Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter has seen enough suicides to know that a journalist as successful as Adam Streeter would never take his own life. Suspecting treachery, he digs into Adam's last story.
Detective and mystery fiction
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Volume 1 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry...
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Volume 2 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry...
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Volume 3 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry...
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International crime. Lushly depicted settings. Shady, interesting characters. And Orson Welles leading the pack as the amoral anti-hero. All of this and more makes The Lives of Harry Lime one of the richest, most intriguing programs...
- Author:Webb, BettySummary:
Zookeeper Theodora “Teddy” Bentley takes Alejandro, the Gunn Zoo llama, to a Monterey Bay-area Renaissance Faire only to discover the still-warm body of the Reverend Victor Emerson, owner of the local wedding chapel, dressed in his...
- Author:Shelton, PaigeSummary:
Bookseller Delaney Nichols befriends a Loch Ness monster enthusiast; when he stands accused of murder she'll do whatever it takes to learn who the killer is - and whether Nessie herself is really lurking in the Scottish waters....
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Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1909, the Modern English volume of The Lock and Key Library features classic mystery and detective stories by such luminaries as Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,...
- Author:Hawthorne, JulianSummary:
Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1907, the Old Time English volume of The Lock and Key Library features ten classic mysteries and ghost stories by Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas de Quincey,...
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- Author:Berney, LouisSummary:
In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City when six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery and a teenage girl vanished from the state fair. Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved...
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In classic British crime fiction, dazzling detective work is often the province of a brilliant amateur - whereas the humble police detective cuts a hapless figure. The twelve stories collected here strike a blow for the professionals,...
- Author:Penny, LouiseSummary:
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the SUretE du QuEbec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
When the ever ethical Isabel Dalhousie bumps into Minty Auchterlonie for the first time in years, she is skeptical (again) of Minty's integrity. But Minty mentions the bank where she works is having internal troubles, and Isabel must...
- Author:Kellerman, FayeSummary:
When a developmentally disabled man goes missing from a local diner, the disappearance becomes an official missing persons case and is assigned to detectives Peter Decker and his partner Tyler McAdams.
- Author:Morrill, StephanieSummary:
When her best friend vanishes without so much as a good-bye, eighteen-year-old Piper Sail takes on the role of amateur sleuth in an attempt to solve the mystery of Lydia's disappearance. Given that Piper's tendency has always...
- Author:Jenoff, PamSummary:
1946, Manhattan. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she...
- Author:Harper, JaneSummary:
He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. Whatever had been going through Cameron's mind when he was alive, he didn't look peaceful in death. Two brothers meet at the remote...
- Author:Medieval MurderersSummary:
This fourth collaboration between six of Britain's finest mystery authors follows the Black Book of Brân through the centuries. In 574, an infant and a book of prophesies wash ashore in Ireland. From that point forward, the book has a...
- Author:Kuhlken, KenSummary:
The Loud Adios is set on the home front during World War II. Tom Hickey is in the army, an M.P. working the Tijuana-San Diego border, when a farm boy draftee about to ship overseas begs for help rescuing his sister from a gang of German...
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