Unabridged Audio Books, Miscellaneous
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| BOX 11A |
| LAWRENCE BLOCK | BURGLARS CAN'T BE CHOOSERS
Bernie Rhodenbarr tends to work alone. He finds the risks lower and the company better. Some call him a sleuth. Some call him a burglar. But who could resist being hired-and pocketing a nice, easy fee-for a simple break-in? Not Bernie. Nothing's ever simple.
No sooner is Bernie inside the apartment when he discovers the item he's to collect is missing, and a dead body isn't. Accused of murder and on the run, Bernie holes up in an out-of-town friend's apartment. With the help of a very lovely neighbor, Bernie must figure out what's going on, and who set him up. And why. "[Lawrence Block is] America's absolute number one writer of mystery fiction." -Philip Friedman, author of Inadmissible Evidence
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(5T,7.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| LAWRENCE BLOCK | THE BURGLAR IN THE CLOSET -
At a routine teeth cleaning Bernie Rhodenbarr discovers a few things. One, he's got a nasty cavity. Two, his dentist is unhappily married. Three, his dentist knows bernie's a burglar. Seems good old Dr. Sheldrake is in need of a burglar to steal back some valuable diamonds from his soon-to-be ex, Mrs. Sheldrake.
Next thing Bernie realizes is his tooth feels better, and, prowling around Crystal sheldrake's apartment for the goods, his head hurts. That's because someone just put a key in the lock and is coming through the door. With only one place to hide, Bernie slips into the closet, agonizing over the overly friendly sounds coming from Crystal's boudoir.
Time passes, Bernie emerges, and there's the lovely Crystal Sheldrake-only she's not so lovely anymore-lying dead on the floor, a dental instrument to blame. To top it all off, the diamonds are gone. So too is Bernie, chasing a killer's shadow and evading the inquiring eyes of his nemesis, Detective Ray Kirshmann.
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(4T,6H) | $17 | No | T |
| LAWRENCE BLOCK | THE BURGLAR WHO THOUGHT HE WAS BOGART -
Of all the bookstores it the world, she walked into his. That's where Bernie rhodenbarr met the woman of his dreams, the lovely and alluring llona. Both fans of bogart films, the two begin spending every night together...uh, at a Bogart film festival.
Of course, Bernie can't live on love alone. Enter Hugo Candlemas, an eccentric stranger with a simple request. Infiltrate a posh East Side apartment and remove a black leather portfolio. Sounds almost too easy. And it is. His game interrupted, bernie returns home empty-handed. His employer doesn't seem to care, as he's very much dead. Suddenly, Bernie finds himself in a familiar spot, running from the law, tracking down a killer. And then Llona conveniently disappears...
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(6T,9H) | $23 | No | T |
| LAWRENCE BLOCK | THE BURGLAR WHO TRADED TED WILLIAMS -
Bernie Rhondenbarr is trying to make an honest living, but when his new landlord raises the rent to an astronomical sum, there's only one thing left for a reformed burglar to do.
On his first night back on the job, Bernie finds not only a stash of cash but a very dead body, yet the next day the police are blaming him for a different burglary, and what's missing is a valuable baseball card collection.
To prove himself "innocent," Bernie's got to pull out all his master skills: Picking locks and picking brains, to uncover a scheme he should have been smart enough to avoid, or at least get a piece of....
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(6T,9H) | $23 | No | T |
| CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY | WET WORK -
Previously known for his works of humor, Christopher Buckley now gives us a full-scale thriller: high suspense, international intrigue, and wit.
Charlie Becker runs one of America's biggest conglomerates. When his beloved only granddaughter dies of a drug overdose, he determines to hunt down the power behind her death-a quest that takes him from New York's Lower East Side to Miami to the Amazon jungle.
On Becker's trail, Buckley propels the reader into the drug culture of North and South America, into White House inner circles, and into the exotic world of a Peruvian drug king with a taste for Marx and Manet. Often hilarious, inhabited by hitmen and evocative names like Bundy, McNamara, and Rostow-and always crowded with action-Wet Work is a taut, tense thriller as immediate as today's headlines.
