Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Legend in Green Velvet, by Elizabeth Peters

To Mother
best friend, severest critic, fellow
traveller, and all-around inspiration



Note:The Friends of Mr. Cairo shares dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.
For book reviews, please visit our blog
:Topical Murder and Dated Death

The Case of the Gilded Fly, by Edmund Crispin

For
Muriel and John
donum memoriae causa




Note:
The Friends of Mr. Cairo shares dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.
For book reviews, please visit our blog
:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The James Joyce Murder, by Amanda Cross

To the first reader of this--and other things





Note:
The Friends of Mr. Cairo shares dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.
For book reviews, please visit our blog
:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Rat Race, by Dick Francis

Contains an introduction, but no dedication.

The introduction explains how Dick Francis and his wife formed an air-taxi company, which was successful for seven years before they sold it to a competitor.


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

The House Without A Key, by Earl Derr Biggers

To my mother and father


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Monday, May 17, 2010

Poetic Justice, by Amanda Cross

Note
It will, of course, be obvious to every reader
that the quotations at the heads of the chapters,
and most of the poetry scatterd reverently
throughout this work,
are from the writings of W.H. Auden.
The author is grateful to Random House, Inc.,
for its permission to quote from the
copyrighted woriks of Mr. Auden


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Sweet Death, Kind Death, by Amanda Cross

For David Hadas
To mark a quarter-century of conversations
about death and life


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Spence at Marlby Manor, by Michael Allen

This book has no dedication


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Beginning With a Bash, by Pheobe Atwood Taylor

This book has no dedication.


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Murder in the Queen's Armes, by Aaron J. Elkins

This book has no dedication.


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Glimpses of the Moon, by Edmund Crispin

For Ann


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

A is for Alibi, by Sue Grafton

For my father,
Chip Grafton,
who set me on this path


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Friday, May 14, 2010

Between a Wok and a Hard Place, by Tamar Myers

For Nancy Yost of Lowenstein Associatse, Inc.
I couldn't ask for a better agent.

Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Dead March, by Ann McMillan

In memory of
Charles Hunter McMillan
a gentle man

Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Thursday, May 13, 2010

The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts

Dedicated to Earl Bettinger,
the husband who...

Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Saddled With Trouble, by Michele Scott

To Mon and Dad
who nurtured my love of horses


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The Hindenburg Murders, by Max Allan Collins

To Joe Pittman--
for helping keep
the Collins balloon aloft

Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

The Clairvoyant Countess, by Dorothy Gilman

For Bob and Barb Spence especially, and for psychics
Ida Harrington and Vivian Meyer



Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.

For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The Players Come Again, by Amanda Cross

To Grace K. Baruch
1936-1988

Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Nevermore, by Harold Schechter

In loving remembrance of
Celia Wasserman Schechter

Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

The Ironclad Alibi, by Michael Kilian

For Roma Downey
and a lovely Richmond day


Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters

To my son Peter

Note:The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.For book reviews, please visit our blog:Topical Murder and Dated Death

A Nun in the Closet, by Dorothy Gilman

For
Larry Ashmead
and
Betty Bartelme



Note:
The focus of The Friends of Mr. Cairo has changed. This blog will now share dedications (if any) made in various mystery novels.

For book reviews, please visit our blog:
Topical Murder and Dated Death