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The Boy's Book of the Sea

The Boy's Book of the Sea

Eric Wood | Mystery
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NOT the least remarkable of the changes which have taken place during the last hundred years—it is less than that, really—are those which have come to pass in the sphere of warfare; and the accounts of the battles here given show how different naval fighting is to-day from what it was in...

Jerry Todd and the Oak Island Treasure

Jerry Todd and the Oak Island Treasure

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...

Blotted Out

Blotted Out

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding | Mystery
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‘When James arrives in New York he doesn’t know a soul. But before he can leave the ship, he receives a message from an Amy Solway, claiming to be his cousin and asking for his help in posing as her new chauffeur. The first thing he discovers when he is ushered into the house is a dead body...

The Thing Beyond Reason

The Thing Beyond Reason

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding | Mystery
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A COMPLETE SHORT NOVEL—THE STORY OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT LED LEXY MORAN TO A HOUSEOF TRAGEDY AND MYSTERY IN THE SUBURBS OF NEW YORK

The Summer of 75

The Summer of 75

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...

The Summer of 66

The Summer of 66

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...

No Room for the Innocent

No Room for the Innocent

Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery
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The last of the Leveller Trilogy, the MIT’s DCI Thurstan Baddeley reluctantly recognises the return of an old adversary but as if that wasn’t enough, there's a complication to their equation, an encrypted clue, a puzzle that leads to personal and professional dilemmas for them both.

Ask the River

Ask the River

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...

The Road to Eden is Overgrown

The Road to Eden is Overgrown

Dan Wheatcroft | Mystery
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After losing his wife to cancer, Nicks tries to steadily drink himself to death and discovers it takes longer than he thought but then a mysterious encounter one evening sets his life on a completely unexpected path. Taking over his new desk at the Major Investigation Team, DCI Thurstan Baddeley...

The Amateur Inn

The Amateur Inn

Albert Payson Terhune | Mystery
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When Osmun Vail came back, at sixty-one, to the Berkshire farm that had been his father’s until the mortgage was foreclosed, he was worth something more than five million dollars. His life-battle had been fought and won. His tired soul yearned unspeakably for the peace and loveliness of the...