Stephanie Barron

Hardcover book with dustjacket in excellent condition 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

The author of the acclaimed Jane and the Barque of Frailty returns with an enthralling suspense novel centered around Queen Victorias troubled court--and a secret so dangerous it could topple thrones.

A Flaw in the Blood

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Georgette Heyer

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

An unusual case begins for Inspector Hannasyde when a corpse is found in the stocks on an English village green.

Death in the Stocks

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Beatriz Williams

Lauren Willig

Karen White

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White--a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day.

"Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies...This crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the price of one."--Publishers Weekly (starred review"

2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America's gilded class--famous for the lavish "summer cottages" of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia "Lucky" Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse.

1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport's elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she's hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall.

1958: Lucia "Lucky" Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmother--the American-born Princess di Conti--fled Mussolini's Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadn't seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansion's old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past.

As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever....

The Lost Summers of Newport

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Javier Sierra

Alabama

An elaborately woven novel of intrigue about one of America's most curious and enduring legends -- the enigma of the Lady in Blue

In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a Spanish nun capable of powers of "bilocation," or the ability to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, young journalist Carlos Albert is driven by a blinding snowstorm to the little Spanish town of Ágreda, where he stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent founded by this same legendary woman. Intrigued by her rumored powers, he delves into finding out more. These threads, linked by an apparent suicide, eventually lead Carlos to Cardinal Baldi, to an American spy, and ultimately to Los Angeles, where Jennifer Narody unwittingly holds the key to the mystery that the Catholic Church, the U.S. Defense Department, and the journalist are each determined to decipher -- the Lady in Blue.

The Lady in Blue

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Iain Pears

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

At his London home, John Stone falls out of a window to his death. A financier and arms dealer, Stone was a man so wealthy that he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents. Did he jump, was he pushed, or was it merely a tragic accident? His alluring and enigmatic widow hires a young crime reporter to investigate. The story moves backward in time--from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890 and finally to Venice in 1867--and the attempts to uncover the truth play out against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europe's first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century's arms race. Stone's Fall is a tale of love and frailty, as much as it is of high finance and skulduggery. The mixture, then, as now, is an often fatal combination.

Stone's Fall

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Ingram Hargrave

A Hermann Horst Mystery

At twenty-eight, Hermann Horst is the youngest professor of philosophy to grace the marble corridors and richly paneled lecture halls of Austria-Hungary's esteemed University of Vienna. The charismatic young professor's success has been driven in part by personal tragedy: the mysterious death of his only sister. Her fatal obsession with divination and the occult has placed Hermann on a course to scientifically and logically explain the psychology of the occult and those who believe in supernatural powers. The university affords Hermann the resources needed for his research, albeit under the guise of his sanctioned academic coursework. When a letter arrives from Senior Inspector Orczy Géza of the Budapest Gendarme asking for Hermann's help in a murder investigation, Hermann jumps at the opportunity to put his research into practice. The investigation centers on Schattenturm, Shadow Tower in German, an extravagant Neo-Gothic estate built atop the ruins of a medieval fortress. The body of the estate's gardener was found with an ancient war hammer lodged in the back of his skull, at the center of the swirling maze that surrounds the castle's mausoleum. Géza's investigation has been stalled by superstition surrounding the castle: a legend that ghosts and the devil are at work to drive out the family who recently acquired Schattenturm. A convenient story to assist a murderer perhaps, but one that has derailed Géza's efforts all the same. Géza is a no-nonsense veteran of conflicts in Bosnia, but he's at his limit with this investigation and he'll have to learn to trust and confide in Hermann's mentalist methods and knowledge of the occult if the investigation, and his career, are to be saved. The current owners of Schattenturm, the Baum family, acquired the castle under unscrupulous circumstances after establishing a coal mine in the town nearby that exploits the locals and robs the countryside of its peace and beauty. The displaced aristocratic owners, the von Voitsbergs, are still very much a factor in the estate's realm. Hundreds of years of ownership and rule over the area are not easily forgotten, nor has the loss of their dark romantic home been amicably accepted. A handful of long-term servants know everyone's secrets and are willing to take them to the grave, though not necessarily to their own. What lies beneath the black stones of Schattenturm, from the catacombs of the von Voitsberg crypt to terrible acts kept secret for decades, has destroyed lives. The secrets uncovered and the nature of the victim will shake Hermann and the readers, forcing them to question the morality of murder itself and whether some crimes should ever be forgiven.

