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Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street by William S. Baring-Gould
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the Dust Jacket:Although millions know of Sherlock Holmes through the chronicles of his exploits written by Dr. Watson, it is only now that, owing to his recent death, the full biography and facts of his life can be brought before the public...Categorized as:
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Lord Peter by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAll the Lord Peter Wimsey stories are here, in a single volume, including the one about Harriet, Peter and their three...Categorized as:
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![A Picture of Murder by T.E. Kinsey]()
A Picture of Murder by T.E. Kinsey
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsLate October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell.Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady’s maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colourful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture, The Witch’s Downfall, is being shown to mark Halloween...Categorized as:
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![Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie]()
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNot all of Miss Marple's best can be found in Agatha Christie novels. There are short stories too.Jane Marple is from the village of St Mary Mead and applies her skills of observation and deduction to a wide variety of mysteries...Categorized as:
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![Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers]()
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copywriting than meets the eye. A bit of cocaine, a hint of blackmail, and some wanton women can be read between the lines...Categorized as:
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Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque but absolutely bewitching side rarely shown in Lord Peter's full-length adventures.Lord Peter views the body in 12 tantalizing and bizarre ways in this outstanding collection...Categorized as:
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![The Cursed Writer by Holly Hepburn]()
The Cursed Writer by Holly Hepburn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPreorder the BRAND NEW instalment in Holly Hepburn's page-turning Baker Street Mystery series Join Harriet White in 1930's London for another glorious Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery, for fans of Nita Prose and Janice...Categorized as:
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![O Noviço do Diabo by Ellis Peters]()
O Noviço do Diabo by Ellis Peters
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a bit disturbing. The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet is meek and biddable by day, but his sleep is rife with nightmares so violent that they earn him the name of "Devil's Novice". Shunned by the other monks, Aspley attracts the concern of Brother Cadfael...Categorized as:
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Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFive Days Out of Time… that was how the ad had described the Zodiac cruise on the “weirdly misted” English river. The passengers were the usual, unusual lot: a couple of unpleasantly hygienic Americans, an aloof Ethiopian doctor, a snooping cleric with a wall-eye, an artist running away from her success…But they were not all what they seemed...Categorized as:
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Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAmusing and absolutely appalling things happen on the way to the gallows when murder meets Lord Peter Wimsey and the delightful working-class sleuth Montague Egg. This sumptuous feast of criminal doings and undoings includes a vintage double identity and a horrid incident of feline assassination that will tease the minds of cat-lovers everywhere...Categorized as:
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![The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie]()
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsMiss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception, and death.Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone wishes he were dead and very soon he is shot in the head in the vicar’s study...Categorized as:
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![Have His Carcase: Special Edition by Dorothy L. Sayers]()
Have His Carcase: Special Edition by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen Harriet Vane finds a dead body on the beach, she and Lord Peter Wimsey must solve a murder when all the evidence has washed out to sea Harriet Vane has gone on vacation to forget her recent murder trial and, more importantly, to forget the man who cleared her name-the dapper, handsome, and maddening Lord Peter Wimsey...Categorized as:
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![The Unexpected Guest by Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie]()
The Unexpected Guest by Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog near the South Wales coast, and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheel-chair bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story... -
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Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs of foul play. Lord Peter Wimsey, however, senses that something is amiss and refuses to let the case rest--even without any clues or leads. Suddenly, he is faced with another murder: Agatha's maid...Categorized as:
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![Isabella's Painting by Ellen Butler]()
Isabella's Painting by Ellen Butler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1990 Boston's Gardner Museum was robbed of $500 million worth of artwork. Twenty-eight years later the art remains at large ... until now. Peeling back layers of lies could save a masterpiece or reveal a killer. After a long week lobbying on Capitol Hill, all Karina Cardinal wants to do is chill with Netflix and her boyfriend, Patrick Dunne... -
![Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King]()
Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside-down to crack their most captivating case yet in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today... -
![Witness for the Prosecution and Selected Plays by Agatha Christie]()
Witness for the Prosecution and Selected Plays by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is the first-ever publication in book form of Witness for the Prosecution, Christie's highly successful stage thriller which was made into a film by Billy Wilder. Also included are Towards Zero, Verdict and Go Back for Murder... -
![Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters, Bert Coules]()
Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters, Bert Coules
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAt the monastery in Shrewsbury in 1138, Brother Cadfael's workshop shelves boast all sorts of medication for every kind of ailment. When Gervase Bonel is poisoned with one of them, the monk finds suspicion has fallen on someone he is certain is innocent...Categorized as:
