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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Illustrated Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThey're among the most influential, enduring, and popular short stories in the English language; marvelous mysteries that feature the "most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has ever seen." Here are all 56 Sherlock Holmes tales in one very handsome collection, accompanied by the original artwork in facsimile reproduction... -
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Chiefs by Stuart Woods
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the bitter winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia; the naked corpse of an unidentified teenager. There is no direct evidence of murder, but the body bears marks of what seems to be a ritual beating. The investigation falls to Will Henry Lee, a failed cotton farmer newly appointed as Delano's first chief of police... -
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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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![Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers]()
Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLord Peter Wimsey and his bride, mystery writer Harriet Vane, start their honeymoon with murder. The former owner of Talboys estate is dead in the cellar with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman, not a spot of blood on his smashed skull, and £600 in his pocket... -
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![In the Best Families by Rex Stout]()
In the Best Families by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAging millionairess Mrs. Rackham asks Nero Wolfe to find out where her penniless husband has suddenly been obtaining mysteriously large sums of money, a request that leads to murder and to threats against the master detective himself... -
![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...Categorized as:
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![Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille, Brian Murray]()
Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille, Brian Murray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHe is a good man, a brilliant corporate executive, an honest, handsome family man admired by men and desired by women. But a lifetime ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam. There the men under his command committed a murderous atrocity--and together swore never to tell the world what they had done. Now the press, army justice, and the events he tried to forget have caught up with Ben Tyson... -
![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... -
![Riiginõunik by Boris Akunin]()
Riiginõunik by Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSince the publication of The Winter Queen, a New York Times Notable Book and the first mystery featuring Erast Fandorin, Boris Akunin’s historical mystery series has become a worldwide sensation, selling millions of copies and propelling Akunin into the ranks of Russia’s most widely read contemporary novelists... -
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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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China Blues by Ki Longfellow
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Roaring Twenties, Chinatown, San Francisco: back-street blues and bathtub gin… hardball mobsters and hardheaded cops… seductive speakeasies and sizzling scandals. As the young Louis Armstrong blows his horn in the infamous Blue Canary, impetuous Nob Hill Socialite Elizabeth Stafford Hamilton plunges into a reckless affair with mysterious Li Kwan Won...Categorized as:
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![Winter Work: A novel by Dan Fesperman]()
Winter Work: A novel by Dan Fesperman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn exhilarating spy thriller inspired by a true story about the precious secrets up for grabs just after the fall of the Berlin Wall--from the acclaimed author of The Cover Wife On a chilly early morning walk on the wooded outskirts of Berlin, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbor, a fellow Stasi officer named Lothar, with a gunshot wound to the temple and a pistol in his right hand...Categorized as:
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![Murder by the Book by Rex Stout]()
Murder by the Book by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt wasn't Leonard Dykes's writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending. Now four people are dead, including the unfortunate author himself, and the police think Nero Wolfe is the only man who can close the book on this novel killer... -
![And Four to Go by Rex Stout]()
And Four to Go by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEmbark on a year of murder and mystery. It begins at Christmas with a party and a poisoning, then blossoms into spring with sudden death at the Easter Parade. With a killer in the crowd, the Fourth of July is no picnic, and the calendar is overbooked with corpses when death is in season. Here are four cunning cases that leave everyone guessing...Categorized as:
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![Trouble in Triplicate by Rex Stout]()
Trouble in Triplicate by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey all thought they were about to die . . . and they were right. Dazy Perrit was an underworld kingpin until a hail of bullets sent him into early retirement. Ben Jensen was a well-connected publisher until a determined gunman severed all his connections. Eugene R. Poor made novelties like exploding cigars until one of them blew him to kingdom come... -
![Might as Well Be Dead by Rex Stout]()
Might as Well Be Dead by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEleven years ago, wealthy Nebraska businessman James Herold gave his only son, Paul, a very raw deal. Now he wants Nero Wolfe to track Paul down so that he can make amends. But what if the young man doesn't want to be found . . . and what if he's the same P.H... -
![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... -
![Black Orchids by Rex Stout]()
