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Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window by Raymond Chandler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn Raymond Chandler’s hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent... -
![Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Selected Essays and Letters by Raymond Chandler]()
Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Selected Essays and Letters by Raymond Chandler
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWith humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language.Written during the war, The Lady in the Lake (1943) takes Philip Marlowe out of the seamy L.A... -
![Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler]()
Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades... -
![The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett]()
The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The three classic novels published here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtle characters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one of the most admired writers of the twentieth century. A one-time detective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtually invented the hard-boiled crime novel... -
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![The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie]()
The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor the first ime in one volume are Agatha Christie's first two mysteries that introduced the world to Hercule Poirot and to Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, all sleuths who have starred in the PBS Mystery! series: with a sudden death as the initiation of his career, Hercule Poirot calls upon the sprawling estate of the Styles Court to identify the murderer of a wealthy heiress from a crowd of... -
![Quarantine In The Grand Hotel by Jenő Rejtő]()
Quarantine In The Grand Hotel by Jenő Rejtő
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsQuarantine in the Grand Hotel centers around a mysterious murder in a hotel on the island of Little Lagonda, which is put under quarantine because one of the guests seems to have contracted bubonic plague. However, just before the quarantine is declared, the police arrive, and so does a young man, who hides in his pyjamas in the wardrobe of Miss Maud Borckman... -
![The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Ectoplasmic Man by Daniel Stashower]()
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Ectoplasmic Man by Daniel Stashower
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Harry Houdini is framed and jailed for espionage, Sherlock Holmes vows to clear his name, with the two joining forces to take on blackmailers who have targeted the Prince of Wales. It’s a case that requires all of their skills — both mental and physical... -
![The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels by Dashiell Hammett]()
The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels by Dashiell Hammett
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHammett's continental op - tough, tired, intelligent, a snap-brimmed Sir Galahad with a Browning - was the prototype for a whole new tradition of private eye thrillers.Here are ten of his classic suspense stories from the twenties and thirties - selected and introduced by Lillian Hellman... -
![The Crime Wave at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse]()
The Crime Wave at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of P.G. Wodehouse's most gloriously funny stories, this is the tale of bumbling Lord Emsworth, whose quiet life reading "The Care Of The Pig" and pottering among the flowers at Blandings Castle is shattered by an outbreak of lawlessness involving his niece Jane (the third prettiest girl in Shropshire), an airgun - and the trouser seat of the abominable Baxter... -
![Sharpe's Honor by Bernard Cornwell]()
Sharpe's Honor by Bernard Cornwell
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Vittoria Campaign is February to June 1813. Victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain. Majpr Sharpe's enemy, Pierre Ducos, seizes a chance to both destroy the alliance and take revenge on Sharpe. The lovely spy, La Marquesa, traps Sharpe in a web of deadly intrigue; he is hunted by allies and enemies alike... -
![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... -
![The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories by Otto Penzler]()
The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories by Otto Penzler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared... -
![Selected Novels and Short Stories by Patricia Highsmith]()
Selected Novels and Short Stories by Patricia Highsmith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPatricia Highsmith's dark talents, obsessive interest in love and murder, and macabre sensibility produced some of the most influential and deeply unsettling fiction of the twentieth century. For the reader uninitiated in the deadly world of her canon, this collection offers the first serious introduction to her remarkable range and psychological insight... -
![The Boy Next Door by Enid Blyton]()
The Boy Next Door by Enid Blyton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmazon store this book for us, then pick, pack and deliver as well as provide 1st Class customer service. Books Found Fast via Amazon. -
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![The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven]()
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA CULT MASTERPIECE—THE ADVENTURE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED JOHN HUSTON'S CLASSIC FILM, BY THE ELUSIVE AUTHOR WHO WAS A MODEL FOR THE HERO OF ROBERTO BOLAÑO'S 2666 Little is known for certain about B. Traven. Evidence suggests that he was born Otto Feige in Schlewsig-Holstein and that he escaped a death sentence for his involvement with the anarchist underground in Bavaria... -
![Three at Wolfe's Door by Rex Stout, Michael Prichard]()
Three at Wolfe's Door by Rex Stout, Michael Prichard
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDeath comes a-calling not once but three times in this murderous collection of cases from the files of the world's greatest detective. First there is the exclusive dinner party where the guests are gourmets, arsenic is the appetizer, and the suspects are five of the most gorgeous gals in New York. Next, a wandering cab pulls up to Wolfe's door, containing a lady driver who doesn't belong.. -
