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Twenty Blue Devils (Gideon Oliver Mysteries (Paperback))

Twenty Blue Devils (Gideon Oliver Mysteries (Paperback))

by Aaron Elkins

Our anthropologist/sleuth is called on to investigate the suspicious death of coffee plantation owner Brian Druett--on a plantation aptly named Paradise. But when he arrives, he is told that his services are no longer needed. Not one to be dissuaded, Oliver examines the skeleton, regardless. Yet the investigation yields more clues than answers. Who was Brian? And what was Brian? The deeper he probes, the more... (more)

Gideon Oliver: Book 2

The Dark Place

by Aaron Elkins

The Dark Place finds forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver on a trail that stretches from prehistoric times--to present danger.

Icy Clutches

by Aaron Elkins

Trying to determine if some bone fragments found by Alaska's Glacer Bay belong to three avalanche victims from thirty years ago, detective Gideon Oliver encounters a killer who is determined to keep the past buried. Reissue.

Old Bones : A Gideon Oliver Mystery

by Aaron Elkins

When an old skeleton is found beneath the floor of the du Rocher estate, American "skeleton detective" Dr. Gideon Oliver is called in to uncover the secrets behind the Old Bones. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Mystery of 1987. HC: Mysterious Press.

Loot

by Aaron Elkins

April 1945: In the last convulsive days of World War II a convoy of Nazi trucks loaded with Europe's greatest art treasures winds its way through the Alps toward a cavernous Austrian salt mine. With the Allies closing in and chaos erupting, a single truck silently disappears into a mountain snowstorm with its cargo of stolen masterpieces. Fifty years later, in a seedy Boston pawnshop, one of the truck's... (more)

Where There's a Will (Gideon Oliver Mysteries)

Where There's a Will (Gideon Oliver Mysteries)

by Aaron Elkins

Alex Torkelsson has just gotten word: after going missing ten years ago, Alex's late uncle Magnus's plane has been found south of Hawaii's Big Island. So too have Magnus's few skeletal remains, now handed over to the only man who can fit together the pieces of this mystery. But what forensic detective Gideon Oliver discovers could shake the Torkelsson family tree.

Dead Men's Hearts

by Aaron Elkins

Traveling to the Valley of the Nile to appear in a documentary film, Gideon Oliver and his wife Julie make an important discovery about a skeleton at an Egyptian garbage dump just before an Egyptologist dies violently. Reprint. AB.

Gideon Oliver: Book 3

Murder in the Queen's Armes

by Aaron Elkins

Edgar(r) winner Aaron Elkins follows "skeleton detective" Gideon Oliver on his honeymoon, one that will prove none too sweet.

Turncoat

by Aaron Elkins

It begins with the appearance of a stranger at his door -- an unwelcome visitor ranting madly about money, death, and forgiveness; a man known all too well to Pete's distraught wife, Lily: her father. The next day the man is dead -- and Lily disappears, leaving a note behind begging Pete not to follow. Now, with a business card from an antiques dealer in Barcelona as his only lead, Pete Simon embarks on a twisted... (more)

Gideon Oliver: Book 5

Curses!

by Aaron Elkins

Professor Gideon Oliver travels to the Yucatan Peninsula to inspect a skeleton in a Mayan archaeological dig. But when people begin to die mysteriously and a set of heiroglyphs describe a horrible curse, Oliver must don his thinking cap to solve an ancient riddle--and a modern mystery. Reissue.