As Above, So Below

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Manda Collins

Tennessee

An intrepid female reporter matches wits with a serious, sexy detective in award-winning author Manda Collin's fun and flirty historical rom-com, perfect for readers of Evie Dunmore, Julia Quinn, and Tessa Dare! England, 1865: As one of England's most notorious newspaper columnists, Lady Katherine Bascomb believes knowledge is power. And she's determined to inform and educate the ladies of London on the nefarious-and deadly-criminals who are praying on the fairer sex. When her reporting leads to the arrest of a notorious killer, however, Katherine flees to a country house party to escape her newfound notoriety-only to witness a murder on her very first night. And when the lead detective accuses Katherine of inflaming-rather than informing-the public with her column, she vows to prove him wrong. Detective Inspector Andrew Eversham's refusal to compromise his investigations nearly cost him his own career, and he blames Katherine. To avoid bad publicity, his superiors are pressuring him to solve cases quickly rather than correctly. When he discovers she's the key witness in a new crime, he's determined to prevent the beautiful widow from once again wreaking havoc on his case. Yet as Katherine proves surprisingly insightful and Andrew impresses Katherine with his lethal competency, both are forced to admit the fire between them is more flirtatious than furious. But to explore the passion between them, they'll need to catch a killer.

A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem

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Diana Gabaldon

Oklahoma

Eighteenth-century Britain and the Seven Years War form the backdrop for Lord John Grey's quest to uncover the truth about his father's death, a search that leads to deadly peril, personal betrayal, forbidden love, and an encounter with a Jacobite prisoner, Jamie Fraser, who may hold the key to his quest. 150,000 first printing.

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

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Jessica Fellowes

Iowa

A Mystery

The Mitford Murders

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Joan Haslip


Joan Haslip
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971 - Biography & Autobiography - 531 pages
A detailed and sympathetic portrait of Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph and his Belgium consort.

Maximilian and His Empress Carlota

A detailed and sympathetic portrait of Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph and his Belgium consort.

The Crown of Mexico

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South Dakota

Nekesa Afia

Florida

Louise spends her days working at Maggie's Cafe and her nights at the Zodiac, Manhattan's hottest speakeasy. When a girl turns up dead in front of the cafe, Louise is forced to confront something she's been trying to ignore - several local black girls have been murdered over the past few weeks. After Louise's night job gets her arrested, she's given an ultimatum: She can either help solve the case or let a judge make an example of her.

Dead Dead Girls

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#paperback #historicalmystery #fiction #suspensethrillers 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

An Archer Novel

Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, criminal--or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible--plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their worst addictions and fears. Archer's first stop is a P.I. office where he is hoping to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent named Willie Dash. He lands the job, and immediately finds himself in the thick of a potential scandal: a blackmail case involving a wealthy well-connected politician running for mayor that soon spins into something even more sinister. As bodies begin falling, Archer and Dash must infiltrate the world of brothels, gambling dens, drug operations, and long-hidden secrets, descending into the rotten bones of a corrupt town that is selling itself as the promised land--but might actually be the road to perdition, and Archer's final resting place.

A Gambling Man

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#paperback #nazigermany #history #historicalmystery

Massachusetts

The Mystery of Hermann Goerings Suicide

A Sir John Fielding Mystery

Watery Grave

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Emily Brightwell

Paperback has a small crease in back cover. See pics

As her employer, Inspector Witherspoon, attempts to learn more about the apparent suicide of Harlan Westover, Mrs. Jeffries and her staff investigate the matter themselves, subtly pointing the inspector in the right direction.