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(7T,10.5H) | $25 | No | T |
| PATRICIA CORNWELL | POINT OF ORIGIN -
She's the sharpest, most accomplished investigator in crime fiction today. Now Kay Scarpetta meets a master of arson -- and evil. Nineteen horses have perished in a suspicious fire at the farm of an African-American publisher, Kenneth Sparkes. There's bad blood between Kay and Sparkes, and the investigation doesn't improve matters. Among the rubble lies another fatality -- and it's apparently the body of Sparkes' former lover. But there's no sign of how the fire started, no trace of gas or other accelerant. Kay's meticulous forensic work turns up evidence that leads back to a series of equally inexplicable arson-murders. Amid the tangled circumstances of her personal and professional life, Kay gains on a killer whose weapon of choice is fire. But in a showdown between good and evil, can Patricia Cornwell's detective prevail?
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(8T,12H) | $32 | No | T |
| LEN DEIGHTON | BERLIN GAME -
This alarming signal means that one of Britain's most reliable, most valuable agents behind the Iron Curtain is urgently demanding safe passage to the West. It sends a ripple of panic through the highest levels of British secret service. Appropriately, it has fallen to Bernard samson, himself once active in the field, but now anchored behind a London desk, to undertake the crucial rescue.
But even before Samson sets out on his mission, he is confronted with inescapable evidence that there is a traitor among his colleagues-a traitor planted by Moscow Centre. To discover who it is-and why-Samson must sift through layers of lies and follow a web of treachery from london to Berlin until hero and traitor collide.
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(7T,10.5H) | $25 | No | T |
| TOM GRACE | SPYDER WEB -
Nolan Kilkenny is a former Navy SEAL now pursuing his doctorate in advanced computer technology. While investigating a seemingly harmless technical problem in a complex, highly secured computer network, he becomes involved in the CIA and FBI's fierce hunt for three computer-age information pirates. The ruthless, brilliant thieves have stolen SPYDER - the CIA's ultra-secret electronic intelligence gathering project that can pry open the most heavily-guarded computer networks in existence - and the United States government will do anything to get it back. Suddenly, Kilkenny is leading the search for SPYDER...and is in sharp focus in the crosshairs of those who will stop at nothing to possess the ultimate spy weapon.
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(8T,12H) | $32 | No | T |
| ELSPETH HUXLEY | MURDER ON SAFARI -
Superintendent Vachell is called in to investigate the theft of jewellery worth £30,000 from Lady Baradale on safari. He finds himself investigating both her murder and the murder of her son-in-law to be, hampered by the rest of the safari party and his ignorance of East African wildlife.
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(8T,8H) | $25 | No | T |
| J.A. JANCE | TAKING THE FIFTH -
J.P. Beaumont, homicide detective, has little to go on: a man's punctured corpse, a paycheck stub, and a motel matchbook. Then a woman's shoe turns up, its stiletto heel caked with blood and hair. Now all Beau has to do is find a killer to fill the shoe ...
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(6T,9H) | $25 | No | T |
| JONATHAN KELLERMAN | SELF-DEFENSE -
A new patient - 24-year-old Lucy Lowell - has come to the semi-retired psychologist Alex Delaware, straight from the jury of a serial killer's grisly trial. The trial was harrowing enough, but now it's triggered a recurring and haunting dream in which Lucy - as a little girl - watches a gang of men bury a young woman's body in the woods.
Dr. Delaware knows he may find the creepy dream's origin through hypnosis. He hopes to bring to the surface what seems to be Lucy's buried childhood memory. When Lucy becomes adamant that her life is in grave danger, it's up to Dr. Delaware to find out if her fears are imagined or if a desperate killer wants to eliminate a witness to a 20-year-old murder. | Yes
(8T,12H) | $32 | No | T |
| JONATHAN KELLERMAN | THE CLINIC -
For three months, the police find no clues in the stabbing death of Hope Devane, the author of a pop-psychology bestseller. So they turn to Dr. Alex Delaware to study the case for insights that might point to a killer.
As Alex unlocks the private compartments of Hope's life, the murder looks calculated and vengeful. A study of her childhood reveals that she kept secrets from everyone. It also helps Alex set a trap for the killer.
