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And a bunch more Endeavour Press backlist titles on US Kindle Countdown Deal...
(I'm trying to keep up with the Endeavour Press countdown deals, since I like a couple of the authors, but if you really want to pick up most/all of the titles by a particular author, it would behoove you to keep an eye out yourself too...) Shades of Death (non-series) by Aline Templeton is $0.99 for 4 3/4 more days, going up to $3.99 link: http://www.amazon.com/Shades-Death-A.../dp/B00LR68CFQ blurb: Spoiler:
A Death to Remember (non-series) by Roger Ormerod is $0.99 for 2 3/4 more days, before going up to $3.99. link: http://www.amazon.com/Death-Remember.../dp/B00L6H0XA8 blurb: Spoiler:
A Shot at Nothing is the third book in Roger Ormerod's Philipa Lowe/Oliver Simpson series, and is $0.99 for 4 3/4 more days, before going up to $3.99. link: http://www.amazon.com/Shot-at-Nothin.../dp/B00MI6BNAK blurb: Spoiler:
Bring Forth Your Dead is the fourth in JM Gregson's John Lambert/Bert Hook series, and is $0.99 for 2 3/4 more days, before going up to $3.99. link: http://www.amazon.com/Bring-Forth-Yo.../dp/B00LN4WGJA blurb: Spoiler:
A Night to Forget is the eleventh in Frederic Lindsay's Inspector Jim Meldrum series. It is $0.99 for about 4 3/4 more days, before going up to $2.99. link: http://www.amazon.com/Night-Forget-I.../dp/B00GDIY5UE blurb: Spoiler:
Dead March for Penelope Blow is in the Thomas Littlejohn series by George Bellairs (sorry, it's a long series and I was too lazy to count down on the SYKM website). It's $0.99 for 1 3/4 more days, before going up to $3.99. link: http://www.amazon.com/Dead-March-Pen.../dp/B00OJ0ZOE4 blurb: Spoiler:
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And one more US Kindle Countdown deal that I found of interest, but not Endeavour Press (!!!)
Unwilling Accomplice is the seventh in the Munch Mancini series by Barbara Seranella. It's $1.99, down from $2.99, for about 17 more hours. link: http://www.amazon.com/Unwilling-Acco.../dp/B00GLUBVGK blurb: Spoiler:
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Thanks Sufue ! I know what you mean about Endeavour Press lately. They have been sending over many British Authors that I have not read yet myself. Templeton is one, I'm going to try for 99 cents, Really great way to try new authors with countdown deals. Also many are on Prime for free.
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Free from Simon and Schuster: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. This offer does not appear to be available in the UK.
Wikipedia Description from Goodreads: Quote:
Amazon CA: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00L01GHAA/ Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L01GHAA/ |
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It's in the UK at Amazon, under a different ASIN. Also B&N (also UK), Kobo & iTunes & Google Play (all available to Canadians). X-link to the Cozy Mystery megathread: Free from the author('s republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon: Suicide King by Shelley Singer, 5th in her Jake Samson & Rosie Vicente cozy mystery series starring a Jewish ex-cop and his lesbian carpenter sidekick, originally out from St. Martin's Press in 1988. Also, free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon (linkage for the lot): Michael A. Smith repeats two of his suspense thrillers originally out from St. Martin's Press and Avon, both in 1980: Secrets & Legacy of the Lake |
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Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:
The Stone Dog by Robert Mitchell, whose bio-blurb says that he has won an Australian writing prize for another novel, and that he himself has had former marine salvage experience. This one is a period-set international sunken treasure hunt thriller originally out from Queensland-based small publisher Boolarong Press in 1995. 20th September 1917 – Wakaya, Fiji. The Count Felix von Luckner, Master of the German raider Seeadler, lowers a sealed iron chest into the waters of a small unnamed bay under cover of darkness. 17th December 1971 – Cairns, Australia. The chance mention of von Luckner’s name revives memories of boyhood tales of the secrets of that far-off night, and of the iron chest watched over by the stone dog. But were the tales, told by Uncle Max, bosun on the Seeadler those fifty-four years ago, true, or were they merely that, yarns, nothing more? And if true – would the chest still be there? And if true – will it be worth the bloodshed? |
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15 Mysteries from Gladys Mitchell's "Mrs. Bradley Mysteries" are on for today only as part of US Amazon.com's daily deals, for $1.99. They include 'Speedy Death', the first in series, which I've been searching for for some time.
