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Voted the best crime novel ever written by the Crime Writers' Association: ';Breathless reading from first to the unexpected last.' The Observer The eminent Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has lost a friend to an unfortunate stabbing incident, an...

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The Golden Age author of Green for Danger delivers ';a mystery in the classic Christie-Carr-Queen manner... An outstanding tour de force' (The New York Times). Few were disappointed when Raoul Vernet was found with his head bashed in, dead in a po...

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Inspector Charlesworth investigates a strange murder in a dress shopThe sales room at Christophe et Cie is staffed by five young women. Each is beautiful in her own wayand each could be a murderer. One morning, two of the women purchase some oxali...

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From the Golden Age author of Green for Danger. ';You have to reach for the greatest of Great Names to find Brand's rivals in the subtleties of the trade' (The New York Times). Sir Richard's family has spent years waiting for him to die, but despi...

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A toxic spill causes a lethal chain reaction for a San Diego cop in this ';very funny' New York Times bestseller by the author of The Choirboys (Kirkus Reviews). Fin Finnegan, a San Diego police detective and wannabe actor heading straight for a m...

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"Hip, violent and funny vignettes of the mean streets of southeast London tie together this rowdy set of short novels" from the Irish crime writer (Publishers Weekly). At sixty-two, Chief Inspector Roberts is nearly too old to be a cop, ...

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A British PI novel from the Diamond Dagger Awardwinning author: ';Entertaining, sly, jokey ... cynical, well written, and teems with sparkly dialogue' (The Times, London). British private investigator Joe Sixsmith needs some help to resolve a disp...

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Elsa finds a book with strange powers and must face her tortured past. It's been seven years since Else visited her tiny hometown on an isolated island off the coast of Scotland. After years of suffering bullying at the hands of the few other resi...

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The Grand Master of Mystery delivers "nerve-end-entertainment" when two of New York's finest set out to become two of New York's richest (Kirkus Reviews). Tom and Joe have been walking the beat on the mean streets of the Big Apple longer...

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Two LAPD cops stumble into trouble during a search for a kidnapped dog in this ';superb' New York Times bestseller from the author of Hollywood Station (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Russian-American detective A. A. Valnikov is a burned-out homicide d...

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A New York Timesbestselling police thriller by the author of Harbor Nocturne: Two LAPD detectives look into the murder of a Hollywood studio boss. It's the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change eve...

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Sherlock Holmes's most famous case: An irresistible blend of Gothic horror and intricately plotted mystery The curse of the Baskervilles dates to the seventeenth century, when the wicked Hugo Baskerville chased a farmer's daughter across the pitch...

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At Oxford, a rash of crime puts Dodgson under suspicion of murder The world of academia is hardly a hotbed of crime. And although scholars at the University of Oxford may debate the assassination of Caesar or the execution of Socrates, a modern cr...

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The most evil book ever conceived falls into the hands of the leader of the Spanish Inquisition in this ingenious bibliomystery from the bestselling creator of Repairman Jack. In the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition spreads terror throug...

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Just days from meeting the reaper, a convicted murderer hires Chicago's most hard-boiled PI to save his neckbefore the executioner can claim itRobert Westland's death is just around the corner when he finally decides to fight the murder rap that's...

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A puzzler of a tale about a dead bookshop owner, a priceless cache of first editions, and a deadly secret taken to the grave. It's no mystery who killed Robert Ripple, owner of Precious Finds Bookstore in Pokesville, Pennsylvania. It was Agatha Ch...

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On a bus outside Vegas, a washed-up gambler meets a strange preacherAs the bus rolls away from the Las Vegas strip, Timber Goodman screws his eyes shut and tries to keep his stomach from lurching. He came to Vegas in hopes of jump-starting his fad...

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In Thomas H. Cook's Edgar Awardnominated first novel, a weary detective tracks a blood-crazed psychopathBlood seeps into the gutters at the children's zoo in Central Park. Two deer have been slaughtered, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other...

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A photographer struggles to understand a stranger's suicideThere's nothing special about the woman's death. It comes over the police radio like any other sad story: a woman found on the sidewalk, killed after plunging from her apartment. But somet...

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The Edgar Awardwinning author ';builds a family portrait in which violence seems both impossible and inevitable ... surprising and devastating' (Chicago Tribune). Steve Farris was nine years old in 1959, the youngest child in a family that was abo...

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Now living in New York, ex-cop Frank Clemons investigates a brutal slashing The sleek high-rises of Park Avenue make Frank Clemons uneasy. The former Atlanta homicide detective came to New York after a sickening murder case soured him on the South...

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At the height of the Civil Rights movement, a young girl's murder stirs racialtensions in Birmingham, AlabamaThe grave on the football field is shallow, and easy to spot from a distance. It would have been found sooner, had most of the residents i...

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Frank Clemons, an ex-cop turned private detective, faces a pair of perplexing cases on the mean streets of New York City The first case is simple. A wealthy man's wife has grown distant, and he asks Frank Clemons, a private eye hardened by his pas...

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Edgar Award Finalist: A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed.It was not a clever killing. On May 5, 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison and disappeared. Joined by a fifteen-year-old brother, they ...

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Shocking true crime from the Edgar Awardwinning author. ';Powerful ... A frightening close-up of sociopathic personalities at their most deadly' (Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter). Evil has a way of finding itself. How else could you exp...

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As the world closes in around them, two Nazis hide out in a tropical paradiseThe servants sense something strange about the two old men. They are not sure what business Dr. Langhof and Dr. Ludtz have in El Caliz, but they are certain that whatever...

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Edgar Award Finalist: A troubled cop obsessively searches for a young girl's killer. The young girl lies in a ditch without a scratch on hera white high school student stretched out dead in the black part of Atlanta. She was a rich girl from a col...

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A brother recalls the magnificent life of his sister, the greatest writer of her ageA launch party is underway for a hotly anticipated biography, the life story of Elena Franklin. As a young woman, Elena was one of the most promising literary tale...

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From the Edgar Awardwinning author: ';[A] highly readable novel of political adventure ... a cracking good story and the Africa mentality is fascinating' (Kirkus Reviews). Clinton Shartelle doesn't seem like a good choice to run a political campai...

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A tragic past traps a former Hollywood stuntman in a web of international intriguefrom ';America's best storyteller' (The New York Times Book Review). Two pirates do battle on an old junk ship in Singapore Harbor. They leap nimbly from deck to rig...

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