where a good crime C r i m e can be had by all c h r o n i c l e Issue #205 January/february 2003 Rue Morgue Press Classic Mysteries This line is designed to bring back into print those books that were favourites of readers between the turn of the century and 1960. All are trade paperback and priced at $39.95 each. The following constitutes our first shipment: Joanna CANNON: (born 1898, died 1961, English). They 131 York Street Rang Up the Police (154pp) was the first Inspector Guy Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Northeast mystery and published in 1939. When murder Ph (02) 9264 3111 strikes in the quiet English countryside, only Inspector Fax(02) 9264 8993 Northeast from Scotland Yard sees the vital clue. www.abbeys.com.au Glynn CARR: (born 1908, English pseudonym for Frank [email protected] Showell Styles). Death on the Milestone Buttress (187pp A division of Abbey's Bookshops Pty Ltd 1951). A Shakespearean actor and a young English woman ABN 86 000 650 975 turn detective while mountain climbing in Wales. The first in the series. KEY Clyde B CLASON: (born 1903, American). The Man from academic Tibet (212pp 1938). The only witness to the murder was the masks of Tibetan gods in this classic locked room mystery. banking Joan COGGIN: (1898-1980, English). Who Killed the Curate? (157pp 1944). The first in the Lady Lupin Quartet. canine detectives Meet Lady Lupin Lorrimer Hastings, the young, lovely, scatterbrained and kindhearted newlywed wife to the vicar clerical of St Marks Parish in Glanville, Sussex. When the curate is poisoned on Christmas Eve, Lady Lupin turns detective. cosy/malice domestic Her deductions might not always make sense but youll be laughing too hard to care. culinary/food Manning COLES: (pseudonym for Cyril Henry Coles (1898- fbi 1965) and Adelaide Francis Oke Manning (1891-1959) English). Three books featuring the two ghostly Robin feline detectives Hoods James and Charles Latimer and their spectral monkey as they outwit thieves and murderers in a series of forensic ghostly mysteries. Brief Candles (#1 156pp 1954), Happy Returns (#2 156pp 1955) and Come and Go (#3 155pp 1958). horse racing mystery Far Traveller (154pp 1956) is in a similar vein when film- makers shoot at a German castle, they dont realise their star medical is a ghost. Norbert DAVIS: (1909-1949, American) This American writer military was one of the best second-tier pulp magazine writers of the 1930s & 1940s. He was one of the few writers to successfully native american blend the so-called hardboiled story with farcical humour. Both novels feature Doan, a wisecracking private eye and his police procedural unusual sidekick Carstairs, a Great Dane so huge he ought to be considered a new species. The Mouse in the Mountain political/legal (151pp 1943) and Sallys in the Alley (122pp 1943). psychological Elizabeth DEAN: (1901-1985, American). In the 1930s, most women in mystery novels were either menopausal spinsters, private eye deadly sirens, admiring wives or airheaded girlfriends brought along for the ride. Not so Emma Marsh, the thoroughly modern 26-year-old Boston antiques clerk in romantic suspense Elizabeth Deans three detective novels. Murder is a Collectors Item (#1 190pp 1939), Murder is a Serious Business (#2 254pp 1940) and Murder a Mile High (#3 188pp sport 1944). continued back page... spy suspense/thriller AUTHORS NATIONALITY AT END OF BLURB 2 Modern Crime Mike ASHLEY (editor) Nicholas BLINCOE The Mammoth Book of Locked- White Mice 260pp Pb 18.95 Charlotte Vale ALLEN Room Mysteries and Impossible Jamie and Louise look more like twins Grace Notes Crimes 532pp Pb 21.95 than brother and sister. He is 20 and 226pp Pb 22.95 This collection of criminal conundrums should be in college. She is 23 and already Accustomed to abused women are more than whodunits, they are washed-up as a fashion model. But when writing to ask for advice, Grace howdunits and are intended to stretch Jamie travels with Louise to her last is sympathetic when a troubled your powers of deduction to the limits. fashion shows in Milan and Paris, he is young woman named Stephanie Baine (English) suddenly the brother of Europes most contacts her. In the course of their e-mail talked-about model. But then he learns correspondence, Stephanie reveals details Jeanette BAKER Blood Roses 292pp Tp 22.95 what they are talking about. (English) of a nightmarish life: her terrifying Kate Nolan has taken it one day at a Dermot BOLGER abduction as a teenager and the complete time for the past six years believing she The Valparaiso Voyage lack of support from her parents; the can make a difference in the politics of 383pp Pb 21.95 psychological and escalating physical Northern Ireland, believing her children This is the story of Brendan Brogan, who abuse she is now undergoing at the hands will live to see peace in their country. But grew up in a small town outskirts of of her husband. Graces advice is clear 16-year-old Kevin Nolan does not believe Dublin. An unhappy childhood leads to and to the point: Stephanie must do in much any more and despite the efforts an unhappy adulthood. When whatever is necessary to escape this of his mother and sister he turns to others circumstances offer Brogan a chance to madman. (Canadian) for solace. When he is arrested for dealing fake his own death, he seizes the chance David AMBROSE drugs, he and his mother are given a and runs far away to Portugal. But no one The Discreet Charm of Charlie choice: Kevin can go to prison or he can can escape the past entirely. (Irish) Monk (1997) 359pp Pb 18.95 become an informant. (Irish) Anthony BOURDAIN This novel is a blend of mystery, Bobby Gold 119pp Pb 19.95 metaphysics and scientific speculation Robert BARRETT The Ultimate Aphrodisiac Meet Bobby Gold: by night, the that will discretely charm you into a 497pp Pb 18.95 security chief of a mobbed-up New York world of terrifying suspense. Charlie A Brief History of World War III. While an City nightclub, by day, a reluctant bone- Monk is the ultimate superhero. He has Aussie Vietnam veteran enjoys a godlike breaker and enforcer for Eddie Fish, his no conscience. He has no fear. But he also existence growing dope on a tiny old college roommate and best friend. has no memory. 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