Death in Mermaid lane


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Mystery Women, Volume One (Revised)


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Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.




Mystery Women


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Edgar- and Agatha-nominated author Colleen Barnett here updates her essential reference for readers and writers of mystery, examining women who detect, women as sleuths, and the evolving roles of women in professions and in society.




Death on Allhallowe'en


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Carolus Deene is summoned to a small Kentish village where the presence of a possible coven of witches lends an eerie aura to the presumed "accidental" death of a young local boy a year ago on Hallowe'en. Before his work is completed, Carolus Deene has the answers to this and two other deaths.




Mystery Women


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Silk Stalkings


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This volume provides a comprehensive survey of series characters created by women authors in crime and mystery fiction from 1867 to 1997.




American Machinist


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Piscazzi’s Pizza


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The main thrust of Piscazzi’s Pizza is the hunt for a sadist who rapes and kills women in fictional Cuyahoga City, Ohio. Two friends, reporter Richard Sandrini and police captain Ralph Lee Macintar, search for the killer and each – because of their dysfunctional occupations – keeps information about the homicides from the other. Sandrini becomes a suspect early on, and sexy pizza proprietress Vicki Piscazzi throws a wrench into their friendship. Th e knowledge that Sandrini acquires about the 1970 student shooting exposes a conspiracy that promises to make Kent State University the lead story nationwide for the fi rst time since the 1970s. Mystery, conspiracy, murder, sex, humor, politics, romance, history, religion, philosophy. Piscazzi’s Pizza has the works.