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Golden Age Whodunits

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Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt -- until the game turned up human and quite dead. He lay among the chrysanthemums, wor…

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The Hog's Back Mystery

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Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. Wh…

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Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries

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Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)

Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her former lover died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wim…

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Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles

‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.’ - Otto Penzler

A bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly…

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Malice Aforethought

On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in force for the annual, much-anticipated tennis party at the Bickleighs, although not everyone has much enthusiasm for the…

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The Lacquer Screen

A.D. 663

Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. …

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The 12:30 from Croydon

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Dead Man's Folly (Hercule Poirot, #35)

Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it's a fee…

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The Black Curtain

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The Fabulous Clipjoint (Ed & Am Hunter #1)

1948 Edgar Award Winner

Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like his father, a linotype operator and a drunk, married to a harridan, with a harridan-in-training stepda…

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Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #32)

In Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, one of Agatha Christie’s most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady.

Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to t…

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Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy.

Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation…

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