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Hardcover:
9780684179100 | Scribner, July 1, 1983, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Relaxing in a village pub, Perry Trethowan of Scotland Yard meets a retired schoolteacher who embroils him in a search for a priceless manuscript by Emily Bronte and a case of attempted murder
Paperback:
9781509813209 | Pan Macmillan, May 19, 2016, cover price $13.90 | About this edition: Case of the Missing Bronte
9780140237856 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1994), cover price $5.95
9780816135905, titled "Case of the Missing Bronte" | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, March 1, 1984), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Relaxing in a village pub, Perry Trethowan of Scotland Yard meets a retired schoolteacher who embroils him in a search for a priceless manuscript by Emily Bronte and a case of attempted murder
Hardcover:
9780684178820 | Scribner, April 1, 1983, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Plans to feature the small village of Twitching in an international radio broadcast results in jealousies and spites, a dead body, poison-pen letters, a series of other crimes, and more work for Inspector George Parrish
Paperback:
9781509813216 | Pan Macmillan, May 19, 2016, cover price $13.90
9780881503258 | Foul Play Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Social infighting in the tiny village of Twythching, just when Radio Broadwich starts to do a documentary on the town, leads to some poison pen letters and a murder, which Inspector George Parrish must investigate.
9780816137985 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, January 1, 1985), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Radio Broadwich decides to do a documentary on the small village of Twytching for international broadcast, and the townspeople divide between those who seek the patronage of Mrs.
9780440148821 | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, March 1, 1984), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Plans to feature the small village of Twitching in an international radio broadcast results in jealousies and spites, a dead body, poison-pen letters, a series of other crimes, and more work for Inspector George Parrish
CD/Spoken Word:
9781845593674 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, April 30, 2006), cover price $64.95
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781845593452 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, April 30, 2006), cover price $64.95
Hardcover:
9781560545774 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, January 1, 1993), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty, and when a grown nephew returns to the village twenty years later, he sees that his aunt has come full circle
9780684194127 | Scribner, August 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty, and when a grown nephew returns to the village twenty years later, he sees that his aunt has come full circle
Paperback:
9781447239826 | Pan Macmillan, February 28, 2013, cover price $28.70
9780380719983 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, January 1, 1994), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty, and when a grown nephew returns to the village twenty years later, he sees that his aunt has come full circle
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786108794 | Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 1995, cover price $39.95
Hardcover:
9780684182827 | Scribner, June 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Simon Thorn returns to London years after the traumatic 1941 air raid evacuation that left him homeless with no identification, few belongings, and no memory of his earlier life
Paperback:
9781447240075 | Pan Macmillan, February 28, 2013, cover price $25.35
9781933397320 | Reprint edition (Felony & Mayhem, April 1, 2006), cover price $14.95
9780440167617 | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, September 1, 1986), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Simon Thorn returns to London years after the traumatic 1941 air raid evacuation that left him homeless with no identification, few belongings, and no memory of his earlier life
Hardcover:
9781587242007 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, April 1, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The discovery of a child's skeleton that is at least thirty years old in the attic of the old stone house he has just purchased leads Matt Harper on a journey into the past to solve the mystery.
9780684873794 | 1 edition (Scribner, April 1, 2002), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The discovery of a child's skeleton that is at least thirty years old in the attic of the old stone house he has just purchased leads Matt Harper on a journey into the past to solve the mystery.
Paperback:
9781447239871 | Pan Macmillan, February 28, 2013, cover price $28.70
9781590582114 | Large print edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, April 15, 2006), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The discovery of a child's skeleton that is at least thirty years old in the attic of the old stone house he has just purchased leads Matt Harper on a journey into the past to solve the mystery.
9781590581728 | Reprint edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, December 1, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The discovery of a child's skeleton that is at least thirty years old in the attic of the old stone house he has just purchased leads Matt Harper on a journey into the past to solve the mystery.
Hardcover:
9780312117719 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In a speculative mystery in which Mozart lives to a ripe old age, the aging composer is hired to compose a new opera in honor of the 1820 coronation of England's George IV, only to become caught up in the intrigues surrounding the king and his estranged wife, Caroline of Brunswick
Paperback:
9781447239239 | Pan Macmillan, February 28, 2013, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: It is 1820, and George IV has just assumed the throne.
