Roy Lewis, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-679-75009-3
This humorous account of an upwardly mobile Pleistocene family's life was first published in 1960. (Sept.)
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Roy Lewis, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0885-7
Archaeologist Arnold Landon returns for his 13th suspenseful mystery from prolific British author Lewis (An Assumption of Death,
etc.). The marshy peat bogs of Northumberland's Wolfcleugh Woods preserve dead bodies remarkably well. They also...
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Roy Lewis, Author Allison & Busby $24.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-7490-0482-8
A Form of Death: An Eric Ward Mystery, by Roy Lewis (Premium on Death), embroils the intrepid solicitor in a murder as a prime suspect. Angry at his unfaithful wife, Ward spends the night with a beautiful young woman who is murdered shortly...
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Roy Lewis, Author St. Martin's Press $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-81789-3
Fans of Arnold Landon (A Trout in the Milk), mild-mannered Northumberland bureaucrat, will relish this polite, nicely old-fashioned mystery. Amateur medievalist Landon is asked to help a military historian at Newcastle University in tracing a 12th...
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Roy Lewis, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-312-04851-8
When he finds the butchered remains of a wandering gypsy at the site of an abandoned church in the English town of Kentside, planning officer and architectural authority Arnold Landon suspects homicidal Ranging Wolf cult. Bureaucrat cum sleuth,...
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Roy Lewis, Author Pantheon Books $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42727-8
This wacky, tongue-in-cheek account of human evolution as exemplified by one family of cave dwellers calls to mind TV's The Flintstones , but wordplay and intellectual satire mix with outrageous anachronisms to lift it well above a cartoon depiction.
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Roy Lewis, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-312-08887-3
Assembling layer upon layer of details--historical, romantic and criminal--this British author of more than 30 novels brings an insidious cleverness to his latest offering. Historian/sleuth Arnold Landon, last seen in A Wisp of Smoke , ventures to...
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Roy Lewis, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-10431-3
A diffuse and unconvincing plot, sketchy character development, a villain clearly discernible to the reader, though not to the cast, and a dry dissertation on the Viking way of vengeance sink this latest offering from a prolific British author....
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Roy Lewis, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-312-11765-8
An excess of pedantry slows down this English author's 30th novel, an uneasy mix of medieval legend and history starring the learned, timid archeologist Arnold Landon, who digs 600 years into the past to unearth the identity and motivation of a...
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Roy Lewis, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1695-1
At the start of Lewis's engaging 16th Arnold Landon mystery (after 2004's Headhunter
), the Northumberland archeologist testifies at a trial that turns on proving the authenticity of a Celtic cauldron. Landon's years of experience,...
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