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[sufue]

Plot it Yourself is the 32nd in the Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin series by Rex Stout. It has dropped to $1.99 at Kindle US as part of today's Daily Deal, matched at Kobo US. Grab it if you want it - Stout/Wolfe titles don't go on sale very often.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/PLOT-YOURSELF...dp/B004SOQ11G/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/plot-it-yourself

Spoiler:

When a group of publishers and writers hires Wolfe to solve a case of false plagiarism, it's time for the great detective to hit the books. Four unrelated accusers—including a down-and-out hack writer and a lady poet with a penchant for nude sunbathing—have been fleecing bestselling authors, claiming the authors have stolen their work and ingeniously planting evidence to back up their claims. But when punctuation gives way to puncture, Wolfe knows this is no simple case of extortion. This time he'll need all the critical skills at his disposal to close the book on a killer well versed on the ABCs of murder.

Introduction by Susan Dunlap

“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review

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Littlejohn in France, by George Bellairs, is a collection of three titles in which (duh!) Inspector Littlejohn visits France.

Titles include:

• Death in High Provence
• Bones in the Wilderness
• Death in the Wasteland

Per an email I received from the publisher, Crime Classics, the collection will be on sale from Feb 17-19, priced at $2.99 at Kindle US and £1.99 at Kindle UK.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Littlejohn-Fr...dp/B07XVNVHKP/
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Littlejohn-...dp/B07XVNVHKP/

Spoiler:

In this collection of three classic mysteries, travel with the ingenious Detective Inspector Littlejohn as he visits France for a series of dastardly crimes, murderous cases, and perhaps, maybe, a holiday of his own.

This boxset includes Death in High Provence, Bones in the Wilderness, and Death in the Wasteland.

[sufue]

Now also on sale for $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07466RDB5
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/why-kill-the-innocent

Originally Posted by sufue

Why Kill the Innocent is the 13th in the Sebastian St. Cyr series by C. S. Harris. It has dropped to £1.49 at Kindle UK.

link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07466RDB5

[ZodWallop]

A historical mystery by Barbara Hambly: Search the Seven Hills is $1.99 at Amazon US.

The son of a wealthy Roman family, Marcus gave up the prestige and riches that were his birthright to devote himself to philosophy. His noble mind attracted Tullia, a Senator’s daughter whose father wanted her to have nothing to do with the penniless intellectual. The news that she is to marry a prosperous merchant shatters Marcus, who goes to her house, hoping to plead his case, only to see her attacked and abducted by disguised ruffians. That she was kidnapped is tragedy enough, and it gets worse when he learns who took her: the sinister Christian cult. He knows not what vile rituals they will expose her to, and he does not want to find out. His lover in danger, the philosopher must turn warrior before it is too late

[maddz]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

A historical mystery by Barbara Hambly: Search the Seven Hills is $1.99 at Amazon US.

I can thoroughly recommend this one. It's a pity I can't get it in the UK...

[Fbone]

Never Go Back (with bonus novella High Heat) (Jack Reacher, Book 18) by Lee Child is $2.99. This hasn't been on sale in years.

https://smile.amazon.com/Never-Back-...s%2C182&sr=1-1

[Fbone]

Warning: child abduction

The Target (An FBI Thriller Book 3) by Catherine Coulter is $1.99

https://smile.amazon.com/Target-FBI-...t%2C239&sr=1-1

[Fbone]

Death Below Stairs (Kat Holloway Mysteries #1) by Jennifer Ashley is $1.99. I'm not familiar with this Victorian cozy series.

Victorian class lines are crossed when cook Kat Holloway is drawn into a murder that reaches all the way to the throne.

Highly sought-after young cook Kat Holloway takes a position in a Mayfair mansion and soon finds herself immersed in the odd household of Lord Rankin. Kat is unbothered by the family’s eccentricities as long as they stay away from her kitchen, but trouble finds its way below stairs when her young Irish assistant is murdered.

Intent on discovering who killed the helpless kitchen maid, Kat turns to the ever-capable Daniel McAdam, who is certainly much more than the charming delivery man he pretends to be. Along with the assistance of Lord Rankin’s unconventional sister-in-law and a mathematical genius, Kat and Daniel discover that the household murder was the barest tip of a plot rife with danger and treason—one that’s a threat to Queen Victoria herself.

https://smile.amazon.com/Death-Below...t%2C167&sr=1-2

[sufue]

Open Road/Mysterious Press titles usually go on sale for $1.99 or $2.99 and it's a little unusual to see one at $0.99...

