9780333614198 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, August 1, 1995, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: When Olivia Blackett, young and attractive English don at a college in Oxford, is found murdered and the papers she was working on for her research go missing, novelist Kate Ivory is once more dragged away from her new book by her friend Liam Ross, who is suspected of Olivia's murder.

9780753101766 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, December 1, 1998), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: While writing a novel, Kate Ivory clashes with Olivia Blacket, an English don at Leicester College, and when Olivia turns up dead and Kate's boyfriend becomes the prime suspect, Kate must find a way to unearth the truth.

9780753103296 | Isis Audio, April 1, 1998, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: When novelist Kate Ivory is offered a special assignment by her friend at Oxford's famous Bodleian Library, she decides to accept.

9780684197302 | Scribner, August 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: While writing a novel, Kate Ivory clashes with Olivia Blacket, an English don at Leicester College, and when Olivia turns up dead and Kate's boyfriend becomes the prime suspect, Kate must find a way to unearth the truth

9780684197296 | Reprint edition (Scribner, March 1, 1995), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Novelist-sleuth Kate Ivory tracks a thief in the Oxford Library system and soon uncovers murder and a novice crime writer who may not be writing fiction

9780792719892 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, June 1, 1994), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Hanna Benson is a lucky woman, with her large house on a wooded hill overlooking Oxford, her rich and successful second husband, Malcolm, and their five children.

9780684195179 | Scribner, September 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Dissatisfied with her life with her new stepfamily, ten-year-old Tessa plots to kill her stepfather and blame it on her stepbrother, Joe, a plot of which only her dead father--who, while he was alive, knew the real Tessa--is aware

9780792719885 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, June 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Hanna Benson is a lucky woman, with her large house on a wooded hill overlooking Oxford, her rich and successful second husband, Malcolm, and their five children.

9780684195964 | Scribner, January 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A member of the Fridesley Runners, a jogging club, Veronica Stallwood finds herself getting in over her head with a fellow runner when she agrees to help the woman repossess some family heirlooms the woman's estranged husband has appropriated