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1) The forgers
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Forgers volume 1
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"The rare book world is stunned when a reclusive collector, Adam Diehl, is found on the floor of his Montauk home: hands severed, surrounded by valuable inscribed books and original manuscripts that have been vandalized beyond repair. Adam's sister, Meghan, and her lover, Will-- a convicted if unrepentant literary forger-- struggle to come to terms with the seemingly incomprehensible murder. But when Will begins receiving threatening handwritten letters,...
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2019.
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A wealthy widow has asked Sarah Winston to sell her massive collection of mysteries through her garage sale business. While sorting through piles of books stashed in the woman's attic, Sarah is amazed to discover a case of lost Hemingway stories, stolen from a train in Paris back in 1922. How did they end up in Belle Winthrop Granville's attic in Ellington, Massachusetts, almost one hundred years later?
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Cliff Janeway mysteries volume 2
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The sequel to the popular Booked to Die. Cliff Janeway, Denver cop-turned-book-dealer, finds himself chasing down a charming young fugitive named Eleanor Rigby, who has stolen a rare copy of Poe's "The Raven" for reasons of her own. Trouble follows, and Eleanor disappears into a city filled with people who want the book, and don't care what they have to do to get it. Stuffed with fascinating book lore, this mystery is a bibliophile's dream.
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[1994]
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In New York, a woman uncovers an occult conspiracy to reimpose the supremacy of men in our society and destroy all feminists. Beatrice O'Connell stumbles on it as she investigates a 15th Century grimoire, a handbook of black magic. By the author of Trick of the Eye.
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Cliff Janeway mysteries volume 5
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This newest installment of the popular Cliff Janeway series is a foray into horseracing that is sure to win the bestselling author even more fans.
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2015.
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"Shortly after Muriel Delgado makes an uninvited appearance at Vera Van Alst's home, Jordan Bingham is fired as Vera's assistant. When Jordan discovers a deadly connection between Muriel and the Van Alst family, it's up to her to put the house in order and stop a killer"--
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Cliff Janeway mysteries volume 1
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2017.
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Former Denver policeman and knowledgeable book collector Cliff Janeway investigates the murder of a bookscout.
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Houston series volume 1
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Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston, it is the story of the restless and lovable Patsy Carpenter. Patsy-young, beautiful, with a sharp tongue and an irresistible charm-and her shiftless husband, Jim, are adrift in the West.
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2014.
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Jordan Kelly is delighted to make money tracking down rare and valuable mystery novels for her employer, Vera Van Alst, an avid collector and the most difficult woman in Harrison Falls, New York. But now her bosss complete set of Dorothy Sayers is missing, and finding them may lead Jordan to a murder suitable for Sayerss esteemed sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. When Jordan manages to locate her bosss missing books, they are in the possession of Randolph...
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Merlin's Maidens trilogy volume 1
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c2007
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At Mrs. Merlin's Academy for Select Young Ladies, young street orphans are pulled from the street, transformed into English spies for the Crown, and trained in the martial arts and swordmanship, including Siena, who is given the mission to infiltrate an elite circle of British aristocrats, including the reclusive Earl of Kirtland, to find a traitor selling state secrets
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[2023]
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"An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's book-collecting friend is murdered. To solve the mystery of why the victim was killed, and which of his rare books was taken, Wigan dives into the world of 'runners' and book collectors, where avid agents...
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