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Product Description: The author of "The Comic Book Killer" offers up twelve tales of mystery, magic, and grouchiness â served with a liberal dash of sarcasm and cynicism. A womanâs birthday celebration becomes a prelude to murder; an absinthe-minded author seeks inspiration from a bottle; a rare volume could destroy the love/hate relationship of two book dealers; an interplanetary romance is threatened by the untimely intervention of the Scorpion Men of Venus; and thatâs just the beginning! These stories leap from planet to planet, down dark avenues of hatred, and curl up in cozy nostalgic places...read more
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9781512376029 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 30, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author of "The Comic Book Killer" offers up twelve tales of mystery, magic, and grouchiness â served with a liberal dash of sarcasm and cynicism.
Product Description: America, June 1940. Nick Train has given up his dreams of a boxing championship after a brief and unsuccessful career in the ring. When one of his pals takes the examination for the police academy, Nick decides to join him. But what started out as a whim turns into a dangerous challenge, as Nick plays a precarious double game of collector for the mob and mole for a shadowy enforcement body...read more
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9781444823394 | Linford, March 1, 2015, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: America, June 1940.
Product Description: 'INVESTIGATOR SEEKS SECRETARY, AMANUENSIS, AND GENERAL ASSISTANT. APPLICANT MUST EXHIBIT COURAGE, STRENGTH, WILLINGNESS TO TAKE RISKS AND EXPLORE THE UNKNOWN...' In 1905, John O'Leary had newly arrived in San Francisco. Looking for work, he had answered the advert, little understanding what was required for the post - he'd try anything once...read more
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9781444814019 | Large print edition (Linford, January 1, 2013), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: 'INVESTIGATOR SEEKS SECRETARY, AMANUENSIS, AND GENERAL ASSISTANT.
Product Description: They'd been an odd couple, brought together by a murder investigation and discovering that they had an amazing chemistry... Hobart Lindsey is a suburban, middle-class, conservative-minded claims adjuster and Marvia Plum is a tough city cop who has fought her way up from the street...read more
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9781444813661 | Linford, December 1, 2012, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: They'd been an odd couple, brought together by a murder investigation and discovering that they had an amazing chemistry.
Product Description: In the Great Depression, millionaire polymath Abel Chase and his associate, Claire Delacroix, are requested to investigate the San Francisco Police Department's most baffling cases: an actor found dead in his locked dressing room, with two tiny punctures in his neck; a deep-water explorer who disappears from his diving suit, sixty feet beneath the surface of Monterey Bay; and a test pilot who, on a flight with her passenger in an experimental fighter plane, emerges from cloud cover - alone...read more
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9781444812572 | Lrg una edition (Linford, September 1, 2012), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: In the Great Depression, millionaire polymath Abel Chase and his associate, Claire Delacroix, are requested to investigate the San Francisco Police Department's most baffling cases: an actor found dead in his locked dressing room, with two tiny punctures in his neck; a deep-water explorer who disappears from his diving suit, sixty feet beneath the surface of Monterey Bay; and a test pilot who, on a flight with her passenger in an experimental fighter plane, emerges from cloud cover - alone!
Product Description: Sherlock Holmes is probably the most popular figure in world literature. For more than a century his adventures have been chronicled in books, on the stage and radio, in motion pictures and television. These Sherlock Holmes adventures show Conan Doyle's detective not only in his earliest days, but also in connection with the works of other authors - Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H...read more
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9781444812213 | Large print edition (Linford, August 1, 2012), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Sherlock Holmes is probably the most popular figure in world literature.
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9781614980391 | Gardners Books, July 24, 2012, cover price $21.80
Product Description: "Richard Lupoff's stories are singularly clever, inventive, well-crafted and involving. He can put on different styles as easily as some of us change suits, and all of them fit him exquisitely."-DEAN R. KOONTZ "Every story offers a smile-and a surprise...read more
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9781614980384 | Gardners Books, July 24, 2012, cover price $21.80 | About this edition: "Richard Lupoff's stories are singularly clever, inventive, well-crafted and involving.
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9788498006582 | Italian edition edition (LA Factoria De Ideas, March 25, 2011), cover price $21.95
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9781597800327, titled "The Last Hieroglyph: The Last Hieroglyph" | Nightshade Book, January 11, 2011, cover price $39.99
Through realms of oriental splender and superhuman conflict, a beautiful woman warrior and a fierce man-god journey to challenge a being more awesome than the gods for a magical sword that holds the power of death . . . and the key to enlightenment. 'A sensuous, exotic odyssey through demon-haunted seas of swordplay, sorcery, conflict, and passion . . . ' -Robert Silverberg 'One of the most beautiful things I've ever read.' -Theodore Sturgeon
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9780843959529 | Original edition (Cosmos, February 24, 2009), cover price $6.99
9781587154140 | Cosmos Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Through realms of oriental splender and superhuman conflict, a beautiful woman warrior and a fierce man-god journey to challenge a being more awesome than the gods for a magical sword that holds the power of death .
