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The Best of Evil
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Eric Wilson |
"Spare your soul," he ranted, "and turn your eyes from greed...."
The tattoos on his arms still reading "Live by the Sword" and "Die by the Sword," Aramis Black is ready for a fresh start. Determi… |
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Perils and dangers
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Peter Turnbull |
Detective Chief Inspector Hennessey and his loyal sidekick, Detective Sergeant Yellich, have a hard time to choose a suspect from many who shoots the "universally unpopular foul-mouthed, foul-tempere… |
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Phantom Lady
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Cornell Woolrich |
From Wikipedia: "A man is first accused, and then convicted, of murdering his wife. As his execution date approaches, his friends and a sympathetic detective frantically search for his alibi, a woman… |
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3rd Degree
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James Patterson,Andrew Gross |
The #1 bestselling new mystery series of the past decade comes roaring back with 3rd Degree, a shockingly suspenseful thriller featuring the Women's Murder Club. One of James Patterson's best loved h… |
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4th of July
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James Patterson,Maxine Paetro |
A young girl is killed in the crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfix… |
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Ruffly speaking : a dog lover's mystery
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Susan Conant |
Holly Winter, a columnist for "Dog's Life" and a canine-loving detective, becomes acquainted with a hearing dog that uncovers a past murder |
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Two Ways to Murder
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Edwin Radford,Mona A. Radford |
> A ghostly apparition, a terrified girl, a superstition, and the mystery surrounding a man who had been buried in a barley field near an old castle are the concomitants in a double murder. Allied to… |
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Death's Inheritance
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Edwin Radford,Mona A. Radford |
> Why did Sir John Appleby disinherit his wife and son and leave his estates and large fortune "to my daughter"? The girl had been dead for four years. What was the secret of eight mysterious years m… |
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The Middlefold Murders
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Edwin Radford,Mona A. Radford |
> Mrs Alicia Wayneright died unexpectedly on the night of a family dinner party - of heart failure, her doctor said. Her sons expected to inherit her fortune, but an unsuspected will, read after the … |
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A Cosy Little Murder
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Edwin Radford,Mona A. Radford |
> >In this story of greed and carefully- planned murder, a dead man had been sitting in a chair for two days. A mysterious woman had cooked him a poisoned meal. A trip by a girl could have been an al… |
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From Information Received
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Edwin Radford,Mona A. Radford |
>A closely-knit and anonymous gang of women were netting thousands of pounds. So ingenious was their modus operandi that not even Doctor Manson could find anything illegal in their operations - until… |
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Postmortem
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Patricia Cornwell |
A serial killer is strangling victims, and Kay Scarpetta has to use forensic science to find him, before she is killed |
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Cobra Trap
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O'Donnell, Peter |
Each short story in this final installment of the Modesty Blaise series details a different, thrilling tale of international intrigue starring Modesty and her loyal deputy, Willie Garvin. From Modest… |
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Dead silver
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Neil Mcmahon,Neil McMahon |
Their first appearance in Lone Creek helped garner McMahon the most extraordinary reviews of his career. None other than mystery guru Otto Penzler said: "It is the poignant and knowing prose that ele… |
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Le diable amoureux
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Jacques Cazotte |
**The Devil in Love** (French: *Le Diable amoureux*, 1772) is an occult romance by Jacques Cazotte which tells of a demon, or devil, who falls in love with a young Spanish nobleman named Don Alvaro, … |
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The Big Nowhere
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James Ellroy |
The author of *The Black Dahlia* presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In *The Big Nowhere*, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkabl… |
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Top Storey Murder
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Anthony Berkeley |
From mysteryfile dot com: " Novelist and part-time criminologist Roger Sheringham follows along, as Scotland Yard puts together a case against a burglar who added murder to his last job. These were … |
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Tie dyed and dead
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Sharon Gwyn Short,Sharon Short |
As if running a successful laundromat and writing a perennially popular (and soon to be national!) household tips column weren't enough to keep Josie Toadfern busy, she's taken a gig on the side. The… |
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Snow
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Nigel Frith |
> In a story that involves a terrifying house, and the politics of a college where Oxford dons are clashing over revolutionaries who wish to lead modern architecture backwards, there emerges a young … |
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Journal
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Joyce Atkinson,Kristine Atkinson |
A series of clues and revelations documenting an artist's mysterious fate, presented in collage-style newspaper clippings, e-mails, and private writings, invites readers to search its pages for visua… |
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