“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 Mark’s 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 you’ll 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 don’t 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 Sally’s 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 Dean’s three detective novels. Murder is a Collector’s 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

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As he gets closer to the delightful humour and meticulous iron hand, but trouble arrives with the gang’s leader, Murphy realises their plans research she transports readers to the sleazy software developer who wants to are more ambitious and more deadly than gritty underworld that swallowed new preview a package authored by Meg’s anyone expected... (Irish) immigrants who dreamed of a better life, brother. Harsh words and fights ensue. and gives us the unforgettable heroine Raymond BENSON The resultant murder comes as no Molly Murphy, a resourceful Irish surprise and there are plenty of suspects. Die Another Day Pb 18.95 A James Bond 007 novel. Beginning in woman who lives by her own set of A fearless protagonist, remarkable laws (English) supporting characters, lively action and a the demilitarised zone between North keen wit put this at the top of the list. and South Korea, continuing via Hong Dale BROWN Wings of Fire 593pp Pb 18.95 (American) Kong, Cuba and London, Bond races against time to unmask a traitor and The new Patrick McLanahan novel. Michael ASHER prevent a war of catastrophic Ostracised by the government, the military, Rare Earth 403pp Pb 18.95 consequence. Film tie-in edition. (English) even his own family, Air Force general Rescued by a desert tribe from a brutal Patrick McClanahan is near the end of his Sallie BISSELL attack and now kept captive by them, rope and it is about to get worse. 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CRIME CHRONICLE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 www.abbeys.com.au 3 James Lee BURKE Harlan COBEN Thomas COOK Three Great Novels Tp 29.95 Darkest Fear Tp 29.95 The Interrogation 258pp Tp 29.95 This selection includes Dixie City A Myron Bolitar thriller. Myron never Evan Webb’s mother is dying. He Jam, Burning Angel and Purple Cane saw it coming. A surprise visit from an returns to his hometown in Virginia to be Road. (American) ex-girlfriend is unsettling enough but with her and his sister. The family has for Dana CAMERON Emily Downing’s news brings him to his years shared a secret: that Evan’s violent, Grave Consequences knees. Her son Jeremy is dying and needs alcoholic father was not shot dead by an 357pp Pb 16.95 a bone marrow transplant from a donor intruder in their house, as the outside An Emma Fielding mystery. Emma is who vanished without a trace. 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 4 Judith CUTLER Michael DIBDIN Alan FURST Dying in Discord And Then You Die Blood of Victory 237pp Tp 29.95 308pp Pb 18.95 174pp Pb 19.95 Odessa is the city of Jewish gangsters, Sophie Rivers is in no mood for Aurelio Zen of Rome’s elite Criminalpol birthplace of Trotsky and ace spy Sidney unwelcome distractions. Unfortunately, is back, but nobody’s supposed to know Reilly, a mixture of chicken markets and as a member of the university choir, she is it... After months in hospital recovering Palladian architecture. This is a finding it nigh on impossible to avoid from a bomb attack on his car, Zen is panoramic novel of the 1940s, moving them. 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CRIME CHRONICLE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 www.abbeys.com.au 5 Christine GOFF John GRISHAM Graham HURLEY A Nest in the Ashes The Summons 390pp Pb 19.95 Angels Passing Tp 29.95 212pp Pb 17.95 Ray Atlee is a professor of law at This novel is a massive Dickensian In her first two novels, A Rant of Ravens the University of Virginia. He’s 43, newly trawl through the depths of life in (Pb 17.95) and Death of a Songbird (Pb single and still enduring the aftershocks Portsmouth. With a compactly 15.95), Goff offered a bird’s eye view of of a surprise divorce. He has a younger labyrinthine plot, uniquely human murder in the wilds of Colorado. Now, in brother, Forrest, and a father, once a policemen, a grotesque rogues gallery of her latest birdwatcher’s mystery, she powerful judge, now a sick old man who squalid villains and a shadowy child as reveals that there are more things lurking has retired to the Atlee mansion and anti-hero, it is easily the best thing he has in the trees than birds of prey... become a recluse. When Ray’s father ever written. Its 130,000 words are (American) issues a summons for both sons to return devoted to the events of just one week Sue GRAFTON home to Clanton, to discuss the details