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The Harper's Quine (Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery)

6 reviews
Pat McIntosh

Robinson Publishing, 2007

Great start
This is an excellent start to a historical mystery series featuring Gil Cunningham, an aspiring lawyer in 1492 Glasgow, Scotland. While Columbus was discovering America, Gil is looking for suspects in the brutal stabbing of a woman who was a member of a traveling troupe of musicians. Since Bess Stewart was killed on church property and Gil finds her body, his uncle the Canon decrees that he ...

Death, Taxes and Leaky Waders

8 reviews
John Gierach

Robinson Publishing, 2002

Great Outdoor Book
Death, Taxes and Leaky Waders Time, little pieces of forever crumbling into tomorrow, so fleeting so fast, so damn close to April 15th and tax day. I received a letter from the IRS, and after a big breath, and popping a fresh load of buckshot into the old 12 gauge, I decided to read it. Appears the government is giving me $600 of my own money back in order to stimulate the economy. They could ...

Survival in the Killing Fields

16 reviews
Haing S. Ngor, Roger Warner

Robinson Publishing, 2003

Oh My God! How Could We have let this go on!
Before this book, I had only vaguely heard of the name Pol Pot and the nation of Cambodia. Where I go to school, we have history for four years, but never get past the Civil war. As I was changing the television station, I heard the name Pol Pot and Cambodian again. This time I was determined to educate myself and I bought this book. I was horrified, I was ashamed, I was overwhelmed. ...

Complete History of Jack the Ripper

69 reviews
Philip Sugden

Robinson Publishing, 2002

The man who gave birth to the 20th Century
An in-depth history of the most infamous serial killer of all time. This is a supremely well-researched and factual account of the crimes, the clues, and the suspects. In the graphic novel, "From Hell" Jack the Ripper is quoted as saying, "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century." So real you will be transported to fog-shrouded London streets where one hears ...

When Words are Not Enough

17 reviews
Valerie Davis Raskin

Robinson Publishing, 1999

So true
This was the best book I have ever read on depression.

The Sirens Sang of Murder (A Legal Whodunnit)

8 reviews
Sarah Caudwell

Robinson Publishing, 2002

Not for everyone
The humor is elaborate and depends on convoluted witticisms couched in a pastiche of eighteenth century prose, alternating with sharp observations of contemporary British life and amazingly effective slapstick. This sort of thing has to be done superbly well or it falls flat. This is done superbly well. The plot seems completely fantastic until the murderer is revealed and you realise you should ...

Songs of a Dead Dreamer

7 reviews
Thomas Ligotti

Robinson Publishing, 1989

Dreams of a Mad Mutant Borges of the Midwest
This unarguable classic collection of stories appeared at the end of the 1980s. Horror fiction, or what publishers chose to market as horror fiction, was big business. However, there is a large variety of styles under this arbitrary umbrella ("Horror isn't a genre, it's an emotion", editor/author David Hartwell). Authors such as Stephen King and Dean Koontz had become best sellers with novels ...

The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette (Country House Crime)

5 reviews
R.T. Raichev

Robinson Publishing, 2006

R. T. Raichev delivers!
English mysteries abound, so contributing an original, distinctive addition to the genre represents quite a feat. "The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette" meets the challenge thanks to the peppy, agile writing of author Raichev and his creative approach to formulating and solving a perplexing mystery about a young girl with developmental problems who, on the day Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer were ...

The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F.Benson

11 reviews
E.F. Benson

Robinson Publishing, 2001

Jewels of 1920's English Supernatural Fiction
E.F. Benson, perhaps best known for his amusing 'Mapp & Lucia' comedy-of-manners stories also wrote a respectable body of ghost stories which are gathered together in this excellent omnibus anthology. All make for quality reading as examples of the English supernatural genre but a few stand out as darkly-luminous masterpieces, unforgettable in their haunting hold upon the reader and written with ...

Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories

5 reviews

Robinson Publishing, 1999

wonderful collection
The variety of stories in this book is wonderful; some are risque, some are tragic, some are terribly romantic... sexy, sad, nostalgic, and funny. Most times I couldn't put it down. My favorite story has to be "The Lobster Queen" because it reminds me so much of my first romantic... episode with a woman. It's positively heart-wrenching. Other excellent stories include "The Woman Who Loved the ...

