Sally's Weekly Update for 02/24/12

 

 

 

Going to be watching the Academy Awards this Sunday, and rooting for Meryl Streep to win Best Actress.  I'd also have liked Iron Lady to get a Best Film nom, but nooooooo.

 

The other big news of the weekend is that The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson is available in paperback.  Its been a long wait for fans who wouldn't read it any other way.

 

Have a good weekend - oh, and take a look at the Update which contains some wonderful titles - many of which are from the UK.

 

Sally Owen

The Mysterious Bookshop

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com

 

The Mysterious Bookshop

58 Warren Street
New York, NY 10007
Ph: 212-587-1011
Fax: 212-587-1126
Open Monday thru Saturday, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.

Weekly Update 2/24/12

February 26^th will be the last Sunday we are open. I have already changed the information above to reflect our new schedule.
EVENTS
Monday, February 27^th 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947 - 1950
is edited by Joseph Goodrich who will be here to discuss his book and take questions. Two actors will also be on hand to read from the letters. $14.95
Thursday, March 1^st, 6.30 - 8.00 p.m.
Book release party for first novel Living Proof by Kira Peikoff
In the future, where destroying a viable embryo is considered first-degree murder, fertility clinics operate with heavy government supervision. When one in particular begins to have an astoundingly high rate of success, The Department of Embryo Preservation sends in an undercover agent to find out why. A timely book! $24.99
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
Alex Berenson was here this week signing his latest thriller, The Shadow Patrol, featuring John Wells. The CIA’s Afghanistan station in Kabul is in trouble after a deadly mistake. Recruiting has dried up and the agency’s best sources in Afghanistan are being picked off. At Langley, the CIA’s chiefs wonder if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station. John Wells returns to the country where his career began and finds out one thing for certain: Americans are dying and an American is responsible. Wells must unearth the truth and keep from being killed himself. This is a Thriller/Espionage Main Selection. $26.95

 The Man From Primrose Lane by James Renner begins when a man in West Akron, Ohio who always wears mittens and is known as the Man from Primrose Lane is suddenly murdered. Four years later, David Neff, the bestselling author of a true crime book about an Ohio serial killer, is introduced to the odd case of "the man with a thousand mittens" and decides to investigate. The closer David gets to uncovering the true identity of the Man from Primrose Lane, the more he begins to understand the dangerous power of his own obsessions and how they may be connected to the deaths of both the old hermit and his beloved wife. A First Mystery Club Main Selection. $26.00

Party for HARD TARGET by Howard Gordon 03/02/12

 

 

The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:

Howard Gordon
discussing his new novel
Hard Target

Friday, March 2nd

from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

Admission is free.

The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street
(Between Church and West Broadway)
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com

Party for LIVING PROOF by Kira Peikoff 03/01/12

 

 

The Mysterious Bookshop
is proud to present:

Kira Peikoff
discussing her debut novel
Living Proof

Thursday, March 1st

from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

Admission is free.

The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street
(Between Church and West Broadway)
(212) 587-1011
info@mysteriousbookshop.com

New eBooks from TheMysteriousPress.com: Charlotte Armstrong and Andrew Bergman

We've got 16 new eBooks available for sale today from Charlotte Armstrong and Andrew Bergman over at our digital imprint MysteriousPress.com!

The Edgar Award-winning Charlotte Armstrong was one of the United States’ finest authors of classic mystery and suspense. Her first novel, Lay On Mac Duff! (1942) was well received, spawning a three-book series. Over the next two decades, she wrote more than two dozen novels, winning critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base. The Unsuspected (1945) and Mischief (1950) were both made into films--the latter was renamed Don't Bother to Knock, starring Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark and Anne Bancroft. A Dram of Poison (1956) won the Edgar Award for best novel. The Chocolate Cobweb was made into Merci Pour La Chocolat by noted French Director, Claude Chabrol, in 2003. She died in California in 1969.

Click here to see the full list of Armstrong Books we've made available!

Andrew Bergman is a successful comedy screenwriter and occasional author of hard-boiled mysteries. Bergman sold Tex X, a novella about a black sheriff in the old west, to Warner Brothers. The studio hired him to turn his story into a screenplay, as part of a team of comedy legends led by Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor. The result was Blazing Saddles (1974). After that early success, Bergman published the first two novels in a mystery series starring Jack LeVine, a hard-boiled Jewish PI. After The Big Kiss-Off of 1944 (1974) andHollywood and LeVine (1975), he continued writing and directing films, producing such classics as Fletch (1985), The Freshman (1990) and Soapdish (1991). In 2001 he returned to LeVine in Tender Is LeVine.

Click here to see the full list of Bergman books we'va made available!