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![Poirot quitte la scène by Agatha Christie]()
Poirot quitte la scène by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsArthritic and immobilized, Poirot calls on his old friend Captain Hastings to join him at Styles to be the eyes and ears that will feed observations to Poirot's still razor sharp mind. Though aware of the criminal's identity, Poirot will not reveal it to the frustrated Hastings, and dubs the nameless personage 'X'...Categorized as:
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![Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers, Mark Meadows]()
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers, Mark Meadows
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt -- until the game turned up human and quite dead. He lay among the chrysanthemums, wore slippers and a dinner jacket and was Lord Peter's brother-in-law-to-be...Categorized as:
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![The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers]()
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter to take on what will become one of his most brilliant and complicated cases...Categorized as:
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![The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers]()
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNinety-year-old General Fentiman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died—and the time of death was the determining factor in a half-million-pound inheritance...Categorized as:
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![Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh]()
Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's 1930s novels.The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim.But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up...Categorized as:
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![Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie]()
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIt was an open and shut case. All the evidence said Caroline Crale poisoned her philandering husband, a brilliant painter. She was quickly and easily convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Now, sixteen years later, in a posthumous letter, Mrs. Crale has assured her grown daughter that she was innocent...Categorized as:
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![The Golden Ball and Other Stories by Agatha Christie]()
The Golden Ball and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIs it a gesture of good will or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St... -
![The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie]()
The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis special collection of Agatha Christie's greatest suspense plays includes The Mousetrap (the longest running play in history), Ten Little Indians, Witness for the Prosecution, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Towards Zero, Go Back to Murder, and The Verdict...Categorized as:
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![To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey]()
To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a young strikingly handsome photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Grant to discover whether he accidentally drowned, committed suicide, or met his death at the hands of one of his many female admirers...Categorized as:
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![The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Eustace]()
The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Eustace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack had died horribly—with a dish of mushrooms at his side deadly enough to kill thirty victims...Categorized as:
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![In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers]()
In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAll that was left of the garage was a heap of charred and smouldering beams. In the driving seat of the burnt-out car were the remains of a body...An accident, said the police. An accident, said the widow. She had been warning her husband about the danger of the car for months. Murder, said the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey--and proceeded to track down the killer...Categorized as:
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![The Big Blowdown by George P. Pelecanos]()
The Big Blowdown by George P. Pelecanos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWashington DC, 1946. For two local young men, Pete Karras and Joey Recevo, the easiest way to find work after the war is by providing a little muscle for a local boss who runs a protection racket with the Mafia. The trouble with Pete Karras is that he is just too soft on his fellow immigrants, and the last thing the boss wants is for his mob to get soft... -
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Singapore Sapphire by A.M. Stuart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHarriet Gordon stumbles into a murderous web of stolen gems and cutthroat thieves as she runs from her tragic past in an enthralling new historical mystery series set in early twentieth century Singapore. Singapore 1910--Desperate for a fresh start and to distance herself from her tragic past, Harriet Gordon finds herself in Singapore at the height of colonial rule...Categorized as:
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Miss Silver Comes to Stay by Patricia Wentworth
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn vacation in a tiny village, Miss Silver investigates a murder with a decades-old motive.The citizens of Melling are perfectly ordinary―exactly the sort one finds in just about every cozy English village―and to a certain person they might even appear boring. But to Miss Silver, people are always interesting...Categorized as:
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![The Case of William Smith by Patricia Wentworth]()
The Case of William Smith by Patricia Wentworth
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWho was William Smith? And why was Mavis Jones so horrified to see him? For seven years William had worked as a woodcarver for the local toyshop, ignorant of his true identity. The war had robbed him of his memory, and no one expected him to ever find the answer...Categorized as:
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![Ladies' Bane by Patricia Wentworth]()
Ladies' Bane by Patricia Wentworth
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMiss Silver travels to the country to investigate a young man who may be deceiving his wifeNo one has seen Allegra Trent since she got married. Her husband swept her off her feet and out of London, to a faraway town called Bleake. She has stopped writing letters, and her family has begun to worry...Categorized as:
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![A Night of Long Knives by Rebecca Cantrell]()
