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Black Cat Weekly #48

By: Matthew Hughes ,SJ Rozan ,Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier,Hal Charles,R. Austin Freeman ,Nicholas Carter,Irving Cox, Jr. ,George O. Smith ,E.E. "Doc" Smith

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Black Cat Weekly #48

By: Matthew Hughes ,SJ Rozan ,Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier,Hal Charles,R. Austin Freeman ,Nicholas Carter,Irving Cox, Jr. ,George O. Smith ,E.E. "Doc" Smith

For this week's Black Cat Weekly, Michael Bracken has acquired an original mystery by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier, Barb Goffman found a tale by SJ Rozan that will surely satisfy crime fans, and Cynthia Ward tracked down a Matthew Hughes story. Plus, for the sheer silliness of it all, there’s a Mickey Spillane parody from 1954 (which manages to be both a mystery and fantasy…but wasn’t everything of Spillane’s?) and classics from R. Austin Freeman (a Dr Thorndyke story), a Nick Carter novel, and the first Skylark of Space novel by E.E. “Doc” Smith. Here’s the complete lineup: Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “Ripen,” by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “Death Takes a Swing,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “E-Golem,” by SJ Rozan [Barb Goffman Presents short story] “The Case Of Oscar Brodski,” by R. Austin Freeman [short story] A Human Counterfeit, by Nicholas Carter [novel] “The Shaky Undertaker,” by Ed Cox [short story] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “The Shaky Undertaker,” by Ed Cox [short story] “To the Sons of Tomorrow,” by Irving Cox, Jr. [short story] “Mastermindless,” by Matthew Hughes [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] “Problem In Solid,” by George O. Smith [short story] “Sequel,” by Ben Smith [short story] The Skylark of Space, by E.E. “Doc” Smith [novel]

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479478873

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9781479478873

Stone Quarry

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

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Stone Quarry

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

Bill Smith's country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city's savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen items--six paintings which could reveal Eve's highly guarded thirty-year-old secret--he caves. When Smith's partner, Lydia Chin, comes in on the action, she brings along her cool courage and sharp mind. It's a simple case--until the runaway daughter of a hotshot politician and the murder of a local hood change the playing field. Now the stench of corruption fills this rural paradise, as Bill and Lydia scour through dangerous secrets and greedy corridors for the stone-cold truth...

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Minotaur Books

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1466825200

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9781466825208

Winter and Night

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

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Winter and Night

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning S. J. Rozan comes her finest novel to date - an explosive novel about the corrosive power of secrets and corruption in a small town. In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They're holding a 15-year-old kid named Gary -- a kid Bill knows. But before Bill can find out what is going on, Gary escapes Bill's custody into the dark night and unfamiliar streets. Bill, with the help of his partner Lydia Chin, tries to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that led him so far from home. Tracking Gary's family to a small town in New Jersey, Bill finds himself in a town where nothing matters but high school football, where the secrets of the past - both the town's and Bill's own - threaten to destroy the present. And if Bill is to have any chance of saving Gary and preventing a tragedy, he has to both unravel a long buried crime and confront the darkness of his own past. Winter and Night is the winner of the 2003 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

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Minotaur Books

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1429980052

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9781429980050

New Jersey Noir

By: Jonathan Safran Foer,Bradford Morrow,Bill Pronzini,Robert Pinsky,Edmund White,S. J. Rozan

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New Jersey Noir

By: Jonathan Safran Foer,Bradford Morrow,Bill Pronzini,Robert Pinsky,Edmund White,S. J. Rozan

