Classic crime and mystery fiction
Faber & Faber Mistletoe Malice
Book SynopsisA dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons.Literary comfort and joy. Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss The fire is on, sherry poured, presents wrapped, and claws are being sharpened. In a seaside cottage perched on a cliff, one family reunites for Christmas. While snow falls, a tyrannical widowed matriarch presides over her unruly brood. Her niece tends to her whims, but fantasizes about eloping; and as more guests arrive, each bringing their secret truths and dreams, the Christmas tree explodes, a brawl erupts, an escape occurs - and their midwinter madness climaxes...
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Faber & Faber Murder at Gulls Nest
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Faber & Faber Death Comes to Pemberley
Book Synopsis'A wonderful treat.' Melvyn Bragg'A sparkling curio that will appeal to both Janeites and Jamesites.' Daily TelegraphThe world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James.In their six years of marriage, Elizabeth and Darcy have forged a peaceful, happy life for their family at Pemberley, Darcy's impressive estate.But on the eve of their annual autumn ball, chaos descends. A chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth Bennet's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered.Plunged into frightening mystery and a lurid murder trial, the lives of Pemberley's owners and servants alike may never be the same . . .
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Faber & Faber Murder Takes a Vacation
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Penguin Putnam Inc Robert B. Parkers Payback
Book SynopsisIn her latest thrilling adventure, PI Sunny Randall takes on two serpentine cases that converge into one deadly mystery.PI Sunny Randall has often relied on the help of her best friend Spike in times of need. When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, Sunny has a chance to return the favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over - surely a guy that smarmy has a skeleton or two in his closet - and soon finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals. At the same time, Sunny's cop contact Lee Farrell asks her to intervene with his niece, a college student who reported being the victim of a crime but seems to know more than she's telling police. As the uncooperative young woman becomes outright hostile, Sunny runs up against a wall that she's only more determined to scale. Then, what appear to be two disparate cases are united by a common factor, and the picture bec
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Random House Publishing Group One Fatal Flaw
Book SynopsisTwo fiery deaths have young lawyer Daniel Pitt and his scientist friend Miriam fford Croft racing to solve a forensic crisis in this explosive new novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL When a desperate woman comes to Daniel Pitt seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man’s innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and of setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science can absolve him—and Miriam fford Croft is the best scientist he knows. Miriam connects Daniel with her former teacher Sir Barnabas Saltram, an expert in arson, and together, they reveal Adwell’s innocence by proving that an accidental fire caused the victim’s death. But it’s not long before Adwell is killed in the same fiery fashion. If these deaths are, in fact, murders, what essential clue could Dani
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Random House USA Inc A Darker Reality
Book SynopsisA personal trip turns perilous for Elena Standish after the murder of a British spy forces her to face dark family secrets in this exciting 1930s mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry.“An absorbing and calculating thriller/mystery that grabs the reader from the first page.”—Great Mysteries and ThrillersOn her first trip to Washington, D.C., Elena Standish finally gets to visit her American mother’s wealthy parents and their magnificent home. Elena’s grandparents are marking a milestone anniversary by throwing an elaborate party with the influential friends of her grandfather, a prominent political industrialist. Even President and First Lady Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are there, and Elena takes pride in capturing the illustrious guests on camera. But the festivities come to a sudden and tragic end when one of the guests, Lila Worth, is run over by a car in the driveway outside. Elena believes Lila was try
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Penguin Putnam Inc Something Whiskered
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Random House USA Inc A Killer in the Family
Book SynopsisA woman uploads her DNA online, searching for her father—but the man who contacts her is Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Sheens. From the acclaimed author of Little Sister, this endlessly twisty crime novel asks: What might a family do to protect or expose a serial killer in its midst?When the police found the first body, left on a bonfire in the forest, they worried it had the hallmarks of a serial killer.Now, as they find the second, they know for sure.Panic about the “Bonfire Killer” quickly spreads through the sedate suburban area of Southampton. Women are urged not to travel alone at night, and constant vigilance is encouraged among the local residents. But single mom Aisling Cooley has a lot to distract her: two beloved teenage sons and a quest to find her long-lost father, whom she hasn’t seen since she was a teenager.After much debate, she decides to upload her DNA to an ancestry website. When sh
