The Maltese Falcon is the definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre. It introduces legendary PI Sam Spade, a loner who follows his own code and the rules of the street as he zeros in on his partner's killer and the...
Detective and mystery stories
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Author:Hammett, DashiellSummary: - Author:Summary:
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,...
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Author:Speed, AndreaSummary:Jake Falconer, a hard-boiled detective in Echo City, is struggling with his love of booze, a square ex (and a cop, no less) he can't get over and a murdered partner. In sashays Sloane, an homme fatal whose twin brother has gone missing...
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Author:Zindel, PaulSummary:"A scientist at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park turns up dead. and P.C. and Mackenzie are sure its no accident ..."
- Author:HUME, FergusSummary:
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case.
- Author:WALTERS, MinetteSummary:
The discovery of a rotting, unidentifiable corpse in the ice house adjoing Phoebe Maybury's ancestral home marks the start of a harrowing murder investigation for the three women living there.
- Author:Johnson, CraigSummary:
Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear embark on their latest adventure in this novella set in the world of Craig Johnson's New York Times bestselling Longmire series-the basis for the hit drama Longmire, now on Netflix. When...
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Author:Smith, BradSummary:When a deranged loner kills twenty-six people in a Pennsylvania schoolyard, the country is stunned and devastated. Among those catatonic with grief is Jo Matheson, an organic farmer who has lost her goddaughter in the shooting. Sam...
- Author:Thompson, LisaSummary:
Lisa Thompson's debut novel is a page-turning mystery with an emotionally-driven, complex character study at its core -- like Rear Window meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Matthew Corbin suffers from severe...
- Author:Simons, PaullinaSummary:
Lily Quinn is a 24-year-old university student, broke, and looking for love in all the wrong places. She will not be graduating along with her fellow schoolmates, as she continues to aimlessley wonder through life. Then she wins the...
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Author:Zindel, PaulSummary:When P.C. and Mackenzie are invited to join Mac's dad on a business trip in Monaco, they are thrilled. But their luxurious vacation is cut short when a serial killer thought to be long retire suddenly strikes again ... in their hotel!...
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Author:Kroll, BobSummary:A dark and suspenseful debut. Detective T.J. Peterson has a problem, and it's not just how much he's drinking or the daily, silent, tormenting video calls from his estranged daughter. A Catholic priest has been bludgeoned to death in...
- Author:Sheldon, SidneySummary:
Navy Commander Bellamy is assigned to investigate the crash of a weather balloon in the Swiss Alps. However, for him it is also the beginning of a journey of terror into the incomprehensible.
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Author:Munday, EvanSummary:Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town, short on friends, and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher. Naturally, she spends most of her time in the Sticksville Cemetery, which just happens to border her backyard...
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Author:WALTERS, MinetteSummary:The newspapers reported the case with relish. Jane(Jinx) Kingsley, fashion and heiress, tried to kill herself after being jilted by her fianc
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Author:Whittle, TinaSummary:Tai Randolph thinks inheriting a Confederate-themed gun shop is her biggest headache, until she finds a murdered corpse in her brother’s driveway. Even worse, her supposedly respectable brother begins behaving in decidedly non-innocent...
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Author:Haddon, MarkSummary:Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
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Author:Ace, CathySummary:It's Cait and Bud's wedding weekend and for the first time she feels like a bride—or at least, she's supposed to. But then the rain won't quit, the supposedly romantic Welsh castle feels creepy, and there's a dead body on the stairs....
- Author:Fisher, RudolphSummary:
An African king with a degree from Harvard who set himself up as a "conjure-man", a fortune teller, is murdered in 1930s Harlem. This is the first known mystery novel written by an African American.
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Author:Keene, CarolynSummary:Nancy and her friends witness an explosion and the burning of a beautiful country mansion. Fearing its occupants may be trapped in the blazing building, they rush to the rescue and unexpectedly find themselves confronted with a mystery...
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