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Hardcover:
9780786261208 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Vowing to organize her life after disappointing her young son, Jane Wheel, having recently accepted a job with a private investigations office, takes a case involving an antiques dealer, who has been accused of murder.
9780312314149 | 1 edition (Minotaur Books, November 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Vowing to organize her life after disappointing her young son, antiques picker Jane Wheel, having recently accepted a job with a private investigations office, takes a case involving an antiques dealer, her co-worker's wife, who has been accused of murder.
Paperback:
9780312989507 | Reprint edition (Minotaur Books, September 1, 2004), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Vowing to reorganize her life after disappointing her young son, antiques picker Jane Wheel, having recently accepted a job with a private investigations office, takes a case involving an antiques dealer, her co-worker's wife, who has been accused of murder.
Hardcover:
9780786262021 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In an attempt to sidestep his negative image as a destroyer of Chicago's famous landmarks, real estate mogul and Chilean expatriate Louie Dolores brings an exhibit of ancient Chinchorro mummies to his huge downtown skyscraper.
9780312271237 | Minotaur Books, January 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: When an exhibit of three-thousand-year-old Chinchorro mummies from Chile opens, Chicago Police Detective Jeremy Ransom finds his world turned upside down as a murderous mummy wreaks havoc on the town.
Paperback:
9780373264513 | Reprint edition (Worldwide Library, March 1, 2003), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When an exhibit of three-thousand-year-old Chinchorro mummies from Chile opens, Chicago Police Detective Jeremy Ransom finds his world turned upside down when a murderous mummy wreaks havoc on the town, causing his elderly friend, Miss Emily Charters to get involved.
Hardcover:
9780312278229 | 1 edition (Minotaur Books, October 1, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Jane Wheel discovers a bizarre collectible in a newly purchased trove of 1950s saloon ephemera, that sparks her curiosity about the saloon owners and prompts her, along with her husband and some friends, to investigate.
Paperback:
9780312986803 | Minotaur Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: While cataloguing her loot from a Chicago-area estate sale, antiques lover Jane Wheeler discovers among the contents of a 1950s-era tavern that she had bought a human finger in a tiny jar and embarks on an investigation into a decades-old mystery.
Hardcover:
9780312300661 | 1 edition (Minotaur Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: When a passenger aboard a Great Lakes senior cruise is found murdered, church group member Emily Charters teams up with her friend, detective Jeremy Ransom, to solve the case.
Hardcover:
9780786251568 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: When the male lead of 'Carmen' dies during the opening night performance, detective Jeremy Ransom and friend Emily Charter investigate the opera company's shaky financial situation, the cast members, and the opera company's diva.
Paperback:
9780373264209 | Harlequin Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When the male lead of 'Carmen' dies during the opening night performance, detective Jeremy Ransom and friend Emily Charters investigate the opera company's shaky financial situation, the cast members, and the opera company's diva.
Hired by a rebellious group of feminists for a huge house renovation, Jane Jeffry and Shelley Nowack become increasingly alarmed when the project is overshadowed by malicious pranks, a suspicious death, and numerous secrets.
Hardcover:
9781587243998 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, March 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Hired by a rebellious group of feminists for a huge house renovation, Jane Jeffry and Shelley Nowack become increasingly alarmed when the project is overshadowed by malicious pranks, a suspicious death, and numerous secrets.
Hardcover:
9781574904475 | Large print edition (Thomas t Beeler, November 1, 2002), cover price $27.95
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9780312278182 | Minotaur Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Separated from her husband and laid off from her advertising job, Jane Wheel finds solace in Chicago as an antique 'picker,' until she stumbles upon her neighbor Sandy's dead body and is targeted as the prime suspect.
Paperback:
9780312983703 | Minotaur Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: With her career and marriage on the skids, Jane Wheel is headed for a mid-life crisis, making a living by picking up treasures at local garage sales, flee markets, and auctions, but when she discovers the body of her next-door neighbor, she channels some of her nervous energy into solving the crime.
Hardcover:
9780380977369 | Avon Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Hired by a rebellious group of feminists for a huge house renovation, Jane Jeffry and Shelley Nowack become increasingly alarmed when the project is overshadowed by malicious pranks, a suspicious death, and numerous secrets.
Hardcover:
9780380977352 | William Morrow & Co, December 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A gardening class sounds like fun for Jane Jeffry and her friend Shelly, but when the teacher is attacked and his substitute murdered, the two friends are digging for clues all over.
Paperback:
9780380804917 | Avon Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A gardening class sounds like fun for Jane Jeffry and her friend Shelly, but when the teacher is attacked and his substitute murdered, the two friends are digging for clues all over.
Hardcover:
9780786230914 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A woman born, like her mother, with visions of a mysterious shipwreck, becomes a famous singer and attempts to unravel the mystery of her life, despite attacks from a vicious media and the Balkan mafia.
9780754016212 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 2001), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: A woman born, like her mother, with visions of a mysterious shipwreck, becomes a famous singer and attempts to unravel the mystery of her life, despite attacks from a vicious media and the Balkan mafia.
9780312865702 | Forge, February 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A woman born, like her mother, with visions of a mysterious shipwreck, becomes a famous singer and attempts to unravel the mystery of her life, despite attacks from a vicious media and the Balkan mafia
Paperback:
9780812590241 | Forge, March 1, 2001, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Nuala Anne, living in Chicago with her husband Dermot and newborn Nellicoyne, fights a sleazy DJ and the Balkan Mafia to discover the truth behind Irish-Americans when she and her daughter have strange vibrations on the lake where they died a century before.
