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    The Chianti Flask

    "[Belloc Lowndes] brings to the making of a mystery a literary sense and an imagination that puts life into the tale and into the readers." The Observer An enigmatic young woman named Laura Dousland stands on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her...
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    Death of a Bookseller

    An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's...
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    Castle Skull

    'That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull.'And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris...
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    Settling Scores

    "The detective story is a game between two players, the author... and the reader." Ronald Knox From the squash court to the golf links, the football pitch to the swimming pool and the race course to the cricket square, no court, grounds, stadium or stand...
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    Death in White Pyjamas

    Death in White Pyjamas: A theatre-owner, a 'slightly sinister' producer, a burgeoning playwright and a cast of ego-driven actors have gathered at a country home to read through the promising script for Pigs in Porcelain. Before the production ever...
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    Due to a Death

    "Her writing is moment by moment intense, and successful as such... What propels the reader through the pages is not the tug of 'who done it' nor the excitement of men with guns coming through doors, but the sheer excellence of the writing." H.R.F...
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    The Murder of My Aunt

    'I should be very much happier if she were dead.' Edward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Lywll. His aunt thinks Lywll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the countryside - and thinks the company even worse. In face,...
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    Fire in the Thatch

    The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing...
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    The Division Bell Mystery

    `Through the double clamour of Big Ben and the shrill sound of the bell rang a revolver shot.' A financier is found shot in the House of Commons. Suspecting foul play, Robert West, a parliamentary private secretary, takes on the role of amateur sleuth...
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    Somebody at the Door

    'The death was an odd one, it was true; but there was after all no very clear reason to assume it was anything but natural.' In the winter of 1942, England lies cold and dark in the wartime blackout. One bleak evening, Councillor Grayling steps off the 6...
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    Weekend at Thrackley

    'I'm taking a revolver to Thrackley. You never know with blokes like Carson. I hate these harmless, potty people - they're always up to something.' Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious...
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    Excellent Intentions

    'From the point of view of the nation, it's a good thing that he died.' Great Barwick's least popular man is murdered on a train. Twelve jurors sit in court. Four suspects are identified - but which of them is on trial? This novel has all the makings of...
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    Arthropoda

    An Andi Hayes Murder MysteryDetective George Donavon doesn't plan to stay in Charleston long. Skeptical and by-the-book, he's on the fast track to the top, and he won't let anything derail his career. Especially not Andrew Hayes, his grumpy, awkward new...
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    The Flaming Sword

    In the beginning, the Lord sent mighty cherubim with a flaming sword to guard the holiest place on earth, the mount of Jerusalem, where the golden Dome of the Rock stands today. Now mysterious conspirators threaten to ignite world war in the same place...
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    The Day of Atonement

    #1 New Release in Middle Eastern Historical Fiction A Heart-Pounding International Thriller with a Shocking MysteryFor fans of Dan Brown's Inferno and the works of David Baldacci and Daniel Silva, comes a political thriller which will have you guessing...
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    Death Eligible

    Death Eligibleis the story of two death penalty cases.Both of them involve rape and murder, and though the defendants are as different from each other as night and day, the similarities of the two cases are uncanny. As Darcy Cole defends both men, the...
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    Daughters of Summer

    On the first day of Hexamshire's annual weeklong fair in late summer 1221, Master Gruffydd, an arrogant merchant and town worthy, is poisoned. A wealthy man, Gruffydd has been shamed by his low birth, a condition he could never overcome. By contrast, his...
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    Plea Bargain

    In the midst of fraud and deception, murder and betrayal, Darcy battles a legal system that seems more adept at administering injustice than in protecting the innocent.Sometimes a simple plea bargain is not what it appears to be, as criminal defense...
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    Death Dance

    An unusual mystery anthology of 14 stories in which dance is put to darker uses such as luring prey, a cold business proposition, etc. Authors inlcude Andrew kennedy, Brendan Dubois, John Lutz and more.
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    Dressed to Die

    Some skeletons just won't stay hidden. No one knows that better than University of Georgia archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain. Still, she is shocked when a skeleton dressed in its Sunday best falls out of a packing crate that had been stored in a...
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    White House Pet Detectives

    The tradition of pets in the White House goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers. From the parrot and foxhounds of George Washington to Spot and Barney, the current canines of the Bushes, the First Family's animal companions have always had a...
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    Speaking of Greed

    The second volume in the Seven Deadly Sins Series, Speaking of Greed is a collection of short stories on the destructive deadly sin known as greed. In addition to being the title of this anthology, Speaking of Greed"" is also the title of Lawrence...
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    Murder Most Feline

    When Law Meets Paw . . .The result is this delightful anthology of seventeen courtroom tales by top-notch mystery writers. Cats and mysteries go hand-in-hand, no doubt. After all, what other animal is as mysterious as the common - yet never ordinary...
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    A Rumor of Bones

    Lindsay Chamberlain has a problem. People keep finding bodies in shallow graves and bringing the bones to her. It's not that she doesn't know what to do with the remains. An anthropologist who specializes in archaeology, she is an expert in the forensic...
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    Murder on Good Friday