Discover the darker side of the Garden State with this anthology of gritty mystery stories. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each volume is compromised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographical area of the book. In New Jersey Noir, a star-studded cast of authors sifts through the hidden dirt of the Garden State. Featuring brand-new stories (and a few poems) by Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White & Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Pulitzer Prize–winner Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini, Hirsh Sawhney, and Robert Arellano. Praise for New Jersey Noir “Oates’s introduction to Akashic’s noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative definition of the genre, is alone worth the price of the book . . . Highlights include Lou Manfredo’s “Soul Anatomy,” in which a politically connected rookie cop is involved in a fatal shooting in Camden; S.J. Rozan’s “New Day Newark,” in which an elderly woman takes a stand against two drug-dealing gangs; and Jonathan Santlofer’s “Lola,” in which a struggling Hoboken artist finds his muse . . . . Poems by C.K. Williams, Paul Muldoon, and others—plus photos by Gerald Slota—enhance this distinguished entry.” —Publishers Weekly “It was inevitable that this fine noir series would reach New Jersey. It took longer than some readers might have wanted, but, oh boy, was it worth the wait . . . More than most of the entries in the series, this volume is about mood and atmosphere more than it is about plot and character . . . It should go without saying that regular readers of the noir series will seek this one out, but beyond that, the book also serves as a very good introduction to what is a popular but often misunderstood term and style of writing.” —Booklist, Starred Review “A lovingly collected assortment of tales and poems that range from the disturbing to the darkly humorous.” —Shelf Awareness

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Akashic Books

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1617750816

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9781617750816

Mandarin Plaid

By: S. J. Rozan

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Mandarin Plaid

By: S. J. Rozan

While delivering the ransom payment for a clothing designer's purloined sketches, Lydia Chin has the ransom stolen from her, and she and Bill Smith must find out who stole the sketches, who stole the ransom, and who is now trying to kill them.

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294

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Macmillan

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0312962835

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9780312962838

Concourse

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

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Concourse

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

Bill Smith has been hired by an old friend to investigate the killing of a security guard at the Bronx Home for the Aged.

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Macmillan

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0312959443

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9780312959449

China Trade

By: S. J. Rozan

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China Trade

By: S. J. Rozan

Asian-American P.I. Lydia Chin is led into a baffling case of deception, murder, and gang war after being called in to investigate a not-so-simple theft from New York City's Chinatown Museum.

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0312955901

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9780312955908

Reflecting the Sky

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

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Reflecting the Sky

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

S. J. Rozan is widely regarded as one of the finest crime writers to emerge in the past decade. Praised by critics and colleagues alike, her works have been finalists for most of the major awards and have won both the Shamus and the Anthony Awards for Best Novel. Now, with Reflecting the Sky, she has written her finest, most broad-ranging novel to date. Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American private investigator in her late twenties, is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected figures in New York City's Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple task. Lydia, along with her professional partner Bill Smith, is to fly to Hong Kong to deliver a family heirloom to the young grandson of a recently deceased colleague of Grandfather Gao. They arrive in Hong Kong safely but before they can deliver the heirloom, the grandson is kidnapped and two, separate ransom demands are made. While the family of the kidnapped boy tries to freeze them out, Lydia and Bill must quickly learn their way around a place where the rules are different, the stakes are high, and the cost of failure is too dire to imagine. Reflecting the Sky is a 2002 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.

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Minotaur Books

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1429980036

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9781429980036

A Bitter Feast

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

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A Bitter Feast

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

Joining the company of Sue Grafton, Jonathan Kellerman, and Patricia Cornwell, Shamus Award-winner S.J. Rozan now owns a coveted Anthony Award for Best Novel for her No Colder Place. The Washington Post has called her Bill Smith/Lydia Chin novels "a series to watch for." Booklist deemed Rozan "a major figure in contemporary mystery fiction." Now it's your turn-- to discover one of fiction's major voices and to fall in love with a mystery of evocative atmosphere, engaging characters, and exquisite writing. It's Lydia Chin's turn to go underground as the Chinese-American P.I. investigates a case that strikes at the heart of Chinatown's dangerously shifting power structure. Four restaurant workers, including a union organizer, have disappeared, and the union's lawyer hires Lydia to find them. But when a bomb shatters the Chinese Restaurant Workers' Union headquarters, killing one of the missing men and injuring the lawyer, Lydia is summoned by the prime suspect, one of Chinatown's most powerful men, to continue the search--on his payroll. With backup from her partner Bill Smith, Lydia goes undercover as a dim sum waitress, slinging steamed dumplings while dodging a lethal conflict between the old and the new orders, and searching for the missing waiters and their deadly secret--before someone serves them their last supper...

