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Special lucky Friday the 13th issue

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Dear %%First Name%%,

Gigantic, enormous store-wide 13% off sale

Yup, you can save 13% on nearly everything in the store by placing your order today. Use the website, call, fax or email on Friday, August 13 by midnight and you can reap the savings.

Going to be in the store? You can get your 13% but you've got to ask for your Friday the 13th discount.

There are some restrictions which include already marked down sale items, fuure publications, and British titles which are not in stock. We'll notify you if anything you order isn't subject to the discount and you can decide what you'd like us to do.

If your order includes any non-book items we'll have to charge you the regular Priority Mail rate of $8 for shipping since we cannot send these media mail.

What are you waiting for? Get shopping and start saving.

August-September News available for download

The August-September edition of the MLB News is available for download in PDF form. We'll be sending this to the printer next Sunday for mailing next week but you can get hold of it right now online.

Dennis Palumbo August 21

Our event with Dennis Palumbo to launch the first in his Pittsburgh-set mystery series has been changed to a talk and signing, no charge. We had originally announced this as a Coffee & Crime Breakfast but overwhelming response has forced us to change this to a simple talk and signing.

If you've already paid for tickets we'll take care of you--just give us a call at the store to discuss: 412-828-4877.

A violin recital at a bookstore? Why not.

On Tuesday, August 31 at 7 pm we'll have a unique event at MLB, an author talk, signing and violin recital with Gerald Elias. Mr. Elias is the assistant concertmaster at the Utah Symphony Orchestra and he's visiting us with the second of his mysteries featuring violinist Daniel Jacobus. Danse Macabre is the title and Danse Macabre is the musical selection when Mr. Elias appears at the store. The first of his mysteries, Devil's Trill, is here in paperback.

Please call 412-828-4877 or use our Contact Form to let us know if you're coming.

New Arrivals

A pile of new British titles (again) this week.

Catriona McPherson's Golden Age sleuth Dandy Gilver it as it again in two new books: Winter Ground and Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains.

More Golden Age sleuthing in And Then There Was No One, the third of Gilbert Adairs mysteries with writer Evadne Mount.

L.C. Tyler, author of The Herring-Sellers Apprentice has a most unusual standalone A Very Persistent Illusion.

Dark Water is the third in an ensemble series by Caro Ramsay set int he Partickhill Police Station in Glagow.

US books were not without some interesting New Arrivals this week Here are some highlights:

Frederick Forsyth shows he's still got the mojo with The Cobra, an excellent political thriller

Dick Francis and son Felix have Crossfire, a new racing mystery

Anita Diamant of Red Tent fame has a new novel in paperback, Day After Night.

A new novel is getting quite a bit of buzz as a possible succesor to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. It's The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart.

Wife of the Gods is the start of a new series set in Ghana by Kwei Quartey

New books arrive every day. Check our New Arrivals page often for everything new at MLB.

Signed first editions

What's on the website now

Here's what you can find at www.mysterylovers.com:

Upcoming Events

August 21 - Dennis Palumbo talk & signing
August 31 - Gerald Elias signing and violin recital

More events...

Get ready for summer reading
Richard, Mary Alice and the MLB Staff

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