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Book & Publishing Industry Mysteries

Mysteries set in and around the worlds of publishing, book selling & collecting, and libraries.

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• Asimov, Isaac: Murder at the ABA
  
• Blanc, Nero: Belle Graham & Rosco Polycrates series (aka Crossword Mystery series)
  
  1. The Crossword Murder
     
  2. Two Down
     
  3. The Crossword Connection
     
  4. A Crossword to Die For
     
  5. Corpus de Crossword
     
  6. Anatomy of a Crossword
     
  7. Another Word for Murder
     
  8. Death on the Diagonal
     (short stories) A Crossworder's Holiday
     (short stories) A Crossworder's Gift
     
• Bond, Stephanie: Whole Lotta Trouble
  
• Bowker, David: Billy Dye series
  
  1. The Death You Deserve
     
  2. I Love My Smith & Wesson
     
• Coleridge, Nicholas: With Friends Like These
  
• Daniel, John M.: The Poet's Funeral
  
• Darty, Peggy: Cozy series (aka Christy Castleman series)
  
  1. When the Sandpiper Calls
     
  2. When Bobbie Sang the Blues
     
• Dereske, Jo: Miss Zukas series
  
  1. Miss Zukas and the Library Murders
     
  2. Miss Zukas and the Island Murders
     
  3. Miss Zukas and the Stroke of Death
     
  4. Miss Zukas and the Ravens Dance
     
  5. Out of Circulation
     
  6. Final Notice
     
  7. Miss Zukas in Death's Shadow
     
  8. Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence
     
• Dunning, John: Cliff Janeway series
  
  1. Booked to Die
     
  2. The Bookman's Wake
     
  3. The Bookman's Promise
     
  4. The Sign of the Book
     
  5. The Bookwoman's Last Fling
     
• Ferrenz, Barbara J.: Worse Than Death
  
• Fforde, Jasper: Thursday Next series
  
  1. The Eyre Affair
     
  2. Lost in a Good Book
     
  3. The Well of Lost Plots
     
  4. Something Rotten
     
• Fraser, Anthea: Rona Parish series
  
  1. Brought to Book
     
  2. Person or Persons Unknown
     
• Goodrum, Charles A.: Edward George series (aka Werner-Bok Library series)
  
  1. Dewey Decimated
     
  2. Carnage of the Realm
     
  3. The Best Cellar
     
  4. A Slip of the Tong
     
• Grimes, Martha: Foul Matter
  
• Hess, Joan: Claire Malloy series
  
  1. Strangled Prose
     
  2. Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn
     
  3. Dear Miss Demeanor
     
  4. A Really Cute Corpse
     
  5. A Diet to Die For
     
  6. Roll Over and Play Dead
     
  7. Death by the Light of the Moon
     
  8. Poisoned Pins
     
  9. Tickled to Death
     
  10. Busy Bodies
      
  11. Closely Akin to Murder
      
  12. A Holly, Jolly Murder
      
  13. A Conventional Corpse
      
  14. Out on a Limb
      
  15. The Goodbye Body
      
  16. Damsels in Distress
      
  17. Mummy Dearest
      (Two Claire Malloy short stories, "Dead on Arrival" and "The Last to Know," appear in the collection Big Foot Stole My Wife & Other Stories )
      
• Hunter, Catherine: The Dead of Midnight
  
• Kaewert, Julie: Alex Plumtree series (aka Booklover's Mystery series)
  
  1. Unsolicited
     
  2. Unbound
     
  3. Unprintable
     
  4. Untitled
     
  5. Unsigned
     
  6. Uncatalogued
     
• Kandel, Susan: Cece Caruso series
  
  1. I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason
     
  2. Not a Girl Detective
     
  3. Sam Spade in the Green Room
     
• Kimberly, Alice: Haunted Bookshop series
  
  1. The Ghost and Mrs. McClure
     
  2. The Ghost and the Dead Deb
     
• MacDonald, Marianne: Dido Hoare series
  
  1. Death's Autograph
     
  2. Ghost Walk
     
  3. Smoke Screen
     
  4. Road Kill
     
  5. Blood Lies
     
  6. Die Once
     
  7. Three Monkeys
     
• McDermind, Val: Lindsay Gordon series
  
  1. Report for Murder
     
  2. Common Murder
     
  3. Deadline for Murder
     
  4. Conferences are Murder
     
  5. Booked for Murder
     
• Meredith, D.R.: Megan Clark series (aka Murder by the Yard series)
  
  1. Murder in Volume
     
  2. By Hook or by Book
     
  3. Murder Past Due
     
  4. Tome of Death
     
  5. Murder by the Book
     
• Michaels, Kasey: Maggie Kelly series
  
  1. Maggie Needs an Alibi
     
  2. Maggie By the Book
     
  3. Maggie Without a Clue
     
  4. High Heels and Homicide
     
  5. High Heels and Holidays
     
  6. Bowled Over
     
• Miscione, Lisa: Lydia Strong series
  
  1. Angel Fire
     
  2. The Darkness Gathers
     
  3. Twice
     
  4. Smoke
     
• Morley, Christopher: Roger Mifflin series
  
  1. Parnassus on Wheels
     
  2. The Haunted Bookshop
     
• Owen, Howard: Turn Signal
  
• Pennac, Daniel: Write to Kill
  
• Wald, Noreen: Ghostwriter series
  
  1. Ghostwriter
     
  2. Death Comes for the Critic
     
  3. Death Never Takes a Holiday
     
• Warga, Wayne: Hardcover
  
• Webb, Betty: Desert Shadows
  (NOTE: This title is part of Webb's Lena Jones series, listed under Regional Mysteries: Arizona)
  
• Westlake, Donald E.: The Hook
  
• White, Kate: Bailey Weggins series
  
  1. If Looks Could Kill
     
  2. A Body to Die For
     
  3. 'Til Death Do Us Part
     
  4. Over Her Dead Body