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(8T,12H) | $32 | No | T |
| JANE LANGTON | DEAD AS A DODO -
The murder of a watchman at the University Museum shatters the tranquillity of ancient Oxford. Enter visiting lecturer Homer Kelly, who puts aside his studies in natural history to investigate the crime. Assisted by his charming wife, Mary, Homer is drawn into a deadly academic jigsaw-puzzle, whose pieces include a smattering of Darwinian theory, the disappearance of the dodo bird, and speculations on the existence of God ...
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(7T,10.5H) | $29 | No | T |
| ELMORE LEONARD | CUBA LIBRE -
War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898--right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine--may not be the smartest thing the recently prison-sprung horse wrangler ever did. Neither is shooting one of the local Guardia, though the pompous peacock deserved it. Now Tyler's sitting tight in a vermin-infested Cuban stockade waiting to face a firing squad. But he's not dying until he gets the money he's owed from a two-timing American sugar baron. And there's one smart, pistol-hot lady at the rich man's side who could help Ben get everything he's got rightfully coming...even when the whole damn island's going straight to hell.
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(6T,9H) | $25 | No | T |
| GREGORY MCDONALD | FLETCH REFLECTED -
Marked by Mcdonald's offhand humor ("I can't figure out whether Wyoming is big or just empty") and offbeat characters, the 11th Fletch story features Fletch's son Jack, having sold his story/expose of rightwing crazies to Global Cable News (see Son of Fletch), heads to the huge Georgia estate of billionaire inventor Chester Radleigh at the request of Shana Steufel, an old, but memorable, one-night stand of Jack's. Shana, who is engaged to one of Radleigh's sons, believes her future father-in-law's life is in danger. Jack gets a groundkeeper's job at the estate, which is run like a benevolent dictatorship. Meanwhile, Fletch pere is planning to have Jack's mother Crystal lose 400-plus pounds at a Wyoming training camp for boxers. While probing the dysfunctional Radliegh family, in which the spoiled wife and four grown children rebel in individual ways, Jack finds snakes under every rock and psyche. Then Fletch appears at the estate. Fletch and his newly discovered son Jack are an appealing pair.
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(6T,6H) | $20 | No | T |
| ROSS MACDONALD | THE BARBAROUS COAST
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In The Barbarous Coast, Lew Archer's pursuit of a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract, a bigtime gambler who died by his own knife, and finally to an answer he would rather not have known.
"Lew Archer has evidenced his differences from the usual run of fictional private eyes. He is not obsessed with bed, bottle and boodle; he doesn't indulge in unnecessary violence, in action or in language; he is a sensitive and thoughtful man, tough enough to survive in a dangerous profession but moved rather to pity than cynicism by the way the world goes." -New York Herald Tribune
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(5T,7.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| ROSS MACDONALD | THE CHILL -
Lew Archer knew he shouldn't have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate. Kincaid's loving new bride Dolly had just inexplicably walked out on him, leaving Kincaid more than a little fearful for her sanity-and her safety. So Archer reluctantly agreed to help Kincaid find his wife. But what he found instead was enough to send a chill down anyone's spine-a new fresh corpse and evidence linking Dolly not only to this murder, but to a series of others dating back to before she was even born.
Winner of the Mystery Writer of America Grand Master Award, Ross Macdonald is acknowledged around the world as one of the greatest mystery writers of our time.
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(6T,9H) | $23 | No | T |
| ROSS MACDONALD | THE BLUE HAMMER -
The time is the 1970s; the place, Southern California. The stolen canvas that Lew archer has been hired to retrieve is reputed to be the work of the celebrated Richard chantry, who vanished in 1950 from his home in Santa Teresa. It is the portrait of an unknown woman-and on its trail Archer moves with edgy competence among the intrigues of dealers and collectors. Until suddenly he finds himself drawn into a web of family complications and masked brutalities stretching back fifty years through a world where money talks or buys silence, where social prominence is a murderous weapon, where, behind the plausible facades of homes not quite broken but badly bent, a heritage of lies and evasions pushes troubled men and women deeper into trouble. And as he pursues the Chantry portrait-and the larger mystery of Richard Chantry-Archer himself is shaken as never before: Archer the solitary traveler, the loner who has through the years deliberately addressed himself to the deciphering of other people's lives, is thrust into an inescapable encounter with a woman who will complicate his own... .
From its almost hushed beginning to its violent climax and its unexpected-indeed astonishing-resolution, The Blue Hammer holds us riveted. This is Ross Macdonald at his incomparable best.
