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April 2001
Compiled by Rolf Laun of San Antonio Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Peter Ackroyd   English Music   The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

Samuel Hopkins Adams   Banner by the Wayside

Lydia Adamson   Alice Nestleton series

Nobuko Albery   The House of Kanze

Margery Allingham   Dancers in Mourning

Michael David Anthony   Midnight Come

Helen Ashfield   Opal

Marian Babson   Break A Leg, Darling   Encore Murder   Even Yuppies Die   Nine Lives to Murder   Reel Murder   Shadows in Their Blood

Naomi Lane Babson   I Am Lidian

Babula William   According to St. John

George Bagby   Give the Little Corpse a Great Big

Beryl Bainbridge   An Awfully Big Adventure   Sweet William

Bamford Susanah   The Gilded Cage

Shirley Barker   Liza Bowe

Robert Barnard   Death and the Chaste Apprentice   Death on the High C's

Linda Barnes   Bitter Finish   Blood Will Have Blood   Cities of the Dead   Dead Heat   Dead Heat   A Trouble of Fools

Miguel Barnet   Rachel's Song: A Novel

Barron Stephanie   Jane and the Wandering Eye

Tricia Bauer   Hollywood and Hardwood

George Baxt   The Noel Coward Murder Case   The Tallulah Bankhead Murder Case

S. N. Behrman   The Burning Glass

Julius Berstl   Kean: The Imaginary Memoirs of an Actor

W. Edward Blain   Love Cools   Passion Play

Lilian Jackson Braun   Cat Who Knew a Cardinal

Carol Brennan   Chill of Summer   In the Dark

Madeleine Brent   The Capricorn Stone

Simon Brett   Charles Paris series   The Dead Side of the Mike   Murder in the Title   Murder Unprompted   A Series of Murders   Situation Tragedy   What Bloody Man is That?

Damien Broderick   The White Abacus

John Brophy   Gentleman of Stratford

Mary Brown   Playing the Jack   Invitation to a Funeral   The Lemon Juice Plot

Wesley Brown   Darktown Strutters

Bryher   The Player's Boy

Pearl S. Buck   The Rainbow

Henrietta Buckmaster   All the Living: A Novel of One Year in the Life of William Shakespeare   Fire in the Heart

Anthony Burgess   A Dead Man in Deptford   A Death in Deptford   Nothing Like the Sun

Philip Burton   You, My Brother: A Novel Based on the Lives of Edmund and William Shakespeare

Charles Busch   Whores of Lost Atlantis

A.S. Byatt   The Virgin in the Garden

P.M. Carlson   Rehearsal for Murder

Angela Carter   Wise Children

Hester W. Chapman   Lucy

Agatha Christie   Murder in Three Acts

Brian Cleeve   Kate

V.C Clinton-Baddeley   Death's Bright Dart

Patricia Cloud   This Willing Passion

Virginia Coffman   Mistress Devon

Robert J. Conley   The Actor   Quitting Time

Judith Cook   The Slicing Edge of Death

Susan Cooper   King of Shadows (Young Adult)

Carole Corbeil   In The Wings

March Cost   I, Rachel

Stephanie Cowell   Nicholas Cooke: Actor, Soldier, Physician, Priest   The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare

Hamilton Crane   Starring Miss Seaton

Teresa Crane   Sweet Songbird

Crispin Edmund   The Case of the Gilded Fly

Clare Darcy   Caroline and Julia

Robertson Davies   Fifth Business   Leaven of Malice   The Lyre of Orpheus   A Mixture of Frailties   Tempest-Tost

