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It was the best of times, it was the worst of crimes . . . The ghastly double murder of a society doctor's beautiful wife and her maid reunites celebrated novelist Charles Dickens, his protegé Wilkie Collins, and the formidable Inspector Field of the Metropolitan Protectives in another brilliant quest for justice. They manage to defend old friend and ex-burglar Tally Ho Thompson, who's arrested at the scene-but then the case takes the men from the...
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To save a war widow, Mr. and Mrs. North investigate a banker's dark side When he saw the Zeroes on his tail, Rick Hunter knew he had two choices: He could land on the carrier, inviting a Japanese attack that could destroy the squadron, or he could take the Zeroes out to sea. He turned away from the carrier, and flew until his tanks were empty, sacrificing himself to save his troop. But his heroism is no comfort to his widow. After less than a year...
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A belated Honeymoon... New friends... and another Murder!Cookie and Jerry, along with Cream, are motor-homing their way around the country for their honeymoon. Along the way, they've made a lot of new friends. The trip is going great as they spend endless hours alone together seeing the sights, away from the worries of Widow's Rest.But the fun ends when one of those new friends is found dead and they find themselves in the middle of another murder...
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Stop by for some comfortable visits to Stewart's Crossing, where reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan and his crime-sniffing golden retriever Rochester are nose to the ground in this collection of mystery short stories that take place between novels. In the first of these stories, Steve is learning to love the big, goofy golden he has inherited on the death of his neighbor, and Rochester shows him how to open his heart and his home to his sweetheart...
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No Ordinary Murder!When Miranda and Jack (and Kyle) decide to take a mini vacation they can't believe their bad luck. From almost the moment they arrive at their destination they find themselves entangled in yet another murder investigation.Jack Travis is shocked to discover that the victim, a fellow police officer, is a man he knows and respects. Was he there on vacation or was he working undercover?No one seems to know and were not even aware that...
46) The Crooked Lane
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A sophisticated murder mystery set in high-society Washington, DC, in the years before World War II.
Karl Sheridan has recently returned to Washington, DC, from Vienna, where he studied the art of detection at the renowned Criminalistic Institute. Now he is about to face his first real-life test.
Attending a high-society dinner party, Karl meets an eclectic group of dazzling, clever men and women-among them the beautiful Tess Stuart, an old childhood...
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For Mr. and Mrs. North, there's no vacation from murder In a remote cabin far from New York City, Jerry and Pamela North are getting killed. On the brink of annihilation, they grit their teeth and battle back. In a moment, the fight is finished-and the Norths are named mixed doubles champions. It's a happy moment during a splendid vacation, but off the tennis court, all is not well. After an afternoon of fun and games, the evening's entertainment...
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Amateur sleuth, Professor Bevyn Jones receives a invitation to a mystery weekend in cottage country. He barely has time to breathe the country air when a certain "Ladybug" sends him a text message to meet at the boathouse. A minute later, he finds himself in the middle of a real whodunit.He joins forces with Detective Watson, dressed as Miss Scarlett, Chief Murphy and Detective Roy.Another dead body turns up in an abandoned room as the number of suspects...
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Charles Dickens is smitten with Ellen Ternan, a teenage actress, and heads to the country to retrieve her from the home for fallen women run by Angela Burdett-Coutts-who also owns one of England's largest banks and has recently received an anonymous threatening note. Back in London, Dickens and his fellow writer Wilkie Collins give the note to Inspector Field. But more urgent worries are to come. Both men's paramours-the actress as well as a former...
50) Nine Times Nine
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Sister Ursula, a Los Angeles nun who makes a habit of sleuthing, tackles a locked room murder in this mystery classic.
Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. With a particular fondness...
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Virginia Freer has had it with her sort-of-ex-husband's taste for drama. Yes, Marcus Avery was a dear old duffer who lived in Virginia's town. Yes, Lillian Pace, Felix Freer's neighbor in London, was a sweet old bird. Yes, it's terrible they were murdered, but we live in a naughty world. But look at the coincidences!-Felix insists. That unpleasant silversmith. That awful couple seeking revenge. These were not two separate murders, I tell you: There...
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A Civil War spy is pulled out of retirement to find a killer It's 1862, and for Harrison Raines, the Civil War is finished. Since the First Battle of Bull Run, he has served the Union Army as a spy, crisscrossing the war-torn country and witnessing more death, misery, and carnage than any man should. Although a Virginian, he loathes slavery, and is proud to have served Abraham Lincoln. But Raines has had enough killing, and wishes only to retire to...
53) Bad Girl Blues
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A former fashion photographer encounters murder and corruption in New Orleans It's too hot to sleep. It's too hot to be up. This is New Orleans in the summer. And as dawn breaks on a sweltering July morning, André Derain awakens to a scream from his courtyard as a man is stabbed just below his window. Acting on impulse, Derain leaps out the window, in the buff, and chases the attacker down the alleyway, but the man with the knife gets away. By the...
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La ejecución del plan maquiavélico ideado por los tres criminales, Mascarot, Hortebize y Catenac, avanza sin contratiempos y parece que nada más que un milagro podrá impedir la catástrofe. Con la minuciosidad y precisión de un orfebre, el lazo se estrecha sobre las víctimas que, imperceptiblemente y en la más perfecta ignorancia, parecen encaminarse al desastre. Solo el genio de Lecoq podrá hallar algo de luz entre tanta oscuridad... Émile...
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Enjoy this Small-Town Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple The Myerton High School Mules football team are coming off their first winning season in years and looking forward to an even better one. The team is in great shape, and under their second year coach they're really coming together as a team. But all is not well with some of the players. Several of them were involved in incidents where the police were called. A couple of players...
56) The Journalist
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For fans of Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan and Jan Burke's Irene Kelly series comes a novel of a reporter's shadowy past from the author of The Clearing. In the middle of the night, in war-torn Rwanda, journalist Roland Keene leaves his hotel to find armed rebels to interview. Some would call it a suicide mission. Roland would agree. Though Keene's work as a foreign correspondent keeps him on the road-and at arm's length from his problems-it doesn't...
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Third in the multiple-award-winning Evan Wycliff Mystery series.
Guest preacher and part-time investigator Evan Wycliff reluctantly takes on the role of full-time minister and walks straight into more responsibility and trouble than he can handle. He attends to near-death experience, late-stage dementia, long-term coma, and consequences of the pandemic. His old nemesis investment banker Stuart Shackleton is back - and claims to be converted! Shackleton's...
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When it's curtains for a theater director, Los Angeles PI Fergus O'Breen takes center stage in this locked room mystery from the author of Nine Times Nine. Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished writer of mystery, science fiction, fantasy,...
59) Bottled Up
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A weekend getaway to a beautiful beachside town with an old friend should have been a relaxing change of pace for Dell Powers.But then, when is her life ever relaxing?While walking on the beach Dell discovers a quite unique, antique bottle complete with a note inside. Thinking it would make a great addition to her Inn, she digs it out of the sand.Her weekend takes a turn for the dangerous shortly after, so Dell packs up and heads home early, where...
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A New Marriage... A Desperate Granddaughter... And An Old Mystery...When a man caught breaking and entering claims to have new information in a decades old mystery, Cookie can't help but get involved.The new information seems to indicate that one of the town's residents was involved all those years ago and Cookie is having a difficult time believing it.If that isn't enough to deal with Cookie's granddaughter, Clarissa, arrives unexpectedly on her...
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