I'm not sure if these are really sale prices or not, but...
Ostara Publishing has e-books of a few authors I like (Janet Neel, some Edward Marston, David Serafin), but their e-books tend to be really expensive, way too expensive for me to replace backlist titles I already own in DTB.
However, just today I randomly checked Ostara, instead of the specific authors/titles I usually look for, and found that a few of their titles are fairly inexpensive - one on Amazon US, and several on Amazon UK. These may be sale prices, or maybe the long-term prices...no idea...
But in any case, here are some inexpensive backlist titles:
The one on Amazon US:
Mr. Campion's Farthing is one of the Campion books penned (or completed) by Margery Allingham's husband, Philip Youngman-Carter, after her death. It's at $1.88 at Amazon US right now, no idea for how long.
link:
http://www.amazon.com/Campions-Farth...dp/B00FO75W0C/
Spoiler:
Quote:
‘If a man is likely to be murdered you can’t just stand by and do nothing. Or can you?’
Inglewood Turrets, an expensive anachronism in the leafy outskirts of North London is a cross between St Pancreas Station and Holloway Gaol, and the house where the formidable Miss Charlotte Cambric recreates Victorian elegance for foreign culture-vultures.
Vassily Kopeck, the half-Russian, half-Polish physicist and an ‘attaché of sorts’, disappears as effectively as a cat who turns a corner in a London fog after a visit to The Turrets – and thereby becomes a much-wanted man. Then Felix Perdreau, the flamboyant rare book dealer and friend of Kopek, who knows more than he is letting on, also goes missing…
L.C. Corkran, of Her Majesty’s security service, is convinced that something awful is about to happen there.
Others showing an unnatural interest in the goings-on at The Turrets include Moryak, the Russian ‘diplomat’ hunting the missing scientist; a ruthless property developer and his even more ruthless acolyte, a very dodgy private investigator with a penchant for stamp-collecting, and Rupert (whose surname just happens to be Campion) and Perdita, two innocent but resourceful young people hired to act out harmless Victorian charades in a far from harmless situation.
Fortunately, Albert Campion – that self-effacing professional adventurer who simply cannot resist a mystery – is also on hand.
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Amazon UK has 11 Ostara titles for less then £3.00. I don't have time to do them all in detail, but here's a price-sorted search link, and a list of the titles:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_pg_...qid=1443999609- Patterns in the Dust by Lesley Grant-Adamson
- Deadly Admirer by Christine Green
- Tightrope by Antony Melville-Ross
- Frame Grabber by Denise Danks
- The Terminators by Berkely Mather
- Saturday of Glory by David Serafin
- Undertow by Desmond Cory
- The Pizza House Crash by Denise Danks
- Falconer and the Rain of Blood by Ian Morson
- Archdeacons Afloat by C A Alington
- The Legend of Hereward by Mike Ripley (more a historical novel, perhaps, than a mystery, but WTH...)