DOCUMENT RESUME ED 360 972 IR 054 650 TITLE More Mysteries. INSTITUTION Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. REPORT NO ISBN-0-8444-0763-1 PUB DATE 92 NOTE 172p. PUB TYPE Reference Materials Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Annotated Bibliographies; Audiodisks; *Audiotape Recordings; Authors; *Blindness; *Braille; Government Libraries; Large Type Materials; Nonprint Media; *Novels; *Short Stories; *Talking Books IDENTIFIERS *Detective Stories; Library of Congress; *Mysteries (Literature) ABSTRACT This document is a guide to selected detective and mystery stories produced after the publication of the 1982 bibliography "Mysteries." All books listed are available on cassette or in braille in the network library collections provided by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress. In addition to this largn-print edition, the bibliography is available on disc and braille formats. This edition contains approximately 700 titles available on cassette and in braille, while the disc edition lists only cassettes, and the braille edition, only braille. Books available on flexible disk are cited at the end of the annotation of the cassette version. The bibliography is divided into 2 Prol;fic Authors section, for authors with more than six titles listed, and Other Authors section, a short stories section and a section for multiple authors. Each citation contains a short summary of the plot. An order form for the cited items is included. An alphabetical index is also provided. 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More mysteries / National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the Library of Congress. cm. p. Includes indexes. ISBN 0-8444-0763-1 Z663.119.M67 ---- 1992 I. Blind--Books and reading--Bibliography. 2. Talking books-- 3. Detective and mystery stories--Bibliography. Bibliography. I. Title. Z5346.L5 1992 [HV1721] 016.823'0872--dc20 92-30160 CIP BEST COPY AVAILABLE Contents Elmore Leonard Introduction v Cassettes 15 Braille 16 Prolific Authors Robert Barnard John D. MacDonald Cassettes 1 Cassettes 17 Braille 18 Simon Brett Cassettes 2 Charlotte MacLeod Braille 3 Cassettes 18 Braille 19 Agatha Christie Cassettes 3 J.J. Marric Braille 5 Cassettes 19 20 Braille Robin Cook Cassettes 5 William Marshall Braille 6 20 Cassettes Braille 21 Amanda Cross Cassettes 6 Ed McBain Braille 7 22 Cassettes 24 Braille Peter Dickinson Cassettes 7 Ralph McInerny Braille 8 24 Cassettes 25 Braille Dick Francis Cassettes 9 Margaret Millar Braille 10 26 Cassettes 27 Braille Sue Grafton Cassettes 11 Robert B. Parker Braille 12 27 Cassettes 28 Braille Martha Grimes Cassettes 13 Hugh Pentecost Braille 14 29 Cassettes 29 Braille William X. Kienzle Cassettes 14 iii Contents Ellis Peters Multiple Authors Cassettes 30 Cassettes 106 Braille Braille 32 107 Bill Pronzini Other Bibliographies 109 Cassettes 32 Braille 33 Index Cassettes 110 Ruth Rendell Braille 142 Cassettes 34 Braille 34 Order Form 159 Lawrence Sanders Cassettes 35 Braille 36 Georges Simenon Cassettes 36 Braille 37 Rex Stout Cassettes 37 Braille 38 Margaret Truman Cassettes 38 Braille 39 Phyllis A. Whitney 40 Cassettes Braille 41 Other Authors 42 Cassettes Braille 83 Short Stor ies Single Author Cassettes 103 Braille 105 iv Introduction and Andrew Vachss are both lawyers; More Mysteries is a guide to selected Vachss at one time was director of a maxi- detective 'and mystery stories produced mum security institution. after the publication of the 1982 bibliogra- Other writers turn to mysteries as a phy Mysteries. All books listed are avail- diversion from academic work. Amanda able on cassette or in braille in the net- Cross, creator of Kate Fansler, the profes- work library collections provided by the sorial amateur detective, is a professor of National Library Service for the Blind and English literature named Carolyn Physically Handicapped, Library of Con- Heilbrun. Ralph McInerney is a professor gress. of medieval philosophy and Martha This bibliography is available in large- Grimes, of English literature. Dorothy L. print, disc, and braille formats. The large- Sayers's background as a medievalist print edition contains approximately 700 showed when Lord Peter Wimsey pro- titles available on cassette and in braille. posed marriage in Latin at the end of The disc edition lists only cassettes; the Gaudy Night. Umberto Eco incorporates braille edition lists only braille. In the his concerns as a semiotician in,o the large-print and disc editions, books avail- fabric of his novels. Margaret Truman able on flexible disc are cited at the end of was working on a book about the White the annotation of the cassette version. House when it occurred to her that she Mysteries attract a wide variety of would rather use the White House as a people as readers and as writers. At the setting for a murder mystery. most basic level is the lure of a puzzle. Some authors are so prolific that their Agatha Christie confessed that she en- writing would have left little time for joyed planning her mysteries much more other professions. Georges Simenon and than writing them. William Marshall has John Creasey each wrote more than 500 