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1821) Appalachian Trails
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Someone wants Daisy McLaren dead, and she doesn't know why.
Daisy is a small-town reporter with big dreams. When she is drawn to the site of a small plane crash in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, she discovers it's near a remote mountain road where her mother died years ago. What she thought was a simple crash turns sinister when she sees a man running away from the site. Her gut feeling is that the plane carried drugs to her small town. Not...
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When Pennsylvania State Trooper Jim Duncan responds to a murder scene at a local mining company, the call hits close to home. The victim, Lonnie Butler, is a friend and neighbor who was just beginning to get back on his feet after a year of financial difficulties. Despite entertaining out-of-town family, Jim vows to stay involved in the case.
Meanwhile, Fayette County Assistant Public Defender Sally Castle faces an ethical dilemma. Her newest client,...
1823) The Crimson Circle
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A shadowy figure controls a cabal of criminals that could bring London to its knees In the black of night, a gang of workmen gather in the forest of France to assemble a guillotine. They open a few bottles of wine as they work, and one hammers a nail into the wrong spot. At dawn, the nail blocks the blade, and a prisoner survives to escape his fate. Many years later, that nail will doom more than a dozen men. In London, a ruined financier stands on...
1824) Crows Can't Count
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EMERALDS ARE FOR EVIL Shirley was sultry, sexy, smashing-a sweet young thing to make a sugar daddy's mouth water. This luscious lass loved pretty baubles, so no wonder men showered her with jewels. But when a deluge of emeralds turned into a reign of terror, Shirley needed someone to bail her out. That brought Bertha Cool and Donald Lam into the act, as the indomitable detective duo discovered that emeralds could be a girl's worst enemy when they...
1825) Meet Jimmy Strange
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Jimmy Strange is a mysterious young man who turns up when he is least expected. Whenever and wherever there is trouble, he appears from behind some dark corner. No one knows much about him, though he is always a gentleman. He is never short of money, but its source is unknown. One thing is certain - he isn't a crook. Yet they say he can break into a house with the best of them...but always in a good cause...
1826) Very Old Money
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Two servants discover family skeletons behind the closed doors of a forbidding Manhattan mansion in this mystery by a three-time Edgar Award-winning author. In dire financial straits, young couple Mike and Amy Lloyd-a former cab driver and a New York prep-school teacher, respectively-have signed away their independence to become live-in servants for one of the city's wealthiest and most private families. At first, the Durie home, a cavernous Gilded...
1827) A Risky Way to Kill
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Inspector M. L. Heimrich of the New York State Police may not have the flash of hard-boiled city detectives, but there's no lead the intrepid investigator won't follow until his every hunch is satisfied...
An advertisement for an odd collection of items has been placed in the Van Brunt Citizen: a never-been-worn size ten wedding dress, a bay horse, and a.25 caliber Winchester rifle. At first glance these objects seem unrelated, but they all played...
1828) Up the Creek
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Laurel Falls, N.C., 2009: Life on the farm was pretty much one day the same as the next-until that stranger showed up. I'll never forget the first time I saw him and how everything changed after that. It might not have turned out so crazy if he'd known who he was. We figured that big gash on the back of his head stole his memory. But how did he get that wound? And who was after him? It had seemed wrong to turn him away, especially since you might...
1829) The Judge Is Reversed
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When a cat-show judge is murdered, Mr. and Mrs. North are drawn into a hairy homicide There are three things Pamela North can't resist: cocktails, kittens, and murder. Today, she'll get all three. Still mourning the death of her beloved cat, Martini, Pamela gathers the strength to attend the fifty-third annual Colony Cat Club championship show, where she meets tomcats and tabbies of every stripe. Each one is more adorable than the last, but one of...
1830) Eraser
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A detective cybercrime thriller, in which Steven Crane takes on rookie detective Josh, as well as a dangerous case. Elsewhere, Will embarks on the cusp of his career-ending case.
