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Isaac Asimov: A Whiff of
Death
a.k.a. The Death Dealers
[murder mystery] Lancer paperback #75315, 1972 – Chemistry
professor Lou Brade finds a dead graduate student in his lab. He must
find the young man’s killer before the police finger him as the
likeliest suspect. But how can he conduct an investigation without
uncovering so many faculty intrigues and departmental resentments that
he jeopardizes his own job?
[G+] $4.99 |
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Ray Bradbury: Death
is a Lonely Business
[murder mystery]
Bantam paperback, 1st printing, Feb. 1987 – In Venice, California, in
the 1950s, old silent movie stars and young
writers struggle to survive. As Bradbury’s
autobiographical hero, a young writer, pounds out his short stories,
someone is killing off the older denizens of the city. The writer joins
forces with detective Elmo Crumley and a faded screen star to
investigate.
[NF] $9.99 |
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky:
Crime and
Punishment
[mystery, philosophy]
Modern Library paperback #P-1, 1955 – A desperate young man plans the
perfect crime: the murder of a pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and
no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to
commit such a crime, to transgress moral law if it will ultimately
benefit humanity? A fascinating detective thriller infused with
philosophical, religious and social commentary.
[VG] $4.99 |
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B. S. Johnson: Christie Malry’s Own
Double-Entry
[ISBN 0330484826] [psychology,
terrorism] Picador
[UK] trade paperback, 2001 – Bryan Stanley Johnson (1933-1973) was an
English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of
television programs, and film-maker. This novel features a disgruntled
bookkeeper who devises a plan to use a double-entry bookkeeping system
to even his scores with society.
[F] $3.99 |
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Mark Twain: Pudd’nhead Wilson
[detective, classic] Airmont Classics
paperback #CL124, 1966, with introduction by Francis R. Gemme – A
fast-paced story of murder and blackmail, and a satirical social commentary on slavery.
As a story of crime and detection this is one of the first American
works of fiction to make use of the emerging science of fingerprinting. First
serialized in The Century Magazine in 1893-94.
[VG] $2.99 |
