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$10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles: A Puzzle Lady Mystery
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Stumbling over a murder scene while making a blackmail payment for a young attorney, Cora Felton's efforts to solve the crime put her in the path of a killer who may be targeting her niece and her niece's new baby.
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$30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
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(The Oxford Mark Twain). Bringing together thirty-eight tales and sketches, this volume provides a rare long view of Twain's work, covering virtually his entire career. This book was the last miscellany published in Twain's lifetime. Addenda.
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& Without End
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(New Rochelle, NY). [1968]. 8vo. 1st edition. Lepper p. 125. Some rubbing to d.j. VG/VG.
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'57, Chicago
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A scheming, down-on-his-luck sports promoter, Bobby the Lip tries to come up with a big score by arranging--and fixing--a bout between the reigning heavyweight boxing champ and a young African-American contender, only to find himself caught in a web of corruptions, underworld goons, police probes, and enthusiastic fans. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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'57, Chicago
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Thriller about the syndicate, a heroin deal & fixing a boxing match in 1957 Chicago.
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'80
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Through a series of diary entries, Mary Louise Weeks, a struggling photographer and unwitting social chonicler describes her life in Manhattan in 1980, moving from one lackluster photo session to another as she explores the city in search of inspiration, authenticity, and a reason to go on. A first novel. Original.
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'A' 13-21 (Paris Review Editions)
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8vo. 1st American edition. Minor shelfwear to extremities of cloth, slightly faded along tail edges. Slightest edgewear to d.j., with gentle creasing to extremities, particularly at head of spine. Faint toning to d.j. margins. VG/VG.
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'B' is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)
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Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone.Still business was slow, and even a private investigator has bills to pay. Millhone took the job. It looked routine.Elaine Boldt's wrappings were a good deal flashier than her sister's, but they signaled the same thin…
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'Beowulf' and Other Old English Poems
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Rarely are these works translated by someone who is both a medieval scholar and a poet, and this combination makes for both fidelity to the complexity of the originals and compelling poetry in a modern idiom.
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