of and it’s a breathtaking and harrowing Q is for Quarry 384pp Tp 30.00 his estate, he heads south, to his ride. This is at once an unremittingly A Kinsey Millhone mystery #17. hometown, which he prefers to avoid. realistic fast moving crime thriller and a This is based on an unsolved homicide But the family meeting does not take bleakly moving novel about the price that occurred in 1969, and Grafton’s place. The Judge dies too soon and in children are paying for a society that is in interest in the case has generated doing so leaves behind a shocking secret freefall. (English) renewed police efforts. During the past known only to Ray and perhaps someone Graham HURLEY year, the body was exhumed and a else. (English) The Take Pb 17.95 nationally known forensic artist did the Joseph HANSEN A DI Joe Faraday mystery. facial reconstruction that appears in the The Little Dog Laughed (1986) Faraday’s Management Assistant, closing pages of the book. Both Grafton 183pp Pb 14.95 Vanessa Parry, is dead. Killed in a head- and the dedicated members of the Santa A Dave Brandsetter mystery. Celebrated on car smash. Her funeral is a bitter end Barbara Sheriff’s Department are hoping foreign correspondent, Adam Streeter is to another grim week in the front line of the photograph will trigger memories found shot dead in his elegant LA condo. the ongoing war against Portsmouth’s that may lead to a positive identification. The cops say suicide and so does surging crime wave. And now the (American) Streeter’s blind, teenage daughter. But seemingly untouchable DS Paul Winter, Jean-Christophe GRANGE the company that insured his life thinks master of the scam, has been hurt in a The Stone Council otherwise and sends in their crack death- way he could never have imagined: his 373pp Pb 21.95 claims investigator. (American) wife has cancer. It is inoperable and she As a child Diane Thiberge was the victim Gary HARDWICK has barely three months to live. Paul of an assault. Now aged 30, she is an Color of Justice384pp Pb 21.50 Winter has only one instinct: to lash out. ethnologist specialising in the study of Raised in the bosom of the inner Hurley’s love for his hometown and predatory animals and a woman adept in city, white Detroit Homicide cop Danny uniquely close links with the local police the martial arts. She believes she has at Cavanaugh speaks and acts with the force make for a crime series that reeks of last found a meaning and purpose to her unmistakable attitude of a black man. But authenticity. It gets to the core of the life when she decides to adopt a five- the savage murders of affluent African- society that we have made for ourselves year-old Thai boy, Liu-San, whom she Americans are plunging him into the while never losing sight of the need for christens Lucien. A nightmare ensues, urban heart of terror, where he will learn stories that pack a powerful emotional however: on her return to France, Lucien first-hand how powerful, inviolate — and punch. (English) has an accident and is declared to be deadly - the colour line truly is. (American) James HUSTON brain-dead. A series of murders make Lynn HIGHTOWER The Shadows of Power Diane realise that her son is no ordinary High Water Pb 18.95 361pp Tp 29.95 child, but the prey of sinister and The Smallwood siblings gather at To save his country and his friend, Rat paranormal forces. (French) their dying mother’s bedside and are must devise a brilliant counter strike, a James GRIPPANDO shocked to discover someone has mission in which failure means certain Beyond Suspicion tampered with her medication. And death. Packed with deadly intrigue, 321pp Tp 29.95 Georgie Smallwood begins to think the Beltway power plays and high-flying After six exciting thrillers in seven years, unthinkable; that there may be a killer in adventure, this book is Huston’s most Grippando is at last bringing back the the family, a killer with a familiar face, exciting novel yet. Combining his main character from his blockbuster old regrets and unfinished business just knowledge of how things work in debut novel, The Pardon (Pb 19.95). to hand. And so begins a lethal dance of Washington with his expertise on Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck is smart and musical chairs that will keep the military hardware, he has written an tough and up to his neck in trouble. With Smallwoods scrambling to see whom, if electrifyingly realistic tale of international more than a decade of experience in the any, are left standing. (American) terrorism and American triumph! (American) criminal courts, Jack doesn’t handle Susan HOWATCH many civil cases. But this one is different. The Waiting Sands (1966) Bill JAMES His client is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend 198pp Pb 19.95 Middleman 230pp Pb 18.95 who’s being sued because she thought Out of the blue Rachel Lord is invited to Times are tough for ‘middleman’ she was going to die. When Jessie Merrill Ruthven, the fairy tale Scottish castle that Julian Corbett. He operates as a half- was diagnosed with a deadly disease and her old friend Decima will inherit on her respectable, half-crooked businessman in given just two years to live, she worked a coming of age. Her arrival is met with what was once the rough dockside of the deal with an insurance company to get relief by Decima who is convinced her Welsh capital. But a multi-billion pound cash fast. In exchange, a group of wealthy husband, Charles, means her harm. 