Penguin USA. 11/01/1989. Reissue. 154 pgs. Kaspar Utz, an obsessive collector of fine Meissen porcelain in Communist Prague, is so devoted to his china that, when given the opportunity to defect to the West, he refuses--bound by his acquisitiveness even more than by the repressive regime. Chatwin's novel is a portrait not only of a driven man but of the Cold War world in Eastern Europe, which is meticulously described. Originally published at $15.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/1995. Quitman O'Neill is the consumate collector and salesman of classic automobiles, but when on a whim he pockets a rare 1964 silver dollar, he lands himself in the path of Lyman, an extremely avaricious collector of coins who is not above hiring hit-man Lester VanDyk to track O'Neill down. Originally published at $20.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/1998. 197 pgs. Originally published at $20.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/2002. Reprint. 344 pgs. On a quest for a copy of a legendary 18th-century French text called ROSIER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, a book collector known only as Mr. Mee gets introduced to the Internet, where he discovers that life includes more than just rare books. Mr. Mee's story is juxtaposed with a few others: a French literature professor who lusts after a student, and two copyists who are working on the encyclopedia back in the 18th century. And bits of the encyclopedia itself are also included--excerpts that are uncannily relevant to life 200 years after they were written. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/2001. 173 pgs. A woman who collects antique fountain pens meets a widower who is a collector of binoculars and whose life is defined by accidents, including his first wife's death, which becomes increasingly mysterious. Originally published at $11.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 12/01/2002. Reprint. 288 pgs. A novel that takes place in a gloomy mansion, home of the now-dead Henry Craxton Sr., a supplier to museums of stuffed and preserved animals. the cast of characters includes the predatory Henry Craxton, Jr; Ellen Griswood, the housekeeper; her lovely daughter, Peg; a widowed groundskeeper; various eccentric servants; and a scandalous flapper (the year is 1927). Originally published at $13.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Macmillan Pub Ltd. 09/01/1997. Reissue. Originally published at $8.99 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 06/01/1986. Originally published at $18.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 09/01/1995. Rollie Zerbs is retired, and through an eccentric poetry project involving a souped-up typewriter and the fish of the Mississippi River, he has become La Porte, Missouri's most famous resident oddball. His grandson, Cooper, returns to La Porte to help him. Together, they attempt to sell a rare and antique baseball card so Rollie can get in-home care, and so Cooper and his high-school sweetheart, Charlotte, can revive an abandoned restaurant and bring some commerce into town. The two men and Charlotte journey to Chicago to a collectors' convention, where they are beset by not one, but several homicidal baseball-card collecting maniacs. Originally published at $10.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Warner Books Inc. 01/01/1997. A coming-of-age novel about a collector of strange objects, Michael Kirby, who has the ability to see the amazing worlds hidden beneath the banality of everyday life. Originally published at $13.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 08/01/1998. Reprint. 370 pgs. Russet-haired Laura Sutherland has spent her whole life inexplicably drawn to mirrors, sensing that someday she would find the answer to an unknown question reflected in the glass. One summer day, she attends an auction at the Kilbourne estate and acquires a mirror which holds a true mystery--one that will link her to the Kilbourne family forever. Originally published at $7.50 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 06/01/2004. Reprint. 320 pgs. A search for a puppet takes on epic proportions in this wacky mystery. Taxidermy collector Garth Carson is browsing through a dusty, cutesy antique store for items of his trade, when he is stopped in his tracks by the sight of a stuffed squirrel turned into a puppet. It's Pipsqueak the Nutty Nut, the centerpiece of Garth's favorite 1950s children's TV show. The store owner is adamant that she's not giving up the squirrel, and five minutes later, proves her resolve in a gun battle with a biker who also seems intent on acquiring Pipsqueak. Before he knows it, Garth and his girlfriend Angie are off on a quest for the stuffed squirrel, encountering various bizarre and sinister personages en route. Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 12/01/1994. Nicholson's comic novel about collectors is a classic tale of obsession. Originally published at $21.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 05/31/2005. 352 pgs. In PIPSQUEAK, Brian Wiprud's first off-the-wall mystery starring New York taxidermy dealer Garth Carson, Carson engaged in a dangerous chase after a stuffed squirrel. In this second installment, the object of contention is a stuffed albino crow encased inside a jar, a birthday present that Carson bought for his girlfriend, Angie. Apparently, there are a number of parties with such a strong interest in the crow that they're willing to do anything to get it--including robbery and murder. Originally published at $6.99 You save 73% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 05/30/2006. 358 pgs. The fifth present-day police procedural starring San Francisco police detective Kate Martinelli will definitely appeal to fans of author Laurie R. King’s other series, early 20th-century mysteries with Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes. THE ART OF DETECTION concerns Philip Gilbert, an extraordinarily devoted collector of Holmes-related material, whose untimely death bears an eerie similarity to a murder described in a valuable manuscript owned by Gilbert, a previously unpublished Sherlock Holmes story allegedly written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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