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Contains the complete texts of two novels and four stories which secure the American writer's position as a master of mystery and suspense

Hardcover:

9780395131527 | Houghton Mifflin, June 1, 1971, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Contains the complete texts of two novels and four stories which secure the American writer's position as a master of mystery and suspense

Product Description: Light shelf wear.

Paperback:

9780024248503 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1982, cover price $42.00 | also contains Comic Crime | About this edition: Light shelf wear.
9780024248503 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1982, cover price $42.00 | also contains Comic Crime | About this edition: Light shelf wear.

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Product Description: Hair of the Sleuthhound: Parodies of Mystery Fiction

Hardcover:

9780810815056 | Scarecrow Pr, February 1, 1982, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Hair of the Sleuthhound: Parodies of Mystery Fiction

Product Description: Extensively revised, this Second Edition offers architects and designers the most current thinking and practice in their profession on the scientific properties of light, the uses of natural and electric light in buildings, lighting effects and applications, and design tools and processes...read more

Hardcover:

9780070190542 | McGraw-Hill College, March 1, 1983, cover price $106.50 | also contains Long Live the Dead: Tales from Black Mask | About this edition: Extensively revised, this Second Edition offers architects and designers the most current thinking and practice in their profession on the scientific properties of light, the uses of natural and electric light in buildings, lighting effects and applications, and design tools and processes.

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Product Description: Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatization of Raymond Chandler's second Philip Marlowe mysteryFast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world...read more

Paperback:

9780345315281 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1984), cover price $2.25 | About this edition: Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatization of Raymond Chandler's second Philip Marlowe mysteryFast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world.

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An anniversary collection of 'new adventure' stories centered around the great detective features contributions by author Anne Perry and Arthur Conan Doyle biographer Daniel Stashower, among others. Reprint. PW. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780881843446 | Carroll & Graf Pub, September 1, 1987, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, this anthology of fifteen Sherlock Holmes mystery short stories includes works by Stephen King, John Gardner, Dorothy B.

Paperback:

9780786706983 | 1 edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, October 1, 1999), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents an anthology of eighteen Sherlock Holmes mystery short stories

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Private detective John Dalmas sets out to rescue a rich young playboy from the clutches of a fortune-hunting redhead and a blackmailing gambler.

Paperback:

9780394757643 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 1, 1992), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A private detective is hired to break up an unsuitable romance, find a missing dog, solve a murder, search for an ex-con's lost girlfriend, ransom a necklace, and investigate a wife's mysterious disappearance
9780345354945 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1987), cover price $3.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9781597770613 | Unabridged edition (Phoenix Books Inc, March 31, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Private detective John Dalmas sets out to rescue a rich young playboy from the clutches of a fortune-hunting redhead and a blackmailing gambler.
9781590071045 | Unabridged edition (New Millenium Audio, May 1, 2002), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired to break up an unsuitable romance, find a missing dog, solve a murder, ransom a stolen necklace, and investigate a wife's mysterious disappearance.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781590071038 | audio cassette edition (New Millenium Audio, May 1, 2002), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired to break up an unsuitable romance, find a missing dog, solve a murder, ransom a stolen necklace, and investigate a wife's mysterious disappearance.

Product Description: Two Sherlock Holmes pastiches and one of the original Conan Doyle short stories. New illustrations by C. Woolery. Includes a commentary and glossary. One of the pastiches deals with the mystery surrounding Sherlock Holmes's elder brother, Mycroft...read more

Paperback:

9780961931803 | Limited edition (Pencil Productions Ltd, November 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Two Sherlock Holmes pastiches and one of the original Conan Doyle short stories.
9780961931810 | Pencil Productions Ltd, November 1, 1987, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed. A major point highlighted by this book is simply that wit, slapstick. laughter, and an anything-can-happen motif appear in a significant amount of fiction about crime...read more
By Earl Bargainnier (editor)

Hardcover:

9780879723835 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, January 1, 1988, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed.

Paperback:

9780879723842 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, January 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed.
9780024248503, titled "Environmental Interiors" | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1982, cover price $42.00 | also contains Environmental Interiors | About this edition: Light shelf wear.

Clown's circus act has its ups and downs but he takes his bow at the end
By Nicola Bayley (illustrator) and Paul Manning

Hardcover:

9780027622546 | Atheneum, October 1, 1988, cover price $8.95 | also contains The Anatomy of Murder | About this edition: Clown's circus act has its ups and downs but he takes his bow at the end
9780027622546 | Atheneum, October 1, 1988, cover price $8.95 | also contains The Anatomy of Murder | About this edition: Clown's circus act has its ups and downs but he takes his bow at the end

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Authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, this anthology of fifteen Sherlock Holmes mystery short stories includes works by Stephen King, John Gardner, Dorothy B. Hughes, Michael Gilbert, Peter Lovesey, and other eminent mystery writers

Paperback:

9780881844351 | Carroll & Graf Pub, October 1, 1988, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, this anthology of fifteen Sherlock Holmes mystery short stories includes works by Stephen King, John Gardner, Dorothy B.

