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11-15-2017, 02:54 PM | #1427 |
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11-15-2017, 06:35 PM | #1428 |
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The John Creasey Box Set 1 contains three titles in the Department Z series by (ummmm....) John Creasey. Titles are: First Came a Murder, Death Round the Corner, and The Mark of the Crescent. It has dropped to $1.99/£1.99 at Kindle US/UK as a Countdown deal for a little more/less than one day, depending on where you are. It seems slightly strange to me that these are titles 2, 3, and 4 in the series, so if you like to read in order, you're out of luck. (Just FYI, the first title, Redhead, is $3.99/£2.99 right now.)
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/John-Creasey-...dp/B01BC9M7A8/ Kiindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Crease...dp/B01BC9M7A8/ Spoiler:
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11-15-2017, 11:15 PM | #1429 |
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Sufue, Amazon says that #1 in the Department Z series is "The Death Miser," which it has for 99 cents.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Miser-D...dp/B015GAXLZO/ |
11-16-2017, 11:36 AM | #1430 |
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Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity is $2.99 on Amazon
Salman Rushdie had some fun applying Robert Ludlum's naming pattern to Shakespeare's plays. In Rushdie's hands, and with only a few seconds to think about it, Hamlet became The Elsinore Vacillation. Challenged with Macbeth, Rushdie apparently again stepped up with The Dunsinane Reforestation. From there, The Merchant of Venice became The Rialto Sanction and Othello The Kerchief Implication. |
11-16-2017, 12:22 PM | #1431 | |
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Hmmmm...SYKM says it's Redhead, which appears first in their list. But then they also say, when I look more closely, that the list is of Creasey's "Department Z and tales of British counterespionage", so maybe Amazon feels that one is part of "tales of British counterespionage", but not "Department Z" . I'm not familiar with this series, so don't have an independent opinion.
And I did miss The Death Miser, which does appear as the second title in SYKM's list, then followed by First Came a Murder, Death ’round the Corner, and The Mark of the Crescent, which SYKM has as titles 3, 4, and 5; not 2, 3, and 4 as I indicated above. The order of some of these older series can be challenging some times, especially if some were serialized or things like that. I usually go by SYKM for no particular reason other than that I like their website....but I did miss Death Miser as #2... Quote:
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11-16-2017, 06:39 PM | #1432 |
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Through November 30th, Kobo UK is having a sale on Historical Mysteries for £2.99 and under, with most titles priced at the £0.99 and £1.99 mark. It seems to be a spotlight of titles already discounted by the publishers rather than one of their special arrangements (some of the Hodder/Headline & Head of Zeus titles have been on sale for a while now), but some of them are couponable/VIP-eligible.
There's a pretty good selection from major and specialty publishers, including titles by authors Mark Gatiss (of BBC Sherlock tv series fame), Ellis Peters (a few installments of her Brother Cadfael series), Priscilla Royal (I've enjoyed what I've read of her medieval mysteries set at a nunnery, of which we've gotten the 1st one as a freebie long ago), C. J. Sansom (a 10th anniversary edition of the 1st novel in his Tudor era series), S. J. Parris, and more. There's also some true crime, ranging from medieval times up to the present day. Linkage to the main sale page with categories: Scandals and Sleuths, Historical Whodunnits & Thrillers, Medieval Mysteries, Tudor Terrors, and More, Dark Undersides of the Past, Romantic Mysteries, Mysteries of History (all non-fiction, though the holy grail stuff may be debatable; the one about how the Victorians sensationalized and invented modern crime from a HarperCollins imprint looks interesting and certainly gives you value for money, at an ~800 pagecount for just £0.99) Last edited by ATDrake; 11-16-2017 at 07:01 PM. |
11-16-2017, 07:32 PM | #1433 |
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Bargain @ $1.99 from Penguin's Berkley imprint in Canada & the US (price should be the same at all the usual retailers):
Prince of Darkness by historical novelist Sharon Kay Penman (SYKM, Wikipedia), 4th in her Edgar-nominated Medieval Mystery series starring Justin de Quincy, a bastard son of a bishop, who apparently serves Eleanor of Aquitaine circa the reign of Richard the Lionheart. The Edgar®-nominated author of the medieval mysteries featuring Justin de Quincy places the Queen’s Man far from home—and in the presence of a most cunning foe... Justin de Quincy has been lured to Paris by his nemesis, Prince John, on a mission of mercy. The prince is suspected in a plot to kill his brother, King Richard. Despite John’s hunger for the crown, he’s unwilling to put himself at risk for regicide—and he wants Justin’s help in discrediting the document that implicates him. Justin only concedes to John’s request when he realizes that the welfare of the woman he serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is also at risk. It is a concession that will take him to a bloody chamber at Mont St Michel, to a putrid dungeon in Brittany, to a murderous encounter in a Paris cemetery, and to the unraveling of a conspiracy that might have changed the course of English history. |
11-16-2017, 07:58 PM | #1434 |
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Prince of Darkness at Amazon too, for $1.99
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11-17-2017, 10:41 AM | #1435 |
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James Ellroy's Suicide Hill has dropped to $1.99 on Amazon. This is the third in a trilogy and the first two aren't currently on sale, FYI.