![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... -
![Tales from Two Pockets by Karel Čapek]()
Tales from Two Pockets by Karel Čapek
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCapek wrote 48 stories that deconstruct the mystery story by breaking one rule here, three rules there, and yet also make for wonderful reading. His unique approaches to the mysteries of justice and truth are full of the ordinary and the extraordinary, humor and humanism... -
![O toaletă à la Liz Taylor by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu]()
O toaletă à la Liz Taylor by Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAvem un tânăr superb, fermecător, bogat; canalie. Șase oameni care nu se cunosc între ei, șase oameni cu motivații cu totul diferite, iau hotărârea de a-l ucide. În aceeași zi, la aceeași oră.Deși avertizată, victima nu reușește să se sustragă propriului destin. Există, de fapt, un singur asasin... -
![Z by Vassilis Vassilikos]()
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in motion are irresistible. Z is the story of a crime, a time, a place, and people transformed by events... -
![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... -
![No Doors, No Windows by Harlan Ellison]()
No Doors, No Windows by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF! The only trouble is, fear comes in so many different shapes and sizes these days. It comes as rejection by a beautiful woman. It comes in the brutalization of your love by an amoral man... -
![All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field, Mary Balogh]()
All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field, Mary Balogh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis number-one bestselling novel is based on the true story of one of the most notorious murder cases in French history... -
![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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![The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne]()
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Navy ensign Billy Grenville, heir to a vast New York fortune, sees showgirl Ann Arden on the dance floor, it is love at first sight. And much to the horror of Alice Grenville--the indomitable family matriarch--he marries her. Ann wants desperately to be accepted by high society and become the well-bred woman of her fantasies... -
![Asimov's Mysteries (Panther science fiction) by Isaac Asimov]()
Asimov's Mysteries (Panther science fiction) by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSCIENCE FICTION-13 SHORT STORIES BY THE AUTHOR,THE SINGING BELL,THE TALKING STONE,WHAT'S IN A NAME,THE DYING NIGHT,PATE DE FOIE GRAS,THE DUST OF DEATH,A LOINT OF PAW,I'M IN MARSPORT WITHOUT HILDA,MAROONED OFF VESTA,ANNIVERSARY,OBITUARY,STAR LIGHT,THE KEY,THE BILLIARD HALL... -
![The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley]()
The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill Barrent had no memory of his crime . . . but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series of violent crimes. The average inmate's life expectancy from time of arrival is three years... -
![Crippen by John Boyne]()
Crippen by John Boyne
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJuly 1910: A gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden.Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard did not expect the house to be empty. Nor did he expect to find a body in the cellar. Buried under the flagstones are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr. Hawley Crippen. No one would have thought the quiet, unassuming Dr... -
![The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham]()
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... -
![The Crime at Halfpenny Bridge by George Bellairs]()
The Crime at Halfpenny Bridge by George Bellairs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThomas Littlejohn investigates a murder committed by the glow of a lighthouse The waterfront pub is closing up and the sailors are staggering home. World War II means a blackout in the English port town of Werrymouth, but the locals have no trouble finding their way over the Halfpenny Bridge, where a small toll shaves a mile off their drunken walk...Categorized as:
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![Death in the Night Watches by George Bellairs]()
Death in the Night Watches by George Bellairs
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt the height of World War II, Thomas Littlejohn investigates a factory boss’s murder Once, Henry Worth’s sprawling factory was filled with looms and textile workers, but since the onset of World War II, the space has been given over entirely to military production. Worth is walking the grounds late one night when he smells gas coming from an unused shed... -
![The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc]()
The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc The world’s premier thief looks back on a lifetime of adventure in these tales of his outrageous exploits...Categorized as:
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![Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges, George Guidall]()
Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges, George Guidall
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA detective, Erik Lönnrot, attempts to solve a mysterious series of murders which seem to follow a kabbalistic pattern.Published in Sur in May 1942, it was included in the 1944 collection Ficciones. It was first translated into English in the New Mexico Quarterly (Autumn 1954)...Categorized as:
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![An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser]()
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 28 ratings'An American Tragedy' is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, it is the masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream... -
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![He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr]()
He Who Whispers by John Dickson Carr
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Dr Gideon Fell mystery and classic of the locked-room genre Outside the little French city of Chartres, industrialist Howard Brookes is found dying on the parapet of an old stone tower. Evidence shows that it was impossible for anyone to have entered at the time of the murder, however someone must have, for the victim was discovered stabbed in the back... -
