"Once I'd been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray uniforms and nearly everyone locked up was innocent." Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down...
Private investigators
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Author:Mayor, ArcherSummary:In Archer Mayor's intriguing new Vermont-based mystery, The Orphan's Guilt, a straightforward traffic stop snowballs into a homicide investigation after Joe Gunther and his fellow investigators peel back layer upon layer of...
- Author:Ahnhem, StefanSummary:
Would you kill for the one you love? On a cold winter evening, the Swedish minister of justice disappears without a trace from the short walk between the house of Parliament and his car. At the same time the wife of a famous Danish TV-...
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Author:Summary:Sherlock Holmes came to NBC radio in 1930. In the mid-1940s, actor Tom Conway took over the role of Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Watson. This collection contains twelve Holmes adventures starring Conway and Bruce.
- Author:Burke, James LeeSummary:
Detective Robicheaux fishes a prostitute's corpse from a New Orleans bayou and finds that no one, not even the law, cares about a dead hooker.
- Author:Connolly, JohnSummary:
"One of the best thriller writers we have." -Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author. From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author of The Dirty South, the white-knuckled Charlie Parker series...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of Paris and a priceless cache of rubies becomes destined for his beloved daughter Rachel. Two days later Rachel is dead - murdered on a train on her way to the Riviera to meet her...
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Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
Hercule Poirot sets off to northern France to visit a friend, only to find the same friend stabbed to death and left in a fresh grave near the golf course. Now he must put his little grey cells to work to find a killer.
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. Mrs. Farrars is found dead of an apparent overdose one year after the death of her husband. The villagers of King's Abbot are suspicious. The rumour is...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug...
- Author:Griffiths, EllySummary:
The Brighton police force is on the hunt for another killer, but this time they have some competition-a newly formed all-women's private eye firm, led by none other than the police chief's wife. Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her...
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Author:Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySummary:The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories, including the adventures of The Silver Blaze, The Musgrave Ritual, and The Final Problem. This collection not only introduces the term "smoking gun", it also introduces...
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Author:Doyle, Arthur ConanSummary:'If I were assured of your eventual destruction I would, in the interests of the public, cheerfully accept my own.' In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective's notoriety as the arch-despoiler of the schemes concocted...
- Author:Jackson, LisaSummary:
Was hiding the identity of her child's father worth risking her life? Only Randi McCafferty seemed to believe so, and investigator Kurt Striker was hell-bent on changing her mind. Hired by her well-meaning but overbearing brothers to...
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Author:Berry, JedediahSummary:"This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka." --The New Yorker
Reminiscent of imaginative fiction from Jorge Luis Borges to Jasper Fforde yet dazzlingly original,...
- Author:Hallinan, TimothySummary:
Simeon Grist is drawn into the Asian underworld of Los Angeles when two children vanish in Chinatown and the parents refuse to inform police for fear that Vietnamese hit men will do them in.
- Author:Hammett, DashiellSummary:
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...
- Author:Millett, LarrySummary:
1917. In St. Paul, Minnesota, a financier is found dead in a secure location. Shadwell Rafferty is called in to investigate and sift through greedy tycoons, political intrigue, and wartime fearmongering.
- Author:Connolly, JohnSummary:
Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, he has been forced to seek work in a Portland bar. But he is using his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of...
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