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Random House USA Inc Rhode Island Red
Book SynopsisA New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year • The first book in the Nanette Hayes Mystery series introduces us to jazz-loving, street busker Nanette, whose love life leads her into some very hot water. Nan's day is not off to a good start. Her on-again, off-again relationship with Walter is off...again, and when she offers a fellow busker a place to stay for the night he ends up murdered on her kitchen floor. To make matters worse, the busker turns out to have been an undercover cop. And his former partner has taken an immediate and extreme dislike to Nan. When she finds that the dead man stashed a wad of cash in her apartment, cash that could go to help his blind girlfriend, Nan's desire to do the right thing lands her in trouble.Soon she's on the hunt for a legendary saxophone worth its weight in gold. But there are plenty of people who would kill for the priceless instrument, and Nan's new beau just might be one of them.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Robert B. Parkers Bye Bye Baby
Book SynopsisBoston PI Spenser takes on a new case in this installment in Robert B. Parker''s iconic New York Times bestselling series.Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, healthcare, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old-guard challenger, but also contending with numerous death threats coming from hundreds of suspects. When her chief of staff reaches out to Spenser for security and help finding the culprits of what he believes to be the most credible threats, Garcia-Ramirez is less than thrilled. Since her first grassroots run, she’s used to the antipathy and intimidation women of color often face when seeking power. To her, it’s all noise. But it turns out an FBI agent disagre
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Random House USA Inc Bryant May London Bridge Is Falling Down
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Random House USA Inc Three Debts Paid
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Random House Publishing Group The Fourth Enemy
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Penguin Random House LLC The Traitor Among Us
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Penguin Putnam Inc Robert B. Parkers Revenge Tour
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Random House USA Inc The Sweet Remnants of Summer
Book SynopsisThe latest Isabel Dalhousie novel finds our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry.When Isabel is invited to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, her husband, Jamie, expresses concern about the demands on her time. Never one to duck an obligation, however, Isabel says she’d be happy to join. There she meets a woman named Laura, whose husband—a prominent wine merchant from an illustrious family—and son are at odds. Laura asks whether Isabel might arbitrate between them. Isabel is reluctant to intervene in a familial drama but, always one for practical and courteous solutions to theoretical problems, she feels obligated to help. Will the demands on her moral attention never cease? Meanwhile, having criticized Isabel for getting involved in the affairs of others, Jamie does prec
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Random House USA Inc Nonna Maria and the Case of the Stolen Necklace
Book SynopsisNonna Maria, ?one of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created? (Tess Gerritsen), sets out to clear her goddaughter?s name and uncover the checkered past of an unidentifiable victim in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra.Nonna Maria has a lot on her plate?and it?s not just fresh pasta. Two crimes have rocked the sun-drenched island of Ischia, and once again the island?s denizens have called upon the espresso-brewing, sage-counsel-giving sleuth.A wealthy woman alleges that a valuable necklace has been stolen from her hotel room. She blames one of the young women working on the cleaning crew as the most likely suspect?a young woman who turns out to be Nonna Maria?s goddaughter. Loretta takes the heat, but privately she proclaims her innocence.Nearby, the body of a woman is found on a curved road near the borough of Barano. The woman is not known to anyone on the island. She has no purse, carries no identification. The one suspect is a young friend of Nonna Maria?s who drove by the area that very night and thinks that he might have hit something?a pothole, or an animal, or maybe the woman in question.It turns out that this woman had a decades-old history on Ischia, but why did she return, and more important, who killed her? It?s up to Nonna Maria to string together the clues?like the links of the beautiful missing necklace?and solve these two mysteries before death comes to Ischia again.
