More Blanche! "One would be tempted to describe Blanche White as a combination of Miss Marple and Easy Rawlins...but it would be a crime to suggest that she is anything less than a truly original creation."--Los Angeles Times

Death of a Red Heroine
Qiu Xiaolong
$25.00 / HBS $20.00

A complicated mystery in a turbulent society is investigated by Inspector Chen Cao--a published poet and translator of T.S. Eliot--who must follow the truth through a tangle of political tripwires.

Sidetracked: A Kurt Wallander Mystery
Henning Mankell
$14.95 pb / HBS $11.96

Sidetracked merges blistering suspense with adroit social and political commentary, from the disintegeration of the family and the exploitation of women to corruption and scandal at the highest levels of government.

"More please... If the title sounds like S.S. Van Dine gone Japanese, it should.... Calculated to outdo John Dickenson Carr in both ghoulishness and ingenuity."--Kirkus Reviews

Faceless Killers: A Kurt Wallander Mystery
Henning Mankell
$14.95 pb / HBS $11.96

The debut of Mankell's Kurt Wallander series. Taut and atmospheric, this winner of Sweden's Best Mystery Award is a gripping novel in the classic detective tradition, hailed by the L.A. Times as "an exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth and substance."

Agatha Christie's classic novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, has sparked much debate ever since its publication in 1926. Cultural critics from Umberto Eco to Roland Barthes have explored its unique construction: a murder mystery in which the murderer appears to be the narrator. Pierre Bayard reopens the Ackroyd file in this re-reading of one of the most popular mysteries of all time--even daring to offer an alternative solution to that of Hercule Poirot.

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