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(6T,9H) | $25 | No | T |
| ROSS MACDONALD | THE FAR SIDE OF THE DOLLAR -
To reach the Barcelona Hotel you took Sunset and the coast highway. Once starlets and Navy boys had rubbed shoulders with tycoons and hustlers there, but for Lew Archer the old, closed-up palace held the key to a missing teenager and a hot murder. Archer knew that twenty years ago a handful of dreamers and losers had come together in the barcelona. The only question now was what kind of deal had gone down there, and why a mixed-up rich kid and a beautiful blonde were the first to pay the price...
"Without in the least abating my admiration for Dashiel Hammett and Raymond chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them."-Anthony Boucher, New York Times Book review
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(6T,9H) | $25 | No | T |
| JOHN MORTIMER | RUMPOLE AND THE GOLDEN THREAD -
In this engaging collection of stories, Rumpole continues to juggle deftly the vagaries of law, the ambiguities of crime, and the contradictions of the human heart in his death-defying performances on behalf of justice. The irreverent, claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barrister takes on suspect connoisseurs in the art world, journeys deep into the throbbing heart of Africa, dabbles in some feminist politics, decides the countryside is a very dangerous place, and incurs the wrath of his wife, She Who Must Be Obeyed.
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(7T,10.5H) | $25 | No | T |
| JOHN MORTIMER | RUMPOLE FOR THE DEFENCE -
This book is a sheer delight. Mortimer gives us humor as only the British can dish it out. And what great fun to contemplate what it would be like to be Rumpole, an utterly unflappable character, slightly detached from and amused by all of life's challenges, whether they occur in a court of law or as a result of living with a spouse he calls She Who Must Be Obeyed. Whether he's quoting Wordsworth or having words with a particularly obtuse judge, Horace Rumpole always knows what he's doing-even if no one else does. In this delightful collection of stories, Rumpole straightens everyone out in the shocking case of a "bent copper," gallantly teaches a Professor of Moral Philosophy about blackmail, consults with the dear departed when a will is contested, traces the path of true love when a doctor is accused of murder, and (in the name of duty, of course) drinks to excess with a teetotaling member of the prosecution. There is even a rare moment or two when Rumpole finds himself appreciative of She Who Must Be Obeyed, when she inadvertently provides some essential clues that clinch his cases.
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(5T,7.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| JOHN MORTIMER | THE TRIALS OF RUMPOLE -
Horace Rumpole, who never prosecutes, whose fame rests on an infinite knowledge of blood and typewriters, whose court scenes are proverbial, whose home (a c(tT de chez Rumpole) is ruled by Mrs. Rumpole (She Who Must Be Obeyed) is back on the defence. As irreverent, as iconoclastic, as claret-swilling, poetry-spouting, impudent, witty and cynical as ever.
This time the judge-debunking barrister-at-law is embroiled with a minister accused of shoplifting, an actress accused of murder, and a racist candidate for Parliament, with art theft and mistaken identity thrown in for good measure. The result is a delightful excursion into hidden corners of the British judicial system-served up in typically colorful Rumpole style.
"Rumpole has been an inspired stroke of good fortune for us all." -Linda Lee Potter, THE DAILY MAIL "Rumpole has become, seemingly overnight, an institution like Bertie Wooster and Jeeves." -Punch
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(5T,7.5H) | $20 | No | T |
| ROSAMUNDE PILCHER | THE SHELL SEEKERS (part 1) - THE SHELL SEEKERS tells the story of the Keeling family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The family centers around Penelope, and it is her love and courage that determines the course of their lives.
One of Penelope's treasured possessions is "The Shell Seekers", a painting her father left her as a remembrance and a legacy. It is this painting that symbolizes to Penelope the ties between the generations. It is the link between the past, the present and the future. But it is also this painting that just may tear the family apart.
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(9T,13.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| ROSAMUNDE PILCHER | THE SHELL SEEKERS (part 2) -
"THE SHELL SEEKERS is about looking for yourself in the fragmented mirror of your children's lives and finding an image blurred by memories rushing up from the past. A fine book, well deserving of its long stay on the best-seller list." (Publisher's Source) | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $36 | No | T |
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