of fifteen stories by the most distinguished mystery writers working today. Including stories by: Peter Lovesey, F. Paul Wilson, Lyndsay Faye, Bradford Morrow, R. L. Stine, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Perry, Elizabeth George, Carolyn Hart, Megan Abbott, Stephen Hunter, Denise Mina, James Grady, Ian Rankin, and James W. Hall.

The Book of the Lion

Author : Thomas Perry
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497649935
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Lion written by Thomas Perry and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long lost manuscript by Geoffrey Chaucer draws Professor Dominic Hallkyn through the streets of Boston and into a mysterious plot. When Professor Dominic Hallkyn receives an anonymous phone call late one night from a voice claiming to possess a priceless Chaucerian manuscript presumed lost forever, he doesn’t know how to react. He soon finds himself scrambling to meet the caller’s demands amid uncompromising suspense that culminates in a devilish plot twist. Perry takes his readers on a mad dash through the winding streets of Boston in pursuit of the unique artifact that may be doomed to disappear from history . . . this time, for good. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

Bibliomysteries

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781681777832
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Bibliomysteries written by Otto Penzler and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you open your dictionary, you will discover that there is no such word as “bibliomystery.” However, most mystery readers know that the word refers to a mystery story that involves the world of books: a bookshop, a rare volume, a library, a collector, or a bookseller.The stories in this unique collection were commissioned by the Mysterious Bookshop. They were written by some of the mystery genre’s most distinguished authors. Tough guys like Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman, Loren D. Estleman, and Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Bestsellers like Nelson DeMille, Anne Perry, and Jeffery Deaver. Edgar winners such as C. J. Box, Thomas H. Cook, and Laura Lippman.Here you will discover Sigmund Freud dealing with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronting a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kingpin with a fatal weakness for rare books; and deadly secrets deep in the London Library; plus books with hidden messages, beguiling booksellers, crafty collectors, and a magical library that is guaranteed to enchant you. The stories have been published in seven languages—one has sold more than 250,000 copies as an e-book, and another won the Edgar Allan Poe Award as the Best Short Story of the Year.Who knew literature could be so lethal!

Book Club

Author : Loren D. Estleman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480404306
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Book Club written by Loren D. Estleman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a bibliophile is murdered, it takes a bookseller to solve the crime. Good Advice, New Mexico, is a sunny town with a gloomy bookshop. The store’s eerie corridors are the province of Avery Sharecross, an ex-cop who has made the transition from chasing killers to tracking rare books. One afternoon, the local sheriff interrupts his book club meeting, and Sharecross’s old career collides with his new one. The area’s premier book collector has been found bludgeoned to death on the floor of his family library. A fifth-generation resident of Good Advice, Lloyd Fister devoted his life to books, accumulating a collection of local history that date backs to the sixteenth century. In his library, a single volume is missing: a Spanish book with a sinister past. Is the missing volume a clue, a motive, or a murder weapon? It will take a collector’s eye to decide. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

The Compendium of Srem

Author : F. Paul Wilson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453205950
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Compendium of Srem written by F. Paul Wilson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most evil book ever conceived falls into the hands of the leader of the Spanish Inquisition in this ingenious bibliomystery from the bestselling creator of Repairman Jack. In the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition spreads terror throughout the land, with Prior Tomás de Torquemada serving as the ultimate judge of who will live and who will be consigned to the purifying flames. Never has Torquemada questioned his own faith or his sacred duty to rid the world of heretics, blasphemers, and nonbelievers. Now, however, an extraordinary volume has come into his possession—an ancient book that radiates pure evil. The prior realizes this abomination must be destroyed along with anyone who has come into contact with it, for it is surely the devil’s work, corrupting and possessing all those who touch it. But whom can Torquemada trust to help him achieve his mission now that The Compendium of Srem has passed through numerous hands . . . including his own? F. Paul Wilson is a writer who is at home working in many different genres, from medical thriller to science fiction to mystery to urban fantasy to horror. Now he travels back centuries in time to explore the secret history of a book of great and terrible power, an ancient volume of eldritch lore that plays a substantial role in the author’s popular Repairman Jack series of novels: The Compendium of Srem. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

Golden Age Bibliomysteries (An American Mystery Classic)

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Penzler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 161316422X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Golden Age Bibliomysteries (An American Mystery Classic) written by Otto Penzler and published by Penzler Publishers. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death Of crime fiction’s many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the “bibliomystery”: stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books. In Vincent Starrett’s “A Volume of Poe,” a bookseller is murdered; in Ellery Queen’s “The Adventure of the Three R’s,” the detective tracks the disappearance of a local Missouri author; and a killer stalks the stacks of the New York Public Library in Robert L. Blochman’s “Death Walks in Marble Halls.” With fourteen tales of bibliophilic transgression from the Golden Age of the mystery genre (the decades between the two World Wars), this volume collects stories guaranteed to entertain, featuring work from well-remembered authors such as Cornell Woolrich and Anthony Boucher and from those that are lesser-known today, such as Carolyn Wells and James Gould Cozzens. Edgar Award-winning anthologist, editor, bookseller, and mystery scholar Otto Penzler has focused extensively on the history of the bibliomystery, and his expertise shines in this enjoyable collection—both in the selection of stories, and in the informative and illuminating introductions that accompany each one.