    On Monday, March 30 in the year 1220, the day after Easter, in a field outside the town of Hexham in northern England, the body of a young child, Alfred, is discovered -- murdered. Lord Godwin, Bailiff of Hexham and in the service of the Archbishop of...
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    Murder Most Postal

    Ever since the first caveman sketched out the bison hunts on the walls of the Lascaux caves 16,000 years ago, mankind has found a way to communicate. For centuries the letter was the primary form of communication across any distance. Kings, popes, lords,...
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    Murder Most Celtic

    The Irish are deeply passionate about their kinsmen, their country, their culture, and their way of life, as this collection of mysteries so richly illustrates. Slow to anger and equally slow to forgive at times, the children of the Emerald Isle have had...
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    Murder Most Romantic

    The words murder and romance seldom appear together. If given a choice, most of us would prefer them to be as far apart as possible. But there is no denying that an edge of danger can heighten tension, intensify emotions, and make every moment a treasure...
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    Airtight Case

    In a seemingly random event, forensic anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain is attacked and left for dead. Buried in a shallow grave in the woods, she manages to escape, although she suffers from loss of memory as a result of the ordeal.When Lindsay's...
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    Murder Most Divine

    Murder Most Divine is an anthology of short stories in which the murders are solved by clergy using the cleverest of methods.
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    Murder Most Confederate

    Murder Most Confederate: Tales of Crimes Quite Uncivil, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, is an anthology of short stories set in the Civil War in which the murders take place in the Confederacy. Authors such as Ed Gorman, Gary A. Braunbeck, and Edward D...
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    Murder Most Medieval

    Murder Most Medieval is a collection of short stories set in medieval times in which murders are solved by the cleverest of methods. Included are stories by Peter Tremayne, Clayton Emery, and Ellis Peters.
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    Mardi Gras Madness

    What sort of creatures may have haunted the Mardi Gras festival and who may have said farewell to the flesh in a horribly unique way (and why and how) are the subjects of this collection of murder stories set in New Orleans.
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    Death Cruise

    Death Cruise"": Crime Stories on the Open Sea, edited by Lawrence Block, is a collection of murder mysteries with settings aboard cruise ships and written by several members of the International Association of Crime Writers, including Agatha Christie,...
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    No Funeral for Nazia

    A witty and theatrical South Asian mystery novel set over the course of one single electrifying night, exploring the unfinished business death leaves in its wake.Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced...
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    Blue Christmas

    Blue Christmas: Holiday Stories for the Rest of Us, is an anthology of seventeen holiday short stories by acclaimed fiction writers. Not one relies on borrowed feelings or seasonal stereotypes, and none engage in the grand yuletide conspiracy of mirth...
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    The Miracle of Saint Lazarus

    A Florida Mystery Twenty Years in the MakingIf you liked The Trespasser by Tana French, The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen, or New Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton, you'll love The Miracle of St. Lazarus.Miami, Florida 1992: A few weeks after Hurricane...
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    The Tarleton Murders

    New Sherlock Holmes Historical Fiction Thriller The Tarleton Murders: A corking good early Sherlock Holmes story that any mystery reader will love. Find out the answers to many tantalizing Sherlock Holmes questions in The Tarleton Murders, the book that...
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    Map Of My Escape

    The shooting of a homicide detective is captured on film by a mysterious figure from a second-floor window, implicating Riley Keane, an anti-gun activist and a school shooting survivor. Riley flees Chicago for a frozen island in Lake Superior. A race to...
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    The Arsenic Eater's Wife

    A woman is accused of killing her husband, but is she guilty? Inspired by a true historical case, this spellbinding novel will keep you guessing until the final heart-stopping revelation...I'm on trial for the murder of my husband William. But no one...
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    The Serialist

    "A literary pulp fiction that flays and skewers post-Millennial New York and along the way reinvents the American detective novel." -Evan Wright,New York Timesbestselling authorHarry Bloch is a ghost-ghostwriter, that is. He's the man behind your...
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    Death Drops the Pilot

    Things get murky when a ferry captain is found dead in the water in this mystery starring Inspector Littlejohn, "the model of a calm, rational policeman" (Publishers Weekly).After a ferry to Falbright carrying forty people runs aground, the skipper is...
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    Intruder in the Dark

    A corpse in a country house brings Scotland Yard to an eerily quiet English village, in this tale by a master of British mystery.Cyril Savage has inherited the home of his wealthy and estranged aunt. But before Savage has the chance to discover her...
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    Bones in the Wilderness

    The case of a missing antiques dealer brings Scotland Yard to France ...When Samuel Cheever, a shady dealer, goes to France to buy antiques and never returns, people begin to ask questions, and Superintendent Littlejohn is sent to uncover the mystery...
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    Toll the Bell for Murder

    Inspector Littlejohn is once again summoned to the Isle of Man when a local vicar is accused of murder in this long-running British mystery series.As a rule, the towns of the Isle of Man are eerily silent after dark. But that silence is shattered one...
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    Death Treads Softly

    Two separate murders put CI Littlejohn on a devious killer's twisting path in this long-running British mystery series.Finlo Crennell, the former harbourmaster of Castletown, was reported missing one week ago. Now he's turned up in London, wandering the...
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