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Random House Publishing Group Nonna Maria and the Case of the Lost Treasure
Book SynopsisNonna Maria, “one of the most charming amateur sleuths ever created” (Tess Gerritsen), dodges assassins and hunts for hidden treasure in this transporting mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lorenzo Carcaterra.As Nonna Maria’s longtime pal and sometimes colleague, Captain Murino, in charge of the local carabinieri, never wanted to see harm brought to the doorstep of everyone’s favorite espresso-brewing, counsel-giving amateur sleuth. But when you live a long life, you’re bound to make a few enemies. And when those enemies come calling, you have to rely on friends. Faced with an assassin seeking revenge for a decades-old grudge, Captain Murino has no choice but to turn to Maria, who must use all her neighborly resources, clever faculties, and web of connections to save him from his perilous predicament. On the other side of the island, a second mystery begins to unfold at the deathbed of another of
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Penguin Putnam Inc Robert B. Parkers Broken Trust
Book SynopsisSpenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved series, and the first written by celebrated writer Mike Lupica.Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him on of the world’s richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain’s beautiful wife, Laura, comes to Spenser hoping that he can find out what skeletons lurk in her husband’s closet. Though Crain is a generous philanthropist and loving family man, she is concerned—he has recently become secretive, bordering on paranoid, and prone to violent outbursts. This is the opposite of the man she knew, and not only does his behavior put their marriage at risk, but also a lucrative company merger that would be life-changing for the Crains, their business partner, and everyone associated. Laura wants Spenser to find out what ha
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Penguin Putnam Inc Robert B. Parkers Broken Trust
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Random House USA Inc Princess Elizabeths Spy
Book SynopsisSusan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot—one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Spirited, strong-willed, and possessing one of the sharpest minds in government for mathematics and code-breaking, she fully expects to be sent abroad to gather intelligence for the British front. Instead, to her great disappointment, she is dispatched to go undercover at Windsor Castle, where she will tutor the young Princess Elizabeth in math. Yet castle life quickly proves more dangerous—and deadly—than Maggie ever expected. The upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disar
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Random House USA Inc Robert B. Parkers Broken Trust
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Penguin Young Readers The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Book SynopsisThis Signet Classics edition of Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd includes an exclusive Introduction by Ruth Ware.In the small English village of King’s Abbot, a widow’s suicide has stirred up dreadful rumors of blackmail and deception. Most shocking of all is the subsequent murder of her lover Roger Ackroyd, stabbed to death in his own study by an unknown assailant. There are suspects and motives aplenty, and rumors that his neighbor, the recently retired detective Hercule Poirot, doesn’t have a clue who did the dastardly deed....Setting up the traditional rules of mystery only to shatter them, Christie delivers her most famously shocking detective novel. As Dorothy L. Sayers said, “Christie fooled you [all]...”
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Random House USA Inc The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
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Random House USA Inc The Mystery of the Blue Train
Book SynopsisAgatha Christie’s beloved detective Hercule Poirot solves the murder of an American heiress by restaging her final journey by night train—with all of the suspects aboard.When the fabled Blue Train, the luxury overnight passenger express to the Riviera, arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to awaken Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But the wealthy American socialite will never wake again, for a brutal blow has killed her, disfiguring her almost beyond recognition. What is more, her famously valuable rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth’s estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, and so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey—with all of the suspected murderers aboard. A VINTAGE CLASSIC MYSTERY
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Seven Dials Mystery
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Penguin Putnam Inc Robert B. Parkers Hot Property
Book SynopsisSpenser investigates a case that hits dangerously close to home in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker?s beloved series.Spenser is waiting out the latest Boston snowstorm when he gets word that Rita Fiore has been shot. Rita?s always been a tricky one: flirting with Spenser for years, she?s an ever-present figure that transcends friendship in Spenser?s circle. But at the end of the day, Rita is family. And family will always be protected.Both a pit bull in the courtroom and provocateur outside it, Rita is no stranger to controversy. But as one of the city?s toughest lawyers, Spenser knows that there?s no short list of suspects who might want to enact revenge. With Rita?s life hanging in the balance, it?s up to him to get to the bottom of things, even if it means unearthing some unsavory secrets that might just lead him into an age-old game of lies and deceit.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Worlds Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay
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Penguin Publishing Group Death at the White Hart
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Clan Destine Press The Only One in the World A Sherlock Holmes
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Random House USA Inc Sherlock Holmes Everymans Library Childrens
Book SynopsisA collection of the stories in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the most famous amateur detective of all time. Includes such favorites as “The Red-Headed League,” “The Speckled Band,” and “The Adventure of the Dancing Men.”
