The Barbara Pym Collection Volume One: A Glass of Blessings / Some Tame Gazelle / and Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
4.16
Format: 787 pages, Kindle Edition
Three comedies of manners set in postwar England by the New York Times–bestselling author of Excell…
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1. Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)
By: None , P.D. James
3.90
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established pu… read more
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"Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one."-None, Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)
2. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
3. Miss Pym Disposes
By: Josephine Tey
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
To Lucy Pym, author of a best-seller on Psychology, the atmosphere at the college where she is lect… read more
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4. The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
By: None , P.D. James
3.80
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing ho… read more
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"Benton had a strong interest in helping to ensure that Warren's home life wasn't greatly disturbed: his wife was Cornish, and that morning Warren had arrived with six Cornish pasties of remarkable fl…"-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
"With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We m…"-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
"Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well as it's conventions. He doubted whether Macklefi…"-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
"The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those which lay beneath the cities of Hamburg or Dresden. Was this knowledge part of the mystery it held…"-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
5. Henry VIII
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.50
Format: None pages,
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more
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6. 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)
7. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
By: Josephine Tey
3.95
Format: None pages,
Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more
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8. Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)
By: Donna Leon
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In Death in a Strange CountryCommissario Guido Brunetti confronts a grisly sight when the body of a… read more
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9. A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7)
By: None
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double mur… read more
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10. Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)
By: None
4.22
Format: 206 pages,
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in h… read more
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11. Immortality, Inc.
By: Robert Sheckley
3.36
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinem… read more
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12. Memento Mori
By: Muriel Spark
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on … read more
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13. The Endless Forest (Wilderness, #6)
By: Sara Donati
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
With a master storyteller's skill and a historian's precision, Sara Donati has delighted readers an… read more
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14. The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh #13)
By: None
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling serie… read more
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15. High Rising
By: Angela Thirkell
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
In Angela Thirkell's first Barsetshire novel, she sets the plot pattern which will be played out in… read more
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16. Hotel Paradise (Emma Graham, #1)
By: Martha Grimes
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Internationally acclaimed Martha Grimes once again turns her hand to crafting a story of such rich … read more
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17. 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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"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)
18. The Bookshop
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.28
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more
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"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
19. The Last Word
By: Elly Griffiths
3.92
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more
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20. The White Lady
By: Jacqueline Winspear
4.07
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more
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"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady
"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady
". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady
21. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.33
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more
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22. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2)
By: Elly Griffiths
3.93
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by… read more
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23. Murder in Chianti (A Tuscan Mystery)
By: Camilla Trinchieri
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Set in the heart of Tuscan wine country, Camilla Trinchieri's new mystery introduces Nico Doyle, a … read more
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24. The Blood is Still (Rebecca Connolly, #2)
By: Douglas Skelton
4.10
Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition
When the body of a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is discovered on the site of the Battle… read more
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25. The Bordeaux Book Club
By: Gillian Harvey
4.03
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members! When Leah and her husband moved to Fr… read more
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26. The Scent of Hours
By: Barbara O'Neal
4.29
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
A divorced perfumer navigates an uncertain but fresh new start in life in a poignant and witty nove… read more
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27. Murder in Westminster (Lady Worthing Mysteries #1)
By: Vanessa Riley
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for readers looking for a darker twist on Bridgerton, this first story in a vibrant, inclus… read more
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28. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)
By: Ann Cleeves
4.47
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more
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29. Lilac Ink: The Knocknashee Story
By: Jean Grainger
4.59
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
1937. Two lives. Thousands of miles apart. One in Dingle, Ireland, the other in Georgia, USA. G… read more
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30. The Barbara Pym Collection Volume One: A Glass of Blessings / Some Tame Gazelle / and Jane and Prudence
By: Barbara Pym
4.16
Format: 787 pages, Kindle Edition
Three comedies of manners set in postwar England by the New York Times–bestselling author of Excell… read more
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31. A Reason to See You Again
By: Jami Attenberg
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a… read more
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