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ABBEY’S BOOKSHOP 131 YORK STREET, SYDNEY 2000 PH 9264 3111 FAX 9264 8993 6 J A JANCE Jim KELLY Marianne MACDONALD Paradise Lost 417pp Pb 18.95 The Water Clock 304pp Tp 29.95 Die Once 260pp Pb 18.95 What begins as an innocent Girl Time is running out for Philip A Dido Hoare mystery. Tim Curwen Scout camping trip quickly turns to a Dryden... In the snowbound landscape of is the ideal customer. But three days after dangerous game of cat-and-mouse when the Cambridgeshire fens, a body is Dido sells him Charles Dickens’s The Sheriff Joanna Brady uncovers the body of discovered locked in a block of ice. The Haunted Man, her elegant young a murdered woman in the woods. following day high on Ely Cathedral a customer jumps to his death. Not only (American) second corpse is found, grotesquely that: his cheque has bounced. Being as Iris JOHANSEN ‘riding’ a stone gargoyle. 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(English) meant to protect or imprison her. The with his own guilt, his own fears - and a Ross MACDONALD questions and the threats to her life mount cold and ruthless killer... (English) Black Money (1965) as Eve realises she has stumbled into the Harry KEMELMAN 295pp Pb 19.95 heart of a chilling conspiracy and the Sunday the Rabbi Stayed at Home Crime Masterworks series #23. Lew Archer truth lies buried beneath a body of lies... (1969) 300pp Pb 14.95 connects his client, a suspiciously suave (American) A Rabbi Small mystery. Somewhere Frenchman, to a seven-year-old suicide Paul JOHNSTON between the Passover service and a plot and a mountain of gambling debts. This A Deeper Shade of Blue to unseat part of his congregation, Rabbi is the author at his best, revealing the Tp 32.95 David Small finds himself caught up with skull beneath the sun-kissed skin of When Alex Mavros is asked to track down some very non-kosher characters in a southern California. 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Three years later, Pete and Joey meet up affections, he must finally face up to his $10 million the prize on offer to them. But once more and a final confrontation puts tragic past and the mother who sold to get it they must kill. (Australian) him... (American) the meaning of friendship and honour to Jenny SILER the ultimate test. (American) David ROBBINS Shot Tp 29.95 Chris PETIT Scorched Earth 333pp Tp 29.95 When journalist Kevin Burns gets a call The Hard Shoulder 214pp Pb 21.00 Part mystery, part legal thriller, from former schoolmate Carl Greene, he This is Mrs Thatcher’s Britain. O’Grady this is a story of crime and punishment is surprised. They were not that close at lodges in his spinster sister’s dreary hotel. set in a small southern town during one school and the temperature cooled when Alcohol and the random chances it brings brutal, hot and unforgiving summer that Carl married Kevin’s girl, Lucy. Carl, a begin to define his life. 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(English) Corinth because she summoned him! (English) (English)

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CRIME CHRONICLE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 www.abbeys.com.au 11 Martin FIDO Antonio MENDOZA Ed SANDERS The Chronicle of Crime (1993) Teenage Rampage 241pp Pb 19.95 The Family 540pp Tp 53.00 336pp Lp 29.95 The Worldwide Youth Crime Explosion. Two This book was originally published in The Infamous Villains of Modern History and gun-toting students kill 12 of their 1971 and remains the most meticulously their Hideous Crimes. A history of crime classmates and a teacher before turning researched account of the most notorious presented in the chronicle-style format the weapons on themselves: the 1999 murders of the 1960s. Using firsthand and illustrated with over 400 black and massacre at Columbine High School accounts from some of the family’s white photographs. (English) shocked America into realising that infamous members, including the wizard something had gone very wrong in their himself, Sanders examines not only the Pippa KAY Doubt and Conviction 357pp Tp 27.00 society. 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