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Nerve
Dick Francis
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, Oct. 1, 1990)When misfit and struggling jockey Rob Finn investigates the sluggish horse that ruined his shot at the big time, he finds himself up against a deadly brand of treachery
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The Giant Rat of Sumatra
Richard L. Boyer
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, Nov. 1, 1991)When a tattoed sailor is found murdered outside 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson stumble upon a mystery that tests both their resourcefulness and courage
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Blood Sport
Dick Francis
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, Feb. 1, 1993)Foregoing his vacation to search for a millionaire's stolen prized stallion, English agent Gene Hawkins follows a trail that leads from London to California
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The Mugger
Ed McBain
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, Oct. 1, 1990)When a serial mugger with a unique MO kills one of his victims--a seventeen-year-old girl--Patrolman Bert Kling makes the case his personal obsession
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The Curse of the Pharaohs
Elizabeth Peters
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, Jan. 1, 1990)The witty, indefatigable Amelia Peabody--now married to the woman-hating archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson--eludes the villains and solves three murders in this adventure set among the archaeological digs in the Valley of the Kings
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Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, Nov. 1, 1990)An archaeologist and amateur detective, Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody must interrupt her dig in Egypt to unravel a plot against her travelling companion, who has a tainted past
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Dead Cert
Dick Francis
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, Dec. 1, 1989)Alan York, an amateur jockey, discover that the fall that had killed his friend, Bill Davidson, had been deliberately planned to affect the outcome of the race and sets out to find the culprits
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Dance Hall of the Dead
Tony Hillerman
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, April 1, 1991)When a youth from the Zuni reservation is murdered, his missing Navajo friend becomes the prime suspect
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Deliverance
James Dickey
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, July 1, 1991)Four suburban businessmen take a canoe trip along a Georgia river, an odyssey that pits their courage against the river's raging rapids and the most primitive human impulses of fear, lust, and murder
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Dead cert
Dick Francis
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, Jan. 1, 1989)In this masterpiece, Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the shocking world of horse racing—where one man must bring his friends' killers into the light, or else risk death himself . . . Steeplechaser Alan York knows well the dangers of the sport. But when his best friend and rival, Bill Davidson, takes a fall in the middle of a race and doesn't get up again, Alan discovers that it was no accident. Someone rigged a trip wire to take down the running horse. The more Alan investigates, the more he suspects that there is more to the plot than just murderous horseplay. But even as he approaches the finish line to this mysterious race, those responsible for his friend's death are already planning for Alan to have a fatal accident of his own . . .
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Crocodile on the sandbank
Elizabeth Peters
Paperback (Armchair Detective Library, March 15, 1990)None
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The Mugger
Ed McBain
Hardcover (Armchair Detective Library, May 1, 1990)When a serial mugger with a unique MO kills one of his victims--a seventeen-year-old girl--Patrolman Bert Kling makes the case his personal obsession