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In this series of five short stories, Holmes and Watson continue their late investigations into dark crimes in 1920s London, joined by their excitable housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, the brilliant, buxom Miss Lily Hudson, and by Jasper Lestrade of Scotland Yard, the ambitious, respectful son of the late George Lestrade. Thanks to Royal Jelly, Holmes is a fit 72-year-old, who has lost his interest in bees and returned to detecting, joining forces...
1832) A Homicide at Halloween
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Break a leg is supposed to be just an expression.It's Halloween, and Rosemary and her friend are headed to a castle in the country to watch someone be murdered!It's all in good fun, of course; Vera's theatre troupe is putting on a murder mystery weekend complete with clues, red herrings, and a slew of dramatic performances.For once, Rosemary and Max will have to work together to solve the case-but will their budding relationship survive a homicide...
1833) High Sierra Quarry
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When a young woman hiker is reported missing, the Forest Service takes part in the search. But the more Ranger Dan Courtwright learns about the case, the less sense it makes to him. And the more dangerous things get for everyone involved, especially Dan. All of which leads to confusion, consternation,
and murder.
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Dr. Sam Johnson mysteries volume 4
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Literary legend Samuel Johnson and his biographer, James Boswell, solve mysteries in eighteenth-century London in this delightful story collection. A brilliant thinker and his trusted assistant sit in their drawing room, pondering a story in the newspaper, when the door opens and the subject of the article enters, begging for help. It's a classic scene from English detective fiction, set not at 221B Baker Street, but 1 Inner Temple Lane-the home of...
1835) The Old Die Young
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Nathan Shapiro might be the gloomiest member of Manhattan's finest, but that doesn't stop the dour detective from getting the job done when the going gets tough...
Called upon to investigate the suspicious death of actor Clive Branson, Det. Lt. Nathan Shapiro and his right-hand man, Det. Anthony "Tony" Cook, are confronted with something strange: a dead man in makeup. It seems the thespian was keen on hiding his real age, and made himself up to...
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Dan Corrigan wants to disappear.Burnt out by the pressures of corporate life, he escapes to the countryside. But when he least expects it, a chance discovery draws him into a compelling mystery. An ancient legend, a coded message on a stone slab, and a secret concealed in a country manor house: these are the clues that take Dan on a journey into the past, delving deeper into a hidden history.But reputations are on the line, and there are those who...
1837) Pistols and Poinsettias
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Steve isn't celebrating Christmas…he's trying to survive it. Blind PI Steve Smiley loathes Christmas-too many memories. When his partner secures an invitation for them to teach at a mystery writers' conference in Miami, what promises to be a welcome early December escape turns into a tidal wave of mysteries to solve. Steve and Heather walk into the midst of a raging civil war between two factions of the writers' group. When they agree to locate...
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No one had tackled Doyce. He had been alone when he fell. He had simply folded up like a jack-knife and slipped to the ground. What had happened? The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories. They appear unstoppable, but the Trojans a side of amateurs who are on a winning streak of their own may be about to silence the Gunners. Moments into the second half the whistle blows, but not for a goal or penalty....
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Most people know Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes. But he was a prolific writer throughout his long career, producing far more than just the Holmes mysteries. This volume assembles 65 of his non-Sherlockian tales, covering a wide range of subjects: mysteries, adventure, supernatural, medical, nautical, and pugelist stories are just the tip of the iceberg! Here, in more than 1,100 pages, is one of the largest collections of Doyle short stories...
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A Scotland Yard detective investigates when gunfire disrupts an aristocratic family's Christmas celebrations in this classic British mystery.
The relatives of Sir Basil Roper are gathering to celebrate Christmas at the family's ancestral home in Yorkshire. While the ancient estate has remained unchanged for centuries, the surrounding area now features neon signs, a textile mill, and a brewery.
Even so, Arthur Ferryman is happy to be there...
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