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Scholastic Murder She Wrote 2 Carry My Secret to Your Grave
Book SynopsisA suspenseful, modern update of the classic mystery TV series that'sperfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying, Sadie, and Gossip Girl.
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British Library Publishing Excellent Intentions
Book SynopsisExcellent Intentions is a classic crime novel laced with irreverent wit, first published in 1939.
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British Library Publishing The Body in the Dumb River
Book SynopsisJim Teasdale has been drowned in the Dumb River, near Ely, miles from his Yorkshire home. His body has been discovered before the killer intended and it’s up to Superintendent Littlejohn to trace the mystery of the unassuming victim’s murder to its source, leaving scandal in his wake as the hidden dealings of Jim Teasdale begin to surface.
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British Library Publishing Somebody at the Door
Book Synopsis'The death was an odd one, it was true; but there was after all no very clear reason to assume it was anything but natural.' First published in 1943, Raymond Postgate's wartime murder mystery combines thrilling detection with rich characters and a fascinating depiction of life on the home front.
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British Library Publishing Surfeit of Suspects
Book SynopsisSuperintendent Littlejohn is summoned to Surrey to investigate murder by explosion in Bellairs’ novel of small-town grudges with calamitous consequences.
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British Library Publishing The Division Bell Mystery
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1932, this was the only mystery novel to be written by Ellen Wilkinson, one of the first women to be elected to Parliament. Wilkinson offers a unique insider's perspective of political scandal, replete with sharp satire.
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British Library Publishing Fire in the Thatch
Book SynopsisThe Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Little Thatch - a thatched cottage in the Devon countryside. When Little Thatch is destroyed in a blaze, all Vaughan's work goes up in smoke - and Inspector Macdonald is drafted in to uncover a motive for murder.
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British Library Publishing The Murder of My Aunt
Book SynopsisA darkly humorous depiction of fraught family ties, The Murder of My Aunt was first published in 1934.
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British Library Publishing The Measure of Malice
Book SynopsisThe detectives in this collection are masters of scientific deduction, whether they are identifying the perpetrator from a single scrap of fabric, or picking out the poison from a sinister line-up. The Measure of Malice collects tales of rational thinking to prove the power of the human brain over villainous deeds.
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British Library Publishing The Pocket Detective
Book SynopsisPolish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. There are over 100 criminally teasing challenges to be scrutinised, including word searches, anagrams, snapshot covers, and crosswords - a favourite puzzle of crime fiction's golden age.
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British Library Publishing Death in White Pyjamas
Book SynopsisTwo mysteries of the kind John Bude does best, with well-drawn and authentic period settings and a satisfying whodunit structure, following the traditional rules and style of the Golden Age of the genre.
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British Library Publishing Settling Scores
Book SynopsisTalented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of making a killing, and personal rivalries and jealousies come to a head on fields of play… The classic stories in this new British Library anthology show that crime is a game for all seasons.
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British Library Publishing Castle Skull
Book SynopsisEntreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the Inspector Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle find themselves at the imposing hilltop fortress Schloss Schadel, in which a killer lurks amongst a small group of suspects.
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British Library Publishing Death of a Bookseller
Book SynopsisThis adventurous mystery, which combines exuberant characters with a wonderfully realised depiction of the second-hand book market, is sure to delight bibliophiles and classic crime enthusiasts alike.
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British Library Publishing Tales of the Tattooed
Book SynopsisThe excruciating beauty, exoticism and mystery of tattoos is laid bare in this new collection of 12 stories ranging from the 1880s to the 1940s.
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British Library Publishing Crossed Skis
Book SynopsisIn London's Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues - clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and which lead Rivers to the piercing sunshine and sparkling snow of the Austrian Alps to crack the case.
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