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THE COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE COMPLETE TALES OF TERROR AND MYSTERY by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOVERVIEWThis collection bring together Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Tales of Terror and Mystery along with ALL the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels all in a single, convenient, high quality, but extremely low priced Kindle volume!TABLE OF CONTENTS1...Categorized as:
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The Diamond Chariot by Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe first of the interlinked plotlines is set in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Fandorin is charged with protecting the Trans-Siberian Railway from Japanese sabotage in a pacy adventure filled with double agents and ticking bombs. Then we travel back to the Japan of the late 1870s...Categorized as:
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The Council of Twelve by Oliver Pötzsch
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe seventh chilling mystery in The Hangman's Daughter seriesThe year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the prestigious—for dishonorable hangmen, at least—Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire’s hangmen’s guild... -
Ohnivé znamenie by Juraj Červenák
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTretí prípad kapitána Steina a notára Barbariča. Nález ľudských ostatkov v podunajských lesoch privedie Barbariča na stopu bezohľadných lupičov a priekupníkov s otrokmi. Notár si musí zavolať na pomoc Steina a Jaroša. Spolu putujú do Prešporka, ktorý sa po páde Budína stal hlavným mestom Uhorska. Zdanlivo jednoduchý prípad sa rýchlo skomplikuje...Categorized as:
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Между строк by Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsВторой том переносит нас в Японию, 1878 года: ниндзя, гейши, самураи... Это история любви молодого дипломата Эраста Фандорина и роковой красавицы-ниндзя О-Юми, любви, изменившей всю его жизнь и напомнившей ему о себе через многие годы... -
The Sculthorpe Murder by Karen Charlton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNorthamptonshire, 1810: As a new canal network snakes across the landscape, a vicious mob stakes its claim to the county. Every local constable is out on the hunt for the ruthless Panther Gang. When an elderly man is robbed and murdered in sleepy Middleton, the beleaguered magistrates send for help from London’s Bow Street Police Office... -
It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHonorable Mention in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Historical Fiction Category2021 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award 2021 Finalist Wishing Shelf Book AwardRiveting Southern Fiction by the award-winning author of When We Were Brave. ~Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden... -
Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAvery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience's attention. Her latest story--a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal--is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner's office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years...Categorized as:
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City on Fire by Don Winslow
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwo criminal empires together control all of New England.Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire.Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself...Categorized as:
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Edinburgh Midnight by Carole Lawrence
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSuperstition and murder haunt nineteenth-century Scotland in a twisting mystery by the prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight and Edinburgh Dusk.Spiritualism has captured the public’s imagination. Séances are all the rage, and Detective Ian Hamilton’s otherwise sensible aunt Lillian is not immune to their allure. But for Ian, indulging her superstitions has its limits...Categorized as:
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Edinburgh Dusk by Carole Lawrence
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight returns to the darkening shadows of nineteenth-century Scotland to track a killer on a profane mission of revenge...Categorized as:
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Black and White by Dawn Lee McKenna
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first book in the brand-new suspense series by the author of the bestselling Forgotten Coast, FL Suspense Series . July, 1973. Secretariat has just won the Triple Crown; "Shambala" is dominating AM radio; and Jennifer Sheehan has come home to Dismal, FL to reclaim her life and find out who murdered her family...Categorized as:
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Five Complete Miss Marple Novels: The Mirror Crack'd/A Caribbean Mystery/Nemesis/What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!/A Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis program will not let me add this under the isbn number because another book from another publisher has same number... -
The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA propulsive crime drama featuring a legendary Hong Kong detective on a decades-long quest to expose the city’s dark underbelly... -
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Murder on the White Cliffs by L.B. Hathaway
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYou can hunt. But do you really want to find?Bonfire Night, November 1924Posie Parker once failed a client. And now that client is dead.Elsie Moncreiff, a Housekeeper, has fallen from the White Cliffs of England in a howling storm...Categorized as:
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Murder at the Folly by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSeptember 1923. When Violet and Victor run into an old friend in Belgium, they have an idea of what to expect. What they don’t expect is to be followed back to England, persuaded to spend an additional weekend away from home, or to have their group experience another murder. This time, the suspect is their long-time friend Tomas St. Marks—-a shell-shocked former soldier... -
The Coronation by Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGrand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow for the coronation, with three of his children. During an afternoon stroll, daughter Xenia is dragged away by bandits, only to be rescued by an elegant gentleman and his oriental sidekick. The passing heroes introduce themselves as Fandorin and Masa, but panic ensues when they realise that four-year old Mikhail has been snatched in the confusion... -