pointed out that mysteries provide the novels. Both used a variety of pseud- opportunity to visit various levels of soci- onyms with Creasey creating a different ety. In many other types of fiction the name to sign to each of his detective action takes place in a narrow social set- series. Agatha Christie jokingly compared ting. An investigator, however, is free to her output to that of a sausage factory. travel through various levels of society Perhaps the most powerful draw of the and ask questions along the way. mystery is the personality of the detective, In many cases the background of the whose life frequently goes on beyond that author adds authenticity to the portrait. of the author. John Creasey, under the Many mystery writers have eperience name J.J. Marric, created Inspector with police work and strive for a realistic Gideon. Since Creasey's death a new portrait to counter the shoot-'em-up Manic has risen to the challenge of con- cliché. Joseph Wambaugh and Dorothy tinuing Gideon's adventures. Robert B. Uhnak are both former detectives. He Parker took the four chapters that served on the Los Angeles police force, Raymond Chandler had written of Poodle she, on the New York City police force. Springs and completed the Philip Marlowe P.D. James was a civil servant in the novel. Later Parker decided to write a criminal department of the British Depart- Philip Marlowe tale of his own, ment of Home Affairs. John Mortimer Introduction Perchance to Dream, a sequel to The Big Sleep. This bibliography is divided into three sections. The Prolific Authors section covers authors who have more than six titles listed. Titles are first separated for author, then arranged alphabetically by title under headings for cassette and braille. If an author writes about a par- ticular detective, the name of that charac- ter is provided. In the Other Authors section, books are separated by medium, then arranged alphabetically by author. The Short Stories section is divided be- tween collections by a single author and anthologies by multiple authors, then by medium and title. To locate books, check under the appropriate medium in either the table of contents or the alphabetical au- thor-title index. To order books, fill out the order form at the back of the bibliography and send it to your cooperating library. Book numbers are separated according the media. Flex- ible-disc numbers have a separate listing. vi Prolific Authors Robert Barnard Corpse in a Gilded Cap RC 22002 narrated by David Palmer Detectives: Perry Trethowan and Others 2 cassettes A satiric murder entertainment that com- Cassettes ments on the British class system. A lower-class English couple, Perce and At Death's Door RC 29317 Elsie, somehow inherit a palatial mansion narrated by John Horton and a title. Perce insists he wants to sell 2 cassettes the estate despite his family's conflicting A famous novelist lies old, ill, and help- ideas of what to do with Chetton Hall. less upstairs in his house. One day his When Perce is found murdered after his illegitimate daughter, the product of a sixtieth birthday party, everyone in the liaison with an actress, arrives researching family is considered a suspect. 1984. a vitriolic biography of her mother. The Death and the Chaste Apprentice actress comes to thwart the biography, and RC 32554 is found dead. Some strong language. narrated by George Patterson 1988. 2 cassettes Bodies RC 25356 Des Capper, landlord of the Saracen's narrated by James DeLotel Head Inn near London, is a less-than- 1 cassette sterling character, what with spying on In the Soho studio of Bodies magazine are guests and intruding on intimate moments. found four corpses: a photographer, his The annual Ketterick Arts Festival has assistant, an actress-student, and a young filled the inn with opera singers, actors, bodybuilder. Superintendent Perry and musicians, and when murder occurs, Trethowan of the London police has diffi- detective Charlie Peace finds dark and culty finding a motive for the murders, but surprising secrets. 1989. a few leads point to star muscle-man Death by Sheer Torture RC 19680 Crabtree, who is involved in porn flicks. narrated by Don Emmick Some strong language and some descrip- 2 cassettes tions of sex. 1986. A young police inspector unofficially The Cherry Blossom Corpse RC 26616 assists in the investigation of his father's narrated by George Patterson kinky murder. Reacquainting himself with 2 cassettes his eccentric family, he finds that every- As a favor to his shy sister Cristobel, a body has a motive and each relative seems fledgling romance author, Perry uniquely qualified to kill. 1981. Trethowan of Scotland Yard goes to Nor- Death in a Cold Climate RC 16831 way for the biannual jamboree of the narrated by David Palmer World Association of Romantic Novelists. 1 cassette When one of the pulp queens is found The body of a young Englishman is dis- dead in a fjord, an apparent homicide covered buried in the snow of a small victim, Perry wrestles with several of the Norwegian town high above the Arctic suspects' alibis. 