![Miraculous Mysteries: Locked-Room Murders and Impossible Crimes by Martin Edwards]()
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked-Room Murders and Impossible Crimes by Martin Edwards
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsImpossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of detective story that became so popular during the ‘golden age of murder’ between the two world wars... -
![Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham]()
Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNo one was concerned when an eccentric member of the Barnabas publishing firm went missing - until his body was found in the company strong room. Albert Campion investigates... -
![Carolina Skeletons by David Stout]()
Carolina Skeletons by David Stout
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1944, Linus Bragg, a 14-year-old black student, is accused of killing two white girls and condemned to the electric chair. Forty-four years later, Bragg's nephew travels to South Carolina to discover the truth--and finds himself on the Wanted List and fighting for his own freedom! HC: Mysterious Press... -
![The Far Cry by Fredric Brown]()
The Far Cry by Fredric Brown
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnce upon a time, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered in a lonely house. No one knew where she had come from, or why she had died, or who killed her. Years later a man moved into the same house and discovered that nothing is more seductive than an unsolved murder... -
![The Peacock Feather Murders by Carter Dickson]()
The Peacock Feather Murders by Carter Dickson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe murderer sent a formal invitation to Scotland Yard telling them the time and place of the murder. Incredulous, and astounded at the audacity of such a note, the Yard recalled a similar, and still unsolved, case of two years previous.Sir Henry Merrivale and Chief Inspector Masters accepted the invitation and had the house surrounded. Upstairs in an otherwise empty house was a furnished room... -
![The Adventures of Solar Pons by August Derleth]()
The Adventures of Solar Pons by August Derleth
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSolar Pons: In his Inverness cape Solar Pons steps briskly from No 7B Praed Street onto the mist-shrouded cobblestones of old London's alleyways. The game is afoot...Pons, Solar. Born 1880 in Prague. Public school education. Graduated Oxford University 1889. Unmarried. Member Savile, Diogenes, Athenaeum, Cliff Dwellers, Lambs. Est. private inquiry practice at 7B Praed Street, 1907... -
![Salomons Weinberg by Jonathan Latimer]()
Salomons Weinberg by Jonathan Latimer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFirst written in 1941 but banned from publication in the United States until 1988, this hard-boiled mystery covers such unsavory but potent topics as grave-robbing, religious cults, kinky sex, and whorehouse violence. In this classic noir novel, a private eye from St... -
![Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen by Arthur Conan Doyle, John Gielgud]()
Sherlock Holmes: A Baker Street Dozen by Arthur Conan Doyle, John Gielgud
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries—twelve timeless classics performed as radio theater, linked by violin music interludes.The great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street, with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion, Dr. Watson, and Orson Welles as the nefarious Professor Moriarty... -
![The Stymphalean Birds: a Hercule Poirot Short Story by Agatha Christie]()
The Stymphalean Birds: a Hercule Poirot Short Story by Agatha Christie
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWe move to the 6th challenge of Hercule Poirot as he works to redo in modern times the Labours of Hercules - this time it's a reference to the Stymphalean Birds of Greek mythology.The monsters were pets of the God Ares, but devoured farmers and destroyed crops. King Eurystheus asked Hercules to kill the birds... -
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![Saint Peter's Snow by Leo Perutz]()
Saint Peter's Snow by Leo Perutz
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt could have been a common street accident that put Dr. Georg Amberg in the hospital, but for the five weeks his doctors say he has been in a coma, recovering from a brain hemorrhage after being run down by a car, he has memories of a more disturbing nature... -
![The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen, G. Valmont Thomas]()
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen, G. Valmont Thomas
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the great classic tales of The Great American West...IT IS 1881. Jesse James, at the age of 34, is at the height of his fame and powers as a singularly successful outlaw. Robert Ford is the skittish younger brother of one of the James gang: he has made himself an expert on the gang, but his particular interest - his obsession - is Jesse James himself... -
![An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by J.B. Priestley]()
An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by J.B. Priestley
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values... -
![A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess]()
A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWith A Dead Man in Deptford, Burgess concluded his literary career to overwhelming acclaim for his re-creation of the Elizabethan poet Christopher Marlowe. In lavish, pitch-perfect, and supple, readable prose, Burgess matches his splendid Shakespeare novel, Nothing Like the Sun... -
![The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake]()
The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrank Cairnes, a popular detective writer who now embarks on a real-life crime of his own, determined to hunt down the runaway motorist who killed his small son Martin... -
![The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B. Hanna]()
The Whitechapel Horrors by Edward B. Hanna
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis novel brings back to life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great character in atmospheric Victorian London as he is faced with a crisis of conscience when confronted with disclosing the identity of Jack the Ripper. "Intriguing and chilling".--New York Times Book Review...
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