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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Rumpole Christmas	John Mortimer	The first ever collection of Rumpole Christmas stories— just in time for the holidaysA Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories—never before published in book form— depicting the Old…	OL10464496W
Field of 13	Dick Francis	13 short stories about racing by that mystery master of horses and the track.	OL10530428W
The Complete Casebook of Herlock Sholmes	Charles Hamilton	A collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches.	OL10553048W
Here comes the copper	Henry Wade	Unlike Wade's mysteries with his series detective Inspector Poole, this book is set of short whodunnits, each chapter covering a crime investigated by an ambitious young policeman who hopes someday t…	OL10563314W
Mystery Stories	Thomas Wright,Paul Ernst,Carl Gustav Jung,Joan Aiken,Ambrose Bierce,Ray Bradbury,Emily Brontë,Rodrigues Ottolengui,Paul Jennings,Agatha Christie,Diana Wynne Jones,Eleanor Farjeon,Ann Pilling,Helen Cresswell,Adrian Reynolds	The green arches / Joan Aiken -- The Aztec opal / Rodrigues Ottolengui -- Wuthering Heights (an extract) / Emily Brontë -- The girl who kissed a peach tree (an Italian folktale) / Eleanor Farjeon…	OL1065287W
Tales of Mystery and Horror	Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell	> Admirers of Mrs. Gaskell's immensely popular novel Cranford may not realize that the celebrated Victorian novelist also wrote short stories of a high quality. The seven stories in the present vol…	OL1103178W
The World of Sherlock Holmes	Michael Harrison	> A triumph of dedicated detective work, set against the romantic nostalgic splendor of Victorian England, The World of Sherlock Holmes reveals a wealth of unsuspected facts about the master sleuth…	OL1182599W
A Dick Francis companion	Stephen Sugden	"This exhaustive reference work examines the complete fictional works of Dick Francis, a former steeplechase jockey to Queen Elizabeth and accomplished British novelist. Organized alphabetically, the…	OL12018165W
Means Of Evil & Other St (Wexford Collection)	Ruth Rendell	Vijf verhalen met inspecteur Wexford in de hoofdrol.	OL12091W
Sight for Sore Eyes, A	Ruth Rendell	Damaged children grow up in different ways. Some can shuffle off the horrors of the past. Others cannot change who they are, or will never know how. Teddy Grex became a handsome young man. Francine H…	OL12106W
Piranha to Scurfy	Ruth Rendell	In these pages, internationally celebrated novelist Ruth Rendell, author of Harm Done, offers a collection of unforgettable stories evocative of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and other masters of th…	OL12139W
The Copper Peacock	Ruth Rendell,Penelope Keith	The Copper Peacock: a hideous bookmark given to Bernard, a writer, by his attractive cleaning lady, Judy. She had brought order to a hitherto chaotic life, but now the bookmark destroys all this, sha…	OL12148W
The Polferry mystery	Philip MacDonald	There were seven people in the Watch House, Polferry, on the night of Eve Hale-Storford's death. Her husband and his two friends made the discovery on their way to bed after an hour together in the s…	OL123234W
Un Noël De Maigret	Georges Simenon	A selection of short stories featuring Inspector Maigret of the Police Judiciare. Only the title story is set at Christmas-time; the others vary in season and also from Maigret's time on the force a…	OL1242788W
La Pipe de Maigret	Georges Simenon	From amazon.com: "Prewar Paris - where buses still sported outside platforms and every neighborhood its own bistro, policemen took time for human problems, and car fumes hadn't yet smothered the smel…	OL1242834W
The Old Man in the Corner	Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy	The Old Man (Bill Owen) sits in a cheap restaurant frequented by journalists and plays with a bit of string, which he ties into elaborate knots as he talks. Addressing himself to Polly Burton, a youn…	OL1253282W
The chronicles of Sherlock Holmes	Paul D. Gilbert	Dr John Watson reveals unchronicled cases only previously alluded to: The Baron Maupertuis, The Remarkable Disappearance of James Phillimore, The Aluminium Crutch, The Abominable Wife, The Cutter ALI…	OL13839258W
Sherlock Holmes	H. R. F. Keating	See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14855633W	OL14855604W
Ask A Policeman	Gladys Mitchell,Milward Kennedy,Anthony Berkeley,Dorothy L. Sayers,Helen Simpson,The Detection Club,Helen Simpson,Agatha Christie,Martin Edwards,Cecil John Charles Street	**Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country house poses a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, Lord C…	OL14873777W
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [1/2] (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Hound of the Baskervilles / Mem…	Arthur Conan Doyle	Eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious, Sherlock Holmes remains the world's most popular and influential fictional detective. In four novels and fifty-six short stories, Holmes with his trusted friend Dr…	OL14929975W