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Elephants Can Remember

Agatha Christie · 240 pages

E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Elephants Can Remember;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective."The Ravenscrofts didn’t seem that kind of person. They seemed well balanced and placid…" And yet, twelve years earlier, the husband had shot the wife, and then himself — or perhaps it was the other way around, since

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The Singing Sands

Josephine Tey · 224 pages

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Blue Lightning

Ann Cleeves · 368 pages

In the fourth book of Ann Cleeves' critically acclaimed series set in the Shetland Islands, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez brings his fiancée home to Fair Isle, a birder's paradise, where strangers are viewed with suspicions and distrust. When a woman's body is discovered at the island's bird observatory, the investigation is hampered by a raging storm that renders the island totally isolated. Ji

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Still Life

Louise Penny · 380 pages

The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own pol

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Enter a Murderer

Ngaio Marsh · 218 pages

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The Stargazey

Martha Grimes · 419 pages

"Une jolie blonde en manteau de zibeline se livre à un étrange manège dans Fulham Road. Le commissaire Richard Jury lui emboîte le pas : il va être conduit à enquêter dans le milieu artistique londonien.

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The Cuckoo's Calling

J.K. Rowling · 480 pages

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the

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Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection

Arthur Conan Doyle · 406 pages

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Past Reason Hated

Peter Robinson · 352 pages

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Leave the Grave Green

Deborah Crombie · 331 pages

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Wings of Fire

Charles Todd · 320 pages

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The Three Coffins

John Dickson Carr · 240 pages

Professor Charles Grimaud was explaining to some friends the natural causes behind an ancient superstition about men leaving their coffins when a stranger entered and challenged Grimaud's skepticism. The stranger asserted that he had risen from his own coffin and that four walls meant nothing to him. He added, 'My brother can do more... he wants your life and will call on you!' The brother came du

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The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

Colin Dexter · 288 pages

In another great Inspector Morse mystery, Inspector Morse and his assistant, Sergeant Lewis, are called to a house where the dead body of a member of an examinations syndicate has been found. Morse immediately suspects murder and starts the painstaking task of discovering the identity of the murderer and their motive - in his usual highly idiosyncratic way. Original work by Colin Dexter

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This Body of Death

Elizabeth George

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Murder at Holly House

Denzil Meyrick · 410 pages

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Robert B. Parker's Damned If You Do

Michael Brandman · 271 pages

"The woman on the bed was barely out of her teens. She wasn't exactly beautiful, but she'd tried to make the most of her looks. And now, alone in a seedy beachfront motel, she was dead. Paradise Police Chief Jesse Stone doesn't know her name. Whoever she is, she didn't deserve to die. Jesse starts digging, only to find himself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter turf war between two ruthless pimp

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Too Many Cooks

Rex Stout · 208 pages

Nero Wolfe leaves his Manhattan brownstone to travel to the resort of Kanawha Spa, in order to give a speech to a group of famous chefs (and not coincidentally, to eat each man's specialties, prepared for an annual dinner). When one of their number is killed, Wolfe and Archie have to wade through a tangled web of lies and clues, both criminal and gustatory.

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A Clubbable Woman

Reginald Hill · 320 pages

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Farriers' Lane

Anne Perry · 432 pages

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The Killings at Badger's Drift

Caroline Graham · 264 pages

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly

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The Incredulity of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton · 195 pages

Father Brown , full-time Catholic priest and part-time amateur detective, returns in this third collection of short stories. Unlike the first two collections, this time Father Brown is investigating alone; his sidekick, the former criminal Flambeau, is nowhere to be seen. Father Brown has to solve a murder (including his own!) in each story, and since several also appear to involve the supernatura

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Murder in Canton

Robert van Gulik · 207 pages

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Case Closed, Vol. 25

Gosho Aoyama

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The Greek Coffin Mystery

Ellery Queen · 370 pages

After the death of an elderly Greek man who is an internationally famous art dealer and collector, his attorney discovers that his will is missing and notifies the district attorney. When Inspector Richard Queen of the New York Police Force's Homicide Squad and his amateur detective son Ellery are called in, Ellery narrows down the possible location of the will to a single location: the dead man's

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