Golden Age Detective Stories (An American Mystery Classic)
By: Otto Penzler
3.97
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The greatest detectives of the Golden Age investigate the most puzzling crimes of the era Sometimes…
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1. Home Sweet Homicide
By: Craig Rice
3.73
Format: 219 pages, Paperback
All “hash-e-lul squared” breaks out when a mystery writer’s three kids try to solve a murder. Th… read more
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2. The Chocolate Cobweb
By: Charlotte Armstrong , Harry Bennett
3.61
Format: None pages, Paperback
Investigating her mysterious birth leads a bright young artist into perilFor a few hours after her … read more
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3. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.05
Format: 243 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ninety-year-old General Fentiman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died—and … read more
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"Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"I have a peculiar instinct about pubs. I can find one blindfold in a pea-souper with both hands tied behind me."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
"I’m determined never to be a parent. Modern manners and the break-up of the fine old traditions have simply ruined the business. I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment of research on the…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
4. The Floating Admiral
By: Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G.K. Chesterton , Freeman Wills Crofts , Clemence Dane , Victor L. Whitechurch , The Detection Club , Anthony Berkeley , Ronald Knox , Edgar Jepson , Henry Wade , Milward Kennedy , John Rhode , G.D.H. Cole , Margaret Cole
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. Bu… read more
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"We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see on…"-Agatha Christie, The Floating Admiral
5. Castle in the Air
By: Donald E. Westlake
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
A British master criminal assembles an international gang of infamous thieves to steal a castle who… read more
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6. Poirot's Early Cases: 18 Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Hercule Poirot, #38)
By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Fraser , David Suchet
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Audio CD
The unabridged tales in this Mystery Mastersaudiobook include all the ones in the print book first … read more
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7. The Widening Stain
By: Morris Bishop , W. Bolingbroke Johnson
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
This comic mystery set in the library of a university that bears a remarkable resemblance to Cornel… read more
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8. Miraculous Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
2.00
Format: 238 pages,
Impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective … read more
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- classics
- anthologies
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9. A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
By: Chester Himes
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Rage in Harlemis a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling N… read more
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10. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.84
Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for … read more
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"But if you were investigating a crime,"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
11. The Problem of the Green Capsule (Dr. Gideon Fell, #10)
By: John Dickson Carr
4.75
Format: None pages,
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12. The Red Lamp
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
William Porter has just inherited Twin Hollows, an isolated lakeside estate shrouded in mystery and… read more
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13. The Red Widow Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #3)
By: Carter Dickson
4.00
Format: None pages,
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14. The Spanish Cape Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #9)
By: Ellery Queen
3.94
Format: 322 pages,
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15. The Eight of Swords (Dr. Gideon Fell, #3)
By: John Dickson Carr
4.03
Format: 288 pages,
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16. The Cape Cod Mystery (Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery, #1)
By: Phoebe Atwood Taylor
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Set within the brooding landscape of Cape Code, these classic who-dunits are sure to please dedicat… read more
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17. The Wintringham Mystery
By: Anthony Berkeley
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the fo… read more
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"For a minute or two they remained in complete silence--the silence of people who know each other so well that words are merely an accessory rather than a necessity."-Anthony Berkeley, The Wintringham Mystery
18. Death of a Bookseller
By: Bernard J. Farmer
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A rare gem of the mystery genre makes its first return to print since 1956 An honest policeman, Se… read more
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"Jack, I'm going to tell you a story. A runner took a book to a famous dealer and said: 'I've got something rare here.' 'Yes,' replied the dealer, 'but customers who want it are rarer.' Then my book i…"-Bernard J. Farmer, Death of a Bookseller
19. Murder After Christmas
By: Rupert Latimer
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An ingenious lost Christmas mystery returns to print for the first time since 1944 'Did you say … read more
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20. With a Mind to Kill
By: Anthony Horowitz
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and wh… read more
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21. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles
By: Martin Edwards
3.91
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more
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22. The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)
By: John Shen Yen Nee
3.62
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a po… read more
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"The British are oddly vulnerable to charm. I've found that in England it's often the easiest path to one's objective. And hurts none along the way."-John Shen Yen Nee, The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)
23. Blood on the Tracks: Railway Mysteries
By: Martin Edwards
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
“Never had I been given a tougher problem to solve, and never had I been so utterly at my wits’ end… read more
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24. The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain
By: Ian Mortimer
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
'Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain tells you all you need to know about crim… read more
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25. The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
By: Kerry Greenwood
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The elegant Miss Phryne Fisher returns in this scintillating collection, featuring four brand-new s… read more
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"It's a good idea, generally, not to offend women with that shade of Titian hair,' mused Phryne."-Kerry Greenwood, The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
26. Murder on “B” Deck (Walter Ghost #1)
By: Vincent Starrett
3.40
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
For the passengers aboard the Latakia, the transatlantic journey from New York to Cherbourg promise… read more
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27. The Great Mistake
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
4.00
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
Murder leads to scandal at a wealthy woman’s mansion in this mystery from a New York Times–bestsell… read more
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28. Golden Age Detective Stories (An American Mystery Classic)
By: Otto Penzler
3.97
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The greatest detectives of the Golden Age investigate the most puzzling crimes of the era Sometimes… read more
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29. Obelists at Sea (Michael Lord #1)
By: C. Daly King
3.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
C. Daly King’s debut mystery is a tale of murder, travel, and psychiatry set aboard a luxury transa… read more
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30. The Man Who Solved Mysteries
By: William Brittain
4.48
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
This is Crippen & Landru's second collection by William Brittain. The first (The Man Who Read Myste… read more
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31. Cabaret Macabre (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #3)
By: Tom Mead
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
This latest puzzle mystery from the author of Death and the Conjuror and The Murder Wheel takes sta… read more
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