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    The Misadventures of Ellery Queen

    For generations, the name “Ellery Queen” has been synonymous with the finest in mystery fiction. When cousins Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Lee (1905–1971) created the iconic character and byline in 1929, they had no...
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  • Escape While I Can Escape While I Can
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    Escape While I Can

    When the family fortune suddenly dissolved, the Brandons wrapped the threads of their former prestige about them and went into solitary confinement. Middle-aged, outwardly courteous but inwardly bitter and hateful, the three of them lived in a state of...
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  • Nancy Pickard Presents Malice Domestic 13 Nancy Pickard Presents Malice Domestic 13
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    Nancy Pickard Presents Malice Domestic 13

    The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- 30 original tales set around the world! Included are:The Barrister's Clerk, by Michael RobertsonThe Belle Hope, by Peter DiChellisArroyo, by...
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  • Black Cat Mystery Magazine #2 Black Cat Mystery Magazine #2
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    Black Cat Mystery Magazine #2

    Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a new journal devoted to the best in mystery short fiction. Crime? Noir? Cozy? Private eye? You'll find all genres present and accounted for -- with new tales by the best writers of today! The second issue features...
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  • The Narrow Cell The Narrow Cell
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    The Narrow Cell

    Lieutenant Kenmore's exciting solution of the murder of the nude beauty in an aquarium. Classic detective fiction!"Clark's bad guys tend to be self righteous types, like high priced lawyers or smooth talking authors, whose mask their...
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  • Forbidden Cargoes (Mystery Stories for Boys, Vol. 10) Forbidden Cargoes (Mystery Stories for Boys, Vol. 10)
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    Forbidden Cargoes (Mystery Stories for Boys, Vol. 10)

    Out of the depths of jungle and forest comes a story intriguing and full of mystery. The very setting -- the tropics of British Honduras and the Caribbean Sea -- conjures up visions of pirates and buccaneers, of adventure, mystery, and peril lurking at...
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  • Old Lover's Ghost Old Lover's Ghost
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    Old Lover's Ghost

    In the midst of the spectacular scenery of Yellowstone Park, pretty Cecily Chapman encounters new love -- and a menacing phantom out of the past."Here you’ll encounter a grand group of characters...sleuthing that could only be provided by Col...
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  • Invitation to Murder Invitation to Murder
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    Invitation to Murder

    Escape the workaday world and come to this luxurious Newport, Rhode Island, playground. Watch the idle rich at their games. See a delightful young heiress falling in love. Observe high society’s most fascinating cad in action. See three lovely...
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  • The Devil's Stronghold The Devil's Stronghold
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    The Devil's Stronghold

    She was to be Hollywood’s biggest star -- until a hidden killer cast her for murder!"Sensational Stuff" -- New York Herald Tribune"Unconventional... a cleverly intricate puzzle” -- Saturday Review
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  • The Ex-Detective The Ex-Detective
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    The Ex-Detective

    The Ex-Detective is a novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a renowned British author known for his prolific output of mystery, thriller, and espionage novels in the early 20th century. This work, like many of Oppenheim's stories, features complex characters,...
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  • Duenna to a Murder Duenna to a Murder
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    Duenna to a Murder

    Melissa Tyler, who had just inherited incredible wealth, came to the Harden Detective Agency claiming she needed protection from crank letters and any possible trouble involving her family. This was a vast understatement of the situation as Margot, the...
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  • The Irrepressible Peccadillo The Irrepressible Peccadillo
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    The Irrepressible Peccadillo

    The wayward beauty who comes back to her old hometown to titillate her ex-boyfriend (now a married man and a lawyer) and to blackmail her ex-husband is ripe bait for murder. And murder is just what she gets. Suspicion falls heaviest on the old flame and...
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  • To Love and Perish To Love and Perish
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    To Love and Perish

    In Castlebay, North Wales, Dick Merrill is on trial, accused of murdering his wife by administering a lethal dose of arsenic. Merrill, good-looking and attractive, is fatally in love with Margot Stone, who's herself already married. Philip Vane, a lawyer...
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  • A Time for Murder A Time for Murder
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    A Time for Murder

