Laurie King - Edgar Winning Mystery Author

Laurie King - Edgar Winning Mystery Author

Laurie King's first book entitled A Grave Talent, won the Edgar Best First Novel award in 1994. The protagonist is Kay Martinelli, a San Francisco Homicide detective.

Her second book, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, starts a second series with the team of detectives Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. She then goes back to Kay Martinelli in her third book ... and alternates between the two series for the next three books.

Due to the fact that A Grave Talent only had a very small first printing of 2000 books ... and it won an Edgar ... this was a $600 book back in 1999.

Needless to say I couldn't afford it back then. The Beekeeper's Apprentice was also an expensive book back in 1999 at $325. This information is from the Bookline Mystery Newsletter. Jim does have these books as he bought them soon after they came out.

Laurie King now has a total of 17 novels as shown in the table:

Title	Year Published	Publisher
A Grave Talent	1993	St. Martin's
The Beekeeper's Apprentice	1994	St. Martin's
A Monstrous Regiment of Women	1995	St. Martin's
To Play the Fool	1995	St. Martin's
With Child	1996	St. Martin's
A Letter of Mary	1997	St. Martin's
Moor	1998	St. Martin's
A Darker Place	1999	Bantam
O Jerusalem	1999	Bantam
The Birth of A New Moon	1999	Harper Collins, London
Night Work	2000	Bantam
Folly	2001	Bantam
Justice Hall	2002	Bantam
Keeping Watch	2003	Bantam
The Game	2004	Bantam
Locked Rooms	2005	Bantam
The Art of Detection	2006	Bantam

Here are charts of Ms. King's first two books that show the distribution of prices in Dec. 2007:

As can be seen in the charts, both books average about the same price as in 1999, nine years ago.

Hypermodern book prices can increase quickly over a short period of time but may decline over the next few years.

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