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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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![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 Chinese Lake Murders by Robert van Gulik]()
The Chinese Lake Murders by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA.D. 666The Chinese Lake Murders describes how Judge Dee solves three difficult cases in A.D. 666, shortly after he has been appointed magistrate of Han-yuan."[Robert van Gulik] deftly interweaves three criminal cases involving exotic yet universally recognizable characters, then has his Judge Dee provide a surprising yet most plausible solution...Categorized as:
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![Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh]()
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... -
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In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen a drought drains the local Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering a long-drowned small village and the skeleton of a murder victim from the 1940s, Detective Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabot must investigate the decades-old crime and unmask an evil secret from the past...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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![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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![The Reckoning by Rennie Airth]()
The Reckoning by Rennie Airth
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Second World War has ended, leaving a bruised and fragile peace. But this tranquillity is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police experts discover a link to another, earlier, killing hundreds of miles away ..Categorized as:
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![Champagne for One by Rex Stout]()
Champagne for One by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFaith Usher talked about taking her own life and even kept cyanide in her purse. So when she died from a lethal champagne cocktail in the middle of a high society dinner party, everyone called it suicide—including the police. But Nero Wolfe isn’t convinced—and neither is Archie. Especially when Wolfe is warned by four men against taking the case...Categorized as:
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Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA dangerous case with ties leading back to the battlefields of World War I dredges up dark memories for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge in Hunting Shadows, a gripping and atmospheric historical mystery set in 1920s England, from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd.A society wedding at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire becomes a crime scene when a man is murdered...Categorized as:
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![The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout, Robert Goldsborough]()
The League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout, Robert Goldsborough
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA summary from the back cover:Paul Chapin's college cronies never forgave themselves for the prank that crippled their friend. Yet with Harvard days long behind them, they thought they were forgiven -- until a class reunion ends in a fatal fall (for one of them). Now this league of frightened men is desperate for Nero Wolfe's help...Categorized as:
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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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![The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry]()
The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"Richly textured with the sights and sounds of London and its countryside...Solidly absorbing and Perry's best to date."THE KIRKUS REVIEWSHis name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detecive. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished...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... -
![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... -
![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 Confession by Charles Todd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDeclaring he needs to clear his conscience, a dying man walks into Scotland Yard and confesses that he killed his cousin five years earlier during the Great War. When Inspector Ian Rutledge presses for details, the man evades his questions, revealing only that he hails from a village east of London...Categorized as:
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![The Vanishing Box by Elly Griffiths]()
The Vanishing Box by Elly Griffiths
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a nail-biting hunt for a missing loved one, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto discover once again that the line between art, life, and death is all too easily blurred...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 Lacquer Screen by Robert van Gulik]()
The Lacquer Screen by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEarly in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife...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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![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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![Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie]()
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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Poirot a Styles Court by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsAgatha Christie's debut novel was the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective. A refugee of the Great War, Poirot is settling in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work... -
![Hard Rain by Janwillem van de Wetering]()
Hard Rain by Janwillem van de Wetering
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a stormy night in Amsterdam, banker Martin Ijsbreker is killed by a sniper as he sits by an open window at his home along the Binnenkant Canal. Three junkies then enter Ijsbreker's house, arrange his death to look like suicide and steal valuables for which they will be paid in heroin... -
![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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![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... -
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Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTroy Alleyn, Inspector Roderick Alleyn's beautiful young wife, is engaged to paint a portrait of Sir Henry Ancred, famed Shakespearean actor and family patriarch, but she senses all is not well in the dreary castle of Ancreton... -
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A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant is on the case. But the inquiry into her death turns into a nightmare of false leads and baffling clues... -
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Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit by Amy Stewart
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsConstance Kopp, America’s first female deputy sheriff, is back in another unforgettable romp by Historical Writers’ Association-longlisted international bestseller Amy Stewart.While transporting a woman to an insane asylum, Deputy Kopp discovers something deeply troubling about her story. Before she can investigate, another inmate breaks free and tries to escape...Categorized as:
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![The Gyrth Chalice Mystery by Margery Allingham]()
The Gyrth Chalice Mystery by Margery Allingham
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSome objects just cry out to be stolen, and an obliging ring of international thieves stands ready to heed the cry. Their current target is the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet that the Gyrth family has for centuries held in trust for the British Crown. Kept in a windowless chapel, and protected by a fearsome curse, the Chalice should be impervious to thievery...Categorized as:
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![Overture To Death by Ngaio Marsh]()
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... -
![Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh]()
Scales of Justice by Ngaio Marsh
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings--a small fishing village--are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in the beautiful stream which winds past their homes. When one of their small community is found brutally murdered, the freshly killed trout is found laid out beside him... -
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A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 35 ratings"A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and often considered as the best Miss Marple novel. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple who is staying nearby, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: ‘A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m...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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![Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh]()
Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe final spectacular volume in St. Martin's Ngaio Marsh Library series. When an actor portraying Macbeth is actually killed during Macbeth's death scene, Scotland Yard's Roderick Alleyn enters the world of London theater to investigate who could have committed this murder most foul...Categorized as:
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