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11-17-2017, 12:06 PM | #1436 | |
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As I mentioned a few posts back, when this first dropped to $1.99, I love this series. I am biased to historical mysteries, but even among historicals, this is one of my favorites. Penman's titles don't go on sale very often, at least in the US, so if you think you might want to read it, you should grab it, even though it is the fourth in the far-too-short 4-book series.
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11-17-2017, 04:21 PM | #1437 |
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Oops, I definitely missed it earlier, else I'd have picked it up from your heads-up (been meaning to try Penman for her regular historicals for a while now). A few more price drops available in Canada & the US which don't seem to have been mentioned yet (should be the same price at all the regular retailers): @ $1.99 in the US only from Penguin's G. P. Putnam & Sons imprint: Kinsey and Me: Stories by Sue Grafton (SYKM, Wikipedia), author of the Shamus & Award-winning Kinsey Millhone “alphabet” mysteries, a collection of her short stories, with introductory notes to each tale. @ $1.99 in US & Canada from HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster imprints:
@ $2.99 in Canada & US from Penguin's Berkley imprint: An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries by Susan Wittig Albert (SYKM, Wikipedia), a collection of short stories with recipes in her China Bayles gardening gimmick cozies starring an herbalist ex-lawyer. The intro says these were originally written for a gardening website to go along with various featurettes, and have been fleshed out and expanded, with each story retaining the original informative sidebars. Last edited by ATDrake; 11-17-2017 at 04:28 PM. |
11-18-2017, 08:47 AM | #1438 |
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The Judgment of Caesar is the 10th in the Gordianus the Finder series by Steven Saylor, whose books rarely go on sale (at least here in the US). It has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US.
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Three titles on sale for a bit more than I usually like to purchase at, but the first two are titles by authors whose books rarely go on sale, and the other is set in such an interesting time period that I'm probably going to buy it, especially since I have a yen for historical mysteries...
Hollow Mountain is the third in the Spike Sanguinetti series by Thomas Mogford. I've read and enjoyed the first two, so I may (or may not) ante up $4.23 for it at Kindle US. For some reason (perhaps because they have a road running across their airport, which has to close (the road, not the airport ) whenever a plane takes off or lands), I've always wanted to visit Gibraltar, and I tend to enjoy books set there. link: https://www.amazon.com/Hollow-Mounta...dp/B00J5ED8E2/ Spoiler:
The Strangling on the Stage is third from last (so far) in the Fethering series by Simon Brett. I've read and enjoyed several of the early titles in this series in DTB, but since I've shifted to e-books, and Brett's e-books are pretty pricey, I haven't read many. Strangling has dropped to $3.55 at Kindle US. link: https://www.amazon.com/Strangling-St...dp/B00HS2C0MY/ Spoiler:
The Hot Country is the first in the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series by Robert Olen Butler. It has gone on sale for $3.91 at Kindle US. I'm usually reluctant to spend that much on a new-to-me author, and on a book that calls itself a thriller rather than the mystery, but the setting/timing (Mexican civil war, during US invasion of Vera Cruz, in the run-up to WWI) make this sound pretty intriguing to me. So I'm probably going to buy this one... link: https://www.amazon.com/Country-Chris...dp/B008DYIGR4/ Spoiler:
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The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam is the first in the Good Thief's Guides series by Chris Ewan. It is free right now at Kindle UK. I've read a couple of the titles in this series back in DTB, and enjoyed them, and I just recently purchased the 5-book omnibus (info in this post) that seems to be available lots of places, although not in the US or Canada.
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