The Master of Mysteries
By: Gelett Burgess
3.75
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
"From the inspired mystic to the man of practical analytic mind, the transition was instantaneous..…
Want to Read $ 8.54"Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it."-Gelett Burgess, The Master of Mysteries
"Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it."-Gelett Burgess, The Master of Mysteries
"Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it."-Gelett Burgess, The Master of Mysteries
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1. The Canary Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #2)
By: S.S. Van Dine , Willard Huntington Wright
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
1927. Illustrated with scenes from the Paramount photoplay. Around 1925 Willard Huntington Wright, … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
2. Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)
By: Christianna Brand
3.55
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
At a medieval pageant, Inspector Cockrill investigates a dramatic death Ever since she drove her… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"But now the streets were not like the streets she knew. They were so silent: and so empty. On the doorsteps, little groups of milk bottles huddled with their dirty white collars, waiting for the roun…"-Christianna Brand, Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)
3. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"Fou!"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"Boil my brains!"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
4. Green for Danger
By: Christianna Brand
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a military hospital during the blitz, this novel is one of Brand's most intricately plotted … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
5. The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)
By: Margery Allingham
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A house party is under way at the remote mansion of Black Dudley, and among the guests are some ver… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"George Abbershaw's prosaic mind quivered on the verge of poetry when he looked at her."-Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)
6. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
By: William Greider , Randy Shilts
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the… read more
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7. The Red House Mystery
By: A.A. Milne
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyor… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
8. Jumping Jenny (Roger Sheringham Cases, #9)
By: Anthony Berkeley
3.77
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
When a murder is committed at a party given in honour of a famous writer-detective, the guests impe… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
9. The Thinking Machine
By: Harlan Ellison , Jacques Futrelle
3.71
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
This irascible genius, this diminutive egghead scientist, known to the world as "The Thinking Machi… read more
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10. The Lantern's Dance (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #18)
By: Laurie R. King
4.41
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caugh… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
11. Murder at Mallowan Hall (Phyllida Bright Mystery #1)
By: Colleen Cambridge
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The first in an exciting new historical mystery series set in the home of Agatha Christie! Colle… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
12. A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)
By: Deanna Raybourn
4.19
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, i… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"A man cannot choose to die when he has not yet learnt to live." Stoker"-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)
"If I could have created a perfect woman, I could never have imagined you. But that is my failure. Not yours."-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)
"Not everyone shares your tendency to scorn the company of others." "Scorn the company of others! Thanks to you, I speak to entirely too many people, entirely too often."-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)
"Do you mean to dissuade me? Point out the flaws in my plan? Express your objections with vehemence and eloquence?" He tipped his head. "Actually, no." "Are you entirely well? Have you a fever? Should…"-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)
13. 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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- mystery
- fiction
"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
14. Suburban Dicks (Suburban Dicks, #1)
By: Fabian Nicieza
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the co-creator of 'Deadpool' comes a hilariously entertaining debut featuring two unlikely and… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
15. Post After Post-Mortem
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.00
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, revi… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
16. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.46
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
17. Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)
By: Keigo Higashino
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Detective Kyoichiro Kaga of the Tokyo Police Department has just been transferred to a new precinct… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"How come you don't ask me any questions?" "Questions about what?" "About the investigation I'm working on," Kaga replied. "It's usually the first thing people ask me when I make inquiries. 'What's ha…"-Keigo Higashino, Newcomer (Detective Kaga, #2)
18. So Shall You Reap
By: Donna Leon
4.07
Format: 262 pages, ebook
In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap
"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap
19. A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8)
By: Deanna Raybourn
4.20
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in t… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
20. O Caledonia
By: Elspeth Barker
3.98
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
21. The Fourth Enemy (Daniel Pitt #6)
By: Anne Perry
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Daniel Pitt prosecutes a beloved philanthropist whose good deeds may hide dark--and dangerous--secr… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
22. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
23. Crook o' Lune
By: E.C.R. Lorac
4.15
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands … read more
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- mystery
- fiction
24. A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
By: Keigo Higashino
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"Takes all sorts to make a world. It's hard to generalize what's odd and what's not."-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
"Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether the killer gets caught or the investigation is brought to a successful conc…"-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
25. Death of a Traitor (Hamish Macbeth, #35)
By: M.C. Beaton
3.84
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In this addition to a New York Times bestselling mystery series, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth—Scotland… read more
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- fiction
26. The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime
By: Martin Edwards
3.66
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Highlands to the borders, the bustling cities to the remote isles in cold seas, the unique… read more
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- fiction
27. Death in the Margins (Blue Ridge Library Mysteries #7)
By: Victoria Gilbert
4.03
Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition
The theater is no place for murder—but a case of backstage betrayal drags library director Amy Webb… read more
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- fiction
28. The Alarm of the Black Cat (The Rachel Murdock Mysteries)
By: Dolores Hitchens
3.42
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
This classic mystery features a family feud, feline intervention, and the spirited septuagenarian s… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
29. A gentle murderer (Gregg Press mystery fiction series)
By: Dorothy Salisbury Davis
3.63
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A frightening confession leads a priest to hunt down a murderer in Grand Master of crime fiction Do… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
30. The Master of Mysteries
By: Gelett Burgess
3.75
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
"From the inspired mystic to the man of practical analytic mind, the transition was instantaneous..… read more
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- fiction
"Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it."-Gelett Burgess, The Master of Mysteries
31. Wordhunter
By: Stella Sands
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ab… read more
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