Search Results: Mystery from River House Books

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The World's Best Reading)
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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The World's Best Reading)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The World's Best Reading)
Full Leather Hardcover 270 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1987. Handsome black leather boards with 1/4 brown spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear - a small cut on front cover and a small scratch on back cover. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The World's Best Reading)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Full Leather Hardcover 219 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1993. Beautiful brown leather boards with 1/4 brown spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean,… Read More

The Leaphorn & Chee Novels (Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, Coyote Waits)
by Tony Hillerman
Hardcover Cloth 582 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 2005 with corresponding number line. Attractive tan boards with brown buckram 1/8 spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear; bumped corners and a dent on front cover. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few scrapes, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Remainder stripe on bottom edge. Not an ex-library or book club copy.
Tony Hillerman is one of the most revered and honored mystery writers published today. This stunning collection includes the critically acclaimed novels Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time, and Coyote Waits, all of which have been adapted for PBS by producer Robert Redford. This is a must-have anthology from one of the great… Read More

Hardcover Cloth 300 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 1996 with corresponding number line. Handsome black boards with red and yellow embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear - some scraped spots on bottom edge of front and back boards. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
It's 1964. Easy Rawlins has given up the street life that has brought him so much trouble and grief. He's taken on a job as supervising custodian of Sojourner Truth Junior High School in Watts. For two years he's been getting up early and going off to work. He wears nice clothes and puts all his energy-and love-into his job and his adopted children. Easy likes his new life, even though he feels empty and a little bored sometimes. But all that is… Read More

Trade Paperback 380 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition First printing 2004 with corresponding number line. Nice illustrated wraps shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Some shelf wear; a dent to the top edge and some scratches on the back cover. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Signed on title page 'For Veronica, Welcome to the "CLUB"'A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante's continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.Words can bleed.In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields—are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable… Read More

A Study in Scarlet & The Hound of the Baskervilles (The World's Best Reading)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Full Leather Hardcover 301 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1986. Beautiful red leather boards with 1/4 black spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear - a small cut in the cover. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Laid in 4 page World's Best Reading newsletter and six book marks with thank you card.
Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician best known for his stories featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle was a prolific author and his innovative mysteries make him one of the most widely read authors in history. Conan Doyle also wrote The Lost World, which was one of the earliest and most influential works in the Lost World genre of fiction.
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