Hardcover:
9780786229307 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 2000), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Psychic Nuala Ann McGrail and Dermot Coyne are weeks away from their wedding when Nuala experiences a vision of a past wrong that needs to be righted, this one involving the mysterious death of Al Capone's partner, Jimmy 'Sweet Rolls' Sullivan.
9780312855963 | Forge, March 1, 1998, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Psychic Nuala Ann McGrail and Dermot Coyne are only weeks away from their wedding when Nuala experiences a vision of a past wrong that needs to be righted, this one involving the mysterious death of Al Capone's famous rival, Jimmy 'Sweet Rolls' Sullivan,and a secret that someone will do anything to keep hidden
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9780812577709 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, December 1, 1998), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Psychic Nuala Ann McGrail and Dermot Coyne are only weeks away from their wedding when Nuala experiences a vision of a past wrong that needs to be righted, this one involving the mysterious death of Al Capone's famous rival, Jimmy 'Sweet Rolls' Sullivan,and a secret that someone will do anything to keep hidden
When the male lead of 'Carmen' dies during the opening night performance, detective Jeremy Ransom and friend Emily Charter investigate the opera company's shaky financial situation, the cast members, and the opera company's diva.
Hardcover:
9780312262570 | Minotaur Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: When the male lead of 'Carmen' dies during the opening night performance, detective Jeremy Ransom and friend Emily Charter investigate the opera company's shaky financial situation, the cast members, and the opera company's diva.
Miscellaneous:
9780312276430 | 1 edition (Minotaur Books, November 11, 2000), cover price $6.99
Hardcover:
9780786224548 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 2000), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Caterers Jane and Shelly are pleased as punch to host a lavish wedding in the old monastery, but when a sudden thunderstorm knocks out the electricity, murder breaks the guests' nuptial spell, and Jane steps in to investigate.
9780380975709 | Twilight, October 1, 1999, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Caterers Jane and Shelley are pleased as punch to host a lavish wedding in the old monastery, but when a sudden thunderstorm knocks out the electricity, murder breaks the guests' nuptial spell, and Jane steps in to investigate
Paperback:
9780380794508, titled "Groom With a View: A Jane Jeffry Mystery" | Avon Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: Caterers Jane and Shelley are pleased as punch to host a lavish wedding in the old monastery, but when a sudden thunderstorm knocks out the electricity, murder breaks the guests' nuptial spell, and Jane steps in to investigate.
Hardcover:
9780385312301 | Delacorte Pubns Inc, December 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: English professor and occasional sleuth Beth Austin delves into her mother's long-hidden, treacherous love triangle
Paperback:
9780440217763 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, January 1, 2000), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: English professor and occasional sleuth Beth Austin delves into her mother's long-hidden, treacherous love triangle
Hardcover:
9780802732453 | Walker & Co, January 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When veteran Chicago police detective Jeremy Ransom fails to crack his latest case--the murder of a man with no known enemies--he teams up with seventy-something Emily Charters, who believes she has the clue he needs to solve the crime
Paperback:
9780373262823 | Reprint edition (Worldwide Library, August 1, 1998), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Chicago police detective Jeremy Ransom is frustrated by the lack of clues in the case of a murder victim who had no enemies, until septuagenarian amateur sleuth Emily Charters uncovers a link to a little theater production.
Hardcover:
9780786210497 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1997), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: At the annual Pea Festival, Regina Price Palmer--the innovative director of the Snellen Museum--is shot to death during a noisy reenactment of a Civil War battle.
9780380973231 | Avon Books, November 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: When the annual Pea Festival at the Snellen Museum is disrupted by the fatal shooting of its director, amateur sleuth Jane Jeffry wonders if the museum staff's plans to upgrade are related to the killing
Hardcover:
9780312155414 | St Martins Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey and the other members of her convent find a connection between the victims of a serial killer wreaking havoc in suburban Chicago
A mystery complemented with illustrations and photographs from the nineteenth century serves up the story of Sadie Greenstreet and her husband, a Pinkerton detective, as they set out to solve a murder on a Mississippi riverboat.
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Hardcover:
9780312155261 | St Martins Pr, July 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Sadie Greenstreet and her husband, a nineteenth-century Pinkerton detective, set out to solve a mystery on a Mississippi riverboat
Only the missing Anita can explain the bizarre links between the union, the mob, and big business, and investigator V.I. Warshawski discovers that she has to act fast because she is not the only one looking for Anita. (Mystery).
Hardcover:
9780816154555 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, August 1, 1992), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Hired by the head of Chicago's biggest bank to find his son's missing girlfriend, private investigator V.
9780385302609 | Reprint edition (Delacorte Pr, February 1, 1991), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Hired by the head of Chicago's biggest bank to find his son's missing girlfriend, private investigator V.
Paperback:
9781562800048 | Naiad Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Black businesswoman Virginia Kelly is called in by her business school classmate, Beverly, when Bev's lover is found dead in back of a lesbian bar
Hardcover:
9780312046026 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Offering shelter to Sister Mary Magdalene--the daughter of a shady Chicago businessman in town to testify in a murder investigation--Sister Mary Theresa Dempsey is soon investigating her colleague's murder when she turns up dead in a hotel bathtub
Product Description: First Edition. Inscribed by author on front fly "To Judy/ I hope you like me/in mis disguise-/Monica Quill means/ pen name -/ Ralph McInerny". A Fine copy in a VG dust jacket that haslight wear at the spine tips and one tiny, half centimeter, closed edge tear...read more
Hardcover:
9780312023089 | St Martins Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: First Edition.
Hardcover:
9780814909263 | Vanguard Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $14.95
Sister Mary Teresa is called in to investigate when one of her former students becomes involved in murder
Hardcover:
9780814908990 | Vanguard Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Sister Mary Teresa is called in to investigate when one of her former students becomes involved in murder
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