Black Orchids by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNot much can get Wolfe to leave his comfortable brownstone, but the showing of a rare black orchid lures him to a flower show. Unfortunately, the much-anticipated event is soon overshadowed by a murder as daring as it is sudden. It’s a case of weeding out a cunning killer who can turn up anywhere—and Wolfe must do it quickly... -
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Twenty-One Days by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this first book in a new series, Thomas Pitt's son Daniel races to save his client from execution, setting him against London's Special Police Branch.It's 1910, and Daniel Pitt is a reluctant lawyer who would prefer to follow in the footsteps of his detective father... -
![Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers]()
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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Lightning Men by Thomas Mullen
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a “combustible procedural that will knock the wind out of you” (The New York Times).Officer Denny Rakestraw, “Negro Officers” Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, and Sergeant McInnis have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta... -
![The Rubber Band by Rex Stout]()
The Rubber Band by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat do a Wild West lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? On the surface, absolutely nothing. But when a young woman hires his services, it becomes Nero Wolfe’s job to look deeper and find the connection...Categorized as:
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![Catilina's Riddle by Steven Saylor]()
Catilina's Riddle by Steven Saylor
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUsing scholarly, historical insight, and evocative storytelling that brings to life the glories of ancient Rome, Steven Saylor takes the reader from the bloody lines of clashing Roman armies to the backrooms of the Senate floor, where power-hungry politicians wrestle the Fates for control of Rome's destiny...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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![If Death Ever Slept by Rex Stout]()
If Death Ever Slept by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMurder lurks in the wings of the sprawling Fifth Avenue penthouse of multimillionaire Otis Jarrell, who has just retained the incomparable Nero Wolfe on a case of the utmost confidentiality. But even the master detective cannot prevent tragedy when it inevitably arrives wielding Jarrell’s missing revolver... -
![The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman]()
The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case--until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Leaphorn has been hired to find a hot-headed female biologist hunting for the key to a virulent plague lurking in the Southwest...Categorized as:
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![Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout]()
Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen a Balkan beauty gets in trouble over some missing diamonds, whom else can she turn to but the world-famous Nero Wolfe? Especially since she claims to be Wolfe's long lost daughter! The stakes are suddenly raised when a student at this woman's fencing school ends up dead after a pointed lesson... -
![Advise and Consent by Allen Drury]()
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsADVISE AND CONSENT is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally recognized as THE Washington novel. It begins with Senate confirmation hearings for a liberal Secretary of State and concludes two weeks later, after debate and controversy have exploded this issue into a major crisis...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'... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
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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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![Striding Folly by Dorothy L. Sayers, Janet Hitchman]()
Striding Folly by Dorothy L. Sayers, Janet Hitchman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThree of Lord Peter Wimsey's most baffling cases demonstrate his unique detction skills at their most spectacular.The engima of a house numbered thirteen in a street of even numbers; an indignant child accused of theft, a dream about a game of chess that uncovers the true story behind a violent death... -
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Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWay back during the crusades Richard I presented the Huntingforest family with the tiny Balkan principality of Averna but since then the kingdom has been forgotten, until circumstances in Europe suddenly render it extremely strategically important to the British Government... -
![Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham]()
Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCelebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on a mission of vital importance to His Majesty’s government before his accident... -
![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...Categorized as:
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![Death Times Three by Rex Stout]()
Death Times Three by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis collection showcases Nero Wolfe’s uncanny crime-solving ability—as well as his incredible appetite—when he tackles murder three times over. Features an introduction by Rex Stout biographer John J. McAleer... -
![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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![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 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]()
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]()
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... -
![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... -
![The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer]()
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, Jonathan Safran Foer
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel—one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel... -
![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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