Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery
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Almost a decade after finding himself working for a shadowy Government department, ex-Detective John Gallagher is sent on a task that will become his most testing yet. Armed only with a two inch revolver, 12 bullets, some cryptic clues and a sense of humour, his mission is to assist a high ranking East German foreign intelligence operative to...
Katelyn Emilia Novak | Mystery
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The Magic Ring of Brodgar follows young and successful Megan McKenzie as she travels to northern Scotland to claim her inheritance, an ancestral castle. Finding herself in brand new world and community, she makes loyal friends and terrible enemies, as she learns about the histories of this ancient land. Falling in love with Derek, a highlander...
A. E. W. Mason | Mystery
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In The House of the Arrow we once again meet French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Hanaud is called in to investigate when the wealthy widow Mrs. Harlowe dies suddenly and her heiress, Betty Harlowe, is accused of murder.
Nicholas Carter | Mystery
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Nick Carter stands for an interesting detective story. The fact that the books in this line are so uniformly good is entirely due to the work of a specialist. The man who wrote these stories produced no other type of fiction. His mind was concentrated upon the creation of new plots and situations in which his hero emerged triumphantly from all...
Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery
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In what could be considered a prequel to the Leveller Trilogy, Special Branch Detective Constable John Gallagher is seconded to a British Home Office Statistical Unit for what he considers a minor violation of trust. He's not well pleased; he knows nothing of statistics and had been hoping for a much less boring end to his year. The summer of...
Frank V. Webster | Mystery
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The apartment was a small front one, and contained two sewing machines, and, from the cloth, patterns, needles and thread scattered about, it did not need a sign to tell that dressmaking was conducted in it.
Gordon Warden | Mystery
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Unfaithful husbands are being murdered in an unusual fashion. Clues are deliberately being left at the scene. Why? - Does the killer want to be discovered, or are they just taunting the police?Harry Black must find out quickly, but in the process, he has to contend with a zealous new boss and gets thrown into a situation where he nearly loses his...
Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery
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With death taking a break, DCI Thurstan Baddeley, with nothing to do and too much time to do it in, agrees to delve into a 'something or nothing' job for one of his team. What seemed like a good idea at the time is gradually shoved on the back burner as 'normality' returns to the streets of Liverpool and the jobs start to stack up but it's not...
Leo Edwards | Mystery
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What you will particularly like about this book, I believe, is our money-making canal-boat show. We fixed up Dad’s old clay scow swell, with a stage and audience seats and everything. We even had a sort of “orchestra.” Oh, boy! The way that old merry-go-round hand organ gurgled out its tunes when we twisted its tail! And the fun we had!
John Oakley and Nancy Oakley | Mystery
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I became mixed up with the Clevedon case—the Cartordale Mystery, as it has been called—in curious fashion. True, it was to some extent in my line of business, though I do not actually earn my living by straightening out tangles. With me it is all a matter of “copy.”
