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When in Rome

When in Rome

A British tour group in Italy finds murder is an obstacle to their sightseeing: “Fastidious writing [and] a fine appreciation of place.” —Sunday Times A group of well-to-do tourists is visiting Italy’s magnificent churches, but they’ve found themselves stumbling into...

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Murder in Covent Garden

Murder in Covent Garden

The BRAND NEW gripping cozy mystery from Anita DavisonNobody should be in the market… for murder!Even though its famous opera house has shuttered its doors for the war, Covent Garden remains one of the most exciting, bustling areas of London. It’s where Hannah Merrill...

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Blood on the Tracks

Blood on the Tracks

Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction."This is the perfect volume for fans of short, high-quality,...

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Killed at the Whim of a Hat

Killed at the Whim of a Hat

The launch of a brand new series by the internationally bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Coroner's Lunch With worldwide critical acclaim, Colin Cotterill is one of the most highly regarded "cult favorite" crime writers today. Now, with this new series,...

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The Floating Admiral

The Floating Admiral

It’s “great fun” when a baker’s dozen of Golden Age authors collaborate on a whodunit—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton (The Guardian).   Originally published in 1931, The Floating Admiral is a classic literary collaboration by members...

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Death in the Spires

Death in the Spires

The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby died. Was killed. Murdered.1905. A decade after the grisly murder of Oxford student Toby Feynsham, the case remains hauntingly unsolved. For Jeremy Kite, the crime not...

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Death and Letters

Death and Letters

A crossword puzzle leads a 1950s antiquarian book dealer to a puzzling family in this mystery by Agatha Christie’s favorite author. Amateur detective Henry Gamadge is summoned to a secluded estate by way of a crossword puzzle, the only means of communication for a...

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The Brothers of Glastonbury

The Brothers of Glastonbury

A traveling peddler searches for two missing brothers in medieval England in this colorful historical mystery.“Roger the Chapman, an itinerant peddler of uncommon insight and intelligence, returns to solve another spine-tingling medieval mystery cloaked in greed,...

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Mystery in Provence

Mystery in Provence

Figure out whodunnit in this exciting new 1930s crime series that whisks you away to the most gorgeous escapist destinations!A beautiful French estateA weddingA murderAnd a novice detective intent on solving her first case!Fresh from teaching at her prestigious Swiss...

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Murder at the Manor

Murder at the Manor

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"[T]he entire book is filled with country-house-mystery wonders: the closed-circle puzzle, the dying-message clue, and the sociopathic guest who invades the weekend house party." —BooklistThe English country...

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Hand in Glove

Hand in Glove

A deadly dull man is now just plain dead in this novel by “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews One has to admit that the timing was peculiar. No one could doubt that Mr. Percival Pyke Period was genuinely...

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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

“The special qualities of Dorothy Sayers’ writing are seen here at their best” as Lord Peter battles to solve the murder of a war hero (Saturday Review). Even the Bellona Club’s most devoted members would never call it lively. Its atmosphere is that of a morgue—or, at...

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A Dangerous Game

A Dangerous Game

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in 1950s London.‘A gripping story of revenge, guilt and redemption, sweetened by love.’ Daisy Wood, author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris‘A truly brilliant read—I couldn’t put it...

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Murder as a Fine Art

Murder as a Fine Art

A writer in Victorian London turns detective to clear his own name in this historical mystery series debut by a New York Times–bestselling author.Winner of the Macavity and Nero AwardsALA Reading List Award for Best Mystery“A masterpiece . . .a fantastic historical...

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The Plot

The Plot

A thrilling historical novel of an assassination plot, conspiracy and divided loyalties in seventeenth century England.London 1678.Charles II is likely to die without a legitimate heir. His Catholic brother, James, is next in line to the throne. Across the country,...

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Owls Don’t Blink

Owls Don’t Blink

An odd couple of detectives descends on New Orleans to search for a missing heiress in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason.   Bertha Cool is a bulldog of a woman with an attitude to match. Donald Lam is a handsome ex-lawyer who makes up for in...

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The Secret Detective Agency

The Secret Detective Agency

Meet Miss Jane Treen – the coffee-drinking cat lover dressed head to toe in tweed, who just happens to be a secret super sleuth!London, 1941: Miss Jane Treen is at her desk, strong black coffee in hand and fluffy ginger cat by her side, when her top-secret government...

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Calamity at Harwood

Calamity at Harwood

To solve a murder case, Thomas Littlejohn contends with ghosts, Nazis, and crooked real estate speculators Known across London as one of the premier slumlords of the East End, Solomon Burt has never fallen in love with a property the way he has with Harwood, a faded...

