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Classic Mysteries by Bill James, Margot Arnold, and Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Detective Colin Harpur mysteries, by Bill James
 Easy Streets
“A master at creating chaos, James contains the paranoia through sheer force of style—an ironic idiom of elegant manners, ornate language and seething rage. Nothing vulgar or barbaric, but ... 'tidy' and 'hygienic' and madly funny.” —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times
“Part of what makes this decidedly creepy stuff fascinating is the brilliant prose.” —Washington Post Book Review
$14.95
 Girls
For years Panicking Ralph Ember and Mansel Shale have run profitable drugs empires in peaceful cooperation with each other, and ACC Iles will blind-eye their trade as long as it keeps violence off the streets. But this happy arrangement is threatened by foreign dealers moving in and offering not just drugs, but punters—exploited girls from Eastern Europe.
$23.95
 The Girl with the Long Back
A deliciously witty addition to a classic series, The Girl with the Long Back heightens the urgency and pace of the tantalizing London underworld in which cops and criminals, and all of their clever asides, are sketched in fantastic detail.
$14.95
 Wolves of Memory
A large, carefully plotted “cash-in-transit” raid goes hopelessly awry when armed policemen intervene to seize the perpetrators. Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles are delegated the job of hiding and protecting the informant and his family.
$13.95
 You'd Better Believe It
Harpur's domain is a small seaport city south of London. It's not unusual for the big-town criminals to consider such a spot as easy prey. This time it's Lloyd's branch that's the target. When the heist is postponed, a policeman is killed. As Harpur becomes driven to his limit, he must bypass regulations and settle things once and for all with a vicious crook named Holly. But not necessarily on his own terms.
$14.95
Margot Arnold's Penny Spring and Sir Toby Glendower mystery series
 The Cape Cod Caper
When a mutilated corpse is found in a cranberry bog on the Dimola estate, Penelope Spring is summoned to the Cape.
“A Margot Arnold mystery is always a pleasure . . . She should be better known, particularly since her mysteries are often compared to those of the late Ngaio Marsh.” —Chicago Sun-Times
$12.95
 The Cape Cod Conundrum
Someone has arranged the body of teacher Clara Bacon at her desk in a fashion to direct her discoverers to specific clues.
“Margot Arnold is an honest-to-goodness mystery writer, with a sense of humor to boot.” —Chicago Sun-Times
$12.95
Phoebe Atwoods Taylor's Asey Mayo mystery series
 The Asey Mayo Trio
Phoebe Atwood Taylor was the author of the Asey Mayo mystery series and, under the pseudonym Alice Tilton, the Leonidas Witherall mystery series. She also wrote under the name Freeman Dana.
$10.95
 The Annulet of Gilt
“Asey, what is an annulet?” This innocent query would soon lead to some not-so-innocent questions. And who could predict that before this was over, Asey would be tricked several times over, decoyed, robbed, and baffled.
$10.95
 The Cape Cod Mystery
“These period who-dunnits recall simpler, more carefree times, and sparkle with the Yankee wit and salty idiom of Asey Mayo, a local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody's business.”
—Marilyn Stasio, Mystery Columnist
for the New York Times Book Review
$10.95
 The Criminal C.O.D.
Something must have scared the wits out of Jane Lennox to make her run right in front of Asey Mayo in his brand new Porter Sixteen. Could that something have been the sight of a corpse?
$10.95
 Death Lights a Candle
A house party of men and women has been snowed in—and cut off from the world outside. The host is murdered. Poisoning, the doctor says; probably arsenic. But almost everyone is found to have arsenic among his or her possessions.
$10.95
 Going, Going, Gone
An auction that begins as a treasure hunt ends in murder, and an incredible discovery sends our unlikely detective off on a hunt for a killer.
$10.95
 The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern
“What a treat to have the humor of Asey Mayo available again in the delicious detective fiction of Phoebe Atwood Taylor.” —Otto Penzler, owner, The Mysterious Bookshop, New York City
$10.95
 The Perennial Boarder
The murder at Ye Olde Whale Inn hung on a curious series of chance events: if Ann Joyce and Mrs. Hingham hadn't both been stage-struck; . . . and if a sprained ankle and a load of overdue clams hadn't put Asey Mayo on the scene, matters would have been very different.
$10.95
 Punch With Care
When Asey Mayo happens upon the body of writer Carolyn Barton Boone in an antique railroad car, a punched ticket in her hand, things get interesting.
$10.95
 The Six Iron Spiders
“Another Asey Mayo story is always welcome with its sure-fire combination of Cape Cod atmosphere, well-knit plot, excitement and comedy.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
$10.95
 Vintage Vermont Villainies
$13.95
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