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The Nero Wolfe Mystery Series: The Zeck Trilogy: And Be a Villain, The Second Confession, In the Best Families by Rex Stout
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe perfect introduction to crime fiction’s greatest armchair detective: three mysteries featuring Nero Wolfe and his nemesis, gangland kingpin Arnold Zeck . . .AND BE A VILLAINTHE SECOND CONFESSIONIN THE BEST FAMILIES A guest on a radio talk show drops dead on-air after drinking a glass of a sponsor’s beverage... -
![In Times Like These by Emilie Loring]()
In Times Like These by Emilie Loring
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYoung, beautiful, embittered Page Wilburn staggered under the impact of a callously broken engagement. Her only solace was her drab secretarial job. Suddenly winter turned to spring. Page was swept into the whirlwind of international intrigue as the in-name-only wife of a dashing undercover agent investigating treason in our space program... -
![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 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... -
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![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... -
![Lethal Practice by Peter Clement]()
Lethal Practice by Peter Clement
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSt. Paul's Hospital. Buffalo, New York.Scandal rocks the medical community when someone murders the chief administrator, plunging a long thin cardiac needle into his heart with deadly precision. Top ER physician Earl Garnet is one of the few doctors who knows how to insert a cardiac needle... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![Trauma by Ken McClure]()
Trauma by Ken McClure
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen John McKirrop, a down-and-out tramp, takes shelter in a deserted graveyard one night, he witnesses the disinterment of the body of a young boy. Yet no one takes much notice of his stories. After all, who would believe the ramblings of a homeless drunk? Father Ryan Lafferty, the local parish priest, is trying to help the boy's distrught father find his son's body... -
![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... -
![The Palace Tiger by Barbara Cleverly]()
The Palace Tiger by Barbara Cleverly
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn her award-winning mysteries–from The Last Kashmiri Rose to The Damascened Blade–Barbara Cleverly paints a dazzling portrait of the British Raj, infusing it with intrigue, enchantment, and menace. And in her detective hero Joe Sandilands, war veteran and Scotland Yard policeman, Cleverly gives us a gallant guide to this paradise lost... -
![The Rising of the Moon by Gladys Mitchell]()
The Rising of the Moon by Gladys Mitchell
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDame Beatrice teams up with two small boys to investigate a series of grisly... -
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![Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys]()
Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a tramp in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story.Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local tramp, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn’t talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling...Categorized as:
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![Legs by William Kennedy]()
Legs by William Kennedy
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLegs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy’s acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond... -
![Maigret in Montmartre by Daphne Woodward, Georges Simenon]()
Maigret in Montmartre by Daphne Woodward, Georges Simenon
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo brutal stranglings and a beautiful corpse lead Inspector Maigret into an underworld of striptease artists and morphine addicts as he tries to uncover the past of a shadowy countess.Cover artist: A... -
![Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote]()
Ručně vyřezávané rakvičky by Truman Capote
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsfrom Selected Writings (1963) and Music for Chameleons... -
![Sutton by J.R. Moehringer]()
Sutton by J.R. Moehringer
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWillie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, and came of age at a time when banks were out of control. If they weren't failing outright, causing countless Americans to lose their jobs and homes, they were being propped up with emergency bailouts... -
![In the Still of the Night by Jill Churchill]()
In the Still of the Night by Jill Churchill
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLily Brewster and her brother Robert have all the appearances of being filthy rich, even though the family fortune went out the window with the crash of 1929... -
![The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks]()
The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime."A masterful blending of fact and fiction that is as compelling as it is entertaining."―Nelson DeMilleWhen the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr... -
![The Search by Naguib Mahfouz]()
The Search by Naguib Mahfouz
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA powerful story of lust, greed and murder. Unflinching, tough, and dramatic, The Search was most certainly intended to be a harsh criticism of Post-Revolution morality, but, on its most elemental level, it is a lurid and compelling tale... -
![The Angel Makers by Jessica Gregson]()
The Angel Makers by Jessica Gregson
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Like Tracy Chevalier in Girl with the Pearl Earring, Gregson excels at developing strong, complex female voices; a swift plot; and a story that will hold readers from beginning to end.BooklistWhen the men of a remote Hungarian village go off to war in 1916, the women left behind realize their lives are much better without them... -
![Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott]()
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBy the author of Dare Me and The End of EverythingIn October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles' Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade... -
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![Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark]()
Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSt. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. The body of a beautiful dime-a-dance girl is found on a hillside, and Police Lieutenant Wesley Horner, struggling and alone after his wife's recent death, heads the investigation into her murder. His chief suspect is Herbert White, an eccentric recluse and hobby photographer who spends his days recording his life in detailed journal entries and scrapbooks. In Mr...Categorized as:
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![A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen]()
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of Atticus and Mariette in Ecstasy comes a stylish novel set in the hard-drinking, fast-living New York City of the Jazz Age that follows two lovers in a torrid affair on an arc of murder and sexual self-destruction... -
![No Saints in Kansas by Amy Brashear]()
No Saints in Kansas by Amy Brashear
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA gripping reimagining of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and the brutal murders that inspired it November is usually quiet in Holcomb, Kansas, but in 1959, the town is shattered by the quadruple murder of the Clutter family. Suspicion falls on Nancy Clutter’s boyfriend, Bobby Rupp, the last one to see them alive. New Yorker Carly Fleming, new to the small Midwestern town, is an outsider...Categorized as:
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![Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark]()
Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 'Aiding and Abetting', the doyenne of literary satire has written a wickedly amusing and subversive novel around the true-crime case of one of England’s most notorious uppercrust scoundrels and the “aiders and abetters” who kept him on the loose... -
![Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips]()
Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom one of America’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers, a chilling, spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life multiple murder by a con man who preyed on widows—a story that has haunted Jayne Anne Phillips for more than four decades... -
![The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson]()
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long...
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