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The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

Author : Otto Penzler

Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Page : 674 pages

File Size : 21,15 MB

Release : 2013-10-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0345802985

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The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories—from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy, to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain. • “Anyone who cares about the best mystery writing of the past century and beyond would be lucky to receive this thick volume during the holidays." —The Washington Post This collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant. Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark, Isaac Asimov, and Ngaio Marsh; uncanny tales in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry-like stories by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing, stories by pulp icons John D. MacDonald and Damon Runyon; comic gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and many, many more. Almost any kind of mystery you’re in the mood for--suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, private eye, or police procedural—can be found in these pages. FEATURING: - Unscrupulous Santas - Crimes of Christmases Past and Present - Festive felonies - Deadly puddings - Misdemeanors under the mistletoe - Christmas cases for classic characters including Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Inspector Ghote, A.J. Raffles, and Nero Wolfe.



Grey Mask

Author : Patricia Wentworth

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 367 pages

File Size : 25,71 MB

Release : 2011-06-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1453223622

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Governess-turned-detective Miss Silver investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, the hardy young man returns to the manor of his birth, where generations of Morays have lived and died. Strangely, he finds the house unlocked, and sees a light on in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping, he learns of a conspiracy to commit a fearsome crime. Never one for the heroic, Charles’s first instinct is to let the police settle it. But then he hears her voice. Margaret, his long lost love, is part of the gang. To unravel their diabolical plot, he contacts Miss Maud Silver, a onetime governess who applies reason to solve crimes and face the dangers of London’s underworld.



Tea & Sympathy

Author : J New

Publisher :

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 38,81 MB

Release : 2021-07-31

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ISBN :

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FIRST IN THE TEA & SYMPATHY SERIES!Meet Lilly Tweed. Former Agony Aunt. Purveyor of Fine Teas. Accidental Sleuth. When Lilly Tweed former agony aunt with the local newspaper is made redundant, she takes the opportunity to pursue a lifelong ambition, to open The Tea Emporium in the small market town of Plumpton Mallet. But with her replacement making a hash of the column, it's not long before she is once again being sought for valuable advice. When the body of a local woman is found drowned in the river, the contents of her pockets reveal a letter from Lilly and she's unwillingly drawn into the case. But is it just a tragic accident, as the police think? Lilly isn't convinced, but pursuing her own inquiry means it isn't long before she gets into hot water.





Fletch

Author : Gregory Mcdonald

Publisher : Blackstone Publishing

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 42,48 MB

Release : 2018-08-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 153854251X

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Book one in the bestselling mystery series that brought to life an iconic literary antihero of subversion and schemes Fletch, investigative reporter extraordinaire, can’t be bothered with deadlines or expense-account budgets when it comes to getting his story. Working undercover at the beach to dig up a drug-trafficking scheme for his next blockbuster piece, Fletch is invited into a much deeper narrative. Alan Stanwyk, CEO of Collins Aviation and all-around family man, mistakes the reporter for a strung-out vagabond and asks him for a favor: kill him and escape to Brazil with $50,000. Intrigued, Fletch can’t help but dig into this suspicious deal he’s being offered. Dodging the shady beach police as his case begins to break open, and with his temperamental editor Clara pushing for his article, he soon discovers that Stanwyk has a lot to hide and this plan is anything but what it seems.



The Best of Nancy Drew Classic Collection

Author : Carolyn Keene

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 10,92 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Detective and mystery stories

ISBN : 9780448440804

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Each volume presents three adventures of Nancy Drew and her friends.



Never Let Me Go

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro

Publisher : Vintage Canada

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 34,24 MB

Release : 2009-03-19

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307371336

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic from the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun—“a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist. “Brilliantly executed.” —Margaret Atwood “A page-turner and a heartbreaker.” —TIME “Masterly.” —Sunday Times As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.





Gore Vidal

Author : S. T. Joshi

Publisher : Scarecrow Press

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 15,8 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780810860018

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This comprehensive bibliography of Gore Vidal charts his career and covers the span of his sixty years of writing-from his first novel, Williwaw, to his 2006 memoir Point to Point Navigation.



The Book of the New Sun

Author : Gene Wolfe

Publisher : Gollancz

Page : 608 pages

File Size : 18,52 MB

Release : 2015-03-12

Category : Fantasy fiction, American

ISBN : 9781473211971

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An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make his way across the perilous, ruined landscape of this far-future Urth. But is his finding of the mystical gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, merely an accident, or does Fate have a grander plans for Severian the torturer . . . ? This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator.