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Death Wears a Mask

Ashley Weaver · 354 pages

Amory Ames is looking forward to a tranquil period of reconnecting with reformed playboy husband Milo after an unexpected reconciliation following the murderous events at the Brightwell Hotel. Amory hopes a quiet stay at their London flat will help mend their dysfunctional relationship. However, she soon finds herself drawn into another investigation when Serena Barrington asks her to look into th

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Murder at Hartigan House

Lee Strauss · 232 pages

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Murder Offstage

L.B. Hathaway · 265 pages

When Posie Parker's childhood friend is robbed of the priceless Maharajah diamond and becomes a suspect in a cold-blooded murder case, budding detective Posie vows she will clear his name. Aided by her seriously gorgeous assistant Len, Posie soon realizes things are not quite as they seem, and the darkly-glamorous world of London's theatre and glittering nightclubs prove far more dangerous than sh

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Elegy for Eddie

Jacqueline Winspear · 351 pages

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An Expert in Murder

Nicola Upson · 306 pages

A brilliant and original fiction debut set in the exotic world of 1930s British theatreMarch 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux. But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides with the murder of a young woman she had befriended on the train ride, and Tey quickly finds herself plunged into

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Dead Man's Chest

Kerry Greenwood

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Come Hell or Highball

Maia Chance · 320 pages

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Strong Spirits

Alice Duncan · 317 pages

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Murder Your Darlings

J.J. Murphy · 316 pages

When she stumbles over the dead body of drama critic Leland Mayflower and an aspiring writer named Billy Faulkner is accused of the murder, Dorothy Parker investigates with the aid of her fellow Algonquin Round Tablemates.

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The Problem at Two Tithes

Clara Benson · 260 pages

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Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder

Catriona McPherson · 287 pages

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The Haunting of Maddy Clare

Simone St. James · 431 pages

"In 1920s England, a young woman of limited means and even less experience confronts the ghost of a mysterious serving maid.... Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed by ghosts--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy

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The Red Door

Charles Todd · 344 pages

In post-World War I England, Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge faces a wall of silence as he attempts to bring a ruthless killer to justice for the bludgeoning death of a Lancashire woman and the murder of a man who never came home from the Great War.

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A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury

Kerry Greenwood, Beth Norling · 265 pages

The Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips and diamant garters - is the 1920's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This all-new collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany - including lists of Phryne's favourite designers, decadent cocktail recipes and other ephemera - is a gorgeously collectable, must-have treat for all Phryne fans. Lavi

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The House at Riverton

Kate Morton · 192 pages

Summer 1924. On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999. Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghost awaken and old me

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A Rising Man

Abir Mukherjee · 386 pages

Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police force. He is immediately overwhelmed by the heady vibrancy of the tropical city, but with barely a moment to acclimatize or to deal with the ghosts that still h

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Bitter Water

Gordon Ferris · 334 pages

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Tug of War

Barbara Cleverly · 288 pages

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The Reckoning

Rennie Airth · 358 pages

On a quiet afternoon in 1947, retired bank manager Oswald Gibson is shot in the head while fishing. In Scotland, a respectable family doctor is killed in the same manner—and with the same gun. What is the connection? Scotland Yard’s Detective Inspector Billy Styles and local detective Vic Chivers are baffled until a letter from Gibson is discovered that might shed some light on the case—a letter

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Mrs. Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen

Emily Brightwell · 272 pages

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Silent Murders

Mary Miley · 311 pages

"[Vaudeville actress turned Hollywood insider] Jessie's thrilled when Bruno Heilmann, a movie studio bigwig, invites her to a party. Shes even more delighted to run into a face from her past at that party. But the following day, Jessie learns that sometime in the wee hours of the morning both her old friend and Bruno Heilmann were brutally murdered. She's devastated, but with her skill as an actre

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