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A demon lurks at the heart of the Church in this classic fantasy of black magic set in Victorian England. Canon Throcton is a brilliant scholar, but the men of the Church can't bring themselves to trust him. His devoted study of Hebrew and Arabic ...

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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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Be careful what you steal ... A fast-paced crime caper from the Edgar Awardwinning author and ';funniest man in the world' (The Washington Post Book World). The Byzantine Fire is much more than a ninety-carat ruby. As a stone it's worth over a mil...

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After a brutal attack on her sister, Maggie MacGowen searches L.A. for the gunmanWhen Maggie MacGowen was a girl, her sister Emily lived the life of a leftist radical on the run from the FBI. Twenty-two years after the FBI finally caught her, Emil...

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In post-Depression America, an amateur sleuth uncovers a small town's dark side in "the best mystery produced by Ellery Queen" (The New York Times). At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charmin...

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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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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 h...

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The "intensely logical" master sleuth discovers a crowded coffin in one of his earliest and most puzzling cases (The New York Times). The scion of a famous New York art-dealing family, Georg Khalkis spent his final years housebound with ...

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A murder in a crowded Broadway theater presents a full house of suspects-the first in this classic mystery series starring Ellery Queen! Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it's packed to the...

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A stylish puzzle mystery from the author who "took the intellectual game that was the formal detective novel to greater heights than any American writer" (The Weekly Standard). The windows of French's department store are one of New York...

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A half-mad, alcoholic Edgar Allan Poe aims to defeat an occultist's terrifying plot in this "intelligent, suspenseful" thriller set in 1840s New York (Booklist). It is said that beneath Solomon's glorious throne, books that gave the fabl...

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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, ...

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A shake-up in the NYPD homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for private investigator Nero Wolfe. When wealthy and popular crusader and reformer Lester Pierce is gunned down in front of his Park Avenue residence, the p...

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A remarkable collection of mysteries starring the brilliant Dr. Thorndyke Silas has diamonds in the heel of his shoe. He is a thief, but until the night he meets Oscar Brodski on the footpath near his house, he has never considered murder. A diamo...

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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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A killer hiding among the crowd at a Dodgers-Giants game forces Nero Wolfe to step up to the plate in this ';superb' mystery (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to ...

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A soda war explodes into murder for Nero Wolfe, ';one of the two or three most beloved detectives in fiction' (Publishers Weekly). For the men of Madison Avenue, the battle between soft-drink giants Cherr-o-key and AmeriCherry seems heaven sent. F...

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Threats against a televangelist lead Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin into a murder case in this ';brisk and beguiling page-turner' (Publishers Weekly). Staten Island would be forgettable were it not for the gleaming Tabernacle of the Silver Spire, w...

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When a loudmouthed, arrogant author is silenced, the reclusive master detective Nero Wolfe looks for the killer: ';A very clever mystery ... A masterly job' (Booklist). The gun was fired close to Charles Childress's head, and his were the only fin...

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The lie that bought Jacob Weisen a new life cannot help him escape the past. Birkenau could not kill Jacob Weisen. He survived the death camp and made his way to America, where he became famous telling the story of Isaac Becker, an author who was ...

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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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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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