    The murder of Carlos Galecci, a kingpin of organized crime, was not unexpected. Only three days earlier, fearing for his life, he'd hired Los Angeles private eye Johnny Merak to discover who was threatening him. Then he's found seated in his private...
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  • Juliet Dies Twice Juliet Dies Twice
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    Juliet Dies Twice

    The popular lead in the drama show is killed in what seems to be a motiveless murder. With help from a psychology professor and an eager student, psychiatric possibilities among the cast, a husband, and a rival, keep them conjecturing while a genuine...
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  • The Twisted Shadow The Twisted Shadow
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    The Twisted Shadow

    Judy Carrington, a college junior, takes a summer job in the library of Sinnett Harbor, a small Maine seacoast town. When Judy meets Assistant Forest Ranger Timothy Wade, she is sure her summer will not be a dull one. Suddenly, Tim and Judy find...
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  • The Purple Glove Murders The Purple Glove Murders
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    The Purple Glove Murders

    Two new short novels featuring attorney Gail Brevard. In THE PURPLE GLOVE MURDERS, Gail and her companion and law partner, Conrad "Connie" Osterlitz, are relaxing at their Southern California mountain hideaway when Gail hears of a nearby tragedy. Retired...
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  • Savage City Savage City
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    Savage City

    She was the kind of woman a man always noticed, mostly because of her eyes: deep and dark, they'd held a warmth that could easily kindle a fire in one's soul. Now they were staring sightlessly up from the sidewalk. It was a killing without a motive, just...
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  • Only One Winner Only One Winner
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    Only One Winner

    Stanson's scheme was audacious in its scope: highjack a space liner, kill the passengers and crew, and then live off the rich pickings for years to come. They won't even have to leave the well-stocked craft--and the security forces can never locate them...
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  • The Sins of Eden The Sins of Eden
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    The Sins of Eden

    A sadistic serial killer is on the loose in the once idyllic community of Eden Beach. In the summer of 1973, Michael Reese and his friends are looking forward to their senior year of high school until two dead bodies are found on the lawn of their...
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  • Crime Fiction from a Professional Eye Crime Fiction from a Professional Eye
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    Crime Fiction from a Professional Eye

    There is a new category of authors blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction: women who work or have worked in criminal justice--lawyers, police officers and forensic investigators--who publish crime fiction with characters that resemble...
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  • The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton
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    The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton

    G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories are widely considered to be some of the finest detective short stories ever published, offering vivid writing, brilliant puzzles, biting social criticism, and metaphysical explorations of life's great questions...
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  • Australian Crime Fiction Australian Crime Fiction
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    Australian Crime Fiction

    Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later...
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  • The Avenue The Avenue
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    The Avenue

    P>In the summer of 1957, two rival gangs fight for control of the Avenue, a neighborhood in the north Bronx. The mafia, led by Albert Anastasia—a man known as the lord high executioner—is the only force holding the gangs back from all-out war. Since such...
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  • Vampires! Vampires!
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    Vampires!

    Something is killing the citizens of Seattle by forcing them to take their own lives. Maxwell Jackson is engaged by the Seattle Police Department to help solve who is controlling these people and making them commit suicide. And who knows more about...
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    Splintered Souls

    Kerry Sullivan, a transgendered male-to-female hospitalized psychiatric patient has disappeared from the unit in the middle of the night. She is unlike the nurse's typical depressed patient. She is horrified that she made the biggest mistake of her life!...
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    Pay or Pray

    The murder of a college professor and the kidnapping of the Secretary of Homeland Security lead to a national crisis involving foreign agents and parallel investigations by a FBI Special Agent and a Fairfax Detective with contrasting styles.Robert L...
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  • A Silent Cry A Silent Cry
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    A Silent Cry

    The desperate, pleading eyes of the woman in her dream vision has Private Investigator, Josie Palmer in a quandary. How can she save someone whose name she doesn't even know or what city she lives in? These are the perplexing thoughts that keep running...
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  • The Devil's Elbow Project The Devil's Elbow Project
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    The Devil's Elbow Project

    The interstate highway that bisects southern Missouri was to be an escape avenue for Detective Robert Lee James, leading him to a destination of leisure after toppling the criminal empire of drug lord, Gene King. To the contrary, what Robert James was...
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  • Marked Money Marked Money
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    Marked Money