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The foremost writers in detective fiction have created an omnibus of true-life murder mysteries that includes baffling stories by Helen Simpson, Margaret Cole, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Rhode, E.R. Punshon, Frances Iles, and Freeman Willis Crofts

Hardcover:

9780027622546, titled "Clown" | Atheneum, October 1, 1988, cover price $8.95 | also contains Clown | About this edition: Clown's circus act has its ups and downs but he takes his bow at the end

Paperback:

9780425118344 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, October 1, 1989), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: The foremost writers in detective fiction have created an omnibus of true-life murder mysteries that includes baffling stories by Helen Simpson, Margaret Cole, Dorothy L.

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Twenty-five prominent writers of mystery fiction present stories featuring Chandler's introspective private eye and his Southern California milieu, each story being set in a different year of Marlow's career
By Byron Preiss (editor)

Hardcover:

9780394573274 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Twenty-five prominent writers of mystery fiction present stories featuring Chandler's introspective private eye and his Southern California milieu, each story being set in a different year of Marlow's career

Paperback:

9780671038908 | Ibooks, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Twenty-five writers of mystery fiction present stories featuring Chandler's introspective private eye and his Southern California milieu
9781596878471 | Byron Preiss Multimedia Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.00
9780399516160 | Reissue edition (J P Tarcher, April 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Twenty-five prominent writers of mystery fiction present stories featuring Chandler's introspective private eye and his Southern California milieu, each story being set in a different year of Marlow's career

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781558004856 | Dove Entertainment Inc, May 1, 1992, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: A comprehensive collection of writings about the inimitable Sherlock Holmes offers parodies, essays, and pastiches on the world's greatest consulting detective by writers including Bret Harte, Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, and Basil Rathbone.
By Marvin Kaye (editor)

Hardcover:

9780312104689 | Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc, April 1, 1994, cover price $12.98 | About this edition: A comprehensive collection of writings about the inimitable Sherlock Holmes offers parodies, essays, and pastiches on the world's greatest consulting detective by writers including Bret Harte, Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, and Basil Rathbone

Paperback:

9780312117979, titled "The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes" | Griffin, April 1, 1995, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: A comprehensive collection of writings about the inimitable Sherlock Holmes offers parodies, essays, and pastiches on the world's greatest consulting detective by writers including Bret Harte, Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, and Basil Rathbone.

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Product Description: CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINESIn these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a veterinarian how a kitten's coat cinched a murder case ...read more

Paperback:

9780345482228 | Ivy Books, January 3, 1995, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINESIn these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers.

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Product Description: Thirteen stories of horror, suspense and the supernatural. 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Black Cat' are just three of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous tales in this chilling collection.

Hardcover:

9780030035883, titled "An Introduction to Derivatives" | Harcourt College Pub, November 1, 1994, cover price $87.00 | also contains An Introduction to Derivatives | About this edition: Expanding on its solid background, this new edition continues to present technical material m a student friendly manner.
9780848811273 | Amereon Ltd, October 1, 1990, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Paperback:

9780141309378, titled "Tales of Mystery and Terror" | Puffin, July 1, 2000, cover price $2.99
9780140367201, titled "Tales of Mystery and Terror" | Reissue edition (Puffin, August 1, 1995), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Thirteen classic spine-chillers include 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' 'The Masque of the Red Death,' and 'The Pit and the Pendulum'
9780140351156, titled "Tales of Mystery and Terror" | Reprint edition (Puffin, August 1, 1990), cover price $2.99 | About this edition: Thirteen classic spine-chillers include 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' 'The Masque of the Red Death,' and 'The Pit and the Pendulum'

Library:

9781577658153, titled "Tales of Mystery and Terror" | Spotlight, January 1, 2002, cover price $22.78 | About this edition: A collection of four well-known tales of mystery and suspense including 'The Gold Bug,' 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Tell-tale Heart,' and 'The Cask of Amontillado.

Reinforced:

9780606252270, titled "Tales of Mystery and Terror" | Demco Media, December 1, 1995, cover price $13.45 | About this edition: Thirteen classic spine-chillers include 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' 'The Masque of the Red Death,' and 'The Pit and the Pendulum'

Prebinding:

9781439515105, titled "Tales of Mystery and Terror" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Thirteen stories of horror, suspense and the supernatural.
9780613143097 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: Thirteen classic spine-chillers include 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' 'The Masque of the Red Death,' and 'The Pit and the Pendulum'

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A new collection of adventures and mystery stories featuring the inimitable sleuth Sherlock Holmes encompasses fifteen tales written by Morgan Llywelyn, Richard Lupoff, Mike Resnick, Craig Shaw Gardner, Edward D. Hoch, and others.
By J. Adrian Fillmore (introduced by) and Marvin Kaye (editor)

Hardcover:

9780312140373 | St Martins Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A new collection of adventures and mystery stories featuring Sherlock Holmes encompasses fifteen tales by Morgan Llywelyn, Mike Resnick, Craig Shaw Gardner, and others

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Hardcover:

9780965263610 | Allen Wayne Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.00
9780965263603 | Allen Wayne Ltd, May 1, 1996, cover price $24.00

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Master sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. Watson, return in a collection of fourteen original stories, all set during the Christmas holiday season, by Anne Perry, Carole Nelson Douglas, Loren D. Estleman, Reginald Hill, Bill Crider, and other notable authors. Reprint. AB.

Hardcover:

9780425154731 | Berkley Pub Group, November 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr.

Paperback:

9780425167540 | Prime Crime, November 1, 1998, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr.

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