Hardcover:
9781439176740 | 1 edition (Scribner, June 8, 2010), cover price $24.00
Paperback:
9781439176757 | Scribner, February 23, 2013, cover price $16.99
Miscellaneous:
9781439176764 | Scribner, June 8, 2010, cover price $10.99
Hardcover:
9781560541110, titled "A City of Strangers" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1991), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: The inhabitants of a respectable, middle-class neighborhood turn bloody-minded when a rowdy, nasty, working-class family threatens to move in
9780684191928 | Scribner, September 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The inhabitants of a respectable, middle-class neighborhood turn bloody-minded when a rowdy, nasty, working-class family threatens to move in
Paperback:
9781447239789, titled "A City of Strangers" | Pan Macmillan, December 20, 2012, cover price $28.70
9780440207504 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, September 1, 1991), cover price $4.50 | also contains Isle of Man Tt: A Photographic History of the World's Greatest Motorcycle Race
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780745157733, titled "A City of Strangers" | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, March 1, 1992), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The inhabitants of a respectable, middle-class neighborhood turn bloody-minded when a loathsome, nasty, working-class family threatens to move in.
9780816175598, titled "A City of Strangers" | Chivers Audio Books, January 1, 1992, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The inhabitants of a respectable, middle-class neighborhood turn bloody-minded when a loathsome, nasty, working-class family threatens to move in.
Hardcover:
9781560542834 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1992), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A moving and suspenseful story of two men, Peter Proctor, a retired British cabinet minister, and Timothy Wycliffe, a young aristocrat murdered thirty years ago, offers a penetrating analysis of social decay and society in transition
9780684193229 | Scribner, August 1, 1991, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A moving and suspenseful story of two men, Peter Proctor, a retired British cabinet minister and Timothy Wycliffe, a young aristocrat murdered thirty years ago, offers a penetrating analysis of social decay and society in transition
Paperback:
9781447239765 | Pan Macmillan, December 20, 2012, cover price $25.35
9781590580806 | Large print edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, November 30, 2004), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Thirty years after the bludgeoning death of reckless and witty Timothy Wycliffe, an aristocrat with a shocking sexual appetite, his pal, Peter Proctor, investigates the case.
9781890208165 | Poisoned Pen Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $14.95
9780440207511 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, September 1, 1992), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A moving and suspenseful story of two men, Peter Proctor, a retired British cabinet minister and Timothy Wycliffe, a young aristocrat murdered thirty years ago, offers a penetrating analysis of social decay and society in transition
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786104642 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $39.95
Hardcover:
9780786201419 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Old Lettie Faraday may know why greedy Gerald Suzman is starting a fan club for minor literary figures Joshua and Susannah Sneddon, Yorkshire siblings and the victims of a fifty-year-old murder-sucide, and Detective Constable Charlie Peace fears for Lettie's life
9780684196251 | Scribner, September 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Old Lettie Faraday may know why greedy Gerald Suzman is starting a fan club for minor literary figures Joshua and Susannah Sneddon, Yorkshire siblings and the victims of a fifty-year-old murder-suicide, and Detective Constable Charlie Peace fears for Lettie's life
Paperback:
9781447239840 | Pan Macmillan, December 20, 2012, cover price $25.35
9780380776535 | Avon Books, June 1, 1995, cover price $4.99 | also contains Trask's Historical Linguistics | About this edition: Death returns to a Yorkshire village when a museum opens on the site of an unexplained murder/suicide where a renowned author killed his sister with an ax and shot himself.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786107186 | Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 1995, cover price $39.95
Hardcover:
9780786233335 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 2001), cover price $28.95
9780743201490 | Scribner, April 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A priest is first accused of sexual impropriety, then murder, in the wake of scandalous rumors and the bludgeoning death of one of his parishioners, Cosmo Horrocks, the muckraking reporter for the 'West Yorkshire Chronicle.
Paperback:
9781447239536 | Pan Macmillan, December 6, 2012, cover price $28.70 | About this edition: A witty and poignant chiller about the evil of gossip and the sin of indifference.
