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Include books by the same authorSeven Complete Nero Wolfe Novels
Rex Stout · 745 pages
The Silent Speaker / Might as Well Be Dead / If Death Ever Slept / 3 at Wolfe's Door / Gambit / Please Pass the Guilt / A Family Affair.
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 230 pages
Maisie Dobbs Bundle #2, An Incomplete Revenge and Among the Mad: Books 5 and 6
Jacqueline Winspear
The Last Place You Look
Kristen Lepionka · 336 pages
"Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton--black and from the wrong side of the tracks--was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution i
Hardball
Sara Paretsky · 560 pages
Chicago politics—past, present, and future—take center stage in New York Times–bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant new V. I. Warshawski novel.Chicago’s unique brand of ball is sixteen-inch slow pitch, played in leagues all over the city for more than a century. But in politics, in business, and in law enforcement, the game is hardball.When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who’s bee
Star Struck
Val McDermid · 304 pages
'This is crime writing of the very highest order ... Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around' The TimesBodyguarding had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan's wish list. But somebody's got to pay the bills at Brannigan & Co, and if the only earner on offer is playing nursemaid to a paranoid soap star, the fast-talking computer-loving white collar crime expert
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
Rob Thomas, Jennifer Graham · 324 pages
"The first book in an original mystery series featuring twenty-eight-year-old Veronica Mars, back in action after the events of Veronica Mars: The Movie. With the help of old friends -- Logan Echolls, Mac Mackenzie, Wallace Fennel, and even Dick Casablancas -- Veronica is ready to take on Neptune's darkest cases with her trademark sass and smarts." -- "Ten years after graduating from high school
Melancholy Baby
Robert B. Parker · 296 pages
"My ex-husband was getting married to a woman I wanted to kill. I didn't actually know her, and killing her would only make matters worse. But I got as much pleasure out of the idea as I could before I had to let go of it." "And so begins Melancholy Baby, the fourth novel in the bestselling series featuring Sunny Randall, who now faces the unthinkable: the marriage of her ex-husband, Richie, to so
A Drink Before the War/Darkness, Take My Hand
Dennis Lehane · 656 pages
Games to Keep the Dark Away
Marcia Muller · 215 pages
The Spellman Files
Lisa Lutz · 368 pages
The first novel of a comic mystery series. Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to *Get Smart* reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot is she's good at her job as a licensed private invest
The Monkey's Raincoat
Robert Crais · 245 pages
When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler · 324 pages
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
Bless the Bride
Rhys Bowen · 261 pages
Before the wedding bells can ring for PI Molly Murphy, a wealthy Chinese immigrant wants her to find his missing bride, and Molly---sure she isn't getting the whole story---suspects that his bride ran off. Set in early-twentieth-century New York.
A Catskill Eagle
Robert B. Parker, Robin A.H. Waterfield · 320 pages
In the detective business, Spenser sometimes has to bend the law, sometimes break it. His best friend, Hawk, faces a life sentence, and Susan is in even bigger trouble. Now Spencer has to free them both.
Deaths of Jocasta
J.M. Redmann · 338 pages
New Orleans private detective Micky Knight has been hired to provide security for an exclusive party on the bucolic side of Lake Ponchartrain--the ideal job. But murder crashes this perfect party when the body of a young woman is found in the surrounding woods. Back in the city, Micky's former lover, Dr. Cordelia James discovers another body at her clinic.
When the Thrill Is Gone
Walter Mosley · 365 pages
A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill's office with a stack of cash. She's an artist, she tells Leonid, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Will sorting out the woman's crooked tale bring Leonid straight to death's door?
Sentenced to Die
J.A. Jance · 645 pages
Presents the first three mysteries featuring Seattle homicide detective Jonas Piedmont Beaumont.
A Ticket to the Boneyard
Lawrence Block · 320 pages
Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel
Ross Macdonald · 192 pages
Soul Patch
Reed Farrel Coleman · 233 pages
Farewell, My Deuce
Renee Pawlish · 208 pages
Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels: ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Thirteen at Dinner
Agatha Christie · 663 pages