Archie in the Crosshairs is the 10th in Robert Goldsborough's really good IMO continuation of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin series. It is $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US, coupon/VIPable at Kobo.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Q5UWNDQ
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/arc...the-crosshairs

Spoiler:

Mystery fans will devour this entry into the classic, wisecracking Nero Wolfe series, in which Wolfe must track down a dangerous gunman—or risk losing his right-hand man

Archie Goodwin is chipper as he strolls home from his weekly poker game, money in his pocket and a smile on his lips. He has just reached Nero Wolfe’s stately brownstone on West Thirty-Fifth Street when a sedan whips around the corner and two gunshots ring out, nearly hitting Goodwin. It is a warning, and the message is clear: The next bullet will not miss.

Rotund investigator Nero Wolfe has made more than his fair share of enemies over the years, and it seems one of them has decided to strike, targeting Wolfe’s indefatigable assistant. Some might run for cover, but Archie Goodwin is not the type. With the help of Wolfe’s brainpower, Goodwin will find the man who wants him dead—unless the killer gets to Goodwin first.

Nero Award–winning author Robert Goldsborough continues the brilliant work of Rex Stout in this classic mystery series. According to Publishers Weekly, “Goldsborough cleverly captures the tone and language of the originals. Rex Stout fans can only hope he has no plans to wind up the series soon.”

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Now a couple of these Canelo editions of early Dick Francis titles have dropped to $0.99 at Kindle US, so if you didn't bite at $2-ish, maybe this will do it!

Flying Finish: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TYL47Q1

Knockdown (also on sale/coupon/VIPable at Kobo US)
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Q85KKKY/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/knockdown-4

Originally Posted by sufue

About a dozen (for now) early Dick Francis titles, from the 1960s and 1970s, appear to be coming out in the US from a new publisher, Canelo USA, at attractive prices - $2.51 to $.2.99. A few are out now, and several are pre-orders for July. (If I'm really being honest, I think such old backlist should be $0.99 or $1.99, but $2.99 and under is still not bad - especially since other backlist Francis titles that are currently published by Penguin in the US range mostly from $5.99 to $8.99...)

So, if you've been dying to get some old paperbacks off your shelf, or want to fill in some gaps, or reread an old title that you remember, it might be time to take a look.

link (with a couple of strays): http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?sea...price-asc-rank

[sufue]

Four of the six titles (including the most recent, 2019) in Adrian Magson's Lucas Rocco series are priced at £0.99 right now at Kindle UK.

Death on the Marais, #1, https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07R7XZ1FW/

Death on the Rive Nord, #2: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07RBYVVML/

Death on the Pont Noir, #3: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07RC2M4WC/

Rocco and the Price of Lies, #6: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rocco-Price...dp/B07NGTMZQR/

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And The Watchman, which is the first in Magson's Marc Portman series, is $1.99 as part of today's US Kindle Daily Deal. This looks to be more of a thriller than the Rocco titles from above. I've read and liked the first few Rocco titles, but haven't read any in this series.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IYQLRMC/

Spoiler:

Introducing professional watcher and deep cover specialist Marc Portman in the first of this stunning new series

He's a professional shadow. A watcher who provides protection in potentially hostile situations. He works in the background, stays off the record. Often the people he's guarding have no idea he's there. Some people know him as Portman.

When two British intelligence agents are despatched to negotiate the release of a group of western hostages in Somalia, veteran MI6 operator Tom Vane realizes that something about this operation doesn't stack up. Unwilling to see two promising officers sacrificed in what he believes to be a suicide mission, he covertly hires deep cover specialist Marc Portman to protect them.

Heading for the wild and lawless land on the Kenyan/Somali border, Portman soon realizes that the British Intelligence Services have been double-crossed. Can he survive long enough to keep his charges alive and prevent a catastrophe?

[Fbone]

The Last Talk with Lola Faye (Otto Penzler Books) by Thomas H. Cook is $1.99

https://smile.amazon.com/Last-Talk-L...s%2C172&sr=8-1

A “marvelously tense” novel of psychological suspense centered on a long-ago crime of passion, from an Edgar Award–winning author (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

With dreams of academic greatness, Lucas Paige rose from humble and sordid beginnings to attend Harvard. But his achievements since then have been meager. In St. Louis to give yet another sparsely attended reading, he discovers a face from the past he’s tried to forget: Lola Faye Gilroy, the “other woman” he long blamed for his father’s murder.

Reluctantly, Luke joins Lola Faye for a drink. As one drink turns into several, these two battered souls relive, from their different perspectives, the most searing experience of their lives. They are transported back to the tiny southern town of Glenville, Alabama, where a violent crime of passion is turned in the light once more. As it turns out, there is much Luke doesn’t know. And what he doesn’t know can hurt him.

Trapped in an increasingly intense exchange, Luke struggles to gain control and determine what Lola Faye is truly after—before it is too late.

[tch65721]

One Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Cross (Rabbi Small book 10) by Harry Kemelman - $.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZJZH53G

[GA Russell]

The Judge's House (Inspector Maigret Book 22) - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/Judges-House-...dp/B00XVB9C90/