{"title":"Rare \u0026 Out of Print Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"murder-in-pastiche-or-nine-detectives-at-sea-by-marion-mainwaring","title":"Murder in Pastiche Or, Nine Detectives at Sea by Marion Mainwaring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Used - good condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Collier Books 1961\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMurder in Pastiche takes us aboard the RMS Florabunda on its voyage from Liverpool to New York in the 1950s. Incredibly, among the passengers are nine famous detectives. After an influential (and despised) American gossip columnist is found murdered, each takes a hand at solving the mystery. Everyone, passenger or crew, is a suspect -- and is thoroughly and amusingly eccentric.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAboard the heaving, pitching Florabunda the story twists and turns as Marion Mainwaring deftly parodies Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot), Erle Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason), Michael Innes (Sir John Appleby), Ngaio Marsh (Roderick Alleyn), Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey), Mickey Spillane (Mike Hammer), Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe), and Patricia Wentworth (Miss Maude Silver). Their sleuths rush to solve the mystery before the murderer strikes again; or, worse, the ship arrives in America and they become \"the laughingstock of two continents\" unable to find whodunit despite their individual and collective brilliance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt its debut in 1954, Murder in Pastiche was hailed by Anthony Boucher in the New York Times as a “wonderous book” which would be “a permanent addition--both as criticism and as entertainment--to the detective bookshelf.” It has been enjoyed by mystery fans around the world, including William Faulkner (as his niece Dean Faulkner Wells notes in her memoir \"Every Day by the Sun\"). Sally Rowena Munt in her feminist analysis of crime novels \"Murder by the Book?\" praises Mainwaring's satirical if affectionate critique of the genre's \"generic machismo\" and \"historic phallocentricity.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilde Heart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44701044965548,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4283\/5372\/files\/IMG_5338.jpg?v=1756090545"},{"product_id":"bear-by-marian-engel","title":"Bear by Marian Engel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Used - good condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Seal Books 1977\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLou, a shy and secretive young librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of the recently deceased Colonel Cary. In a cabin on the island, she discovers the colonel had a secret as well. A bear is chained inside. Fascinated, Lou brings the bear into the house and slowly gains the animal’s trust. She sinks her fingers into the bear’s fur—and soon realizes her darkest desire is for this large, powerful animal to be her lover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut there’s more to the story than the price to be paid for forbidden passion. This novel by award-winning author Marian Engel works within the logic of a fever dream as the young woman comes to an even greater, and unexpected, understanding of herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBear was first published in 1976 and won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction. 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Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilde Heart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44745647587500,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4283\/5372\/files\/IMG_5423.jpg?v=1757224293"},{"product_id":"alices-adventures-in-wonderland-through-the-looking-glass-with-original-illustrations-by-lewis-carroll","title":"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland \u0026 Through the Looking Glass (With Original Illustrations) by Lewis Carroll","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Used - fair condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Airmont 1965\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLewis Carroll's story of a child's dreamworld in which a little girl finds herself after falling down a rabbit hole and its sequel, \u003cem\u003eThrough the Looking Glass\u003c\/em\u003e, have had a lasting influence on people of all ages. \u003c\/strong\u003eThese two stories are discovered with fascination by each new generation and are reread by older people with a feeling of new discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The why of this book cannot, and need not, be put into words,\" Lewis Carroll once said of \u003cem\u003eAlice\u003c\/em\u003e. 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