Mrs. Jeffries Pleads Her Case

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J. I. Baker

Rhode Island

"A novel about the death of Marilyn Monroe"--

The Empty Glass

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#paperback #mystery #fiction #historicalfiction #historicalmystery

The bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun brings the real-life escapades of the famous crime-fighting Kopp sisters to life in this extraordinary novel that is "perfect for book groups" (Booklist). Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp stands up to the "morality" laws of 1916, defending the independent young women in her prison against dubious charges when no one else will. From the patriotic Edna Heustis, who left home to work in a munitions factory, to the sixteen-year-old runaway Minnie Davis, these and other publicly shamed women who were packed off to a state-run reformatory find an unlikely ally in Constance, who uses her authority -- and occasionally exceeds it -- to investigate and defend them at all costs. But it's Constance's sister Fleurette who forces her to reckon with her own ideas of how a young woman should and shouldn't behave. Set against the backdrop of World War I, and drawn from true characters and events, this novel is timeless in its themes of justice and equality, and is sure to delight fans of historical and detective fiction alike.

Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions

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#hardcover #fiction #agathachristie #mystery #colleencambridge #historicalmystery #crime 

Washington

A charming and inventive new historical series introduces an unforgettable heroine in Phyllida Bright, fictional housekeeper for Agatha Christie. When a dead body is found during a house party at the home of Agatha Christie and her husband Max Mallowan, it's up to famous author's head of household, Phyllida Bright, to investigate. With help from the village's handsome physician, Dr. Bhatt, Mr. Dobble, the butler, along with other household staff, Phyllida assembles the clues. Yet, she is all too aware that the killer must still be close at hand and poised to strike again. Author has written under C.M. Gleason. Print run 15,000.

Murder at Mallowan Hall

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The Socialite's Guide To Murder

Book is in excellent condition but colored pages torn out. Photos included above. Previous library book. 

Ohio

Lizzie Pook

"Western Australia, 1886 After months at sea, a slow boat makes its passage from London to the shores of Bannin Bay. The sea is a shocking blue, and gulls float above battered mangrove jetties. From the deck, young Eliza Brightwell and her family eye their strange new home. Here is an unforgiving land where fortune sits patiently at the bottom of the ocean. A land where pearl shells bloom to the size of soup plates. Where men are coaxed into unthinkable places and unspeakable acts by the promise of unimaginable riches. Ten years later, the pearldiving boat captained by Eliza's eccentric father returns after months at sea-without Eliza's father on it. Whispers from the townsfolk point to mutiny or murder. Headstrong Eliza knows it is up to her to discover who, or what, is really responsible. As she searches for the truth, delving beneath the glamorous veneer of south sea pearls, Eliza discovers that, underneath it all, lies a town of sweltering, stinking decay. The sun-scorched streets of Bannin Bay, a place she once thought she knew so well, are teeming with corruption, prejudice and blackmail. How far is Eliza willing to push herself in order to solve the mystery and save the ones she loves? And what family secrets will come to haunt her along the way?"--

Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter

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New Hampshire

#paperback #fiction #mystery #youngadult #roaringtwenties #historicalfiction #historicalmystery #nekesaafia 

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A Flaw in the Blood

Georgette Heyer

Death in the Stocks

Beatriz Williams; Lauren Willig; Karen White

The Lost Summers of Newport

Javier Sierra

The Lady in Blue

Iain Pears

Stone's Fall

Ingram Hargrave

As Above, So Below

Manda Collins

A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem

Diana Gabaldon

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

Jessica Fellowes

The Mitford Murders

Joan Haslip

The Crown of Mexico

Beatriz Williams; Lauren Willig; Karen White

The Lost Summers of Newport

Nekesa Afia

Dead Dead Girls

David Baldacci

A Gambling Man

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The Mystery of Hermann Goerings Suicide

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Watery Grave

Emily Brightwell

Mrs. Jeffries Pleads Her Case

J. I. Baker

The Empty Glass

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Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions

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Murder at Mallowan Hall

S. K. Golden

The Socialite's Guide To Murder

Beatriz Williams; Lauren Willig; Karen White

The Lost Summers of Newport

Lizzie Pook

Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter

Beatriz Williams; Lauren Willig; Karen White

The Lost Summers of Newport

Nekesa Afia

Dead Dead Girls