A Fatal Obsession by Faith Martin
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOxford, 1960. There's a murderer on the loose and two unlikely heroes are poised to solve the case.Meet Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday – smart, enthusiastic and always underestimated.In the hope of getting her out of the way, Trudy’s senior officer assigns her to help coroner Clement Ryder as he re-opens the case of a young woman's death...Categorized as:
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The Worthy Soldier by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMay 1147. Gareth and Gwen have traveled to Deheubarth in the retinue of Prince Hywel. The Prince of Gwynedd has temporarily allied himself with King Cadell and his Norman relations in order to finally evict the hated Flemings from south Wales. But while the battle goes well, the celebratory feast afterwards does not, leaving Gareth and Gwen among the few left standing... -
The Favored Son by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNovember 1147. Gareth and Gwen have again been called to a castle belonging to Robert, Earl of Gloucester, this time by Prince Henry, who insists his uncle was murdered. Allying with Normans doesn't come easily to Gareth and Gwen, but initial doubts are swept aside as more losses come to light... -
Turn a Blind Eye by Jeffrey Archer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTurn a Blind Eye is the third installment in the gripping story of Detective Inspector William Warwick, by the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles...Categorized as:
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Edge of the Grave: A Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery by Robbie Morrison
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGlasgow, 1932.When the son-in-law of one of the city’s wealthiest families is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, it falls to Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn to lead the murder case – despite sharing a troubled history of his own with the victim’s widow...Categorized as:
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The Heretic by Liam McIlvanney
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet in 1976, seven years after the murders recounted in Liam McIlvanney’s breakout novel, The Quaker, this new Glasgow noir novel is a standalone mystery featuring serial character, Detective Duncan McCormack.McCormack has returned to Glasgow after a stint with the Metropolitan Police in London. The reason for his return is left a lurking mystery throughout...Categorized as:
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Murder at Feathers & Flair by Lee Strauss
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's 1924 and war widow fashionista Ginger Gold's new Regent Street dress shop, Feathers & Flair, is the talk of the London fashion district attracting aristocrats from Paris to Berlin to Moscow.Ginger is offered her first job as a private detective when a well-known stage actor goes missing, and though the dress shop takes most of her time, Ginger takes the case... -
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A Death in Live Oak by James Grippando
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the 2017 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for legal fiction comes a powerful and timely story of race, politics, injustice, and murder as shocking and incendiary as today’s headlines...Categorized as:
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Hidden Killers by Lynda La Plante
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe brilliant new crime thriller from the BAFTA-winning writer behind the TV series Prime Suspect and author of Widows, now a major motion picture When WPC Jane Tennison is promoted to the role of Detective Constable in London’s Bow Street CID, she is immediately conflicted...Categorized as:
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Nor Will He Sleep: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 4 by David Ashton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBASED ON THE LONG-RUNNING BBC RADIO 4 McLEVY DRAMA SERIES ...WHILE THE STREETS OF LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR JAMES McLEVY ELEGANT AND CONVINCING' The Times | 'ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON' Brian Cox | 'EXCELLENT' The Sherlock Holmes Society | 'DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO' Herald 1887... -
The Unexpected Ally by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarch 114 7. Assassination, espionage, betrayal. King Owain has ridden east to confront King Madog of Powys with the attempt on the life of his son. Rhys, now abbot of St. Kentigern's monastery, hopes for peace and calls both Madog and Owain to the negotiating table. Peace, however, is the last thing on Madog's mind... -
The Wind Dancer/Storm Winds by Iris Johansen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwice the thrills—in one captivating volumePublished together for the first time, from #1 New York Times best-selling author Iris Johansen comes a gripping pair of historical thrillers that push the boundaries of intrigue, suspense, and danger...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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Special Operations by W.E.B. Griffin, Michael Russotto
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA vicious madman is on a kidnapping and rape spree. Inspector Peter Wohl, commander of the new Special Operations task force, is determined to stop the maniacal reign of violence, facing off against a desperate public, a hostile press and reluctant witnesses...Categorized as:
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Triple Jeopardy by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDon't tempt Nero Wolfe to find the culprit. When foul play's the game, he always wins--and in these three crime puzzles, the stakes are high.HOME TO ROOSTTHE COP-KILLERTHE SQUIRT AND THE MONKEYFirst, there's little nourishment for the detective when someone drops a poison pellet into a vitamin addict's pillbox...Categorized as:
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Off the Rails by Christopher Fowler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsChristopher Fowler’s Peculiar Crimes Unit novels have been hailed for their originality, suspense, and unforgettable characters. Now Arthur Bryant, John May, and their team of proud eccentrics have been given only one week to hunt down a murderer they’ve already caught once and who is now luring them down into the darkest shadows of the London Underground.The young man they seek is an enigma...Categorized as:
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Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'A lyrical and lovely novel that takes Burke back to the top of the crimewriting tree where he richly belongs' Independent On... -