Tug of War (Joe Sandilands Murder Mystery)

4 reviews
Barbara Cleverly

Robinson Publishing, 2008

The impact of war
Commander Joe Sandilands is planning to take his 14-year-old niece, Dorcas, to be reunited with her father in the South of France. However, his superior has asked that he stop in Reims. A former soldier, suffering from shell shock, residing at a local sanatorium, is being claimed as the husband of a wealthy owner of a champagne vineyard. The woman's son claims his mother murdered her husband ...

Napoleon's Expedition to Russia: The Memoirs of General de Segur

4 reviews
Philippe de Segur

Robinson Publishing, 2003

Relive the horror and tragedy of the Russian Campaign
I haven't read many books about Napoleon's invasion of Russia 1812 but I found this book to be an enjoyable read. Segur provides an intimate view of the challenges that Napoleon faced during the autumn of 1812. Segur's description of the retreat from Moscow and ensuing massacre is vivid enough to allow the reader to gain a sense of the dread, fear and utter panic that the soldiers endured as ...

Oscar Wilde

4 reviews
Frank Harris

Robinson Publishing, 1992

"The best life of Oscar Wilde", said George Bernard Shaw.
"The best life of Oscar Wilde", said George Bernard Shaw after reading this book. I cannot but agree with him utterly. No unnecesary data is wasted, no long reflexions bore us. It's just an Oscar's very close friend telling us with great elegance and delicacy the story of one he has admired and loved so much, but without fear of saying the truth. Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. Of ...

The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (Mammoth Book) (Mammoth Book)

5 reviews

Robinson Publishing, 2006

Entertaining Collection of How-They-Dun-It Murder Mysteries!
Publishers Carroll & Graf and its crack editor Mike Ashley serve up another wonderful collection of murder mysteries. In this case the stories collected are of a kind, seemingly impossible murders that defy explanation. As always, Ashley's instincts are impeccable with nary a clunker found in the 30 stories therein. The stories in this anthology span the years from 1910(!)to 2006 with authors ...

Celestial Dogs

4 reviews
Jay Russell

Robinson Publishing, 1996

A genre-crossing thriller that I couldn't put down
Celestial Dogs, which I stumbled upon doing a search through Amazon, is the story of a Raymond Chandler -isque private detective who gets caught up in a supernatural plot to summon real demons into present-day Los Angeles. As "Ghostbusterish" as that sounds, the author pulls it off beautifully, mixing humor with intensely graphic suspense. I especially love Russell's writing style and look ...

Death of an Old Master

4 reviews
David Dickinson

Robinson Publishing, 2005

Witty, Intriguing, Highly Readable
This is the third installment in the Lord Powerscourt series, which I've been reading in order, and it's definitely my favourite so far. I don't know how accurately the art market of the 1890s is portrayed, but Dickinson describes it wittily and seemingly knowledgably. I found myself becoming just as interested in how the conniving gallery owner was able to jack up prices and foist his forgeries ...

Sleep of Death (Shakespearean Murder Mystery 1)

4 reviews

Robinson Publishing

Sleep of Death
This was a truly great read! Nick Revill, an aspiring actor with the Chamberlin's Men, investigates the death of a wealthy landowner, who seems to have died in a fashion similar to that of Hamlet's father. Is art imitating fiction or is there something more sinister afoot? Lovers of historical mysteries will quite naturally look for similarites between this work and that of Edward Marston's ...

Love's Witness: 5 Centuries of Love Poetry by Women

4 reviews

Robinson Publishing, 1993

A must for the romantic, male or female.
To think that women's views on love and relationships as far back as 500 years ago hasn't changed one bit and never will. So diverse, yet so common. The selections are excellent!

Bartram's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine

3 reviews
Thomas Bartram

Robinson Publishing, 1998

A true herbal classic
I love alternative medicine classics - books that are uniquely authoritative and crammed with information. I use this book constantly. There is simply no other source of herbal information which is so comprehensive. It must have taken a lifetime to write. This book is also holistic and does not bow to science at the expense of leaving out valuable traditional information. Linda Lazarides Author: ...

A Feast of Carrion

4 reviews
Keith McCarthy

Robinson Publishing, 2005

Real people with real flaws and vices
This is a challenging book to read. The vocabulary sometimes requires a dictionary. Some, but very little, is quite graphic and appropriately graphic--nothing gratuitous. The author takes the world as it is: with incompetent cops, often caring only for promotion and sexual comforts; intelligent professors and doctors doing bad things, unalloyed bad things. The story moves along at a steady ...

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