For a full list of MysteriousPress.com titles, visit our website!

Sally's Weekly Update for 02/17/12

Gosh, you're a tough audience!  I promise I will never again suggest that there is no sporting event going on over the weekend.   It is obvious that I have some very serious blind spots.

I'll stick to Downton Abbey to which I am very seriously addicted.

Sally Owen

The Mysterious Bookshop

sally@mysteriousbookshop.com

  The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street
New York, NY 10007
Ph: 212-587-1011
Fax: 212-587-1126
Open Seven Days, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m. *
* Soon to be open Six Days, 11.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.
Weekly Update 2/17/12
EVENT
Monday, February 27^th 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947 - 1950
is edited by Joseph Goodrich who will be here to discuss his book and take questions. Two actors will also be on hand to read from the letters. $14.95
SIGNED COPIES NOW AVAILABLE
The Next One to Fall is Anthony Award-winning Hilary Davidson’s second novel featuring travel writer Lily Moore. Lily is in Peru with her friend, photographer Jesse Robb, visiting the Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu, where they discover a woman clinging to life at the bottom of an ancient staircase. Just before she dies, the woman tells Lily the name of the man who pushed her. But when the local police investigate, the forensic evidence they find doesn’t match what Lily knows. $24.99
Shooting Hollywood by Melodie Johnson Howe is a collection of Diana Poole stories. Poole is blonde, sexy and in her 40's and trying to rebuilt her acting career by playing middle-aged parts. But Hollywood is brutal and Diana Poole finds crime in that world of glitz, glamour and greed. Melodie Johnson Howe was "one of the last of the starlets." Limited to 175 signed and numbered copies with a separate pamphlet entitled Acting Tips. $43.00
Stewart O’Nan stopped by to sign copies of The Odds. On the eve of their thirtieth anniversary, Marion and Art Fowler liquidate their savings and book the bridal suite at Niagra Falls’ ritziest casino. While they sightsee by day, at night they risk it all at the roulette while, fighting to rescue their home, fix their finances and, against even greater odds, save their marriage. $25.95

New Books from MysteriousPress.com: Brian Garfield and John Harvey

The Mysterious Press has 30 new books by Brian Garfield and John Harvey!

The author of more than seventy books, Brian Garfield (b. 1939) is one of the country’s most prolific writes of thrillers, westerns and other genre fiction. Raised in Arizona, Garfield found success at an early age, publishing his first novel when he was only eighteen. After time in the Army, a few years touring with a jazz band, and a Master’s Degree from the University of Arizona, he settled into writing full time.

Garfield is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America and the Western Writers of America, and the only author to have held both offices. Nineteen of his novels have been made into films, including Death Wish (1972), The Last Hard Men (1976) and Hopscotch (1975), for which he wrote the screenplay. To date, his novels have sold over twenty million copies worldwide. You can purchase his eBooks here.


John Harvey (b. 1938) is an incredibly prolific British mystery writer. He is the author of more than one hundred books, as well as poetry and scripts for television and radio, Harvey did not being writing professionally until 1975. Until then he was a teacher, educated at Goldsmiths College, London, who taught literature, drama and film at colleges across England. After cutting his teeth on paperback fiction, Harvey debuted his most famous character, Charlie Resnick, in 1989's Lonely Hearts, which the English Times called one of the finest crime novels of the century.

A police inspector noted for his love of both sandwiches and jazz, Resnick has starred in eleven novels and one volume of short stories. The BBC has adapted two of the Resnick novels, Lonely Hearts and Rough Treatment (1990), for television movies. Both starred Academy Award nominated actor Tom Wilkinson and had screenplays written by Harvey. Besides writing fiction, Harvey spent over twenty years as the head of Slow Dancer Press. You can purchase his eBooks here.

Happy Reading!

Congratulations to Joyce Carol Oates, new New Jersey Hall of Famer

We are happy to announce that the prolific Joyce Carol Oates will be inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame on June 9th along with actors Christopher Reeve and Michael Douglas, jazz singer Sarah Vaughn, basketball Coach Bob Hurley, athlete Milt Campbell, and even Annie Oakley. "The people of our state should be proud of these individuals who have attained remarkable success through a combination of hard work and dedication. The Hall of Fame not only serves as an inspiration for young people but challenges them to pursue their dreams and strive to become the best that they can be no matter what direction their lives take them," says Governor Christie. Tickets go on sale to the general public on March 1st. Click here for more information.


Joyce Carol Oates is the author of 50 over novels, won the National Book Award for her novel them (1969), and has had three Pulitzer Prize nominated works: Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000). She recently published The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, a novella and short story collection with The Mysterious Bookshop. Congratulations JCO!