Reconciliation Day

Author : Christopher Fowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788542355
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Reconciliation Day written by Christopher Fowler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carter, one of the world's leading experts on Dracula, owns many editions of Bram Stoker's novel, maybe even as many as his well-heeled rival, Mikaela Klove. But one thing has always eluded him: the chance to examine the possibly apocryphal blue edition of Stoker's seminal vampire tale. If it actually exists, the elusive edition is rumored to contain a different ending and a never-before-published chapter tantalizingly set in Dracula's personal library. Determined to read it for himself, Carter travels to Transylvania, where the rumoured treasure might be hidden. But once there, he'll need to work with his nemesis to solve the mysterious puzzle – or risk an endgame neither he nor Mikaela can afford to lose. Drawing on his renowned flair for the outré, Christopher Fowler – an author 'in the first rank of contemporary mystery writers' – reimagines Stoker's lost chapter and intersperses it with an unforgettable journey through Transylvania.

What's in a Name?

Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480485993
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book What's in a Name? written by Thomas H. Cook and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five decades after war’s end, a rare-books dealer receives a strange visitor. The guns went silent on November 11, 1918, never to fire again. Throughout the 1920s, unrest seethed across Europe, and Fascists battled Communists in the streets of Berlin, but democracy won out. For years, peace has prevailed around the world. But there is a part of Franklin Altman that misses the war. A rare-books dealer living in New York City, Altman has devoted his life to studying the history of the Weimar Republic, when all of Europe hung in the balance and it seemed it would take but a single spark to set the world ablaze. Why did that spark never come? Altman is musing on these questions one evening when a man comes into his shop. An aged German veteran with a limp and the faint shakes of Parkinson’s, he is about to teach Altman that in history, the devil is in the details. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

The Little Men

Author : Megan Abbott
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504019113
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Little Men written by Megan Abbott and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950s Hollywood, an actress is haunted by a bookseller’s death: A novella from the Edgar Award-winning author of Give Me Your Hand. In 1953, Penny is just another washed-up, wannabe Hollywood actress who is past her prime. She has settled in to a quiet lifestyle, and when she finds a low-rent bungalow in Canyon Arms, it’s a dream come true; Penny takes to the place instantly. But the dream cottage with its French doors and tiled courtyard may not be as perfect as it seems. Penny’s new neighbors start filling her head with stories about past tenants, whispering voices, and a suicide that may not have been a suicide at all. Soon enough, Penny starts hearing strange noises and she can’t help but wonder about the true fate of the bookseller who died in her home a dozen years earlier. Her suspicions are only fueled by the ominous inscription that she discovers in a book that’s closely guarded by her landlord . . . From the national bestselling author of Dare Me and other thrillers, this is a spooky mystery set on the dark fringes of glamorous Los Angeles. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

Condor in the Stacks

Author : James Grady
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504030389
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Condor in the Stacks written by James Grady and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors A thrilling Condor novella from the bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor. Vin, a name of convenience for the agent known as Condor, has been released from psychiatric care and it’s back to work. Unfortunately, he’s been assigned the mundane job of sorting through books meant for the incinerator instead of the high-adrenaline rush of being a covert spy for the CIA. Struggling to separate hallucinations from reality, Condor attempts to immerse himself in the task at hand, but his acute sense of danger soon overwhelms him. While wandering the labyrinth of the Library of Congress’s subterranean tunnels, he encounters a damsel in distress. Someone is following her, and Condor can’t resist the lure of covert ops—or placing his own life in jeopardy. James Grady revolutionized the thriller genre with his CIA analyst codenamed Condor, immortalized by Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor, and currently portrayed by Max Irons in the all-new TV series Condor. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

The Book Hunters of Katpadi

Author : Pradeep Sebastian
Publisher : Hachette India
ISBN 13 : 9789350092231
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book The Book Hunters of Katpadi written by Pradeep Sebastian and published by Hachette India. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neelambari Adigal and her young associate, Kayal, together run Biblio, a one-of-a-kind store of rare books in Chennai, specializing in modern Indian first editions. The lives of these passionate book-women revolve around curious browsers, eccentric book collectors, private-press printers and the occasional thrill of unexpected discoveries of the antiquarian kind. On a book-collecting trip to Ooty, Kayal stumbles upon an incendiary manuscript, long thought to be a myth, purportedly authored by explorer and translator Sir Richard Francis Burton. Almost simultaneously, a cache of priceless editions that looks like it could be from the 300-year-old library of one of the greatest book collectors the world has ever known, turns up at the bookshop. When it falls upon the two women to authenticate their finds, Neela and Kayal discover, quite suddenly, that their lives are more full of bibliographic intrigue than they could ever have imagined.India's first-ever biblio-mystery, The Book Hunters of Katpadi, is the book every lover of the written word has been waiting for. In the tradition of the greatest in the genre, it holds within its pages adventure, action, suspense - and the sheer thrill of close encounters with prized print-on-paper.

