18 books like Yellow-dog contract

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Guaranteed to Bleed

Guaranteed to Bleed Julie Mulhern · 2015 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Mystery with this book.

At the Villa Rose, in Four acts A. E. W. Mason · 1900 · ★ 4.5 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The place: Aix-les-Bains, a lakeside town in southeast France, popular for vacations of the well-to-do. The players: (1) The young Englishman, Harry Wethermill, who, after a brilliant career at Oxford and at Munich, had applied his scientific genius and made a fortune for himself at the age of twenty-eight. (2) Mr. Ricardo, approaching the fifties in age; a widower — "a state greatly to… Shares Mystery

The Egyptian Antiquities Murder

The Egyptian Antiquities Murder Sara Rosett · 2019 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Secrets never die . . . October, 1923. Lady detective Olive Belgrave has a new case. Lady Agnes doesn’t believe in curses—especially ancient curses—and she hires Olive to prove her uncle wasn’t the victim of a malevolent mummy. Olive investigates and discovers the truth is much worse—it’s murder. Can Olive debunk the curse and reveal the true culprit before the mummy curse claims another… Shares Mystery

Who Cries for the Lost

Who Cries for the Lost C. S. Harris · 2023 · ★ 4.5 Sebastian St. Cyr must confront a savage killer and save his closest friend from the hangman’s noose in this heart-pounding new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of When Blood Lies.June 1815. The people of London wait, breathlessly, for news as Napoleon and the forces united against him hurtle toward their final reckoning at Waterloo. Among them is Sebastian St. Cyr,… Shares Mystery

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker Paul Vidich A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceIn the vein of Graham Greene and John le Carré, The Matchmaker delivers a chilling Cold War spy story set in West Berlin, where an American woman targeted by the Stasi must confront the truth behind her German husband's mysterious disappearance.Berlin, 1989.  Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and… Shares Mystery

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh Claudia Gray The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge yet: preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh.Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Esteemed aunt of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, generous patroness of Mr. William Collins, a woman of rank who rules over the estate of Rosings Park… Shares Mystery

Tinkers Creek

Tinkers Creek Tony Bull · 2014 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Shoot him, knife him, string him up, burn him out,it doesn't matter! Just get him out the way."Leo Marburg would trick and cheat and kill without hesitation to possess the entire valley. But Sten Petersen wouldn't budge.The letter, addressed "Judd Petersen, Lawman, Kansas", brought news that Sten had been shot in the back at the family homestead in the Rockies, and nothing was being done to find… Shares Mystery

The Talleyrand Maxim Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The “Talleyrand Maxim” holds that “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” The adage has the character of guidance for life for an ambitious legal clerk, Linford Pratt. Unlike most people, he decides to take extreme measures to get what he believes is his due. Shares Mystery

A Tangle of Serpents: A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery

A Tangle of Serpents: A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery Andrea Penrose With the epic victory at Waterloo behind them, Arianna and Saybrook are looking forward to a quiet summer of scholarship, far from the turmoil of war and politics.  But little do they know that an even more dangerous battle is about to test their mettle. The shocking news that Lord Grentham, the steely minister of state security, has been accused of treason and is on the run from arrest… Shares Mystery

Murder at Archly Manor

Murder at Archly Manor Sara Rosett · 2018 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A high-society murder. An spirited lady detective. Can she out-class the killer before an innocent person takes the fall? London, 1923. Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she’s penniless. Determined to support herself, she jumps at an unconventional job—looking into the background of her cousin’s fiancé, Alfred.  Alfred burst into the upper crust world of London’s… Shares Mystery

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco, William Weaver & Richard Dixon Now available in a deluxe edition featuring never-before-seen illustrations by the author: the beloved internationally bestselling historical mystery about a brilliant monk called upon to solve a series of baffling murders in a fourteenth-century Italian abbey“Explodes with pyrotechnic inventions, literally as well as figuratively. Hold on till the end.” —New York Times“Whether you're into… Shares Mystery

The Lost Symbol: Special Illustrated Edition

The Lost Symbol: Special Illustrated Edition Dan Brown Shares Mystery with this book.

Dead Men Tell No Tales E. W. Hornung · 1899 Shares Mystery with this book.

Miss Morton Takes the Waters

Miss Morton Takes the Waters Catherine Lloyd Shares Mystery with this book.

Reckless With a Bonus Excerpt

Reckless With a Bonus Excerpt Andrew Gross · 2012 For a limited time and a special price, discover Reckless, the New York Times bestselling novel by Andrew Gross, plus the first three chapters from his next novel, 15 Seconds, a thrilling, fast-paced story of a man, on the run, desperate to prove his innocence and to save his family’s lives. 15 Seconds will be available wherever books are sold July 10th. Shares Mystery

Murder at Hambledon Hall

Murder at Hambledon Hall C.J. Archer 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… Shares Mystery

Marble Hall Murders

Marble Hall Murders Anthony Horowitz · 2025 · ★ 4.3 · 592p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Watch Marble Hall Murders, the final installment in the Susan Ryeland series, premiering September 6 on MASTERPIECE on PBS.“Diabolically clever.”—New York Times"Horowitz dazzles with the brilliant third entry in his Susan Ryeland series . . . . [He is] is at the top of his game here, linking past and present in a virtuoso finale worthy of Agatha Christie."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Murder… Shares Mystery

Much Ado About Mistletoe

Much Ado About Mistletoe Christina Dodd Fair Verona celebrates the most joyful Christmas season in all of this flat earth, and for spirited20-year-old Rosie Montague, sleuth and daughter of Romeo and Juliet (alive and well and still passionately in love), the season holds a thrilling new kind of mystery . . . My famously optimistic and romantic mother, Lady Juliet, has declared, “I’m determined the Montagues and all of Verona shall… Shares Mystery

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