A Night of Long Knives by Rebecca Cantrell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJournalist Hannah Vogel has vowed to never again set foot in her homeland of Germany while the Nazis are still in power. She has good three years ago in 1931, she kidnapped her “son,” Anton, from the man claiming to be his father--Ernst Rohm, head of the Nazis' SA. A powerful man not to be trifled with, Hannah knows that Rohm will never stop searching for them...Categorized as:
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![Murder in the Bookshop by Anita Davison]()
Murder in the Bookshop by Anita Davison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSomeone’s been read their last rites… 1915, London : Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inherited, Hannah Merrill is accustomed to finding twists in every tale. But discovering her beloved best friend Lily-Anne – with a paperknife through her heart – in the middle of the bookshop, is not a plotline she saw coming. The case is anything but textbook...Categorized as:
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![A Quiet Place to Kill by N.R. Daws]()
A Quiet Place to Kill by N.R. Daws
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this tense thriller set on a WW2 airbase, a female pilot faces danger in the sky—and a murderer on the ground.July 1940. As the Battle of Britain begins, the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary carry out the dangerous task of ferrying warplanes to RAF airbases...Categorized as:
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The Listening Eye by Patricia Wentworth
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA deaf woman learns something she shouldn’t, and she asks Miss Silver for protectionPaulina Paine was buried under her house during the Blitz. She spent twenty-four hours trapped underneath the rubble, where the silence was absolute as the grave, and only after she escaped did she realize that the bomb that spared her life had taken her hearing...Categorized as:
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Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHere is a sparkling collection of mystery gems, polished puzzlers from the pen of Agatha Christie starring the vain, eccentric and utterly brilliant Hercule Poirot.Hercule Poirot grapples with a chain of mysteries that challenge his ingenuity and display the author's wide-ranging imagination to fine effect...Categorized as:
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![Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie]()
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsIt seems that no matter how hard he tries, Poirot never quite gets a holiday. This story sees him in Devon, Agatha Christie’s home county, and, of course, among the scantily clad sunbathers, a murdered woman is found.It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down...Categorized as:
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![Peril at End House by Agatha Christie]()
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsHercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo.Poirot quickly takes a particular interest in the young woman. She has recently narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents...Categorized as:
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![The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One by Mary Stewart]()
The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One by Mary Stewart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1879. Lanzarote. A wealthy young woman elopes with an impoverished fisherman, leaving her family distraught. 1968. Perdita West, secretary to a famous author, visits Lanzarote on a research trip and begins to fall in love with the unusual, beautiful little island... -
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Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsOur indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a very old crime.Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs...Categorized as:
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![4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie]()
4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsA new tie-in edition of Agatha Christie's bestseller, to coincide with the broadcast of the new movie on ITV starring Geraldine McEwan. Includes a full colour plate section, a 'making of' essay, background facts and a bonus chapter. For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder...Categorized as:
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![The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey]()
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRobert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Marion Sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, The Franchise. It appeared that she was in some serious trouble: Miss Sharpe and her mother were accused of brutally kidnapping a demure young woman named Betty Kane...Categorized as:
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Overture To Death by Ngaio Marsh
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWho in the quiet village of Chipping would kill wealthy spinster Idris Campanula? Plenty of people, among them her fellow cast members from a troubled charity production. Miss Campanula was a spiteful gossip, gleefully destroying others' lives merely for her own excitement...Categorized as:
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Murder at Blackburn Hall by Sara Rosett
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA missing author and a sleepy English village rife with secrets . . .September, 1923. Despite closing her first case, high society lady detective Olive Belgrave hasn’t found a new client. She’s taken a job as a hat model to pay for her poky boarding house room. But then a job offer comes her way—make discreet inquiries about a famous author who’s disappeared...Categorized as:
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![Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie]()
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players… Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana’s private collection...Categorized as:
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The Catherine Wheel by Patricia Wentworth
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere was certainly a heavy air of intrigue and mystery emanating from the old inn high on the cliff top. The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now it looked like it was harbouring a murderer. It began with an advertisement in the paper requesting descendants of the late innkeeper, Jeremiah Taverner, to stay for a weekend at the inn... -
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The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDetective Albert Campion has a talented dress designer sister with celebrated clients. Georgia Wells is a glamorous actress who exemplifies the 1930s femme fatale. Vain, stupid, and selfish, she attracts men like moths to a flame. When these men die, Albert suspects Georgia is more deliberately fatale than alluring...Categorized as:
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