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Minotaur Books

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1429908513

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9781429908511

Family Business

A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery

By: S. J. Rozan

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Family Business

A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Mystery

By: S. J. Rozan

The death of a powerful Chinatown crime boss thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, subterfuge, murder, and—because this is New York City—real estate in this new mystery by Edgar Award-winning novelist S. J. Rozan. The death of Chinatown’s most powerful mogul, a powerful Chinatown crime boss, thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, murder, and real estate scandal in this new mystery by the award winning novelist S. J. Rozan. Choi has left the Tong headquarters building to his niece, who hires Lydia and her partner, Bill Smith, to accompany her to inspect it. The building is at the center of a tug-of-war between Chinatown preservation interests—including Lydia's brother Tim—and a real estate developer who's desperate to get his hands on it. When Lydia, Bill, and Choi's niece go to the building, they discover the Tong members are equally divided on the question of whether the niece should hold onto the building, or sell it—and make them rich. Entering Choi's private living quarters they find the murdered body of Choi's chief lieutenant. The battle for the building has begun. Can Lydia and Bill escape being caught in the crossfire?

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Simon and Schuster

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1643138308

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9781643138305

The Index of Middle English Prose

Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries

By: S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson

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The Index of Middle English Prose

Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Oxford College Libraries

By: S. J. Ogilvie-Thomson

The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843841525

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9781843841524

In this Rain

A Novel

By: S.J. Rozan

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In this Rain

A Novel

By: S.J. Rozan

Three years ago, a child’s death blew open a vortex of corruption inside Manhattan’s lucrative construction industry. And it sent one innocent man to jail. Joe Cole is a former city investigator who now lives a broken life, cut off from his wife and daughter, and from the city he once knew so well. But for Joe, everything changes when a woman’s murder and a teenager’s rooftop freefall rip open old wounds—and reveal a shocking layer of rage and deception. It is Joe’s former partner, beautiful, hard-charging investigator Ann Montgomery, who first sees the lies, forcing Joe out of his self-imposed isolation to help her unravel the cover-ups and secret relationships that allow the powerful to hide their crimes. Soon, the two are entering the darkest corners of their city, delving into the hidden desires of a borough president who wants to be mayor, the motivations of a charismatic community activist, and the machinations of a mayor whose ambitions know no bounds. As the secrets of each player are exposed, as the primal forces of greed, sex, and power come to the surface, Ann and Joe know they must press their search all the way to the end—because the most powerful revelations are yet to come. From a brilliantly choreographed press conference to a scandalous love affair gone terribly wrong, In This Rain takes us into the heart of a sprawling, brawling city—in a masterpiece of suspense that proves once again the unique and daring genius of S. J. Rozan.

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Delta

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0385339240

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9780385339247

No Colder Place

By: S. J. Rozan

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No Colder Place

By: S. J. Rozan

With the help of his partner, Bill Smith follows a trail of twisted loyalties, old-fashioned greed, and organized crime to its heart-stopping conclusion...Murder...with no end in sight...

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Macmillan

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0312966644

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9780312966645

Absent Friends

By: S. J. Rozan

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Absent Friends

By: S. J. Rozan

The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner Rozan, set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11.

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Dell

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0440241855

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9780440241850

The Shanghai Moon

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

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The Shanghai Moon

A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel

By: S. J. Rozan

Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Smith, Chinese-American private investigator Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that involves tracking down a valuable brooch, the Shanghai Moon, which disappeared during WWII.

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0312644523

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9780312644529

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Black Cat Weekly #48

Black Cat Weekly #48

Stone Quarry

Stone Quarry

Winter and Night

Winter and Night

New Jersey Noir

New Jersey Noir

Mandarin Plaid

Mandarin Plaid

Concourse

Concourse

China Trade

China Trade

Reflecting the Sky

Reflecting the Sky

A Bitter Feast

A Bitter Feast

Family Business

Family Business

The Index of Middle English Prose

The Index of Middle English Prose

In this Rain

In this Rain

No Colder Place

No Colder Place

Absent Friends

Absent Friends

The Shanghai Moon

The Shanghai Moon

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