Search Results: Mystery & Suspense - Amateur Detectives/Sleuths from Fully Booked

New York: HarperPaperbacks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996. Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Author of Cooking Up Trouble and Too Many Cooks. SYNOPSIS: A DOUBLE DOSE OF DEATH Food columnist Angie Amalfi has it all--brains, beauty, and a cooking talent that can tickle anyone's taste buds. While she's wondering if it's time to cut the wedding cake with her deliciously handsome detective boyfriend Paavo Smith, he becomes obsessed with a grisly homicide that has claimed two female victims. So Angie has to shake off her oven mitts to help track down the murderer. But the killer has other plans for Angie, and she becomes the next target of a vendetta that stretches from the dining rooms of San Francisco's elite to the seedy Tenderloin. This time Angie really is in hot water--but if anyone can take the heat, she can. San Francisco native Joanne Pence… Read More

New York: A Signet Book Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc., 1999. Previous Owner Markings (Check Mark Neatly Inked to Title List in Front Matter); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. NATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR. SUB-TITLE: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery. SYNOPSIS: Antiquarian book dealer Bernie Rhodenbarr jumps at the chance to appraise wealthy Gordon Onderdonk's private library. Not only will the assignment earn him a little extra cash, it will put him inside one of the most luxurious apartment buildings in the city--a choice opportunity for this part-time thief. And Bernie can't help but notice the priceless Mondrian hanging on the wall of Onderdonk's posh pad... So when he must come up with a Mondrian as ransom for his best friend's kidnapped cat, Bernie makes a covert return trip to the apartment, only to discover… Read More

Don Mills: Totem Crime - Collins Publishers, 1986. Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Christmas in Adelaide promises to be a pleasant vacation for Andrew Basnett, retired professor of botany and amateur sleuth. But the shadow of an unsolved murder hangs over the lives of his hosts, Tony and Jan Gardiner. The police still suspect Jan of her first husband's murder and it doesn't help when a second killing takes place under the same bizarre circumstances. What can a guest do in such a case but try to clear his hostess and solve the crime? - and - Andrew Basnett, that endearing professor of botany who has discovered in retirement a talent for solving crime, decides to accept an invitation from a former student, Tony Gardiner, to spend Christmas with him and his newly wedded wife in Adelaide, where, so Andrew observes, he has heard more bizarre murders have happened than… Read More

All of the books in the lots are used (some moreso than others). Most are in good to very good condition, while some may be a little better, or a little worse. Lots may contain some ex-library books (with the usual stickers and markings) and some of the books may have store price stickers on their covers. This lot contains the following: 1. A Culinary Mystery #2 Dying for Chocolate; ISBN: 0-553-56024-7. 2. A Culinary Mystery #5 Killer Pancake; ISBN: 0-553-57204-0. 3. A Culinary Mystery #9 Tough Cookie; ISBN: 0-553-57830-8. Extra shipping charges will be required to send this Book Lot to any destination not within Canada or the United States, due to its size and weight.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. In some families, reunions can be murder... Dorothy Cannell, Award-winning author of The Widows Club and Mum's the Word. SUB-TITLE: An Epicurean Mystery. BOOK NUMBER: 29195-5. SYNOPSIS: In the delectable debut that earned her instant acclaim, award-winning author Dorothy Cannell serves up a murder mystery to be savoured... Ellie Simons longs to be thin--and married. But with her single-minded passion for eclairs and clotted cream, her prospects on both counts seem dim. That's why the summons to attend a family reunion at the old ancestral home is about as welcome as a snakebite. How can she show up with her embarrassingly full figure in her humble unmarried state and keep her chins up? Enter Bentley T. Haskell of Eligibility Escorts, a… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1995. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped. As every woman knows, some problems don't go away by themselves... Dorothy Cannell, Award-winning author of The Thin Woman and Femmes Fatal. SYNOPSIS: Now, Dorothy Cannell, award-winning author of Femmes Fatal and the beloved The Thin Woman, serves up the ubiquitous mother-in-law joke family style--with death for the punch line... Nothing like a live-in mother-in-law to reduce a woman to the role of junior housemaid. That's what Ellie Haskell discovers when her husband's parents have a row in the midst of their anniversary dinner, and mother Magdalene seeks refuge in Ellie's guest bedroom. Suddenly Ellie is being driven round the bend by the woman's constant demands. Thank goodness for the other wives--who also suffer from the age-old mother-in-law curse. A chance meeting down at the Dark Horse pub… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1996. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Love can be a very dangerous thing. Award-winning author of How to Murder Your Mother-in-Law, Dorothy Cannell. SYNOPSIS: With delicious--and deadly--wit, award-winning author Dorothy Cannell serves up a mystery to swoon for... Any day now, stay-at-home mum Ellie Haskell plans to slim down, kick the romance-reading habit, and resume her career. But not today, for when she arrives for the Chitterton Fells Library League meeting, she stumbles upon a corpse: Miss Bunch, the librarian, lies sprawled next to an open copy of The Dream Lover. Could she have been a victim of the library ghost, a man with a grudge against the romantic novels that kept his daughters forever holding out for the perfect suitor? It is a question that haunts Ellie--especially when a sexy male romance cover model hits town and… Read More

Collins fontana books, 1959. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Oliver Thornton retired from the post-war world he couldn't face to devote himself to social work in London's East End - until the day he discovered a body in a derelict air-raid shelter and found himself involved in a fantastic new world of mystery and intrigue.. First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Toronto: A Signet Book - the Penguin Group Penguin Books Canada Light Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Moderate Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: A Murder, She Wrote Mystery. BOOK NUMBER: AE 9475. SEASONAL ASSOCIATION: Christmas. TV TIE-IN: Based on the Universal television series Created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson & William Link. SYNOPSIS: A SLAY RIDE FOR SANTA Jessica Fletcher unwraps a deadly puzzle when she sets out to discover who killed "Santa Claus" - a.k.a. her neighbor Rory Brent, who played St. Nick at the town's yearly Christmas Eve celebration. Cabot Cove, Maine's most famous mystery writer had been planning on spending a cozy Christmas at home, but murder never takes a holiday. Brent was found shot to death on his farm, and there will be no peace on earth until his killer is found. Everyone assumes the culprit is Brent's longtime… Read More