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The Murder of My Aunt

Richard Hull - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDSEdward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Llwll. His aunt thinks Llwll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the countryside - and thinks the company even worse. In fact, Edward has decided to murder his aunt.A darkly humorous...
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Mistletoe murder : and other stories

P D James - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment." The newly appointed...
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

Leonard Gribble - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS'No one had tackled Doyce. He had been alone when he fell. He had simply folded up like a jack-knife and slipped to the ground. What had happened?'The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories. They appear...
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Foreign Bodies

Martin Edwards - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTIN EDWARDSToday, translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been...
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Verdict of Twelve

Raymond Postgate - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

A woman is on trial for her life, accused of murder. The twelve members of the jury each carry their own secret burden of guilt and prejudice which could affect the outcome.In this extraordinary crime novel, we follow the trial through the eyes of the jurors as they hear the evidence and try to reach...
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Somebody at the Door

Raymond Postgate - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS'The death was an odd one, it was true; but there was after all no very clear reason to assume it was anything but natural.'In the winter of 1942, England lies cold and dark in the wartime blackout. One bleak evening, Councillor Grayling steps...
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Hidden Depths: A Vera Stanhope Mystery

ANN CLEEVES - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Now available in the U.S., Hidden Depths is an early book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find...
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A Banquet of Consequences: A Lynley Novel

Elizabeth George - Viking
Format: Print book

"George's mystery unfolds with great psychological depth, finely drawn characters and gorgeous portraits of the English countryside. . . . [George] is an essential writer of popular fiction today." - The Washington PostThe #1 New York Times bestselling author's award-winning...
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The Jewel That Was Ours

Colin Dexter - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book

The moody, brilliant Inspector Morse--now seen on PBS's most popular series, Mystery!--returns in a superb crime novel that will be welcomed by an ever-growing group of Morse fans. In The Jewel That Was Ours, Morse is as cantankerous as ever as he works his fascinating beat, the city...
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The Sussex Downs Murder: A British Library Crime Classic

John Bude - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

'Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!'Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered...
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Antidote to Venom: A British Library Crime Classic

Freeman Crofts - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

'Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle' - Times Literary Supplement 'He always manages to give us something that really keeps us guessing' - Daily Mirror George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries:...
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Mystery of the Blue Train

Agatha Christie - Bantam
Format: Book

On her way to meet her lover, Ruth Kettering is found strangled to death on the train. Missing is the valuable Heart of Fire rubies, which her father gave her. Poirot delves into the case, sorting through the stories of the passengers on the train, Ruth's lover, and her husband Derek...
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The Cornish Coast Murder

John Bude - British Library
Format: Paperback

“Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature—himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them . . . a mystery.” So thinks the Reverend Dodd—vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen and a reader of detective...
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Broken Ground

VAL MCDERMID - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, and her gripping, masterfully plotted novels have garnered millions of readers from around the globe. In Broken Ground, cold case detective Karen Pirie faces her hardest challenge yet. Six feet under...
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In a House of Lies

IAN RANKIN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A new investigation threatens to unearth skeletons from Rebus' pastRebus' retirement is disrupted once again when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing over a decade earlier. The remains, found in a rusted car in the East Lothian woods, not far from...
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The Vault: An Inspector Wexford Novel

Ruth Rendell - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the reigning queen of crime fiction Time Out, a sequel to A Sight for Sore Eyes, one of Rendells most beloved novelsfeaturing the retired Inspector Wexford. In the stunning climax to Rendells classic A Sight for Sore Eyes, three bodiestwo dead, one livingare entombed in an underground...
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When the Music's Over: An Inspector Banks Novel

Peter Robinson - William Morrow
Format: Print book

Inspector Alan Banks - hailed as "a man for all seasons" by Michael Connelly - must face the music when he becomes embroiled in one of his most perplexing and distressing cases in this haunting page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.Two women. Two crimes.The...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle - Modern Library
Format: Print book

Introduction by Laurie R. King The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart...
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Wrongful Death: An Anna Travis Novel

Lynda La Plante - Bourbon Street Books
Format: Book

Londons Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie, duty to the job or personal ambition, in this masterful tale of suspense from the award-winning, international bestselling author of the Prime Suspect seriesone of todays finest crime writers, alongside such...
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The Silkworm

Robert Galbraith - Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Format: Print book

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-06-19 Pages: 464 Language: English Publisher: Little. Brown and Company ... When novelist Owen Quine goes missing. his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike At first. Mrs Quine just thinks.. her husband has gone off by himself for a few days-as he has done...
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