9781439157367 | Reprint edition (Scribner, January 23, 2009), cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9780754033615 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, June 1, 1998), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Chief Inspector Mike Oddie and DC Charlie Peace are called upon to investigate the disappearance of two troubled teens, and the trail quickly leads to a homeless shelter in northern England, a refuge whose owner has been brutally stabbed
9780754033622 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, June 1, 1998), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Chief Inspector Mike Oddie and DC Charlie Peace are called upon to investigate the disappearance of two troubled teens, and the trail quickly leads to a homeless shelter in northern England, a refuge whose owner has been brutally stabbed
9780786214525 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1998), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Chief Inspector Mike Oddie and DC Charlie Peace are called upon to investigate the disappearance of two troubled teens, and the trail quickly leads to a homeless shelter in northern England, a refuge whose owner has been brutally stabbed
9780684845036 | Scribner, May 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Chief Inspector Mike Oddie and DC Charlie Peace are called upon to investigate the disappearance of two troubled teens, and the trail quickly leads to a homeless shelter in northern England, a refuge whose owner has been brutally stabbed
Paperback:
9781447239635 | Pan Macmillan, December 6, 2012, cover price $25.35
9781439155257 | Reprint edition (Scribner, January 9, 2009), cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9781410446657 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, April 6, 2012), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: A Diamond Dagger Award-winning Author -- Yorkshire cop Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is thrilled when she's asked to help oversee Walbrook Manor, a recent gift to the nation.
9781439177433 | Scribner, January 3, 2012, cover price $24.00
Hardcover:
9781416559429 | Scribner, May 5, 2009, cover price $24.00
Paperback:
9781416559436 | Scribner, March 5, 2011, cover price $16.99
Miscellaneous:
9781416560463 | Scribner, May 5, 2009, cover price $16.99
Hardcover:
9780684826486 | Scribner, September 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Seventeen mystery stories feature everyday characters who discover their potential for murder, including a young woman who weds a string of old men and develops a penchant for widowhood
Paperback:
9781439157374 | Reprint edition (Scribner, January 23, 2009), cover price $16.95
9781568954233 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, February 1, 1997), cover price $23.95
Hardcover:
9781597228121 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, September 11, 2008), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A mysterious envelope arrives on Eve McNabb's doorstep soon after she has buried her mother, a woman who kept many secrets.
9780750529280 | Large print edition (Magna Large Print Books, September 1, 2008), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: When respected local headmistress May McNabb retired, her daughter Eve thought they would finally have the time to become close again, but within months May had died from the cancer she had kept secret from Eve.
9781416559405 | Scribner, May 13, 2008, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A mysterious envelope arrives on Eve McNabb's doorstep soon after she has buried her mother, a woman who kept many secrets.
9780749080686 | Gardners Books, February 25, 2008, cover price $30.85 | About this edition: When respected local headmistress May McNabb retired, her daughter Eve thought they would finally have the time to become close again, but within months May had died from the cancer she had kept secret from Eve.
Hardcover:
9780743272209 | Scribner, May 8, 2007, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Put off by his father-in-law's boasts about his literary successes and distasteful fondness for young girls, detective inspector Charlie Peace nevertheless works to clear the man's reputation, as well as the good name of Charlie's wife, Felicity, when both are implicated in a murder.
9780749081973 | Gardners Books, February 15, 2007, cover price $29.35 | About this edition: When Detective Charlie attains the rank of inspector, he decides to relocate to the town of Slepton Edge, along with his pregnant wife, Felicity, and daughter, Carola.
Paperback:
9780749080099 | Gardners Books, February 14, 2008, cover price $10.80 | About this edition: When Detective Charlie Peace attains the rank of inspector he decides to relocate his family to the sleepy town of Slepton Edge.
Hardcover:
9780896211896 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Sarah Causley leaves an unhappy girlhood in a quiet English village, joining the pacifist Hallam family, but pre-World War II tensions lead to murder, and she begins to suspect the sad, shocking truth
9780684189482, titled "The Skeleton in the Grass" | Scribner, May 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Sarah Causeley leaves an unhappy girlhood in a quiet English village, joining the pacifist Hallam family, but pre-World War II tensions lead to murder, and she begins to suspect the sad, shocking truth
Paperback:
9781933397818, titled "The Skeleton in the Grass" | Felony & Mayhem, December 16, 2007, cover price $14.95
9780140237832, titled "The Skeleton in the Grass" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1994), cover price $5.95
Hardcover:
9780896219533 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1990), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An innkeeper is the object of universal dislike--and one murderer's weapon--on the set of a provincial festival production of a tepid Jacobean comedy
9780684190020 | Scribner, October 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: An innkeeper is the object of universal dislike--and one murderer's weapon--on the set of a provincial festival production of a tepid Jacobean comedy
Paperback:
9781933397634 | Felony & Mayhem, February 1, 2007, cover price $14.95
9780440205869 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, August 1, 1990), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: An innkeeper is the object of universal dislike--and a murderer's weapon--on the set of a provincial festival production of a tepid Jacobean comedy
Paperback:
9781439181461 | Reprint edition (Scribner, July 28, 2009), cover price $17.95
Miscellaneous:
9780743289214 | Scribner, May 16, 2006, cover price $12.99
Paperback:
9781590582022 | Large print edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, January 30, 2006), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Well-known actress Caroline Fawley has given up her successful stage and television career for love and life at Alderley, an elegant country home "bought" for her by her married "friend," international business titan Marius Fleetwood.
