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noted Australian author and writer for gourmet and gourmand food magazines
Murder in the Catacombs, secret societies, wonderful Italian cuisine, a mysterious and beautiful Australian reporter, and a British forensics professor on a dangerous and unplanned busman's Holiday. A great Fall/Winter!

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MYSTERY/SATIRE Saved at Nob Hill Manor by Roger A. Mars A sophisticated and satirical page turner. Characters that jump off the page and bristle with vitality. Weird cult members, ambitious university faculty and wacky nursing home residents —   it could just be a deadly combination.

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a  fascinating travel narrative by Jon Helminiak click cover for more info A NEW CHILDREN'S CLASSIC A SATURDAY SURPRISE by Cleaton Battle the Wonders of A SURPRISE FAMILY ZOO TRIP IN OUR NATION'S CAPITAL Pre-Order Now Humbler Than Dust: A Retired Couple Visits The Real India By Tandem Bicycle by Mona Lee click cover to order now HISTORY / HORROR True Vampires of History by DONALD F. GLUT — click cover to order now HISTORY / HORROR True Werewolves  of History by DONALD F. GLUT		SCROLL DOWN TO SEE MORE OF OUR CATALOG  Here is an Edgar Winning Biography and the first three items in our Yellowback Mystery Series MYSTERY/ FRENCH Arsène Lupin vs Holmlock Shears by Maurice Leblanc translated by Alexander Teixteira de Mattos 271 pages, 6x9, trade paperback. Part of our Yellowback Mystery Series shipping now Order now.. Trade Paper:  $19.95 ISBN  0-918736-12-9 shipping now Order now Trade Cloth:    $34.95 ISBN: 0-918736-11-0 Arsène Lupin, the "Gentleman Burglar" of France, appeared from the pen of Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) in 1905. In the words of a prominent critic, Leblanc brought to the character "the skill of Sherlock Holmes, the resourcefulness of Raffles, the refinement of a casuist, the epigrammatic nimbleness of La Rouchefoucauld and the gallantry of Du Guesclin." Within the twenty-odd volumes of Lupin’s exploits are several delightful clashes with the pseudonymously disguised Sherlock Holmes. Two of these meetings are chronicled here, "The Fair Lady" and "The Jewish Lamp," in which Lupin outrageously tweaks the nose of his English conundrum, but with respect and savoire faire! This volume (a facsimile copy of the 1909 Grant Richards edition from the Lilly Library at Indiana University) dubs Holmes as Holmlock Shears. In other English versions of Leblanc's works Holmes  frequently appears as Herlock Sholmes. Click here for further details on this title MYSTERY/ BRITISH The Dorrington Deed-Box by Arthur Morrison 308 pages, 6x9, trade paperback. Part of our Yellowback Mystery Series shipping now Order now. Trade Paper:  $19.95 ISBN  0-918736-14-5 shipping now Order now Trade Cloth:    $34.95 ISBN: 0-918736-13-7 Arthur Morrison (1863–1945) was born and raised in London. As a young man he was clerk for the Charity Trust of the East End of London and then worked as a journalist. In later life he had a successful career as an art dealer. He is best remembered in the mystery field for his casebook stories (à la Conan Doyle) of the detective "Martin Hewitt" (1896). Outside the genre he is known for his realistic short stories depicting the slums of London, Tales of the Mean Streets (1895). Morrison grew up in the slums and chronicled his experiences in the novel, A Child of the Jago (1896). Less well-known than his Martin Hewitt tales, but far more ground-breaking, was Morrison’s The Dorrington Deed-Box, in which he chronicles the exploits of Horace Dorrington, a raconteur and scoundrel who hails from a very different social strata than the typical Victorian detective. In this collection of short stories, Dorrington is introduced in a recounting of his arrest for the attempted murder of one of his clients. Dorrington, an anti-hero before his time, is not the upholder of law and order that normally graced the pages of The Strand. Dorrington is as likely to pre-empt a criminal plot as he is to solve it. He is more a precursor of Donald Westlake’s hit-man protagonist "Parker" than he is the model for any other modern genre figure, however "hard boiled." Many Victorian mystery buffs just weren’t ready for this type of iconoclastic realism in their detective fiction. In creating this unconventional protagonist, Morrison took a path that few writers in the genre have trod in the century since this book first appeared—and fewer still genre detectives have relished their lack of scruples with the angst-free abandon exhibited by the disreputable Horace Dorrington. Click here for further details on this title MYSTERY/ BRITISH An African Millionaire by Grant Allen 317 pages, 6x9, trade paperback, illustrated. Part of our Yellowback Mystery Series shipping now Order now Trade Paper:  $19.95 ISBN  0-918736-16-1 shipping now Order now. Trade Cloth:  $34.95 ISBN: 0-918736-15-3   Grant Allen (1848–1899) was one of the most prolific writers of the Victorian era. Born in Ontario, he lived in both the U.S. and France. Later, following graduation from Oxford, Allen served a stint at an ill-fated college in Jamaica, after which he returned to England. Allen was close friends with and sometime collaborator of A. Conan Doyle (Hilda Wade). His free-thinking novel, The Woman Who Did, notoriously featured a protagonist who refused to marry her lover because of her belief in the unfairness of marriage law (the novel was dedicated to Allen’s wife). His novels Miss Cayley’s Adventures and the aforementioned Hilda Wade feature two of the earliest female detectives. Grant’s most enduring character, however, is "Colonel Clay," the gentleman rogue and thief who steals repeatedly from the corrupt "African millionaire," a victim who is repeatedly led astray by the clever Colonel while fueled by his own greed. A delightful early entry in the British "rogue" gallery of gentlemen crooks, appearing two years before the introduction of the much more famous character, "Raffles," the creation of E. W. Hornung. Click here for further details on this title   ABOUT SCREEN RESOLUTION: The James A. 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