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Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe's own family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Everyone, in fact, seems to believe this except a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe's.
2) Wilderness
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Newman began to run after Karl. He had closed the gap. He felt stronger, as if he could run on at this pace until he grew old and died. Karl stedied himself and aimed the .45 with both hands. He heard another click as Karl squeezed the trigger in a kind of blind panic. Newman laughed loudly and Karl heard him; it was an explosion of mirthless and savage sounds. "It's empty, you son of a 'b....' It's empty and I'm coming!"
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"Unoccupied and unsupervised while mother is working, the children of widowed crime writer Marion Carstairs find diversion wherever they can. So when the kids hear gunshots at the house next door, they jump at the chance to launch their own amateur investigation--and after all, why shouldn't they? They know everything the cops do about crime scenes, having read about them in mother's novels. They know what her literary detectives would do in such...
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Mark Twain mysteries volume 3
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Working with the great Mark Twain is a job Wentworth Cabot relishes - especially when it includes a first-class boat trip, a visit to Europe, and a steady paycheck. But Cabot hopes his third adventure with the renowned author won't involve any murders...
The genial company of Twain's friend Rudyard Kipling seems to guarantee smooth sailing. A German prince, a pretentious Italian art critic, and a rich young lout from Philadelphia are nuisances to...
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2014.
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The #1 internationally bestselling thriller, and ingenious book within a book, about the disappearance of a 15-year-old New Hampshire girl and, 30 years later, a young American writer's determination to clear his mentor's name--and find the inspiration for his next bestseller. August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods before she disappears; the day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. Thirty-three...
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Mark Twain mysteries volume 1
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There was a ghastly murder in New York City, and Mark Twain's address was in the dead man's pocket. But even more alarming was that Twain had just received a message sent by an old friend from his riverboat days - and the handwriting matched the note found on the corpse.
So with his new secretary, Wentworth Cabot, Twain caught a steamboat bound for New Orleans. On board were all matter of people - wealthy tourists and old river rats, literary amateurs...
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Crumley volume 01
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A naive young writer and a world-weary detective delve into the pathetic pasts of the victims of a series of bizarre homicides in Venice, California.
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Robin Paige Victorian-Edwardian mysteries volume 1
Victorian mystery volume 01
Victorian mysteries volume 01
Victorian mystery volume 01
Victorian mysteries volume 01
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"Kathryn Ardleigh, an outspoken, free-thinking American, accepts employment with a kindly maiden aunt living in England and finds herself investigating a mysterious death at an archaeological site and two other murders much closer to home."--from NoveList.
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Crime with the classics volume 4
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"Professor Emily Cavanaugh has left Windy Corner behind and is back at Reed College on her sabbatical, determined to finish writing her book on Dostoevsky. She is soon reunited with one of her promising students, Daniel Razumov, as well as familiar faces on the teaching staff - her friend, Marguerite Grenier, her half-brother, Oscar Lansing, the abrasive division chair, Richard McClintock, and the predatory Taylor Curzon. Known for her relentless...
12) Grace notes
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2002.
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Early in her marriage, Grace Loring became the victim of her husband's unpredictable rages. Taking her infant daughter, Grace fled to the safety of her brother Gus's home in Vermont. Now, Grace is a successful author with her own web site. Accustomed to abused women writing to ask for advice, Grace is contacted by a troubled young woman named Stephanie Baine. When Stephanie's e-mails abruptly stop, Grace fears the worst. Then the e-mails resume, and...
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[2000]
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Blends history and imagination in a novel in which American author O'Henry is drawn back into his past when he returns to Texas to confront the solution to a series of murders that took place when he was a young man in Austin--a killing spree that claimed the life of the woman he loved.
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