Historical Mystery
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Of Human Bondage
by W Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, although Maugham stated, "This is a novel, not an autobiography, though much in it is autobiographical, more is pure invention. " Maugham, who had originally planned to call his novel Beauty from Ashes, finally settled on a title taken from Spinoza's Ethics
Death Of a Dude
by Rex Stout
Death of a Dude is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, published by the Viking Press in 1969.
The Razor's Edge
by W Somerset Maugham
The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset
Maugham, first published by Doubleday Doran in the United States in
1944, relates the experiences of a World War I pilot, Larry Darrell,
who chooses to embrace a counter-cultural lifestyle as a way of
dealing with his PTSD, though the syndrome is of course not
identified as such in the book. This book challenges the cultural
ideals of the 1940s, and disregards the stereotype of the returning
military hero. Some controversy surrounded the publication of this
book because... Read more about this item
Maugham, first published by Doubleday Doran in the United States in
1944, relates the experiences of a World War I pilot, Larry Darrell,
who chooses to embrace a counter-cultural lifestyle as a way of
dealing with his PTSD, though the syndrome is of course not
identified as such in the book. This book challenges the cultural
ideals of the 1940s, and disregards the stereotype of the returning
military hero. Some controversy surrounded the publication of this
book because... Read more about this item
The Orenda
by Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden’s first two novels won virtually every prize that Canada has to offer. Three Day Road (2005): the Roger’s Writers Trust Prize; the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year; the Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year; the Libris Book of the Year; and the Amazon/Canada First Novel Award. Through Black Spruce (2008): the Scotiabank Giller Prize; the Libris Book of the Year; the Libris Author of the Year. In 2012, Boyden was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II...
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My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne Du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier Rebecca, it is a mystery-romance, largely set on a large estate in Cornwall.
Dragon's Lair
by Sharon Kay Penman
The long-awaited third novel in Sharon Kay Penman's much-loved medieval mystery series.July 1193: Richard Lionheart, eldest and most favored son of Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitane, languishes in an Austrian dungeon, held for ransom by the Holy Roman Emperor. Lusting after the crown in England, his brother John plots with his country's bitterest foe, King Philippe of France, to see to it Richard never leaves Austria alive. But the Queen has already begun to meet the ransom demands, and it is only a...
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The Moon and Sixpence
by W Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in episodic form by the first-person narrator as a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle aged English stock broker who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist.
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
An orphaned young woman working as a maid is swept off her feet by a wealthy widowed Englishman, and quickly married him. But when she arrives at his estate she learns she pales in comparison with his seemingly perfect deceased first wife Rebecca, especially in the eyes of the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers. When Rebecca’s body is found on her shipwrecked boat the dark secrets held by the husband are discovered as well. Rebecca has had many adaptations in film, radio, and television,...
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The History Of the Kings Of Britain
by Geoffrey Of Monmouth
The Historia Regum Britanniae is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written c.1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years, beginning with the Trojans of Homer's Iliad founding the British nation and continuing until the Anglo-Saxons assumed control of Britain around the 7th century. It is one of the central pieces of the Matter of Britain.
Name Of the Rose, The
by Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose, a novel by Umberto Eco, is a historical whodunnit — a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327. It is an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. First published in Italian in 1980 under the title Il nome della rosa, it appeared in 1983 in an English translation by William Weaver.
Historical Mystery Books & Ephemera
North Star Conspiracy
by Monfredo, Miriam Grace
Miriam Grace Monfredo, a former librarian and a historian, lives in Rochester, New York. This is the seventh Seneca Falls Mystery. A previous Seneca Falls Mystery, The Stalking-Horse, was chosen by the Voice of Youth Advocacy as one of 1998’s best adult mysteries for young adults and received a “best” review in Library Journal’s young adult section.
Silver Pigs
by Davis, Lindsey
Lindsey Davis now writes full time. She is the author of eleven Falco novels and one historical love story, A Course of Honour. Two For the Lions won the first CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.From the Hardcover edition.
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
by Henry James
Bantam, New York. 11th paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early...
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$2.93
Accusers, The
by Davis, Lindsey
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, Warner Books, 2004. 368 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$38.00
Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
Harvest/Harcourt, 2003. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good edge wear and corner bumps, bottom edge has small tears, spine crease and nicks.It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.Born a...
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$3.67
The Mosaic Crimes
by Leoni, Giulio
New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2007. . Book Club Edition.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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$17.49
Sharpe's Triumph
by Cornwell, Bernard
Harper Collins, 1999. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 6-STBX-006 Sharpe, Book 2 - Very Good: may show signs of shelf wear, may show signs of reading, including light spine stress, may show signs of normal shelf aging. EX-LIBRARY BOOK - Library Stamps and aging.