Product Description: The tenth issue of STRANGE TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR features dazzling contributions by Adrian Cole ("Blood of the Moon God," a new Elak of Atlantis story); Kevin L. O'Brien ("In an Octopus's Garden" -- tentacular horror!); Richard A...read more
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9781434482068 | Wildside Pr, August 30, 2007, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: The tenth issue of STRANGE TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR features dazzling contributions by Adrian Cole ("Blood of the Moon God," a new Elak of Atlantis story); Kevin L.
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9780975922958 | Elder Signs Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Ranging from the mysterious to pulp action to the Lovecraftian, this vivid collection of short fiction explores a world of radio heroes, masterful villains, and creatures from places unknown.
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9780975922965 | Elder Signs Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: SUPERANNO An astonishing collection of one of the world's most versatile writers.
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9780803280304 | Bison Books, May 1, 2005, cover price $19.95
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9780809533411 | Wildside Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $12.50
Clive and his comrades face the ancient evil of the masters of the Dungeon in the labyrinthine depths of The Hidden City, while in The Final Battle, Clive confronts his ultimate challenge on the ninth level of the shared universe, in two complete novels that mark the epic conclusion of the fantasy series. Original.
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9780743474474 | Ibooks, July 1, 2003, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Clive and his comrades face the ancient evil of the masters of the Dungeon in the labyrinthine depths of The Hidden City, while in The Final Battle, Clive confronts his ultimate challenge on the ninth level of the shared universe, in two complete novels that mark the epic conclusion of the fantasy series.
Product Description: "If you have any interest at all in satire, science fiction's new wave, the '60s, pop music, comic books, or the picaresque tradition of literature, this book is for you...32 years after its composition, this roaring tiger of a book still has the capacity to shock, amuse, enlighten, and provoke, more so than many a "bold, experimental novel" published just yesterday to waves of praise by the short-sighted and historically illiterate...read more
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9781592240524 | Wildside Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: "If you have any interest at all in satire, science fiction's new wave, the '60s, pop music, comic books, or the picaresque tradition of literature, this book is for you.
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9780743458290 | Ibooks, March 1, 2003, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Finding himself on a vast prison planet on which his twin brother is trapped, Clive Foliott encounters an array of adversarial dwarves, cyborgs, and aliens from different parts of time and space.
Product Description: âOh, I wish I were anywhere but here, anywhere out of this redtape-ridden world of ours! I wish I were in the planet Mars!â Whisked away to the legendary red planet, the intrepid Lieutenant Gullivar Jones is caught up in the adventure of a lifetime...read more
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9780803259423 | Cmv edition (Bison Books, March 1, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: âOh, I wish I were anywhere but here, anywhere out of this redtape-ridden world of ours!
Presents a collection of thirteen fantasy and mystery stories, including 'The Devil's Hop Yard,' 'Whatever Happened to Nick Nepture?,' and 'The Heyworth Fragment.'
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9781930846074 | 1 edition (Golden Gryphon Pr, February 1, 2002), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of thirteen fantasy and mystery stories, including 'The Devil's Hop Yard,' 'Whatever Happened to Nick Nepture?
Product Description: Insurance investigator Hobart Lindsey and Homicide Detective Marvia Plum have been winning applause and building a loyal readership since their debut in The Comic-Book Killer (1988). Sometimes rivals, sometimes partners, sometimes lovers, Lindsey and Plum are a study in contrasts...read more
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9781587154539 | Wildside Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Insurance investigator Hobart Lindsey and Homicide Detective Marvia Plum have been winning applause and building a loyal readership since their debut in The Comic-Book Killer (1988).
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9781587154522, titled "One Murder at a Time: The Casebook of Lindsey & Plum" | Wildside Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Insurance investigator Hobart Lindsey and Homicide Detective Marvia Plum have been winning applause and building a loyal readership since their debut in The Comic-Book Killer (1988).
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9781888054507 | Collectors Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the growth of the paperback industry from its 19th century forerummers to its glory days of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
Offers twelve short fantasy and mystery stories including tales within the Cthulhu Mythos, Sherlock Holmes-style mysteries, and alternate universes.
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9781930846005 | Golden Gryphon Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Offers twelve short fantasy and mystery stories including tales within the Cthulhu Mythos, Sherlock Holmes-style mysteries, and alternate universes.
Offers twelve short fantasy and mystery stories including tales within the Cthulhu Mythos, Sherlock Holmes-style mysteries, and alternate universes.
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9781930846012 | Limited edition (Golden Gryphon Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Offers twelve short fantasy and mystery stories including tales within the Cthulhu Mythos, Sherlock Holmes-style mysteries, and alternate universes.
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9780028629490 | Alpha Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A guide to maximizing memory explores the mechanics of memory, visualization and mnemomic techniques, beneficial nutritional supplements, and lifestyle changes that will boost the brain's supply of oxygen
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