Gentlemen and Players
Eloquently written, but not engaging Gentlemen and Players begins in style: the setting is patiently and beautifully defined; the characters are well-introduced; and the central plot of the book--as described on the inside flap--is enough to keep any ... [... more]
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The Glass Wall: A Superintendent Mike Yeadings Mystery ...
One freezing February evening, a Filipino barman named Ramon witnesses someone plunging from the seventh story of a luxury penthouse. Instead of calling the police, he heads straight for the apartment from which the body has fallen. It belongs to an old ... [... more]
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Rumpole and the Primrose Path
With Rumpole Rests His Case, legions of fans welcomed back the curmudgeonly London barrister they had loved for years—and they are eager for more. The six new stories in Rumpole and the Primrose Path find Horace Rumpole—despite a heart attack that left ... [... more]
$28.95
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Caraboo: The Servant Girl Princess : The Real Story of ...
AMAZING This was honestly one of the most fascinating books I have ever read - Ms. Worral's journal is an amazing account of what she went through, as well as what it was like to live an upper class woman's life during that time. And Princess Caraboo is ... [... more]
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Murder by Accident (Ellie Quicke Mystery Series #4)
Adjusting to life as a wealthy widow, Ellie Quicke is shattered to hear that her difficult but endearing Aunt Drusilla has been killed in a freak accident. Her only son, Roy, is also devastated. However, Aunt Drusilla has made many enemies in her time, ... [... more]
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The Winds of Change
Richard Jury embarks on the darkest investigation of his career when the dead body of a young London girl leads to the cold case of a missing girl in Launceston-an unsolved mystery that has haunted Police Officer Brian Macalvie for years. [... more]
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (Mystery Masters)
While playing golf, Bobby Jones and Dr. Thomas discover a dying man at the base of the cliff. The man manages to get out the words "Why didn't they ask Evans?" before he dies. Bobby is in a hurry to keep an appointment, so he asks a passerby to ... [... more]
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Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Frankenstein Monster
Victor Frankenstein creates life from the dead, alone, in his Geneva laboratory. His friend, Clerval, becomes concerned for Victor's health when he is suddenly missing and travels to London, England to consult 'privately' with old school mate, Dr. John ... [... more]
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Justice Hall (Mary Russell Novels)
A lost heir, murder most foul, and the unexpected return of two old friends start Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes--spouses and intellectual equals--on an investigation that takes them from the trenches of World War I France to the heights of English ... [... more]
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Risk
Dick Francis is the Master Dick Francis never disappoints. He never writes the same story twice, though his protagonists all have in common some sort of inner battle. If you don't like to fly and need something to completely absorb your attention, you ... [... more]
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The Madonna of the Sorrows, 2nd edition
May 1889 - A chance meeting in the Turkish baths leads consulting detective Lady Evangeline St. Claire and her lover, Rhiannon Moore, to a mystery - the murder of a priest and the theft of a painting that proves to be more than a mere work of art. A ... [... more]
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The Man in the Brown Suit
Yearning for a little adventure in life, Anne Beddingfeld gets far more than she bargained for: while at the tube station, she sees a man fall to the tracks and die. A man dressed in brown, claiming to be a doctor, pronounces him dead and hurries away, ... [... more]
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