Lindsey Davis   Last Act in Palmyra

S.F.X Dean   It Can't be My Grave

Tom Deitz   The Gryphon King

D. J. Delffs   The Martyr's Chapel

David Delman   The Bluestocking

Robert DeMaria   To Be a King

Jane Dentinger   Jocelyn O'Roarke series

Eileen Dewhurst   Helen Johnson series

Farrukh Dhondy   Black Swan

Charles Dickens   Nicholas Nickleby

Maurice Dolbier   Benjy Boone   The Mortal Gods

Jerome Doolittle   Strangle Hold

Emma Drummond   A Captive Freedom

Katharine Dunlap   The Glory and the Dream

Dorothy Dunnett   King Hereafter

Alice Dwyer-Joyce   The Strolling Players

Alan Ebert   The Long Way Home   Traditions

Julie Ellis   Glorious Morning

Loren D. Estleman   This Old Bill

Gillian B. Farrell   Alibi for an Actress   Murder and a Muse

Edna Ferber   Show Boat

Edna Ferber & George Kaufman   Stage Door

Penelope Fitzgerald   At Freddie's

John M. Ford   Casting Fortune

Pamela Frankau   Sing for Your Supper   Slaves of the Lamp

Margaret Frazer   The Servant's Tale

Shelly Freydont   Back Stage Murder

Mark Friedlander and Robert W. Kenny   The Shakespeare Transcript

Sara Hoskinson Frommer   Murder and Sullivan

George P. Garrett   Entered from the Sun

Elizabeth George   Payment in Blood

William Getz   Sam Patch: Ballad of a Jumping Man

Kate Gilmore   Enter Three Witches (Young Adult)   Jason and the Bard (Young Adult)

Suzanne Goodwin   A Change of Season

Alan Gordon   Thirteenth Night

Edward Gorman   Murder in the Wings

Philip Kan Gotanda   Fish Head Soup and Other Plays

Barry Graham   The Book of Man

Caroline Graham   Death of a Hollow Man

Richard Grayson   Death Off Stage   The Monterant Affair

Carl Green and William Sanford   House of Fear

Martha Grimes   The Dirty Duck

Winston Groom   Gone the Sun

Joel Gross   Sarah

Pamela Haines   The Diamond Waterfall

Parnell Hall   Actor  Movie

Robert Lee Hall   Murder at Drury Lane: Further Adventures of the American Agent in London

Tamsin Hamilton   The Gypsy from Cadiz

Elizabeth Hand   Winterlong

Mollie Hardwick   The Crystal Dove   Lovers Meeting   The Merrymaid   Perish in July   The Shakespeare Girl

Charlotte Hardy   Far from Home

Harris MacDonald   Herma

Carolyn G. Hart   Something Wicked

Ellen Hart   Jane Lawless series

Simon Hawke   A Mystery of Errors

Tony Hays   Murder on the Twelfth Night

Marcy Heidish   The Secret Annie Oakley

Lauren Henderson   Freeze My Margarita: A Sam Jones Novel

George Herman   Carnival of Saints

Monique Raphel High   Encore

Reginald Hill   Bones and Silence

John Buxton Hilton   Fatal Curtain

Tom Holt   Goatsong   The Walled Orchard

Victoria Holt   Daughter of Deceit

Fred W. Hunter   Presence of Mind   Ransom at the Opera

Darrell Husted   Louisa Brancusi

David Henry Hwang   FOB and Other Plays

Eva Ibbotson   A Company of Swans   Magic Flutes

Michael Innes   Hamlet, Revenge!

Yves Jacquemard-Senecal   The Eleventh Little Indian

Mike Jahn   Murder on Theatre Row

J.A. Jance   Failure to Appear

Burris Atkins Jenkins   The Bracegirdle

Pamela Hansford Johnson   Catherine Carter   Cork St. Next the Hatters   The Unspeakable Skipton