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Over My Dead Body by Jeffrey Archer
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer.THE CLOCK IS TICKING IN THIS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF A THRILLER…In London, the Metropolitan Police set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit—a cold case squad—to catch the criminals nobody else can... -
The Werewolf of Bamberg by Oliver Pötzsch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn 1668, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, and her husband Simon are traveling to the town of Bamberg. But what was planned as a family vacation soon becomes a nightmare: there is a murderer in Bamberg who is leaving the severed limbs of victims in the trash outside the city...Categorized as:
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Storytellers by Bjørn Larssen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn March 1920 Icelandic days are short and cold, but the nights are long. For most, on those nights, funny, sad, and dramatic stories are told around the fire. But there is nothing dramatic about Gunnar, a hermit blacksmith who barely manages to make ends meet. He knows nobody will remember his existence – they already don’t... -
A Trick of the Light: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 3 by David Ashton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe third in David Ashton's series of McLevy books, A Trick of the Light sees McLevy team up with Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer. It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathen Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders. He is betrayed to the Union forces and brutally shot dead by their secret agents...Categorized as:
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Betrayal at Iga: A Hiro Hattori Novel by Susan Spann
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAutumn, 1565: After fleeing Kyoto, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo take refuge with Hiro's ninja clan in the mountains of Iga province. But when an ambassador from the rival Koga clan is murdered during peace negotiations, Hiro and Father Mateo must find the killer in time to prevent a war between the ninja clans... -
The Secret Of The Palamu Fort by Razi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone has risen from the dead and is haunting the sinister ruins of the Palamu Fort, situated in the mystical land of Jharkhand.A few hundred kilometers from the fort, in the capital city Ranchi, a History Professor of St. Xavier’s college is murdered at his home. The witnesses claim he was killed by a ghost! The police is clueless... -
Peeler by Kevin McCarthy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWest Cork. November 1920. The Irish War of Independence rages. The body of a young woman is found brutally murdered on a windswept hillside. A scrap board sign covering her mutilated body reads 'TRATOR'. Traitor...Categorized as:
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Death Magic by C.S. Quinn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'Quinn is a brilliant new talent!’ —Peter JamesFrom author of the bestselling Thief Taker seriesLondon 1663. A murdered girl. An attic full of charms …Charlie Tuesday has a new case. A maid-servant has been brutally murdered, leaving an array of strange protectorates in her attic room. Stolen from her body was a silver thimble which no-one can explain how she came to have...Categorized as:
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An Ancient Evil by Paul Doherty
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn Ancient Evil inaugurates an ingenious new series of historical mysteries by P. C. Doherty, each one using characters from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In Chaucer's poem, the pilgrims narrate tales to pass the time during their journey to the sacred shrine of Canterbury; Doherty's pilgrims entertain their companions with stories of mystery, terror, and murder... -
The Waxman Murders by Paul Doherty
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1300, an English privateer named The Waxman was trapped and overrun by two powerful war cogs flying the streamers of the powerful Hanseatic League of North Germany. The ship was carrying a casket containing the Carta Mysteriosa, a collection of valuable and detailed maps and sea charts...Categorized as:
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An Experiment In Treason by Bruce Alexander
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSir John Fielding has trailed a packet of controversial letters from London to the colony of Massachusetts. But when the suspect in the theft is found dead, Sir John turns his eye on the possible involvement of Benjamin Franklin...Categorized as:
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Jack, Knave and Fool by Bruce Alexander
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this fifth Sir John Fielding mystery, the legendary eighteenth-century London judge takes on his most difficult case to date. John Fielding was famous not only as cofounder of London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, but also as a magistrate of keen intellect, fairness and uncommon detective ability. What made this all the more remarkable was that he was blind...Categorized as:
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Deadly Pleasure by Brenda Joyce
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBrenda Joyce has enthralled millions of readers with her New York Times bestselling novels. Now, join us in the next chapter of her unforgettable storytelling: the Francesca Cahill novels. Step into the glittering world of New York City's high society at the turn of the last century, where murder and pleasure are one and the same, and love becomes the ultimate weapon.. -
The Queen's Man by Rory Clements
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEngland is a viper's nest of conspiracy.It is 1582, and the conflict between Protestants and Catholics threatens to tear the country in two. While Queen Elizabeth I holds the reins of power, there are those whose loyalty lies with her imprisoned cousin—Mary, Queen of Scots... -
The Chinese Nail Murders by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA.D. 676In the fifth installment of Robert Van Gulik's ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow - a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire...Categorized as:
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The Chinese Maze Murders by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA.D. 670 Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor’s garden maze and the answers to three interwoven mysteries...Categorized as:
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