9781590581735 | Reprint edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, November 1, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Retiring from her television acting career and settling down with her teenage children in their English mansion home, Caroline Fawley, who is having an affair with a married man, begins to worry for her security when her lover goes missing under suspicious circumstances.
Hardcover:
9781597222921 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, August 2, 2006), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Attending a reunion at his childhood home in Colchester, novelist Graham Broadbent is astonished to meet a nineteen-year-old girl who claims to be his daughter from a torrid affair years earlier.
9780743272193 | Scribner, May 2, 2006, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Attending a reunion at his childhood home in Colchester, novelist Graham Broadbent is astonished to meet a nineteen-year-old girl who claims to be his daughter from a torrid affair years earlier.
9780749082369 | Gardners Books, September 26, 2005, cover price $29.35 | About this edition: Novelist Graham Broadbent coasts through life like many of the characters in his books - low-key and unassertive - quietly accepting the easy pace his success has allowed him.
Hardcover:
9781597220705 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, September 23, 2005), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: An Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and Diamond Dagger Award-winning Author From the master of mystery comes a witty and observant new suspense novel featuring the Cantelos of Leeds, England, one of the most dysfunctional families ever to grace crime fiction.
9780743253468 | Scribner, May 3, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Suspecting foul play in the death of his beloved aunt, Brussels lawyer Merlyn Docherty faces his family's animosity when he realizes that his late aunt had passed him off as dead to protect him from those who would claim his inheritance.
9780750523073 | Large print edition (Magna Large Print Books, March 31, 2005), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: After twenty-two years, Merlyn Docherty returns to Leeds for his aunt Clarissa Cantelo's funeral.
9780749083267 | Gardners Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $33.85 | About this edition: After 22 years, Merlyn Docherty returns to his family home for his aunt's funeral.
Paperback:
9780749082406 | Gardners Books, September 26, 2005, cover price $12.40 | About this edition: "Robert Barnard has the habit of delighting his readers.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781845591403 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, July 30, 2005), cover price $71.95 | About this edition: "Robert Barnard has the habit of delighting his readers.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781845590970 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, July 30, 2005), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: "Robert Barnard has the habit of delighting his readers.
Bettina Whitelaw is a grand dame of the English literary scene, and her life is not dissimilar to that of her wealthy, elegant neighbours. When Bettina's housekeeper is the victim of a violent attack, Bettina realises that she is in serious danger, a danger that has its roots in a dusty outback town in Australia where she was brought up.
Hardcover:
9781587246852 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, May 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Unable to forget a life-shattering moment from when she was an Australian schoolgirl, author Bettina Whitelaw works on her memoir and becomes increasingly disturbed when she realizes that someone she knows may be trying to kill her.
9780743253451 | 1 edition (Scribner, February 1, 2004), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Unable to forget a life-shattering moment from when she was an Australian schoolgirl, author Bettina Whitelaw works on her memoir and becomes increasingly disturbed when she realizes that someone she knows may be trying to kill her.
Paperback:
9780749083311 | Gardners Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $12.45 | About this edition: Bettina Whitelaw is a grand dame of the English literary scene, and her life is not dissimilar to that of her wealthy, elegant neighbours.
Hardcover:
9780786226566 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2000), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Colin Pinnock, on top of the world when he is selected as a junior minister to the new Prime Minister, receives a mysterious note that sends him into a world of mystery and murder.
9780754042297 | Largeprint edition (Chivers, June 1, 2000), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Colin Pinnock, on top of the world when he is selected as a junior minister to the new Prime Minister, receives a mysterious note that sends him into a world of mystery and murder.
9780684864457 | Scribner, April 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Colin Pinnock, on top of the world when he is selected as a junior minister to the new Prime Minister, receives a mysterious note that sends him into a world of mystery and murder
Paperback:
9781590580813 | Large print edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, May 1, 2004), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Can the truly rich get away with murder or is there always a price?
9781890208646 | 1 edition (Poisoned Pen Pr, January 1, 2002), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Can the truly rich get away with murder or is there always a price?
9780754042303 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2000), cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Colin Pinnock, on top of the world when he is selected as a junior minister to the new Prime Minister, receives a mysterious note that sends him into a world of mystery and murder.
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