Erica Jong   Serenissiam: A Novel of Venice

Jan Jordan   Dim the Flaring Lamps

Garson Karin   One Hell of an Actor   Smash

Marvin Kaye   Bullets for Macbeth

Faye Kellerman   A Quality of Mercy

Marne Davis Kellogg   Tramp

Carla Kelly   Miss Billings Treads the Boards

Jack Kelly   Mad Dog

Tom Keneally   The Playmaker

William Kennedy   The Flaming Corsage

Ardyth Kennelly   The Spur

Charlotte Keppel   My Name Is Clary Brown

Vlady Kociancich   The Last Days of William Shakespeare

Manuel Komroff   Feast of the Jesters

Jayne An Krentz   Trust Me, Desdemona

Thomas Kyd   Blood on the Bosom Devine

Annabel Laine   The Melancholy Virgin

M.D. Lake   Once Upon a Crime   Midsummer Madness

Lilian Lee   Farewell to My Concubine

Fritz Leiber   The Big Time

Gaston Leroux   The Phantom of the Opera

Doris Lessing   Love, Again

Julius Lester   Othello: a Novel (Young Adult)

Barbara Levy   Adrienne

Sara Lewis   The Answer is Yes

Libby Lewis   The Apprentice

Eloise S. Liddon   Some Lose Their Way

Audrey Erskine Lindop   The Way to the Lantern

Gillian Linscott   Stage Fright

Frances & Richard Lockridge   Death on the Aisle   Death Takes a Bow

Gary Lockwood   The Shakespeare Scribe (Young Adult)   The Shakespeare Stealer (Young Adult)

M.K. Lorens   Sorrowheart

Maud Hart Lovelace   The Black Angels   Charming Sally

Peter Lovesey   Abracadaver

Elizabeth Lyle   Cassy

Colin MacInnes   Three Years to Play

Mary Mackey   A Grand Passion

Michael Malone   Foolscap

Eric Lawson Malpass   The Cleopatra Boy   A House of Women   Sweet Will

John P. Marquand   So Little Time

Ngaio Marsh   Enter a Murderer   False Scent   Final Curtain   Hand in Glove   Killer Dolphin   Light Thickens   Night at the Vulcan   Overture to Death

Edison Marshall   The Infinite Woman   The Upstart

William Marshall   The New York Detective

Edward Marston   Nicholas Bracewell series

J. K. Mayo   The Hunting Season

Ed McBain   Ice   The Last Dance

Anne McCaffrey   Killashandra

Jill McGown   Scene of the Crime

Nicholas Meyer   The Canary Trainer   The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D.

Annette Meyers   Murder: The Musical   These Bones Were Made for Dancin'

Judith Michael   Acts of Love

John Miles   Murder in Retirement

Miriam Grace Monfredo   North Star Conspiracy

C.L. Moore   Doomsday Morning

Anne Morice   Dead on Cue   Death and the Dutiful Daughter   Death in the Grand Manner   Death in the Round   Death of a Heavenly Twin   Death of a Wedding Guest   Design for Dying   Fatal Charm   Getting Away with Murder   Hollow Vengeance   Killling with Kindness   The Men in Her Death   Murder by Proxy   Murder in Married Life   Murder in Mimicry   Murder in Outline   Murder Post-dated   Nursery Tea and Poison   Planning for Murder   Publish and Be Killed   Scared to Death   Sleep of Death   Treble Exposure

Gilbert Morris   The Jeweled Spur

John Mortimer   Will Shakespeare: The Untold Story

Harry Mulisch   Last call

Talbot Mundy   Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley

Amy Myers   Murder in the Limelight

Hilary Norman   Spellbound

Robert Nye   Falstaff   The Late Mr. Shakespeare   Mrs. Shakespeare: Her Complete Works

Michael O'Shaughnessy   Monsieur Moliere

Robert B. Parker   Walking Shadow

Barbara Paul   The Apostrophe Thief   A Cadenza for Caruso   A Chorus of Detectives   The Fourth Wall   Prima Donna at Large   You Have the Right to Remain Silent