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The Man Who Could Not Shudder

The Man Who Could Not Shudder

Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr’s stylish, baffling mystery novel The house is called Longwood, and its history is wet with blood. It...

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Murder, My Dear Watson

Murder, My Dear Watson

The editors of Murder in Baker Street return with a second anthology of all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and essays.First appearing more than a century ago in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes remains the world's most famous literary detective. Now...

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Murder at the Spring Ball

Murder at the Spring Ball

A little music, a little dancing, a little murder at the spring ball.England, 1925. After years shut away from the world, former detective Lord Edgington of Cranley Hall plans a grand ball to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday.But when someone starts bumping off...

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Tragedy on the Line

Tragedy on the Line

A body on the tracks and a pair of missing wills have Dr. Priestley puzzled . . .   Gervase Wickenden’s estate is close to a railroad line—and that’s where his mangled body is found after an unfortunate meeting with a train. The timing is a bit odd though, considering...

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The Fashion in Shrouds

The Fashion in Shrouds

A custom-made killer shocks the fashionable London set in “one of the finest murder books ever written” featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (The New Yorker).   Albert Campion’s sister is a success in her own right. A top fashion designer, she works for a...

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Cassie Pengear Mysteries (Books 1–3)

Cassie Pengear Mysteries (Books 1–3)

The first three Cassie Pengear Mysteries in one volume.Killing at the Carnival- Cassie Pengear thought a visit to the carnival would be fun: see some shows, eat some sweets, help her landlady’s nephew decide if the cowboy was real or an actor. But then the cowboy shot...

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The Innocent Flower

The Innocent Flower

MacDougal Duff falls in with a strange family—and senses murderA sudden cloudburst forces MacDougal Duff to stop his car in front of the home of Mary Moriarty. The history professor turned detective is reclining in his seat, waiting out the torrential rainstorm, when...

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In the Silence of Decay

In the Silence of Decay

2024 IPPY Gold Medal Winner, Best Regional Fiction: West Mountain2024 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Category Finalist Mystery/Crime2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist: Crime FictionNew Mexico, 1979: After a career in the military as a CID detective, all James...

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Death in the Crypt

Death in the Crypt

The Honourable Cressida Fawcett is expecting the cathedral crypt to be full of dry old bones. But when she finds a body murdered just moments before, she’ll need divine inspiration to solve her most mysterious case yet… Winchester, 1925. When heiress and amateur...

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Have His Carcase

Have His Carcase

Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane investigate a dead body on the beach in this “nearly perfect detective story” by the author of Busman’s Honeymoon (Saturday Review). Harriet Vane has gone on vacation to forget her recent murder trial and, more importantly, to forget...

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The Bookseller of Inverness

The Bookseller of Inverness

A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN.'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMESAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed,...

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North Sea Requiem

North Sea Requiem

The fourth gripping, evocative, and lyrical mystery in the acclaimed series that brilliantly evokes the Scottish Highlands of the 1950s. When a small-town Scottish woman discovers a severed leg in the boot of one of the local hockey players’ uniforms, it’s a big scoop...

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Murder in Mayfair

Murder in Mayfair

‘MY FAVOURITE BOOK… Unputdownable… Had me hooked immediately… Absolutely perfect… I devoured it in one sitting as I just could not put it down… Gorgeous… Amazing… Fantastic… Absolutely loved… Hooked throughout.’ bookwormwhitlock86, ??????????Tea and cake at The Ritz,...

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The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

A lawyer is sucked into a couple’s hostile divorce in this mystery with “a stellar ending” from the original detective series that inspired the HBO show (Kirkus Reviews).   Edward Garvin is a very successful businessman with a very unhappy ex-wife—who wants his money....

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Finding Kait

Finding Kait

What happens when you break all the rules? Kait De Lucca is the wife of a rich and influential businessman and has everything she could ever wish for. Except true love. And freedom. When her best friend dies and Kait is beyond devastated. She’s spent her whole life...

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Finding Kait

Finding Kait

What happens when you break all the rules? Kait De Lucca is the wife of a rich and influential businessman and has everything she could ever wish for. Except true love. And freedom. When her best friend dies and Kait is beyond devastated. She’s spent her whole life...

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The Londinium Mysteries (Complete Collection)

The Londinium Mysteries (Complete Collection)

DISCOVER THIS COMPLETE GRIPPING, ACTION-PACKED HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.GET THREE BOOKS IN ONE GREAT-VALUE BOX SET!Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Peter Gibbons, Simon Scarrow, Conn Iggulden and Damion Hunter.LONDINIUM, 1ST CENTURY AD....

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