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Champagne for One

Rex Stout · 194 pages

Archie Goodwin sits in for a friend at a charity dinner dance for unwed mothers, and one of the guests drops dead on the dance floor. The young woman was depressed and known to carry poison - but Archie is sure that this was murder.

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Death on Deadline

Robert Goldsborough · 185 pages

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The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam

Chris Ewan · 240 pages

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Going Rogue

Robin Benway · 320 pages

When sixteen-year-old Maggie Silver's parents are falsely accused of stealing priceless gold coins, she must use her safecracking skills to try to clear their names, with help from the "new team" she has formed as an undercover operative in a New York City high school.

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Strangled Prose

Joan Hess · 187 pages

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Skin Game

Jim Butcher · 585 pages

Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help a hated enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, break into a high security vault to steal something belonging to the Lord of the Underworld.

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Die for Love

Elizabeth Peters · 322 pages

The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a gossip columnist seems anything but. And when she's a

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The Mile High Club

Kinky Friedman · 223 pages

Flirting with a woman on a plane lands New York private eye Kinky Friedman in the middle of an international terrorist plot holding a bright pink comsetic bag.

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For the Love of Mike

Rhys Bowen · 322 pages

Meeting resistance in her efforts to become a private detective in 1901 New York City, Molly Murphy works to track down the wayward daughter of an aristocratic family and goes undercover in the garment business to expose industrial espionage.

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A Dead and Stormy Night

Steffanie Holmes · 302 pages

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Ode to a Banker

Lindsey Davis · 384 pages

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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

Benjamin Stevenson · 320 pages

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The Hexologists

Josiah Bancroft · 318 pages

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The Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett · 197 pages

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.

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Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?

Lemony Snicket · 312 pages

Train Travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale! Can Lemony Snicket finally discover all the right answers? There was a town, and there was a train, and there was a murder. Apprentice investigator Lemony Snicket was on the train, and he thought that if he solved the murder he could save the town. He was almost thirteen and he was wrong. He was wrong about all of it. He should have asked the ques

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Sudden Death

David Rosenfelt · 323 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 Raphael Affair

Iain Pears · 191 pages

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The Game of Thirty

William Kotzwinkle, Joe Servello · 262 pages

A wealthy Madison Avenue antiquities dealer is murdered while playing a game the pharaohs once played - the Game of Thirty. Enter Jimmy McShane, hired to find the killed but instead McShane finds that the killer is playing the Game of Thirty with him, and all of Manhattan is the board on which they make their moves, from the upper reaches of New York society to the lower depths of life around Tim

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What's The Worst That Could Happen?

Donald E. Westlake · 373 pages

It started with a ring. A cheap ring. The yellow metal said brass, not gold, and the sparkly bits were certainly not diamonds. But the ring belonged to May's horse-playing uncle, who swore it brought good luck. Dortmunder, who wouldn't kick a little good luck out of bed, puts it to the test when he goes to burglarize Long Island billionaire Max Fairbanks. As luck would have it, Dortmunder is greet

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The Lies That Bind

Kate Carlisle · 288 pages

Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright returns home to San Francisco to teach a bookbinding class. Unfortunately, the program director Layla Fontaine is a horrendous host who pitches fits and lords over her subordinates. But when Layla is found shot dead, Brooklyn is bound and determined to investigate--even as the killer tries to close the book on her for good.

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Dead To Me

Anton Strout · 368 pages

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The Christmas Thief

Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark · 247 pages

Noël vous réserve sans doute des surprises. Mais pas forcément celles auxquelles vous vous attendiez... New York. Au pied du Rockefeller Center sur la 5e Avenue, on fête Noël en musique autour d'un immense sapin. Mais cette année, une mystérieuse disparition dans les forêts du Vermont risque de gâcher cette tradition. A moins qu'avant les douze coups de minuit, Regan Reilly et Alvirah Meehan ne dé

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