Pronghorns of the Third Reich

Author : C.J. Box
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781858268
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Pronghorns of the Third Reich written by C.J. Box and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer's house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker's day has started badly and is going to get much worse. Once a fine lawyer, Parker's enthusiasm has slipped with age, and criminals like Lyle are part of the reason for his disillusionment. Years after they last saw each other in court, Lyle is convinced that Parker owes him something. At gunpoint, Lyle and Juan make Parker lead them to the old ranch, to open up a hidden library whose volumes hold the secret to forgotten riches, and the strangest war profiteering scheme to ever come out of the Great Plains.

The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio

Author : Paul Suntup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998864914
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio written by Paul Suntup and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This finely crafted art portfolio includes twenty-two black & white illustrations and two color illustrations by David Palladini. The artwork originally appeared in the trade edition of The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. This edition includes an exclusive afterword by David Palladini which is letterpress printed. The lettered edition is limited to twenty-six copies and measures 12" x 18". The text and illustrations are printed on 100% cotton paper and are housed in a custom clamshell box covered in Japanese book cloth over wood boards. The edition includes a previously unpublished illustration as well as a reproduction of the only extant copy of the original title page illustration hand-colored by David Palladini. The lettered edition includes a signed limited photogravure print which has been hand-pulled on Somerset Velvet 100% cotton mould made paper with deckled edges from St. Cuthbert's Mill, England. The portfolio is signed by artist David Palladini.

Murder Is a Must

Author : Marty Wingate
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984804154
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Murder Is a Must written by Marty Wingate and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined to make the First Edition Library a success, Hayley Burke wasn’t expecting to have to solve an old friend’s murder in this all-new mystery from USA Today bestselling author Marty Wingate. Hayley Burke, curator of Lady Fowling's collection of first edition mysteries, is settling into her position at the First Edition Library in Middlebank House. She's even made progress with Lady Fowling's former secretary, the ornery Miss Woolgar. The women are busily preparing for an exhibition that will showcase Lady Fowling's life and letters. Hayley knows the exhibition is a huge undertaking and decides, against her better judgement, to hire Oona Atherton, her former boss from the Jane Austen Centre to help with the planning. Oona is known for being difficult, but all seems to be going swimmingly until she and Hayley uncover a one-page letter that alludes to a priceless edition of MURDER MUST ADVERTISE signed by several Golden Age of Mystery authors. Oona feels this book could be the focal point of the exhibition and becomes obsessed with finding it. When they find clues that appear to point to the book being somewhere in the First Edition Library, Oona is certain she's unraveled the mystery and texts Hayley the good news, but upon arriving back at Middlebank, Hayley finds her old boss dead at the bottom of the stairs. Did her discovery of the rare book get her killed or was it some angry shadow from her past? Hayley must read between the lines to catch a malicious murderer.

Bookshop Mysteries

Author : John Harvey
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504048016
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Bookshop Mysteries written by John Harvey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five thrilling tales of mystery, mayhem, and murder from an exceptional quintet of Edgar, CWA Dagger, and National Book Award winners. Crime and literature make strange and sinister bedfellows in this winning anthology of book-themed whodunits by five acclaimed masters of mystery and suspense. Multiple award-winning, bestselling authors provide the literary thrills and chills in this masterful collection of five ingeniously puzzling mysteries that belong in the library of every crime fiction aficionado. Dead Dames Don’t Sing by John Harvey: Looking for a big payday but finding big trouble instead, ex-London-cop-turned-private-investigator Jack Kiley attempts to uncover the true origins of a controversial, pseudonymously written pulp novel. The Travelling Companion by Ian Rankin: A young Scotsman in Paris is drawn into a shocking mystery that resides within the pages of an unpublished manuscript allegedly penned by Robert Louis Stevenson. Mystery, Inc. by Joyce Carol Oates: When an obsessive collector of bookstores discovers a charming new shop, he decides he must have it at any cost—even if he has to commit murder. Remaindered by Peter Lovesey: For some nefarious reason, the widow and former associates of a slain gangster are determined to keep the Precious Finds Bookstore open following the unfortunate demise of the shop’s owner. The Book Thing by Laura Lippman: Private investigator Tess Monaghan must help the irascible proprietor of a Baltimore children’s bookstore keep her business afloat by unmasking an elusive and utterly ingenious book thief.

Every Seven Years

Author : Denise Mina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613160794
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Every Seven Years written by Denise Mina and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mystery, Inc

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178497403X
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Mystery, Inc written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Brockden finds a bookshop that instantly piques his desire. He must call it his own; he must add it to his already-extensive collection of bookstores. But surely the owner of such a fine shop wouldn't easily part with it? Brockden forms a plan to acquire the shop in such a way that no one would ever suspect foul play: untraceable murder. And he knows he will be successful – because this is not the first time he has done it. A DEATH SENTENCE STORY: original shorts about deadly books from the world's best crime writers.