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The Great Hotel Robbery
At 4:04 A.M., Friday, May 29, 1981, three tuxedo-clad men and a uniformed chauffeur emerge from a limousine at the side entrance of New York's famed Hotel Champs-Elysees, carry expensive luggage into the lobby, and calmly pull off the biggest hotel robbery in American history.
Over the next two hours and thirty-three minutes, they handcuff, gag, and blindfold twenty-three employees,…
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Cleek, the man of the forty faces
Meet Hamilton Cleek – man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do.
Cleek’s exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but the book is enormous fun. The goodies are good and the baddies are very bad indeed, but beware – things are not always what they seem. Suspend your disbelief and enjoy a rattling good yarn!
Cleek is the central figure in dozens of short stories that…
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The King of Diamonds
David Swain has spent two years of his life sentence for murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend, Katya Osman. On the night he escapes from prison, Katya is found murdered in her uncle's home. Inspector Trave heads the manhunt for David, but his personal life becomes entangled in case because his ex-wife his having an affair with Katya's uncle.
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The Angel of Terror
The Angel of Terror aka The Destroying Angel Jack Glover of Rennet, Glover and Simpson does not believe his cousin Meredith killed Bulford. Meredith's father was an eccentric and unless Meredith is married by the age of thirty his sister inherits everything. She is dead and Meredith, now in prison, is thirty next Monday. Meanwhile Lydia Beale is struggling to pay her dead father's creditors. When…
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Murder on the Mediterranean
Even on a well-deserved Mediterranean cruise, murder follows Commissair Capucine Le Tellier.
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Dangerous behavior
SOME COUPLES
Just one look, and it's clear they're perfect together. It's in the way they touch, talk, and kiss. They share the same interests. The same twisted passions. They do everything together. Even kill…
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Julia St. James Ford has washed up on a beach near her home in Seaside, Oregon, with no memory of how she got there or how her husband, Joe, died. The police rule the…
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The Body in the Truck
Based on a true incident, this book takes us through the minds of the good guys and bad guys, from cops to teens to a three-year-old; even a dog chips in to help solve the strange murder.
Some violence, but nothing a sophisticated middle-schooler couldn't handle, with language at the same level, but the story is not watered down -- adults will be intrigued.
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Compound Murder A Dan Rhodes Mystery
"In Compound Murder, award-winning Bill Crider invites mystery fans on a new adventure with Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes. Before classes start one morning, the body of English instructor Earl Wellington is found outside the building of the community college campus in Clearview. Wellington was clearly involved in a struggle with someone and has died as a result. Sheriff Dan Rhodes pursues and arrests…
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DEVILLIERS COUNTY BLUES
Following the tragic death of his girlfriend, the protagonist returns from North Africa heartbroken and restless. He takes to the road but outside of Wheeling, West Virginia is knocked unconscious and kidnapped, awakening days later to find himself in a Texas insane asylum, charged with murder of a police officer.
DeVilliers County Blues is the story of four very different young people, all…
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She's Leaving Home
London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio.
The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an…
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A Stranger in Mayfair
A Stranger in Mayfair
In Charles Finch's A Stranger in Mayfair, the next enthralling installment in the Charles Lenox Mysteries, detective Lenox tries to resist the lure of a case and focus on his new career in Parliament. Returning from a continental honeymoon with his new wife, Lady Jane, Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His…
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Find The Lady
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Done in one
"One bullet equals one kill. For SWAT sniper Jake Denton, the bullet casings he saves as grim reminders of his "kills" are beginning to add up. His wife, his department-ordered psychiatrist, and even Jake himself are all beginning to question just how these sanctioned kills are affecting his mental health. Nobody wants him to end up like Lee Staley, his mentor and ex-partner--now out on permanent…
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Goodnight Nobody
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The cask
A strange container is found on the London docks, and its contents point to murder
The cask from Paris is bigger than the rest, its sides reinforced to hold the extraordinary weight within. As the longshoremen are bringing it onto the London docks, the cask slips, cracks, and spills some of its treasure: a wealth of gold sovereigns. As the workmen cram the spilled gold into their pockets, an…
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The hanging
"One morning before school, two children find the naked bodies of five men hanging from the gym ceiling. The case leads detective Konrad Simonsen and his murder squad to the school janitor, who may know more about the killings than he is telling. Soon, Simonsen realizes that each of the five murdered men had a dark and terrible secret in common. And when Simonsen's own daughter is targeted, he…
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Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night
Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night
Lock the doors. Draw the shades. Pull up the covers and be prepared for Thriller to keep you up all night!Featuring North America’s foremost thriller authors, Thriller was the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published. Revisit these heart-pumping tales of suspense, including thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature…
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Murder at Hambledon Hall
Murder at Hambledon Hall
The genteel tranquility of a country house party is shattered when the gamekeeper is shot. Was his death the result of his recent indiscretions, or long-buried secrets?
 
The weekend was supposed to be an enjoyable time with her family at the neo-Gothic manor of Lord and Lady Kershaw, but when the gamekeeper is murdered, Cleo can’t rest until the killer is caught. As a witness herself, she’s…
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