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The Angel of Terror Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 3.6 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 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… Shares Crime, Thriller
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Running blind Desmond Bagley · 1970 · ★ 3.7 · 231p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "It'll be simple", they said at the Department. "You'll just be a messenger boy". But to Alan Stewart, on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. Someone very ruthless is after the innocent-looking parcel he carries, and Kenniken, a Russian agent with the best of reasons for hating him, has followed him to Iceland. Shares Adventure, Thriller
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The tightrope men Desmond Bagley · 1973 · ★ 3.8 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Giles Denison's life is turned upside down when he awakes to find himself in a luxurious hotel in Oslo and, peering into the bathroom mirror, discovers the face of another man! He has been kidnapped from his flat in London and transformed into famous Finnish scientist, Dr Harold Feltham Meyrick. Compelled to adjust to his new persona (including meeting his daughter) and to play out the role… Shares Adventure, Thriller
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The Man Who Knew Edgar Wallace · 1918 · ★ 3.4 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Moderate John Minute, formerly an unscrupulous African mining magnate, has flown to England, but can’t escape his past. Constantly threatened by blackmailers, he fears death and financial ruin. At the suggestion of the commissioner of police, “The Man Who Knows” is hired to assist in determining the source of these threats. But after John is murdered, suspicion is cast on his nephew, who calls on The Man… Shares Adventure, Thriller
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The Square Emerald Edgar Wallace · 1926 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Leslie Maughan, recognized for her keen mind, has unofficially been promoted to Scotland Yard’s first female investigator. Chancing upon a book of poetry once owned by a Peter Dawlish, convicted forger, Leslie delves into the details of the convict’s case and becomes convinced of Peter’s innocence. Befriending Peter after his release from prison, Leslie discovers a link between him, a lady of… Shares Adventure, Thriller
Cover of Frontier Stories
Frontier Stories Bret Harte · 1887 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares Westerns, History with this book.
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Ticktock Dean Koontz · 1996 · ★ 3.8 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Tommy Phan is a 30-year-old Vietnamese-American detective and novelist living in Southern California, and a chaser of the American Dream. He drives home his brand-new Corvette one day to discover a strange doll on his doorstep. It's a rag doll made entirely of white cloth, with no face or hair or clothes. Where the eyes should be, there are two crossed stitches of black thread. Five sets of… Shares California, Thriller
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The lonesome gods Louis L'Amour · 1983 · ★ 4.2 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Here is the fascinating story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the desert. Strengthened by the love of two women--Miss Nesselrode, whose mysterious past fires her ambitions for the future, and Meghan, a willful young beauty--Verne grows to become a rugged adventurer, a man strong enough to embrace the… Shares California, Westerns
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Claudius Bombarnac Jules Verne · 1892 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Reporter Claudius Bombarnac, is assigned by the "Twentieth Century " to cover the travels of the Grand Transasiatic Railway which runs between Uzun Ada, Turkestan and Peking, China. Shares Adventure, Thriller
Cover of Openings in the Old Trail
Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte · 1902 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares California, Westerns with this book.
Cover of The Way of a Man
The Way of a Man Emerson Hough · 1907 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Westerns, History with this book.
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Blue Hand Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton’s infant daughter and closest heir, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy’s mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time. Jim… Shares Adventure
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The Emperor's candlesticks Baroness Emmuska Orczy · 1908 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) is a historical novel by Baroness Orczy and was her first book as an author. Shares Adventure
Cover of The House Without a Key
The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers · 2015 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Published in 1925, The House Without a Key introduces the kindly detective Charlie Chan, conceived by Earl Derr Biggers as a counter to the “Yellow Peril” stereotypes common in the era’s society. John Quincy Winterslip, having been sent by his family to convince his aunt to return to Boston, arrives in Honolulu to find that a rich family member with a shady past has been murdered. Detective… Shares Adventure
The Bones She Buried
The Bones She Buried Lisa Regan · 2019 Josie works until her arms ache, until the paramedics arrive and pull her gently away from the woman’s cold, fragile body. Noah’s voice cracks beside her as he calls the time of death for his own, beloved mother. Arriving with her partner Noah for dinner at his family’s immaculate countryside home, Detective Josie Quinn is devastated to find Noah’s mother, Colette, lying lifeless in… Shares Thriller
The Incumbent Coroner
The Incumbent Coroner Paul Austin Ardoin · 2018 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A beloved mayor. A seedy motel room. And a murder that shakes the town to its core.Coroner Fenway Stevenson thought she was beginning to find her footing in Estancia. The coastal California town still sees her as an outsider—especially with her powerful father pulling strings behind the scenes—but she's starting to earn the trust of her team. Then the mayor is found dead in a run-down motel room,… Shares Thriller
Dress Her in Indigo
Dress Her in Indigo John D. MacDonald & Lee Child From a beloved master of crime fiction, Dress Her in Indigo is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer even says please, McGee agrees to accompany him to Mexico to reconstruct the last mysterious months of a young woman’s life—on a fat expense account… Shares Thriller
The Color of Bone
The Color of Bone V. J. Chambers Shares Thriller with this book.

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