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9780544214040 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, June 2, 2015), cover price $26.00
9780379214062, titled "World Encyclopedia of Peace" | 2 edition (Oceana Pubns, July 1, 2000), cover price $68.75 | also contains World Encyclopedia of Peace

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9780544705210 | Mariner Books, June 14, 2016, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. Besides Holmes himself, no character in Conan Doyle's stories proves as interesting as the astute detective's constant companion, Dr...read more
By Nadine Farghaly (editor)

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9780786494590 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 27, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal.

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Four newspaper reporters risk their lives to investigate the possiblity of a government cover-up of an encounter with extraterrestrial creatures

Hardcover:

9780008105969 | Harpercollins, May 7, 2015, cover price $27.99

Paperback:

9780008105983 | Collins Crime, May 3, 2016, cover price $15.99
9780380833375, titled "Ifo Report" | Avon Books, May 1, 1983, cover price $3.50 | also contains Ifo Report | About this edition: Four newspaper reporters risk their lives to investigate the possiblity of a government cover-up of an encounter with extraterrestrial creatures

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Product Description: In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour...read more

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9781472452535 | Ashgate Pub Co, April 28, 2015, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour.

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"The professional's professional of suspense writers."THE NEW YORK TIMESTravis McGee has been offered easy money by a longtime lady friend. But when she gets killed, McGee's got a boatload of mystery. Navigating his boat into troubled waters, he heads for the seamier side of Florida--where drug dealing, twisted sex, and corruption are easy to find--but murderous riddles are hard to solve....

Hardcover:

9780198723332 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 29, 2015, cover price $90.00

Paperback:

9780198723325 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 29, 2015, cover price $35.00

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780394570846, titled "The Dreadful Lemon Sky" | Random House, April 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | also contains The Dreadful Lemon Sky | About this edition: "The professional's professional of suspense writers.
9780394570891, titled "The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding" | Random House, April 1, 1988, cover price $16.00 | also contains The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia''s Founding | About this edition: A description of the transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian England into a horrific penal system in Australia.

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Hardcover:

9781781314043 | Updated edition (Aurum Pr Ltd, November 3, 2014), cover price $27.99
9780785827849 | Castle, February 1, 2011, cover price $12.99
9781845134587 | Aurum Pr Ltd, December 1, 2009, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime--each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics...read more
By Julie H. Kim (editor)

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9780786473236 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 3, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime--each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics.

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Product Description: With the recent successes of Robert Downey, Jr. on the big screen and Benedict Cumberbatch on TV, the popularity of Sherlock Holmes is riding high and here is the essential guideWho is Holmes? The world's most famous detective, a drug addict with a heart as cold as ice, or a millstone around the neck of his creator? He's all of these things and much, much more...read more

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9781842438879 | Reprint edition (Old Castle, June 1, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: With the recent successes of Robert Downey, Jr.
9781903047682 | Old Castle, July 1, 2001, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read.

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Product Description: Christianity and Detective Fiction is the first book to gather together academic criticism on this particular connection between religion and popular culture. The articles cover the origin of this relationship in the works of G. K...read more
By Walter Raubicheck (editor)

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9781443842099 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, January 1, 2013, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: Christianity and Detective Fiction is the first book to gather together academic criticism on this particular connection between religion and popular culture.

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Product Description: This is a collection of new essays on Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma novels, which feature Sister Fidelma's attempts to solve a wide range of crimes, often murders that occur under especially mysterious conditions. The novels, set mainly in 7th century Ireland, also include a great deal of history, which is not surprising given that the author is actually Peter Berresford Ellis, a noted Celtic historian...read more

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9780786466672 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 16, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This is a collection of new essays on Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma novels, which feature Sister Fidelma's attempts to solve a wide range of crimes, often murders that occur under especially mysterious conditions.

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Product Description: The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fiction Moves with ease between a general overview of the genre and useful theoretical approaches Includes a close analysis of the key texts in the crime fiction tradition Identifies what makes crime fiction of such cultural importance and illuminates the social and political anxieties at its heart...read more

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9780470657034 | Blackwell Pub, December 18, 2012, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts.

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9780470657041 | Blackwell Pub, November 28, 2012, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts.

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Product Description: An important figure in the development of crime fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) wrote more than 80 novels, numerous plays, poems, essays and short stories, and edited two magazines during her 55-year literary career. Her bestselling Lady Audley's Secret secured her reputation as a leading "sensation novelist...read more

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9780786436675 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 18, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An important figure in the development of crime fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) wrote more than 80 novels, numerous plays, poems, essays and short stories, and edited two magazines during her 55-year literary career.

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By David Baggett (editor)

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9780813136714 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, September 12, 2012, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: During the interwar "golden age" of British detective fiction, women writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie reigned, but their work remains tame compared to today's crime novels. Elements of sexuality and gender, including soft porn and sexual psychopathy, pervade contemporary detective fiction...read more
By Julie H. Kim (editor)

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9780786463312 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 7, 2012, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: During the interwar "golden age" of British detective fiction, women writers like Dorothy L.

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Product Description: The phenomenal history of the famous detective is finally compiled in one convenient volume for Holmes fans and scholars alike. No other volume on the classic novels and stories describes so fully the history of the character, from conception to his resurrection after his untimely death...read more

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9780762444083 | Running Pr Book Pub, November 8, 2011, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The phenomenal history of the famous detective is finally compiled in one convenient volume for Holmes fans and scholars alike.
9781780330129 | Gardners Books, September 1, 2011, cover price $14.90

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Product Description: E.X. Ferrars was one of the most popular and prolific British crime writers of the twentieth century. This literary companion is designed to introduce readers to the full range of possibilities inherent in E.X. Ferrars's canon, connecting novels and short stories that share themes and strategies, and providing biographical data that yield insights into Ferrars's interests and concerns...read more
By Elizabeth Foxwell (editor)

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9780786444359 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 31, 2011, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: E.

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Hardcover:

9780754668138 | Ashgate Pub Co, July 1, 2011, cover price $149.95
9780201848908, titled "College Algebra: Graphs & Models" | Addison-Wesley, October 1, 1996, cover price $92.00 | also contains College Algebra Graphs and Models

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