1987. Circle. Inspector Fagermo of the Norwe- gian police investigates a three-month-old 1 Prolific Authors Barnard Simon Brett trail with little help from the townspeople, who regard him with icy hostility. 1981. Detectives: Charles Paris, Mrs. Pargeter, Death of a Perfect Mother RC 18944 and Others narrated by Phyllis Fabara Cassettes 1 cassette Everyone is pleased but puzzled when Lill, who tyrannized her family and her Mrs., Presumed Dead RC 32477 lover, is strangled on her way home from narrated by George Patterson the pub. A lot of people wanted her 2 cassettes deadtwo were plotting her murder, and Mr. Pargeter's dubious pursuits prior to a not-very-bright detective on his first his death eighteen months ago have left murder case fastens on the first obvious his widow Melita well off. She has moved suspect. 1981. into Smithy's Loam, a cul-de-sac of six A Little Local Murder RC 19558 elegant executive homes. The former narrated by Douglas Seale owners seem to be missing and, indeed, 2 cassettes turn up dead. Mrs. Pargeter, together with The English village of Twytching has her husband's former business "accom- been selected as the subject of a radio plices," track down the truth. 1988. documentary to be aired in its twin town Murder in the Title RC 19645 of Twytching, Wisconsin. Villagers are narrated by Norman Barrs agog as they vie fiercely with one another 2 cassettes to appear on the program. When the Actor and amateur detective Charles Paris woman who seems most likely to get on is doing very badly with a bit part as a the air is found with her head bashed in, corpse in a terrible play at a rundown Inspector Parrish searches for the mur- theatre in a second-rate British resort. But derer. 1976. Charles discovers that there's more amiss The Skeleton in the Grass RC 28173 than artistic quality when he is nearly narrated by Lisette Lecat murdered on stage. Some strong lan- 2 cassettes guage. 1983. Whodunit set in England in 1936. Sarah Murder Unprompted RC 19100 Cause ley signs on as governess to the narrated by Adam Norton Hal lams, a family of intellectual and 1 cassette political renown in rural Oxfordshire. The Stage actor and amateur sleuth Charles Hal lams are of a pacifist persuasion, and Paris investigates the murder of the lead- with the rise of fascism in Germany and ing actor during the opening night of a the Civil War in Spain, they are not too London play. The prime suspect is the popular. Their unpopularity actually leads murdered actor's understudy, but Paris has to murder, and Sarah is drawn into the other suspects in mind. 1982. murder case as well. 1987. A Nice Class of Corpse RC 26072 narrated by George Patterson 1 cassette Mystery features Mrs. Pargeter, an ami- 2 Prolific AuthorsChristie ing actor during the opening night of a able and rich widow, who moves into a London play. The prime suspect is the "nice" hotel for "nice" elderly men and murdered actor's understudy, but Paris has women. The guests conduct themselves other suspects in mind. 1982. according to a routine set by the prim Not Dead, Only Resting BR 6028 owner, but Mrs. Pargeter ignores these 2 volumes rules. Curious about everyone in the place, Actor Charles Paris, currently. out of work, she ponders events following the fatal fall takes a job decorating a flat over a fash- of one harmless one lady and the odd ionable actors' restaurant in London. After behavior of another. She uncovers some discovering the mutilated body of the murders and some startling facts about restaurant owner's lover, Paris is drawn both the innocent and the guilty. 1986. into the investigation of the murder and A Series of Murders RC 31360 the disappearance of the chief suspect. by Simon Brett 1984. narrated by Patrick Horgan 1 cassette Agatha Christie Charles Paris, sometime actor and oftentime imbiber, is employed to play Detectives: Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, and Others Sergeant Clump of the Little Breckington Police in a "telly" mystery series. He is Cassettes foil to the lead character, Stanislas Braidplayed by the egotistical Russell Bentley. Ingenue Sippy Stokes is really And Then There Were None RC 11077 dreadful in her part, but murdering her narrated by Burt Blackwell seems a little extreme. 1989. 2 cassettes Ten oddly assorted people find themselves Braille the houseguests of an invisible host who slowly begins killing them one by one. Dead Romantic BR 6621 1967. 2 volumes The Big Four RC 21373 Language teacher Madeleine Severn, a narrated by Barry Bernson comely virgin nearly forty, is being dis- 1 cassette creetly courted by Bernard, a colleague. The Big Four is a virtually invincible Madeleine is finally ready to exorcise criminal conspiracy composed of a bril- memories of a long-dead love and dis- liant Chinese man, an American million- cover the joys of sex with Bernard by aire, a French scientist, and an elusive planning a secret love-weekend at Winter master of disguise. Even Hercule Poirot is Jasmine Cottage. But the tryst is inter- appalled as he follows a trail of murders in rupted by murder. Some descriptions of what could very well prove to be his final sex. 1985. case. 1955. Murder Unprompted BR 5351 2 volumes Stage actor and amateur sleuth Charles Paris investigates the murder of the lead- 3