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$7.99
SHADOWS IN BRONZE
by Davis, Lindsey
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991. A Marcus Didius Falco mystery. 343 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine - New/Fine/ New in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$14.00
THE ROSE RENT
by Peters, Ellis
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1987. A Brother Cadfael Mystery. 190 pages.. First Edition Second Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$12.00
THE BENEDICTION OF BROTHER CADFAEL
by Peters, Ellis
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press,, 1992. Very slight shelf wear. Slight foxing to top. A large heavy book 2lbs 13 oz. 348 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$11.75
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy
by Greenwood, L. B
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster,, 1986. . First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$19.85
THE ASSASSIN IN THE GREENWOOD
by Doherty, P.C
New York: St. Martin's Press,, 1994. Very minor rubbing and chipping to corners and 1/4 inch closed tear front bottom. In a Brodart mylar protective cover. 217 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Near Fine in Mylar Cover.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$8.75
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Condition: Good minus, red leather binding, gold title on spine, corner bump and spine edge wear, slight ungluing of spine but book still holds together, no dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on inside front cover, writing and underlining on interior pages.An interesting edition from Woolworth's Library circa 1913 based on the previous owner's inscription.After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in...
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$3.67
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Penguin, New York. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, spine has creases and small tear at bottom edge, price sticker on rear cover.In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the compelling characters...
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$1.85
The Orenda
by Joseph Boyden
Penguin, Toronto, 2014. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, slightly bowed, faint creases at spine.In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl's captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In the girl, Snow Falls, he...
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$5.16
The Silver Oar
by Howard Breslin
Perma Books, Montreal, 1956. 2nd printing. Condition: Good plus, slight corner creasing and edge nicks, spine has wear and nicks, back cover has bookstore stamps. 2nd printing.He fought for her virtue so he could have her for himself. Pirates and buccaneers oh my.
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$1.48
Achilles: A Novel
by Elizabeth Cook
Picador, New York, 2003. First edition. Condition: Very good plus softcover, light edge nicks and creasing at spine.From the publisher: Born of god and king and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters among them Hector, Helen, Penthiselaia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared...
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$3.67
The Fate of Princes
by Doherty, P. C
New York: Saint Martin's Press, LLC,, 1991. 192 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$42.00
Downfall of the Gods
by K. J. Parker
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed, numbered, and limited edition; number 766 of 1000 copies.A goddess has to do what a goddess has to do.And in World Fantasy Award winner K.J. Parker's sharply inventive new novella Downfall of the Gods that means everything from soothing supernatural egos to accompanying the argumentative Lord Achias on an epic quest to save his soul...and get her own way.
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$44.51
Captain Cut-Throat
by Carr, John Dickson
Hampton, New Hampshire, U.S.A.: BBC Audiobooks America,, 1996. Slight bump to bottom front near spine and several tiny indentations in bottom front. . Re-issue.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$12.00
The Heir of Douglas: Being a New Solution to the Old Mystery of the Douglas Cause
by De La Torre, Lillian
Knopf, 1952-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Good Plus. 8x5x1. Very Good Plus First Edition in Good Plus dust jacket. Binding is tight, pages are clean. Jacket has shelf wear, chipping, and a couple of small tears. Will ship in archival quality Brodart jacket.
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$23.06$18.45
THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER
by Rubenfeld, Jed
New York: Henry Holt and Company,, 2006. 371 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$9.85
THE MASK OF RA
by Doherty, P.C
New York: St. Martin's Griffin,, 1999. 244 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$12.75
Godless Man, The
by Doherty, Paul
London: Robinson (an imprint of Constable & Robinson),, 2002. 303 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$16.45
SATAN'S FIRE
by Doherty, P.C
New York: St. Martin's Press,, 1996. Slight flaw to top of ffep and fold on half title page. In a Brodart mylar protective cover. 250 pages.. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Fine/Fine in Mylar Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$9.45
The Tolls of Death
by Jecks, Michael
United Kingdom: Headline Book Pub Ltd, 2004. 392 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition First Printing.. A Hardbound Book. Very Fine/New/Very Fine/New in Mylar. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Trade Book Not Price Clipped.
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$34.00
Eugenie Grandet
by Honore de Balzac
Penguin Classics, New York, 1985. 11th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, faint crease along front cover, underlining, highlighting, and notes in ink on several pages."Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?"This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie Humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked...
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$1.85
