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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Crime and punishment in the Buddhist tradition	Nandasēna Ratnapāla	Chiefly a study on the rules of Buddhist monasticism and religious order; includes reference to the Pārājika (Buddhist law) of Vinayapiṭaka.	OL1059930W
Tonight, Somewhere in New York	Cornell Woolrich	TABLE OF CONTENTS *********************** TONIGHT, SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK (aka THE LOSER) Chapters 1-5 Morning after murder -- The night of February 17,1924 -- Murder, obliquely -- The penny-a-…	OL11276652W
The stairs that kept going down	Sir Compton Mackenzie	In the London house his family occupies, a ten-year-old boy discovers a secret, seemingly endless, staircase that leads him to the scene of a crime.	OL1167508W
Murder mile	Michael J. Mulloy	352 p. : 18 cm	OL12858118W
Tombstone courage	J. A. Jance,Hillary Huber	With grit, courage and dogged determination, Joanne challenged the status quo -- and won. Now, as newly elected Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, she must battle the prejudice and hostility of a mi…	OL13667W
Heist Society (Heist Society #1)	Ally Carter	When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to the Louvre...to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria...to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turne…	OL14909677W
Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [14 stories, 9 poems]	Edgar Allan Poe	14 stories: MS. found in a bottle -- Morella -- Ligeia -- [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) The mu…	OL14937997W
Edgar Allan Poe	Edgar Allan Poe	STORIES [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Ligeia [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/work…	OL14938089W
Thirty-Two Stories	Edgar Allan Poe	[Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) Balloon-Hoax [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Descent in…	OL14938126W
The Best American Crime Writing 2005	Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook,James Ellroy	The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slave…	OL14963822W
Inspector Gadget in the case of the mixed-up scientist	Justine Fontes	Penny and her dog, Brain, help a secret agent rescue a scientist kidnapped by a crime organization.	OL15126238W
Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories	Marjorie Braymer,Arthur Conan Doyle,Ray Bradbury,Edgar Allan Poe,Evan Lodge,B.J. Chute	Dive right in / B.J. Chute Catherine and the winter wheat / P.B. Hughes Apprentice / Dorothy Canfield Ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry The adventure of the dying detective / Arthur Conan Doyle …	OL15132289W
American 24-Karat Gold	Yvonne Collioud Sisko,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Ray Bradbury,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Kate Chopin,Jack London	Ripe figs / Kate Chopin -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Yoruba / Migene Gonzalez-Wippler -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4…	OL15132668W
In the name of love	Ann Rule	This is not only the story of an avaricious sociopath, it is also the story of a woman who, for almost eight years, experienced and survived adversity most of us cannot even begin to imagine. This wo…	OL15143219W
Great cases of Scotland Yard	Emlyn Williams,Andrew Garve,Julian Symons,Clive Egleton,Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy,Elizabeth Jenkins,Winston Graham,Eric Ambler,Russell Braddon	Commissioned to investigate these cases and develop a classic mystery story, eight of England's most distinguished mystery writers have recreated some of Scotland Yard's most exciting and notorious c…	OL15160663W
The Way Home	George P. Pelecanos	Christopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dat…	OL15164716W
Portland Noir	Kevin Sampsell	Brand-new stories by: Gigi Little, Justin Hocking, Christopher Bolton, Jess Walter, Monica Drake, Jamie S. Rich (illustrated by Joelle Jones), Dan DeWeese, Zoe Trope, Luciana Lopez, Karen Karbo, Bill…	OL15176421W
Mexico City Noir	Paco Ignacio Taibo II,Achy Obejas	Mexico City enters the Noir Series arena, edited by one of Mexico's most revered novelists."Set across Mexico City in a variety of neighborhoods, the stories feature acast of characters as diverse as…	OL15179368W
Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America	Jeremy Travis	Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America is intended to shed light on a question that fuels the public's concern about the number of returning prisoners. What are the public safety consequences of the f…	OL15180891W
Verbrechen	Ferdinand von Schirach	Ferdinand von Schirach hat es in seinem Beruf alltäglich mit Menschen zu tun, die Extremes getan oder erlebt haben. Das Ungeheuerliche ist bei ihm der Normalfall. Er vertritt Unschuldige, die mit dem…	OL15367614W