Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller. It is a Fortune 1000 company and the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. As of July 7, 2020, the company operates 614 retail stores across all 50 U.S. states.
1-Click, also called one-click or one-click buying, is the technique of allowing customers to make purchases with the payment information needed to complete the purchase having been entered by the user previously. More particularly, it allows an online shopper using an Internet marketplace to purchase an item without having to use shopping cart software. Instead of manually inputting billing and shipping information for a purchase, a user can use one-click buying to use a predefined address and credit card number to purchase one or more items. Since the expiration of Amazon's patent, there has been an advent of checkout experience platforms, such as ShopPay, Simpler, PeachPay, Zplit, and Bolt which offer similar one-click checkout flows.
Ann B. Ross is an America author noted for her series of New York Times bestsellers set in her home state of North Carolina This comedic cozy mystery series features Miss Julia, whose name appears at the beginning of each title in the series. Ross also taught literature and humanities at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks (1999), introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St. Martin's Minotaur Best First Traditional Mystery contest, the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice awards for best first novel, and the Lefty award for funniest mystery of 1999. The first novel in the Turing Hopper series debuted a highly unusual sleuth—an Artificial Intelligence (AI) personality who becomes sentient—and won the Agatha Award for best mystery that year.
Caroline Alexander is a British author, classicist and filmmaker. She is the author of the best-selling The Endurance, and The Bounty, and other works of literary non-fiction, such as The Way to Xanadu and The War that Killed Achilles. In 2015, she published a new translation of Homer's Iliad.
Left Coast Crime is an annual conference organised by mystery fiction fans for mystery fiction fans, first held in San Francisco in 1991. It is concerned with western North American region mysteries, but the conference itself travels worldwide, having been held in Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as different parts of the United States. The conference enables fans to mix with authors. A prominent author of western mystery fiction is invited to be guest speaker.
Bouchercon is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction. It is named in honour of writer, reviewer, and editor Anthony Boucher; also the inspiration for the Anthony Awards, which have been issued at the convention since 1986. This page details Bouchercon XXXI and the 15th Anthony Awards ceremony.
Hands of a Murderer is a 1990 British made-for-television mystery film directed by Stuart Orme, starring Edward Woodward as Sherlock Holmes and John Hillerman as Dr. John H. Watson.
M. L. Buchman is the penname of USA Today Bestselling American author Matthew Lieber Buchman. His novels have been critically acclaimed by Booklist three-times as "Top 101 Romance Novels of the Last 10 Years", by NPR as one of the "Top 5 Romance Novel[s] of 2012", and by Barnes & Noble as one of the "Best 5 Romance [Novels] of 2013". He has worked in IT at Seattle Opera, and as a specialist in applying lean principles in legal and manufacturing environments. He also has ridden his bicycle on an 18-month, 11,000-mile solo tour around the world.
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (ISBN 978-0-312-60022-8) is a book by Daniel Stashower published by Minotaur Books on 29 January 2013 & later won 4 literary awards.
Murder on the Iditarod Trail (ISBN 978-0-380-71758-3) is a book written by Sue Henry and published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1991, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 1992.
The Doctor, the Murder, the Mystery: The True Story of the Dr. John Branion Murder Case (ISBN 978-1-879-36013-6) is a book written by Barbara D'Amato and published by Noble Press Inc on 1 March 1992 which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best True Crime in 1993.
For the Love of Mike is a book written by Rhys Bowen and published by St. Martin's Press on 30 November 2003, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Historical Mystery in 2004.
Still Life is the debut novel written by Louise Penny and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks on 1 January 2005, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2007. The story was adapted into a film called Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery in 2013.
A Bad Day for Sorry is a book written by Sophie Littlefield and published by Minotaur Books on 4 August 2009, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel in 2010.
The Brutal Telling is a novel written by Louise Penny, part of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It was published by Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press owned by Macmillan Publishers. The book was published on 22 September 2009, and later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2010.
Expiration Date is a time travel crime novel by Duane Swierczynski published in 2010. It was published by Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press owned by Macmillan Publishers. The novel received the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 2011.
Bury Your Dead is a book written by Louise Penny and published by Minotaur Books on 28 September 2010, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2011.
A Trick of the Light is a book written by Louise Penny and published by Minotaur Books on 30 August 2011, which later went on to win the Anthony Award for Best Novel in 2012.
Donna R. Perry is an American serial killer. Born male, she was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in 2014 for killing three women in 1990. Perry underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2000; her gender identity formed a portion of the defense's argument.
