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The Best of Father Brown
G K Chesterton - J.M. Dent
Format: Book
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The father of modern detectivesAs punctilious as Poirot, as Miss Marple and as sharp as Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown ranks higher then all of them in the pantheon of literary sleuths. For the confessional this unassuming, innocent little priest has gained a deep intuitive knowledge... |
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L Sayers - Perennial
Format: Paperback
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A sure treat for Dorothy L. Sayers's legions of fans, The Complete Stories is the ultimate collectible. This delightfully gruesome collection captures all of Sayers's short stories in one volume. The tantalizing puzzles and baffling cases will provide mystery lovers with a sumptuous feast... |
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Aunt Dimity Down Under
Nancy Atherton - Viking
Format: Print book
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The original supernatural sleuth is back in the latest cozy Aunt Dimity mystery A shock wave rocks Lori Shepherd's world when she hears that her beloved neighbors, Ruth and Louise Pym, may be dying. Bracing herself for a final farewell, Lori instead receives a request from the eccentric... |
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Case Histories: A Novel
Kate Atkinson - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband... |
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Death of a Charming Man
M C Beaton - Grand Central
Format: Paperback
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All Sergeant Hamish Macbeth wants to do is fish and drink coffee with his fiance. Then a mysterious stranger moves into the neighboring village--a rich, unmarried heartbreaker, causing rivalry among the local women. It is amusing until death threats, assault and murder shatter the tranquil... |
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Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No. 5)
M. C. Beaton - St. Martin's Papaerbacks
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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After her first husband, Jimmy Raisin, stops her wedding and she is left jilted at the altar, he is found strangled to death, and Agatha Raisin must prove her innocence along with that of her intended. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage is a mystery filled with murder and mayhem,... |
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A Spoonful of Poison
M C Beaton - St. Martin's Paperbacks
Format: Book
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Agatha Raisin's detective agency has become so successful that now all she wants is some R&R. But as soon as she cuts back her hours, Agatha remembers that when she has too much quality time, she doesn't know what to do with it. So it doesn't take much for the vicar of a nearby village... |
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Murphy's Law
Rhys Bowen - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the much-loved Constable Evan Evans mysteries comes a colorful new series set in turn-of-the-century New York City. When spirited redhead Molly Murphy was growing up a peasant on the coast of Ireland she always imagined there was something more in store for her. She couldn't... |
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Novel
Alan Bradley - Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over - until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate... |
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Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders: A Mystery (Oscar Wilde Mysteries)
Gyles Brandreth - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders opens in 1890, at a glamorous party hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All of London's high society - including the Prince of Wales - are in attendance at what promises to be the event of the season. Yet Oscar Wilde is more interested... |
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Murder in the Museum
Simon Brett - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book
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When a human skeleton is found buried on the grounds of the famed Bracketts House--the historic home of the author Esmond Chadleigh--Carole Seddon and Jude must determine whether the beloved writer's sword was mightier than his pen...and whether the snobbish, squabbling trustees of Bracketts... |
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Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter: Blotto, Twinks #1
Simon Brett - Felony & Mayhem
Format: Paperback
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It's that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king's daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges the Duke's handsome, brave, and rather stupid son (known to all as Blotto) to drive... |
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The Sittaford Mystery
Agatha Christie - St. Martin's paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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M-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists snowbound at the Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold... |
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Sleeping Murder
Agatha Christie - New American Library
Format: Paperback
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A young bride is having trouble settling in to their home. Feelings of unnatural dread are taking their toll. And when Miss Marple investigates, she learns how truthful-and terrifying-the imagination can be. |
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Gagged & Bound: A Trish Maguire Mystery
Natasha Cooper - St. Martin's Minotaur
Format: Book
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Barrister Trish Maguire tackles a thirty-year-old terrorism case when distinguished biographer, Beatrice Bowman, hires her to fight a libel claim by a new ennobled member of the House of Lords who says she misidentified him as one of the terrorists who killed a busload of young children.... |
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The Victim in Victoria Station (Dorothy Martin Mysteries, No. 5)
Jeanne M. Dams - Walker
Format: Print book
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Dorothy Martin's wedded bliss could only be improved if her husband didn't have to go gallivanting all over the world, advising local police on new procedure. Dorothy's life could only be improved if she didn't keep stumbling across the recently-and criminally-deceased. |
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Send a Fax to the Kasbah
Dorothy Dunnett - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Format: Book
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When a bomb at Kingsley Conglomerates sends upwardly mobile Executive Secretary Wendy Helmann and her mother, Kingsley's Chairman, to Morocco, the two must endure races on horseback, murder, and mayhem. 10,000 first printing. |
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Ten Lords A-Leaping: A Robert Amiss/Baroness Jack Troutbeck Mystery
Ruth Dudley Edwards - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Book
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The House of Lords will never be the same again. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, Jack Troutbeck, assisted by her old friend Robert Amiss, plots vigorously with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she violently disapproves. But she hadnt reckoned with... |
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The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
Jasper Fforde - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The first installment in Jasper Fforde's New York Times bestselling series of Thursday Next novels introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England - from the author of Early RiserFans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse... |
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Casino Royale
Ian Fleming - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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In the first of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH. The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond's fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy,... |
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Mistress of the Art of Death
