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  • MAKE NO BONES
    AARON ELKINS
    A forensic anthropologist wonders who would steal the bones of a deceased colleague—and why—in this mystery from an Edgar Award–winning series. "Rates four stars . . . Well-plotted, intelligent murder fiction doesn't come any better." — Chicago Sun-Times There is not much left of the irascible Albert Evan Jasper, "dean of American forensic anthropologists," after his demise in ...

    $109.00

  • SKELETON DANCE
    AARON ELKINS
    The French police call on the Skeleton Detective when a dog digs up some human bones in this thrilling mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author. "[An] enthralling novel . . . highly readable, intelligently plotted and painstakingly researched." — Dallas Morning News Les‑Eyzies‑de‑Tayac is known for three things: pâté de fois gras, truffles, and prehistoric remains. The littl...

    $164.00

  • OLD BONES
    AARON ELKINS
    An Edgar Award–winning mystery featuring the forensic anthropologist hailed as "a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth" ( Chicago Tribune ). "With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel," goes the old nursery song. So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man's family ...

    $109.00

  • TWENTY BLUE DEVILS
    AARON ELKINS
    A "whimsical, intricately plotted . . . clever" mystery with the Skeleton Detective in Tahiti from the Edgar Award–winning author ( Entertainment Weekly ). The dead man is the manager of Tahiti's Paradise Coffee Plantation, producer of the most expensive coffee bean in the world, the winey, luscious Blue Devil. Nothing tangible points to foul play behind his fall from a cliff, ...

    $119.00

  • MURDER IN THE QUEEN'S ARMES
    AARON ELKINS
    The Skeleton Detective puzzles over the theft of an ancient bit of bone—and a student's murder—in this novel by the Edgar Award–winning author of Switcheroo . "Great stuff." — The New York Times Book Review Anthropology professor Gideon Oliver would prefer to keep his mind on his beautiful new bride Julie during their English honeymoon, but one intrusive question will not stop ...

    $119.00

  • FELLOWSHIP OF FEAR
    AARON ELKINS
    The first thrilling mystery in the Edgar Award–winning series featuring the forensic anthropologist known as the Skeleton Detective. "A new Sherlock Holmes rises before us." — Houston Post When anthropology professor Gideon Oliver is offered a teaching fellowship at US military bases in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland, he wastes no time accepting. Stimulating courses to tea...

    $109.00

  • DEAD MEN'S HEARTS
    AARON ELKINS
    This mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author is "an intriguing mixture of forensic anthropology and real skull-duggery" ( Los Angeles Daily News ). An ancient skeleton tossed in a garbage dump is the first conundrum to rattle Gideon Oliver when he arrives in Egypt. There to appear in a documentary film, he expects an undemanding week of movie star treatment and a luxurious ...

    $109.00

  • CURSES!
    AARON ELKINS
    On a Mexican archeological excavation, the Skeleton Detective must solve an ancient riddle and a modern murder in this mystery from the Edgar Award winner. "The best yet." — Denver Post Mayan ruins in the Yucatán . . . a secret room in a tomb . . . age‑old skeletons. To anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the renowned Skeleton Detective, the invitation to join the archaeological exca...

    $164.00

  • ICY CLUTCHES
    AARON ELKINS
    Edgar Award–Winning Series: On a trip to Glacier Bay, Alaska, the Skeleton Detective pursues a cold-hearted killer who buries evidence in an avalanche. "Aaron Elkins's mystery sparkles aplenty." — The New York Times Book Review Gideon Oliver expects to be amicably bored when he takes on the role of "accompanying spouse" at a lodge in the magnificent wild country of Glacier Bay,...

    $109.00

  • THE DARK PLACE
    AARON ELKINS
    "The Skeleton Detective" earns his moniker in this entry to the Edgar Award–winning mystery series that's "as good as it gets" ( New York Daily News ). Deep in the primeval rainforest of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, the skeletal remains of a murdered man are discovered. And a strange, unsettling tale begins to unfold, for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver determine...

    $109.00

  • A DECEPTIVE CLARITY
    AARON ELKINS
    An American museum curator in Berlin must find a fake painting—and a real killer—in this mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author of Switcheroo.   Chris Norgren, museum curator and Renaissance art expert, heads to Berlin to assist in mounting a sensational exhibit: The Plundered Past—twenty priceless Old Masters looted by the Nazis, thought for decades to be lost forever, an...

    $109.00

  • A GLANCING LIGHT
    AARON ELKINS
    A museum curator travels to Italy and looks into a murder in this mystery by the Edgar Award–winning author of the Gideon Oliver series. Mild‑mannered and law‑abiding, Chris Norgren, curator of Renaissance and Baroque art at the Seattle Art Museum, is an unlikely undercover investigator, but when a priceless Rubens portrait is discovered in a shipment of "authentic reproduction...

    $149.00

  • OLD SCORES
    AARON ELKINS
    A notorious French art dealer is murdered in this "thoroughly entertaining" mystery by the Edgar Award–winning author of the Gideon Oliver series ( Kirkus Reviews). It is a headline‑making story: the discovery of a previously unknown Rembrandt. René Vachey, the iconoclastic art dealer who claims to have uncovered it, wants to make a gift of it to the Seattle Art Museum, but cur...

    $109.00

  • THE GIDEON OLIVER MYSTERIES VOLUME TWO
    AARON ELKINS
    Three bone-chilling cases featuring the forensic anthropologist known as the Skeleton Detective, in the Edgar Award–winning series. Edgar Award winner and former anthropologist Aaron Elkins "thoroughly understands the art of the murder mystery" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer). In books five through seven from the long-running Skeleton Detective series, Elkins brings back his "lika...

    $299.00

  • THE GIDEON OLIVER MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
    AARON ELKINS
    The forensic anthropologist known as the Skeleton Detective tackles his first four cases in the Edgar Award–winning series. Edgar Award winner and former anthropologist Aaron Elkins "thoroughly understands the art of the murder mystery" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer). In these four initial volumes of the long-running Skeleton Detective series, Elkins introduces readers to his "li...

    $299.00

  • TURNCOAT
    AARON ELKINS
    "A headlong plunge into dark places and dark minds" from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Gideon Oliver Mysteries ( Statesman Journal).   Pete Simon's all-American life was everything he ever wanted: a good home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after nearly twenty years. But in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, everything ...

    $109.00

  • LOOT
    AARON ELKINS
    A long-lost painting stolen by the Nazis turns up at a Boston pawnshop—and leads to a string of murders—in this "fast-paced and tightly written thriller" ( The Seattle Times).   In April 1945, the Nazis, reeling and near defeat, frantically work to hide the huge store of art treasures that Hitler has looted from Europe. Truck convoys loaded with the cultural wealth of the Weste...

    $149.00