Old Scores

by Aaron Elkins

"A fascinating glimpse into the hidden world of tense auctions, suspected forgeries and internecine feuds." St. Louis Post-Dispatch The art world is abuzz with news of the discovery of an unknown Rembrandt. Rene Vachey, the famed collector who made the find, wants to donate it to the Seattle Art Museum. But curator Chris Norgren is wary -- Vachey has a reputation for dealing in forgeries. But one thing about... (more)

Little Tiny Teeth

by Aaron Elkins

A new mystery to chill the bones-from the Edgar(r) Award-winning author of Unnatural Selection . When forensics professor Gideon Oliver joins an Amazon riverboat expedition with a group of research botanists, he expects a nice vacation. What he gets is heat, corrupt officials, dangerous insects and animals-and worse. As they travel upriver, one of the botanists is killed by a deranged passenger who leaps... (more)

Gideon Oliver: Book 10

Skeleton Dance

by Aaron Elkins

There is a small village in France that is well known for pate de foie gras . . .and bones. Boasting the largest concentration of prehistoric fossils in Europe, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac is the home of the prestigious Institut de Prehistoire -- where eminent scientists study and squabble ...and perhaps, on occasion, commit murder. Professor Gideon Oliver knows bones. That's why the mild-mannered sometime-investigator... (more)

A Deceptive Clarity

by Aaron Elkins

In Berlin to help mount an exhibit of priceless paintings, once thought lost, museum curator and Renaissance art expert Chris Norgren must turn detective when his boss is murdered soon after voicing concern over the paintings' authenticity.

Make No Bones

by Aaron Elkins

Gideon Oliver must excuse himself from the festivities of the biennial anthropological convention, bone bash, and weenie roast in order to investigate the disappearance of the remains of Dr. Albert Jasper, previously housed in an Oregon museum. Reprint. PW.

Uneasy Relations

by Aaron Elkins

The Edgar® Award-winning author of Little Tiny Teeth returns with his professor of forensics, Gideon Oliver, a.k.a. the Skeleton Detective. “ No one does it better than Aaron Elkins,”( San Diego Union-Tribune )–– and this time, Gideon Oliver will be up on the Rock of Gibraltar, where he’ll inspect his oldest bones yet. But a killer’s loose… Around 25,000 years ago, did the Neanderthal live peacefully with... (more)

Unnatural Selection (Gideon Oliver Mysteries (Hardcover))

Unnatural Selection (Gideon Oliver Mysteries (Hardcover))

by Aaron Elkins

The Edgar® Award-winning author of Where There's a Will returns with another bonechilling mystery starring "Skeleton Detective" Gideon Oliver. Sue Grafton called Aaron Elkins "first rate." Elizabeth Peters called him "one of the best in the business and getting better all the time." And now he's back in top form. Forensics professor Gideon Oliver accompanies his wife to the Isles of Scilly, which dot... (more)

Gideon Oliver: Book 1

Fellowship of Fear

by Aaron Elkins

The first novel featuring Gideon Oliver, "The Skeleton Detective."

Good Blood (Gideon Oliver Mysteries (Paperback))

Good Blood (Gideon Oliver Mysteries (Paperback))

by Aaron Elkins

What was supposed to be an Italian vacation for forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife turns into a busman's holiday when their hosts' only child goes missing--and nearby construction workers unearth human bones. The family awaits Oliver's conclusions with both dread and cautious hope. But along the way, he'll expose some extraordinary deceptions that lay bare the long-hidden secrets at the dark heart... (more)

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Twenty Blue Devils (Gideon Oliver Mysteries (Paperback))

by Aaron Elkins

The Dark Place

by Aaron Elkins

Icy Clutches

by Aaron Elkins

Old Bones : A Gideon Oliver Mystery

by Aaron Elkins

Loot

by Aaron Elkins

Where There's a Will (Gideon Oliver Mysteries)

by Aaron Elkins

Dead Men's Hearts

by Aaron Elkins

Murder in the Queen's Armes

by Aaron Elkins

Turncoat

by Aaron Elkins

Curses!

by Aaron Elkins

Old Scores

by Aaron Elkins

Little Tiny Teeth

by Aaron Elkins

Skeleton Dance

by Aaron Elkins

A Deceptive Clarity

by Aaron Elkins

Make No Bones

by Aaron Elkins

Uneasy Relations

by Aaron Elkins

Unnatural Selection (Gideon Oliver Mysteries (Hardcover))

by Aaron Elkins

Fellowship of Fear

by Aaron Elkins

Good Blood (Gideon Oliver Mysteries (Paperback))

by Aaron Elkins