I really enjoy this series. She is considered one of the three Grand Dames of Mysteries, along with Agatha Christie and my favourite of the three, Dorothy Sayers. My personal view only, is that her writing may not be quite of the same standard, but never-the-less, I enjoy them and recommend to others who like their ilk. If her plots are a bit less crisp, she makes up for it by taking more risks in terms of social conventions. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...d_i=1000677541 Last edited by Victoria; 11-24-2014 at 05:35 PM. |
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The four authors who are generally regarded as being the "queens" of the genre are Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and Dorothy L. Sayers (who, as with you, is my favourite). I'll have to give her a go - thanks for the recommendation. Last edited by HarryT; 11-25-2014 at 09:50 AM. |
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Acqua Alta (Commissario Brunetti #5) by Donna Leon is $1.99 today.
Kobo US (couponable): http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/acqua-alta Amazon CA: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0097CYFF8 Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0097CYFF8 |
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The Exploits of Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc is free today from Mysterious Press/ Open Road Media.
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Felony and Mayhem Press is having a "Thanksgiving Week" ebook sale, with backlist titles for $4.99.
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One other author/series of theirs that I like, not referenced in their blog post, is the Blotto and Twinks series by Simon Brett - they offer four titles in that series as ebooks. I also think that they must not have e-rights, at least in the US, to many of their books. For example, Germanicus, by one of my favorite historical authors, David Wishart, is listed as available in DTB from them, but not as an ebook. It is available as an ebook in the UK from Hodder, but doesn't seem to be available in the US (at least not on Amazon or Kobo) as an ebook at all. (Glad I could travel to get that series...) Similarly, Annamaria Alfieri's City of Silver is available from F&M only in DTB, but offered as an ebook in the US by Minotaur. And similarly actually for most of their titles...available in DTB, but not in ebook...sigh! For me, $4.99 is REALLY the upper limit I'll pay for a backlist ebook, and even then I have to really really want it, but if they happen to offer an ebook you want, their ebooks are usually a lot more than that. Here's a link to their home page: http://felonyandmayhem.com/ Last edited by sufue; 11-25-2014 at 03:22 PM. Reason: corrected Charles Brett --> Simon Brett |
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Free from the author('s republishing consortium) via KDP Select @ Amazon:
True-Life Adventure by Edgar Award-winner Julie Smith (ISFDB, Wikipedia), 1st in her humorous-looking Paul McDonald series starring an ex-reporter turned mystery writer, set in San Francisco. This originally came out from Warner Books in 1985. He KNOWS TOO MUCH—but he doesn't know what he knows… Things were going lousy for ex-reporter Paul Mcdonald: No money, no girl friend, no bright new career as a mystery novelist … and then along came private investigator Jack Birnbaum with an offer: he’d detect, and Paul would write the client reports. It wasn’t much, but it would keep Spot the cat in Kitty Queen tidbits. But then somebody poisoned Jack in Paul’s own living room. A day that begins with a body in your house really ought to get better, but next comes burglary and after that, assault-by-cop. And Paul’s got a feeling that’s just the beginning. There must have been something someone didn't want him to know in one of those client reports. But what? The wise-cracking, funny, but slightly depressed ex-journalist better become an ace private investigator in about two seconds—or end up like his detective mentor. Birnbaum's last report concerned a kidnapped child, so Paul begins there. The trail leads him to the laboratory of a Nobel laureate geneticist, and then to San Francisco City Hall, where an extremely nasty surprise awaits. But there’s an upside—lovely witness Sardis Kincannon. Nothing like falling in love while you’re running for your life! |
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Bargain @ $1.99 for today only (Nov 25th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, should be available in all the standard US stores, seems geo-restricted to US-only, etc.):
The Nostradamus Traitor by the late British author John Gardner (SYKM, Wikipedia; apparently there's an identically-named US novelist as well), a vintage espionage action thriller in his Herbie Kruger series starring an aging British Intelligence spy, originally out from Doubleday in 1979. SYKM notes that this was a finalist for the Golden Dagger Award, as was the next-in-series, and that Gardner was also chosen by Ian Fleming's estate to continue the Bond novels, as well. A widow’s plea sucks a spy into the web of a decades-old plot against the Third Reich Though she approaches the guard at the Tower of London like any other tourist, Frau Fenderman’s question does not concern the crown jewels. She wants to know where her husband, a Nazi spy captured in 1941, was executed and buried. The inquiry is passed on to Big Herbie Kruger, an aging spy who is smart enough to know that, three decades after war’s end, the darkest secrets are yet to be told. A massive man whose heavy features obscure a nimble intelligence, Kruger loves drink, Mahler, and espionage. Digging into Fenderman’s story, he uncovers a staggering plot against the life of one of Hitler’s right-hand men—a scheme whose failure nearly lost England the war. As he uncovers more about this forgotten operation, Kruger finds that the oldest secrets are sometimes the most lethal. |
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