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The Big Sleep
DescriptionWhen a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe locates himself involved together with extra than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

"Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the ...
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ManufacturerVintage
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   General   20th Century   Classics   Paperback   Hard-Boiled   Historical   Printed Books   Chandler, Raymond  
Maisie Dobbs
Description Hailed by NPR’s Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths.

Maisie Dobbs isn’t just any young housemaid. Throughout her own ...

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ManufacturerPenguin Books
Categories Historical   Women Sleuths   General   Paperback   Printed Books   All product   Books  
The Beekeeper's Apprentice: Or On the Segregation of the Queen/A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Mary Russell Novels)
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An Agatha Prize Excellent Novel Nominee
 
Named One of the Century's Excellent 100 Mysteries by the Independent
 
Mystery Booksellers Association
 
From New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book this introduced us to the ...
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ManufacturerPicador
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Historical   Contemporary   General   King, Laurie   British Detectives   Sherlock Holmes   Women Sleuths   Paperback   Printed Books  
Sea Change (Jesse Stone Novels)
DescriptionParadise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone faces the case of his career in the newest novel in the bestselling series.

When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far extra difficult than it initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the ...
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ManufacturerThorndike Press
Categories Literature & Fiction   Mystery & Thrillers   All Deals   General   Hardcover   Large Print   Historical   Printed Books   Parker, Robert B.  
Lord John and the Private Matter
DescriptionAdored bestselling author Diana Gabaldon delivers us the first book in a new trilogy featuring many of the characters from her wildly popular Outlander series.

In her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon introduced millions of readers to a dazzling world of history and adventure -- a world of vibrant environments and ...
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ManufacturerDelacorte Press
Categories Historical   Contemporary   General   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Crocodile on the Sandbank
DescriptionThirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is in addition blessed together with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl together with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she recognize this murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her. ...
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ManufacturerBlackstone Audiobooks
Categories Peters, Elizabeth   General   Unabridged   Mystery   Historical   Series   Women Sleuths   Books on Cassette  
My Name Is Red
DescriptionFrom one of the much important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel—part murder mystery, part love story—set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.

When the Sultan commissions a excellent book to celebrate his royal self and his widespread dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble a ...
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ManufacturerKnopf
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Turkey   Contemporary   Literary   General   Historical   Hardcover   Printed Books  
A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
DescriptionBenjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic customers. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family--until he is asked to investigate his father's sudden death. Like so Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, ...
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ManufacturerBallantine Books
Categories Historical   General   Suspense   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Alienist
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The year is 1896, the situate, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a ...
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ManufacturerBantam
Categories Carr, Caleb   General   Historical   Psychological & Suspense   Suspense   Mass Market   Printed Books  
Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Novels)
Description
 
Sue Feder/Macavity Prize for Excellent Historical Mystery Prize Nominee
 
London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed Mayfair gallery, Nicholas Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police declare it an accident, but the dead man's twin ...
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ManufacturerPicador
Categories Contemporary   General   Historical   Women Sleuths   Paperback   Printed Books  
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