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1) Casebook
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This is Sherlock Holmes' last short story, documenting the cases of his later years such as the strange case of missing, blanched soldiers, the story of an inexplicable death and "lion's mane," and the vampire mystery of Sussex. All these cases need Holmes' mind to find the truth.
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Fourteen-year-old Miles Adler-Rich, helped by his friend Hector, spies and listens in on his separating parents. Both boys are in thrall to Miles's unsuspecting mother, Irene, who is "pretty for a mathematician." They rifle through her dresser drawers and strip-mine her computer diary, finding that all leads pull them straight into her bedroom, and into questions about a stranger from Washington, D.C., who weaves in and out of their lives. Their amateur...
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Cincinnati homicide Detective Will Borders now walks with a cane and lives alone with constant discomfort. He's lucky to be alive. He's lucky to have a job, as public information officer for the department. But when a star cop is brutally murdered, he's assigned to find her killer. The crime bears a chilling similarity to killings on the peaceful college campus nearby, where his friend Cheryl Beth Wilson is teaching nursing. The two young victims...
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All three novellas featuring Jack Daniels Private Detective- "The Candy Man", "A Dead Certainty", and "Trouble In Mind" -all available in one volume.
The name's Daniels, Jack Daniels, just like the whiskey you know. I'm a Private Detective. And, I can't help butting my nose into other people's business. It's what I do. You get used to it. It becomes a way of life almost. After a while, it comes natural to you, automatic, like breathing, or eating,...
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A collection of writings analyzing the controversial 1979 posthumous memoirs of the great Russian composer at their significance.
In 1979, the alleged memoirs of legendary composer Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) were published as Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitry Shostakovich As Related to and Edited by Solomon Volkov. Since its appearance, however, Testimony has been the focus of controversy in Shostakovich studies as doubts were raised concerning...
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The greatest detective in the DC Universe finally gets his own collection. No, not Batman-Bobo T. Chimpanzee, a.k.a. Detective Chimp! This volume of never-before-reprinted Silver Age classics collects stories such as "Monkeyshines at the Wax Museum!," "Monkey Business on the Briny Deep!," "The Case of the Fishy Alibi!," and more from The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #4 and #6-46. Also included is a "Whatever Happened to..." backup story from DC...
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Here in contains 21 stories from the casebook of Robert Lee Dean, a cop on patrol across the long, and lonely highways of West Texas ...
Take someone who has seen and heard ghosts and add to it a lifetime career in Law Enforcement you get some interesting tales with an otherworldly twist. Get ready for a roller-coaster ride of ghosts, werewolves, and banshee, to voodoo dolls and Indian death horses, all told from the perspective of a West Texas cop...
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From the bestselling author of THE OUTSIDER Colin Wilson, co-author of the bestselling ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MURDER, has written a definitive volume on the world's major cases of violent murder. In doing so, he traces the history of violence from its beginnings. From Sawney Bean and his cannibal family to Ed Gein, the Wisconsin Necrophile, Wilson illustrates the "changing fashions of murder" and indicates some hope for the future.
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A murder in a flower shop sends Henny and Lloyd on a not-so-merry chase into the mysterious family dynamics of a clan who live by their own rules. But nothing is too bizarre for Henny and Lloyd. Noses to the grindstone they follow the clues and shock even themselves when they lay bare the facts of the matter and uncover the events that led to the murder in the flower shop. Then they are hired by a nine-year-old girl who plops her piggy bank on Lloyd's...
11) The T-K Casebook
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Tab and Kit begin their detective agency as investigators for Maita. They have some strange experiences and meet some even stranger beings. Some are repulsive, some are strange, some are fun, some are funny - and some are just plain weird.
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Over the years, San Francisco's Private Investigator with an eye into the World of the Weird, caps intentional, Tony Mandolin has tackled vampires, demons, dragons, pixies, various members of the world of the fae and assorted things beyond description. All of them had one goal, the death of a certain PI.Most of Tony's cases occupy a set of volumes, ten of them, with more to come. However, a few of those cases were brief enough, pun intended, to fit...
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From the fertile crescent to the far east, the great adventures of Holmes and Watson during the three-year gap between Holmes's "death" and his dramatic return.
What exactly happened during Sherlock Holmes's "great hiatus" after his supposed death and triumphant return three years later? Riccardi images his travels in Europe and Asia during those years in nine original short stories set in places as far flung as Sumatra and Tibet. Given the uncertain...
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Discover the many faces of Arsène Lupin as you've never seen them before in this original compilation from Skyboat Media and Blackstone Publishing.
Arsène Lupin boldly makes a name for himself in "Madame Imbert's Safe" as he attempts to steal from a couple who may be hiding more than just money, and flaunts his keen eye as he traces a cold case in "The Queen's Necklace." In "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin," passengers onboard a transatlantic steamer...
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Finally, the truth about vampires. Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Leading scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology, and psychiatry unearth the true nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day...
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A story too secret, too terrifying-and too shockingly intimate-for Victorian eyes.
A note to the Editor
Dear Henry,
I have been Simon Feximal's companion, assistant and chronicler for twenty years now, and during that time my Casebooks of Feximal the Ghost-Hunter have spread the reputation of this most accomplished of ghost-hunters far and wide.
You have asked me often for the tale of our first meeting, and how my association with Feximal came...
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A collection of short stories featuring beloved detective Sherlock Holmes Originally published in 1927, these short stories represent the fifth and final collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's tales featuring Sherlock Holmes. Included are the following stories, originally published in Strand Magazine beginning in 1921 and stretching through 1927: The Adventure of the Illustrious Client The Adventure of the Blanched Solider The Adventure of the Mazarin...
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The first collection of stories starring legendary Mike Hammer, the toughest private investigator in history It starts with a few near-accidents. A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he's crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train. While any one of these could be a coincidence, together they make a conspiracy--one that Hammer will...
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