    It is a warm, sunny Saturday in Bellview, Massachusetts, when Kevin and Maria Sanderson receive horrifying news—their seventeen-year-old daughter, Jenny, has been kidnapped. Left with nothing but a typewritten note that asks for a million dollars in...
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  • An Unsolved Murder An Unsolved Murder
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    An Unsolved Murder

    Sitting at the bar at the class reunion, two friends pored over their copies of the reunion booklet. One page listed all of the students who had passed away since graduation. Pointing to a name, one asked, "Isn't that the girl who was found murdered by...
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  • Aggie's Broncs Aggie's Broncs
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    Aggie's Broncs

    Bill Taylor dreams of becoming a world champion rodeo cowboy. To raise a stake toward achieving his goal, Billy follows his brother's advice to "find a rich wife to support your dream." Billy persuades Nicole to elope with him and have his baby. He hopes...
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    Pest Takes a Chance

    Gerry Burke writes short stories and commentary on subjects relating to politics, entertainment, sport, and travel. In this collection of humorous adult tales, Paddy Pest and the author's other notorious characters really come to life.Paddy Pest: As a...
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  • Night Prayer Night Prayer
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    Night Prayer

    Brother Francis O'Neil has spent much of his twenty-first century life studying the work of his monastic founders, Jane de Chantal and Francis de Sales. By profession, he is a clinical psychologist and doctor of Chinese medicine, on top of his...
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  • A Pocket Full of Posies A Pocket Full of Posies
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    A Pocket Full of Posies

    Melonie Byars is found murdered in the flower shop where she worked. Unfortunately for authorities, there are no witnesses and no clues. The murderer did, though, leave a calling card: a carefully arranged bouquet of flowers. Seattle's best homicide...
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    Death Rides Bareback

    Jessica Lennox's life is a shambles. Her comfortable marriage is over; her children are estranged; and her partnership in her CPA firm is hanging by a thread. Although she's only forty-six, she looks and feels old-old and finished. Jessie, a prominent...
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  • Recreational Pastimes of Lasow Recreational Pastimes of Lasow
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    Recreational Pastimes of Lasow

    Clare has never fit in anywhere. She was never close to her family, and she doesn’t make friends easily. Even so, she gets the opportunity of a lifetime when she’s hired three months out of college to work for the prestigious...
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  • Jaded Justice Jaded Justice
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    Jaded Justice

    Rick Butler, once a Special Forces soldier, is currently a private investigator specializing in evidence for divorce cases. He rarely encounters violence; instead, he usually finds himself neck-deep in scandal—that is, until he’s hired to...
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  • White Heat White Heat
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    White Heat

    The gripping first novel in M. J. McGrath's Arctic crime series, now in a stunning new look
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  • The Long Cold Winter The Long Cold Winter
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    The Long Cold Winter

    He decided to slow down, for he didn't want to attract attention at such a crucial time in his life (especially with a dismembered corpse in the back of the vehicle), and he knew that most serial killers were caught through traffic offences. The police...
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  • Evil Destruction Evil Destruction
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    Evil Destruction

    This is a Molly Tinker Mystery Book. Molly is at it again, helping her cop husband, Eric, arrest another bad guy roaming the streets of her small New England town. At first, Molly thought that there was an arsonist who needed to be brought to justice,...
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  • The Scarlet Scourge The Scarlet Scourge
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    The Scarlet Scourge

    Before his creation of the swashbuckling hero Zorro made him famous, Johnston McCulley experimented with other heroes in early pulp magazines, including The Scarlet Scourge, who in this volume investigates the case of a stock market swindler. From the...
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  • Bestseller Mystery Magazine (November 1960) Bestseller Mystery Magazine (November 1960)
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    Bestseller Mystery Magazine (November 1960)

    This facsimile reprint of the November, 1960 (Vol. 2, #6) issue of Bestseller Mystery Magazine features "The Lady Regrets," by James M. Fox. In "The Lady Regrets," John and Suzy Marshall, guests at the fabulous Havers estate by mistake, find themselves...
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  • The Cradle Robber The Cradle Robber
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    The Cradle Robber

    A KILLER'S ON THE LOOSE!Life's a picnic for Paisley Sterling-until a tornado cuts a swath through the charming little town of Rowan Springs, Kentucky-and the home she shares with her mother and daughter on Meadowdale Farm. Paisley struggles to restore...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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