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Ah, it's an academic conference, with all the egos, the scandals, the terrifyingly petty squabbles on display. Well....perhaps not so petty. Professor Andrew Basnett has returned to his old university for a meeting of the Botanical Association, an event that should be entirely benign, except that he can't help being just a little curious about Carl Judd, an artist who was murdered here just two years ago. And, of course, about Stephen Sharland, who's in prison for the murder, only no one thinks he did it, not even Judd's widow.The rumors are flying, the tongues are wagging, and then the only witness to the crime? He gets murdered, too! It's all too exciting--no, sorry, too terrible, too terrible for words. Thank heavens Andrew Basnett is on hand to weed out the gossip and dig for the taproot of truth.

"Virginia Freer's elderly friend has died, the will seems to have prompted both theft and murder, and the situation is further complicated when Virginia's cad of a husband reappears"--

"A Felony & Mayhem mystery"--Title page verso.

If Andrew Basnett were a savvy mystery reader rather than a retired professor of botany, he would know that an invitation to spend Easter weekend at the Berkshire estate of a wealthy distant relative always involves at least one murder. This one delivers a death threat, an imminent disinheritance, a theft, and two corpses--good thing the quiet professor is around to suss out the family's secrets.

England in the chilly winter of 1902 is captive to a new craze: Mediums and psychics. No surprise, Denton has his doubts; nevertheless, he's agreed to write a book about ghosts and hauntings, and has taken himself to Naples, Italy. Napoli may be bella, but it offers Denton only boredom and frustration, until a dead body shows up to make life interesting.

It's 1901, and with the Boer War raging, England's air is crackling with political intrigue. But it's not South Africa that is on everyone's lips. Rather, it's The Jewish Question: The armies of Antisemitism are on the march, even as the call to Zionism echoes ever more loudly through London's East End. It's all largely academic for Denton until his neighbor is murdered, and signs point to the growing conflict between the Jews and those who hate them. So Denton yet again sticks his American nose into England's business. And he keeps it there, even as the price for asking questions grows higher every day.

A U.S. Senator is found murdered with a machete on the grounds of a golf club in the Caribbean. The owners of a nearby modest hotel on the island of St. Matthews call their friends, Inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife Emmy, to investigate.

Denton comes to the aid of a damsel in distress, taking him deep into London's "bohemian" quarters.

Denton, a celebrated American author, investigates the murder of a prostitute at the turn of 20th century in London.

Henry Tibbett pursues the murder of a small-time gambler which seems improbably related to a conflict between two newly-formed African nations. The investigation takes Henry from England to the Netherlands and into the world of international conflict resolution.

"While Karl Alberg contents with a multitude of policing problems in the small town of Sechelt, businessman Gordon Murphy is set on winning Alberg's girlfriend's heart, and will go to disturbing lengths to do so." --

Even though the police insist that Judith Hayes's friend, George, killed himself--after all, several people saw him jump, right in front of the moving train--Judith is not convinced. First in a duo of mysteries featuring this tough and appealing heroine.

Judith Hayes has landed an interview with a super-reclusive billionaire, but before she can talk to him, he dies of apparent natural causes--or were they? The search for the real story takes Judith and her policeman boyfriend from New York to Bermuda to Paris and, finally, to Hungary, childhood home of the dead billionaire.

It's 1941 and San Francisco is pulsing with excitement. For Cameron Ferris, newly arrived from Tiny Town, Oregon, a seat on the sidelines is thrilling enough. But then her life takes a turn: There's a strange man living in her apartment, kidnappers hanging out on the fire-escape, and all traces of her life have been scrubbed clean. Who is Cameron Ferris? And what can she do to foil a gang of kidnappers?

Karl Alberg was a big-city cop before moving to the "Sunshine Coast" of Canada. Yet he is stumped by a murder in the sweet little town he now polices: A woman has been found, propped against a tree, her pretty face scrubbed clean, and her slender neck slit from one side to the other. No one knows who she is, let alone what happened. And as the investigation progresses, the clues begin to point in the direction of someone Alberg is not happy to have on the suspect list.

World War II is over but Hooper Taliaferro is still in Africa, this time in Cabinda, a tiny Portuguese colony with gaily painted buildings and a history of slave-trading. Hoop should have a pleasant stay at the home of the local administrator, but when one of the other guests is murdered, Hoop calls in Dr. Mary Finney, the Miss Marple of the tropics. As usual, the formidable Dr. Finney has both stellar sleuthing skills and a .45 in her necessaries bag.

Dov Taylor, an unhappy former cop, is summoned by a local rabbi to help solve a murder in the Hassidic community. Why Dov? Some hundred-odd years ago, his ancestor was a famous Polish mystic, and the rabbi believes this ancestry might help Dov see what others cannot. This is a very unusual job for Dov, but it's not like he has a lot going on in his life. This extraordinary, deeply unusual mystery was shortlisted for the Edgar in 1994.

This last mystery in the "Henry Gamadge" series set in 1940s New York was originally published in 1951. Henry must help Rena Austen, newly wed, who has decided her marriage was a big mistake, and has fled her husband's gloomy Upper East Side house in fear for her life.

It's 1956 and Inspector Ted Stratton must investigate the murder of a young man in London who had just recently left the Foundation for Spiritual Understanding, a new age cult based in Suffolk. Traveling to Suffolk, Inspector Stratton encounters a community of fervent believers led by an enigmatic, charismatic leader, and a femme fatale with a shady past.

"First UK edition (as A Capital Crime) (Quercus): 2010."

The good ship Cape Farewell is steaming out to sea, with a passenger-list and crew fairly littered with the shifty, the twitchy, the peculiar, and the up-to-no-good. Arguably the up-to-no-goodest is a strangler with a romantic streak: He likes to leave his ladies with a flower and a charming little song. Alleyn boards the Cape at Portsmouth, determined that no one else is going to get strangled on his watch.

Blotto and Twinks travel to America! Specifically, they travel to Chicago (and this would be during the Prohibition years) in the hopes of marrying Blotto off to an American heiress and thus saving Tawcester Towers from financial ruin. Thankfully, Twinks is around to nose out the dirty undertakings of the heiress's father, a meat-packing magnate and Chicago mob associate.

The unspeakably wealthy (and generally unspeakable) Jonathan Royal has decided to throw a party and, just for fun, has studded the guest-list with people who loathe one another. When a blizzard imprisons them all in Royal's country house, murder ensues. In true Christie-esque tradition, there are nearly as many suspects as there are potential victims. Eventually, Inspector Alleyn makes his way through the snow to put things right.

Nothing will poison the present like lies from the past. Sisters Charlotte and Jennifer have a history of "amusing" misunderstandings about attempted suicide. Their granny, Bertha, is wrapped in memories of London in the 1920s, when she and her sister, Jemima, brought new meaning to betrayal. Bridging the two, Bertha's daughter, Deirdre, is shaped by the night a Nazi bomb destroyed the entire street, and uncovered one of those poisonous lies.