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3361) Singing in the Shrouds
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The good ship Cape Farewell is steaming out to sea, with a passenger-list and crew fairly littered with the shifty, the twitchy, the peculiar, and the up-to-no-good. Arguably, the up-to-no-goodest is a strangler with a romantic streak: He likes to leave his ladies with a flower and a charming little song. The latest of the ladies is currently lying on a fogbound London dock, mute witness to the fact that Inspector Alleyn-long on the strangler's trail-has...
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De la Californie soixante-huitarde aux heures les plus sombres de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, laissez-vous entraîner par ce captivant roman noir.
Lorsque Henri Majencoules, un jeune mathématicien qui travaille en Californie sur le projet Arpanet, revient à Agnost-d'en-haut en 1967, son village natal focalise l'attention de tous les médias du pays : une famille d'Américains, les Stokton, vient d'y être massacrée.
Imprégné par la contre-culture...
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Books 4 - 6 of the Kendra Clayton Mystery Series
Book Four: Schooled In Lies
When Kendra gets roped into serving on her high school's reunion committee things quickly take a turn for the worse when freak accidents result in death. And when neither the committee nor the police believe it's murder, Kendra must uncover the culprit quickly before another death occurs or risk becoming a buried secret herself.
Book Five: Sly, Slick & Wicked
After stumbling...
3364) Murder À La Mode
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The renowned British author of Death on the Agenda delivers a "stunning finish with a return-from-the-dead trap. Very lively and zestful" (Observer).
No question, one of the real delights of this series is all the early-1960s clotheshorses who go traipsing through the pages, and this time around, they're front and center. Moyes in fact worked as an editor at British Vogue, and her familiarity with the London fashion scene is put to good use in this...
3365) Gold Comes in Bricks
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Following a money trail leads a PI into danger in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Turn on the Heat.
Brainy private detective Donald Lam is always one step ahead of the bad guys-but he's also smaller than them and typically gets beat up. That's why his boss, the ever-irascible Bertha Cool, has hired a martial arts master to teach him self-defense. The first class isn't easy for Donald, but he is rewarded with...
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Follow Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to a university town where they investigate three students to uncover who is attempting to cheat on a valuable examination paper.
In this short Sherlock Holmes story, the famous detective is called away from his usual high-stakes crime investigations and must solve a case with very few clues on a university campus. Someone has snuck into a lecturer's office and copied the answers to an important examination...
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This volume includes three books in the Golden Age detective series from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master:
Death in a White Tie: A high-society homicide is the talk of the London season: "Marsh's writing is a pleasure." -The Seattle Times
Overture to Death: In a Dorset village, a snobby local busybody is silenced for good in this tale.
Death at the Bar: A famous barrister is enjoying a pint at the pub-until a dart becomes a deadly weapon...
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By way of thank you to everyone, who has had a part in my music, this book is the fullest answer to the question I was, asked more than any other 'what was that song about then?'
The Stories Behind The Songs is three things. A thank you, an account of my music, and an attempt to give music lovers an old-fashioned experience of new music in a new way.
So firstly, this book is a thank-you. Every listener who ever expressed connection with my music has...
3369) One Man and His Bomb
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In the wake of a personal tragedy, the Hard Detective must hunt down a potential terrorist in this British mystery from the Edgar Award–nominated author.
Detective Superintendent Harriet Martens has always kept her family life separate from her work. But when tragedy strikes, that discipline becomes impossible to maintain. Her twin sons, Graham and Malcolm, both police officers in London's Notting Hill, are caught in the explosion of a terrorist's...
3370) Who Saw Her Die?
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A bit of a delicious throwback, in many senses of the word. For starters, we have a weekend house party, that hallmark of Golden Age crime-fiction, and apparently still going strong in 1970, when this book was first published. The party is in honor of a certain Lady Balaclava, herself something of a hallmark of the Golden Age, and still, yes, going strong. Well, at least until midway through the festivities, when she keels over, having apparently...
3371) Six Against the Yard
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Six "perfect murders" by Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other Golden Age Mystery authors of the Detection Club-plus an essay by Agatha Christie.
