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  • THE CLUE IN THE CLAY
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    A San Francisco police detective becomes obsessed with a sculptress's apparent suicide—and hounds his new wife into helping him solve the case . . .   When Officer Charles confronts a man acting erratically early in the morning on a quiet residential street in San Francisco, he presumes it's a case of public intoxication—until the man blurts out that Mabel Edwards has hanged he...

    $119.00

  • SOMETHING ABOUT MIDNIGHT
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    A sleuthing English professor looks into the sordid secret life of a student who's gone missing . . .   When a young woman comes to Professor Pennyfeather and confides that her cousin Ernestine—one of his English students—is missing, he's surprised to hear that the bookish girl in his class is a very different person outside of school. Apparently, in the evenings, she transform...

    $119.00

  • THE CAT WEARS A NOOSE
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    A drunken man is shot dead on his doorstep in this classic mystery starring the "observant [and] appealing" seventy-year-old sleuth ( Publishers Weekly).   Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumblin...

    $119.00

  • CATSPAW FOR MURDER
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    A spry seventy-year-old sleuth and her feline companion sniff out clues to a crime: "The observant Rachel is an appealing Jessica Fletcher antecedent." — Publishers Weekly A letter has arrived at the home shared by the elderly Murdock sisters and their black cat, Samantha. It stirs Rachel's curiosity, and Jennifer's alarm, as she fears her sibling will once again head off on a ...

    $119.00

  • DEATH WALKS ON CAT FEET
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    The senior super-sleuth is the odds-on favorite to discover if a killer stalks the Hollywood Hills in the final Rachel Murdock mystery.   Though not a professional private eye, Miss Rachel Murdock has gained notoriety in certain Los Angeles circles for her crime-solving skills. They come in handy after she witnesses an extraordinary event: a woman being thrown into the window o...

    $159.00

  • THE CAT AND CAPRICORN
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    A newlywed might be newly dead in this feline-flavored mystery featuring a septuagenarian sleuth who's "an appealing Jessica Fletcher antecedent" ( Publishers Weekly).   Priscilla Beckett has left a trail of suspicious exes in her wake—three former husbands who are convinced she tried to kill them. But this black-widow-to-be has found groom number four, and they're happily hone...

    $159.00

  • THE BAXTER LETTERS
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    Terror places its stamp on a woman unwittingly caught up in a dangerous game in this gripping thriller from the author of A Collection of Strangers.   Jennifer Burch is just a small-town midwestern girl trying to stay afloat in New York City with her husband, a struggling playwright. But an odd request from her Uncle Baxter promises some relief. Always the black sheep of the fa...

    $119.00

  • THE MAN WHO FOLLOWED WOMEN
    BERT HITCHENS / DOLORES HITCHENS
    Danger appears like a runaway train when a railroad detective investigates a strange stalking in this gripping novel from the authors of One-Way Ticket.   When railroad cop Mike Kernehan stumbles upon a trespasser in a Los Angeles railyard one night, he has no idea where the case will take him. It seems the lonely middle-aged man has a penchant for following women, which is wha...

    $119.00

  • IN A HOUSE UNKNOWN
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    Three women are caught in the grip of the past in this Southern gothic mystery from the beloved twentieth-century American author.   There's nothing to stop Pock Myles, single and unattached, from traveling to Louisiana to comfort her recently widowed and pregnant sister, Rye. But this is no ordinary visit. Recently, there have been bizarre happenings at Larchwood, the vast est...

    $119.00

  • BRING THE BRIDE A SHROUD
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    The beloved author of the Rachel Murdock Mysteries introduces an amateur sleuth who knows murder is never academic—especially when it comes to love.   Professor Pennyfeather is on his way to the desert town of Superstition to help a former student, now an army man. Tick Burrell is a charming troublemaker who's got himself in a bit of a bind. He's due to inherit a fortune when h...

    $119.00

  • THE ALARM OF THE BLACK CAT
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    This classic mystery features a family feud, feline intervention, and the spirited septuagenarian sleuth from The Cat Saw Murder.   A strange encounter with a little girl named Claudia and a dead toad sparks Rachel Murdock's obsessive curiosity, and she winds up renting the house next door just to see how things play out. But soon after she and her cat Samantha move in, Rachel ...

    $119.00

  • ONE-WAY TICKET
    BERT HITCHENS / DOLORES HITCHENS
    Murder is personal for a Los Angeles railroad detective in this thriller from an author known for her "tough and compassionate" crime novels ( MysteryTribune).   Vic Moine has followed in his late father's footsteps to become a detective for a big Los Angeles railroad line, much to the chagrin of his rich girlfriend's family. But his father's old friend Rock is happy to hear it...

    $119.00

  • A COLLECTION OF STRANGERS
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    A family torn apart by tragedy becomes the victim of a merciless killer in this gripping thriller from the twentieth-century author of The Baxter Letters.   Bad things have happened in the Stoddard household, but nothing as grim as what's to come. One day, young Davie gets a phone call, an anonymous voice threatening to do lewd and horrible things to his teenage sister unless h...

    $119.00

  • THE CAT WEARS A MASK
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    Native American lore infuses a southwestern mystery featuring the indomitable Rachel Murdock and her cat, Samantha.   The notes—short and sharp—seem to strike at the heart of each recipient's insecurities and darkest secrets. Signed "Kachina," they've been sent to a group of friends who met in college, including Rachel Murdock's goddaughter, Gail. When Gail wants to unmask the ...

    $119.00

  • THE GRUDGE
    BERT HITCHENS / DOLORES HITCHENS
    This crime novel from the authors of The Man Who Followed Women features two Los Angeles railroad detectives and explosive suspense.   Tommy Collins has escaped from a midwestern prison, using dynamite to blast his way out—and killing a nurse in the process. The explosion was felt over a thousand miles away, where Tommy's sister lives in fear in Los Angeles. She has squirreled ...

    $119.00

  • THE MAN WHO CRIED ALL THE WAY HOME
    DOLORES HITCHENS
    A love triangle shapes this intricate murder mystery from the popular twentieth-century author of the Rachel Murdock series.   When a policeman shows up at her door one morning, Doris Chenoweth is sure her husband, Sargent, is home—but she's wrong. He's been found dead in his car at the edge of a reservoir. With no one else to turn to, Doris calls her elderly uncle Chuck, knowi...

    $119.00