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41) Murder.com
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A not-so-anonymous victim sends Reuben Frost on a chase to catch a high-tech killer. The girl is found lying beside the East River, strangled. She's in her late twenties-so why was she carrying a fake ID? The case should have nothing to do with Reuben Frost, legendary retired Wall Street lawyer, but Frost has never been known to mind his own business. Not to mention, his wife, Cynthia, has been slowed down by arthritis, and his social calendar is...
42) Bone
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Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
In New York City, a homeless man with amnesia must unravel his past while a serial killer stalks the streets, in this taut thriller from the author of the Mongo Mysteries. When he wakes up he remembers nothing, not even his own name. He doesn't know why he's squatting in Central Park or why he carries the human femur that earned him the nickname "Bone." He has no idea what he's done over the past year wandering the streets of Manhattan-or what came...
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Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing that the cries for help are from the late Mrs. Turner, the former resident of the cottage, Jack hires a psychic investigator to spend a night in the house, a night which proves to have startling results ...
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Kept guessing to the end, I am left wondering why it has taken so long to discover Francis Duncan ... With some 20 crime novels to his credit, a relaunch seems long overdue -- Daily Mail A festive mystery for the holiday season: mulled wine, mince pies ... and murder When Mordecai Tremaine arrives at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame on Christmas Eve, he discovers that the revelries are in full swing in the sleepy village of Sherbroome--but...
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Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A former soldier who's been unwittingly living another man's life is given the chance to turn back the clock Anton Blum is the strongest man in Konigswald. But the German peasant is mute; he hasn't spoken a word since he was wounded in action nearly a decade earlier. On a stormy night, he is recruited by British officers to help remove a tree that has fallen across the road. A flash of lightning strikes, and Anton is struck in the head by a branch....
46) Beggar's Choice
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Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
In 1929, a down-on-his-luck Londoner gets swept up in a high-stakes game of deception and mystery Carthew "Car" Fairfax has just been rejected from an advertising job when he comes face-to-face with an ex-flame. Three years after breaking off their affair, Car still pines for the beautiful, elegant Isobel Tarrant. Following their chance meeting, a stranger slips a note into his hand, offering Car the opportunity to earn five hundred pounds. But...
47) Nothing Venture
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Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
A courageous heroine risks her life to save the man she loves Jervis Weare is in a predicament. According to Ambrose Weare's will, his grandson must marry within three months or the vast estate goes to his great-niece: Jervis's fiancée Rosamund Carew. But the deceiving society beauty has just dumped Jervis, which leaves him scrambling to find another bride. Nan Forsyth has secretly loved Jervis for ten years. He has no inkling that Nan once...
48) Mr. Zero
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Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A high society house party in the country sets the stage for blackmail, sabotage, illicit passion, and murder in this witty, classic British mystery with a touch of political intrigue The last thing London debutante Gay Hardwicke wants is to become involved in another one of her cousin's messy jams. But Lady Sylvia Colesborough is in over her head this time: She claims she's being blackmailed by the mysterious Mr. Zero. If she doesn't steal important...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Description
Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories. After Mr. St. Vincent's death, his family is plunged into poverty. Living in reduced circumstances, they are surprised to find an elegant townhouse -- with staff -- for a suspiciously cheap rent. Why would Lord Listerdale lend them his home for such a low price, and why are the servants so accommodating?
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Description
Previously published in the print anthology Star Over Bethlehem: Poems and Holiday Stories. Major Rodney Grierson and his wife, Janet, pray for a miracle cure for their son's disabilities until, one day, a strange creature appears in their garden. Where did the creature come from, and why has he chosen their child as his friend?
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Description
Previously published in the print anthology Star Over Bethlehem: Poems and Holiday Stories. It is New Year's Eve in the year 2000. In the dead of night, a drunken man, Jacob Narracott, sees a strange procession making its way down a hill from a church. There are fourteen people, among them a woman carrying a wheel and a man holding a gridiron. Narracott tells the local police constable about his sighting, feeling that he has seen them somewhere before...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
Description
Previously published in the print anthology Star Over Bethlehem: Poems and Holiday Stories. A boastful donkey refuses to behave or obey the orders of its masters. Having a mind of its own, it leaves whatever master it has and manages to wander through Judea. Sheltering inside a stable in Bethlehem, it witnesses the birth of Jesus, the shepherds, the three wise men, and the visitation of an angel.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Previously published in the print anthology Star Over Bethlehem: Poems and Holiday Stories. Two men arrive on an isolated island, having been told that the Queen of Heaven lives there. The locals send them to a croft where a woman named Mary lives with a man named John. However, when the strangers arrive at Mary's door, she tells them that no such Queen lives on the island ...
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Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
"Three women are caught in the grip of the past in this Southern gothic mystery from the beloved twentieth-century American author. There's nothing to stop Pock Myles, single and unattached, from traveling to Louisiana to comfort her recently widowed and pregnant sister, Rye. But this is no ordinary visit. Recently, there have been bizarre happenings at Larchwood, the vast estate where Rye's staying with their aunt. When Pock arrives, Rye takes her...
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
A blackmailing businessman turns up dead in this gripping mystery from the creator of the beloved Miss Silver Lucas Dale always gets what he wants. And this time he wants another man's fiancée: Susan Lenox. Never mind that she's engaged to Bill Carrick, an up-and-coming architect without a farthing to his name. Cathleen O'Hara, Dale's mousy social secretary, serves as the unwitting instrument of his plan, and a nasty blackmail scheme is set in...
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
'Tis the Season-for murder ... A colorful assortment of guests at a festive holiday house party discover there is a killer in their midst when their universally reviled host is found dead-in a room locked from the inside. For Inspector Hemingway of Scotland Yard, the investigation is complicated by the fact that every guest is hiding something-throwing all their testimony into question and casting suspicion far and wide. The clever and daring crime...
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A classic Golden Age mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station in the village of Dalmering, murder is the last thing on his mind. But he has never been able to resist anything in the way of a mystery-and a mystery is precisely what awaits him in the small hamlet. Rehearsals for the local amateur dramatic production are in full swing, but as Mordecai discovers too soon, the real...
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English
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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #20 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. This is a special All Sherlock Holmes Fiction issue! Here are:
Features:
From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.
Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson
Non Fiction:
Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman
Sherlock Holmes for Crown and Country, by Dan Andriacco
Fiction:
The Case of the Burnt Song,...
60) Devil's Play
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Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
A secret society's dark truths come to light when murder disrupts their circle in this riveting psychological mystery by the author of The Convent.
Four troubled students have come together as an unlikely group of friends after joining an underground society at university-based around the celebration and practices of New Satanism. It is run by a charismatic and beautiful sociopath named Dillon, who exerts a strange power over Eleanor, Hunter, Natalie,...
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