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Across
| 1 | | Sheriff Bill _________ from John
Ball's In The Heat Of The Night. (9) |
| 6 | | The Regie was Philo Vance's preferred brand of this. (9) |
| 11 | | In book collecting, the first of
these is the most prized. (7) |
| 12 | | To print again. (7) |
| 13 | | Dan Brown's book preceding The Da Vinci Code (6,3,6)
| 14 | | Automobiles with extra protection. (7,4) |
| 16 | | In Helen McCloy's Dance of Death the victim was in a strange _______ or heat-related state, and died of heatstroke in a snowstorm. (7)
| 17 | | You can read about these outlaw
shell fishermen in James Lee Burke's novels. (9) |
| 20 | | A quote from The Moonstone:
"We had ___ breakfasts--
whatever happens in a house,
robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. (3)
| 21 | | The words grifter and mark are
examples of con-man _____. (5) |
| 23 | | Opening line from Christie's Curtain: "Who is there who has ___ felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience __ feeling an old emotion? (3,2)
| 24 | | In Barbara Parker's Blood Relations, a model claims she was raped in the ___ Room of a South Beach night club. (3)
| 25 | | Railway timetables or _________. (9) |
| 27 | | When Inspector Morse became sick,
or ____ ___, he allowed Sergeant
Lewis to lead investigations. (4,3) |
| 29 | | False clues. (3,8) |
| 32 | | Elaine Flinn's debut novel about the antiques world. (7,2,6) |
| 35 | | Jabez Wilson's wages were described thusly in "The Red-Headed League." (7) |
| 36 | | V.I. Warshawski's home. (7) |
| 37 | | Actor Parker _________ played
Frank Hardy on television. (9) |
| 38 | | Christie's spare writing has been described as this. (9) |
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Down
| 1 | | _____ Garbo played Mata Hari in
the 1931 movie. (5) |
| 2 | | A polygraph detects this. (5) |
| 3 | | Moriarty was evil, but Hannibal
Lecter is even _______. (7) |
| 4 | | Michael Lister's debut, Power in the Blood, takes place in the Florida _________. (9)
| 5 | | In R. Austin
Freeman's The Cat's
Eye, Dr. Thorndyke makes
deductions from the neck bone of
an _______, or porcupine anteater. (7)
| 6 | | Statements admitting guilt. (11) |
| 7 | | One who garrotes. (9) |
| 8 | | In
Evanovich's One For The Money, Stephanie Plum's
Miata is ___________ after she
fails to make the payments. (11)
| 9 | | In Spiderman 2, the master
criminal needs this form of
hydrogen for his evil plan. (7) |
| 10 | | Specialists in insect-related
forensics. (13) |
| 14 | | S.J. Rozan's novel about 9/11. (6,7) |
| 15 | | J.B. Priestley was awarded the
Order of _____ in 1977. (5) |
| 18 | | This performing art is the
centerpiece of Ngaio Marsh's Death of a Fool. (6-5)
| 19 | | Some inmates are permitted day
trips under close monitoring or
___________. (11) |
| 22 | | Edgar _____ Poe. (5) |
| 24 | | Burglars take these. (9) |
| 26 | | Fuss that gets raised. (3,3,3) |
| 28 | | The _______ Project was a play and
movie about the murder of Mathew
Shepherd in Wyoming. (7) |
| 30 | | Knives. (7) |
| 31 | | Procedure. (7) |
| 33 | | _____ Mott Davidson. (5) |
| 34 | | Clayton Rawson's Death From A Top Hat has two impossible killings in two different locked _____. (5)
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