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Rumpole on Trial

John Mortimer · 256 pages

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In the Teeth of the Evidence

Dorothy L. Sayers · 254 pages

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Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 230 pages

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Disco For The Departed

Colin Cotterill · 253 pages

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Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie · 256 pages

***Murder at the Vicarage (1930)is the first Miss Marple mystery book by Agatha Christie.*** Miss Jane Marple is a village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard. His wife Anne admits newly arrived artist Lawrence Redding is an old flame, and both confess to murder. **The local inspector and Miss Marple sort

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The Wisdom of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton · 186 pages

"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a bri

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The Five Bells and Bladebone

Martha Grimes · 299 pages

As Richard Jury and Melrose Plant of Scotland Yard investigate the murder of Simon Lean, they're led to a London pub, the Five Bells and Bladebone where the "shady lady named Sadie" might have been of help if she hadn't been murdered first.

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More Work for the Undertaker

Margery Allingham · 245 pages

Campion takes up local lodgings on Apron Street in London, a place where urchins abound and a quasi-feudal ordered is maintained by the eccentric Palinode family, when a threat is sensed and the police are baffled.

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We Chase Shadows: A We Solve Murders Mystery

Richard Osman

**Back together. ** **Back on the case.** **And back to solving murders . . .** **At sunrise, high in the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a beautiful private villa. On the body is a threatening note, signed by a mystery man.** Back at We Solve Murders HQ, Amy, Rosie, and Steve leap at the chance to take on their first proper case. So what if their new client seems to have

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The Saltmarsh Murders

Gladys Mitchell · 292 pages

A quick-witted, clever mystery from the Golden Age of crime writingNoel Wells, curate in the sleepy village of Saltmarsh, likes to spend his time dancing in the study with the vicar's niece until one day the vicar's unpleasant wife discovers her unmarried housemaid is pregnant and trouble begins. It is left to Noel to call for the help of sometime-detective and full-time Freudian Mrs Bradley, who

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Asking For The Moon

Reginald Hill · 256 pages

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The Vault

Ruth Rendell · 269 pages

When four bodies are discovered in the same underground sewer 12 years after the events of A Sight for Sore Eyes, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail to the original murders only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy.

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Midnight Riot

Ben Aaronovitch · 310 pages

"As a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic"--P. [4] of cover.

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Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney

Emily Brightwell · 262 pages

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Grey Mask: A Miss Silver Mystery

Patricia Wentworth · 327 pages

Miss Silver series #1 After Charles was jilted at the altar by Margaret, he discovers that she is mixed up in a vicious kidnapping plot masterminded by a sinister figure in a grey mask. Charles turns to Miss Silver to uncover the strange truth behind Margaret's complicity, and the identity of the terrifying and mysterious individual behind the grey mask.

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The Word Is Murder

Anthony Horowitz

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Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Tales Featuring the World's Greatest Detective

Donald Thomas · 325 pages

Five original tales inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic character feature Holmes taking on such challenges as the famed siege of Sydney Street, a planned German invasion of America, and a supernatual curse.

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Her Royal Spyness

Rhys Bowen · 330 pages

INTRODUCING A FEISTY NEW HEROINE (JACQUELINE WINSPEAR) whos thirty-fourth in line for the throneand flat broke.From the Agatha Award-winning author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries!Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is flat broke. Shes bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed for London. The place where shell exper

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Cast, in Order of Disappearance

Simon Brett · 192 pages

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The Return of the Black Widowers

Isaac Asimov · 335 pages

The Acquisitive Chuckle - short story by Isaac Asimov Ph As in Phony - short story by Isaac Asimov Early Sunday Morning - short story by Isaac Asimov The Obvious Factor - short story by Isaac Asimov The Iron Gem - short story by Isaac Asimov To the Barest - short story by Isaac Asimov Sixty Million Trillion Combinations - short story by Isaac Asimov The Redhead - short story by Isaac Asimov

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Thus Was Adonis Murdered

Sarah Caudwell · 296 pages

The witty chronicles of a stable of young London barristers, narrated by their former tutor, an academic scholar of indeterminate gender. These stories are Bertie Wooster only with brains; Rumpole if he were young and good looking; Mary Poppins unencumbered with kiddies. You will laugh.

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The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

Lyndsay Faye · 360 pages

Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own wo

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