Ariana Franklin - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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Sent to medieval Cambridge in order to exonerate a group of Jewish prisoners with financial ties to King Henry I, University of Salerno medical examiner Adelia and a group of companions struggle to avoid being accused of witchcraft and discover that the killer may be a former crusader.... |
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Dead Heat
Dick Francis - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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Death comes to the races in the brilliant new novel from the grand master of crime fiction, Dick Francis. |
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Confessor
John Gardner - Otto Penzler Books
Format: Book
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Herbie Kruger is called out of retirement to investigate the death of Gus Keene, one of the best inquistors ever employed by the British Secret Intelligence Service, and uncovers some disturbing facts about Keene's past and interest in magic. 35,000 first printing. Tour. |
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Faithful Unto Death: A Chief Inspector Barnaby Novel
Caroline Graham - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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When Simone Hollingsworth fails to turn up at bell ringing practice, her fellow Fawcett Green villagers are neither surprised nor concerned. Unfailingly pleasant, extremely beautiful, and really rather dull, Simone has made her mark only as someone who has volunteered for too many activities... |
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Darkness, Darkness: A Novel
John Harvey - Pegasus Crime
Format: Print book
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The final Detective Charlie Resnick novel, from the Cartier Diamond Dagger winner and London Sunday Times bestselling author John Harvey. Thirty years ago, the British Miners' Strike threatened to tear england apart, turning neighbor against neighbor, husband against wife, father against... |
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Gone
Mo Hayder - Grove Press
Format: Paperback
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Now available in paperback from one of the most acclaimed authors in the thriller genre - praised as a "maestro of the sinister" by the New York Daily News - Mo Hayder delivers her most excruciatingly suspenseful novel to date. By turns thrilling and horrifying, Gone... |
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The Killing Ground
Jack Higgins - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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Sean Dillon takes on a mission of mercy, in which he will be shown none. Intelligence operative Sean Dillon stops Caspar Rashid at Heathrow Airport?and is pulled into danger. The man?s daughter has been kidnapped by Rashid?s own father and taken to Iraq to be married to one of the Middle... |
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Ripley Under Water
Patricia Highsmith - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Tom Ripley passes his leisured days at his French country estate tending the dahlias, practicing the harpsichord, and enjoying the company of his lovely wife, Heloise. Never mind the bloodstains on the basement floor.But some new neighbors have moved to Villeperce: the Pritchards, just... |
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The Clue is in the Pudding
Kate Kingsbury - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Paperback
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The kitchen staff of the Pennyfoot Hotel is toiling away to prepare the finest meal for the guests on Christmas. And the plum pudding may very well be to die for ... Cecily Sinclair Baxter could use a Christmas miracle. Mrs. Chubb, the Pennyfoot's housekeeper, must travel up north for a family... |
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Crowner's Quest
Bernard Knight - Pocket
Format: Paperback
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On Christmas Eve in 1194, Sir John de Wolfe gratefully escapes a party being given by his wife to examine the body of a canon who has been found hanged. Suicide is suspected, but it is soon apparent that there is far more to this case than meets the eye. As always, his investigations are hampered... |
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The Red Dahlia
Lynda La Plante - Touchstone Book
Format: Hardcover
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Detective Anna Travis is working on a horrific, brutal murder case that has created a media frenzy. The victim, Louise Pennel, a 24-year-old, single, 'fun-loving' girl, was last seen in a London night club wearing a sequinned mini-dress and a red rose in her hair. In an eerie mirror image... |
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The House Sitter
Peter Lovesey - Soho
Format: Print book
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"Peter Lovesey loves strong women, cerebral killers and diabolical puzzles - the very ingredients that make The House Sitter one of the most cunning mysteries in his Inspector Diamond series." - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "True wit is the hallmark... |
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Wicked Autumn (A Max Tudor Novel, 1)
G.M. Malliet - Griffin
Format: Hardcover
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One of The Boston Globes Best Mysteries of 2011 One of Library Journals Best Mystery Books of 2011 . "Hugely funny, exquisitely well written, a tongue-in-cheek village mystery to be savored. G.M. Malliets arch tone and wry humor make her a writer to be treasured." -- Julia Spencer-Fleming,... |
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When in Rome: Clutch of Constables. Tied Up in Tinsel
Ngaio Marsh - Harper
Format: Paperback
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Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the ninth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. CLUTCH OF CONSTABLES According to Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, 'the Jampot' is an international crook who regards... |
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Murder at the Old Vicarage
Jill McGown - Fawcett Crest
Format: Book
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"A murder so baffling it might even have stumped Agatha Christie's Miss Marple...A lively, entertaining mystery."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERA killing blow on the head took the life of Graham Estow, but the vicar and his wife were hardly grieved. He was the son-in-law who had severely... |
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Crisis Four
Andy McNab - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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He was ordered to track down a rogue colleague. Now British Intelligence agent Nick Stone and "runner" (and former lover) Sarah Greenwood have become the hunted, racing deeper into a dark, deadly conspiracy that will change the course of world events - and the lives of millions.With... |
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Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories
Donald E Westlake - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking) , the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.s, including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed, one of the challenges (and great... |
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Death at Bishop's Keep
Robin Paige - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book
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Kate Adrleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not--outspoken, free-thinking, American...and a writer of the frowned upon "penny-dreadfuls."Soon after her arrival in Essex, England, a body is unearthed in a nearby archeological dig--and Kate has the chance to not only... |
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Sovereign
C. J. Sansom - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The third Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C. J. Sansom, the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and DominionC. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution,... |
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Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle
Manda Scott - Delta Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Dreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica.Boudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word "boudeg") . She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only woman openly to lead her warriors... |
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