Double, Double, Oil and Trouble (John Putnam Thatcher, #17)
By: Emma Lathen
3.83
Format: None pages, Audio
John Putnam Thatcher - banker-detective for Sloan Guaranty Trust - finds himself stepping lively a …
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1. The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
By: Louise Penny
4.07
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide w… read more
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"If love was compass enough, said Armand quietly, there would be no missing children."-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
"You too?" She asked Ruth. "How do your poems start out?" "They start as a lump in the throat," she said."-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
"Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction."-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
"He wasn't addicted to pain, to panic, but he might be addicted to the bliss of having them stop. The mind, he knew, really was its own place."-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
2. 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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"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)
3. The Children Return (Bruno, Chief of Police, #7)
By: Martin Walker
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of … read more
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4. Improbable Cause (J.P. Beaumont, #5)
By: J.A. Jance
4.14
Format: 512 pages,
A spellbinding tale of twisted depravity and blood vengeance featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaum… read more
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6. The Thin Man
By: Dashiell Hammett
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve h… read more
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7. The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8)
By: Louise Penny
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
The brilliant new novel in the New York Times best-selling series by Louise Penny, one of the most … read more
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8. Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
By: Agatha Christie
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Murder at the Vicaragemarks the debut of Agatha Christie's unflappable and much beloved female dete… read more
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9. 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)
10. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.07
Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more
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"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)
11. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more
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12. The Patriarch (Bruno, Chief of Police, #8)
By: Martin Walker
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
A beloved village, a renowned family, a suspicious death--it's the latest adventure in the Dordogne… read more
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13. Death of a Charming Man (Hamish Macbeth, #10)
By: M.C. Beaton
4.50
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
With this tenth book in a series that fans of British mysteries have come to relish more than fish … read more
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14. The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
3.94
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
When a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter… read more
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15. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)
By: Agatha Christie
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more
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16. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Gaudy Nightstands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class b… read more
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17. The Crowded Grave (Bruno, Chief of Police #4)
By: Martin Walker
3.93
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Another delectable serving of mystery and the pleasures of the Dordogne from the newest master of s… read more
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18. The Way Some People Die
By: Ross Macdonald
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Arch… read more
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19. The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
By: Agatha Christie
3.82
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She… read more
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"Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Because when you’re in love, you think you’re invincible. It blinds you. And you don’t seem to care."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a…"-Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
20. Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.24
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
Society’s eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally suc… read more
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"in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
"But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
21. A Chateau Under Siege
By: Martin Walker
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the peop… read more
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22. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
By: Elly Griffiths
4.27
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more
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23. The Body in the Castle Well (Bruno, Chief of Police, #12)
By: Martin Walker
4.15
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
A missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter the village of St… read more
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24. To Kill a Troubadour (Bruno, Chief of Police, #15)
By: Martin Walker
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
When a musician’s new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish na… read more
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25. A Taste for Vengeance (Bruno, Chief of Police, #11)
By: Martin Walker
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic… read more
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26. Double, Double, Oil and Trouble (John Putnam Thatcher, #17)
By: Emma Lathen
3.83
Format: None pages, Audio
John Putnam Thatcher - banker-detective for Sloan Guaranty Trust - finds himself stepping lively a … read more
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