Classic Tales of Detection & Adventure

Classic Tales of Detection & Adventure similar books

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  The Leavenworth Case

  The Leavenworth Case is the first novel of Anna Katharine Green, an American poet and novelist, who was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America, and distinguished herself for writing …

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  Sea Witch (Sea Witch, #1)

  Everyone knows what happens in the end. A mermaid, a prince, a true love’s kiss. But before that young siren’s tale, there were three friends. One feared, one royal, and one already dead.
  
  Ever since he…

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  Lady Audley's Secret

  Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive…

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  Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [+ The Body Snatcher, The Bottle Imp, Markheim and Weir of Hermiston]

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  Mythology

  The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes.
  
  Edith Hamilton's Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life f…

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  Murder in the Mill-Race

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  Taken at the Flood

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  Shakespeare's Sonnets

  The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contempor…

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  Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)

  Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed he…

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  The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)

  Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by six clocks. Mrs. Pebmarsh,…

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  Native Son

  Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man…

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  I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

  I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to …

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  Thirteen Storeys

  You're cordially invited to dinner. Penthouse access is available via the broken freight elevator. Black tie optional.
  
  A dinner party is held in the penthouse of a multimillion-pound development. All t…

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  On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

  The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, …

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  Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)

  In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At th…

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  The Mysterious Mr. Quin (Harley Quin Omnibus Short-Stories)

  Harley Quin is an enigma. Even his friend Mr. Satterthwaite is unable to understand how the man seems to appear and disappear almost like a trick of the light - and when he does appear it's usually in…

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  The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)

  The novel that introduced Tommy and Tuppence, a bantering pair of 1920s bright young things who solve a mystery together while falling for each other.
  
  The Great War is over and jobs are scarce. Tommy B…

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  Towards Zero

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  Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

  A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley.
  
  "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was."
  
  Why did …

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  Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)

  The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay facedown on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and she was not sunbathing... she had been strangled.
  
  Ever since Arlena's arrival the air had been…

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