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The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam

Chris Ewan · 240 pages

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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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Sudden Death

David Rosenfelt · 323 pages

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Death on Deadline

Robert Goldsborough · 185 pages

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Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon

Donna Andrews · 314 pages

Operating the switchboard at the business office shared by her brother's computer-game company and six unusual therapists, Meg Langslow finds herself drawn into a mystery when the company's practical joker is murdered on top of a mail cart.

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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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Doom with a View

Victoria Laurie

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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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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 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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Live Wire

Harlan Coben · 384 pages

Is a pretty lie better than the ugly truth? Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, Deal Breaker, in 1995, introducing a hero that would captivate millions. Over the years we have watched Myron walk a tight rope between sports agent, friend, problem solver and private eye, his big heart quick to defend his client’s interests so fiercely that he can’t help but jump in to save th

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We Solve Murders

Richard Osman · 460 pages

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life in the New Forest. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he likes his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when he gets home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now. Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul: she doesn’t stay still long enough fo

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The Mortdecai Trilogy

Kyril Bonfiglioli · 528 pages

Les aventures aux quatre coins du monde de Charlie Mortdecai, un curieux marchand d'art entouré d'amis peu scrupuleux. Par chance, lorsqu'il est soupçonné dans des affaires de vol de tableau, de mariage par intérêt et d'assassinat de la reine d'Angleterre, cet aristocrate dégénéré et snob se sert de ses contacts avantageux au sein de la haute société londonienne pour sen tirer.

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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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Shoes To Die For

Laura Levine · 288 pages

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The Adventures of Stainless Steel Rat

Harry Harrison · 406 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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Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief

Benjamin Stevenson · 358 pages

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A Dead and Stormy Night

Steffanie Holmes · 302 pages

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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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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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Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 288 pages

Artemis Fowl is the first of a series of semi-realist novels produced by Eoin Colfer. They document the adventures of a precocious prodigal child of the criminal empire, Artemis Fowl. In this book, accompanied by his huge and loyal bodyguard/sidekick/advisor Butler, Artemis engages in a series of surreal activities; the absence of his missing father and the mental disorder of his mother allow him

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Deadly Cool

Gemma Halliday

When sixteen-year-old Hartley Featherstone finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her, she goes to his house to confront him and suddenly finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery.

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