Laurence Payne   Knight Fall

Anne Perry   Half Moon Street

Jean Plaidy   Goddess of the Green Room   Perdita's Prince

Anne Powers   Rachel

Terry Pratchett   Maskerade   Wyrd Sisters

Allan Prior   A Cast of Stars

Mary Jo Putney   One Perfect Rose

Ellery Queen   Drury Lane's Last Case   The Tragedy of X   The Tragedy of Y   The Tragedy of Z

Patrick Quentin   A Puzzle for Fools   A Puzzle for Players

Sheila Rabe   Be My Valentine

Rona Randall   Curtain Call   The Eagle at the Gate   The Mating Dance

Claire Rayner   Bedford Row   Charing Cross   Chelsea Reach   Covent Garden   Gower Street   The Haymarket   Piccadilly   Soho Square   The Strand

Desmond Rayner   The Dawlish Season

Charles Reade   Peg Woffington

Ishmael Reed   Reckless Eyeballing

Mary Renault   The Mask of Apollo

Herbert Resnicow   The Gold Gamble

Jean Rhys   Voyage in the Dark

Nora Roberts   Hidden Riches

Patricia Robinson   A Trick of Light

Martha Rofheart   The Savage Brood

Leon Rooke   Shakespeare's Dog

Kate Ross   The Devil in Music

Rafael Sabatini   Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution

George Sand   Consuelo

Lawrence Sanders   McNally's Folly

Beth Saulnier   Fourth Wall

Dorothy L. Sayers   Six Against Scotland Yard

Sandra Scoppetone   Trying Hard to Hear You

Pamela F. Service   When the Night Wind Howls

Mary Lee Settle   The Love Eaters

Simon Shaw   Bloody Instructions   The Company of Knaves

Frances L. Shine   Conjuror's Journal

Sam Siciliano   The Angel of the Opera: Sherlock Holmes Meets the Phantom of the Opera

David Slavitt   Get Thee to a Nunnery

Bob Sloan   Bliss Jumps the Gun

Dodie Smith   It Ends with Reveations   A Town in Bloom

Kay Nolte Smith   A Tale of the Wind: A Novel of 19th Century France

Keith Snyder   Show Control

Sontag Susan   In America

Christine Spindler   The Rhythm of Revenge

Christopher Stasheff   A Company of Stars   We Open on Venus

Sol Stein   The Best Revenge: a Novel of Broadway

Janet Stevenson   The Ardent Years

Caroline Stevermer   River Rats (Young Adult)

Bram Stoker   Snowbound

Jean Stubbs   Eleanora Duse   The Golden Crucible

Karen Sturges   Death of a Baritone   Death of a Pooh-Pah

Faith Sullivan   The Empress of One

Richard Sumner   Mistress of the Boards

Susan Sussman   Audition for Murder   Rehearsal for Murder

Elizabeth Swados   The Myth Man

Josephine Tey   The Man in the Queue

Elswyeth Thane   Ever After   Homing

Rosie Thomas   Bad Girls, Good Women

Nicola Thorne   Affairs of Love

Roderick Thorp   Jenny and Barnum: A Novel of Love

Leonard Tourney   The Player's Boy is Dead

Barry Unsworth   Morality Play

Jack Vance   Showboat World

John Varley   The Golden Globe

Paul Voerman   And Disregards the Rest

Robert Watson   Whilom

David Weiss   Physician Extraordinary   The Spirit and the Flesh: A Novel Inspired by the Life of Isadora Duncan

Lael Tucker Wertenbaker   The Eye of the Lion: A Novel Based on the Life of Mata Hari

Phyllis A. Whitney   Domino

Lee Wichelns   The Shadow of the Earth

Kate Wilhelm   The Hamlet Trap

Kathleen Winsor   Calais

Lois Wolfe   Mask of Night

Eric Wright   A Fine Italian Hand   A Sensitive Case

Dorian Yaeger   Cancellation by Death   Eviction by Death   Ovation by Death

Jack Yeovil (Kim Newman)   Drachenfels

Anthology   Shakespearian Detectives   Shakespearian WhoDunnits

 
 
      
   
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