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August 30, 2005
NEW MYSTERIES--JUNE, JULY, AUGUST (Part 1)
There are many mysteries among the recently released fiction:
Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong (NEW ARM MYS)--reprint of the 1950 suspense novel made into the 1952 Marilyn Monroe/Richard Widmark movie Don't Bother to Knock; the last-minute sitter a couple finds for their 9-year-old daughter while at a hotel turns out to be a dangerous psychopath
The Perfect Paragon: An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M.C. Beaton (NEW BEA MYS)--Raisin Investigations takes on a case involving a jealous husband's suspicions of a possibly cheating wife (which turns into a murder case) and a case involving the death of a local teenager
Dead Romantic by Simon Brett (NEW BRE MYS)--a reprint of the 1985 novel of suspense; 30-ish language tutor Madeleine Severn is romantically interested in a colleague, Bernard Hopkins, but a jealous student, Paul Grigson, plans to foil their planned romantic getaway
The Rogues'Game by Milton T. Burton (NEW BUR MYS)--just after WWII, a stranger and his girlfriend come to a small Texas town for a high-stakes poker game, or an oil deal scam, or a robbery...or ?
North: A Novel by Frederick Busch (NEW BUS MYS)--sequel to 1997's Girls, protagonist "Jack" is asked to return to Upstate New York to search for a woman's missing nephew and must then face his own past
The Young Widow by Cassandra Chan (NEW CHA MYS)--Scotland Yard's DS Jack Gibbons and his wealthy friend, Phillip Bethancourt, team up to investigate the poisoning death of a businessman
Desert Summer by Michael Craft (NEW CRA MYS)--Theater Professor Claire Gray investigates the death of Felicia Yeats, wife of the founder of Desert Arts College, while presenting a summer workshop production of Rebecca
Kittyhawk Down by Garry Disher (NEW DIS MYS)--Melbourne detective Hal Challis investigates threats to an aerial photographer
The Water Room by Christopher Fowler (NEW FOW MYS)--50-year police partners, Bryant and May, now part of "The Peculiar Crimes" unit in London, investigate the apparent drowning of a woman in a dry basement
The Late Bill Smith Andrew Garve (NEW GAR MYS)--reprint of 1971 suspense story about a man in the wrong place at the wrong time
Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle: [a mystery featuring Groucho Marx] by Ron Goulart (NEW GOU MYS)--it's 1940 and former LA Times crime reporter (now screenwriter) Frank Denby and the wise-cracking Groucho investigate the death of the star of what was to be Groucho's next movie
Hardcastle's Armistice by Graham Ison (NEW ISO MYS)--in 1918 London, DI Hardcastle and DS Marriott investigate the death of a prostitute and find one of the suspects may also be a blackmailer
Posted by egvpl at August 30, 2005 06:37 AM