Founded in England in the 1930s, the Detection Club brought together an impressive array of Golden Age Mystery authors. Their projects included The Floating Admiral, a whodunit in which twelve different writers contributed individual chapters, as well as Ask a Policeman, another collaboration...
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This volume includes three books in the classic detective series from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master:
Death in Ecstasy: Tainted wine sends a member of a religious sect to meet her maker in a witty mystery.
Vintage Murder: Inspector Alleyn is enjoying his trip to New Zealand-until intrigue among his fellow travelers turns deadly...
Artists in Crime: An artists' model is murdered-and among the suspects is a new woman in Inspector Alleyn's...
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Unleash the Mystery! Step into the world of Agatha Christie like never before with this unique retelling through the nose of Reggie, a courageous greyhound and former Mercy Dog. This intrigue-filled tale stays true to its roots while offering a fresh perspective from our four-legged sleuth. Join Reggie and his owner, Captain Hastings, as they unravel a mystery that's captivated millions. It's the same classic you love, now with a different tail! Perfect...
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A thrilling and suspenseful short story featuring the renowned Sherlock Holmes and his remarkable companion, Doctor Watson, as they investigate the curious happenings at Three Gables.
When an elderly woman, Mary Maberley, approaches Sherlock Holmes to ask for help, her case doesn't seem interesting enough to appeal to him. Shortly after receiving her request, the masterful detective is threatened by a hired thug to stay away from the case, and...
3375) Love Lies Bleeding
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From a British mystery author known as "the master of the whodunnit," an amateur detective delights in solving murders at an English boys' school.
Prof. Gervase Fen of Oxford University is honored to award the prizes at the Speech Day ceremonies at Castrevenford High School. As it turns out, the headmaster's selection of the part-time sleuth as a presenter is most fortuitous indeed. For the night before the big event, two of the school's staff...
3376) Falling Star
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Rich, aristocratic, and at the heart of swinging London, "Pudge" Coombe-Peters has everything except a decent nickname. And in fact, he has two special attributes: He owns the narration-the drawling, deliciously snobbish, all-but-impossibly irritating narration-of Falling Star, and he has a chum named Henry Tibbett, who comes in just awfully handy when people start dying on the set of the film that Pudge is producing.
Tibbett is especially welcome...
3377) Death in The Aegean
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When private banker Stefanie Adams travels to Greece on vacation, she is suspected of murdering a wealthy bride who accused her deceased father of artifact theft. Unfortunately, the bride's accusation also ties Stefanie, a former archaeology student, to the robbery of a newly discovered gold statue, the Akrotiri Snake Goddess. With two high-profile crimes to solve, Greek police are under pressure, and both crimes lead straight to Stefanie.
Then her...
3378) Money in the Morgue
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This novel of murder and espionage in World War II New Zealand is "an exquisite reminder of the brilliance of Marsh's London detective" (The Guardian).
Inspector Roderick Alleyn just wants to write a letter to his wife, but World War II, for one, keeps intruding. It's war-work, after all, that has brought Alleyn to this seedy hospital in New Zealand's hinterlands, and it's the war that has left the hospital swimming in convalescing soldiers-noisy,...
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The murder of a convict on the night of his release brings Littlejohn to the silent marshes of the Isle of Man in this thrilling British mystery novel.
A deckhand and petty criminal, Joss Varran was set to return home after a year in jail. Instead, he's found dead in a ditch not far from his sister's cottage. While Varran was never well liked, it's a mystery why anyone would bother to kill him . . .
Facing a dead end, Inspector Knell of the...
3380) Meurtres sur l'île
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Au fil d'un périple mouvementé en terres ouessantines, un pan inconnu de l'histoire de France, celui du mythique Appel du Général de Gaulle le 18 juin 1940, attend Luc Mandoline, un aventurier attachant. Luc Mandoline dit L'Embaumeur est appelé par la mère d'un de ses amis, un marin disparu dans la grande bleue, pour une dernière cérémonie à Ouessant. Sur le caillou le plus à l'ouest de la Bretagne, o tout le monde se connaît, les digues...
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